"all thy house shall be saved" - Buddhism & the Underlying Theory of the Bible

 

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Buddhism & the Underlying Theory of the Bible

According to a Buddhist Sutra, everything is empty and emptiness is everything in this world, so that we have to learn true and sacred words to enlighten ourselves to come across to nirvana or the Buddhist heaven allowing for deliverance from earthly bondage.

This Buddhism notion of emptiness must lead to discovery and development of zero in India around the 5th century, although the Sutra at issue was written around the 7th century.

With G, the God or infinity, and M, the mankind,

(1) M + G = G, since the God never changes because of existence or addition of the mankind, since God is infinity and the mankind is finite, based on the most reliable presumption that the God exists at a higher level than the mankind.

The formula (1) can be converted to:

(2) M = G - G, which means the mankind is zero from the God's standpoint; however it is unknown what "G - G" means but formally possible as zero, since existence subtracted from existence can be non-existence which is zero.

Yet, this must be the definition of the mankind: a result of the operation of subtracting the God, the source of existence, or infinity from itself.

G means existence, while zero means non-existence.  But the mankind really exists, which means the mankind is not non-existence from the mankind's standpoint.  Therefore, the mankind must comprehend G, the source of existence, or the mankind should be expressed in the formula (2) where G is included rather than simple zero.

However, if we deny the God, the sole source of existence of everything, the mankind should be expressed as simply "zero" but not mysterious "G - G." 

The formula (1) can be converted to:

(3) M/G + G/G = G/G, which can be converted as follows:

(4) M/G = G/G - G/G = 0, which is formally possible, although the meaning of G/G is not known but formally possible.  Therefore, we can confirm that we are nothing or of non-existence compared to the God.

(5) M/G = 0, which can be converted formally as follows:

(6) M = G x 0, where G is the sole source of existence of everything, and 0 means nothing or non-existence.  Anyway, we can be formally directly linked to the God, which means that our existence is assured although with 0, nothing or non-existence, as an inevitable factor.

This analysis explains the meaning of a passage in the Bible: The God created a man to the semblance of Him, however, using non-existence or zero.  Therefore the mankind must face death, which realizes non-existence, while the God lives and exists forever.

Or rather, we should think that although we were born with sacred features like the God, as time goes by, the power of zero erodes such features to nullify them to finally nothing through the operation of multiplying with zero.

Therefore, there is no denying that the Buddhist Sutra says that everything is empty, since anything finite (which means everything (E) in this world) can be expressed as follows:

E + G = G

E = G - G , and thus 

E/G = G/G - G/G = "1 - 1" = 0

"E/G = 0" or "0 = E/G"

Therefore, there is no denying that the Buddhist Sutra says that everything is emptiness (zero), and emptiness (zero) is everything, although E is expressed as E/G  in this case, while "1 - 1 = 0" is mathematically correct.

Based on the most reliable presumption that the God exists,

everything (E) is empty (0), and empty (0) is everything (E).     

Now, we have to accept Buddhism as it is related to the underlying theory of the Bible. 

Anyway, zero can be expressed as "0 = N - N" where N is any number or anything.

Zero (emptiness or non-existence) can be expressed with everything that exists in the form of "E - E" or E/G.

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Acts 11 King James Version
13 And he shewed us how he had seen an angel in his house, which stood and said unto him, Send men to Joppa, and call for Simon, whose surname is Peter;
14 Who shall tell thee words, whereby thou and all thy house shall be saved.
15 And as I began to speak, the Holy Ghost fell on them, as on us at the beginning.
16 Then remembered I the word of the Lord, how that he said, John indeed baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost.
17 Forasmuch then as God gave them the like gift as he did unto us, who believed on the Lord Jesus Christ; what was I, that I could withstand God?

"Then said Jesus unto them plainly" - Everything is Empty but the God Exists

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Everything is Empty but the God Exists

One of Buddhist scriptures most well-read by Japanese people is the Heart Sutra that can be translated as "The Heart of the Perfection of Wisdom." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_Sutra)

The most well-known phrases in the Sutra are as follows:

Everything is empty and emptiness is everything.

It is said that this Sutra denies everything in this world, but it recommends to learn true and sacred words, leave this world, and reach nirvana, the space of paramount peace of souls.

However, this teaching is paradoxical.  If everything is empty, how can true and sacred words exist?  So, it is said that due to this antilogy or inconsistency, Buddhism launched by the Buddha or Siddhattha Gotama around the 5th century BC was absorbed into Brahmanism or ancient Hinduism as time went by to be part of Hinduism, and Buddhism disappeared from India till the end of the 19th century.

