Toxic Zen Story #21: Nuremberg Zen, Green Dragon Zen and Physical Zen
in Israel, from David Ben Gurion to Ariel Sharon.
| 'in 1953 the IDF created a new elite unit
| known as Unit 101 commanded by Major Ariel Sharon,
| the current Prime Minister of Israel (Unit 101 was
| also the unit of co-author Avi Nardia's father).
| The unit was tasked with infiltrating enemy lines
| and launching devastating raids. Since the unit
| was closely modeled after Pal'mach, the hand-to-
| hand combat training continued to be referred to
| as Kapap.' - Jim Wagner and Major Avi Nardia
But now we see what their very first mission was ...
=2E 'October 1953 - IDF paratrooper unit 101 under
=2E Ariel Sharon killed 69 civilians and destroyed a
=2E great deal of property in a raid on the Jordanian
=2E village of Qibieh. The raid was a reprisal for a
=2E raid on Tirat Yehuda. ' - Mideast Timeline
____ Preface: Zen Founder _________________________________
Zen is the s**** that bites its own tail. If you embrace the void and
acausality, you will find yourself later in the midst of catastrophic
emptiness saying "how'd that happen?".
Under Prajnatara (Perfect Wisdom ****ning Star) of India, there was a
disciple named Bodhidharma (Buddha Law). Under these grandiose names,
they studied the Buddha's teachings, after Buddhism had traveled East
to China. The Buddha foretold that Buddhism would fall into a Hellish
path in India, after the Buddha's highest teachings had moved on.
Bodhidharma was a native of Conjeeveram, near Madras in India. He
traveled from India and arrived at Ching-Ling (now Nanking), or
perhaps at Guangzhou (Canton), perhaps both. There, Bodhidharma met
with the Emperor's emissary (some say Emperor Wu of the Liang Dynasty,
see footnote), where they discussed the Sutras.
As Bodhidharma (also called Da Mo, or Ta Mo in China, and Daruma in
Japan) believed in dhyana or meditation upon the nothingness at the
heart of life, and as the Lotus Sutra had been translated into
Chinese by Kumarajiva who traveled from India a century earlier and
had served the Liang Dynasty well, the lesser and distorted teaching
of dhyana/ch'an/zen was rejected by practitioners of the highest
teaching, and Bodhidharma was banished from Imperial territory.
As an icchantika, or incorrigible disbeliever in the Lotus Sutra, he
could not be allowed to spread his teachings in the Emperor's domain
(they wished to live happily, you see). But by bani****ng him, they
did not act as bodhisattvas, to thoroughly correct his errors and not
let him slip away to corrupt others, and thusly fall into the hell of
incessant sufferings (Aviichi Hell) for countless lifetimes. Out of
this single uncompassionate act, much of the suffering of the world
has come.
After he was banished, Bodhidharma went to the Shaolin Monastery at
Loyang, West of Kaifeng in the Henan (Honan) Province of Western
China, where the Huang He (Yangtze or Yellow River) tumbles out of the
break between Zhongtiao Shan (2367m) on the North and Quanbao Shan
(2094m) on the South, to flood the rest of China. At the Shaolin
Monastery, he widely disseminated his distorted views of Buddhism,
corrupting first the Shaolin Monks and ultimately the rest of the
world.
Bodhidharma's school was known as Dhyana (from the Mahayana source),
or as Ch'an in China, and eventually as Zen in Japan. It comes to
flower in many different forms, in many different places down through
the ages.
Bodhidharma's very existence is denied by the Zen community,
rendering the life of their founder as itself a void. This allows no
one to be responsible, and the Zen community to walk away from the
train wreck. So let's assume that the history is true, and hold
Bodhidharma and Zen accountable, just this once. There was surely a
founder who brought Dhyana from India, however many names he is
called.
Footnotes on Wu-Ti:
Concerning Emperor Wu: from "The Selection of the Time - Nichiren,
disciple of Shakyamuni Buddha", Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, p.
544:
=2E 'Those concerned about their next life would
=2E do better to be common people in this, the Latter
=2E Day of the Law, than be mighty rulers during the
=2E two thousand years of the Former and Middle Days
=2E of the Law. Why won't people believe this? Rather
=2E than be the chief priest of the Tendai school, it
=2E is better to be a leper who chants Nam-myoho-
=2E renge-kyo! As Emperor Wu of the Liang dynasty said
=2E in his vow, "I would rather be Devadatta and sink
=2E into the hell of incessant suffering than be the
=2E non-Buddhist sage Udraka Ramaputra."'
This reference is to a do***ent in which Emperor Wu (464--549), the
first ruler of the Liang dynasty, pledged not to follow the way of
Taoism. It actually says that he would rather sink into the evil paths
for a long period of time for going against Buddhism (yet nevertheless
forming a bond with it) than be reborn in heaven by embracing the non-
Buddhist teachings. This story appears in The Annotations on "Great
Concentration and Insight." Udraka Ramaputra was a hermit and master
of yogic meditation, the second teacher under whom Shakyamuni
practiced. He is said to have been reborn in the highest of the four
realms in the world of formlessness.
=46rom the Encyclopedia Britannica:
=2E Wu-Ti: Born 464 , China. Died 549 , China
=2E
=2E Pinyin Wudi (posthumous name, or ****h), personal
=2E name (hsing-ming) Hsiao Yen , temple name (miao-
=2E hao) (nan-liang) Kao-tsu founder and first emperor
=2E of the Southern Liang dynasty (502-557), which
=2E briefly held sway over South China. A great patron
=2E of Buddhism , he helped establish that religion in
=2E the south of China.
=2E
=2E Wu-ti was a relative of the emperor of the
=2E Southern Ch'i dynasty (479-502), one of the
=2E numerous dynasties that existed in South China in
=2E the turbulent period between the Han (206 BC-AD
=2E 220) and T'ang (618-907) dynasties. He led a
=2E successful revolt against the Southern Ch'i after
=2E his elder brother was put to death by the emperor.
=2E He proclaimed himself first emperor of the Liang
=2E dynasty in 502, and his reign proved to be longer
=2E and more stable than that of any other southern
=2E emperor in this period.
=2E
=2E A devout believer, Wu-ti diligently promoted
=2E Buddhism, preparing the first Chinese Tripitaka,
=2E or collection of all Buddhist scripts. In 527 and
=2E again in 529 he renounced the world and entered a
=2E monastery. He was persuaded to reassume office
=2E only with great difficulty. In 549 the capital was
=2E captured by a "barbarian" general, and Wu-ti died
=2E of starvation in a monastery.
____ Preface: Types of Zen _______________________________
There is a hierarchy of Zen, in power and toxicity. The lesser forms
of Zen pave the way in societies and cultures for the more powerful
forms. Once a society or culture is corrupted, in even the tiniest
way, by any form of Zen, the tendency will be to move inevitably
towards greater corruption by the more powerful and toxic variants. In
this way, Zen undermines everything that can be undermined in the
world, leaving only that which is incorruptible (the correct practice
of the Lotus Sutra). The hierarchy of Zen is as follows, in general
terms:
Physical Zen: All of the martial arts are based on Zen, starting
=2E with Shaolin Kung Fu, Tai Chi, Karate, Aikido, JiuJitsu,
=2E Judo, Kendo, Bu****do, Ninjitsu, etc. Tai Chi came from
=2E Shaolin Qigong, which also led to Acupuncture,
=2E Acupressure and Falun Gong. As the chaos in society
=2E grows, people need to feel they can protect themselves and
=2E their loved ones, and in this way they are corrupted further.
