MODIFIED APE ? ? ?

As I’ve written “ Artificially modified Ape “ I received pretty strong contention. ( as anticipated )

I didn’t intentionally try to create argument though, I knew there must be a lots of contention.

Not mention the Christian Creationists, but even the ordinary Evolutionists couldn’t agree.

To my eyes, the changes occurred to even the physics of the Human, which were triggered by the

active Human selection,  which changed or resulted the condition of existence is artificial.

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Among the animals, such as the exuberant horn of Deer or the feather of Peacock were the result of

the breeding competition.  The more prominent, the more attraction to the females, hence the Gene

of bigger horn had become dominant.  This is a natural selection and the shift of the size of horn

would be regarded as a process of the Natural Evolution.

But, in the case of the size of Human boobs is quite questionable. When our far ancestors started

to walk biped, genitals became inconspicuous and male and female sees each other, face to face,

guessing the appearance of the others, with dark skin and hairy body, it may not very easy to appeal

“Look at me I’m a female “. So that, the female who happen to have larger boobs had taken more attention,

hence she had more opportunity to produce the offspring —– and the Gene to make larger boobs were

established. —– yet, big boobs is not actually contributing to the fertility nor good supply of the

mother’s milk, because it was made of useless fat.—– It is just for a psychological display.

In other words, it was the matter of the male imagination. Nothing to do with physical evolution.

( Selective breeding is not a natural evolution.  It is a reflection of man’s Ego and  Arrogance)

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The more drastic change had happened in the Human history, when our ancestor gained and figured

out their stable life, and became more than just a hunter gatherer. —– Probably with some domestication

of the animals and the primitive agriculture or knowledges to keep particular plants as the staple food.

Hence able to alleviate a hardship cycle of plentiful and the starvation in the cold.

This stable life, away from the effect of the season, had the same effect of the domestication to

the Human animal.

—– With the (self) Domestication, Human lost the seasonality of the breeding, and the females

started to ovulate out of season.   It was a change of the physiology lead by nutrition and the psychology.

( I couldn’t find any explanation Why Human lost a chemical trigger / Pheromone or sensitive nose  😀 )

All over the world there is a peculiar artefacts of so-called Venus Figure

with exaggerated body.

They are always in the early stone age. —– and only limited on that

period, and never continued.   This fact suggests what had happened,

a woman in the colony had first ever bore the babies twice in a year,

which astonished the people, hence she became a symbol of fertility,

Mother Goddess.  Though, gradually all the women started to show the same,

worship of the Goddess became pointless, hence, the Venous Figure was

no longer produced.   ( This is totally new theory  🙂  )

(Photo above = Venus of Willendorf / Naturhistorisches Museum  / Vienna / Wikipedia )

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This physiological change was a result of the change of Human Life Style, generally called Culture.

And this change of the Culture was the results of the Intellectually lead Human adaptation.

It hadn’t  occurred naturally.  In another word, it was an Artificial Change.

—– Subsequently there were many side effects, consequential changes had occurred in the Human

history.   Namely, such as the Brainization ( Imagination lead ) sexual behaviour —– hence resulted

even a development of sexual obsession. —– This is not a natural evolution at all, but a destruction.

(Without Pheromone induced sexual imperative, a sexual drive has to come from one’s MIND )

—– Big BOOB may not have any physiological value, still it would give you quite an

Imagination.  Imagination always strays away.  ( How exiting.   Ha, ha, ha   😀 )

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Thanks to the Human Intelligence,  Humankind invented many new psych and the idea though,

they are too often far remote from what we started and originally designed by the Dharma.

This is the reason why we have two separate  SELF  in us.

The one is our Self-conscious (the One, thinking),  and the other is in our subconsciousness.

The more we became conscious, we alienate our true Self which we only subliminally aware of.

This is the reason why Buddha taught,

“The Self in the thinking is a Delusion “ “Look at the Dharma without thinking “

Without thinking, is what Mushin mean. (in another sect, this is also called  Detachment)

The Buddhism is to become aware, and to regain What We are.

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Virtue of DHARMA — What ?

Deep in the bottom of Dharma, there is the Physics.  And the basis of Physics, there are Atoms

which behaves or having its tendency according to their structure such as the number of

Electrons they got.  And the Atoms are made by the Nuclear particles, which were made by

the Sub-particles —– and those Sub-particles seemed consist even smaller Sub-particles —– and so on.

