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  by Gudo NISHIJIMA

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Thursday, January 26, 2006

Philosophy of act (2) The time is now, the place is here

When we think at what time the real act appears in our daily life, it always appears just at the present moment. Of course when we think the same problem on the basis of intellectual consideration, we can think that we did something in the past, or we will do something in future, or we are doing something at the present moment. But such kinds of considerations can never be the real act, and when we think at what time we are doing something really, it is always just at the present moment. And this fact is very important in our daily life. Even though we can think that we did act in the past, or we will do something in future, or we can recognize that we are just doing some thing now, but those considerations can never be the real act itself. The real act at the present moment is dimentionally different from the three kinds of considerations. Therefore we should always notice that the real act in the real world is alway done just at the real present moment, and it is completely impossible for us to act a real act at an different time other than the real present moment at all. Therefore we should say that our real act in the real world is always done just at the real present moment. In other words we should say that our real act in the real world is always done just at the real present moment.
And at the same time almost the similar fact exists at the real place, where we do something in our daily life. When we think a place, where we live in our consideration, we can think for us to be in a countryside, in a town, in a city, in a mountain, and so forth. But those kinds of possibility to live everywhere is just a kind of consideration, and when we think the same problem on the basis of the real fact in the real world, it is inevitable for us to say that I am just living at this place actuallyl. Therfore in the realistic Buddhist philopsophy we should always say that we are just at this place.
So we should say that we live always just at the present moment, and we always exist at this place. In other words when we really think everything on the basis of realistic Buddhism, the real time is always now, and the real place exists always here. Therefore the Chinese Buddhist Master Tozan Gohon says " I am always so sincere just at this place."

4 Comments:

Blogger Mike Cross said...

Sincere or lazy,
Here I am:
Not as people imagine.
The blue lotus blooms in fire.

2:44 AM, January 28, 2006  
Blogger Lone Wolf said...

Wow this is such an awsome picture. What kind of camera do you use Michael? I'm glad to hear the good news.

4:45 PM, January 28, 2006  
Blogger Lone Wolf said...

Opps my apologies wrong blog.

4:46 PM, January 28, 2006  
Blogger GUDO NISHIJIMA said...

For Mike Cross San

I would like to ask you not to rely upon your beautiful poems, because a poem does not solve a theoretical problem at all so far.


For Virtual Ain't Reallity San

I do not have anything to say so far.


For Lone Wolf San

I do not have anything to say so far.

12:46 PM, April 20, 2006  

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