Christian Zen, Jewish Zen, Hindu Zen, Islamic Zen: These are
=2E basically mixtures, wherein the monotheist believer in a
=2E deity, feels they can practice Zen meditation without a
=2E problem, since it is not theistic. While this reasoning is true,
=2E it ignores the absolutely overwhelming corruption produced
=2E by Zen, which will ultimately undermine their belief system
=2E and every facet of their life, by bringing all of the negatives
=2E in the Zen adherent's's daily life and environment to the
=2E forefront, with increasing amplification and psychotic
=2E effect.
Nuremberg Zen: The widespread belief by a population, that
=2E the purpose of the Buddha's advent in the world was to
=2E teach Zen: that Zen is Buddhism. This is, of course, an
=2E absolutely distorted view of the Buddha's life and teachings.
=2E Shakyamuni made it transparently clear, at the very end of
=2E his life in the Nirvana Sutra, wherein he states that the Lotus
=2E Sutra is his highest teaching in the past, present and future,
=2E and is the purpose of his advent on this Earth, and that his
=2E followers should honestly discard provisional teachings
=2E (teachings other than the Lotus Sutra).
=2E
=2E Nuremberg Zen was promulgated first by D.T. Suzuki's
=2E work with Paul Carus, then by Eugen Herrigel's Zen in the
=2E Art of Archery (and the many who copies: Zen in the Art
=2E of Marketing, Sales, Bakery, etc.) and finally by Alan Watts,
=2E the Norman Vincent Peale of Zen. Nuremberg Zen creates
=2E the environment of chaos and widespread misery that are
=2E the preconditions for the spread of more toxic forms of
=2E Zen.
Stanford Zen: This is the Lay organization of Zen. It was
=2E developed in conjunction with the activities of Frederic
=2E Spiegelberg, a Lutheran who taught theology at the
=2E University of Dresden, and fleeing the effects of Nuremberg
=2E Zen in Germany, came to teach at Stanford, and founded
=2E the American Academy of Asian Studies with Alan Watts
=2E and others, which became the California Institute of Integral
=2E Studies, after it spawned Esalen with Richard Price and
=2E Michael Murphy. Esalen was the proving ground for the
=2E Large Group Awareness Therapy organizations, of which
=2E Werner Erhard's EST was most prominent. EST morphed
=2E into a business school executive training seminar
=2E organization called the Landmark Forum, or Landmark
=2E Education, which has now become the de facto Lay
=2E organization for Zen, projecting itself onto Wall Street and
=2E the Fortune 500.
Green Dragon Zen: In this category I place Soto, which is the
=2E parent of the Green Dragon Society, Rinzai, Fuke, Northern
=2E and Southern Chinese Ch'an sects, Vietnamese and Korean
=2E sects, and all the variant sects which practice the most toxic
=2E forms of Zen: those which actually use the Lotus Sutra as a
=2E means to promulgate their distorted views of Buddhism.
=2E This is the greatest slander of the Lotus Sutra which is
=2E possible. I lump them all under the Green Dragon banner
=2E (I'm sure they do not appreciate this, but that is not a
=2E concern), because Green Dragon has had a tradition of
=2E secret propagation, and penetration of new areas with the
=2E most aggressive intent to build a lasting foothold in every
=2E society it touches. All of the other sects in any locale, will
=2E orient themselves to the Green Dragon.
Nuremberg Zen, Physical Zen and the monotheist Zen mixtures will all
eventually pave the way for Stanford Zen and the Green Dragon, if they
are not themselves undercut by the king of sutras, the Lotus Sutra.
(Zen believers cannot resist the allure of greater power. When they
try the Lotus Sutra and find that it fills the void inside, they will
find they like it.)
Finally, there is the enabling group for all of the worst religious
and social movements in history:
Fellow****p of Evil Friends: This loosely collected group of
=2E Occultists,Theology professors and educators, is at the
=2E branching point for most of corrupt religious movements
=2E of the world. This grandfather of this group is the occultist
=2E Meister Eckart, and it includes: Dietrich Eckart (Thule
=2E Society), Paul Carus (Open Court Publi****ng), Frederic
=2E Spiegelberg (Stanford, AAAS), Michael Murphy (Esalen),
=2E and a host of powerful media people, pundits, gurus and
=2E self-help authors. They are all quite happy to connect you
=2E up with some form of evil, but step back from
=2E commitment themselves, always stopping at the door, as
=2E you foolishly, trustingly pass through. In this way they
=2E catalyze the evil transformation, but survive its effects to
=2E spread further evil, later on.
____ Preface: Powers of Zen ______________________________
Variations upon Zen which have evolved into new strains and then major
branches of Zen, have increased their toxic power by piling slander
upon slander over hundreds of years. The greatest slanders are
attached to the most powerfully evil forms of Zen, which are those
that have attacked the Lotus Sutra directly or the votaries (devotees)
of the Lotus Sutra, the Sangha, directly. One can think of this with
the mathematical analogy of a powers of a variable, that Zen becomes
exponentially more powerful and evil as slanders are piled upon
slanders ...
[Zen] Bodhidharma discards the Lotus Sutra, seeking wisdom that is
from transmissions outside the sutras, transmitted from person to
person (i****n den****n). The families of Chinese Zen under
Bodhidharma's influence include: Dhyana, Ch'an, Western Ch'an, Qigong,
Tai-Chi, Acupuncture, and the Chinese and Korean Martial Arts up to
1200 CE.
[Zen Squared] Dogen uses the Lotus Sutra as a means to teach and
propagate Zen. The families of Japanese Zen under Dogen's influence
are: Soto Zen, Rinzai Zen, Green Dragon Zen, Bu****do and the Japanese
Martial Arts up to 1500 CE.
[Zen Cubed] Nobunaga, Hideyo**** and the Tokugawa Shogunate use various
Samurai and Daimyo tactics, which are based on Zen, to subjugate and
crush Nichiren Buddhism of the Lotus Sutra in the 1500s and 1600s. The
families of Japanese Zen under the Tokugawa influence are: Soto Zen,
Rinzai Zen, Green Dragon Zen, Bu****do and the Japanese Martial Arts up
to 1867 CE.
[Zen Squared Squared] After the Meiji regime's overthrow of the
Tokugawa Shogunate, the militarization and buildup of Japanese society
into an armed camp, forces all of Buddhism under ****nto, and Zen
becomes Imperial Way Zen. This ultimately leads to the cru****ng of the
Lay organization of Nikko's School of Nichiren Buddhism, the Soka
Kyoiku Gakkai and the imprisonment of their leaders during the war,
and the death of their President Tsunesaburo Makiguchi. The families
of Imperial Way Zen are: Soto Zen, Rinzai Zen, Green Dragon Zen,
Bu****do and the Japanese Martial Arts up to 1945 CE.
[Zen to the 5th] American Lay Zen from George Leonard's [Esalen]
influence: the Large Group Awareness Therapy or Training sessions,
Werner Erhard's EST, Landmark Forum, Landmark Education Seminars.
