Party Time
On the London Underground I encountered very very colorful
bunch of the people. They said they are on the way to “a kind of Party”
—– later, I found, they are in fact the Government officers !
(Do you noticed, they are wearing 007 type very special glove ?
It might be for Golfing Gold finger’s)
I guess, it may not be a special disguise for a rather elaborated
intelligence operation but more like for a chemical-physiological
assessment project to find a toxicity of the liquid substance.
—– anyhow, to avoid me to become a hacking subject of GCHQ,
I shouldn’t go into too much details.
I wish them having had a very GOOD time
and safely returned to their home now. 🙂
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釈尊の教え－－－Buddha’s Original Teachings
Note : This post is parallel with this and this post in English.
釈尊の教えが元々如何なるものであったかを知るには，教えの与えられたその時代，
その時の思考，その瞬間の心理の機微を知る必要があります。
人々の問い掛けに，その瞬間の機知で応えていたとされる
釈尊の教えに抽象的な想念は無く，全ては対話に立った明解な英知であったのです。
人々の問いかけもごく日常的な問題，その世相のトピックスであった訳ですが，
釈尊の時代は将にヒンズー教の勃興期で，当然の事として新しい流行思想が話題の中心に
なっていた訳です。 古典的べーダに根ざした道徳論的，儀式的バラモン教から派生した
ヒンズー教は当時の新興宗敎で「霊魂が生れ代り次の生を規定し，
それがカーストになる」とした画期的な流行理念であったのですが，この流行とそれの
もたらした恐怖は，かつての「天中殺｣の流行を想い浮ベるとピンと来るでしょう。
根拠も，何の証拠も無いでっち上げであるにも拘らず，世の人というのは
コロっとだまされパニックに陥る。この「輪廻の輪」という妄念に囚われた人々に
明解な答を与え，無要な心配やカーストのクビキから解放するというのが
釈尊の直面した火急の任務であったのです。 何の根拠も無いそのような妄念に対して
釈尊は極めて論理的，合理的な解答として「心配するには及ばない。万物は（我々も）
因果，縁の上にのみ存在しているのだから，当然の事として肉体が死ねば，
そこに根ざしていた意識も自覚も，苦悩も消滅する。これが涅槃で，それは誰もが
自然に得られるもの。我やカーストなど単に頭で作り出した妄念である」と説かれたのです。
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ヒンズー教で言う「無限に続く死と再生の繰返し＝苦界／娑婆／サムサラ」に対して，
釈尊は「輪廻，再生すベき「我」などと言うものはそもそも存在しない」と説かれた訳
ですが，存在しない物を説明するというのは至難の業です。（概念，言葉も無い！）
例えば，全てが共有され私有物の無い社会で「盗み」とかその罪について議論する事はできない。
重力の在る地球上でなら「もしこの重力が無かったら－－」と考える事ができますが，元々
重力の無い世界に暮していたら，重力とはいったいどんなものなのか想像もできないでしょう。
無私，無我である事はできる（一如として）が，それを客観的に自覚した瞬間に一如は消滅する。
（眼の存在の自覚なしにこれを読んでいても，言われて気がついた途端に一如が崩壊する）。
つまり無私を説明するとは外ならぬ「私，我」の存在の認知になってしまう訳です。当然の事として
釈尊が「我」を話題にする事は無く，「魂は死後どこへ行くのか？」といった質問は存在し得ない
物で，それに対する答が与えられる筈も無かったのです。つまり
釈尊は本人が「無我」に一如であった故に｢我」の存在に関しては完璧に「無記」だったのです！
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従って，仏教の中で最も重要な無私，無我（アナトマン）の教えは，実は体得する以外にない。
不立文字，教外別伝，以心伝心となる由縁です。（無心に，黙々とやるのみ）
しかし逆に言えば，言葉の上で定義し得ないために，誤解曲解が生じる原因にもなったのです。
－－－で，この曲解はごく初期のうちに起っていて，輪廻やサムサラを説く仏典は
実はヒンズーやタントラの混交でしかありません。
無私無我を教理の根底に置く時に，いったい何が誰が，死後も留って生れ代るのか？
釈尊がそんな矛盾した馬鹿な事を言うはずが無いでしょう。（笑）
しかしケダモノに生れ代るかも知れないと心配する人々の恐怖感は職業僧の飯のタネ，
彼らが話を書変えてしまったのです。
在りもしないあの世から戻って来て「話が違う」と文句をつける人は絶対居ないのですから
どんなホラを吹いてもバレません！ 実に困った“虚偽表示”です。（大笑）
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PS: The image on top was created by [Mouhitsu] of Japan-Post.
Though, the work has to be saved and its “png” has to be converted
by this process —– Bring the Downloaded image to desktop. and
Double-click this => “Open with” =>[Paint] —– then click and open
left top icon and go to “Save as”=>”jpeg” (Yes, to asking small window)
—–> The saved image is on the Desktop ! 🙂
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Mouhitsu = Blush Calligraphy
In the Japan-Post New-Year Card design Free Template site,
they are also offering two interesting design tools.
One is the Blush Calligraphy other is to design Name Stamp.
Calligraphy may seemed similar to other drawing program though,
their one is using the speed of finger movement to the thickness of
the line = hence a bit closer to the real blush touch.
When you start the program by clicking red button on the bottom,
loading takes minuet and open the screen like this above.
—– you may have the choice of colors or Black ink, and three sizes
of Blush. ==> then just try. (as many times you like. 🙂 )
Black button right bottom is to re-start, and Red button for finish.
Use the finished Calligraphy into their Design-kit and to upload is
straight forward though, use it as an image, it’s “png” format
has to be converted to “jpg”.
( To convert “png” to “jpg” is in this process:
—– Bring the Downloaded image to desktop. and
Double-click this => “Open with” =>[Paint] —– then click and open
left top icon and go to “Save as”=>”jpeg” (Yes, to asking small window)
—–> The saved image in “jpg” is on the Desktop ! —– or somewhere.)
(I found a fun without having a mess of Blush and INK ! —– but,
write on touch-pad is very different from real blush writing, of cause.)
To design Stamp (they says Hanko) needs Japanese character input.
(To do this you can Google and download Microsoft, IME Japanese, or
you may pick up letters in the Net and Copy-paste as a design input)
—– So, these are the samples of the Name Stamp (Hanko) I made.
—– Left = the Seal of Yoshizen (良禅之印) Center = Kinetorori (キネ瀞裏)
—– Right = James (じえむす) in Hiragana 🙂
Japan Post is providing those service only till January —– so, if you like to
design your own Stamp, better do rather soon than later.
Anyhow, enjoy if those program / Design Tools are useful to you.
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Black Friday
Everybody knows what Black Friday is. —– So what ?
It doesn’t necessary mean “Everybody became shopping crazy.
But obviously it made Co. to became AD crazy. I don’t mind to
see a kind of business deal ADed by even tech’review site as I
might buy it.
Though, such as Amazon sending me 2 AD / day is too much.
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They are funny Co. = on the beginning I bought
Compact flush Memory Card from them as it is becoming
hard to come by item in the shop. —–> from this, to make
connexions to Cameras , Tech’item etc was obvious and I didn’t
mind to see what they got once in few days.
Then “very funny things” happened. When I attempted to buy
Canon type Lithium Battery to other use, not only to enter
Credit-card data etc. but they asked me to type “Promotional Code”
of which I have no idea = hence shopping was abandoned.
(I gave an inquiry “What is Promotional Code ?” to them. 🙂 )
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And this data (my inquiry) has been sold by Amazon or the mail had
been hacked —–> I started to receive offers from VaucherCode Co.
And Amazon’s started to send me more and more ADs. ==> My
Patience has run-out. With a setting of Filter, all of those PESTS were
now blocked and goes to bin straight without me ever know it.
I don’t think I need to use Buddhist’s word “Middle-way”
= Gone too far doesn’t work. I can’t understand, are they such idiot ?
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Fruits Fly
It seems different people call different Fruits Fly though, I’m talking
about very small common Fruits Fly in England. While Googling, I
found that the others are having the same problem of Fruits Fly.
——( Dead Fruits Flies I found, and they were photographed by Nikkor 24mm F2 lens,
Reverse-mounted with extension-ring on Canon 5D Mk-III — as a X5 Macro-close-up)
—– they suddenly appear in mass and start to pest the place.
Of cause, I wouldn’t believe that they naturally generated —– there
must be somewhere something nursing them. But what was that ?
I certainly don’t have rotten fruits or cow-dung dropped in my room.
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When I was in my junior school, there was a kind of out of course
biology project = To receive a bottle of fruits fly and keep them in
a warm condition. Then next week, 10 of the pupil brought back
each bottle and counted the number of hatched fly — how many of
them had black eyes etc. Actuary, we were assisting the researcher’s
study (without understanding what for we are doing. :-D)
Anyhow, still we learned how to nurse Fruits Fly with a gluey
yeast-starch mix and to see them hatch less than 10 days.
= It’s mean, when one female came into the room and laid the eggs,
a week to 10 days later, suddenly the room would have 100 of them
flying around.
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While observing where they are frocking, I realized that the fruits
skin peel etc anything sweet and wet in the bin is attracting them.
On top of those, I discovered that quite number of them penetrated
the polythene bag of Raisin loaf through small gap = they must have
laid hundreds of the eggs on the raisin. = If I didn’t notice, I could
have eaten plenty protein as well. (That was how the Essential
Amino-acid was delivered to the “Strict Vegetarian” 🙂 )
—– then battle commence. Since then, any wet or not completely
dry rubbish, mostly fruits peel kind were lapped-up in polythene bag
and goes to the bin and any soft food goes either fridge or plastic
container with lid. I needed to make my room as dessicated and futile
as a desert, making them to convince “It’s better to go somewhere else”.
( I did composting before though, I have no garden of compost to go,
and it’s bin itself became a center of unpleasant insects, fly etc
= So, I gave up the idea.)
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So that, in reality, to have an ecological, naturally harmonious life =
“Happily Live Together with other small Lives” is = sound sweet but
not practical or ideal at all. In fact nothing but a pretentious fraud.
We shouldn’t forget “To keep hygienic, clean life” is no other than
the practice to persecute against the pests and the germs.
The Bottle-fly or Cockroach are just having their own life that all.
Even AIDS virus is surely the other life-form. They only happen to
cross over the boundary to the human life and created the conflict.
—– People expecting a beautiful Butterfly just fly over their flowers,
still never anticipates their larvae could infest their plant in their
garden. —– if they saw it, certainly 99% of them will kill it.
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It easy to make-up a softy face and preach love and compassion kind
—– Oh ! Really ?
= Better not to be a filthy hypocrite. I rather stay to be a honest tyrant,
killing millions of grains and beans every year, on top of billions of
other invisible small creatures and the germs for my comfort and the
survival. —– To know the real extent, how we are relying on the sacrifice
of other life-form = Exact reality of the Karma, not a convenient pretty
story to justify and glorify ourselves, is the duty to be a real Buddhist.
Scripture spent so many pages to explain about the Oneness (Ichijo —
such as that “Giving, even without having a conscious of giving” ==>
having pretentious mind is too remote from the Buddhism.)
We need to see and think it in person.
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PS: Since when my flat was made a desert, they just disappeared
and I only managed to find two dead bodies —– Where had they gone ?
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2014 — Japanese New-Year’s Card Design (Free from Canon)
Following last year, I show you a Card Design Web-site of Canon again.
When people design their own card and print it, quite likely people use
Canon printer and consume their INK = so, they can sell more. 😀 / 😦
(A printer of HP etc was in fact made by Canon !) = Have you ever seen
Chinese or Korean Printer ? Unlike electronic goods which they can copy
by buying the same components made in Japan, printer has to be made
in incredible precision and has to keep work 5~10 years = no Chinese
can make. So, the Canon knows, they should give back some.
Those are the link to their Free Card design site :
http://cp.c-ij.com/ja/contents/10n201/list_45_1.html —————- Formal style
http://cp.c-ij.com/ja/contents/10n202/list_45_1.html?log=nt-02 ——— Casual
http://cp.c-ij.com/ja/contents/10n311/list_45_1.html ——- Material components
When you click to their site, you will see a screen like this (in Japanese).
Still, left hand Column you can try clicking (and return) next by next.
(In fact, the link above are the same to first three on the column )
In order to avoid the mess, I’ve made those samples in Collage
= you can save from here and clop OR download from Canon site.
The sample above, left is a letter Spring. —– the center, the letter Dream
—– Right, ancient figure / original shape of the letter Horse.
The samples above 3 may be used as a component.
Right, Stump face saying “Good sign of Long-life and Happiness”
(Canon site has English etc too, though, not for New Year but
to make for Xmas Card. = Cultural difference is here ! )
PS : Those Link also provide Free Design Templates.
They are reputed, trouble-free good site. = Worth visiting. 🙂
http://www.designbank-nenga.com/
http://nengarank.com/html/index.html
http://www.wanpagu.com/top_illustration.html
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JFK —– 50 years ago
On this day, 50 years ago, I was up in the Mountain Shelter.
23rd of November is a Japanese National Holiday, equivalent of the
Thanks giving day / Kinro-kansha no Hi (勤労感謝の日) —– and when
ever those holiday could be conjoined to the weekend (with additional
day skip from the school) I came up to the mountain.
On that time in the Shelter, there were 2 more senior keepers.
As I was a youngest (still in the high school) I got up earliest and put a
light to a heating stove and a cooking stove, and while waiting the water
to boil, I was preparing to make a tea.
Then, a senior keeper “Saigo the Devil’s Ear” (地獄耳の西郷さん) came down
from upstairs and told me “Hey, Kennedy was dead”
“What ? what did you say ?” “Kennedy was shot dead” “How do you know ?”
“Other climber’s radio said” (Saigo-san often put a tea-cup over his ear and
listen other’s conversation in distance = hence his nick-name.) then we put
a switch on to our radio. —– yes, the news was true.
(The time, when the news spread to the world = afternoon in Dallas was,
still very early morning in Japan = 4 or 5 o’clock) —– anybody who faced
this news when they got-up, was just shocked and depressed, wordless.
—– It was the moment when I heard the very news.
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Winter Cherry again !
This is the third year for me watching this special Cherry tree !
Special because she blooms in the winter, and keep blooming until
their more usual blooming time of April. (Continuously all through
6 months. So that I even wrongly called her Perpetual Cherry !)
And, this is the first photo session for this season despite only
few flowers there yet. (More would be added here later. 🙂 )
So, say hello to Cherry-san.
(PS: Close-up was done by the same Fish-eye lens, while lens was
held lifted from the body = held the lens not fully inserted to the
body (hence close focus) = and the lens was not fully engaged to
the body, there was no control to the lens = aperture was F4 🙂 )
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Year of Horse — Card Design Material
This is an addition to the previous
So, it is for the link to Japan Post
and in their site, Material section.
I think, those material must be
easy to download and use.
And if you like to compose it with
Japanese style Blush Calligraphy,
either see the old post or see the next post and try it by yourself ! ! !
(4~6th page of Material section has many calligraphy samples ! )
Japanese New Year’s Card 2014 / Year of Horse
Gosh ! It’s the season again
to see the search-term looking
for the New year’s card design,
which ended-up here.
— On the beginning, I just used
a card design for myself, then next
year people asked me where did I get ?
—– and to give the informations became an annual custom here.
Those samples were provided by the Japan Post and they are free to use
for your personal greeting card though, the image I could copy here were
not in full size, and you are advised to go to their site and
properly download.
( They are enticing you to send out the card by Yahoo Mail, otherwise,
they made it harder for just copying it as they are [png] format,
not simple [jpg] = I guess, Yahoo use the data for their AD
—– free mean there is always a catch. 😀 )
Japan Post —– http://yubin-nenga.jp/search/ —- click here will open this
Then, clicking left of Hose-man will open right screen-shot which is
showing thumbnails of ready-made New year’s card templates (1000
of them), or if you click right of horse-man, the page will show you the
material for you to design a card.
(I’ll show you in the next post)
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