It is also interesting to know that the concept zero was first developed in India: 

The concept of zero as a written digit in the decimal place value notation was developed in India, presumably as early as during the Gupta period (c. 5th century), with the oldest unambiguous evidence dating to the 7th century (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0).

   

Indeed in India in the 5th century, Buddhism still prevailed.  So, the emptiness in the Sutra might lead to discovery of the concept of zero.  However, "the earliest extant dated text of the Heart Sutra is a stone stele dated to 661 CE (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_Sutra)," so that it can be thought that the discovery of zero led to establishment of the Heart Sutra.  Otherwise, it can be estimated that Buddhism allowed for discovery of zero, and zero allowed for the Heart Sutra.  Anyway, Buddha must have seen zero at the core of everything in this world, which caused pain in human minds, so that Buddha advised to give up everything in this world and try to come to nirvana, the space of paramount peace of souls, which became the underlying theory of Buddhism.

However, if the Buddha is correct in his ideology, it does not necessarily deny existence of the God who created everything including zero and who is the sole source of existence of everything including zero.

Because there is a law that anything that can exist can exist, this world including zero, the spiritual world, and even the Buddha and his theory can exist.  It must mean that the God exists and therefore everything that can exist exists.  Without the God or His intention to give existence to everything that can exist, this world including us must not exist.

Japanese people do not like to think of the one God, but they like the phrases in the Heart Sutra: Everything is empty and emptiness is everything.  It must be related to the Japanese view of life and death.  Indeed, if one dies, only emptiness remains.  However, this emptiness is only in the minds of people who are left behind.  Dead men might still live vividly in Heaven or ghostly in the hell.   

 

Everything is empty but the God exists. 

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John 11  King James Version

14 Then said Jesus unto them plainly, Lazarus is dead.
15 And I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, to the intent ye may believe; nevertheless let us go unto him.
16 Then said Thomas, which is called Didymus, unto his fellowdisciples, Let us also go, that we may die with him.
17 Then when Jesus came, he found that he had lain in the grave four days already.
18 Now Bethany was nigh unto Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs off:
19 And many of the Jews came to Martha and Mary, to comfort them concerning their brother.
20 Then Martha, as soon as she heard that Jesus was coming, went and met him: but Mary sat still in the house.
21 Then said Martha unto Jesus, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.
22 But I know, that even now, whatsoever thou wilt ask of God, God will give it thee.
23 Jesus saith unto her, Thy brother shall rise again.

"the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence" - Pity on a Man without Money

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Pity on a Man without Money

According to Hajime Nakamura, a deceased Japanese professor on Buddhism, wrote that love likes what is beautiful and does not like what is ugly but pity does not matter whether a target is beautiful or ugly.

He appreciated pity higher than love since pity means to have compassion for a man who is sad and to feel sadness together with the regretful man.

Men ordinarily love money, but they rarely love unhappy men without money.  And, without being told to love such men by their superior or master such as Christ Jesus, they most probably would not love unhappy men without money.  But a generous and merciful person with pity should spontaneously feel sorry and have the same sadness as that of unhappy men without money, without being told to do so by their superior or master such as Christ Jesus.

Love becomes stronger when it is directed to a close target than when directed to a distant target.  Anybody loves his own children more than children of other men.  Only when one is ordered by his or her superior or master such as Christ Jesus, he or she would really love unhappy persons who are distant or strange for or unfamiliar to him or her.  But a generous and merciful person with pity should spontaneously feel sorry and have the same sadness as that of the unhappy persons.

In this context, the love Christ Jesus encourages or orders Christians to have is not simple pity.  the love required by Christ Jesus should be more profound than natural pity.  

However, through religious training, education and practice, a man may come to have pity the Buddha focused on.  Through training, education and practice, he may come to become a generous and merciful man to be able to show spontaneously pity on any unhappy man.  This must be the main aim for religious training.  

But, Christ Jesus did not tell to train oneself to be able to have pity on unhappy men but simply ordered people to love their neighbors.  The love Christ Jesus encouraged or ordered people to have must be realized by anybody, even if he or she does not have any natural pity, compassion or mercy, as long as he or she believes Him and His divine authority.