____ Preface: Zen Offends the Law ________________________
There is a principle which is central to the Buddhism of the Lotus
Sutra: Oneness of Person and Law, known as Nimpo-ikka in Japanese.
It is eternally true that the Law and the Buddha are fused, to make
life as we know it.
Since, according to Nichiren in the Ongi Kuden (The Oral Teachings, or
class notes from his lectures on the Lotus Sutra, taken by Nikko), one
meaning of "Myoho" is that delusion and enlightenment are fused (this
is also explained in the essential teachings of the Lotus Sutra, in
the Juryo or Life Span chapter) ...
This means that even for deluded mortals, there is always a condition
of oneness of person and Law.
The implication of this, is that wherever there is a slander of the
Law, then nearby and coincident with it, there is a slander of
humanity, by the principle of the simultaneity of cause and effect.
Hence, wherever Zen is propagated widely, there will be in each and
every instance, Toxic Zen Stories to tell.
What follows is one of these ...
____ Introduction ________________________________________
In an article about the evolution of Zen in Europe:
(http://www.bu****do.net/context/zen_history.htm)
| 'Prof. Eugen Herrigel, who had been in close
| contact with Ohasama in Heidelberg, approached Zen
| via kyudo during his stay in Japan (1924 - 1929)
| and wrote "Die ritterliche Kunst des
| Bogenschiessens", (The gallant Art of Archery) in
| 1936. His famous book "Zen in the Art of Archery"
| was edited in 1953. Herrigel tended towards Nazism
| (cf. his inaugural lecture at Erlangen University,
| 1935) and wasn't overly interested in setting up a
| religious practice group. '
In the article "Varieties of Moral Aestheticism" on the Friesian
website:
(http://www.friesian.com/poly-2.htm)
=2E 'Note the coincidence of German and Japanese
=2E moral aestheticism in Eugen Herrigel's Zen in the
=2E Art of Archery, a classic of Zen and martial arts
=2E by a philosophy professor who would shortly return
=2E to Germany and become a sup****ter of Hitler. Thus,
=2E R.J. Zwi Werblowsky points out:
=2E
=2E "And the man who wrote one of the best-
=2E sellers on Zen (Zen in the Art of Archery)
=2E which was eagerly gobbled up all Zen-
=2E enthusiasts, Eugen Herrigel, was a convinced
=2E Nazi and follower of Hitler. Can you be a
=2E genuine Zen disciple, or claim to have
=2E experienced enlightenment, and at the same
=2E time follow a 'leader' who murdered millions
=2E of human beings in gas chambers? [The Center
=2E Magazine, March/April 1975]" '
| 'The answer to Werblowsky's question is
| definitely "yes," as D.T. Suzuki himself wrote in
| 1938:
|.
| "Zen has no special doctrine or
| philosophy, no set of concepts or intellectual
| formulas, except that it tries to release one
| from the bondage of birth and death, by means
| of certain intuitive modes of understanding
| peculiar to itself. It is, therefore,
| extremely flexible in adapting itself to
| almost any philosophy and moral doctrine as
| long as its intuitive teaching is not
| interfered with. It may be found wedded to
| anarchism or fascism, communism or democracy,
| atheism or idealism, or any political or
| economic dogmatism. It is, however, generally
| animated with a certain revolutionary spirit,
| and when things come to a deadlock -- as they
| do when we are overloaded with
| conventionalism, formalism, or other cognate
| isms -- Zen asserts itself and proves to be a
| destructive force." [Zen and Japanese Culture,
| Princeton, 1973, p. 63]'
|.
| 'In this description, Heidegger's moral
| aestheticism meets that of bu****do, and there is
| absolutely nothing to suggest that Eugen Herrigel
| should not find an appropriate "destructive force"
| in the "revolutionary spirit" of Hitler's National
| Socialism.. '
_______________________________________________________
In Toxic Zen Story #19, we saw how Eugen Herrigel created an
astoni****ng hoax in relating his story of enlightenment with Awa, the
Kyujutsu (his variant of Kyudo Archery) master, in Japan. All of it
turned out to be based on misunderstandings, and out and out lying by
Herrigel (who even lied about which University he taught at in Japan).
In Toxic Zen Story #20, we see Eugen Herrigel lighting the match for
the Holocaust at the Philosophy Department at Erlangen University near
Nuremberg, along with his alter ego, Julius Streicher and his friends
in the Theology Department: Werner Elert and Paul Althaus. The
"Erlangen Re****t" produced by those bright lights was the source of
the Nuremberg Laws, which led to Kristallnacht, which led to
Auschwitz.
Julius Streicher was hung at the Nuremberg War Crime Trials, and the
Nazis of Academia walked free, including Eugen(ics) Herrigel, to
publish his incredibly erroneous slander of Buddhism, "Zen in the Art
of Archery", first in 1948, and then infecting the entire world.
____ Toxic Zen Story ______________________________
Nuremberg Zen, Green Dragon Zen and Physical Zen were to find a new
home, as well as other variants of Zen, in Israel.
The founder of the State of Israel was David Ben Gurion, who had many
grave responsibilities to deal with during his career. These
responsibilities created tension, which required a ... certain
release ...
David was an avid student of Zen. He was constantly reading popular
Zen books of the times, which included Shuei Ohasama's book "Zen. Der
lebende Buddhismus in Japan" (Zen. The living Buddhism in Japan),
published in 1925, in academic circles, D.T. Suzuki's many books,
Martin Heidegger, the publications in German by Paul Carus in the
early 1900s. and of course, Eugen Herrigel's 1948 book in German, "Zen
in der Kunst des Bogenschiessens", Zen in the Art of Archery. He was
only seeking a way to release the stresses and strains of starting a
new county ...
=46rom "David Ben Gurion in Jewish History" by Adele Grubart:
(http://www.laborzionist.org/frontier/jf_11-99_grubart.html)
| 'While accompli****ng all these tasks, the
| dynamic Ben Gurion still found time to devote to
| various studies ranging from languages, botany,
| agriculture, animal husbandry, and Zen Buddhism in
| addition to other disciplines. '
=46rom "What Draws Christians and Jews to Buddhism?", a talk with Donna
Denman on October 12, 1997, at Alumni Hall, University of Dayton:
(http://faculty.sba.udayton.edu/rosenzweig/dcjd/Minutes/Min10-97.htm)
| 'Eric replied that David Ben Gurion was
| attracted to Buddhism and engaged in some Buddhist
| practices. He felt no conflict between Judaism and
| Buddhism. '
The reasons that Zen Buddhism is not felt to conflict with other
disciplines and traditions is that although it appears to be utterly
irrelevant to your life, Zen basically undermines all other
disciplines and traditions over time at such a basic level, that no
one really sees it. But your life notices, and every other life around
you notices.
The purpose of Zen in the world is to caustically work away at
reducing everything it touches to emptiness, with the exception of
those things that cannot be undermined, or corrupted, like the
Buddha's compassion. Everything else will ultimately be reduced to
rubble, if the effects of toxic Zen infection are left unchecked. All
that is false is corrupted, and evils revealed, and amplified
incredibly by the presence of the void, in the mind of Bodhidharma and
the Zen disciple.
