- 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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the Pinnacle of modernism

Observing things retroactively, - for the historians of the future, - it may be that the Victoria Secrets fashion show would be viewed as the peak of degeneration prevailing in our times exceeding through the years and escalating up to the perverted norms having been accepted widely in society today. - Women’s underwear presented off a stage to a wide audience as a spectacular and unique event resembling a cultural one, where money talks and the atmosphere is supposed to come near an artistic presentation or a public assembly where spiritual or lofty words are heard. The situation is today that people are in general totally blind to the extent of wrongness being manifested through the common conception by which such a phenomenon is brought about. It is not about any harm being done or not being done there, - it is about the mentality pervading within society due to which the occurrence appears to be natural or acceptable. It is about the mentality it reflects. What is most important to people and held valuable is sexy underwear. - Such a tendency may be natural but the legitimacy gained for putting the culture upside down in a manner which would be seen as being on the verge of mental illness in earlier times (and again, as I said at the beginning, when the sickness will pass) reflects the depths of illness having penetrated human minds through intellectual concepts adopted off a warped authority. - Intellectualism, - unlike other layers of thought more profound or natural in their nature, may accept - in general, - anything, - through dry construction of childlike conclusions. - It is not only this, of course, - but the heavy pressure weighing throughout the structure of society motivated through greed of manufacturers and others, plus the newborn standards of the ignorant young imagining their views to be the true ones never before known, - is enabled to take effect through the situation in which intellectual thinking is considered reliable and trustworthy. Even if it would strongly contrast your intuition or common sense.