Bruce Lee's Class of '67 and Death by Black Hole: Physical Zen -*
Disappointing Zen Stories
Toxic Zen Story #7C: Physical Zen: Bruce Lee's Class of 1967 and Death
by Black Hole.
What kills you is the tidal force, when you get close enough to the
massive gravitational source, that one end of you (the closest) has a
greater gravitational force on it than the other end of you (the
farthest). So, at first you are divided into halves, then quarters,
then eighths, sixteenths, and so on. Finally, your molecules and atoms
are ripped into halves, lined up in a longish line pointing to and
away from the black hole.
Here's a picture of a supermassive black hole feasting on the heart of
a galaxy: http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0312/feature3/zoom2.html
The only question you need to answer, as you experience the tidal
division from a black hole you are apparently orbiting (after ignoring
copious warnings of trouble), is the following:
How big is this black hole in terms of mass?
For small black holes, the tidal effects are experienced outside of
the event horizon, from which even light cannot escape (and therefore
not yourself). So, if you hit the jets, there is hope of escape.
For massive black holes, when you feel the tidal pull, it is already
too late, and there is no escape.
____ Preface: Zen Founder _________________________________
Zen is the snake 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 Shining 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 banishing 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 document 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 shih), 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, Bushido, 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:
Fellowship 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 Publishing), 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 (ishin denshin). 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, Bushido and the Japanese
Martial Arts up to 1500 CE.
[Zen Cubed] Nobunaga, Hideyoshi 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, Bushido 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 Shinto, and Zen
becomes Imperial Way Zen. This ultimately leads to the crushing 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,
Bushido 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 ________________________________________
It is by patriarchal chain of Master-Disciple, that the Zen Mind is
transmitted in its most potently toxic form.
In the Buddhism of the Lotus Sutra, you make your mentor the Buddha's
highest teachings, but you learn sincere faith from a person. Mind of
the Buddha's highest teachings, heart of Sensei, but dedicated only to
the wonderful Law.
In Zen, you cast aside the Buddha's highest teachings, and lose your
faith in life and humanity , by subjugation to the mind of a master.
Mind of the master, heartless, and dedicated to the emptiness inherent
in life.
No other two ways of belief can possibly be more different than these.
Zen is most definitely NOT Buddhism, no matter how often Zen believers
quote the Lotus Sutra, like Dogen does to deceive the foolish.
_______________________________________________
All forms of the Martial Arts either derive directly from Shaolin Kung
Fu (by remote source or defilement), or were heavily changed by
contact with it (by mixing).
As Chuck Norris, the former kickboxing champion and television star
puts it, "All of the Martial Arts are based on Zen." To be specific:
Physical Zen.
When a karate blow is aimed at the head or body, the strongest force
is applied by imagining the target of the blow to be on the other side
of the strike zone: punching through the head or body. This means to
imagine that person as a void.
The greatest martial artist in history is thought by many to be the
swordsman Miyamoto Musashi. He won 60 bouts in his life, losing none.
At the end of his life he holed up (in a cave, some say) and wrote his
"A Book of Five Rings" (Go Rin No Sho). Many martial artists seek out
this book, to find the great slashing moves, like the shoulder to hip
cut with the katana.
Each seeker in turn is surprised to find nothing of the sort in
Musashi's book, it is merely a depiction of the four elements, air,
earth, fire, and water. And the fifth element, the void of the Zen
mind, which Zen believers use to replace the True Entity of All
Phenomena as the core reality of life. This slander of the Buddha's
teachings, by those identified as Buddhists, is the source of Zen
evil. It is possessed by every martial artist, such as the instructor
and 3 students who blew up the London Underground. "Zen is the
invention of the heavenly devil" - Nichiren Daishonin.
____ Toxic Zen Story ______________________________
Bruce Lee writes about Zen when he discusses liberating yourself from
classical karate, and moving up from that slander of the Law to the
greater slander of Jeet Kune Do. In his bio it states "In 1967, Bruce
opened a third school in Los Angeles and started to attract celebrity
students such as Steve McQueen, James Coburn, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and
Roman Polanski which he trained privately."