Although a man who is following the teaching of Christ Jesus might think that he is not loving a neighbor, an unhappy man or a man without money he is showing compassion to but he loves Christ Jesus, the Son of God, the effect must be almost similar to natural pity, compassion or mercy of a trained Buddhist or a natural kind man.

It is because what the God concerns must be a fact that a neighbor, an unhappy man or a man without money is loved or pitied, but be not what the man loving or pitying such a man thinks even if so secretly in the bottom of his mind.

If a scholar who has discovered this kind of truth or builds a theory of this sort but does not like the truth or the theory, only if he practices the teaching of Christ Jesus because of his fear on wrath of the God, Christ Jesus should appraise him more than those who would not love or pity a neighbor, an unhappy man or a man without money for any reason, such as love to somebody who happens to be an enemy of such a man, by suppressing their natural pity, compassion or mercy.

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Matthew 11    King James Version
11 Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.
12 And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.
13 For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John.
14 And if ye will receive it, this is Elias, which was for to come.
15 He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.

"And Jesus entered into Jerusalem" - The So-Called Sinful is Sacred, or The So-Called Good is Bad

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The So-Called Sinful is Sacred, or The So-Called Good is Bad

Christ Jesus once said that He had come to the human world to call and invite sinners but not the so-called righteous men.

A certain past leader of a Japanese Buddhist school said that it went without saying that bad men were saved by the Buddha since even the so-called good men were saved.

There is a turnover of worldly value judgment or philosophy.  The most symbolic word of Christ Jesus in this sense is that rich men could not enter Heaven but poor men could.

It is easy for a rich or blessed man to look pious and good.  As long as he lives observing laws, conventions or rules of the society, or  tradition, he can live rich without taking blame, since he has enough money and right position in the society to save him from disgrace.

But most of poor men have to do something adventurous or risky to live, so that they are often regarded as persons without credibility.  They might be even regraded as sinners or bad men.  However, they must feel guilty or have a sense of sin when they make dubious actions.  If they have no money when they are hungry, they might steal bread from a shop, which rich and pious men never do.

The past leader of a Japanese Buddhist school must have thought that feeling guilty and suffering a sense of sin lead a man to understanding of truth of the human nature and human society, which rich and good men could not understand.  Therefore, the so-called bad men are closer to the paradise.  Therefore, there is no reason that bad men are not saved if good men are saved.  In other words, bad men are surely saved because even the so-called good men are saved by mercy of the Buddha.

Likewise, Christ Jesus loved poor people who were forced to break rules of the society to live.  If such poor men lived in the society under Judaism, they would be blamed as sinners.  So, it is natural for Christ Jesus to have said that he had come to the human world to call sinners but not rich or righteous men.  

Christ Jesus also said that healthy and sound men did not need medical doctors but sick men needed.  However, it might imply that it was due to rich and heathy men that caused sickness in poor men, according the Japanese leader of a Buddhist school.

This turnover of worldly value judgment or philosophy must be understood even today by those who know tragedies of being poor and immorality of rich men.  They must see that what is high in terms of wealth and positions is low in terms of justice and love or those having wealth and positions are mean in terms of humanity. 

In Buddhism, it is said that a beautiful lotus bloom blossoms in mud water.  The lotus bloom is the spirit of a poor man or a so-called bad man, and the mud water is the society built by so-called rich and good men.

 So, to the eyes of Angels sent by the God who can see the true state of men, shining must be the spirits of poor men and suffering sinners but not those of rich and so-called righteous men.  However, we must be cautious to declare that high is low, sinful is sacred, or good is bad, although we must accept the teaching of Christ Jesus that rich men cannot enter Heaven but poor men can.  

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Mar 11:10 Blessed be the kingdom of our father David, that cometh in the name of the Lord: Hosanna in the highest.

Mar 11:11 And Jesus entered into Jerusalem, and into the temple: and when he had looked round about upon all things, and now the eventide was come, he went out unto Bethany with the twelve.

Mar 11:12 And on the morrow, when they were come from Bethany, he was hungry:

Mar 11:13 And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might find any thing thereon: and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves; for the time of figs was not yet.

Mar 11:14 And Jesus answered and said unto it, No man eat fruit of thee hereafter for ever. And his disciples heard it.

"will he for a fish give him a serpent?" - Ask Forgiveness from Christ Jesus

 

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Ask Forgiveness from Christ Jesus

When a young Jewish tried to enter a school for higher education for Jewish people, he was asked in interview examination why he wanted to be enrolled at the school.