Examples are: the Catholic Priesthood and abuse (Father Thomas Merton
and Christian Zen), the Jesuits and the Inquisition (Frances Xavier
and the Japanese Jesuits), the Lutherans and Tolerance (Elert and
Althaus and the Erlangen Re****t), Germany and order (Haushofer,
Hitler, Streicher, Herrigel), every martial arts discipline, every
modern military, paramilitary and terrorist force, police forces,
prison guards, gangs ... the list goes on and on. Now every movie and
television show has a Physical Zen stunt and fight coordinator, or a
Zen twist of some kind. It's everywhere, undermining everything.
_______________________________________________________
Zen crept into Israel initially with the Kibbutzes. The Kibbutz
movement was started in the late 1800's by European Jews (Ashkenazim),
who although they had a mostly closed culture in European societies,
were highly academic in the sciences, music, mathematics and
philosophy. In this same academic manner, they contacted Zen in Europe
through the same works listed above that Ben Gurion read, particularly
those that existed in the early 1900s (D.T. Suzuki and Paul Carus).
There was also the ever-present martial arts training, for the self-
protection that is the responsibility of every kibbutznik. The martial
arts are all based on Physical Zen (see Toxic Zen Story #7, 8, 9 and
10 for details).
As in this web article on life in the Kibbutz ...
(http://homepage.mac.com/arde****r/KIBBUTZ-March'01.html)
| 'Living Quarters'
|.
| 'The kibbutz had a gymnasium -- which was
| actually the first dining hall of the kibbutz, put
| up at the time of its founding, with tin roof and
| walls -- and I used to practice karate there which
| I had learnt at the University. Other members got
| interested in it, and a person called Dan, who
| taught karate in Jerusalem, and who knew one of
| the members, was invited to come and teach it,
| which he agreed to do. He belonged to a school of
| karate which did not accept any money for
| teaching, and that was more in keeping with the
| philosophy of the kibbutz. He said his teacher,
| who was in England, and who was, according to him,
| the best proponent of the art he had ever known,
| would come and give lessons if his air fare to
| Israel and back was paid at least partly by the
| kibbutz. The kibbutz agreed and his teacher, O-
| sensei Terry Dukes, Fourth dan black belt holder
| in Mu-****n-Do Karate-Do, came and gave some
| lessons. I found out that he was a Zen Buddhist
| Monk and knew the Ven. Sangharak****a, whom I had
| known when I was growing up in India. I also
| considered him the best proponent of the art I
| have ever seen, and adopted this style of karate
| which I have been practising ever since. Many of
| the youngsters on the kibbutz learnt the art with
| varying degrees of proficiency.'
... then, right after this series of Zen encounters ...
| 'The Yom Kippur War'
|.
| 'On October 6, 1973, the Yom Kippur War broke
| out. I was on the kibbutz for the weekend and
| heard about it first on Yom Kippur at about 2.00
| p.m. Naturally most of the male adults were
| conscripted, and this left Tsor'ah with very few
| men. I was not called up, not being an Israeli
| citizen, but of course I took up a large part of
| the load of looking after the sheep branch, along
| with Abu Yussuf, who was also not called up. In
| fact it was mostly Abu Yussuf, Lillah and I who
| were running the sheep branch for a while. The
| University closed down, so there was no point
| going there any more, and I stayed on the kibbutz
| for quite a while.'
So, a war didn't stop the growth of Zen. Oh, no ...
| 'Attitude to Travel Abroad'
|.
| 'There are many fine points even about -- say
| -- Hassidism, or Rabbinical theology, what to
| speak of Zen, or Sufism, or Gurdjieff, which
| deserve the appreciation and study of the
| kibbutzniks; and moreover, the right spiritual
| goal of life, namely, to know the Truth, is
| something that does not need reading; it is
| something to be pursued within oneself. To deny --
| or even to discourage -- people from this cannot,
| I think, be considered right. Of course it is true
| that one whose mind is firmly set on the spiritual
| goal will pursue it no matter what the opposition;
| and moreover there will be opposition in almost
| any society to such a one; but nevertheless it is
| necessary also, to some extent at least, that in
| one way or another encouragement rather than
| discouragement should be afforded people with this
| kind of bent of mind. For it has also to be
| accepted that this is not likely to be for
| everyone, or indeed even for most people.'
People will seek the truth. The problem is, they find whatever they
stumble across first, no matter how poisonous what they've found is.
And that is their destiny. Clinging to that evil, once you know
better, is a choice you make that has much greater and more immediate
impact.
Many incursions have been made by the Zen priests of Japan into
Israel, Soen Ro**** in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and Kyudo Ro****
in the late 1970s and early 1980s. They were welcomed with open arms.
These people are from the same Green Dragon Society Zen that was
practiced by General Karl Haushofer, who was the mentor of Adolf
Hitler while he wrote Mein Kampf in prison. Does not anyone see
anything wrong or dangerous in this?
_______________________________________________________
Practicing of many religions by Jews in Israel, such as Islam and
Christianity are frowned upon as being disloyal. But practicing Zen is
considered OK, and I'm sure that David Ben Gurion gets the credit for
that mistaken view.
On a website called "Jewish Law Commentary - Examining Halacha, Jewish
Issues, and Secular Law", there is an article named "A Sad Sermon" by
Rabbi Avi Shafran:
(http://www.jlaw.com/Commentary/sadsermon.html)
| 'No Jew in Israel, moreover, is prevented in
| any way from living as a Reform Jew - or as a
| secular Jew, or as a Zen Buddhist. The Reform and
| Conservative movements are entirely free to try to
| attract Israelis to their theologies and practices
| and have made great efforts to do so.'
Indeed, the evil of Zen is really the only other religion which can be
practiced by Jews in Israel, without raising any issues whatsoever.
Does anyone see an irony here?
Here are some excerpts from an interview on Australian Radio, of a Zen
Ro**** [priest] named Gil Alon, by radio host Rachael Kohn:
(http://www.abc.net.au/rn/relig/spirit/stories/s798510.htm)
| 'Rachael Kohn: Gil, you're from Israel, and I
| wondered how much Buddhism has made inroads into
| Israel?'
|.
| 'Gil Alon: Well the spiritual trend in Israel
| is extremely big, and wherever you go, everyone is
| into meditation, reiki, aromatherapy massage,
| self-development, New Age stuff, whatever you
| want. So it's a secular country, everyone can
| practice whatever he wants, so it's there.'
|.
| 'Rachael Kohn: Do you find any unusual
| affinities between Zen Buddhism and Judaism?'
|.
| 'Gil Alon: Well as far as I understood from my
| other studies, when you go into the roots, the
| crystal root of the philosophies of the religions,
| they come to the same point from different angles.
| And for me this is the same, yes.'
|.
| 'Rachael Kohn: Did you find the Zen koans or
| the Zen stories have any similarities to Jewish
| stories?'
|.
| 'Gil Alon: Yes, I mean if you are familiar
| with the stories of Bal Shem Tov and the Rabbi
| ****hman of Braslav, they are Zen stories, they are
| Zen koans in a way. And I think one book of the
| Bible, I hope I can pronounce it correctly in
| English, in Hebrew it's ...'
|.
| 'Rachael Kohn: Ecclesiastes.'
|.
| 'Gil Alon: Yes. So this is a Zen book.'
|.
| 'Rachael Kohn: What's the quality, say of
| Ecclesiastes, which makes you see it as a Zen
| do***ent?'
|.
| 'Gil Alon: First of all this is my point of
| view, and second, I think it's a tricky book and
| it's up to you because you can choose to read it
| optimistic and you can choose to read it
| pessimistic. And it's up to you.'
