Lord Buddha’s Stance
When Lord Buddha got his Enlightenment under a pepal (bodhi) tree, he received
a milk porridge from a village girl Sujata and eat it. Since he has broken rank from
heard austere, denying their way, such as torturing the body wouldn’t bring any
supreme understanding of the Truth, so better remain to be ordinary,
this was his fundamental stance. — So that, in his earliest basic teachings such
as the Four Noble Truth, the Life was defined as in a suffering. Although the way
to make oneself free from such sufferings was taught, it was not telling like a
transcended vision, but showing a way of the living (of daily life = never staged-up
like walk on the water, or move a mountain but how to handle the things we are
dealing with every day’s life while living together with followers).
= This stance was the very foundation of the Mahayana Buddhism.
(The reason why in the early days of the Buddhism appear to have so-called
Hinayana style was, probably the influence of one of the disciple Maha Kashapa
who was originally a hard austere monk. (Buddhism took 5 hundreds years to
realize this mistake).
Another reason why such mistake was made was, that the core of the teachings
was to train one’s subconscious, not a word to memorize. = Buddhism is NOT the
theory/theology or IDEA, but the way how we see the things, react to the situation
or handle the things “without thinking”. ( = Just Doing)
The way to DO or to LIVE in this way can be learned only by the practice therefore
no point to explain it in the word. = Very difficult to teach, let alone to learn.
(To explain or to question nullify the point = like, to explain to be silent.)
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The back ground of those teachings was that our brain process the matter
unconsciously — consciousness comes far later after the intervention of the loads
of “considerations” such as own gain, desire, manipulative trick, etc etc.
What Lord Buddha found was That all of our sufferings were emanated from those
“consideration” or Thinking, therefore to eliminate those thinking and live on the
Moment (you can only see “The Moment” = before or after/future exists only in
your mind/thinking.) you can eliminate Sufferings, also the products of
thinking/imagination = fear, delusion, evil idea etc etc.
Do or Live without thinking IS nothing other than the MUSHIN.
This mindset was described by the Mahayana Script writers as the VOID.
—– So that, the teachings of
Lord Buddha was nothing to do with a fancy stories of Deity or Devil, Angel
let alone fancy “Spiritual” vision, but the practice. And the everyday’s our life
is the reality of our life = rather messy ugly phenomena. This was why
Lord Buddha liked to mix with people, eat the same food (he died for
food poisoning of rotten fish = he ate anything = not a vegetarian).
And to live in MUSHIN in what life ? = Just in our life = as it is, nothing special
= just ordinary life — What a dog shit. But this IS what the Enlightenment.
Lord Buddha didn’t tell anything peculiar or supernatural stories because,
that was not where he stood. (He was not a magician nor spin doctor but an
Enlightened man = Buddha. Enlightened wise man tells useful real stories, not
the useless crazy fantasies.) 🙂
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Karma – Fate – Palm Reading – 神秘線
Those past 3~4 months I’ve been hooked by a kind of Youtube viz which
is talking about how a man and a woman met, to how ugly the story of
their adultery and the divorce battle was etc etc. = May be a kind of cheep
stories in the tabloid news paper or women’s mag’ sort — I guess. = I guess
because I never read those papers = I don’t know actuary.
And I was utterly bemused by the sheer amount of those endless stories.
Fortunately I didn’t have such ugly situations on my life ( If I can say 3 years
court battle which was caused by a fraudulent marriage registration without
my knowledge which a woman schemed it for an immigration fraud — was
not ugly enough = no violence, no money grubbing etc. but just a clinical
process of the procedure as a litigant in person, up to the Court of Appeal,
stand against the President of High Court !)
not only that, I don’t drink, take no drug, no gamble, no game, gave up smoking
and even no woman = So, in certain stage, I thought, this vice-free life style IS
the very step towards the Buddhist’s Enlightenment.(Like as a Hinayana Dokkaku)
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Among the founder of a Buddhist sect, Shinran who formed a Japanese
Pure-land sect was the first monk openly married to a wife while saying that
“Without knowing the trouble to have a woman, how the priest could give an
advice to the people ?”. (yet it was a common knowledge that the priest having
a woman in their temple — by calling her Daikoku-sama = not wife. 😀 )
—– while reading those ugly or some time sobbing Youtube stories, I started
to wonder, is there anything else in the human life ? = Those ugly messes ARE
what the human life really are. They ARE the very expression of the Karma. =
What else did cause, hence created those very situations.
