14.02.2014 - Zen and Life and let go etc. by dali48
dali48 and menaced private tuition since 1989, and changing diet and photographing in Erkrath till 5/2010
01.10.2000 – Interpretation of dali48
His ability to cause and tolerate no surprises have meant that he was responsible for the timetable in a rather large Zen Center...
"And how are you"? - "This I would like to know myself"... "Stick to the doubt", said my wife. "I rather like a man like that"...
Who exercises true asceticism isn’t flying to Nirvana. The monk who breaks the commandments doesn’t slide in hell...
The verb "Buddhist" means "know"... The heavy exam to see 60 saints out of control, had broken his spirit. He had a nervous breakdown... (J.v.d. Wetering)
Madness helps us - to find our true nature... (C. G. Jung)
Bobbie-san had this little breakdown in the hotel in Tokyo. - This happens to the best saints. Listen to your superior. Stay true to tradition. Carry your Zen Bib and shave your skull. Sing the sutras...
This dog (see cat Niki, etc. - d.48) is really something of the Buddha-nature. The first understanding society in my life. Samsara (illusion) is Nirvana (beatific annihilation). I don't write this, and you can not read this. Nothing has happened. Nothing is important anymore. There is no tomorrow (illusion), yesterday has not occurred. Who understands this fundamental truth can sit and laugh at the roadside - as the Chinese "laughing Buddha" - during raging in front of his eyes, war, starving children and dogs that are beaten up, etc...
If an honest man teaches a false doctrine, false doctrine is true, if a dishonest person submits a true doctrine, it is wrong (see e.g. Einstein: "Everything is relative", etc. - d.48)... (Joshu = Chao-chou, 778 to 897)
Certainly we know now what's going on. How many times we have reincarnated us and haven’t still understood it?
"Where is the mountain of enlightenment"? - "Straight ahead, my dear." - Let's stay in motion? Do we live our lives? Let's make the best use of the particular circumstances that arise by chance? No, we're sitting there, encourage us to see us desperately looking for a confirmation to ensure that apart from going straight on, our ego-existence is of a considerable value. What value could be out of nothing?
How can we hope to accept the meaninglessness of our empty egos? We go straight on without taking care of "Tea Ladies"...
Fear was foreign to Zen students. Not caring for career, future, possession, wife or sweetheart, young, old parents, spiritual status, Zen followers related all their energy doing the right things under all circumstances, and not worrying about the result. Nothing was sacred...
If it's a "shit" for you, it's not important. This does not mean that you need not do it...
I have also given up most things. The most realistic people have done it. That there is nothing that we should hold on, either we know that at our age, - or we try to be crazy... (J.v.d. Wetering)
Interpretation of dali48
Janwillem Lincoln van de Wetering (1931 - 2008) was the author of a number of works in English and Dutch...
Van de Wetering was born and raised in Rotterdam, but in later years he lived in South Africa, Japan, London, Colombia, Peru, Australia, Amsterdam and most recently in Surry, Maine, the setting of two of his Grijpstra and de Gier novels and his children's series about the porcupine Hugh Pine...
Van de Wetering studied Zen under the guidance of Oda Sessō, together with Walter Nowick, at Daitoku-ji. Van de Wetering lived a year in Daitoku-Ji and half a year with Nowick and described these in The Empty Mirror. Van de Wetering describes a visit to the monastery by the highly respected Hugo Enomiya-Lassalle, describing his own mixed thoughts about this representative of what he deemed an old-fashioned religion. Sōkō Morinaga, Walter Nowick's Dharma brother, wrote in Novice to Master about traditional practices at that time...
De Gier, younger and attractive with deep brown eyes and curly hair and most-often sporting a tasteful denim suit, is single, handsome, and very successful with women. Despite his womanizing, he is an avowed bachelor, and dedicated most to his Siamese cat Oliver (at least, in earlier novels). He is a dreamer and deep thinker, with discursive pondering about "the void," Zen, and life. A native of Rotterdam, he is, like Grijpstra, an amateur musician. He often carries a small flute, and in odd moments he and Grijpstra improvise together in their office... (Wikipedia)
Van de Wetering (1931 - 2008) was born in Rotterdam, - and died in Blue Hill, Maine, USA
Golden Snow “Thanks for this wonderful information ... I firmly believe the longer we live the more we gain for the thoughts and feelings of other ... this was interesting and stood out I my mind "I have also given up most things. The most realistic people have done it. That there is nothing that we should hold on, either we know that at our age - or we try to be crazy ...I think that the more we let go of that we cannot cope with, or hope to solve, will bring us greater health... There is a lot of “SHIT” WE CAN LEAVE BY THE ROAD SIDE ... feeling a lot freer to move lightly through our lives ... thanks Zen is becoming a wonderful adventure in my life ... thank you dali48”
Golden Snow “Found in this a promise that there is hope for me, I want to learn more of Zen and Life I know I will be able to cope with life as it comes and enjoy to the fullest ... THE WAY IT SHOULD BE... to keep things in there right perspective coping as we move along in our journey ... wonderful dali48 , with much thanks”...