So, let's take a look at how the Jeet Kune Do - Roshi Bruce Lee -
Class of 1967 turned out.
____ 1967 Alumnus Number 1 - Steve McQueen ________________
Steve Mcqueen had really a flourishing career, before meeting Bruce
Lee and being trained by him, AND being his pallbearer at his funeral,
AND narrating his bio documentary twice, in 1973 and 1977. Steve
Mcqueen is the voice of the Bruce Lee Legacy.
. "If McQueen had attended the house of actress Sharon
. Tate as planned on August 9, 1969, instead of going on a
. date, he could have been murdered along with 5 others by
. the followers of Charles Manson." - Wikipedia.
So I guess the trace presence of Bruce-Lee-Zen from both Mcqueen and
Polanski [Tate's husband], at Sharon Tate's house was far too
attractive for the Manson Zombies to pass up. Of course, those who
toxify an environment are never present for the zombie-detox.
. "Chuck Norris taught Steve Mcqueen's son karate, and
. later Steve McQueen convinced Chuck to attend acting
. classes." - Wikipedia.
Ever the glutton for more punishment, Steve launches Bruce's successor
as well. LET HOLLYWOOD TAKE NOTE OF THIS: When a Zen Star is born, all
the mentors and supporters will wane and suffer greatly. And the
audience and the world at large suffers the most, ultimately, when the
box office gifts to evil subsequently undermine our lives.
So, Steve Mcqueen offered up his career as a sacrifice to the bright
new Zen Star (black hole) of Chuck Norris. And that was definitely an
unworthy replacement for our blue-eyed Cincinnati Kid.
After giving loyal service to his Zen Master and passing the baton to
his Zen Protege, Steve McQueen ended up transforming into a "Brian
Wilson"-style recluse and finished off dying far too young (50) from a
heart attack, while trying alternate therapies to cure his
mesothelioma (fast spreading cancer). So, the most loyal follower of
Roshi Bruce Lee is the first to die.
____ 1967 Alumnus Number 2. - James Coburn_________________
James Coburn had a flourishing career until meeting Bruce Lee.
. "However, he became associated with martial arts legend
. Bruce Lee and the two trained together, traveled
. extensively and even visited India scouting locations
. for a proposed film project, but Lee's untimely death
. (Coburn, along with Steve McQueen, was a pallbearer at
. Lee's funeral) put an end to that." - Wikipedia
After that, James Coburn contracted rheumatoid arthritis, which
happily ended his martial arts career and sadly ended his action movie
career, too. In the latter 1970s, it was all speaking parts, and the
1980s was dead for him. He made a comeback in the late 1990s and won
the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in "Affliction" in 1998.
But I guarantee you, that his rheumatoid arthritis was not allowing
him to practice his Jeet Kune Do !!!
As his remaining pallbearer, James Coburn was the second most loyal
follower of Bruce Lee's Class of '67, and so he was the second to die.
____ 1967 Alumnus Number 3. - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar _________
So, who's the greatest player in NBA history? Michael Jordan? Wilt
Chamberlain? Magic Johnson?
Who scored the most points in his career?
Well, he's a nearly forgotten man, by the name of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
. Statistics (Wikipedia)
.
. NBA Rookie of the Year (1970)
. Played on NBA champion teams (1971, 1980, 1982, 1985, 1987, 1988)
. NBA MVP (1971, 1972, 1974, 1976, 1977, 1980) (a record 6 times)
. NBA Finals MVP (1971, 1985)
. First player in NBA history to play 20 seasons
.
