Up From Zen III: Parking a Killer Asteroid: Roshi Phil Jackson and the Zen Lakers Sneak Attack on the Obama White House, looming in early 2010.
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Zen Lakers Sneak Attack on the Obama White House, looming in early
2010.
____ The News ______________________________________________
Once again, the brutal lesson of what happens when you uphold the Zen
man is demonstrated for all to see and hopefully, learn from that
negative example.
The last lesson learned was from John Edwards, whose campaign support
centered on the "Mystic River" boys (Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Kevin
Bacon, and Laurence Fishburne, who meditated every night at the Boston
Zen center during the filming of Mystic River). His career, his public
life, and his family have been dragged through the mud due to that
association: complicity with making zen fashionable or acceptable is
the cause for raising demons in your life, both inside and outside.
Now we have a new negative example.
Mike Huckabee was a star on the political right, and had cornered the
evangelical right in the Iowa caucases and the Southern stretch of the
the early primaries. But his biggest supporter was roundhouse-kicking
Zen man Chuck Norris ("All of the martial arts are based on Zen" -
Chuck Norris), the famous martial arts star and promoter of that
Christian Zen practice.
Mike Huckabee unblushingly worshipped the Zen man, as shown by this
article in the Washington Post (11/18/2007):
.. Huckabee's First Ad is 'Chuck Norris Approved'
..
.. Mike Huckabee starts airing the first ad of his
.. presidential campaign this week, and it co-stars one of
.. his biggest (meanest?) supporters: Chuck Norris.
..
.. The star of the TV's "Walker, Texas Ranger" and movie
.. classics like "Top Dog," "The Delta Force," and
.. "Slaughter in San Francisco," among others, recently
.. announced his support for Huckabee, saying the former
.. governor is "The David among them."
..
.. The ad debuted this morning during an interview with
.. Huckabee on "Fox News Sunday." The former governor said
.. he hopes the ad will increase interest in his campaign,
.. by convincing folks to visit his Web site to learn more.
.. He also acknowledged the goofy nature of the ad is meant
.. to remind Americans that a presidential campaign can
.. also be fun.
..
.. The 60-second "Chuck Norris Approved" commercial show
.. Huckabee and Norris going back and forth on various
.. "facts" about the two men.
..
.. "Mike Huckabee is a life-long hunter, who will protect
.. our Second Amendment rights," Norris says.
..
.. "There's no chin behind Chuck Norris' beard, only
.. another fist," Huckabee says.
..
.. "Mike Huckabee wants to put the IRS out of business,"
.. Norris says.
..
.. "When Chuck Norris isn't lifting himself up, he's
.. pushing the earth down," Huckabee says. "Chuck Norris
.. doesn't endorse, he tells America how it's gonna be," he
.. adds.
..
.. Various reports says Huckabee has already shot other TV
.. ads that are expected to air closer to Jan. 3, 2008, the
.. date of the Iowa Caucus.
..
.. -- Ed O'Keefe
Now, we see that the demon he raised in his life through those evil
causes has produced more than just his political defeat by a man who
was unpopular in the Republican Party, John McCain.
The young Maurice Clemmons, who was 16 years old when he was sentenced
to 108 years, but who had already served 10 years of hard time in
Arkansas State when Governor Huckabee compassionately commuted his
sentence to time served, has repaid that compassion by ending
Huckabee's political career.
Clemmons recently murdered 4 police officers in cold blood for merely
spotting his gun in a cafe in Washington state, and was then cut down
by an officer who spotted him in his car after a massive manhunt.
Conservatives, who used Willy Horton's commutation to crush Governor
Michael Dukakis of Massachusetts in his 1988 run for the Presidency
against George H. W. Bush, will not have any sympathy for Huckabee.
Huck is wriggling on the hook, but he is dead, dead, dead: <http://
www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/12/03/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry5879156.shtml>.
Zen complicity is most immediately fatal for the friends and admirers
of Zen. Meanwhile, the Zen man goes on and on, wreaking havoc in the
lives of those who uphold him, until that black hole has consumed all
of those stars who would come into his orbit. Chuck Norris got his
start in the movies with the help of Steve McQueen, and we saw what
happened to him. Norris has left a long trail of destruction behind
him. Who will be Chuck's next buddy? [Ultimately, of course, cause and
effect rules the world, and Chuck Norris will spend countless
existences in hell, unless he chants the daimoku of the Lotus Sutra
before his exit from this life.]
Consigning Edwards and Huckabee's political careers to the ash heap of
history, Barack Obama's future now precariously hangs in the balance,
but disaster still might be averted.
A killer asteroid, if its destructive orbital path is determined early
enough, can be moved from that orbit and parked in a "safe orbit". The
best way to do that, is to continuously apply small amounts of force
along a long stretch of its path, such that the destination slowly
moves away from the danger zone. Then, you continue this process,
until the asteroid is "parked" in an orbit that is permanently stable
and safe, and will never conceivably be perturbed back to cross paths
with the danger zone.
Now that Zen Roshi Phil Jackson and the Zen Lakers have acquired their
fully lethal state as NBA champions with the potential of becoming a
Zen dynasty or a basketball Zen legend, the only component that is
missing for an utter disaster to occur is a White House visit, or even
a Presidential recognition of the fact that Phil Jackson has become
the winningest professional basketball coach in history, surpassing
Red Auerbach.
As was noted previously, this precarious state of affairs began in
June, with the Presidential phone call to the NBA victors, and Obama's
astonishing slide into political hell can be traced back to that
point. Also noted, was the continuing series of celebrity deaths that
kept the victors off of the the front pages and out of the news. This
"parade of compassion" prevented some of the worst from happening to
the nation, the state of California and Los angeles, but much that is
truly bad has happened to the White House.
