- 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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10.2.22 – Free mentality in primitive organisms and divine beings

There are beings who do not have a brain. – We, of course, - do. – A jellyfish or a sea anemone do not. We move our hands and feet accordingly. – We can not escape our brain. – We can not escape our self consciousness too, - generally.

– Regarding those beings, - their organs act independently. – Their arms are not directed off a brain, - as with us. – This would also mean they (their arms) are not dependent on each other.

Our mind ever acts linearically. – Like a line, - not two lines, not three, - not a wide space, - always one thing after one thing. – Our mental existence always seems to be like a train, - it cannot go two places at the same time. – We might think of two things, - but generally speaking and as-a-matter-of-principle not actually simultaneously. – If we think of a computer the same would be true of course too, - it could jump back and forth in between two things – however quick, - but its line of course is one. These beings are apparently not like that. – Their general and fundamental mentality is different. – It seems it would inevitably have a capability of being wider.

– This does seem like an extreme difference. – We are so accustomed to our form of mentality we seem to naturally assume nothing else is possible. Sadly enough, we could not ask a sea anemone or a jellyfish. – I do not know of any advanced (physical) being of this feature. – I generally assume what we call “divine” is of this feature. Our brain and mental system cage us and keep us away from it. Obviously there would be a reason, - but still this is the way things are, - as it seems.

– Such a wider mind is not dependent on an ego. – An ego has to be centred. – Once you are free of this one-point origination there is no place for the sense of “I” to form itself. There is no need for it, - and the wider flow does not need to imagine it has some self anchor to start off. – For the purpose of just acting there is no need for some sort of awareness “I am acting”. Ignorance kills the secular and the materialistics. – We can be so wrong. – I am not experiencing this, - I do not know it off a real experience, - but the idea seems solid enough. – Whatever the means intended in introducing our brain and spinal system, - the narrowing it inevitably forces must at some time be broken free of. – Only then can true knowledge of what is flow freely through our being which is no longer there, - needless of any conscious affirmation or basic wish for knowing anything in a conscious mind else than as an inherent part of action carried out.