16.02.2014 – Dogma & Prejudices and Zen & Truth etc. by dali48
dali48 and menaced private tuition since 1989, and photographing a gold fish in Lake Morper in Erkrath till 5/2010
08/17/2000 - Interpretation of dali48
Attachment means to be fixed to dogmas, prejudices, bad habits and what one sees as truth…
How do we stand against the arms race in the world, - how do we face the environmental problems (see dali48 and "Flora & Fauna" since ca. 2000 etc. – d.48)...
How do we face the rich and poor (We are all a part of 'UN' - see Human Rights and Basic Income etc. - see "Banking Crisis 2008" etc. – d.48)...
How do we create peace in our immediate surroundings, - and in our environment?
Even Buddhism (see e.g. Zen, etc. - d.48) is not the truth - but only a means to achieve it... (Thich Nhat Hanh)
dali48, 3 years ago from Germany, Hub Author
Thank you for your Comment. - This is an old blog I translated into English and transformed it into a Hub. For a full article the blogs are normally too short. - May be in my next ebook4 I can expand this excerpt of a book by TNH…
tonymac04, 3 years ago from South Africa
I would like to see this expanded into a full article. The ideas look very interesting.
Love and peace, Tony
17.02.2014 - Karmic connection and Environment and Chemicals etc. by dali48
dali48 and private tuition and photographing near Lake Morper in Erkrath, 8/1983 - 5/2010
04/08/2000 - Interpretation of dali48
We feel the way we live, - how we think and act, - how we react to other people and events… (Harvey / Cochrane)
We can no longer afford to view ourselves - as separate from the environment...
41 000 plant species out of 270 000 on Earth are threatened (ca. 1/7 etc. – d.48)... (World Conservation Centre, Cambridge)
Now we have to pay the price for our greed, - and stress and pollution take their toll...
Shocks, prolonged stress, poor diet and environmental toxins - weaken the immune system…
Negative emotions (see e.g. grief, despair, contempt etc. - d.48) harm particularly...
Among other things, we must learn to be compassionate and loving - without expecting a reward…
Our decisions shape the rest of our lives constantly. - We create our own destiny. - Never have two souls traveled the same path, - and each chooses their own path… (A. Cochrane)
Resentment, hatred, enmity and contempt - bind you to the people, you don’t like…
One day you have to solve this Karmic connection...
Learn the art to take life serious - in a funny way…
Golden Snow
“I am feeling the effects of our environment dali48 ... life is a living hell for me ... my system is destroyed with the effects of chemicals ... grateful for the help of your sites and blogs that have helped me a great deal in renewing my health to a more comfortable level ... our world is being destroyed as I write ... the spraying of chemical is taking its effect on the earth as well as us ... do the ones that are allowing the use of chemicals not realize what they are doing ... their greed is polluting our food and water ways ... this alone is causing great stress upon our bodies ... we will pay the price for this greed ... our environment is not separate from our lives ... thanks dali48 for your helpful Blogs etc.”
dali48 and writing and cycling and photographing in Wickrath since 6/2010 etc.
https://www.facebook.com/100000452958045/videos/372377540163904/
dali48 and menaced private teaching (since 1989) and writing books & cycling & photographing in Erkrath till 5/2010.
dali48 and playing chess and stopping smoking as a sports student in Tübingen in the 70s etc.
Each day is our whole life - from sunrise to sunset etc… (dali48)
"Stay in your inner world (original) - the outside world is the false version, see e.g. hunger, biodiversity, climate, inflation, war etc"... (dali48)
31.03.2024 - I saw the first bumble bee on a white nettle blossom in the park of Wickrath this year ... (dali48)
21.06.2023 - I didn't see a butterfly yet in Wickrath this year ... (dali48)
I'm neither right nor left, see Salvador Dali in this context - I'm only dali48
Psychology says, Trust your intuition. It never lies.
see dali48 & FGYO / SIT, language teacher, 1975/76 in Tübingen and Lenzkirch (Black Forest), and wandering in the morning, and in Erkrath (8/1983-5/2010) cooking houseman and teaching in the afternoon, on Saturdays & compact courses during holidays etc.