Now, the Zen Lakers and Jackson threaten again with the perennial
visit of the NBA champions of last year to the White House early in
the next year (timed to promote the NBA as the football season winds
down), which should happen some time in January.
Barack Obama's "Achilles' heel" is his worship of NBA teams and stars,
as a wannabe basketball player who never had the time, or frankly,
that elite ability to play the game at the top. He can, however (like
many who have a minor gift and follow teams, yearning for that kind of
recognition), play the sports analyst and make predictions about
matchups and how the season and the playoffs will wind down and end
up. Making public prognostications about the Lakers' triumph last year
was the beginning of the end of Barack Obama's honeymoon as President.
Not a wise way to spend your political capital, I mean, what do you
get out of it?
It's not his fault, however, he is being set up by the forces of evil
for a tragic ending on center stage. The fact that a couple with a
Pakistani name waltzed into the White House last week to a state
department dinner, sans invitation, gives an early indicator of how
this will play out. It's like 9/11 (after the Laker's last visit to
the White House in early 2001): everyone will be looking the other way
when the devastation arrives, clearing the way for it.
Don't get me wrong, the Lakers were not the only slander of the Law
going in 2001, the list is long and gruesome. But the Lakers are
bigger and more historic and legendary now, and that makes the evil
recognition of them more potent for Barack Obama, personally. The
mitigating factor here will be the presence of the grandmother of the
girls, the wonderful Marion Robinson, who loves them so much that she
will, without a doubt, join the parade (I have similarly lost my
beloved family through these same kinds of mistakes). Like a canary in
the mineshaft, her passing will foreshadow what's coming, but will not
stop it.
Barack, now deeply in a slide will be seeking, like Los Angeles Mayor
Villaraigosa was when Kobe Bryant refused to get on the parade float
with him saying, "I'm not going to let him pimp my popularity! - from
HispanicBusiness.com", to get a piece of the Lakers' victory and
limelight. And Zen will be generous to the President, have no doubt.
Zen will really, really be happy to share that spotlight of doom with
our last best hope to save the nation from the greedy Philistines who
wish to devour it.
And that will just about do it, for the United States of America.
There is still time, however, to forestall what seems to be a
hopelessly over-determined outcome and a powerful demon that cannot be
denied.
The only hope is that those who care about this need to chant the
daimoku of the Lotus Sutra, the "Lion of sutras", Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo
for the inevitable not to happen, every day until that moment, to park
the Jackson/Lakers' Killer Asteroid in a "safe orbit":
1. To never cross paths with Barack Obama.
2. To never enter the White House again.
3. To never receive another public tribute from the President.
Frankly, it is inconceivable for these three to actually happen, and I
don't know how this freight train to hell can possibly be halted.
And yet, that is what I chant for every day, to exert my small force
against this great evil.
Once again, I defer to your enlightened wisdom, as to the course our
collective path will take.
-Chas. (who stepped up from Zen)
____ Previously ... ________________________________________
____ The News ______________________________________________
The flurry of celebrity deaths appears to have ceased after the
architect of the Vietnam War former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara,
the murder-suicide of Tennessee Titans quarterback Steve McNair by his
girlfriend, and finally the most trusted man in America, Walter
Cronkite. So, Phil Jackson's premiere status is no longer newsworthy,
until the upcoming White House visit of Zen Roshi Jackson and his
disciples early next year (if they stick to the schedule of recent
years).
Cause and effect have, as of the beginning of June, come to visit
Barack Obama. In the run-up to the NBA finals in June, the President
picked Laker Zen to be triumphant, and this was a fateful choice
(never, ever uphold Zen). Then the obligatory and congratulatory
winning team phone call from the President.
After that evil cause, everything changed for Barack Obama. Before, he
had a magical effect on every difficult issue, Obama was the trump
card, the go-to guy for the White House. Now, every time he speaks on
Health Care, his polls drop. He has a different aspect, it is in his
face on the screen, and he can't shake it.
People curse him, they paint Hitler (a truly Tantric-Zen-corrupted
person, an unfair comparison, but not accidental) mustaches on his
pictures, and they call him a Nazi (it's clearly not rational to
depict a person the Nazis would instantly send to the crematory, as a
Nazi).
Why this sudden change from "the One" to "der Fuhrer"?
The toxicity of Zen is a cruel lesson for those in public life, and
there are four outcomes to this:
(1.) Obama can double down and become a devout Zen believer himself (a
disciple of Roshi Jackson, the vampire who infected him). Then the
whole world will change, like California did under Jerry Brown and his
Prop 13 appendage, but this will not be for the better. Let's call
this the "Jackson Option". [or the disaster movie to end all disaster
movies]
(2.) Obama can make a mortally wounded retreat into the White House
with his Christianity, but he will become a hated and tragic figure,
like George W. Bush. Bush was at the height of his popularity before
the Lakers visit in early 2002, and then he made a drastic change in
direction. The pursuit of Bin Ladin, Zawahiri and Mullah Omar of the
Taliban, who murdered 3000 Americans (and 3 SGI members) was
abandoned, and instead Iraq was attacked ... well you know how that
turned out. Wearing the Lakers' Presidential "jersey of great Zen
victory" has a powerful effect on Presidents.
What fatal blunder will become Barack's undoing in this case? Hard to
say. So far, the economy looks like it will turn around, the storm of
hatred by the right and the independents can be overcome with a 51-
vote reconciliation majority in the Senate to pass the desperately
needed Government Plan, continue the Recovery Plan and the Economic
Plan and bring home the Climate Bill. Of course, all of this will
change early next year, when it comes time to don the dreaded jersey.
Let's call this the "Bush Option".
(3.) Obama can react protectively to this lesson and cancel the White
House visit by the Lakers. Instead, the White House announces that the
President will visit Los Angeles and meet the Lakers and Jackson in
the Los Angeles Mayor's Office.
