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> Toxic Zen Story #17: Christian Zen: D.T. Suzuki and Father Thomas
> Merton.
>
> | 'Seeing parallels between Oriental mysticism
> | and Western tradition, Merton gained permission
> | to attend an e***enical conference of Buddhist
> | and Christian monks held in Bangkok, Thailand.
> | While attending that meeting, he was accidentally
> | electrocuted. '
> |.
> | - from Merton's biography, by D. Phillip
>
> ____ 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:
>
> . 'Those concerned about their next life would
> . do better to be common people in this, the Latter
> . Day of the Law, than be mighty rulers during the
> . two thousand years of the Former and Middle Days
> . of the Law. Why won't people believe this? Rather
> . than be the chief priest of the Tendai school, it
> . is better to be a leper who chants Nam-myoho-
> . renge-kyo! As Emperor Wu of the Liang dynasty said
> . in his vow, "I would rather be Devadatta and sink
> . into the hell of incessant suffering than be the
> . 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.
>
> From the Encyclopedia Britannica:
>
> . Wu-Ti: Born 464 , China. Died 549 , China
> .
> . Pinyin Wudi (posthumous name, or ****h), personal
> . name (hsing-ming) Hsiao Yen , temple name (miao-
> . hao) (nan-liang) Kao-tsu founder and first emperor
> . of the Southern Liang dynasty (502-557), which
> . briefly held sway over South China. A great patron
> . of Buddhism , he helped establish that religion in
> . the south of China.
> .
> . Wu-ti was a relative of the emperor of the
> . Southern Ch'i dynasty (479-502), one of the
> . numerous dynasties that existed in South China in
> . the turbulent period between the Han (206 BC-AD
> . 220) and T'ang (618-907) dynasties. He led a
> . successful revolt against the Southern Ch'i after
> . his elder brother was put to death by the emperor.
> . He proclaimed himself first emperor of the Liang
> . dynasty in 502, and his reign proved to be longer
> . and more stable than that of any other southern
> . emperor in this period.
> .
> . A devout believer, Wu-ti diligently promoted
> . Buddhism, preparing the first Chinese Tripitaka,
> . or collection of all Buddhist scripts. In 527 and
> . again in 529 he renounced the world and entered a
> . monastery. He was persuaded to reassume office
> . only with great difficulty. In 549 the capital was
> . captured by a "barbarian" general, and Wu-ti died
> . 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
> . with Shaolin Kung Fu, Tai Chi, Karate, Aikido, JiuJitsu,
> . Judo, Kendo, Bu****do, Ninjitsu, etc. Tai Chi came from
> . Shaolin Qigong, which also led to Acupuncture,
> . Acupressure and Falun Gong. As the chaos in society
> . grows, people need to feel they can protect themselves and
> . their loved ones, and in this way they are corrupted further.
>
> Christian Zen, Jewish Zen, Hindu Zen, Islamic Zen: These are
> . basically mixtures, wherein the monotheist believer in a
> . deity, feels they can practice Zen meditation without a
> . problem, since it is not theistic. While this reasoning is true,
> . it ignores the absolutely overwhelming corruption produced
> . by Zen, which will ultimately undermine their belief system
> . and every facet of their life, by bringing all of the negatives
> . in the Zen adherent's's daily life and environment to the
> . forefront, with increasing amplification and psychotic
> . effect.
>
> Nuremberg Zen: The widespread belief by a population, that
> . the purpose of the Buddha's advent in the world was to
> . teach Zen: that Zen is Buddhism. This is, of course, an
> . absolutely distorted view of the Buddha's life and teachings.
> . Shakyamuni made it transparently clear, at the very end of
> . his life in the Nirvana Sutra, wherein he states that the Lotus
> . Sutra is his highest teaching in the past, present and future,
> . and is the purpose of his advent on this Earth, and that his
> . followers should honestly discard provisional teachings
> . (teachings other than the Lotus Sutra).
> .
> . Nuremberg Zen was promulgated first by D.T. Suzuki's
> . work with Paul Carus, then by Eugen Herrigel's Zen in the
> . Art of Archery (and the many who copies: Zen in the Art
> . of Marketing, Sales, Bakery, etc.) and finally by Alan Watts,
> . the Norman Vincent Peale of Zen. Nuremberg Zen creates
> . the environment of chaos and widespread misery that are
> . the preconditions for the spread of more toxic forms of
> . Zen.
>
> Stanford Zen: This is the Lay organization of Zen. It was
> . developed in conjunction with the activities of Frederic
> . Spiegelberg, a Lutheran who taught theology at the
> . University of Dresden, and fleeing the effects of Nuremberg
> . Zen in Germany, came to teach at Stanford, and founded
> . the American Academy of Asian Studies with Alan Watts
> . and others, which became the California Institute of Integral
> . Studies, after it spawned Esalen with Richard Price and
> . Michael Murphy. Esalen was the proving ground for the
> . Large Group Awareness Therapy organizations, of which
> . Werner Erhard's EST was most prominent. EST morphed
> . into a business school executive training seminar
> . organization called the Landmark Forum, or Landmark
> . Education, which has now become the de facto Lay
> . organization for Zen, projecting itself onto Wall Street and
> . the Fortune 500.
