How NOT to get COVID-19
This was a tweet which has been Re-tweeted 100.000 times in two days,
[the advise, how NOT to get COVID-19 infected] made by a (Prof) Takayuki Miyazawa(宮沢孝幸准教授) of the Virus study, Kyoto Uni’, Japan
(1) Think, you were a person already infected by the COVID-19.
(2) And Think, try NOT to infect others.
(3) Breath through the Nose. (not by the mouth)
(4) Don’t touch your Nose, Eyes, Mouth while you are out.
(5) While you are eating, just eat, NOT to SPEAK (or Talk)
(of course, those MIND-SET were on top of the ordinary precaution = What to DO, such as [Wash your hand] [Keep a distance to each other] etc ——- may be because of those mind set and the attitude, the number of the infected in Japan is (on 30-03-2020) only 2.700 cases so far.
Stay safe and keep you well.
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Emotion / Meditation
On the surface, you may think Emotion and Meditation are rather antagonizing idea hence
they wouldn’t come together though, it is because you are trying to keep your pretense.
In reality, our Mind is always in the mess, otherwise we didn’t need to talk
about the Mind and its trouble 2500 years, and the Buddhism could have
become redundant long ago.
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Meditation is a funny practice. In principle, it supposed to sit while you vacate
your mind. Yet, in reality, all sorts of your bothering ideas, thoughts, images
are coming up = The more disturbing, the more keep coming back.
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Long time ago, in the mountain shelter, I talked with a man said to be a Japanese classics
teacher —– while talking about a poet, Saigyo, who became a monk in his later life, it
touched Buddhism idea, then the teacher reviled, in fact he is a trained, ordained Zen monk.
( Mind you, on that time my knowledge of the Buddhism was rather poor = a son of priest
didn’t mean know the Buddhism well. 😀 )
So, I’m not sure whether I made right question to him and how serious the answer he gave me.
He could have just kidding a young man. 😀 —– Any how, he said
“ It is a lie to Meditate in Mushin. I sit while visualizing the image of a
woman taking her cloths off, one by one and become naked. Ha ha ha :-D”
“ Didn’t you get aroused ?”
“ Oh no. If you do everyday every time, it just became a simple routine and
the same old image. Nothing exciting”
“ How about to change character to top film star and imagine her naked ?”
“ Yah, I did though, it’s all same”
—– Looking back this conversation half century later, I think he was telling me his truth
and the truth in what the function of Meditation is.
Meditation wear-out your thoughts = To see disturbing thought straight,
and analyzing again and again, soon or later you will fed-up, and the idea
will loose its fresh impact to induce an Emotion.
Without having an involvement of the Emotion, it become just another
opinion and a remote episode in the life ==> Detachment (Emotion put a tug
to the signal / information “this is Mine / My concern” = Turf of the Self )
When you get used with this process, again and again, you will become
rather not to have any useless thought = this is Mushin !
And start to see the things Objective = in the Detached Mind !
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Emotion is developed in our old part of the brain / Hippocampus. This old part is common
with any animal and it is directly dealing with one’s survival.
Hence, not only one’s survival instincts or sexual desire, but also one’s welfare = comfort
for oneself and for the species general, are all part of this Emotion.
Desire, Greed, Envy, Fear, Like-Dislike, Want or Avoid, even a judgement
of Right or Wrong —– are all related to the own survival (and better survival
condition) of oneself = (hence, it is the Ego / Greed)
Those feelings are the basis of the conscious of the Self (and its turf).
More importantly, Emotion is always causing a seclusion of particular hormone.
(Such as a fear to a danger needs whole body to prepare for prolonged battle by
seclusion of Adrenalin. Or whole process of sexual activity needs continuing higher
level of Testosterone.)
—– In comparison, higher logical thinking is done by the later addition of the larger
brain and its process is not necessary induce a seclusion of hormone or Emotion.
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So that, when you hear the call of the Wolf = its signal rises your Adrenaline and become
Emotionally alert. But if it is the same “Wolf-call” again, you just get used and
start to ignore = your perception would no longer trigger the Emotion.