. * Jersey Number - 33
. * Points - 38,387 (highest in NBA history)
. * Minutes - 57,446 (highest in NBA history)
. * Field goals attempted - 28,307 (highest in NBA history)
. * Field goals made - 15,837 (highest in NBA history)
. * Games Played - 1560 (2nd highest in NBA history)
. * Field Goal % - 55.9 (8th highest)
. * Free Throw % - 75.1
. * Rebounds - 17,440 (3rd highest)
. * Rebounds per Game - 11.2 (25th highest)
. * Assists - 5660 (29th highest)
. * Steals - 1160
. * Steals per Game - .74
. * Blocks - 3189 (2nd highest)
. * Blocks per Game - 2.6
. * Points per Game - 24.6 (12th highest)
Kareem was a loyal disciple of Roshi Bruce Lee - Jeet Kune Do - Class
of 1967.
Jabbar also acted in the 1978 hacked up Bruce Lee movie "Game of
Death" where his character Hakim lost a death match to Bruce Lee's
character Billy Lo.
That's right, Abdul-Jabbar lost a fight and was killed by a dead man.
So, you'd think someone would remember this forgotten man, wouldn't
you?
Ah, but those final two statistics are ruling the end of his career.
More from the Wikipedia ...
. Retirement
.
. On June 28, 1989, after a record-setting twenty
. professional seasons, Jabbar announced his retirement.
.
. Coaching
.
. Abdul-Jabbar had been interested in coaching since his
. retirement, and given the influence he has had on the
. league, he had presumed that opportunities in that realm
. would come easily. However, during his playing years, he
. had developed a reputation of being introverted and
. sullen, often refusing to speak to the press, leading to
. the impression that he had nothing to say. It is widely
. believed, including by Abdul-Jabbar himself, though he
. acknowledges his own culpability in creating that
. impression, that this reputation has contributed greatly
. to the lack of coaching opportunities that have thus far
. been presented to him. Since he began lobbying for a
. coaching position in 1995, he has managed to obtain only
. low-level assistant and scouting positions in the NBA,
. and a head coaching position only in a minor
. professional league.
.
. He has worked as an assistant for the Los Angeles
. Clippers and the Seattle SuperSonics, helping mentor
. their young centers, Michael Olowokandi and Jerome
. James, respectively. Abdul-Jabbar was the head coach in
. 2002 of the Oklahoma Storm of the United States
. Basketball League (winning that league's championship
. that season), but he failed to get the head coaching
. position at Columbia University a year later. He then
. worked as a scout for the New York Knicks. Finally, on
. September 2, 2005, he returned to the Lakers as a
. special assistant to Phil Jackson [Zen Roshi] to help
. develop the team's young center Andrew Bynum. Abdul-
. Jabbar has also served as a volunteer coach at Alchesay
. High School on the Fort Apache Indian Reservation in
. Whiteriver, Arizona since 1998.
A person of astonishing ability like Abdul-Jabbar, is actually serving
as a "special assistant" to a weasel like Phil Jackson, who got his
job back with the Lakers by sticking it to the owner's daughter.
Holy crap.
At the end of Zen glory lies the void. But it doesn't have to end this
way, Kareem is still alive, unlike McQueen and Coburn, and he can
still find the Lotus Sutra, which is the only medicine powerful enough
to overcome the destructive momentum of Zen in one's life.
____ 1967 Alumnus Number 4. - Roman Polanski ______________
Truly, I tell you. What happens to these guys is not their fault, it
is merely their circumstances playing out.
The circumstances for these four is the presence of a major Law-
devouring hungry spirit, a Zen demon, perched perpetually upon their
shoulders driving them straight away from anything approaching
happiness and into hellishness. When they seek something good, it
eludes them. Or, for some reason they destroy it by "accident",
because they are minions to their own destroyer.
That black-eyed Zen demon is not visible, because it is a colony
entity of mind, with a birth back in the middle ages, and a death when
the last instance of it is finally eradicated. Zen wants to spread its
influence throughout the sea of humanity, and has a desire to
reproduce that makes a 16-year old athlete look like a tired old man.
"It" wants to live, and gloatingly feed on the sorrows and terror of
humanity. Zen is the sponsor and perpetrator of the eternal Holocaust.
A worthy opponent, yes?