The young Jewish man answered that he wanted to learn more about Judaism.  Then, the interviewer said that he did not have to be a student of the school to learn Judaism.  So, the young Jewish man asked for what reason he should be accepted into the school.  The interviewer said, "You can learn Judaism for yourself.  But you have to enter the school to see and study under Jewish persons of character." 

The Jewish young man understood that it was not knowledge but personalities or integrity of excellent Jewish scholars that he had to learn in the school.   

In this context, without seniors having excellent personalities or integrity and without learning from them, you cannot be a model Jewish man.

However, according to Christ Jesus, there is nobody good except the God.  You only have to learn words of the God and practice them by yourself.   

For example, the Buddha said to his disciples to live like moving of rhino's horn and not to depend on anybody except the law of the universe.

A certain past founder of a Japanese Buddhist sect taught people to just call a Buddhist chant "Namu Amida Buddha" and fully rely on the Buddha and Buddhist saints even if they did not know any theories and contents of Buddhism, so that their souls would be saved.  

So, Jewish people believe that there are good men among themselves with personalities or integrity worthy of learning.  This belief binds them as an ethnic group and gives them pride over other groups or races.

However, it is unknown that a man can be admitted into Heaven only if he is a member of the Jewish group of the mankind.  Rather, it seems that a bad Jewish man is as bad as a bad Christian, a bad Muslim, a bad Japanese or a bad Buddhist.  It is so, since the betrayer of Christ Jesus was a Jewish man.

If your are a Jewish man like Judas Iscariot, you only have to ask forgiveness from Christ Jesus to be saved.  It must be useless if you learn Judaism more for yourself.

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Luke 11    King James Version

9 And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.
10 For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.
11 If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent?

"This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God" - The Main Element in the Kingdom of God

 

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The Main Element in the Kingdom of God

According to a Jewish teaching, it is revenge that a man who was rejected when he asked for a sickle from another man rejects the latter when the latter asks for a horse from the former; it is hatred that a man who was rejected when he asked for a sickle from another man lends a horse to the latter when the latter asks for a horse from the former, saying "I would rather lend you a horse although you rejected me when I asked for a sickle from you."

However, according to Christ Jesus, when you are asked a horse by somebody, you must lend him a horse in addition to a sickle, even if you had been rejected when you asked a sickle from him. 

Love is so different from revenge or hatred. 

Even if you had been rejected when you asked $100 from somebody, you should lend $200 to the man when he comes to you asking $100 without mentioning the past incident.

First of all, money is a tool of Satan.  The less you have money, the more you will be loved by the God.  So, ideally, you should find any chance to give your money to the poor so as to be loved by the God.  If you cannot find a poor man to give money around you, it is second best to lend money to anybody.     

Revenge and hatred belongs to the human world, but love belongs not only to the human world but also to the Kingdom of God.  Jewish people seem to be more sensible to worldly matters such as revenge and hatred, although Christians should concentrate on love that is the main element in the Kingdom of God.

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John 11 King James Version

11 Now a certain man was sick, named Lazarus, of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha.

2 (It was that Mary which anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.)

3 Therefore his sisters sent unto him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick.

4 When Jesus heard that, he said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby.

"he sendeth forth two of his disciples" - When Something beyond Expectation Happens

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When Something beyond Expectation Happens 

According to a Jewish story, one day a rabbi called on six people to come for discussion to make decision on some important issue.

But there came seven people and the rabbi could not see who was an uninvited person.  So, he shouted and yelled, "The one not invited must get out here!"  Then, the most respected person among the seven left the place, saying that he could not bring disgrace to the invited one."

In any meeting or congregation, it sometimes happens that someone who is disqualified, unfit, or inappropriate or with misconception or who has come to be involved by chance or due to irrationalness can be present.

If it is simply due to a harmless mistake or fate, we should overlook his presence　as long as circumstances allow.  However, if it is felt that such a happening can imply interference of the God, we have to act accordingly, since the situation has changed.

So, it can be understood that the most respected man left the meeting, showing respect to the God behind the situation in case that it happened due to interference of the God, since he must have felt it through the presence of the uninvited person.

In this context, when an expected thing or a situation beyond expectation happens, we have to first think whether it has occurred due to interference of the God for any reason.

In 2016, Trump won the Presidential Election while Hillary won more votes than Trump, which was beyond expectation of most of the Media companies.  We had to think why the God allowed it to happen.  In 2020, the corona-pandemic has caused the largest casualties in the U.S. among countries in the world while the Presidential Election is going on, so that we have to think why the God has allowed it to happen.