You know, like Kobe in the parade recently, [ ... apparently did not
want to share the spotlight with Villaraigosa, who had considered
running for governor. Villaraigosa wanted a photo op with Bryant, but
Bryant refused to get on the float if Villaraigosa was there.
According to a report at www.nbclosangeles.com, Kobe was witnessed
saying, "I'm not going to let him pimp my popularity!" - from
HispanicBusiness.com]
At the last minute the President is called away, and the meet is done
with a staffer. Not to be re-scheduled. [You might think this would
hurt his popularity, but it would be his "Sister Soulja" moment, and
he would rebound from it.]
Of course avoiding the slander does not change the previous slander,
that aspect now present in Obama's face will slowly diminish, but will
never go away completely. Obama's great purity of spirit, which
previously swayed the crowds is now spoiled and he can only sway those
loyal supporters longingly clinging to the memory of it. Let's call
this the "Carter Option". [Jimmy Carter, that is.]
(4.) This choice would be a variation of the "Carter Option" (#3),
let's call this the "Obama Option". After avoiding the fresh slander
of the Law created by a White House visit and the donning of the
Lakers' jersey, Obama would then have to chant Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo to
actually undo the effects of evil causes already made that cannot be
recalled. This can be done privately (without anyone ever knowing). I
call this the "Obama Option" because he can come back to himself, and
far, far better than that.
That would be my suggestion for the White House future event planning.
Furthermore, I encourage all those afflicted with poisoning from the
Tantric Zen Precepts Heavenly Way (Tendo) ... to read the section
called "Up From Zen", below. to avoid ending up tied in knots in a
closet somewhere in Asia. If your true self cannot get your attention
and change your ways in any other manner, you too can make an example
of yourself, to point the way, by negation. That compassionate self-
sacrifice can be avoided, however, anytime up until the bitter end.
Once again, I defer to your enlightened wisdom, as to the course our
collective path will take.
-Chas. (who stepped up from Zen)
____ Previously ... ________________________________________
____ The News ______________________________________________
So, let's review the news from just before the Laker's Zen triumph,
and since...
1. There was the saga of David Letterman vs. Sarah Palin's daughters,
then the savage and distorting counter-attacks and finally Letterman's
abject apology and defense against the street protesters, which all
served to steal scads of viewers from the Tonight Show the week after
the victory, when Bryant and Jackson were toxifying Conan O'Brien.
2. There was the Iranian Green Revolution: first the fraudulent
election and then the and challenge to it becoming an insurgency, the
crushing of the Greens and the death of Neda, and now things settling
into a prolonged and desperate political battle behind the scenes
between completely tarnished and arrogantly power-hungry Ayatollahs
and theocratic councils, who are now exposed publicly as such, for the
first time to the Iranian people.
3. There was the ceaseless saga of the love story of the initially
absent Appalachian hiker during Father's Day, Governor Sanford of
South Carolina and sometimes Argentina. He seems to be compulsively
continuing the story, for ... some reason.
4. The deaths of Ed McMann, Farrah Fawcett, and Michael Jackson. They
all seemed to rush in to fill the news gap at the same time, beating
out Billy Mays and Karl Malden (BTW, have you seen his 3rd movie with
Marlon Brando, "One-Eyed Jacks" ? It is not to be missed, if you like
downbeat westerns.)
5. And tonight, Sarah Palin resigned as Governor.
I think the rush in celebrity deaths and crises will continue, since
averting the gaze of humanity from the prominent rise of the Zen men
of the Lakers is a compassionate act, worthy of a Buddha. Obliterating
any visibility of that evil takes the kind of compassionate unity of a
determined group: many in body and yet one in mind of faith, known as
itai doshin in the Buddhism of the Lotus Sutra. That explains the
surge in the news cycle: they are all Buddhas not begrudging their
lives in their protection of the Law.
On the July 1st USA Today front page, all the top stories were above
the fold, on the left column, Governor Sanford's latest emotional out
pour, on the center, Farrah Fawcett's funeral and Michael Jackson's
family struggles, on the right column, the continued political power
struggle in Iran. (No room for Zen.)
Crowded off the front page are the continuing struggles of Nevada's
staff-cuckolding and blackmailed Senator John Ensign, and the Gordian
Knot of New York State representative politics.
These headline-stealing and news-cycle-obliterating events are all
temporary in their effects, although as Keith Olberman of MSNBC's
Countdown says of the Michael Jackson story, "This carnival's going to
be in town for a long, long time." I would make the case that it is a
carnival of compassion, because of its obliteration of any chance of
Phil Jackson and the Lakers getting the news cycle back until the NBA
victory and his big accomplishment are simply too old to be
newsworthy. (Daimoku works, and I am grateful to any of those chanting
to save the country from this scourge.)
As host to the Lakers, the Mayor of Los Angeles demonstrated, in
microcosm, the toxic effects of his official contact with Phil
Jackson's star power: as the Lakers went to the playoffs and their
impending victory loomed, the city's reaction to the toxin became
prominent: here are three stories that show the political slide that
the mayor of a city celebrating a Zen star's rise will suddenly
encounter ... (for reference on the dates, the Laker's victory was on
Sunday June 14th and the victory parade hosted by the City of Los
Angeles was on Wednesday June 17th)
.. ________________________
..
.. The mayor of Los Angeles
..
.. Down and perhaps in
.. Jun 18th 2009 | LOS ANGELES
.. From The Economist print edition
..
.. Will Antonio Villaraigosa run for governor of
.. California?
..
.. TO JUDGE from magazine covers, things look bad for
.. Antonio Villaraigosa, the mayor of Los Angeles, who is
.. still deciding whether to run for governor of California
.. next year. On Newsweek’s cover in 2005, after he became
.. mayor in a landslide victory, the title was “A Latin
.. Power Surge”. The cover of Los Angeles magazine this
.. month said simply “Failure”.
