- As for the blog's name: -


I was @ Gustav Ericsson's sight, - Anzenkai, and I was looking at Nishijima Roshi’s calligraphies over there. Particularly there is one - "seki shin hen pen" - about which Gustav has earlier said in a blog post that it is Nishijima's favorite phrase from Master Dogen.

This seemed strange to me. It was not what I would expect Nishijima Roshi's favorite phrase to be. It seemed it could be some Rinzai master's favorite quote, - it seems to express continuous and constant sincerity, - but it did not seem to fit my view of the way Nishijima Roshi saw things.

So - consequently - I tried to think what would I expect his favorite quote to be. But all phrases I could think of did not seem to fit just what I might have had in mind.

So I tried to come up with what I would see it as, - and what I have come up with - is - "this universe out here".

- And this seems to be the right name for this blog here too.


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Physics

In physics they have the law of preservation of matter (mass) and energy. First they had the law of conservation of mass and the law of conservation of energy, and then Einstein came and merged them. They have several other conservation laws as it seems.

Quite obviously, - these principles were only relying on experiments done in dead matter. - No one has ever thought it necessary to perform physical research in particular in living organisms. - The assumption is that it would be utterly pointless.

- Here on Earth there are minerals - ;inanimate things - which I related to here as dead matter, - plants, animals, and humans. - Though physics is supposed to relate to them all it practically deals with the inanimate alone for obvious reasons. - No one can accurately measure the energy produced by chemical reactions and tell if this is really exactly what the muscle got in actuality in order for its functioning. The same is of course true elsewhere too. - Such things are not considered or tested.

- The contemporary prevailing materialistic view believes there nothing else than physical matter. This is altogether untrue. - Plants have a higher element unknown to so called materialistic “science”. - This element is also said to consist of two parts. - Without this they would not be plants, - they would be dead matter, - inanimate things. - Animals also have this and another one above it, - and humans also have what they have above this too. - “Death” is the departure of this element all three of them (- plants, animals and humans) have as I said - in collaboration of course with the other ones above it (as mentioned) too if these are there. - (That is is the case of animals and man) Contemporary science may its own definitions of death which will apparently ever miss the point.

The first element I referred to is supervising the physical body. No physical living being here on this plain can be a living being without it. - It is what discriminates living matter from dead matter. - It ever affects your body. you could not perform a single action living here on Earth as you do without it. - For this purpose it must obviously affect the physical plain (your body, or the body of an animal or a plant) from outside the physical plain. - That is to cause something to be different than it was within the physical plain (the physical world) while not being part of it.

In other words, - as it seems - we could say energy has somehow been affected as to alter its level or route. The changes are likely to be fine, - perhaps very fine, - I guess. - But the law of conservation of energy (or of conservation of mass and energy) could not be said to hold, - in its relating to the physical plain alone assuming its exclusive existence which would mean a system closed in the physical plain is closed altogether. It could be true when not relating to effects originating in what you might call higher worlds - but there is not half a second when - relating to a living organism - (- a plant, an animal or a human) it would be possible for such effects not to take place, - unless it is no longer a living being. - So in a way this is all rooted in a misunderstanding.

Of course this is not easy to examine. Not with the common tools used today by those calling themselves “scientists”. There is the question of how to investigate. If you initially negate the possibility of existence of all that is outside of what you imagine to be all of reality you seem to deprive yourself of the possibility to become knowledgeable about it. - Since the tools you would be willing to use would be altogether meaningless for this purpose. The ability to gain what is necessary here lies within man. - External tools thought of as generally the exclusive means for the scientific investigation involved are not expected to do here. - It is much harder to attain the necessary abilities than to sit in a university and listen to what they teach. Far more worthwhile too. - But it is not like academic studies, - no one can tell you that if you sit and learn for so and so years you will get this or that. - It is not like this. - One practices but the results might appear when they would, - or they might not, - perhaps. - It is altogether different. - But this is the true way. - Contemporary science, - at its current state, - with all the obvious benefits it might bring us - which are not to be put away, - is much of a waste of time and seems to be running severely in a ridiculous and wrong way. - I got quite further than what this post was to be about, - but it was necessary to relate to the means by which knowledge is to be attained. - This world is generally going all the wrong way. - And since resources will not be dedicated to bring us to see what is necessary in order to change the path - things seem to continue as everyone might expect.