Probably, we may be able to see a hint to the answer in or after the 2024 Presidential Election in the U.S.

As for the Jewish story, there must have been the time afterward when the rabbi found why the uninvited man had come and felt sorry that he had let the most respected man leave the important meeting.  

   

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Mark 11 King James Version

11 And when they came nigh to Jerusalem, unto Bethphage and Bethany, at the mount of Olives, he sendeth forth two of his disciples,

2 And saith unto them, Go your way into the village over against you: and as soon as ye be entered into it, ye shall find a colt tied, whereon never man sat; loose him, and bring him.

3 And if any man say unto you, Why do ye this? say ye that the Lord hath need of him; and straightway he will send him hither.

"A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho" - Republicans Accompanied by Democrats after the Great Flood

 

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Republicans Accompanied by Democrats after the Great Flood

According to a Jewish story, when Noah built a big ship to save animals from a big flood and invited many and various kinds to the ship, there came a spirit of goodness.

But Noah stopped the spirit, saying, "You need a partner."  Then the spirit of goodness left Noah and again returned to Noah with a spirit of evil.  Noah accepted the pair finally.  Since then, goodness has been always accompanied by evil in the world after the great flood.

Rather, accordingly, we may imagine that when the God built a big ship to save living things from a big flood and invited many and various kinds, there came two men.  One named Adam had a wife named Eve, but another man had no wife.  So, the God stopped the lonely man and told to come with his partner.  The man left the God and again returned to the God with a virus, saying that Eve might give birth to children for Adam, but my virus could help them evolve by working on their DNA.  So, the God let the man and the virus into the ship.  Since then, the mankind has to be accompanied by viruses.   

In other words, human goodness has been refined and exalted through its fight against evil.  A good man can be further better and enrich content of his goodness by more understanding and fighting evil.

In addition, it is thought viruses have affected human genes through millions of years.

"About 8 percent of human DNA comes from viruses inserted into our genomes in the distant past, in many cases into the genomes of our pre-human ancestors millions of years ago.

Most of these viral genes come from retroviruses, RNA viruses that insert DNA copies of their own genes into our genomes when they infect cells." (https://newsroom.uw.edu/news/genes-%E2%80%98fossil%E2%80%99-virus-human-dna-found-be-active#:~:text=About%208%20percent%20of%20human,genomes%20when%20they%20infect%20cells.)

In this context, it cannot be Satan that has caused this corona-pandemic but rather the Angel of Death who follows the order of the God to punish the mankind who have built this rotten and corrupt material civilization.

What's more horrible, there is a possibility that new viruses might appear with the ability to change our genes without causing our suspicion.  One day, we may find that people around us have different genes and accordingly change their physical properties for good or bad.  And, in the worst case, the mankind go extinct due to the new genes implanted into DNA by viruses.

However, there is no assurance that the mankind can still go on in the world without viruses.

Probably, the ancient Jewish people must have thought that to let goodness and virtue live and develop, we have to always watch, observe, and learn from evil.

Nonetheless, when Christ Jesus was betrayed and executed, the role of evil should have been manifested, since the incident resulted in establishment of Christianity.

So, accordingly, we may imagine that when Noah built a big ship to save animals from a big flood and invited many and various kinds to the ship, there came a man to be the ancestor of American Republicans.  But Noah stopped the man, saying, "You need a partner."  Then the man left Noah and again returned to Noah with a woman to be the ancestor of American Democrats.  Since then, Republicans have been always accompanied by Democrats after the great flood in America to date.

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Luke 10    King James Version

30 And Jesus answering said, A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, which stripped him of his raiment, and wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead.
31 And by chance there came down a certain priest that way: and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side.
32 And likewise a Levite, when he was at the place, came and looked on him, and passed by on the other side.
33 But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was: and when he saw him, he had compassion on him,
34 And went to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and set him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him.