(Man’s ego may create something unique, still the Karma boomerang back !
= We can not escape from it in anyway.) And I’m well aware, soon or later
I’ll join the ques of dying and start to shows demented acts anyway. AND, this
awareness of the reality IS the Enlightenment in the Mahayana = It couldn’t be
a staged, choreographed clean Nirvana. What’s wrong ???
After all, to become aware Who I AM and to live as I AM is THE ultimate way to
reconcile, therefore to resolve with the Dharma. It’s mean, this is what the
Enlightenment IS.
That’s why all the great Zen Master said “The Enlightenment IS a Dog shit” 😀
To be as I AM mean as ugly as the reality of myself. Nothing wrong ! ! !
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Dharma is the total dynamic system of the whole existence.
And the Karma is the relation of how each segment or parts act each other.
How we were born has been defined by the Karma and in the modern
scientific understanding, they could seen to be defined by the DNA with
the environmental restrictions. — Spiritualists or Religious people may not
like this definition though, with the advancement of the scientific research,
those relations = which GENE defines what or what environmental / chemical
condition causes what etc. are becoming clear and clear day by day.
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So, it has been a popular topics recently, that the relation between the lengths
of the fingers and the sexual power / Testosterone level became well known.
Yet still, the lines in the Palm has been ignored by the most of the people.
With a kind of political correctness, talk about the determinism seems to be
a taboo. — Yet still its exists. (The palm line doesn’t define you. It only shows
how you’ve been defined by the DNA = likewise how the brain was developed
accordingly which determines how you behave and think = therefore
influences your way of the life and even a financial position. It doesn’t predict
future but simply shows natural consequence = such as, idiot lives as an idiot.)
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You can have a simple observation of the palm. = Generally there are three bold
lines on your palm. From the top = Heart line, middle = Brain / Intelligence line,
and the bottom (encircle the Thumb) = Life line.
Compare the character of you to your friend, while reading each palm
= If the Heart line is messy, the emotional state is messy (simpler line = stable)
= If the Brain and the Life line start together, the mind / the thinking has firm
base on the own life (on who you were born to be) but if lines start separately,
the person tend to play with imaginary world (idealist = couldn’t see the reality).
(To go further, you better go Wiki or books.)
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This is my palm. You can see how one’s life has been reflected on the palm.
In the center of my palm, the Cross was called Mystic or Spiritual line.
This line appears to the person who is religious or got psychic power.
= Or to say, a person who was born to have a certain DNA combination will
have the brain developed in particular way which possess Spiritual power.
(Crossing between Heart/Intuition to Higher Thinking process
may graphically indicates Spirituality)
(Its mean, a person who proclaim to be a psychic or religious without having
this line on the palm is sham. — have look your master or instructor’s palm.)
Though very few were born with this line and with this reality, the line’s
existence was almost a legend in the palm-reading both east and the west, so
that, no typical photo of it in the Wiki (because the people who is talking about
the Palm-reading in the Net is not genuine = he doesn’t have it = no photo. 😀 )
—– And the person who possess this line said to be protected by the
supernatural power. —– such as in my case of 8150 story .ヨシ禅縁起
(Did you convinced, how the palm actuary reflects the person’s life !)
So, to know what your palm is telling, is to know Who You ARE !
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The last Glow of the day
——————- last glow of the day ?
A while ago we saw a news of a Rock Star David Bowie’s death though,
how he died, even where he died was not clear. Even Bowie’s best
friend Brian Eno hasn’t been told.
Bowie left this world incognito = of course alone.
—– Strangely I never gone his concert or took his picture. Because I
didn’t like Glam Rock and didn’t like his slimy creature like texture.