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At the present time, Zen is seen as more and more integral to Israeli
life. There are dojos in every major city from down in Eilat on the
Red Sea, up to Haifa near Lebanon. There are martial arts training
centers everywhere, and some of those are Zendos, as well.
Physical Zen's incursion into Israel by way of the martial arts began
with the Notrim (guards) and centers around Pal'mach and its
evolution.
=46rom the article "Inside the martial arts of the Israeli Military" by
Jim Wagner and Major Avi Nardia:
(http://www.jimwagnertraining.com/articles/SF_Israeli_Military.htm)
| 'Although there has always been a remnant of
| Jews living in the Holy Land for the past 1,932
| years, they have been under constant subjugation
| by foreign powers: the Byzantines, the Arabs, the
| Crusaders, again the Arabs, and the Ottomans (the
| Turks). The Ottoman Empire (1300 - 1918) ruled
| over both the indigenous Jews and Arabs in the
| region until their defeat in World War I (1914 -
| 1918) and the implementation of the British
| Mandate of 1919. In this same year the Jews formed
| an underground army known as the Haganah (the
| Hebrew word for defense) to deal with the ongoing
| conflict with Arab gangs, and in anticipation of
| the creation of a Jewish state promised to them by
| the British in the Balfour Declaration. Yet,
| despite the popularity of the Zionist movement and
| increased Jewish immigration, statehood was slow
| in the making. Instead the colonial powers allowed
| the local police to form an elite unit called the
| Notrim (guards) to defend isolated Jewish
| agricultural settlements against marauding Arabs,
| and to quell ongoing racial riots steadily growing
| in the urban centers.'
|.
| 'Although the Notrim was successful at
| protecting the small outposts, they were not as
| effective in handling the deadly city riots, or
| pursuing the enemy back behind their own lines. A
| Haganah officer named Yitzhak Sadeh (considered
| the father of the Israeli Special Forces),
| understood the police unit's shortcomings and
| formed a new army unit called the Nodedot
| (wanderers).'
|.
| 'When World War II (1939 - 1945) brought
| British forces once again into global conflict
| (against the Axis powers of Germany, Japan, and
| Italy) the need for oil was paramount. However,
| this rare commodity was threatened by German
| troops advancing eastward in North Africa and many
| Arab tribes openly siding with the Nazis.
| Reluctant at first, the British turned once again
| to Jewish fighters and formed the first official
| Israeli Special Forces unit on May 14, 1941 known
| as Pal'mach (a Hebrew acronym for Plugot Machatz,
| which means strike platoon).'
|.
| 'The original number of personnel sanctioned
| for Pal'mach training under British supervision
| was only suppose to be 1,000 fighters, but the
| Haganah overstepped their bounds and trained
| roughly 3,000 men in preparation for a future
| Jewish army to be used after the war.'
|.
| 'The training that the Pal'mach commandos
| received was called Kapap (Hebrew acronym for Krav
| Panim l'Panim, face-to-face combat). The word
| "krav" is also translated commonly as "fight."
| Kapap was not one system, but a mixture of
| rigorous physical conditioning, firearms and
| explosives training, radio communications,
| wilderness survival training, combat first aid and
| foreign language courses (the enemy languages of
| German and Arabic). The hand-to-hand combat
| training was a combination of Western fighting
| systems such as boxing (London Prize Ring Rules),
| Greco-Roman wrestling, and standard British
| military knife and baton training. At this time
| there was no one single vocabulary word or term
| used for the self-defense techniques in the
| program, Kapap was an all inclusive term.'
|.
| 'The Pal'mach's three combat brigades went on
| to assist the British military in a variety of
| victorious campaigns: the invasion of Vichy (the
| pro-Nazi French government) Lebanon and Syria,
| espionage missions in Jordan, and fighting
| alongside the British SAS (Special Air Service) in
| the Balkans.'
|.
| 'When the war ended, so did the Jewish-British
| cooperation. The Jews expected the Brits to hold
| up their end of the bargain for a homeland. When
| it was apparent that the deal would not go through
| the Pal'mach used guerilla tactics against the
| British military and police installations. There
| were also terrorist attacks carried out by the
| Jewish ran Stern Gang and Irgun, but they were
| strongly condemned by the Haganah.'
|.
| 'The newly formed United Nations (formed in
| 1945) knew that it was only a matter of time
| before an all out war between the Jews and Arabs
| would break out when the frustrated British
| vacated, so they tried to intervene by
| partitioning the region - a Jewish state on the
| west side of the Jordan River and an Arab state on
| the east side of the river (today's Jordan). When
| the British lowered the Union Jack and left the
| region, the Jews declared their Independence on
| May 14, 1948. Hours later the forces of Jordan,
| Lebanon, Iraq, Egypt, Syria and the Palestinians
| within attacked the newborn nation of Israel. The
| unofficial-turned-legitimate Haganah faced its
| greatest challenge and was officially renamed the
| Tzava Haganah Le'Yisrael (transliteration army
| defense to Israel or known in English as the
| Israel Defense Force or IDF ). In the War of
| Independence the Israelis managed to not only
| survive, though greatly outnumbered and poorly
| equipped, but went on to form one of the most
| respected militaries in the world.'
|.
| 'In 1949 the Pal'mach was disbanded due to
| political considerations, but in 1953 the IDF
| created a new elite unit known as Unit 101
| commanded by Major Ariel Sharon, the current Prime
| Minister of Israel (Unit 101 was also the unit of
| co-author Avi Nardia's father). The unit was
| tasked with infiltrating enemy lines and launching
| devastating raids. Since the unit was closely
| modeled after Pal'mach, the hand-to-hand combat
| training continued to be referred to as Kapap.'
Unit 101 which was formed by Ariel Sharon, became the owner of the
Kapap school of the martial arts which led to the creation of Krav
Maga (below), which draws from many sources in traditional martial
arts, which are based upon Zen (see Toxic Zen Story #7, 8, 9, and 10).
This makes Ariel Sharon not just, in actuality, a Ro**** or Zen priest,
and actually, the patriarch or founder of a Zen school. When you see
him talk, there is an occult kind of glow, a ****ning darkness that was
most astounding when he was on the Temple Mount in September of 2000,
which instigated an enormous uprising as a reaction ... a ****ning
darkness that we've seen before in people like Yasser Arafat.
