<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Yoshizen&#039;s Blog]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://yoshizen.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[yoshizen]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://yoshizen.wordpress.com/author/yoshizen/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Virtue of DHARMA &#8212; What&nbsp;?]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p><span style="color:#000080;"><strong>Deep in the bottom of Dharma, there is the Physics.  And the basis of Physics, there are Atoms </strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000080;"><strong>which behaves or having its tendency according to their structure such as the number of </strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000080;"><strong>Electrons they got.  And the Atoms are made by the Nuclear particles, which were made by </strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000080;"><strong>the Sub-particles </strong></span>&#8212;&#8211; and those Sub-particles seemed consist even smaller Sub-particles &#8212;&#8211; and so on.</p>
<p>( According to the theories. &#8212;&#8211; Yet, nobody knows the truth, or it seems to be the unknowable.   🙂  )</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t think I need to listing-up the names of those and pretend to know anything about it.</p>
<p>Just leave the matter to the Nuclear Physicists &#8212;&#8211; as I&#8217;m not.  I&#8217;m only an outsider and merely qualified</p>
<p>to ask a question to the superficial phenomena.</p>
<p><strong>Yet this question must be the ghastly fundamental serious one.</strong></p>
<p><span style="color:#0000ff;"><strong>&#8221; Is DHARMA virtuous ? &#8221; </strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#0000ff;"><strong>M m m</strong> &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<strong> So far what I found, the answer is Yes. </strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#0000ff;"><strong>But if we take a  <span style="color:#000000;">Humanitarian stance</span>,  it is not necessary benign.</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#0000ff;"><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">This was the reason why</span> Buddha bluntly defined it in his Four Noble Truth, The life is suffering,</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#0000ff;"><strong>getting ill and get old and die, even though we are covered under the Dharma.</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#ffffff;"><strong>&#8212;&#8212;</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#0000ff;"><span style="color:#000000;">Long since a question of where the notion of Virtue in the Buddhism come from, was a conundrum to me.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#0000ff;"><span style="color:#000000;">The general morality is a necessity to keep the society&#8217;s unity and the peace, in other words it is the</span></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#0000ff;"><span style="color:#000000;">obvious commonsense though, when it comes to a critical tricky situation, such as who should survive<br />
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<p><span style="color:#0000ff;"><span style="color:#000000;">when they faced to a crisis, blink of mass extinction, demise of the tribe such as a famine etc,</span></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#0000ff;"><span style="color:#000000;">the compassion to others etc &#8212;&#8211;<span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong> where those human virtue came from ?</strong></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#0000ff;"><span style="color:#000000;">To make it as a human duty to be compassionate, which appeared in the Buddha&#8217;s teachings from  its</span></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#0000ff;"><span style="color:#000000;">earliest period, together with Four Noble Truth &#8212;&#8211; <strong>Its suggest, Buddha was fully aware that Dharma </strong></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#0000ff;"><span style="color:#000000;"><strong>is </strong></span></span><strong><span style="color:#0000ff;"><span style="color:#000000;">not necessarily kind to the man, hence need to take our own measure of helping each other.</span></span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#0000ff;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="color:#ff0000;">Otherwise, Buddha would have said  &#8220;Ask your God to help you&#8221;  like all other religion.</span></span></span></strong></p>
<p><span style="color:#000080;"><strong>But Buddha did know, No such convenient things in this world.  Buddha&#8217;s eyes were seeing</strong></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#0000ff;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="color:#ff0000;"><span style="color:#000080;">much larger picture ( Not having the man in the center, but the Harmony of the Universe in total)</span><br />
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<p><span style="color:#ffffff;">&#8212;&#8211;</span></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#0000ff;">To see the nature and its evolutionary history, I can see the Dharma&#8217;s incredible kindness towards </span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#0000ff;">the extremely rare existence</span></strong><span style="color:#0000ff;"> &#8212;&#8211;</span><strong><span style="color:#0000ff;"> the LIFE. </span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#0000ff;">What sort of coincidence combined the some Atoms and created </span></strong><span style="color:#0000ff;"><strong>basic structural element like </strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#0000ff;"><strong>amino-acid, and then simple virus / bacteria kind of Life form.</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000000;">Far beyond the mathematical probability, while against the Principle of Entropy, yet congregated selected</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000000;">Atoms and Molecules and to create Life, could not occurred in accident. ( &#8212;&#8211; If it was an easy occurrence</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000000;">in chemistry, </span><span style="color:#000000;"> with today&#8217;s technology, </span><span style="color:#000000;">artificial Lives could have been created already. )</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000000;">Any moment in the history, in any global event, this process could have been halted and the Life could be </span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000000;">extinct long ago. &#8212;&#8211; But amazingly this history on the Earth continued till now &#8212;- billion of years,</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#0000ff;"><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>as if there was a will to make it continue.</strong></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#0000ff;"><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong><span style="color:#ffffff;">&#8212;</span><br />