.. ___________________________________
..
.. Villaraigosa won't run for governor
..
.. The decision may help possible Democratic candidate
.. Jerry Brown more than Gavin Newsom, experts say.
..
.. By Phil Willon, Maeve Reston and Cathleen Decker
.. June 23, 2009
..
.. Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's decision Monday
.. to skip the 2010 race for California governor left a
.. two-person contest for the Democratic nomination in
.. which former Gov. Jerry Brown starts with a strong
.. advantage in scooping up much of the mayor's support,
.. political analysts said.
.. ____________________________________________
..
.. Is L.A. Big Enough for Kobe Bryant and Mayor
.. Villaraigosa?
..
.. June 30, 2009
.. HispanicBusiness.com Staff
..
..
.. Is Los Angeles not big enough for Los Angeles Lakers
.. star Kobe Bryant and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa?
..
.. The two stars of L.A. sports and politics are apparently
.. locked in very public feud that escalated last week
.. after Bryant snubbed the mayor.
..
.. Bryant, according to multiple news reports, was in a
.. huff because Villaraigosa wanted to hop on the victory
.. float alongside Bryant during last week's downtown
.. victory parade.
..
.. Bryant, whose ego clash with Shaquille O'Neal forced the
.. center out of Los Angeles, apparently did not want to
.. share the spotlight with Villaraigosa, who had
.. considered running for governor. Villaraigosa wanted a
.. photo op with Bryant, but Bryant refused to get on the
.. float if Villaraigosa was there.
..
.. According to a report at www.nbclosangeles.com, Kobe was
.. witnessed saying, "I'm not going to let him pimp my
.. popularity!"
..
.. The two eventually jumped on the float - but not
.. together.
..
.. Later, Kobe purportedly refused to shake Villaraigosa's
.. hand.
.. _______________________________________________________
Is that a shockingly sudden fall from the heights for Antonio
Villaraigosa, or what? The June cover of Los Angeles Magazine has his
picture and is labeled "Failure", his campaign for Governor is kaput
and he can't even get on the float with a bloated egotist who bounces
a ball for a living: all in 2 weeks.
I wonder if the White House will allow Bryant, Jackson and their
buddies to "pimp Obama's popularity" in the planned visit to the White
House early next year? Considering their treatment of a solid Obama
supporter, his honor the Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa of Los Angeles, I
would hope the Lakers and Zen don't get to hitch a ride on the oval
office "float".
Of course when they show up, they will show up with the same lame
Laker's team jersey they gave George W. Bush after the 2001 victory.
Maybe they will change the number, like #2 for Obama instead of W's
#1.
____ Coming Attractions ____________________________________
So, what will happen to California? Fires, mudslides, earthquakes? Or
simply going broke in a few days: the State is now writing IOUs
instead of checks for payroll. (Do the Payday cash advance companies
take IOUs from California? Who are these firms typically donating to,
politically?)
Isn't Washington's response to this fiscal disaster enlightening? In
the White House Press Briefing each day when asked what the government
was going to do to prevent the massive job loss in California, which
could destroy the recovery and make the stimulus a failure, Robert
Gibbs, the White House Press Secretary, states "We are monitoring the
situation." A telling comment. Let me explain it.
Zen is in and of itself, the very destruction of compassion.
After committing a major Zen slander such as this, and falling into
the massive void as a direct result of that slander, all pleas for
help will be ignored, precisely because the compassion of others for
the offender has been extinguished by that slander. This is simply the
simultaneity of cause and effect.
Above all else, any surprise at this turn of events ... is really an
insult to the Buddhist Law and the Lotus Sutra that you just attacked.
Particularly now that I've pointed out the connection between cause
(Grave slander of the Law) and effect (Disaster).
The Administration in Washington knows that all of this is due to
Proposition 13 and its effects on the State Government of California
guaranteeing the massive amplification of already impossible fiscal
problems. Prop 13, by the way, arrived at the same time as our first
Zen Governor, Jerry Brown. He first fought and then accepted it. Now,
he has received Phil Jackson's help in clearing Villaraigosa out of
the field in the Governor's race, so that he can preside over the
final triumph of Zen over the late, great, state of California where
his father (Pat Brown) constructed many of the state's greatest
institutions. Jerry's initial Zen practice as a young man undermined
his father and ultimately that brought down his father's
administration and propelled Ronald Reagan into prominence.
I wonder what wonders Jerry ("small is beautiful") Brown will bring
forth this time? Think BIG and UGLY.
____ A Straw Mountain Perched On A Weary Camel ____________
Of course, Phil Jackson and the Lakers are not California's only Zen
malady. They are simply the last straw (and a large one) that comes at
a time when critical mass has nearly been achieved for a real
disaster.