"Home is not there or there. Home is within you, or nowhere." (Hermann Hesse)
see dali48 and walking and cycling etc. - and without own car in Erkrath since 2004 - and without driving in Wickrath since 6/2010 etc.
"It takes few words to express the essential" - Paul Éluard
"One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things." ... (H. Miller)
"The past is pain, the future uncertainty. The present is all we have" ... (Tao Wong)
„Wer immer die Wahrheit sagt, kann sich ein schlechtes Gedächtnis leisten.“ (F. Sulzer
)
"Everything you love will probably be lost, but in the end, love will return in another way." (F. Kafka)
see dali48 and bees and CCD and neonics since ca. 2000 etc.
In "love" are the beginning and the climax - the most beautiful periods etc... (dali48)
"Time spent with cats is never wasted." (S. Freud)
Why not use bio-methane, hydrogen, bio heating oil, e-heating oil - instead of banning oil and gas heating etc. (dali48)
"Only the present moment counts, even when the subject is the past." (R. D. Brinkmann)
"Non-sexual intimacy is therapeutic. Deep conversations, healthy silence, a unique joke from an old memory, similar interests; beautiful stuff." (@ML_Philosophy
)
see dali48 and “If the Trees disappeared off the face of the earth - mankind would only have little left to live healthy,” see e.g. Amazonas forest, Indonesia etc, see e.g. @CGShanghaiAir Shanghai - 2023-03-06 4PM - PM2.5 - 103 AQI - Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups ... etc.
see dali48 and trees & photo synthesis and fresh air and health and cooling and biodiversity etc.
Why not recreate lost Wetlands by desalinated sea water? ... (dali48)
"Half of the money for arms should go as reparation to "flora & fauna" & UBI ,,, (dali48)e money for arms
"Getting older is realizing putting yourself first isn’t selfish, it’s necessary" (@meauhlback
)
"Some people go through our lives to teach us not to be like them." ( Lev Tolstoy)
"is it ethical to hoard bread when families are starving?" (@existentialcoms
)"The goal isn’t money, the goal is to spend your days as you wish." (@ML_Philosophy
)“Give a child a good birth (if at all possible, no drugs to the mother)=1 and a good first three years, especially a good first three months, and a major part of the job of child rearing is done.” ― Arthur Janov, The Biology of Love"Be teachable. You’re not always right." (@ML_Philosophy)
"The tombstone of capitalism will later say: too much was not enough." (Volker Pispers)
see dali48 and environmental disasters & @sara_s_2020 & #Tiredearth & Manila Slum (Philippines) & Creek etc.
»Auf dem Grabstein (der Erde; d. Red.) könnte stehen: Jeder wollte das Beste – für sich.« (Siegfried Lenz)
"Smiling mobilizes 15 muscles, but sulking requires 40. Rest: smile!" (Christophe André)
"Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift that"s why they call it the present." - (@TheWordicle)
"When you realize how precious and fragile life is, it changes your whole perspective." (Ryan O’Donnell)
"A kind word can warm up to three months of winter" - Japanese proverb
"It’s better to walk alone than with a crowd going in the wrong direction." (@wise_chimp)
"It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (@PsychologyDose_)
"The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth." - Lao Tzu
"... We get old too soon, and wise too late." (@_AhmadHijazi)
"Nothing in the world is worth turning away from what we love" - Albert Camus
I am allowed to say NO to others and YES to myself." (@Lenka49044040)
"You can only live forwards, understand life only backwards." (Søren Kierkegaard)
"Write your life - Or they'll wait till you're dead to write the lie" ... (@spectraspeaks)
see "Remove the idea that anybody else is responsible for your misery and suffering; that somebody can give meaning to your life. Accept that you are alone, born alone (premature birth, 7 months etc. - d.48), and you will die alone" ... (Osho)
"Respect for life - should be the only religion in the world!" ... (Osho)
"Religion is a journey inside - and meditation is the way there" ... (Osho)
"Zen finds religion in the daily activities." (I-tuan)
see
see dali48 and nervous breakdown & psychotherapy (1 year) in Tübingen in 1974 and the ontogenetic & phyloggenetic unconscious etc.
see dali48 and dreaming & visions, see e.g. The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake & tsunami etc, see Golden G. Snow "I journey I know it's true. I've seen the future too. In my "journey", things are not good. So much of the earth will be ... soon. I have no more to say."), and NDE and reincarnation and reading & writing ...
see scott_hurst retweeted by dali48 "If all the atheists left the USA, it would lose 93% of the National Academy of Sciences but less than 1% of the prison population" …
Spelt helps: fatigue, loss of energy, heart problems etc. (St Hilda)
@dali48
I found this dairy of great interest and enjoyed the journey ... it is filled with well written information that covers all age groups, from history to health both in body and mind ... the why's and where's are answered in complete ... thanks dali48 for sharing ...