Accept what you will. - But the means by which science attempts to gain its knowledge ought to be considered, - in a truly rational way, - and not relying on prejudices. - This is not all and this is not enough, but this post is not aimed at changing the world. Just notice what I said about the law of conservation. This was the intended issue here.

Written on October 6th 2024

Compassion

This post is about compassion. In 1988 Nakagawa kyudo Roshi said “if you become flexible you find out compassion is your nature”. - But this not what this post is about. - He also said, - I think in 1987, - (- April) “some people say they don't like compassion”, - “such people don't know what compassion is”. (- The last quote is not necessarily fully exact, - it is just off my memory)

I can understand people mentioned. I quite dislike being emotional. - But again this is not what this is about here.

Also, - if you ask - are compassion and love the same or different? - What would be the answer? - I think in order to say it is necessary that the person asking would clarify his or her intention. - I don't think it can be answered just like that. - You would get contradicting answers I think. - It doesn't seem you could get it off a dictionary. - One has to tell what does he or she has in mind or what lies in the background of the question in order to achieve a real clarification. To get an actual worthwhile idea relating to the question. - Fwiw.



- But still again this is not what I was coming to write about here.



- If you look at animals, - they are utterly without any ability of consideration. - Mothers can care about their offsprings, - fathers can possibly too, - but else than that care is altogether absent when relating to organisms lower than man here on our known planet on the physical plain. - It is quite obviously worse in a way with insects or generally all of the invertebrates. - But this is not necessary for us at first at least, - in observing what I am relating to.

if you look at a dog or a cat, - you can see how incapable it is of sharing the pain or the joy of another. - If there would be another dog or cat or human deeply suffering next to it you would see no reaction as with a human being. I am not relating even to the choice of whether or not to offer any assistance, - I am relating to the initial mental reaction you would find in people - in human beings, - quite unrelated to their moral views or tendencies. - A human would in the most natural way have a natural tendency reacting to the seen mental state of another person or animal. - Not necessarily an insect or something of the sort but put that aside. - Us humans shall in the most natural manner at first at least experience pain at the view of the deep suffering before our very eyes of another, - and naturally too a positive feeling at another's joy, or as well some sort of a favourable incident. - Exceptions are irrelevant here. One might rejoice at the fall of an enemy. Put this aside. It will not affect the outcome.

The point is that if you take the trouble of observing a dog or a cat or any other animal in relation to things here, - see for yourself the described phenomenon, - then due to the natural and immediate contrast with general human behaviour as referred to here, - you would be able to tell or notice what compassion is. - It is the most natural thing.

- By this way as I have written here I believe one can see and notice for one's self what is meant by “compassion”. - It is this idea and line of thought I noticed which have lead me to write this post. What appears earlier are a kind of remarks. - If you will observe an invertebrate (it is not necessary to actually find one, - you can just watch on YouTube, or some similar site) such as an octopus, assuming you are a sensitive person, - you might notice some perhaps even shocking existing mentality revealing inherent inconsiderateness of severe harsh characteristics, - but this is beyond the issue here, - and does not necessarily contribute to the revealing of the nature of compassion which is the purpose of things here.





- So far.

           (- You might also check this page or this page if interested in things generally)

מימדי החשיבה

כתבתי כבר, אבל בכ״ז, - חכם, - אם יראה תמונה, - הכוונה לא לתמונה על הקיר, - תמונתם של דברים - מצב קיים שלנגד עיניו, - יכול להבינו. לא מובטח שיבין. לא כל החכמים שווים. וספק אם ניתן להגדיר ”חוכמה“, - כבעניינן של תכונות אחרות קיימים שזכו לה יותר וקיימים שזכו לה פחות.