( According to the theories. —– Yet, nobody knows the truth, or it seems to be the unknowable.   🙂  )

I don’t think I need to listing-up the names of those and pretend to know anything about it.

Just leave the matter to the Nuclear Physicists —– as I’m not.  I’m only an outsider and merely qualified

to ask a question to the superficial phenomena.

Yet this question must be the ghastly fundamental serious one.

” Is DHARMA virtuous ? ”

M m m ———— So far what I found, the answer is Yes.

But if we take a  Humanitarian stance,  it is not necessary benign.

This was the reason why Buddha bluntly defined it in his Four Noble Truth, The life is suffering,

getting ill and get old and die, even though we are covered under the Dharma.

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Long since a question of where the notion of Virtue in the Buddhism come from, was a conundrum to me.

The general morality is a necessity to keep the society’s unity and the peace, in other words it is the

obvious commonsense though, when it comes to a critical tricky situation, such as who should survive

when they faced to a crisis, blink of mass extinction, demise of the tribe such as a famine etc,

the compassion to others etc —– where those human virtue came from ?

To make it as a human duty to be compassionate, which appeared in the Buddha’s teachings from  its

earliest period, together with Four Noble Truth —– Its suggest, Buddha was fully aware that Dharma

is not necessarily kind to the man, hence need to take our own measure of helping each other.

Otherwise, Buddha would have said  “Ask your God to help you”  like all other religion.

But Buddha did know, No such convenient things in this world.  Buddha’s eyes were seeing

much larger picture ( Not having the man in the center, but the Harmony of the Universe in total)

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To see the nature and its evolutionary history, I can see the Dharma’s incredible kindness towards

the extremely rare existence —– the LIFE.

What sort of coincidence combined the some Atoms and created basic structural element like

amino-acid, and then simple virus / bacteria kind of Life form.

Far beyond the mathematical probability, while against the Principle of Entropy, yet congregated selected

Atoms and Molecules and to create Life, could not occurred in accident. ( —– If it was an easy occurrence

in chemistry, with today’s technology, artificial Lives could have been created already. )

Any moment in the history, in any global event, this process could have been halted and the Life could be

extinct long ago. —– But amazingly this history on the Earth continued till now —- billion of years,

as if there was a will to make it continue.

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To make it continue, it is necessary the system of the existences has to be balanced,

ie; sustainable in today’s buzz word —– in other words intricate equilibrium has to be met.

This is What Dharma mean, and Buddha meant —– as only a part of the Dharma, man’s life

couldn’t be alone and trouble–free —– In fact, the man’s greed and the arrogance to expect and

imagine  ” It should be trouble–free”  is the cause of trouble in its own.

The balance is for the total system, not for the man’s convenience, since human is only a minute part of it.

Among the all the existences ( Dharma ), only but  the human, is having their own mind and the mean

to go against the Dharma’s Rule.

And this arrogant mind, greed is expecting more than the fair share of  which  Dharma allocated to man.

That is why the Buddha’s teachings says, to be humble and abandon the Ego / Self, in order to

achieve manifestation of the Dharma within —– Abandon the Self = Mushin ( Mind of No-Mind )

which mean let the Subconscious ( the reflection of the Dharma —> Please Refer to previous post )

to rule your life.

Like a compassion is in one’s Emotion / Subconscious (reflection of the Dharma ) inherently Virtuous. So, the

Virtue in the Buddhism teachings is not from the God or convention of the society,  but it is the Dharma itself. 

Hence, the teachings of Buddha is ” Not against, or struggle with Dharma, but live with it,

live in accordance to the Dharma.  It’s mean, observe it by yourself, and aware and listen the

Dharma deep inside of you.   And to live with the Dharma in Mushin, prevails the Virtue in you.

This is the Enlightenment, which lead you to the Nirvana”

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When man-kind violated the Rules and destroy the balance of the Earth’s Climate Equilibrium,

the sea stream changed its course, and caused the heavy rain here and there.

Simply, the Dharma is adjusting new Equilibrium —– and, it happened to be in the Australia or Brazil.

It looks as if the Earth is intentionally giving a revenge. —– No it is not, it just happen to be there, where

no human used to live —– human is the one invaded the land.

Don’t exercise your Ego and Greed, and impose your own Idea. 

Virtue is not in one’s mind, but in the DHARMA.

Here a Paradox again, you can’t deliberately exercise Virtue, it’s appears in your Mushin.

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