California has many prominent Tantric Zen singularities, whose
combined influence is sinking the state into a massive black hole:
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Soto Zen (seated meditation) practitioners include:
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Phil Jackson and some of his Zen Lakers,
Jerry Brown the Attorney General whose opposition to Prop 8 guaranteed
its passage and Supreme Court victory,
Nina Hartley (porn queen, AKA 'Anal Annie'),
Zenkei Blanche Hartman (Nina's mom, Abbess of the San Francisco Zen
Center),
Sojun Mel Weitsman (Blanche's Zen master, Abbot of the Berkeley Zen
Center),
Shunryu Suzuki-Roshi (Blanche's other Zen master, founder of San
Francisco Zen Center, Green Gulch Farm in Marin and the Tassajara Zen
Mountain Center in Carmel Valley)
Larry Ellison of Oracle LIVES inside a Zendo,
Jim Carrey,
Steve Jobs of Apple,
Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys,
Sean Penn + Tim Robbins + Kevin Bacon + Laurence Fishburne (who
meditated every night at the Boston Zen center during the filming of
Mystic River),
Clint Eastwood (their director),
Werner Erhard [founder of EST and Landmark Forum: "Landmark Forum is
basically EST, and EST is basically Zen" (2002) - Gary Randall, a
Landmark Forum leader in the Bay Area]
Michael Murphy + Richard Price(d.) + George Leonard (Erhard's teachers
at the Esalen Institute)
Frederic Speigelberg(d.) of Stanford University + Alan Watts(d.) +
D.T. Suzuki(d.) (Murphy and Price's teachers at the American Academy
of Asian Studies in San Francisco)
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Martial artist movie-makers (many producing psychotic physical Zen
thrillers) include:
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Bruce(d.) and Brandon(d.) Lee,
Steve McQueen(d.) + James Coburn(d.) + Kareem Abdul-Jabbar + Roman
Polanski (Bruce Lee's students at his Los Angeles Jeet Kune Do school
in 1967)
Steven Seagal,
Chuck Norris (quote: "- all the martial arts are based on Zen."),
Jackie Chan,
Jet Li (he's the worst, glowing darkly),
Chow Yun Fat + Mira Sorvino + Ang Lee (Crouching, Replacements),
Tom Cruise (Last Samurai),
Richard Gere + Louis Gossett Jr. (An Officer...),
Sharon Stone (Total Recall),
Jennifer Garner (Alias, Elektra),
Brad Pitt + Angelina Jolie (the Smiths, Wanted, many others),
Charlize Theron (Aeon Flux),
David Carradine(d.) + Uma Thurman + Vivica Fox + Daryl Hannah + Lucy
Liu + Julie Dreyfus + Sonny Chiba + Michael Madsen + Michael Parks +
Helen Kim + Quentin Tarantino (Kill Bills),
Keanu Reeves + Laurence Fishburne + Carrie-Anne Moss + Hugo Weaving
(Matrices),
Robert Downey, Jr. (took martial arts to cure addictions, pan ->
fire),
Anne Hathaway + Dwayne Johnson (Get Smart, Doom),
Natasha Henstridge + Kristen Miller + Natasha Williams (She Spies),
Cate Blanchett (Indiana Skull),
George Lucas (Star Wars Muppet Zen),
Paramount Pictures (undermining Star Trek with Zen, starting with the
series "Enterprise" in 2001),
John Cusack (black belt),
Scott Glenn (black belt),
Jack Black (Kung Fu Panda, others),
Pat Morita(d.) + Ralph Macchio + Hilary Swank (Karate Kids),
Sarah Michelle Gellar (Buffy),
Disney (Mulan),
Pixar and Dreamworks (various movies always containing at least one
humorous martial arts scene: humor or even intent does not alter a
practice)
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Landmark Forum ["Landmark Forum is basically EST, and EST is basically
Zen" (2002) - Gary Randall, a Landmark Forum leader in the Bay Area]
practitioners include:
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Many trained business and finance leaders in all the large business
centers across the United States and Britain (how's THAT going?),
Several international projects, such as a decade-long project to
bridge the gap between Palestinian Arabs and Israeli Jews (how's THAT
going?),
John Denver(d.),
Harry Chapin(d.) [with EST's World Hunger Project of the 1970's in
association with President Carter's White House],
Tom and Dick Smothers
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Scientology (After former EST trainers joined the ranks and L. Ron
Hubbard vanished, Scientology and EST/Landmark Forum had court battles
over rights to training techniques that were essentially identical:
therefore ... Scientology=LandmarkForum=EST=Zen) practitioners
include:
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Anne Archer,
Catherine Bell,
Chick Corea,
Edgar Winter,
Geoffrey Lewis,
Giovanni Ribisi,
Greta Van Susteren,
Isaac Hayes,
Jason Lee,
Jenna Elfman,
John Travolta,
Juliette Lewis,
Kelly Preston,
Kirstie Alley,
Leah Remini,
Lisa Marie Presley,
Priscilla Presley,
Rev. Alfreddie Johnson, Jr.,
Tom Cruise
____ Up From Zen __________________________________________
There is only one way to escape from the disastrous effects of the
slanders produced by Zen practice in this Universe, and that is to
practice the Law that Zen slanders. In fact the Physician's Parable in
the 16th or Juryo Chapter of the Lotus Sutra directly addresses this.
This is the true purpose of Zen: the poison of slander is converted
into the medicine of faith in the Law.
From "The Lotus Sutra and Shakyamuni Buddha (8)", Living Buddhism
09/03 v.7 n.9 p.17:
.. Parable of the skilled physician and his sick children:
..
.. Shakyamuni relates it in the "Life Span" (sixteenth)
.. chapter to explain that the Buddha uses his own death as
.. a means to awaken in people a desire to seek his
.. teaching. The parable describes a skilled physician who
.. has a great many children. One day while he is away from
.. home, the children mistakenly drink poison. Returning to
.. find them writhing on the ground in agony, he quickly
.. prepares an antidote for them, a medicine that possesses
.. excellent color, fragrance, and flavor. Some of the
.. children take the medicine and are cured instantly, but
.. others, their reasoning distorted by the working of the
.. poison, refuse it despite their great agony. The father
.. therefore devises an expedient to induce them to take
.. the medicine. Telling them, "I will leave this good
.. medicine here," he sets off for another land. From there
.. he dispatches a messenger, who informs the children that
.. their father has died. Grief-stricken, they finally come
.. to their senses, take the medicine their father has left
.. them, and are immediately cured. Thereupon their father
.. returns. Shakyamuni explains that the Buddha is like
.. this physician: if he were always present in the world,
.. people would begin to take him for granted and would no
.. longer seek his teaching. Therefore, although the
.. Buddha's life is eternal, he uses his death as a means
.. to arouse in people an aspiration for enlightenment.