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About the same time one of the senior member of our Alpine Club
“said to have” died. —– why said to have was that the other member
found it in a news paper report. Despite the past-away has been
quite active not only in the mountain but also organizing such as the
country-skiing event etc. He or his family didn’t contact the club at all
and the small funeral was said to have taken place within the closest
members of the family. = Seeing this news in the club’s mailing, I found
that “Yes, this is the manner, the enlightened man taking his nirvana”.
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We came to this world alone and die alone.
Still wanting to die while surrounded by a lots of family members and
the friends, and to have a big funeral —– isn’t this a fear of dying alone,
or a display of the vanity and the greed of the dying or the family ?
There might have been a lots of dramas among the attendances of funeral
= good and bad and ugly, not mention the battle over the inheritance etc.
So, the smallest gathering would be the quietest. And closest to the nirvana.
—– then, give the another thought.
Anyway, the past-away never know whats happens after =
why not to kick a big frolic and have a fun !
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OMG – Magnolia flowers ?!
London has been having no real winter = no ice, no frost not mention
a snow. And having the flowering Magnolia.
OMG, this is utterly crazy.
Of course, there could be “Special garden variety” of Winter Magnolia
of which I’m utterly ignorant though, this one may not be the case.
Still, this tree had pretty early flowers last year as well.
I do like to break the convention — but this case is not funny.
I like to act brainless though, I have no fun making a fun out of
handicapped person. Especially if it was created by the human error
such as an industrial poisoning.
I hope this magnolia has normal gene though, = if it was the case,
the climate alone was the cause ? — did it got such wrong ?
It’s just a beginning of January.
( —– in here, top photo was taken by the Zeiss 18mm and the
rest were taken by the homemade lens.)
This photo above was an additional comparison, taken
by the specially modified Canon FD 50mm F1.8 while its
focus was shifted during the exposure. = Since the image
of this lens has little aberration and halation (only having
superimposed out-of-focus bokeh) the contrast was
much higher = more glare) = different kind of fuzziness !
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Rice Cake
I would say nothing new = It’s the same story in New Year.
= I made a Rice Cake and made it to an Ozoni etc.
In fact, having the same event so many times again and again
it isn’t much of excitement. —– it’s a routine Sir.
I don’t have new year’s resolution kind. ( but just having
on-going projects which is going to be completed)
= Has to live as usual and do as usual whether it is fun or not.
That what the life is.
(If we plan big, it would fail. Not a plan but DO have a step further.)
That what the Zen is.
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First Sunrise of 2016
Sunrise in densely build area of London is not dramatic nor beautiful,
nevertheless it was the first sunrise in this year 2016.
Happy New year.
Last night I was in a new year’s eve party of the locals though, as
usual, I didn’t drink but just dancing —– I took some pictures though
I wouldn’t bother to publish them while taking the consent of all the
people in the photo. With their generation, the music was 70s, 80s
even 60s. 🙂 — and some kids as well. (very unusual party for me.)
🙂
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Season’s Greeting — New Year 2016
Cross the Winter Solstice is THE matter to me.
= Now on, the days are getting longer.
The photo for this year was taken from the Waterloo Bridge,
towards up-river and down-river.
Real scape had bit more festive lighting = more color LED
though, they just disappeared. Never mind. It wouldn’t kill you.
So, have a Happy Holiday Time.
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Citron bath on Winter Solstices (for Monkey)
冬至でサルもゆず湯
>>> http://www.jiji.com/jc/pp?d=pp_2015&p=latest-jpp020507192
To make a Citron Bath on Winter Solstice is a Japanese tradition.
It was regarded to be good for the winter health.
So, why not to Monkeys too. 🙂
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Caliber of the man — Calligraphy
I stumbled an Youtube post
showing the comparison of
calligraphy made by the
Japanese PM Abe and the
Chinese Chairman Shu.
(Abe=left, Shu=right)
Seemingly it was posted in China and the people commenting how
pathetic, the Shu’s hand were. Calligraphy expose the man’s caliber.
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