" there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed" - Immunity against DNA of Satan

 

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Immunity against DNA of Satan 

There is one short story written by a Japanese past famous writer, Ryunosuke Akutagawa in 1918, namely a century ago when the Spanish flu was spreading, which is known to most of the Japanese, as it was originally written for children and thus has been introduced in Japanese text books over decades:

One day, the Buddha watched down Hell from a clear pond of Paradise to find a particular sinner suffering in a pool of blood.  The Buddha wanted to save the sinner since he once saved life of a spider under his foot without crushing it, though based on vagrant compassion.  So, the Buddha took the silvery thread of a spider in Paradise and lowered it down into Hell.  The sinner found the thread coming down from shining Paradise and started to climb it up.  But when he found that other sinners in Hell were following him and climbing up the same thread of the spider, he feared that the thread would be cut off due to the weight of all the sinners climbing.  So he shouted down to the following sinners to stop climbing: "This is my thread, only mine!"  At the moment the thread was cut off above the sinner, and all the sinners fell down to Hell.  The Buddha felt a little sadness but walked away from the clear pond of Paradise. 

It was thought that this story could be used as a lesson teaching Children not to be selfish and help and save one another, although the author Akutagawa was a more sophisticated person who later committed a suicide. 

But, some Japanese thought that a thread of a spider would be naturally cut off due to its own weight if it extends too long.

The density of spider's thread is 1.28 g/cm^3; the strength is 20,000 kg/cm^2.  By dividing the strength by the density, it is found that the specific strength is 156 km (about 100 kilo-miles), which means that the thread would be naturally cut off if the distance between Heaven and Hell is 156 km or more without a sinner climbing it up.  Therefore, it is concluded that the distance between Paradise and Hell is less than 156 km if gravity in the space works in the same manner as on the ground.

However, the aim of the story is not to have readers calculate the distance between Heaven or Paradise and Hell.

One day, the Buddha watched down Hell, which is this world.  And, he lowered a thread of something for people to be saved.  But as the Buddha found that people were infected by viruses, he cut it off to prevent viruses from invading Paradise.  So, a disciple of the Buddha in Paradise asked why the Great Mater would not save infected people.  The Buddha said, "If it is corona-viruses that have infected them, I would save them.  But those viruses that have infected people have DNA of Satan who is trying to contaminate Paradise."  "Great is our Sacred Master!" shouted the  disciple of the Buddha.  "The Holy Buddha keeps our Paradise always clean!" 

This humble story tells that those who have immunity against DNA of Satan should be allowed to enter into and live in Heaven with Christ Jesus.

Just to make sure, Akutagawa also wrote some short stories related to Christianity.         

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Matthew 10  King James Version
24 The disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his lord.
25 It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more shall they call them of his household?
26 Fear them not therefore: for there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known.
27 What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light: and what ye hear in the ear, that preach ye upon the housetops.
28 And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

"for a camel to go through the eye of a needle" - How to Run away from One's Shadow

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How to Run away from One's Shadow

In a Japanese book (a collection of various stories) written 800 years ago, there is a story about Confucius, a great teacher and philosopher who lived in the warring States period of China 2500 years ago.

When Confucius and his disciples were playing music on the bank of a river, an old man came by boat.  When the music ended, the old man asked one of Confucius' disciples who the leader was: "Is he a king, a minister, or any  exalted personage?"  The disciple answered, "It is our master traveling the world to teach kings, ministers, and people about politics, philosophy, courtesy, ethics, etc."

Then, the old man said, "Oh, what a waste of life!  It is like a man running around trying to flee from his own shadow.  If you want to flee from your own shadow, you should sit in a shady area."  

As the old man left the place, getting on board, the disciple went back to Confucius and told him what the old man had said.  Then, Confucius said, "He is a great man.  Go and summon him back."  But, there was no sight of the boat and the old man. 

Confucius was known, of course, as a representative Confucianist, in Japan from old days.  His teaching was well known and studied in Japan, since Analects of Confucius was imported into Japan around the 4th century.  His Confucianism respected culture and religion of older Chinese dynasties.  Confucius thought that as old dynasties had gone and whole China got into the warring States period, ancient courtesy and ethics were lost as with the music for rites and festivals. 

I think that this story about Confucius and the old man was created in Japan 800 years ago when Buddhism was popular among Japanese noble people, ruling samurais, and ordinary people.

Confucius taught how men should live decently.  Buddha taught how men should abandon their life gracefully.  It may be wiser to leave unclean society and find oneself for a man to get true satisfaction and achieve true salvation of his soul, since human world cannot be the Pure Land.

Yet, Christ Jesus said that the Kingdom of God could come to those who heard words of the God and acted accordingly.

In this context, it is interesting to think what stories should have been created if Christianity had reached Japan 800 years ago. 

Nonetheless, it is also interesting to think that a man cannot run away from his shadow (sins) even if he could improve the unclean society (which forces him to commit sins).   