The question I have for Phil Jackson, and every other prominent
Tantric Zen singularity that I have listed is this: do you really care
enough for the multitudes that follow your every move to help them
avoid this catastrophe, brought on by your toxic celebrity? Or is your
concern limited to that of Kobe Bryant, to avoid allowing others to
"pimp my popularity"?
If you really do care, then I have just the thing for you to do. It's
easy and quick and will cost you nothing more than a little time.
There is a man in Los Angeles named Herbie Hancock, whom I have never
met, and who doesn't know me from Adam. I do know from reading that he
has regular SGI Buddhist meetings in his house, and I am sure he can
be contacted through his agent (your agent can find his agent). I am
also sure he would welcome any number of you to attend one of his
meetings, or could hook you up with Nichiren Daishonin's Buddhism of
the Lotus Sutra somehow and in some manner of time and place. He
improvises on the piano quite well, so this will be no real challenge.
Then you might go to one SGI meeting, somewhere. Hang with the
votaries of the Lotus Sutra briefly. This will transform reality, even
if you never do another thing for those poor, loyal fans of yours. I
promise that we can restore the camel's back from that last straw.
Heaven knows, I have spent years trying to warn your loyal followers
to avoid this calamity, and no one appears to heed my warnings. They
appear to cling to you in spite of every clear admonition to the
contrary.
Since they are Buddhas in every single way according to Shakyamuni
Buddha and Nichiren Daishonin, I have to defer to their collective and
enlightened wisdom. They will go down with the ship rather than be
parted from you.
My final plea is to YOUR enlightened wisdom, to go see Herbie. And now
I defer, to your enlightened wisdom as well.
My deference is not fatalism.
As far as Toynbee is concerned, neither defeat nor victory is
predictable; he is no fan of determinism (fatalism), and sees it as a
symptom of those suffering from decline.
From "Is determinism convincing?",
.. One of the perennial infirmities of human beings is to
.. ascribe their own failures to the operation of forces
.. which are entirely beyond their control and immeasurably
.. wider in range than the compass of human action. This
.. mental maneuver, which promises to convert an
.. importunate sense of humiliation into a new assurance of
.. self-importance - by setting the great engine of the
.. Universe in motion in order to break one human career -
.. is among the most insidious of 'the Consolations of
.. Philosophy'. It is particularly attractive to sensitive
.. minds in periods of decline and fall; and in the decline
.. and fall of the Hellenic Civilization it was a
.. commonplace of different schools of philosophers to
.. explain the social decay which they deplored but could
.. not arrest as the incidental and inevitable effect of an
.. all-pervasive 'cosmic senescence'.
..
.. (Toynbee, A. J., & Caplan, J. (1972). 18. A Study of
.. History: A New Edition Revised and Abridged (pp. 154).
.. Great Britain: Oxford University Press.)
The fate of a civilization is never out of its own control; that fate
rests in our own hands, up to the final moment.
From "The Problem of the Disintegrations of Civilizations",
.. In any case, however cautiously and conservatively we
.. may feel it wise to interpret the findings of the
.. empirical survey that we have just been attempting to
.. make, the evidence seems amply sufficient to demonstrate
.. that the disintegration of broken-down civilizations is
.. not an automatic and inevitable process that can simply
.. be taken for granted. Even when disintegration has set
.. in it does not necessarily run straight out into
.. dissolution; and, though this may still prove to be the
.. normal course of events, the cases of departure from the
.. norm, by way of petrifaction or fossilization, are
.. numerous enough and striking enough to raise the
.. question of the reasons why the declines and falls of
.. civilizations should sometimes have this alternative
.. denouement. Our classic example of disintegration
.. running straight out into dissolution has been the
.. latter end of the history of the Hellenic Civilization;
.. yet, as an eminent modern Western historian has pointed
.. out, this society which eventually made way for two
.. fresh representatives of the species was at one stage
.. all but overtaken by the petrifaction which has been the
.. Far Eastern Civilization's fate:
..
.. "The spirit of the two most famous nations of Antiquity
.. was remarkably exclusive .... The fact seems to be that
.. the Greeks admired only themselves, and that the Romans
.. admired only themselves and the Greeks .... The effect
.. was narrowness and sameness of thought. Their minds, if
.. we may so express ourselves, bred in and in, and were
.. accordingly cursed with barrenness and degeneracy ....
.. The vast despotism of the Caesars, gradually effacing
.. all national peculiarities and assimilating the remotest
.. provinces of the Empire to each other, augmented the
.. evil ...."
..
.. (Toynbee, A. J. (1934, 1939, 1948). A Study of History
.. (V. p. 8). London, New York: Oxford University Press.)
Formerly successful civilizations die by their own hand in committing
suicide of a particular sort.
This, in fact, is what is playing itself out in this case.
What is needed is a reversal of fortune, which can only be performed
by the 'creative leadership':
Toynbee explains what is creative leadership in the Study of History,
by definition:
From "The Cause of the Breakdowns of Civilizations",
.. (c) THE NEMESIS OF CREATIVITY
..
.. I. The Problem of Peripeteia [Peripeteia, or Peripety:
.. 'reversal of fortune' - Oxford Dictionary]
..
.. We have now made some study of two aspects of that
.. failure of self-determination to which the breakdowns of
.. civilizations appear to be due. We have considered the
.. mechanicalness of mimesis and the intractability of
.. institutions. We may conclude this part of our inquiry
.. with a consideration of the apparent nemesis of
.. creativity.
..
.. It looks as though it were uncommon for the creative
.. responses to two or more successive challenges in the
.. history of a given society to be achieved by one and the
.. same minority or individual. So far from this being the
.. rule, the party that has distinguished itself in dealing
.. with one challenge is apt to fail conspicuously in
.. attempting to deal with the next. This ironical and
.. disconcerting yet apparently normal inconstancy of human
.. fortunes is one of the dominant motifs of the Attic
.. drama, and it is noticed and discussed by Aristotle, in
.. his critique of Hellenic poetry, under the name of
.. Peripeteia or 'the reversal of roles'.