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<p><span style="color:#0000ff;"><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>To make it continue, it is necessary the system of the existences has to be balanced, </strong></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#0000ff;"><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>ie; <span style="color:#333333;">sustainable</span> in today&#8217;s buzz word </strong>&#8212;&#8211;<strong> in other words intricate equilibrium has to be met.</strong></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000080;"><strong>This is What Dharma mean, and Buddha meant</strong> &#8212;&#8211;<strong> as only a part of the Dharma, man&#8217;s life </strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000080;"><strong>couldn&#8217;t be alone and trouble</strong>&#8211;<strong>free </strong>&#8212;&#8211;<strong> In fact, the man&#8217;s greed and the arrogance to expect and </strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000080;"><strong>imagine  &#8221; It should be trouble</strong>&#8211;<strong>free&#8221;  is the cause of trouble in its own.<br />
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<p><span style="color:#0000ff;"><span style="color:#333333;">The balance is for the total system, not for the man&#8217;s convenience, since human is only a minute </span><span style="color:#ff0000;"><span style="color:#000000;">part of it.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#0000ff;"><span style="color:#ff0000;"><span style="color:#000000;">Among the all the existences ( Dharma ), <strong>only but  the human, is having their own mind and the mean </strong></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#0000ff;"><span style="color:#ff0000;"><span style="color:#000000;"><strong>to go against the Dharma&#8217;s Rule.</strong> </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#333333;"> And this arrogant mind, greed is expecting more than the fair share of  which  Dharma allocated to man.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000080;"><strong>That is why the Buddha&#8217;s teachings says, to be humble and abandon the Ego / Self, in order to </strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000080;"><strong>achieve manifestation of the Dharma within</strong> &#8212;&#8211;<strong> Abandon the Self = Mushin ( Mind of No-Mind ) </strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000080;"><strong>which mean let the Subconscious ( the reflection of the Dharma </strong>&#8212;&gt; <strong>Please Refer to previous post ) </strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000080;"><strong>to rule your life.</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#0000ff;"><span style="color:#ff0000;"><span style="color:#000000;">Like a compassion is in one&#8217;s Emotion / Subconscious (reflection of the Dharma ) inherently Virtuous. So, the </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#0000ff;"><span style="color:#ff0000;"><span style="color:#000000;">Virtue in the Buddhism teachings is not from the God or convention of the society,  but it is the Dharma itself.  <span style="color:#0000ff;"><strong></strong></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#0000ff;"><span style="color:#ff0000;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="color:#0000ff;"><strong>Hence, the teachings of Buddha is &#8221; Not against, or struggle with Dharma, but </strong></span></span></span><strong>live with it, </strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#0000ff;"><strong>live in accordance to the Dharma.  It&#8217;s mean, observe it by yourself, and aware and listen </strong><span style="color:#ff0000;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="color:#0000ff;"><strong>the </strong></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#0000ff;"><span style="color:#ff0000;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="color:#0000ff;"><strong>Dharma deep inside of you.   And to live with the Dharma in Mushin, prevails the Virtue in you.</strong></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#0000ff;"><span style="color:#ff0000;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="color:#0000ff;"><strong>This is the Enlightenment, which lead you to the Nirvana&#8221;</strong></span><br />
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<p><span style="color:#0000ff;"><span style="color:#000000;">When man-kind violated the Rules and <span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>destroy the balance of the Earth&#8217;s Climate Equilibrium, </strong></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#0000ff;"><span style="color:#000000;">the sea stream changed its course, and caused the heavy rain here and there. </span></span></p>
<p>Simply, the Dharma is adjusting new Equilibrium &#8212;&#8211; and, it happened to be in the Australia or Brazil.</p>
<p>It looks as if the Earth is intentionally giving a revenge. &#8212;&#8211; No it is not, it just happen to be there, where</p>
<p>no human used to live &#8212;&#8211; <strong>human is the one invaded the land.</strong></p>
<p>Don&#8217;t exercise your Ego and Greed, and impose your own Idea.  <span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong><span style="color:#0000ff;">Virtue is not in one&#8217;s mind, but in the DHARMA.</span></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong><span style="color:#0000ff;">Here a Paradox again, you can&#8217;t deliberately exercise Virtue, it&#8217;s appears in your Mushin.<br />
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<p><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>___/\___</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong><span style="color:#ffffff;">&#8212;</span><br />
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