The article continues the historic evolution ...
| 'Having achieved great success in only six
| months of existence, the unit's role was expanded
| and they were merged into the 890th paratroopers
| and commissioned Unit 202.'
|.
| 'In 1957, the ultra-secret Special Forces unit
| named Sayeret Mat'kal (Unit 216) was formed by
| intelligence officer Avraham Aran who modeled it
| after the British SAS. In the 1970s this unit
| gained worldwide fame after a series of
| spectacular counterterrorist operations, the most
| famous of which was Operation Thunderball July 3-
| 4, 1976 (known in the U.S. as the Raid on Entebbe)
| where operators flew into the hostile African
| nation of Uganda and rescued 103 hostages who had
| been hijacked by German and Palestinian
| terrorists.'
|.
| 'Building upon the past successes of Unit 101,
| 202, Sayeret Mat'kal and other elite commando
| teams, the Israelis created many other specialized
| units to deal with the non ending state of war:
| the Navy's Ha'Kommando Ha'Yami (SEALs),
| Mitsta'aravim (unit disguised as Arabs), Sayeret
| Tzanhanim (Airborne), Sayeret Golani (Mountain
| Warfare Unit), Sayeret Egoz (Rangers), the para-
| military police counterterrorist unit YAMAM, and
| the list goes on.'
|.
| 'In the IDF the Special Forces units had a
| monopoly on the martial arts training and Kapap
| came to also be known as Lochama Zehira (micro
| fighting or micro combat) in the 1970s. The system
| included a variety of military skills in addition
| to hand-to-hand combat. However, with Israel being
| at war with one Arab neighbor or another with
| unrelenting cross-border terrorist attacks,
| regular units also needed some sort of hand-to-
| hand fighting system. What they got was a basic
| no-nonsense system.'
|.
| 'The Birth of Krav Maga '
|.
| 'Before soldiers are eligible to go into
| the Special Forces in the IDF, they must first
| serve in a "parent unit." Only after careful
| evaluation and passing a rigorous testing process
| can one enter into the SF world and wear a set of
| coveted "wings" (an achievement very much
| respected in Israeli society, that or becoming a
| fighter pilot).'
|.
| 'In order to prepare combat soldiers for their
| future roles, and to instill a warrior spirit, the
| IDF in the 1980s officially adopted a boot camp
| style hand-to-hand combat program called Krav Maga
| (Krav meaning combat or fight, and Maga
| meaning touch or contact). In context the term
| means Contact Fighting. On the other hand, the
| Israeli Special Forces continued to refer to their
| own brand of fighting techniques as Kapap or
| Lochama Zehira. They did not want any comparison
| to be made between Krav Maga, which was viewed
| upon as a "beginner level" art, and their own
| distinctive brand of fighting.'
|.
| 'Japanese ju-jitsu (soft art) and judo (soft
| way) were the first oriental martial arts
| introduced into the IDF by Kapap instructors Moni
| Aizik and Imi Lichtenfeld just after the birth of
| the nation. Then, in the 1970s the legendary
| Dennis Hanover helped lay the foundation of what
| is today's military Krav Maga along with other
| Special Forces instructors such as war hero Lt.
| Colonel Chaim Pe'er (who today teaches his lethal
| arts at the University of Tel Aviv - even though
| bullets are still lodged in his aging, but rock
| solid body, from past military missions). In the
| 1980s Jewish Frenchman Andr=E9 Zeitun and Ran ****as
| introduced Mui Thai to the military, which also
| influenced many of the kicks used in the system
| today.'
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Ultimately, the core forms of Zen undermine and replace the variant
forms. So, Krav Maga will eventually become like Kung Fu of the
Shaolin Monks under Bodhidharma, spiritual, but corrupted and purely
destructive: not good for protecting anything. You completely
undermine the purpose of self-protection, by creating an emptiness
where your life was.
Let's look at the history of Sharon, the patriarch of Krav Maga:
(from http://www.mideastweb.org/timeline.htm)
Repeated from above:
| 'in 1953 the IDF created a new elite unit
| known as Unit 101 commanded by Major Ariel Sharon,
| the current Prime Minister of Israel (Unit 101 was
| also the unit of co-author Avi Nardia's father).
| The unit was tasked with infiltrating enemy lines
| and launching devastating raids. Since the unit
| was closely modeled after Pal'mach, the hand-to-
| hand combat training continued to be referred to
| as Kapap.'
But now we see what their very first mission was ...
| 'October 1953 - IDF paratrooper unit 101 under
| Ariel Sharon killed 69 civilians and destroyed a
| great deal of property in a raid on the Jordanian
| village of Qibieh. The raid was a reprisal for a
| raid on Tirat Yehuda. '
|.
| 'Oct. 6, 1973 Yom Kippur War (October War) In
| a surprise attack on the Jewish day of atonement,
| Egypt retook the Suez canal and a narrow zone on
| the other side. Syria reconquered the Golan
| Heights. Following massive US and Soviet
| resupplying of the sides, Israel succeeded in
| pu****ng back the Syrians and threatening Damascus.
| Ariel Sharon crossed the Suez Canal and cut off
| the Egyptian Third Army. '
|.
| 'June 6, 1982 Massive Israeli invasion of
| Lebanon to fight PLO. . UN Security Council
| Resolution 509 demands that Israel withdraw all
| its military forces forthwith, but Israel advances
| rapidly to Beirut, surrounding the capital by 13
| Jun. Israeli cabinet is split on the sudden
| expansion of the war, beyond the 40 KM limit
| originally declared by Sharon. '
|.
| 'Feb 8, 1983 Israeli Kahan commission found
| Ariel Sharon and others indirectly responsible for
| allowing the massacre in Sabra and Shatilla. '
I was working in Israel, in Tel Aviv, with the IDF for most of the
year in 1983. This was a very bad year for turmoil in Israeli politics
and society. I remember walking in the Arab section of Jerusalem, and
seeing a group of husky young Israeli Jews (wearing Yamulkas, so
unmistakably Jewish) running through the Arab merchant stalls,
tra****ng them as they ran.
My Arab guide, who was a Christian, said that they were trying to
drive the Arabs out in hundreds of small and large ways, from
harassment to special fines and taxes to make Jerusalem free of
Palestinian Arabs. In German, you might call this "Araber-frei".
At the time I thought, how like the Brown ****rt youths they were, how
reminiscent of Kristallnacht, breaking the glass in Jewish stores by
the SA men of the Reich in 1938. How perfectly their compassion had
been drained at the hands of the German citizens, possessed by Julius
Streicher's endless tirades about the less-than-human Jewish threat.
How stunningly accurate the replica, the echo in miniature, of the
streets of Nuremberg in Jerusalem. Of course, at the time, I hadn't
realized the impact of Herrigel, and the infection of Zen at the root
of things.
I also remember working in an office high in a Tel Aviv skyscraper,
with Israeli programmers who were constantly screaming at each other
with barely suppressed rage. The battle was not just up in Lebanon, or
in Jerusalem, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip ...
| 'Sept. 28, 2000 Palestinians initiated riots
| after Israeli opposition leader Ariel Sharon
| visited the Temple Mount, which is also the
| location of the Haram as Sharif holy to Muslims.
| Violence was apparently encouraged by Fatah
| Tanzim, as admitted by Marwan Barghouti. Violence
| escalated rapidly from rock throwing to machine
| gun and mortar fire, suicide bombings and lethal
| road ambushes, including some incidents instigated
| by settlers against Palestinians. Israelis killed
| 15 Israeli Arabs in riots in September/October
| 2000, and over 2,000 Palestinians in retaliatory
| raids thereafter. Palestinians kill over 700
| Israelis. Violence continues for over a year [to
| present - March 2003]. '
|.
| 'Feb 6, 2001 Right-wing Likud leader Ariel
| Sharon elected Prime Minister in Israel replacing
| Ehud Barak and promising "peace and security." '
|.
| 'Jan 28, 2003 Elections in Israel give wide
| margin (40 seats) to right wing Likud party,
| returning PM Ariel Sharon for another term. '
|.
| 'June 4, 2003 Aqaba Summit - Abu Mazen and
| Ariel Sharon vow to stop violence, end occupation
| according to the road map. Hamas and Islamic Jihad
| vow to continue violence. Fatah, Hamas and Islamic
| Jihad joined in killing four Israeli soldiers in
| Gaza (June 8) despite the call to end violence
| from Fatah leaders. '
|.
| 'June 10-11, 2003 Failed Israeli assassination
| attempt on Hamas leader Ahmed Rantissi (June 10)
| and Hamas suicide attack that kills 15 in
| Jerusalem (June 11) jeopardize the future of the
| road map. '
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And this is the point. As will be shown in Toxic Zen Story #22, the
very same Zen corruption of the Green Dragon Society of General Karl
Haushofer, mentor of Hitler (Toxic Zen Story #2), and the Physical Zen
of the martial arts (Toxic Zen Story #7, 8, 9 and 10) ... are what is
driving engine and undermining both sides of this conflict now: the
Arab societies surrounding Israel or under the occupation of Israel,
and the terrorist networks that we all face in this new century. This
is the true source of the hellish and endless cycle of tit for tat
violence that is possessing the Middle East region.
We are seeing all of the same patterns of Nuremberg in Israel.
The Streicher cartoons of Der St=FCrmer depicting the evils of Jewry are
now showing up in the same form in Arabic newspapers in the West Bank,
as an uncanny echo of Herrigel's home. We are in the late stages of
the evolution of this catastrophe, and we have seen this before.
The fuel for the driving engines on both sides of this conflict is
located solely in Israel: this is my contention. It is in the Zendos
of Israel that Soto Zen meditation in it's purest form is practiced.
That is what fills both of the Zen-corrupted sides with steam
pressure: the swelling Sharon-Unit 101-settlement-ism, and the
swelling of el-Husseini-Azzam-Arafat-Zawahiri-Bin Laden-ism.
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Here are the components of this system, which is in an unstable
equilibrium:
1. Physical Zen due to martial arts and Bu****do training on both
sides.
2. Green Dragon Zen corrupted schools of conflict on both sides:
2A. Sharonist Unit 101-based mindset in the IDF and the settlements,
makes all Jewish prayer with the "Mind of Sharon" into a Zen
meditation leading to catastrophe.
2B. el-Husseini-Arafat-Azzam-Zawahiri-Bin Laden- based mindset in the
PLO, HAMAS and the PIJ makes all Islamic prayer with the "Mind of Haj
Amin el-Husseini" into a Zen meditation leading to catastrophe.
3. Nuremberg Zen of Herrigel and Suzuki, which is the widespread
belief of the Israeli people that Zen is the Buddha's highest teaching
and the purpose of his advent, which is incorrect. This is what makes
possible and reasonable number 4:
4. Green Dragon Zen Dojos all over Israel, possessed with mainlining,
in the most direct and toxic way, the absolute evil of Soto Zen. This
is the evil that will drive all of the other parts of the system.
The terrible thing is that even if all the dojos close, and all
Zennists cease their meditations, because of the latent cause in the
three existences of the past, present and future ... all of those
times that Zen minds were busy in the past are still with us.
It is like momentum, when you stop the acceleration, the integral of
your acceleration towards catastrophe from Zen meditation is still way
more than enough to drive this system beyond the point of explosion.
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And certainly none of the strategies that have been mentioned by the
various parties will work:
1. Land For Peace (the Americans) - how in hell does moving the lines
around, or feeding a swelling force of evil change anything? If
anything, this might destabilize the balance of power in one direction
or another and cause a destructive resonance, like the one that
brought down the Tacoma Narrows bridge (an example for you engineering
types). This, and any solutions involving moving around deck chairs on
the Titanic, must be avoided like the instant destruction that it will
bring. It's brain damage, and why would you listen to George Bush and
the Americans anyway? They are just trying to change the focus away
from the missing WMD in Iraq. LISTEN TO YOUR OWN INNATE WISDOM, AND
DON'T PLACE YOUR TRUST IN FOOLISH PEOPLE.
2. Security measures (Sharon) - believe it or not, if you successfully
block bombers from coming in, worse things will be tried, to overcome
that blockage. SECURITY SOLUTIONS WON'T WORK AND THINGS CAN GET WORSE.
3. Sitting at the peace table (U.N.) - this is the least problematic,
as long as nothing is done to destabilize the balance of the unstable
equilibrium that has evolved here. POLITICAL SOLUTIONS WON'T WORK.
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So what will work? The only way to overcome the cyclonic forces of
evil in the Middle East, that have been unleashed in the Zendos of
Israel, is the "Strategy of the Lotus Sutra" As powerful as the evil
of Zen is, it is no match for the medicinal quality of the Buddha's
highest teaching, the Lotus Sutra.
In California, there are many times the numbers of Zen practitioners
creating evil than are in Israel. But for every ten of them, there is
one person chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo to overcome and offset that
evil force. There are local anomalies in the distribution, like in
Oakland, but there are enough members of the Soka Gakkai, the SGI, who
chant enough that the land is "pacified".
The technical reasons for this are described by Nichiren Daishonin
(Japan, b. 1222) in the letter "On Establi****ng the Correct Teaching
for the Peace of the Land", called the Rissho Ankoku Ron in Japanese.
(http://www.sgi-usa.org/buddhism/library/Nichiren/wnd/concord/
pages.view/6.html)
In Israel the ratio is way too high for Zen believers not to cause a
catastrophe, indeed they have already done more than enough to
guarantee it. (So, shooting them all will do no good whatsoever, so
get that thought out of your deluded mind right now.)
Also, they are the ones who understand the Buddha's teachings, even
though in a distorted way, but they actually have faith in the power
of Dhyana, and this gives them and you hope. They need to move up the
ladder, and honestly discard the expedient means of Zen, and practice
the Buddhism of the Lotus Sutra, which in the Buddha's own golden
words, is the highest teaching of the Buddha in the past, present and
future.
If the Zen believers of Israel profess to have any belief whatsoever
that they have been practicing Buddhism (although a lesser teaching),
then they immediately need to step up to follow the Buddha's
admonition to move on up to the Lotus Sutra.
And I would also suggest that the general population of Israel (and
the rest of the world) stop believing in Nuremberg Zen: the simple and
profoundly incorrect thought of Herrigel and Suzuki - that Zen was the
Buddha's intent. This was the gateway to evil in Nuremberg originally,
and in Israel now. See Toxic Zen Story #20 "Zen in the Art of
Genocide".
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The latest news (September 2003) is not encouraging. After a
relatively quiet Summer, the back and forth between Hamas and the
Israelis is back on. There was an attempt by Bush and Powell to put
the Palestinian prime minister, Mahmoud Abbas into the forefront on
the negotiations and take Arafat out of the picture.
It is always correct to take the corrupted people that undermine
everything out of the negotiations. Arafat is such a one.
Unfortunately, so is Sharon.
So, in early August, both sides renewed the Jihadic suicide bombings
and Israeli assassinations. Abbas is now sidelined and impotent, and
back comes Arafat, with whom Sharon really wishes to deal.