..
.. (Ibid., Toynbee, VI. pp. 245-6)
This is why fresh leadership is necessary for the next challenge: the
'mechanicalness of mimesis' is the fact that what a civilization has
learned from the previous challenge guarantees to defeat it in the
next. The next challenge demands an unpreformed view to defeat it.
Only fresh leadership has the 'creative mimesis' necessary to overcome
the obstacles which spring from our own life and will guarantee to
defeat those who are fighting the last war when they should be
fighting this one.
Aristotle's passage (referred to by Toynbee) on reversal of fortune
from his 'On Poetics' is here:
.. Chapter 11. [Peripeteia, Reversal of fortune]
..
.. A Peripeteia is the change from one state of things
.. within the play to its opposite of the kind described,
.. and that too in the way we are saying, in the probable
.. or necessary sequence of events; as it is for instance
.. in Oedipus: here the opposite state of things is
.. produced by the Messenger, who, coming to gladden
.. Oedipus and to remove his fears as to his mother,
.. reveals the secret of his birth. And in Lynceus: just as
.. he is being led off for execution, with Danaus at his
.. side to put him to death, the incidents preceding this
.. bring it about that he is saved and Danaus put to death.
.. A Discovery is, as the very word implies, a change from
.. ignorance to knowledge, and thus to either love or hate,
.. in the personages marked for good or evil fortune. The
.. finest form of Discovery is one attended by Peripeteia,
.. like that which goes with the Discovery in Oedipus.
.. There are no doubt other forms of it; what we have said
.. may happen in a way in reference to inanimate things,
.. even things of a very casual kind; and it is also
.. possible to discover whether some one has done or not
.. done something. But the form most directly connected
.. with the Plot and the action of the piece is the first -
.. mentioned. This, with a Peripeteia, will arouse either
.. pity or fear -- actions of that nature being what
.. Tragedy is assumed to represent; and it will also serve
.. to bring about the happy or unhappy ending.
..
.. (Aristotle. (1925). On The Poetics (I. Bywater, Tr.).
.. 11. Great Britain: Oxford at the Clarendon Press. from
.. http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext04/poeti10.txt )
Peripeteia is like the protagonist in a drama standing on the edge of
the balcony, blithely unaware of the villain behind him preparing to
push him over the edge to his death. As the villain lines up silently,
and rushes forward to give him a huge shove. At the last moment, the
numismatic protagonist sees a dime at his feet and leans over to pick
it up, to see if it is a collectable coin. The villain sails over the
edge to his death.
Will California survive, or not? Only the leadership, whom their fans
adore devotedly, can determine the outcome now, all other measures to
avert catastrophe have failed.
Once again, I defer to your enlightened wisdom, as to the course our
collective path will take.
-Chas. (who stepped up from Zen)
____ Previously ... __________________________________________
This week, while an explosion of evil bloomed in Southern California,
on the exact opposite side of the earth, 12 hours off in timezone, the
youth of Iran roiled in a brilliant green sea of sheer goodness.
First, Kobe is on the Tonight Show with Conan, lighting a torch to
O'Brien's karmic good fortune. Good timing, Jay.
Then there are the big street celebrations as the people of Southern
California bow to the Zen master of Yeh and Lo (see the Gosho passage
below for what comes of that).
Now on Friday, Conan puts the final flame to his future by bringing in
the favorite son of Yeh and Lo, Phil Jackson to laud him with great
praise on the Tonight Show of Steve Allen, Jack Paar, Johnny Carson
and Jay Leno. Words fail me.
The first fortunate event of the week came with the end of the finals
occurring simultaneously with the digital TV changeover, so that many
people could not watch (I still can't tune in the ABC affiliate on the
antenna for DTV, although I could before, they are out to lunch now,
even though their competition all have a stronger signal).
The second fortunate event was the total obliteration of the news
cycle by the events in Iran starting the day before the final. So the
Zen Laker's triumph was shoved roughly off the screen, or was on only
briefly this week. This was a great kindness from the children of
Iran, at the risk of their lives and partially due to Obama's speech
transforming events in the Middle East when he was in Cairo. Nice job,
all.
This was true all week, with the exception of Conan and actually being
there at the Zen jubilee in Los Angeles. [Yes, they came up with their
offering to Zen, even in the downturn they scraped nickels and dimes
together to give it up to this great Issendai (incorrigible
disbeliever in the Lotus Sutra).] The suffering will be great and the
odds of state bankruptcy are escalating.
The third fortunate event was that in the final game on Sunday
evening, the Orlando Magic fell behind and couldn't catch up, thus
losing in their final game at home, so that all this timing would work
out. This could not have been better done. THe Magic and their city of
Orlando deserves applause for this immense kindness to America, so
that the glory of the moment on the road, in hostile territory, was
muffled into relative silence and stretched off-screen.
The fourth fortunate event was that the rolling struggle between the
Palins and Letterman was just cresting in the prior week, and now was
continuing with little threat to David on the Late Show, as David did
mocking battle with the protestors out front of Ed Sullivan's CBS
studio in New York. This drew some audience away from evil, so David
and Sarah/Willow/Bristol did a good job, too (thank you, Big Apple).
All of these fortunate events are the product of the daimoku of people
all over the world, and it is not possible for me to be more grateful
than I am to the bodhisattvas of the earth. Thank you all and keep it
up.
As the cavalcade of Phil Jackson's Zen Show of Shows rolls towards the
inevitable visit of the Zen Lakers to the White House in early 2010
(January or February as an advertisement for the next NBA Finals),
there will be much time to focus on making this year different than
the last time the Zen Lakers propelled their Roshi into greatness,
this same season in 2001.
