In for Sanity and the Good Life

No - Talents, Skills, and the Good Life

"Good health and good sense are two of life's greatest blessings" [Publilius Syrus]

'No' in 'No-mission' derives from the Japanese word No, which is derived from 'talent' or 'skill'. Stunning No plays of Japan point to such as beautiful women and gods. There is room for the farcical too. As for this site, it advocates a proficient, good, sound and deep enough life to remain genuine. Such No - deep skilfulness - counts a lot. And carefully "stringed steps" can help a lot in life too.

No performers are storytellers who express something essential by the means in their hands. No plays traditionally advocate peace, long life and prosperity, and at least one type of them contain supernatural beings and has humorous parts. No texts survive in full - about 2,000 of them. And some style innovations have also been taking place.

Making fit use of your talents and skills for the good life are advocated - at times irreverently, at times without a thought in the head (these are major facets of Deep Zen, dhyana, meditation). Health is into it . . . the site's concern for health is thoroughly holistic. Ayurveda, acupuncture (with shiatsu) are also taken into account, and of course sound, ◦deep meditation with its many health benefits.

A Story of Light

health A student came to the Zen abode of Gasan and departed a few years later. Gasan cautioned him,

"Studying the truth speculatively is useful as a way of collecting preaching material. But remember that unless you meditate constantly your light of truth may go out." [Reps 1997:55]

Winsome Buddhist Ways and Others

Try to consider a human as inherently whole, with organic systems capable of relating and interacting to others within limits - maybe not full well at the first attempts. The division of man into body, mind and soul (or being) is useful. This triune unity interacts with the environment and others in it, and much can go wrong at times. Much can go well too.

There is knowledge of winsome Buddhist ways from Buddha's handed-over teachings as recorded, with few elements and accrued, limiting designs added to it.

To avoid calamity, wisdom helps. It rests on assessments.
To increase health reserves, contemplation may be useful, as well as basic knowledge that enables self-care or home care.
To lessen and counteract stress - a big disease agent - humour can help. It may at least bring relief from fear and high stress levels at the moment. At the same time better main adjustments should not be overlooked, though.
Art that is fit for the family, may be good for health too, as Pablo Picasso says, "You know, music, art - these are not just little decorations to make life prettier. They are very deep necessitites which people cannot live without."
Extracts that are well enough made, helps surveying of many things, including problems. And proficient surveys increase understanding. Good mind-maps help that, and the basics of scientific presentations.
It helps to link up to basic and good outputs of the human races too - it often helps being educated. We have included classics here too.

This is to say that the Gold Scales's profile is advocating a good life, whereas "Those who mortify their bodies have not understood the doctrine." [Asvaghosha, in Amitabha 10]

"From little acorns tall oaks grow." [Japanese and American proverb]

Filets or titbits (keywords and key phrases) of this and that teaching can be assembled, stringed and sorted further to arrive at stringed teachings and derived handling programs for those who care to learn how to. The approach is rooted in essential cybernetics. It helps handling and dealing with life too. Aligned with it, there are things to advocate; things to go against to the degree they appear to make good folks flounder, or undermine decent, good living; and there are things to highlight as well.

As for attitudes behind selections and words, the best ideas behind or within a work (ie page) or page system may not be revealed until the overall effects sail in and dawn on you. Jumping to conclusions is a lot less.

It is fit to against being taken in, to go carefully against tomfoolery and against the swaying people away from rational enough outlooks, and that does not mean I go gainst all gurus either.

Mission or Policy

"Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing." [Werner von Braun (1921-77)]

Sir Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980) known to audiences as "master of suspense", said: "Themes emerge as we go along." Now and then things are quite like that.

Solvency Ethics

Great solvency-teachings devoted to the bright side of life should be plumbed.
Very much needs to be reshaped or designed for the modern fare inside the general human condition.
One should strive to bridge the best, being very selective.
Fair and fit and advanced study should yield wisdom: and favourably crystallised essentials should help.

Great swindles that are called divine, need to be exposed for what they are. Have you considered that letting innocents pay for the crimes of culprit is far from ideal? Now that sort of business is what Christianity is about. It would be stupid to confuse divine righteousness with such a scam. Who is a swindler? Jesus. He calls his alleged Father righteous for sacrifices arranged as a religion which utilizes brutality against innocents to favour the sinners on and on. It is ugly. Normally, single persons who take to such vile doings, probably turn insane as time goes by. Scapegoating is neurotic, and fairness and what is truly divine, must be markedly different.

These things that are briefly touched upon now, could help some to understand why Jesus says he did not come for sound persons, only for sick ones. They are compared to sick, stunted sheep, then. See his words [Matthew 9:12; John 10:27]. If you do not want to be a sick sheep any more, see what you can do about it. At any rate, it should be essential to stop cooperating with evil. Victims of false teachings and brainwashing, however, may not be able to derive immediate benefit from staggering clarifications and great solvency teachings.

How does your stuff relate to that of the ancient philosopher Confucius?

To like from one's heart is in part as good as to honour reverently. We like Confucius, or Kongfu Zi as he is called too. His analects are classics in culture-forming. Confucian heritage also consist of teaching stories and incidents and thinking in a large, educative encounter.

Gold eggs and more tools for thinking

Basically, constructive Taoism is advocated here: Gold Eggs Taoism can help good guys on and up: you never know. [Link]

You say some things that Dogen said earlier. Is there a connection?

The Gold Egg model that is used as a substratum om a fair amount of structured essays on the site, can level with how Eihei Dogen (1200-53) is said to form his, according to the Zen reverend Nishijima. [Link]

Gold Eggs back up good thinking, handling and dealings. Also, fables and many other stories are some of the finest helpers for those who grow up, for savoury stories can cater to development, and could be needed. The American psychologist Jerome Bruner shows the value of stories in building, forming, and cementing culture.

Zen, dhyana, meditation are great uplifters. The site contains quite essential information on how to derive benefit from various ways of meditation. That part of education - along with the one that caters to growth of rich INNER and self-processed imagery or figures at large - needs encouragement today.

The Value of Good Pranks

The ability to become interested and enjoy life and things is fine. The Child with a capital C is a TA (Transactional Analysis) term. What is meant by it, has been nuanced by Dr. Eric Berne and others. The Child (innate drives in a human) is witty, observant, full of pranks, want to play - zestful, and so on. There are at least as many excellent reasons to take care of one's deep child nature as one's dog. Health depends on it, psychosomatic medicine shows, even massively. For the lack of zest and good id care, some get much hurt and ill and suffer throughout life.

"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not "Eureka!", but "That's funny . . ." [Isaac Asimov]

Expertise

"An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field," said Niels Bohr (1885-1962).

You may add if you like, "- and has yet survived, even to profit copiously." Sometimes it helps . . . What is more, keep some open mind throughout life. That conforms with the noble Beginner's Mind and may reach high, it is taught in Zen [Suzuki 1971]. Such an attitude could be open for benefits, including future benefits.