It has been noted before that there is a grammar to this dialog, with
the syntax spelled out with bombs and rockets.
What has not been noted before, is that there is a real conversation
going on, between persons possessed of the exact same evil, of the Zen
mind.
It is a conversation that communicates on a covert channel, with
encrypted phrases about what kind of shocking and mind-numbing
emptiness can be produced next.
It is like two Rinzai Zen Ro****s exchanging Zen koans and stories on
alt.zen. The Mind of Evil (Bodhidharma) exchanging distributed
information and instructions between its separated bodies.
Sharon and Arafat only wanted to get back to their conversation in an
undisturbed way. They have weighty matters to discuss, in explosive
terms.
This is precisely the same kind of discussion being held between
George W. Bush and Usama Bin Ladin. And this is why Iraq had to be
attacked in such an urgent way: Usama was in danger of being caught or
killed, and that would put an end to the dialog.
So pulling out enough troops of Afghanistan, and creating another
elusive enemy on the run (Saddam) that can ultimately be caught with
ease, since he has no Al Qaeda network to flee to, draws the attention
away from keeping Usama Bin Ladin around to have more disastrous
discussions with.
(You wonder why Al Qaeda seemed to get lucky break after lucky break
in pulling off 9/11? They had something to say, and Bush wanted to
hear it, and become his true self by hearing it.)
Mahmoud Abbas and his Israeli predecessors, who might potentially end
the communication session of evil, on the network of chaos, misery and
death in the Middle East, are the real threat being resolved: the
threat to the status quo of evil.
____ Epilog _______________________________________
The Buddha's highest teachings were the purpose of the Buddha's advent
on this earth.
The Buddha did not appear on this earth to drain people's compassion
with discussions of the emptiness and meaninglessness of life which is
just a void.
The Buddha did not appear on this earth to teach people to live in
such a narrow and momentary way, that there would be no context for
self-examination and conscience.
The Buddha did not appear on this earth to possess people's minds with
such illogic as to befuddle their ability to choose correctly between
what is good and what is evil.
The Buddha did not appear on this earth to teach people how to commit
atrocities and genocide, in the exploration of their "infinite
possibilities", or "new states of being".
The Buddha did not appear on this earth to teach people how to maim
and kill with their hands efficiently, quietly, loudly, with increased
terror inflicted, or to maximize their subjugation to control the
public sentiments for political ends.
These are all profoundly evil distortions of the Buddha's true
teachings, which introduce infinities in the variables holding good
and evil, removing all shades of gray in the propositional calculus of
value.
Simply stated, the Buddha made his advent on this earth with the
purpose of teaching the compassionate way of the bodhisattva, which is
at the heart of the true entity of all phenomena, which is the eternal
Buddha at one with the eternal Law. Which is how to navigate the sea
of sufferings of birth, aging, sickness and death. He originally set
out on his path, because of his observation of the sufferings of
common people and wanting to understand the source of those sufferings
(enlightened wisdom) and how to transform those sufferings into
unshakable happiness (enlightened action).
No matter what intent you start out with, for relaxation or inner
exploration or to protect yourself and your family ... when you
embrace the void and acausality of Zen, in that moment you create an
emptiness in your future. Each time you embrace the void again, that
emptiness grows. But it really doesn't have to be ...
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Nichiren Daishonin writes (Encouragement to a Sick Person, WND p. 78):
=2E "During the Former and Middle Days of the Law, the
=2E five impurities began to appear, and in the Latter
=2E Day, they are rampant. They give rise to the great
=2E waves of a gale, which not only beat against the
=2E shore, but strike each other. The impurity of
=2E thought has been such that, as the Former and
=2E Middle Days of the Law gradually passed, people
=2E transmitted insignificant erroneous teachings
=2E while destroying the unfathomable correct
=2E teaching. It therefore appears that more people
=2E have fallen into the evil paths because of errors
=2E with respect to Buddhism than because of secular
=2E misdeeds."
Because Bodhidharma discarded the Buddha's highest teaching (the Lotus
Sutra), and due to his lazy nature turned to shortcuts to
enlightenment, he came to the distorted view that life is acausal and
empty, that the true entity is the void.
This erroneous view really comes from a misunderstanding of the Sutra
of Immeasurable Meanings, where the True Entity is described by
negation (the only way it can be): "... neither square, nor round,
neither short, nor long, ..."
The description of the True Entity is logically voidal, but the True
Entity itself is not. Bodhidharma was simply confused, due to the
slander of negligence (laziness), and false confidence. The truth of
life is that at the heart of the True Entity is the compassion of a
bodhisattva for others.
Non-substantiality does not mean empty. Life has value. Humans are
respectworthy. There is a purpose to everything. And every cause has
an effect, so we are responsible for our thoughts, words and deeds.
Zen is acausal. Zen is the greatest poison, which compares to the even
greater medicine of the Lotus Sutra.
Suffice it to say: the purpose of Zen in the world is to corrupt and
undermine everything that is not based upon the truth and the true
teaching. All religions, disciplines, institutions and organizations
which are undermined by Zen will eventually fall after glaring
revelation of their worst defects, sooner rather than later.
If there is some good in your family, locality, society and culture,
or country that you would like to retain, then cease the Zen, and
begin to apply the medicine of the Lotus Sutra to heal the Zen wound
in your life.
"Zen is the work of devilish minds." - Nichiren
-Chas.
=2E a prescription for the poisoned ones:
=2E
=2E The only antidote for the toxic effects of Zen in your life ...
=2E
=2E be that from Zen meditation, or the variant forms: physical
=2E Zen in the martial arts, Qigong, Acupuncture, Falun Gong,
=2E Copenhagen Convention of Quantum Mechanics, EST,
=2E Landmark Education, Nazism, Bu****do, the Jesuits,
=2E Al Qaeda, or merely from having the distorted view that life
=2E is acausal, and that the true entity of all phenomena
=2E is the void ...
=2E
=2E with the effects of the loss of loved ones, detachment,
=2E isolation or various forms of emptiness in your life ...
=2E
=2E is the Lotus Sutra: chant Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo
=2E at least 3 times, twice a day, for the rest of your life,
=2E in at least a whisper ...
=2E
=2E and if you can, chant abundantly in a resonant voice !!!
=2E
=2E Nichiren Daishonin's Gosho and the
=2E SGI Dictionary of Buddhism are located at:
=2E
http://www.sgilibrary.org/writings.php
http://www.sgilibrary.org/dict.html
=2E
=2E The full 28 Chapters of the Lotus Sutra (and many other
=2E wonderful things) are online at the SGI website:
=2E
http://sgi-usa.org/buddhism/library/Buddhism/LotusSutra/
=2E
=2E To find an SGI Community Center:
=2E
http://sgi-usa.org/thesgiusa/findus/
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LS Chap. 2
If when I encounter living beings
I were in all cases to teach them the Buddha way,
those without wisdom would become confused
and in their bewilderment would fail to accept my teachings.
I know that such living beings have never in the past cultivated good
roots
but have stubbornly clung to the five desires,
and their folly and craving have given rise to affliction.
Their desires are the cause
whereby they fall into the three evil paths,
revolving wheel-like through the six realms of existence
and undergoing every sort of suffering and pain.
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