Roman Polanski has artfully dodged the death blows that his life has
tried to deal him, through the agency of others and his own human
imperfections, while still courageously refusing to give in to his
fate. This is noble, but he can't last forever against the crushing
weight of his "passenger".
From the Wikipedia ...
. Polanski was born in Paris, France as Rajmund Roman
. Liebling to Ryszard Polanski (aka Ryszard Liebling), a
. Polish Jew, and Bula Polanska (née Katz), who was born
. in Russia to a Jewish father and Roman Catholic mother.
.
. In 1937 his family moved back to Poland, where they were
. eventually captured and imprisoned by the Nazis, along
. with millions of other Polish Jews. His mother died in
. an Auschwitz concentration camp, but Polanski avoided
. incarceration there, escaped the Kraków Ghetto and spent
. the war wandering the countryside of Europe.
The Nazi guard who let him "escape", sensed something ... that dwelt
in Roman's future ... something kindred.
More from Wikipedia ...
. He was educated at the film school in Lódz, Poland, from
. which he graduated in 1959. Polanski speaks six
. languages: Polish, Russian, English, French, Spanish,
. and Italian.
.
. Several short films made during the study gained
. considerable recognition. His first major film Knife in
. the Water (1962) was the first significant Polish film
. after the war that was not associated with the war
. theme. It was Polanski's first nomination for the Oscar.
.
. Polanski then made films in Britain; Repulsion (1965), a
. disturbing tale of madness and alienation; Cul-de-Sac
. (1966) is similar in tone to the plays of Samuel
. Beckett, telling the story of a couple living on a
. remote island (Donald Pleasence and Françoise Dorleac)
. who are visited by two gangsters (Lionel Stander and
. Jack MacGowran).
.
. The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967) is the American
. title for Dance of the Vampires, an unusual combination
. of comedy and horror. Polanski's visuals give the film
. the feeling of a fairy tale, and at the same time he
. continues to explore the darker side of human
. relationships. The director was not happy with the
. American version of the film, which was re-cut in
. addition to having its title changed.
What's missing from the Wikipedia ... is his metriculation with Bruce
Lee's Jeet Kune Do - Class of 1967, and the remarkable transformation
of his life into something far more dramatic and far less pleasant.
The "mind-to-mind" transfer between Ch'an/Zen master and disciple
(called "Isshin Denshin" in Japanese), is like a forceful insemination
and a horrific pregnancy. Roman's baby was about to enter the world,
screaming bloody murder.
At the same time, Roman met an angel. Someone so perfect, who loved
him enough to step into the path of his fate.
More from Wikipedia ...
. Relationship with Sharon Tate
.
. Polanski met rising star Sharon Tate while filming The
. Fearless Vampire Killers and during their time together
. doing the film they began dating. In 1968 Polanski went
. to Hollywood, where his reputation was enhanced by the
. success of the sophisticated psychological thriller
. Rosemary's Baby (1968), based on Ira Levin's book of the
. same name, about a woman (Mia Farrow) who discovers she
. is pregnant with Satan's baby. On January 25, 1968, he
. married Tate in London, England.
.
. On August 9, 1969, Tate, who was eight months pregnant,
. and four others (Abigail Folger, Jay Sebring, Wojciech
. Frykowski, and Steven Parent) were brutally murdered by
. members of Charles Manson's "Family", who entered the
. Polanski home on Cielo Drive in the Hollywood Hills with
. the intention that they would "kill everyone there".
. Distraught and heartbroken, Polanski returned to Europe
. shortly after the killers were arrested.
.
. ...
.
. Polanski has said that the greatest regret he has about
. his life was not being at his home on Cielo Drive when
. Sharon Tate and the others were murdered. Polanski
. dedicated the movie Tess to Sharon Tate. After spending
. time with Polanski in London, Tate left a copy of the
. book, along with a note saying it would make a good film,
. on Polanski's nightstand. She returned to the United
. States and was murdered soon after.