Thank you for sharing. Your braveness to fight illness has inspired me to face life in a different way dali48. I love the concept of living in the moment and breathing into it. This has improved my health both in body and mind.
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dali48 and writing books and cycling and photographing etc...
see dali48 and warning of neo-fascism since 1989 in Erkrath etc. - instead of Ecology & Health etc. - Uncontrolled capitalism (without UBI & wealth tax) produces evil as bees produce honey, see Instead of €100 billion for armaments - €50 billion for #ClimateEmergency 2022 & UBI etc.
see @nur_Dagmar / ntv: "Global #militaryspending exceeds for the first time 2 TRILLION dollars" (2022) - instead of 1 trillion for #ClimateEmergency 2022 and basic income etc. (dali48)
see dali48 & "The already uninhabitable Earth. Today (3.7.23), Zabol in Iran recorded the highest temperature on Earth at 49.6C" (@PGDynes), see e.g. https://aljazeera.com/news/2023/6/30/out-of-time-temperature-records-topple-around-the-world, & #ClimateEmergency 2022 instead of clean air (see e.g. Shanghai Air etc.) & enough drinking water (see desalination of sea water since ca. 2000), enough trees & fish, #ZeroHunger, solar & wind energy since the 70s & UBI since 2008 ("Banking Crisis") & biodiversity & health & no inflation, wars etc..
see dali48 & Heatwaves in #Europe, see #IPCC #ClimateReport, see #ClimateEmergency 2022 (https://insideclimatenews.org/.../cold-weather-polar.../ via , cold spells, #heatwave #Pakistan & #India 62°C/143°F, #Copernicus #Sentinel3 LST, dryness, #Wildfires in US & Canada, 'gigafires' & air pollution (Australia, Amazonas (#amazon #brasilien #luigicani #bäume #natur #pflanzen #säen), California, South Europe, South America, etc), floods, hurricanes, cyclones etc. since ca. 2000, loss of home in Africa, Southeast Asia & Pacific etc. - despite Club of Rome in the 70s, Copenhagen 2009, Paris 2015, Coronavirus 2020, #EarthOvershootDay 2021, #COP26, mass extinction, ecocide (https://www.stopecocide.earth/.../ecocide-due-to-biomass...), "ethnic cleansing", factory farming & zoonoses, racing in the wrong direction, see Instead of €100 billion for armaments - €50 billion for #ClimateEmergency and basic income etc. (dali48), see https://www.boell.de/.../20/wettrennen-die-falsche-richtung, see #SaveTibetSaveThePlanet, see Indigenous Climate Action etc. - instead of clean air & drinking water, enough trees & fish, #ZeroHunger, solar & wind energy & Basic Income (see https://eusignday.eu) & biodiversity & health & cures instead of inflation and war etc. War crimes, see e.g. Ukraine etc. - and environmental crimes, see e.g. Kuwait, 50 million tires burn etc. - should be documented & punished by the UNO etc... (dali48)
see History & Genocide of Minorities & Scapegoats - instead of @UNHumanRights and Protection of #environmentdefenders & reparation for natives etc... (dali48)
Don't see swallows here in Wickrath (2018) as before at Lake Unterbach where they were deeply flying before the rain, and were nearly touching my head till 2010... (dali48)
see dali48 and Concerning Chernobyl 1986, see sohub.io/uo63, see sohub.io/st6t, and Fukushima 2011 - see http://www.mdr.de/.../video-2362_zc-b45e8c8c_zs-6da2f47c... - see Comparison of the Chernobyl and Fukushima nuclear accidentshttps://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Comparison_of_the_C... The following table compares the nuclear accidents at the Chernobyl (1986) and Fukushima Daiichi (2011) nuclear power plants, the only INES level 7 nuclear ... Survivors of nuclear testing should get reparation by the UN etc. (dali48)