What Buddha taught ?
When we try to find what was the original teachings of
Lord Buddha among the millions line of scripture, we have
to pay the most heavy attention to the personality of
Lord Buddha as an individual human being in his totality, while
chiselling out all the mixed-ups and the glorifying decorations.
(If the scripture had Hindu name, it is not Buddhism, or the
story has supernatural magnificence it was just a fantasy.)
—– there could be a gradual change of his view and the opinion
still, there couldn’t be an utter contradiction from the same person.
Since he got his Enlightenment (with his own understanding of the
world) after he seceded from ascetic monks/Guru’s group (with a
disappointment and a lost hope to find a viable answer from them
and such ascetic approach) therefore his idea couldn’t be anything
like a transcendental oracle like fanatic words (so-called
mumbo-jumbo) but frank and down to the earth straight idea.
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Typically like Four Noble Truth, those very brunt and blatant words
were the words of cool realist.
If the person was a kind of salesman, he would have chosen much
sweeter words and even a misleading bait in it (such as a promise
of Heaven). But
Lord Buddha was not a spin-doctor but rather like a rational scientist,
he talked the facts and phenomena, not his speculation or fantasy —
its mean his teachings were not an idealistic Dogma but the wisdoms
based on the facts and the scientific observations.
= in this approach, he found the mechanism of Karma and able to see
the effect of the time in moment to moment flaw. So that, to find
the NO Perpetual Soul (Anatman) was a straight conclusion.
(That’s why in his Sangha, there was no Cast = curse from the past)
Those observations and the understandings needs no special filter to
see = they are the common facts, and from those observations anybody
who acquired the right eyes can see and find the truth behind
( 8 right ways meant this) and see the Enlightenment. That was why,
Lord Buddha gave the last instruction on his death bed
“Don’t believe what was said but see/learn it yourself” = this word
clearly indicates that the teachings were not a Dogma to memorise
but the Direct Transmission =
wisdom which could be learned from the observation of Facts.
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And Lord Buddha’s observation went into deep inside of the
human psych = subconsciousness too.
He realised that we are able to see and know the subject
without us thinking it. (So-called intuition)
And he thought this is the Manifestation of the Dharma in us.
(We can walk without thinking how to walk — so,
WHO made us to walk ? = It must be the Dharma !
But being in our subconscious, even we know it’s there though
we can not see = It is there and/but It is not there. (There must
be a big debate about “Self / Soul, the subject / who is thinking, =
the person who is thinking IS WHOM ? Though, as
Lord Buddha took the stance that there is no Self / Atman = talking
this subject IS effectively a recognition of the existence of the Self =
So, how it was debated was very interesting but we may not know.
—– still from the Scripture we can see the description “Giving
without aware of giving IS the true giving” = we can guess what
was taught there then. And from here, (if Self exists or not) the
debate extended —> Does Dharma exists or itself is Void ? ? ?
And in this context, an episode in the Agama sutra was the
story which gave us the most crucial insight.
= That was the true record of
Lord Buddha’s teachings.
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Core of the Buddhism
Did Buddhism asked the followers to remember any special notion,
something like a rule of the “Preservation of Energy” in physics or
a special formula, or to do very peculiar practice ? (Don’t mix-up
with a funny ritualistic practice of Tantra sect.
Or their magic Mantra (Dharani) which was claimed to have a
supernatural power. — They are noting to do with the teachings of
Lord Buddha.)
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—– Such as Four Noble Truth = they are only a bit deeper
understanding of the phenomena in our life general.
= After all, what the Buddhism telling us were the Awareness
toward our own existence. Which is not far from our
common sense = Because all of us ARE existing more or less on
the same bases = Nobody was born to live for ever, nor born
with the wings to fly etc etc = nobody is superman, or
divine figure in flesh —– as no supernatural facts exists (other
than silly delusion or rumour) there couldn’t be any possibility
of the fantastic fabrication mixed into the Buddhism teachings.
(In deed, there are mountain of fancy stories = but they ARE
the fancy stories = nothing to do with the teachings.
— It’s a fun to see a fancy imagination of the people.) 😀
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Lord Buddha denied any idealistic notions as they are only
the delusions. (Therefore he completely ignored to answer
(completely stop to talk the person is the same to kill him)
the questions about “after the life” or about the “universe”
which is neither exists nor possible to know.
—– Considering the both subjects are the easiest topics to tell a
fabrication or a fancy story (because, to counter prove its fancy
story is even harder — Try to prove there are Heaven and Hell.
Then try disprove them. You will see it’s a waste of time = so that,
Lord Buddha completely ignored it. )
Probably the most important key to decipher Buddhism teachings
are in the story of Kisa Gotami (Running around the village) =
as a typical Upaya teaching, there was no verbal teaching but the
learning by the practice = Direct transmission to the subconscious.
= No lexical Notion/Idea or Thinking process.
And this phenomenon was also significant in this story.
—– Why it’s significant = because its phenomenon of
“Exists but Exists Not” character of the Subconsciousness
and this phenomenon is the core of the Voidness.