   

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Mark 10    King James Version
25 It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
26 And they were astonished out of measure, saying among themselves, Who then can be saved?
27 And Jesus looking upon them saith, With men it is impossible, but not with God: for with God all things are possible.

"to inherit eternal life" - Viruses without Minds without Mentioning Spirits

 

Around Tokyo

Viruses without Minds without Mentioning Spirits

Jewish tradition provides a clear idea that a man is made of the body and a spirit.  Accordingly, Jewish people believe in the God, which was exemplified by Christ Jesus.  But it is Christians who believe in the God due to Christ Jesus.

Even most of no Jewish people or no Christians believe that a man is made of the body and the mind.  Further those who deny it use their minds to deny it.  And their minds are under control of their spirits given by the God.

For example, Buddhists never mind who gave a spirit and the mind to a man or how they were generated.  The Buddha was the greatest master in this world and the spiritual world but not the creator of them.  However, as men's spirits are saved in this world and the spiritual world by believing Buddha's teaching, Buddhists are content with their religion without feeling a need to think about the creator of this world and the spiritual world.

Anyway, everybody should agree that a man is made of the material body that can be seen and the mind under control of a spirit that cannot be seen.  Without the living body, the mind cannot be alive.  And without control of a spirit, the mind cannot be integrated.

Science tells us that our mind is a phenomenon of work (mostly electric) of brain cells that constitute networks through their connection extending to autonomous nerves that affect every cell in the body.  However, the brain work based on work of brain cells (mostly electric, though very minute) cannot be so integrated that the brain generates self-consciousness and various deeply-abstract concepts including those related to the spiritual world, Heaven, the hell, Satan, and the God.

It should be thought that work of a spirit on the mind and subordinate work of the mind on the body can be somewhat observed through work of electrical current in the brain but not that electrical current in the brain or between brain cells is not the sole source of the mind and a spirit.

In other words, the mind can be generated in the brain of the body and its work can be observed through minute electrical current but the mind needs a spirit to work in an integrated manner.

In this context, a living cell must also use very minute electrical current to live and control its life, even though the work of its electrical current cannot be called the mind.  A multicellular organism further develops a network of this electrical current connecting each cell to harmonize all the cells, even though the work of the network cannot be called the mind.  However, along with evolution, it constitutes nerve systems from such networks of electrical current running through cells.  And finally, it constitutes the brain of higher organisms such as a man to generate a phenomenon of work of the brain to be called the mind.  And, the God sends a spirit to each mind to control it.

Every living thing is based on DNA and genes.  Every cell of a living thing has genes and DNA that decide the basic structure enabling establishment of networks of electrical current through its cells.

Viruses have also genes and DNA (the mother body of genes) or RNA (a mechanism to realize to gene information).  Although viruses need materials in human cells to replicate themselves based on their genes, viruses can be regarded as a special type of living things.  Therefore, they have their own networks of electrical current as a kind of a nerve system of multicellular organisms.  So, a medicine to suppress work of a virus must work on this electrical current network to stop its living activity through chemical reactions.

Maybe the best immune system against viruses should be realized by the specific genes and DNA in human cells that generate special electrical current within cells against invading viruses to disturb and suppress internal work (very primitive ultra-minute nerve system) of viruses.  And to activate such genes, we should concentrate work of the mind so that specific electrical current runs through brain calls, their networks, and further nerve systems to each cell.  

Anyway, fortunately to us, a virus has its body but only a very primitive ultra-minute nerve system (at a level of molecules) that cannot be even called a mind without mentioning a spirit.  Viruses cannot rule human cells that can be ultimately controlled by spirits coming from the spiritual world.       

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Luke 10 King James Version
25 And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?
26 He said unto him, What is written in the law? how readest thou?
27 And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.
28 And he said unto him, Thou hast answered right: this do, and thou shalt live.

"Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon's porch" - Killing One Man Means Killing Sacred Genes and DNA

Mt. Fuji from Around Tokyo

Killing One Man Means Killing Sacred Genes and DNA

There is a basic Jewish notion about murder or the death penalty: the mankind started with one man, so that killing a man even today is tantamount to killing the whole mankind.

Probably millions years ago, one of anthropoid apes before split between primitive men and ancestors of chimpanzee, etc. started to walk the path of evolution to Homo sapiens.  His family members and relatives must have followed him to form a group of primates to be called the mankind later.  He must be called biological Adam.  The core of this assumed history is that the mankind started with one anthropoid ape.   And if this Adam had happened to be killed by other animals, the mankind of today should not exist.