החשיבה מהי? - מהי החשיבה? - ידוע לנו x, וממנו מסיקים y. קיימת תמונה שלא את מלואה אנו רואים, ומסיקים באשר לנסתר מהגלוי. למה אני מציין? כי הממשות אין נסתר ממנה. אין דבר נסתר ממנה. לכן אינה נזקקת לחשיבה. לדעתי. החכמה מיותרת לדידה. - אבל אנחנו לא הממשות. אנחנו כן, אבל...

- בכ״א, - במצב האולטימטיבי לא יהיה צרך בחשיבה כלל. לא יהיה צרך בחכמה. אבל מתחת קיימים מצבים שונים. - ולעניין הזה התייחסתי בפסקה הראשונה.

- בכ״א שוב, - אדם חכם, בהביטו במציאות, - לעיתים לכל הפחות, ובתלוי במידת חכמתו כמובן ובמצב הדברים שלפניו גם הוא כמובן, - יוכל לבוא לידי מסקנות או הבנה מתוך עצם התבוננותו במצב או ראייתו אותו. לעניינו של פקח מצב הדברים שונה. - פקח לא כך. - לעניינו של פקח תוכל להציג בפניו דברים, מ-א' נובע ב'. זאת יוכל להבין. - לעניינה של תמונה כאמור, - יהיה מצב הדברים שונה, - אדם אינטליגנטי שאינו חכם, - תדרש (אם בכלל ניתן) להציג בפניו מסקנות הגיוניות בזו אחר לעניינו של הדבר: - מ-א' נובע ב', מ-ב' נובע ג', מ-ד' נובע ה', ו' גורר ז', ג', ה' ו-ז' גוררים את ח', - וכן הלאה. אז יוכל להשתכנע בשמשנהו יראה מיידית. לעיתים לא רחוקות כמובן גם לא ניתן יהיה לשכנעו בדברים כלל. גם לנוכח העובדה שבני אדם הגיוניים לעיתים הרבה פחות משמדמים בנפשם. לא מעט נספג מן הסביבה, - ולעניין זה נדרש עומק של האישיות ע״מ להבחין בכך ולא פקחות. (אינטליגנציה) - דווקא המגלים עניין רב בעניינים שכלתניים הנדרשים לפקחות ככלי מובהק לעניינם הם הרחוקים במקרים רבים מן העומק האמור והדבר אינו מתמיה. - אבל כעקר הדברים בפוסט הזה הנקודה היא בעניין ההבדל בין מי שיבין או יקלוט דברים אינטואיטיבית אולי בלא צרך בפירוק למבנה של מסקנות לוגיות כאמור לעיל ומתוך התמונה הכוללת לבין מי שיכולתו מצטמצמת לכדי היכולת לעקב אחרי פרטים בודדים שהבנתו של כל אחד מהם קלה לכשעצמה ולהרכבת השרשרת המתקבלת. (או גם לאיתור מבנה מסוג זה בעצמו)

לעניין הפוסט המקושר בתחילה ראו גם תגובה ראשונה שם.

יתכן ויש משמעות גם לזה.

Miserable world

There are verses 25-29 in chapter 32 in the book of Exodus. - (See as far as the end of the chapter) Most today would fail to understand. Most today would believe they know better. Most today would see the things as terrible, - as unacceptable, as wrong, as utterly wrong, - judging by their own measurement and their own materialistic corrupted thinking.

This is the world we live in. And the story in the verses mentioned is not widely known, - though it appears in the Bible open to all.

- Here is a test of spirituality, - here may be a test of faith or belief: - One who sees the described occurrence as most would, - as an expression of primitive minds and rough mentality and as an unacceptable expression of immorality at the verge of insanity, - does not know what spirituality is. Whatever bullshit one may still utter off one's own intellectual resources this person is ignorant of the devoidness of value of. - I could not see a way in which such a person could still be considered one of faith. Many would think otherwise, - this is our world. At this time, - that is.