Roman absorbs this death blow, but somehow he does not die. He goes
back to work and makes more movies: Macbeth (1971), What? (1972),
Chinatown (1974) and The Tenant (1976).
Now it's 1977, and Roman's baby is ten years old. Like any ten-year
old, the inner child is mischievous and troublesome.
More from Wikipedia ...
. Pleaded guilty to statutory rape of 13-year-old girl
.
. In 1977 Polanski, 43, became embroiled in a scandal
. involving a 13-year-old girl, Samantha Geimer, that
. eventuated with Polanski's guilty plea on statutory rape
. charges. Polanski was initially charged with rape,
. suspicion of sodomy, child molestation and furnishing
. alcohol to a minor, but these charges were dismissed.
. The grand jury transcript describes the alcohol it is
. alleged that Polanski supplied before engaging in oral,
. vaginal and anal sex on the girl. (In Roman by Polanski,
. Polanski alleged that the mother had set up the daughter
. as part of a casting couch and blackmail scheme against
. him.) It was alleged that the director drugged her with
. quaaludes and alcohol, during a "photo shoot", and then
. proceeded to have sexual intercourse with her at the
. empty Hollywood Hills home of actor Jack Nicholson. The
. sister of the girl overheard her describing this to her
. friend over the phone, and the mother reported the
. incident to the police. After being indicted and
. spending 45 days in psychiatric evaluation, Polanski
. fled the United States for Paris when it seemed that the
. judge would not honour his plea bargain deal for no
. prison sentence.
.
. A fugitive from the United States
.
. On February 1, 1978, after pleading guilty to the
. charges, Polanski skipped bail and fled to France on
. learning that the judge was going to disregard the plea
. bargain and that he (Polanski) could be sentenced to as
. much as 50 years in prison. France has a policy not to
. extradite its own citizens, which is reflected in the
. extradition treaty between France and the United States.
. As a consequence, American requests of extradition could
. not be heeded. It was possible for the US government to
. request Polanski's prosecution by the French
. authorities. (The Washington Post, February 3, 1978).
. However US authorities chose not to avail themselves
. of this possibility, because the French have
. traditionally been unwilling to return U.S. criminals.
.
. The United States could still request the arrest and
. extradition of Polanski from other countries, should he
. visit them, mostly travelling between France and Poland.
. As a consequence, Polanski has since avoided visits to
. countries that were likely to extradite him, such as the
. United Kingdom.
So, Roman's life is cut in half by the Mansons, and then his world is
divided in half by his own mistakes catching up with him. Still, he
will not give in to fate, and even fights back against injustice,
under impossible conditions.
More from Wikipedia ...
. Vanity Fair libel case
.
. In 2004, Polanski sued Vanity Fair magazine in London
. for libel. A 2002 article in the magazine written by A.
. E. Hotchner recounted a claim by Lewis Lapham, editor of
. Harper's, that Polanski had made sexual advances towards
. a young model as he was travelling to Sharon Tate's
. funeral, claiming that he could make her "the next
. Sharon Tate". Unusually, he was permitted to provide
. evidence over a video link, after expressing fears that
. he might be extradited were he to enter the United
. Kingdom. The trial started on July 18, 2005, and
. Polanski made English legal history as the first
. claimant to give evidence by video link. During the
. trial, which included the testimonies of Mia Farrow and
. others, it was proved that the alleged scene at the
. famous New York restaurant Elaine's could not possibly
. have taken place on the date given, because Polanski
. only dined at this restaurant three weeks later. Also,
. the Norwegian then-model disputed the accounts that he
. had claimed to be able to make her "the next Sharon
. Tate".
.
. Polanski was awarded £50,000 damages by the High Court
. in London. Graydon Carter, editor of Vanity Fair,
. responded "I find it amazing that a man who lives in
. France can sue a magazine that is published in America
. in a British courtroom" while Samantha Geimer commented
. "Surely a man like this hasn't got a reputation to
. tarnish?"