>
> Green Dragon Zen: In this category I place Soto, which is the
> . parent of the Green Dragon Society, Rinzai, Fuke, Northern
> . and Southern Chinese Ch'an sects, Vietnamese and Korean
> . sects, and all the variant sects which practice the most toxic
> . forms of Zen: those which actually use the Lotus Sutra as a
> . means to promulgate their distorted views of Buddhism.
> . This is the greatest slander of the Lotus Sutra which is
> . possible. I lump them all under the Green Dragon banner
> . (I'm sure they do not appreciate this, but that is not a
> . concern), because Green Dragon has had a tradition of
> . secret propagation, and penetration of new areas with the
> . most aggressive intent to build a lasting foothold in every
> . society it touches. All of the other sects in any locale, will
> . 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
> . Occultists,Theology professors and educators, is at the
> . branching point for most of corrupt religious movements
> . of the world. This grandfather of this group is the occultist
> . Meister Eckart, and it includes: Dietrich Eckart (Thule
> . Society), Paul Carus (Open Court Publi****ng), Frederic
> . Spiegelberg (Stanford, AAAS), Michael Murphy (Esalen),
> . and a host of powerful media people, pundits, gurus and
> . self-help authors. They are all quite happy to connect you
> . up with some form of evil, but step back from
> . commitment themselves, always stopping at the door, as
> . you foolishly, trustingly pass through. In this way they
> . catalyze the evil transformation, but survive its effects to
> . 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 ________________________________________
>
> We know the basic story of D.T. Suzuki, and the fact that he had one
> face showing towards Japan's Imperial Way Zen, and a different face
> showing towards the West. And that, for obvious reasons, never the
> twain would meet.
>
> We know that he went to America as a young man, to accompany his
> master, the Rinzai priest Soyen Shaku, to LaSalle-Peru, Illinois, at
> the behest of Dr. Paul Carus, a German who was the managing editor of
> Open Court Publi****ng, which was owned by Zinc magnate Edward Hegeler.
>
> We know that he had a variety of collaborators, a flock of followers,
> and influenced many others:
>
> Collaborators in the propagation of Soyen Shaku (D.T.'s Master)-D.T.
> Suzuki Zen:
> Beatrice Lane (wife), Paul Carus, Edward Hegeler, Martin Heidegger,
> Frederic Spiegelberg, Father Thomas Merton, Alan Watts, Eric Fromm,
> Carl G. Jung, Richard de Martino, Karen Horney, and a grant from the
> Rockefeller Foundation to lecture extensively at Columbia University
> and other East Coast schools in the 1950's.
>
> Followers of Shaku-Suzuki Zen:
> John Cage, Jack Kerouac, Alan Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, and Philip
> Whalen.
>
> Those strongly affected by the Shaku-Suzuki Zen Influence:
> Aldous Huxley, Karl Jaspers, Arnold Toynbee, Gabriel Marcel, Herbert
> Read, and Lynn White Jr.
>
> ____ Toxic Zen Story ______________________________
>
> Father Thomas Merton was a fine person, with a humanism which presages
> the philosophy of Pope John Paul II, which attempts to derive ethical
> value based upon the definition of a "person". This creates a joining
> point, where those who feel that a "person" is from the source of the
> ultimate and divine, and those who do not. The qualities and
> definition of divinity, per se, also becomes less the focus, which is
> the enabler for the modern e***enical movement.
>
> His biography states (http://edge.net/~dphillip/Merton.html):
>
> | 'A monk and a prominent writer, Thomas Merton,
> | b. Prades, France, Jan. 31, 1915, d. Dec. 10,
> | 1968, became one of the most famous American
> | Roman Catholics of the 20th century. As a young
> | man Merton traveled with his artist parents (his
> | father was a New Zealander, his mother an
> | American) in France and studied briefly at
> | Cambridge University, England, before he went to
> | the United States and earned (1939) a master's
> | degree from Columbia University. During those
> | years he gradually changed from an agnostic to a
> | devout Roman Catholic. '
> |.
> | 'After teaching English for a while and
> | working in a Harlem settlement house, Merton
> | decided (1941) to become a monk, choosing the
> | Trappist order for its discipline of silence and
> | solitude. Within the monastery he served for
> | years as master of students and novices. Outside
> | it, his writing, which included poetry,
> | meditations, and works of social criticism,
> | brought him prominence in American letters. '
> |.
> | 'His autobiography, The Seven Storey Mountain
> | (1948), became a bestseller. Merton's social
> | criticisms burned deeply into public awareness of
> | racism, economic injustice, and militarism. '
>
> Father Thomas had a tough life filled with loss, and after much
> accomplishment in overcoming that loss, he had the ill fortune to gain
> inspiration from D.T. Suzuki and Zen. As his biography finishes the
> next year after meeting Dr. Suzuki:
>
> | 'Seeing parallels between Oriental mysticism
> | and Western tradition, Merton gained permission
> | to attend an e***enical conference of Buddhist
> | and Christian monks held in Bangkok, Thailand.