- The intellectuality within which humanity and society find their way may be unthinkable. - This post will clearly be considered according to standards existing prior to reading it by the typical hard-headed intellectual contemporary people. It will change nothing in their views or their world, else than remembering that someone said such things, - perhaps. - For one who know something - not the ultimate, - just something real still, - the way in which the minds of so many idiots who may be as intelligent as they would, - work, - is unbelievable and amazing. - It is like dry dead plants in the desert, - it is like a piece of rope lying about there being pulled occasionally by the wind in comparison to a living snake. - These people are totally blind to the situation. And if one would attempt to reveal things them they would obviously think him a miserable person so far behind their idiotic advancement they imagine the society they live in have achieved. They are like empty cups who know nothing about drinks. And their surroundings are alike, - that is their neighbours would have similar views and live within similar mentality, - diminishing the hope for a change in a visible future to almost nothing. Fuck them all. Live happy. So far.



             (- Just to avoid a misunderstanding: - One who accepts what is said in the passage mentioned is not necessarily a true one of spirit or one of faith, - one may be just a fanatic, or an idiot as well.)

The wave of life through random chance

Suppose we accept the common idea of all life here on Earth having developed through natural selection, while as well prior to this the very mechanisms necessary for this have developed by random chance. - This would mean inevitably that this is all like a wave, rising spontaneously in a dynamic momentum, - while eventually it must perish, - and nothing is to be left of it, - as of waves in the ocean or in the sea. - Biologists might often claim their ideas do not mean random chance - they would say mutations occur by random chance, - but that the subsequent process according to which the better occurrences survive is not. I find this very expression somewhat surprising. - Obviously observing within a larger perspective it is all random chance. - Who could doubt it?

I don't know the practical calculations which which might exist in probability theory relating to this. But intuitively it seems most inevitable. - Observe all other processes around us. - All organisms die and dissolve. Disassemble. Decompose. All appearances of order in nature else than those imposed by physical laws (the roundness of the Earth, its route around the Sun, and similar phenomena) are impermanent. - Mountains will eventually flatten. - Fire consumes its substance it feeds on and die out. - Man made things will eventually come to nothing too, - nothing traceable will remain of them. - A tree comes to be and then comes to not be in a harmonious pace.

- I don't know how difficult it is or might be to define order in itself at first, - in order to investigate it mathematically. I am not sure it is possible. But even so I cannot see any way in which my idea here could be rejected. Following the common assumptions ruling today in the world of “science” the idea of a wave harmonious in its rising and descending will be the only possible alternative. - It may be that its duration could be calculated or estimated. Practically, - I believe, - we might come to note the whole process is not possible and the wave has no substantial foundation to produce it as a phenomenon, - but never mind this now. - If one would assume an appearance of life else than here on this planet this would apply too in the same way of course. It is a phenomenon unable to maintain itself limitlessly. According to the common assumptions - of course, - that is!

- If you believe the physical plain in its entirety appeared off higher ones it will be different of course, - but this is not what we are discussing here.

- As for our mind, - regardless of this too, - the common assumptions of mere physical or chemical processes or reactions provide no reasoning for its appearance or existence. - But now it would mean as well all mind or all minds are to be completely extinguished too. Dust and deserts will remain. All fruits of all achievements of humanity in any field will eventually bear no trace or outcome. - It seems all ideas of man conquering the universe - even if otherwise not anyway altogether unreasonable, - will have to be abandoned too. - But the main point is about the very idea of the appearance of life and humanity and all forms of mentality being similar to a wave rising as when you hit water with your hand or a unique form of a cloud in the sky spending its limited duration as a phenomenon in the phenomenal world.

So far.


Note:

As for defining order, - it seems to me the most reasonable way will be in accordance with the ability to express a system or a phenomenon in a smaller number of symbols. - For example the numbers 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 can be expressed through three points alone without the need to particularly list all nine of them: - The first, (3) the distance between each one and the one next to it, - and the number of them all. In case of a random set normally such a method will of course not be possible and the less ordered the items are the more symbols will be necessary in order to describe or document them fully.