So, far, even though he is being consumed slowly by this thing he
cannot escape, Roman has not stopped fighting on his way down the
well: Tess (1979), Pirates (1986), Frantic (1988), and The Ninth Gate
(1999).
He received the Cannes' Golden Palm for the "The Pianist". He received
the Directing Academy Award for "The Pianist" in 2002, which he could
not pick up personally, staving off a potential 50-year prison term.
Like all the Alumni of the Bruce Lee's Class of 1967, Polanski's life
has been literally ripped into pieces, over and over.
So what's going on, here?
____ Death by Black Hole __________________________________
In Neil deGrasse Tyson's book (title above), he describes that it is
not the gravitational pull during free fall into a black hole that
kills you, should this unfortunate event occur to a person.
[This was also described graphically in Larry Niven's 1967 (oddly
enough) Hugo Award-winning science fiction short story "Neutron Star".
So this method of death is also available by neutron stars.]
What kills you is the tidal force, when you get close enough to the
massive gravitational source, that one end of you (the closest) has a
greater gravitational force on it than the other end of you (the
farthest). So, at first you are divided into halves, then quarters,
then eighths, sixteenths, and so on. Finally, your molecules and atoms
are ripped into halves, lined up in a longish line pointing to and
away from the black hole.
Here's a picture of a supermassive black hole feasting on the heart of
a galaxy: http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0312/feature3/zoom2.html
The only question you need to answer, as you experience the tidal
division from a black hole you are apparently orbiting (after ignoring
copious warnings of trouble), is the following:
How big is this black hole in terms of mass?
For small black holes, the tidal effects are experienced outside of
the event horizon, from which even light cannot escape (and therefore
not yourself). So, if you hit the jets, there is hope of escape.
For massive black holes, when you feel the tidal pull, it is already
too late, and there is no escape.
In the Three Existences of life, (the Buddhist term for the eternal
moment of Past, Present and Future), all four of the Alumni of Bruce
Lee's Jeet Kune Do Class of 1967 are still in orbit around their
master's life. If the two survivors can find their way to the Lotus
Sutra and practice it, they can still escape death by black hole.
Only escape proves that you were not within the event horizon.
In the same way that the White Lotus is a physical metaphor conceived
to resemble closely many of the characteristics of the entity of the
mystic Law (at the heart of the Lotus Sutra) ... the black hole is a
physical metaphor for a misleading issendai/icchantika who distorts
Buddhism into Nembutsu, Zen, Shingon, or Precepts "Buddhism".
Falling into the orbit of one of these evil doers will bring you up
close and personal with the tidal force of evil and the function of
recursive dividing.
However, while there is life ... there is hope.
____ 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 and even become its champion, in that moment
you create an emptiness in your future. Each time you embrace the void
again, that emptiness grows.
But it doesn't have to be ...
__________________________________________________________
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, ..."
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.
. a prescription for the poisoned ones:
.
. The only antidote for the toxic effects of Zen in your life ...
.
. be that from Zen meditation, or the variant forms: physical
. Zen in the martial arts, Qigong, Acupuncture, Falun Gong,
. Copenhagen Convention of Quantum Mechanics, EST,
. Landmark Education, Nazism, Bushido, the Jesuits,
. Al Qaeda, or merely from having the distorted view that life
. is acausal, and that the true entity of all phenomena
. is the void ...
.
. with the effects of the loss of loved ones, detachment,
. isolation or various forms of emptiness in your life ...
.
. is the Lotus Sutra: chant Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo
. at least 3 times, twice a day, for the rest of your life,
. in at least a whisper ...
.
. and if you can, chant abundantly in a resonant voice !!!
.
. Nichiren Daishonin's Gosho and the
. SGI Dictionary of Buddhism are located at:
.
http://www.sgilibrary.org/writings.php
http://www.sgilibrary.org/dict.html
.
. The full 28 Chapters of the Lotus Sutra (and many other
. wonderful things) are online at the SGI website:
.
http://sgi-usa.org/buddhism/library/Buddhism/LotusSutra/
.
. To find an SGI Community Center:
.
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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