> | While attending that meeting, he was accidentally
> | electrocuted. '
>
> Even though there are many instances of the corruption of Christianity
> by Zen, it must be noted that the "Christian Zen" movement traces its
> origin to Father Thomas Merton in 1967.
> ___________________________________________________
>
> Here is a chronology of Father Thomas Merton's life (http://
> www.merton.org/chrono.htm):
>
> 1915 - January 31-born at Prades, France, son of Owen Merton (artist
> from New Zealand) and of Ruth Jenkins (artist from USA)
> 1916 - moved to USA, lived at Douglaston, L.I. (with his mother's
> family)
> 1921 - his mother dies-from cancer
> 1922 - in Bermuda with his father who went there to paint
> 1925 - to France with his father, lived at St. Antonin
> 1926 - entered Lycee Ingres, Montauban, France
> 1928 - to England-Ripley Court school, then to Oakham (1929)
> 1931 - his father dies of a brain tumor
> 1932 - at Oakham School he acquired a scholar****p to Clare College,
> Cambridge
> 1933 - visited Italy, spent summer in USA, entered Cambridge in the
> fall - study of modern languages (French and Italian)
> 1934 - left Cambridge and returned to USA
> 1935 - entered Columbia University
> 1937 - at Columbia - editor of the 1937 Yearbook and art editor of the
> Columbia Jester
> 1938 - graduated from Columbia, began work on M.A.
> 1938 - November 16 - received into the Catholic Church at Corpus
> Christi Church
> 1940 - 1941 - taught English at St. Bonaventure College
> 1941 - December 10-entered the Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani,
> Trappist, Kentucky.
> 1944 - March 19-made simple vows, published Thirty Poems
> 1946 - A Man in the Divided Sea
> 1947 - March 19-solemn vows, published Exile Ends in Glory
> 1948 - Publication of best-seller autobiography, The Seven Storey
> Mountain and What Are These Wounds?
> 1949 - May 26-ordained priest; Seeds of Contemplation; The Tears of
> the Blind Lions; The Waters of Siloe
> 1951 - 1955 - Master of Scholastics (students for priesthood)
> 1951 - The Ascent to Truth
> 1953 - The Sign of Jonas
> 1955 - No Man Is an Island
> 1955 - 1965 - Master of Novices
> 1956 - The Living Bread
> 1957 - The Silent Life; The Strange Islands
> 1958 - Thoughts in Solitude
> 1959 - The Secular Journal of Thomas Merton; Selected Poems
> 1960 - Disputed Questions; The Wisdom of the Desert
> 1961 - The New Man; The Behavior of Titans
> 1961 -Emblems of a Season of Fury; Life and Holiness; The Last of the
> Fathers
> 1964 - Seeds of Destruction
> 1965 - Gandhi on Non-Violence; The Way of Chuang Tzu; Seasons of
> Celebration
> 1965 - 1968 - lived as a hermit on the grounds of the monastery
> 1966 - Raids on the Unspeakable; Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander
> 1967 - Mystics and Zen Masters
> 1968 - Monks Pond; Cables to the Ace; Faith and Violence; Zen and the
> Birds of Appetite
> 1968 - December 10-died at Bangkok, Thailand, where he had spoken at a
> meeting of Asian Benedictines and Cistercians.
> ___________________________________________________
>
> I believe that many people were misled by Merton, to believe that Zen
> was now sanctified by the Church. E.G., it was OK for Christians to
> Zen meditate safely.
>
> People like Phil Jackson the basketball coach (Toxic Zen Story #3),
> and the Jesuits, Franciscans, Dominicans and Catholic priests around
> the world. Men who were charged with the protection of children, and
> without being able to control themselves, after centuries of a
> successful tradition, were now abusing children at a catastrophic
> rate. Seemingly competing with each other to outdo in perversion, and
> covering up for perversion and abuse at the expense of the victims.
>
> The change since Merton is an astoni****ng one.
>
> ____ 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).
>
> When you embrace the void, your initial intent to bring tranquility
> and enlightenment to your life doesn't matter ... the result is always
> the same: chaos and misery, and utter ruination and emptiness to you,
> your family, and your country.
>
> But things don't have to be that way ...
> ___________________________________________________
>
> Nichiren Daishonin writes (Encouragement to a Sick Person, WND p. 78):
>
> . "During the Former and Middle Days of the Law, the
> . five impurities began to appear, and in the Latter
> . Day, they are rampant. They give rise to the great
> . waves of a gale, which not only beat against the
> . shore, but strike each other. The impurity of
> . thought has been such that, as the Former and
> . Middle Days of the Law gradually passed, people
> . transmitted insignificant erroneous teachings
> . while destroying the unfathomable correct
> . teaching. It therefore appears that more people
> . have fallen into the evil paths because of errors
> . with respect to Buddhism than because of secular
> . 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, ..."
>
Please help me.
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