Walk, Reading and Watching.

When I woke up this morning, I found that it is rainy day today. I changed my clothes and went to take a walk at a park, 航空公園(Koukuu-Kouen-park) where I often take a walk.



Green leaves, big trees, sound of rain drops were really nice. Trees enjoyed blessed rain and I enjoyed the bountiful nature. The park is an artificial material though. I felt I regained what I am.



I do love to take a walk in the rain in the season of green leaves. Fresh looking leaves, sound of raindrops falling on leaf soil, falling on new green leaves, falling on my umbrella, sounds of leaves swaying in the breeze. What a beautiful world.



Ducks were taking a walk at the park in the rain. I wanted to take a walk with them but as always they run a way from me because I don't have any food for them. Once, when I was taking a walk at the park with me having breads, they, good number of ducks gathered around me there was no room to run a way from them, and they said "GUWA!GUWA!(Give me the bread!)" and reluctantly I gave breads to them. They are big eaters. They have no inhibitions. I've given all breads to them. It was my breakfast..... It was an extortion case! :-) GUWAGUWA is a word to express voice of Duck in Japanese.



I dropped in a city library in the park. I read NewsWeek, a book about steel industry and 永平広録(Eihei kouroku) of 道元(Dougen, Dogen). I wanted to read some book about agricultural industry but I couldn't find it. I wanted to know about potato culture as a measure to combat global warming. To make starch, Potato consume much carbonic anhydride. I guess it might be a business. That's why I searched some book. And, it is sure the library's collections are not good. I need to go to a library of university, I think. Maybe, I can find about it at a library for science course students of university I graduated and found a book on internet but the library is far a way from where I am now.



永平広録(Eihei Kouroku) is a representative book of Dogen. Dogen is a founder of Japanese Soto-sect. It is Zen buddhism. I used to read this book when I was a student. What Dogen said is very racial. Onday, a student asked about supernatural powers of Buddha, saying "What is the super natural power of capacity of hearing of Buddha?". It is said Buddha can hear everything. Dogen clicked his fingers and said this is the super natural power. It meant there is no super natural thing and super natural thing exist like that. I didn't read the part today though.



I watched a TV program ex-prime minister Nakasone Yasuhiro talked about East Asia Community whose axis is relation between China and Japan. Already China and Japan agreed with the plan and ASEAN welcomes the plan. Last few months, We become to able to image the relationship in this region and it become the biggest economic community in the world. Absolutely, this region become the centre of the world in this century　as long as China and Japan have good relations with each other. That China become larger country than EU, America and Japan is historical inevitability. I felt the world is changing.

It reminds me my father said "China is Tiger sleeping and is waking up now and become largest country.".



By Chinese government showed they think Japan as important country for their development and accept Japan's position, and by Abe saw about relationship, we could confirm fundamental direction of China and Japan. America would role as a balancer of military balance in this region. Samuel Phillips Huntington who is a professor of Harvard University said Japan would become an alliance partner of China in his book. If America back off from this region, America will have become smaller country than now but it is also impossible. America is important country for trade. Japan, China, America, these countries role balancers each other. I think VIetnam would also become a good balancer for Japan. I think we can catch our breath now.



I often think my thought is similar to Chinese thought. I know the why. It is simple. I studied Buddhism. Samuel Phillips Huntington said Japanese culture is different from China. To be exact, we share some part of culture. Some of our DNA is from China. But I think Huntington's view is right to some extent. When we regard Japan as a civilization, it is become easy to understand what Japanese are. I think I can regard there are two civilizations in this region and smaller one, Japan, was affected by bigger one. Huntington also said Japan's country is the civilization itself. Japanese race is the civilization itself. Maybe, yes. But I think maybe Japan should be called as satellite civilization of China. But I also think Japan has too much originality as a satellite civilization. "I don't know.". This was a pet phrase of my teacher. :-)



In pre-modern age, our economy system was similar to current economy system. And it seems it is regard as an evidence that Japan is civilization. Also there were vulture funds. I want to mention about it someday.



Well, What about did I wrote today? I forgot. But it seems I wrote about walk and book I found and TV program etc.



Have a extra wonderful sunday!



Tigers are on a losing streak. They lost last 7 games. I shouldn't use the word which begins from F even in this situation?



I took the photo at Koukuu kouen Park today with my mobile phone.