Dharma IS here or HERE all together IS the Dharma though,
since its detail is constantly changing moment to moment because
the Karma is active, it couldn’t be defined in one shape, still it IS
the Dharma. = This “Exists yet Exists not” character is parallel to
our subconsciousness. = And this IS what we ARE = and to
become aware this fact IS the Enlightenment.
(So, effectively it IS no difference to know who I AM = just
I am as I am. = That’s why, it is a Dog shit.) 😀
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The same Meadow by 2 Element Toy Lens
Somewhat the same kind of photos again.
But with 2 Element Toy camera Lens.
This lens can make a bit more detailed image than Gaudy Lens. 🙂
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It’s the Gaudy Lens
I developped 10s of devices/lenses to obtain painting like fuzzy effect
— and so far this gaudy lens seemed to be the best device for the job.
No filter or attachment available on the market nor digital
manipuration can make the same effect.
(simplly nobody else needed => no manifacturer wanted to make)
So, I’m enjoying a dance alone in the middle of nowhere. 😀
The best things of this gaudy lens is, its balance of fuzzyness
and the ability to retain a certain details of the image.
(In fact, I can controle it by the size of paper hole/iris and
the amount of over-exposure/halation = so, it is not
like a wild animal of DD-Pinhole) Ha ha ha 😀
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Lens (?) Comparison
Photo above was the picture taken by the “Twisted Lens”
Gaudy Lens
The same flower meadow was taken by the “Gaudy Lens”
for the comparison of Fuzzy effect.
2 Element Toy Lens
Effect looks very similar to Gaudy Lens though, this
is a lens originated from a Toy camera + added
concave lens on front (= effectively a Retrofocus structure)
— advantage of this lens is its omuni-focus design.
Double Density Pinhole
And this one was taken by the Double Density Pinhole.
Mono-Pinhole
But this one was by the simple Mono-Pinhole.
Tri-Pinholes
Then, how about Tri-Pinhole ! 🙂
Double Density Pinhole
Different angles by the DD-Pinhole.
Double Density Pinhole
This photo showes the flowers in the green, between the houses.
= nothing special.
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Flowers to Hiroshima
Meadow by Twisted Lens
This was the first field test of the so-called
Twisted Lens = Two convex lenses stacked on a bellows.
As the lens was on a bellows they were easily
re-positioned = so, the effect of blur was adjusted.
As the lens was on the bellows, they were rather awkward
to use, nevertheless it managed to produce the photos.
You might wonder why I fuss about such fuzzy images =
The reason is, in our eyes we may not seeing sharp clear
images — they might be the brain re-constructed image.
(Remember, we never see straight line with rownd eye balls
— straight line IS the re-construction in the brain)
That’s why we are surprised and impressed by the sharp
clear photos, same as when we see a detailed close-up
photo of an insect which we can’t see otherwise.
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Takumi (2)
A guy asked me “So, you say the supreme quality component
could be made by the empty-headed robot ?”
“No, that is not true — I needed to explain more”.
The matter of the use of tool in Mushin is the last stage of
the production. Other issue there (if any) has to be resolved
before hand.
—– There is the fundamental difference of the worker’s
mind-set in Japan. Western or westernised society, the
people has individualistic mind even on a factory floor,
and in the same time the ways to work in the production
was fixed by the manager down to the small details.
So that the worker’s mind was “Just do what was told and
anything beyond the instruction is not MY business = I only
need to mind my own interest”.
But Japanese worker takes his/her work as a part of his life.
He feels the responsibility and the pride in it.
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—– Even on a fully computerised automated CNC machine,
such as the change of the cutting bits and its maintenance
affect the final quality. And the person working with it
everyday could see the difference but how to deal with this
matter wouldn’t be the same in Japan and the west.
In the west, the worker there may ignore as it is not his
responsibility or just report it to a technical staff.
But in Japan, the person working with it and changing
the cutting bits can give a very deep observation and try
a minute adjustment. Or, the person working with the
machine many years may have discovered the tendency of the
production, such as the weather condition affect the quality
= and may have found even a measure to compensate it.
As I said, the Japanese worker has the attachment to the work
= even if it may not as heavy as a “Sense of Duty” still keeps
an eye to the work and able to see what is going on.
And the crucial point IS their mind can see the difference
and conceive “What could be done” because they could see
what would make the work/result better. (Same as Kaizen)
(By the way, I got a Degree in Industrial Sociology and a work
experience in Honda while working with 1000 ton press.)
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In Zen Buddhism, this mind-set was called Mindfulness.
(though, this word is the most misunderstood word in the west.
— western people think “Mindfulness is the concentration of
the mind” but in Zen, it is the completely open mind without any
other notion but see the work on front of the eyes. = It’s mean
when you ARE working with the machine, see that work.
When you ARE walking, let your body WALK = DON’T think about
the work while you ARE WALKING.
— And see you ARE Walking but DON’T think how to walk. 😀
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In Judaeo-Christianity, the followers await the salvation = go to
the Heaven “after the death”.
But the Buddhists hope to reach Enlightenment = get Enlightened
while we live.
Lord Buddha’s teachings was “when you die, it’s the end”
—– so, while we ARE still alive we have to come close to the
Enlightenment as close as possible.
Therefore, Zen is the way to DO the best, to achieve the best.
This IS the mind-set of the Zen and this mind-set has been deeply
sublimated to the Japanese = If you work with CNC machine,
achieve its best. If you make sword, make strongest sword.
If you are a sword-master be the strongest killer. — and to be
the strongest sword-master, don’t think but JUST KILL.
—– So, this mind-set IS the mind-set of the TAKUMI and
no wonder why the Japanese Takumi could achieve to produce
the component no one else could.
(Now you might be realised that was why no routing after the
disaster in Japan and having the least crime rate in the world.)
Have look the lotus flower, it IS flowering out of muddy
water NOW = it’s no use, to dream a promise in the heaven.
We have to live best, NOW in this moment.
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Twisted Lens
Lens in the optical devices must be placed exactly parallel and
having its axis in the dead center. —– That was what I thought.
But the photo above may demonstrate otherwise.
It was taken by the casually improvised 2 convex lens = one was
the rear element of Canon EF Zoom 28~70 and the other —–
thin convex lens from somewhere. And those lenses were
temporally stacked on front of bellows on DSLR body. I expected
to see rather blurred poor image though, much of my surprise,
even annoyance, that lens produced pretty decent image.
= They were 2 convex lenses = even not an achromatic
convex-concave structure, still shows no chromatic aberration.
It’s not fare ! Why cheap junk couldn’t produce junk image ?
So, I mounted those two lenses in angle = say one lens got
its top downward and the other was its bottom upward.
(Ref; center of collage photo bellow)
Front lens was off the axis 15° and the other (inside) was 10°.
Though, the image was NOT destroyed. (Like a photo above)
The image here was almost intentionally created blurred
image made by the Twisted lens mounted on a bellows.
The photo here gave rather requisite over soft image. 😀
The photo above left is the same “Test shot”
Center photo shows how the Lens were mounted.
Now you must be convinced that the myth of precise
engineering of optics may not necessary be true.
(That’s the reason how manufacturer produce flimsy
plastic zoom lens without showing any hesitation.)
PS : Later, I noticed that the rear element of
Canon Zoom showed 3 internal reflection and
a Newton-ring = they are the indication of that
the optics was the 2 element construction =
convex and concave lenses stacked together =
achromatic design.
(= that’s why the images had no chromatic aberration)
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Takumi
At the Wireless Wednesday gathering in Greenwich, we had
2 laptops to repair. One was a quite hi-spec Dell which needed
to change a HDD and the other was HP.
Dell needed to completely disassemble to see the back of mother
board = so many screws had to be removed, and the cables had
to be disconnected etc etc.
—– Then, when two of the cables to Wi-fi module needed to be
re-connected, the guy who has been dealing with this kind of
the work very well, couldn’t manage to insert the connector,
and neither the other guy managed to do too. — strange ? ? ?
The cables to Wi-fi module were not simple power wire kind but
the hi-frequency coaxial cables. So, the connecting post was not a
simple metal stud but a coaxial connector and the male connector
has to be inserted exactly parallel to the female counter part,
otherwise the needle thin center pin would be broken.
—– While watching them try, I found their finger couldn’t keep
the cable straight, neither the finger pushing it is steady.
= So, it was the time for the Zen Buddhist to join the game.
And the cables were safely connected. 😀
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When earthquake struck Kumamoto, Japan, quite few hi-tech
company there had to close and it sent a shiver to many other
manufacturers in the world. Such as Sony has their factory for
image sensor there = if it’s production stopped and the export
delayed, the production of iPhone in China would be stopped.
(Swedish camera manufacturer Hasselblad had to postporn the
sale of their medium format camera H6D, because the production
of 100 Mp image sensor in Sony, Kumamoto was disrupted —
in fact, 80% 0f digital camera in the world relying on Sony)
When China got their industrial development, they took over
the top position of manufacturing business — that they thought.
— While ago, China’s Premier Lee Karchan was so annoyed to
find that they needed to import even a ball of ball-point pen.
In deed, 60% of iPhone was made by the Japanese components =
the components of which China couldn’t make by themselves
even when they bought and used the same machine.
So the world started to pay an attention, Why only Japanese got a
skill to make certain component or device, and started to talk about
the Takumi (匠), such as the Mind-set of Takumi, Skill of Takumi.
(Takumi mean, the Master of something) —– the economists,
industrialists etc talking a lots about the Takumi though so far non
of them seemed to be aware of the sublimated tradition of the Zen.
When a craftsman (even an engineer) try to learn, they try it again
and again and develop a state of concentration of the mind = this is
a condition what Zen Buddhists call Mushin. Since the concentration
in Mushin is to vacate the brain, not push high tension to the mind,
such as the blood pressure, testosterone level doesn’t go high = able to
keep the mind and the hands calm and steady. (= able to do the job
without an emotion or any useless thought.)
= And this was the way to use the tool and in control in making.
So, this IS what the Takumi doing.
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