To commemorate this historic incident, the mankind should not kill any single man even today.  This is a basic concept.

Therefore, it is natural to assume that the mankind who believe in the one God as the sole creator of the world and the universe started with one man called Abraham.  Indeed, if Abraham had been killed in Urk or any place before arriving at Palestine about 4,000 years ago, no Jewish people, Christians, and Muslims exist today.   

In this context, it must be forbidden to kill any man in the areas covering ancient Mesopotamia and Palestine even today.

Mark 4
3 Hearken; Behold, there went out a sower to sow:
8 And other fell on good ground, and did yield fruit that sprang up and increased; and brought forth, some thirty, and some sixty, and some an hundred.

All the seeds must have the same genes and DNA like every man has.  But it depends on conditions where seeds fall that any seed can produce 30, 60, or 100 times fruits.  Truly, it depends on internal and external conditions that any man having the same genes and DNA as those of others can produce spiritual or material fruits.  Based on this acknowledgment, killing one man should be regarded as killing some part of future generations of men.

What's more, at the current level of science, the mankind still cannot create all the genes and DNA commonly shared by them.  It implies that it might be a grave sin for the mankind to kill another member of the mankind, since it means to destroy human genes and DNA that should be regarded as great gifts from the God.

From this point of view, human life is sacred since it is based on human genes and DNA to be regarded as great gifts from the God, which should include the genes and DNA of the biological Adam who lived millions of years ago and took the first step toward the mankind of today leaving other primates.

In this context, it can be understood why the God allowed corona-viruses to attack the mankind, as if punishment, after decades of bloody wars, civil wars, terrors, etc. around the areas covering ancient Mesopotamia and Palestine.  Only the God can take life away from men legitimately.    

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John 10 King James Version
22 And it was at Jerusalem the feast of the dedication, and it was winter.
23 And Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon's porch.
24 Then came the Jews round about him, and said unto him, How long dost thou make us to doubt? If thou be the Christ, tell us plainly.
25 Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believed not: the works that I do in my Father's name, they bear witness of me.
26 But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep, as I said unto you.

"your names are written in heaven" - Rather than Narrow-Minded, Mad, or Evil

 

            

North East of Tokyo

Rather than Narrow-Minded, Mad, or Evil

According to wisdom of Jewish people, there are four types of human beings.

First, there is a type of those who think what they have is theirs and what others have is others'.  The second type is of those who think that what they have is others' and what others have is theirs.  The third type thinks what they have is others' and what others have is others'.  The fourth-type people think that what they have is theirs and what others have is also theirs.

The first type is of mediocre or narrow-minded people.  The second type is of those who are somewhat out of normalcy and soundness or, in other word, strange or mad.  The third type is of those who are extremely ascetic or otherwise misguided.  The fourth type is of those who are reckless, greed or evil.

When "others" in these expressions are replaced by the word "God," the context might a little change.

First, there is a type of those who think what they have is theirs and what God has is God's.  The second type is of those who think that what they have is God's and what God has is theirs.  The third type thinks what they have is God's and what God has is God's.  The fourth-type people think that what they have is theirs and what God has is also theirs.

But, logically, scientifically, and religiously, what a man has is God's and what God has is God's, since every thing a man can have materially is made of atoms, elemental particles, or energy convertible to elemental particles or material while they all under laws of the nature created and set by the God.

The key in this analysis is the notion that nothing is ours and everything is God's.  But if "what they have" in these expression are replaced with "money," the truth can be more clearly understood.

First, there is a type of those who think money they have is theirs and money God has is God's.  The second type is of those who think that money they have is God's and money God has is theirs.  The third type thinks money they have is God's and money God has is God's.  The fourth-type people think that money they have is theirs and money God has is also theirs.

Put extremely, a man tends to think that all money whoever has must be his own.  In the case, he will not mind if "whoever" includes the God or he would include the God in "whoever." 

However, from the beginning, we should ask if the God has any money or if all money belongs to Satan.  Yet, put extremely, a man tends to want money if money is created, distributed and governed by Satan.

At least, according to the Bible, we should not have more than 30 silver coins.  God might have created 29 silver coins, but it must be Satan that created the 30th silver coin. 

Finally, it is safe for us to try to be ascetic even if misguided rather than narrow-minded, mad, or evil.

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Luke 10 King James Version

19 Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.
20 Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven.