Yet another 8150
Among the regulars of the Dorkbot gatherings, there is a creative programmer Jagannathan,
who has presented semi autonomous, self interactive moving pattern of enigmatic images before.
On the Dorkboat, he performed an electronic music composed on the spot, jammed with Alex Mclean.
On the boat journey, we talked about our resent activities, since our idea to put his organic program
to combine with my strange kinetic design hasn’t been materialized yet.
I told him about my Youtube images with its key word Kinetorori. To google Kinetorori, it led to both
Yoshizen blog and my Youtube channel.
Along side the Youtube video clip / Cupidon and the blog Kinetorori, inevitably he stumbled upon
8150 story. Which lead him to read a post ” Is Dharma directing us ?”
In that post I was asking the reader to check their Number. So, he checked his Bank a/c number ——
Bang ! —— He discovered, his Bank a/c number having this fatal 8150. ——- Please read
the comments on the post. ” Is Dharma communicating us ?” (To search, type in the box and click )
Later he said on the Email, Shocked and amazed by this. And as he said on his comment, he is
having this only a Bank a/c number since he arrived here 10 years ago. —— does it mean,
the Dharma did know from the beginning, we are going to meet —- or the person who got this
number are destined to meet together?
Jagannathan is not a Buddhist but he believes Brahmanism. Still, what so ever human make up the
name the ultimate power over there is the same entity. All of us are under the rule of this power.
And, in deed we were watched by it.
I gave a thought for Jagannathan’s life —– then I realized a crucial point that is (as he described
in his email) after he experienced the trouble of his program Pirated, he decided to publish them
as open source ” Instead to spend the time to encrypt them, better spend the time to create
something new, which gives more freedom” ——- abandon the ego and greed and
give-away his creation, brought him more freedom and strangely more wealth and stayed in health.
—— this is the very paradox in the Buddhism which I described many times.
So that, the greed-free honest attitude in the life is the key factor, as his life style is far from ascetic —–
having a wife, likes cider and he confessed, its hard to stick with Right-hand Zen. 😀 —– Still,
Selfless, Ego-less free mind may made him spiritually stand out.
Programing is a laborious work for perfection ( if not perfect, it doesn’t work at all 🙂 ) and
even for open source free program, if it is not creative and useful enough, nobody give a sit.
And now he started to wonder —— is this, because of him being protected by the Dharma too ?
( Fascinating isn’t it —— or is it Spooky ? 🙂 )
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