—– Logically, Wolf is still somewhere in the woods yet its logical possibility wouldn’t
trigger your Emotion, because you are not in imminent danger, still, a kind of strong belief
or persistent thought / obsession would trigger an Emotion.
( But they are a subject of mental, neurological disorder)
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Seeing those function of the brain,
you might be realized that what the Meditation is doing.
= When your brain keep receiving the same signal, threshold of the reception
rise higher = the same signal loose impact. You become immune to the signal.
Those external incoming signal or internal thought would work alike.
When the brain (or a Mind set) starts to ignore the signal or thought, it no
longer trigger an emotional reaction = therefore loose the tag of ” Mine” =
and it become detached from the Ego = your mind would be in PEACE.
And when you do the things without involving your Emotion =
“ Effectively you are in the SELFLESS state” as all of your Emotion which is
defining “ This is mine / my interest” is no longer there.
—– Buddhism teachings are using those brain function and its tendency =
Mushin and the Selflessness to control our MIND.
( Without Emotion, Selfless, and in Mushin = Just get on the task / Life ! )
Hence we can have PEACE of MIND and the SMOOTH LIFE.
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( Though, there was an interesting question ” How and why, some people
who is seeing a lots of sexual images, the person become immune to a
sexual stimulant (like a Gynecologist), but in the other hand it would lead
some others become rapist ?”
—– Well, this is the matter of the Mind-set on the starting point, which I’m
going to write about in later post.)
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PS : Please do remember, there is yet another purpose in the Buddhism training, other
than [Eliminates Thinking = Mushin] and [Cut off the Emotion = Selfless] . Also
to sublimates the teaching = Imprint the Teachings into Subconscious by
repeated practice and repeated reading or reciting, is the crucial process. —– here
again invisible Mind.
When the Teachings were imprinted into subconscious (sublimated), it
controls the person unconsciously
= no need to consciously remember it = Mushin again !
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PAIN ? — How about SMELL ?
When I wrote about the PAIN, many of you might thought, it’s gone too far and hard to believe.
Yet, as a matter of fact, you are experiencing same kind of phenomena in your life everyday.
For instance, the smell. Your bad (or no) smell of your mouth or body odor. —— It might be almost non
or awful, though you don’t know or you can’t tell.
If the stimuli of smell is not there we can’t feel the smell, of cause. But if it is persistently there, the threshold
of the sense become high, and we become desensitized to its smell. This is the reason why you can’t
judge your own smell. (Bad breathed person still able to smell other’s bad breath —– it’s not own smell 😀 )
But there is a completely opposite situation. Once you become conscious about your own smell,
regardless it’s there or not, you become paranoid and become obsessed to use body splay etc etc.
The manufacturer of deodorant or such kind, try to make you think, you are a smelly person — and once you
were trapped, there is no escape. You start to think, others are pretending not feel the smell, in order not
to offend you. You are completely possessed by the delusion. And becoming to over sensitive to any
minute smell. (Though, there are many really smelly person who doesn’t care at all also exists 😀 )
A similar situation is in the noise. Someone is almost immune to the high level of noise but others are often
too sensitive —– couldn’t sleep because of the noise of ” Electronic Watch ” ( How can you hear ? )
Fishmongers never complained, fish smell fishy or car manufacturer never complained it is noisy, because
they got used of it (desensitized ), or contemplated and accepted, as it is a part of their own life.
If there is a possibility of compensation, to become conscious and too sensitive then become sleepless
and fallen ill, could be a choice. (People live by the sea never complained its endless wave noise, because
there is no point and no gain to do so ). Or other choice is completely ignore and just get used it, and
carry on the life —– is depend on the mind-set.
So, one’s Ego, Greed, Obsession or Paranoid —– or in opposite, Contemplation, could make completely
different perception, hence, even a different view toward the life.
This is the reason why the Buddhism is here. ( for you to get correct mind-set )
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