Dogen Sangha Blog

  by Gudo NISHIJIMA

Japanese / German

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

The relying upon the Balance of the Autonomic Nervous System

We, Huma Beings, have the two kinds of Nervous System. The one is the Brain-Spinal Nervous System, and the other is the Autonomic Nervous System.
The Brain-Spinal Nervous System can be recognized by Human Brain, but in the case of the Autonomic Nervous System can never be recognized by the Human Brain.
However the function of the Human Autonomic Nervous System is even though it is impossble for Human Beings to recognize its existence, the function of the Human Autonomic Nervous System is much more powerful in its function comparing with the Brain-Spinal Nervous System. Therefore in the case of the Human Autonomic Nervous System might be almost impossible for Human Beings to recognize its real function exactly, and so it is almost impossible for Human Beings to recognize the real function of the Autonomic Nervous System really.

Saturday, September 11, 2010

The Truth and the Buddhism

When Buddhism is the Truth, there is no problem, but if Buddhism were not the Truth, there might be a problem. Therefore I think whether Buddism might be the Truth, or not, is very important problem.
And when we think whether Buddhism is the Truth, or not, what Gautama Buddha taught us is the Truth, or not, is the very important problem. And thinking what Gautama Buddha has been insisting, I think that He, Gautama Buddha, has found that this world is existing as this world really. Because when he has arrived at the Truth, it is said that "He, Gautama Buddha, himself says that "Mountains, Rivers, Grass, and Trees have become perfectly Buddhas." And the facts suggest that at that time Gautama Buddha recognizes that the Whole World are just the Truth.
Therefore we can think that at that time Gautama Buddha recognized clearly that this World is just "the Real World, which are Mountains, Rivers, Grass, and Trees, themselves."
In other words, "this World is just Mountains, Rivers, Grass, and Trees, and so forth, and those are just things and phenomena."
In the other words there is possibility that this world is just what we are looking at them as they are, might be Reality itself. In other words we have some kind of possibility, that we, Human Beings, have possibility that we are just living in Reality itself actually.

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

The Autonomic Nervous System

The Autonomic Nervous System has been found for example by Sigmund Freud in the middle of the 19th Century, and then we, Human Beings, have become familiar to it.
But at the same tme the idea of the Autonomic Nervous System is also rather very difficult to understand, and so it is very important for us to understand the theory of the Autonomic Nervous System exactly.
The Autonomic Nervous System is just the real situations of the Autonomic Nervous System, but at the same time the Autonomic Nervous System is not the object of our sense perception, and so it is very difficult for us to knowtice the real situation of the Autonomic Nervous System, but it is necessary for us to grasp the real situations of it inevitably.
The Autonomic Nervous System is absolutely different from the Brain-Spinal Nervous System. In the case of the Brain-Spinal Nervous System, all kind of the Brain-Spinal Nervous System are recognizable, but in the case of the Autonomic Nervous System, they are not recognizable. Is it necessary for us to have a kind of nervous system, which is not recognizable? Usually we feel that it might be absolutely useless for us to have a kind of the Nervous System, which is absolutely unrecognizable at all. But in the case of the Autonomic Nervous System it is perfectly unrecognizable. Why is it useful for the Autonomic Nervous System only can be useful, even though it is usually unrecognizable? I think that in the case of the Autonomic Nervous System the miscellaneous things and phenomena can be known relying upon the function of the Autonomic Nervous System itseif. Even the function of the Autonomic Nervous System is not so clear, relying upon the function of the Autonomic Nervous System, fortunately we can find so many valuable functions of the Autonomic Nervous System actually, and so we can expect that we, Human Being, will be able to find so miscellaneous and so gaugeous facts in the Universe in future relying upon the Autonomic Nervous System.