The President predicted the Laker victory and gave them a nice phone
call, and then proceeded to have his worst week yet in the pools and
with fears that the Health Plan centerpiece of his administration may
be going up in smoke.
Fighting this uphill battle will make this a long year, but not
begrudging our lives makes this a great joy: sitting down in front of
the Gohonzon and wrestling this great toxic Zen demon is purely a
pleasure.
-Chas.
____ Previously ... __________________________________________
Update: Game 5 went badly. It's going to be verry, verrrry bad.
Once again, Toynbee says that those who adopt the view that what is
going wrong is just destiny they cannot change (It wasn't meant to be.
It's not our turn, etc.) are in fact incorrect. Even at the last
moment, an entire civilization headed towards certain doom can avert
that course in a peripeteia (reversal of fortune). Even now, on the
brink of disaster, the effects can be ameliorated.
EVERYONE WHO CAN NEEDS TO CHANT A LOT OF DAIMOKU.
The devilish function controls the pacing and size of this horror, but
our great fortune is that the Magic lost in Orlando and there wasn't
the instant karma of the unbridled Zen glee in Los Angeles. So there
is a modicum of good fortune in that.
Events could intervene (human-created) to take the bloom off of this
toxic rose. When time comes for official recognition at every level
(especially the White House), our attention could be diverted and the
impact taken out of the Phil Jackson Zen jubilation. If we are very
lucky, this will happen.
In a sense, already, the misfortune of the downturn has a benefical
aspect. It's hard to party hardy when you need to scramble for food.
But the White House needs to find something else to busy itself with.
Everyone does.
From the "Opening of the Eyes", Writings of Nichiren Daishonin p. 276:
(http://www.sgilibrary.org/view.php?page=276)
.. The seventh volume of Great Concentration and Insight
.. states: "In the past, the Zen master of Yeh and Lo [Note
.. 200: Later commentators identify the "Zen master of Yeh
.. and Lo" with Bodhidharma, the founder of Zen in China.
.. T'ien-t'ai, however, does not mention him or any other
.. contemporary figure by name.] became renowned throughout
.. the length and breadth of China. When he arrived, people
.. gathered around him from all directions like clouds, and
.. when he left for another place, they formed a great
.. crowd along the roads. BUT WHAT PROFIT DID THEY DERIVE
.. FROM ALL THIS BUSTLE AND EXCITEMENT? ALL OF THEM
.. REGRETTED WHAT THEY HAD DONE WHEN THEY WERE ON THEIR
.. DEATHBED."
..
.. In the seventh volume of On "Great Concentration and
.. Insight" we read: "The text speaks of the 'Zen master of
.. Yeh and Lo.' Yeh is in Hsiang-chou and was the capital
.. of the Ch'i and Wei dynasties. The founder of Zen caused
.. Buddhism to flourish there and converted the people of
.. the region. The Great Teacher T'ien-t'ai, out of
.. deference to the people of his time, refrains from
.. naming anyone specifically. Lo refers to the city of Lo-
.. yang."
Lo-Yang is the city, wherein lies the Shaolin Monastery where
Bodhidharma founded Zen and all these other Zen practices arose.
See below for the reasoning behind why we should face this spring-
loaded trap effectively ... Only daimoku can contain this evil.
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If Phil Jackson can win the NBA championships he becomes the winning-
est coach in NBA history, passing beyond his current tie with Red
Auerbach for championship rings.
If that were to happen, and the blowout of the Orlando Magic team in
game one makes it likely, the Zen Master and his minions will be
celebrating his victory in the White House, with an unwitting and
vulnerable Barack Obama.
Obama has made himself the target of Zen, for having the impertinence
to really try to change things in the world and put the country and
the world onto a different course that is not headed off the Bush-
Cheney cliff, straight into a Zen holocaust.
This new Camelot is not that much different from the previous one in
the 1960s, in the seemingly flawless nature of the young head of state
and his beautiful family. And his blindness to the hidden danger
placed directly in his path. (They are so perfect.)
So what, you say? Well, THIS is what.
First, an attachment to an evil master and his distortions of Buddhism
develops. Simultaneously, a void forms undermining the ground beneath
the follower's feet. At a crucial point, the Zen master is upheld over
all the world. Then the ground gives way, plummeting the followers,
and their friends and acquaintances into hell. The Zen master always
moves on before the disaster.
--------------------------------------
D.T. Suzuki came to the West just before the 20th century to educate
the seekers about what he called 'Buddhism', which was a grave
distortion. Having sowed the seeds of evil, he went back to Japan to
participate in the build-up to empire as a major cheerleader (in his
Japanese writings) to Imperial State Zen, encouraging the mindless
warriors to be heartless as well: "The hand that holds the sword is
the Buddha's hand." After the disastrous end of the Pacific War, he
changed his tune (in his English writings) explaining how the people
were fooled by their impetuous leaders. He ended his days lecturing in
Western coffee houses, misleading a new generation.
Eugen Herrigel, the author of the book that was to kick off the
widespread popularization of the distortions of Zen, "Zen in the Art
of Archery", was appointed the Rector of Erlangen University (a
stone's throw from Nuremberg) in 1935, just as the Nuremberg Laws were
enacted, codifying the descent of the European Jews into holocaust.
His acceptance speech was an anti-Semitic diatribe, which has never
been translated in English for distribution, thereby protecting his
hoax of a fake Zen. (There is, of course, no 'real' Zen, because Zen
IS distortion.) The support of Nazism by educators was key to the
development of a dialectic regarding Lebensraum (living room) in the
public discourse, which led to German expansionism and the
concentration camp for the unfortunate occupants of newly-acquired
territories. After the war, while other war criminals hung for their
evils, Herrigel's book became a bestseller.
The Mufti of Jerusalem (dubbed Hitler's Mufti by the NY Times) would
regularly review and bless the Islamic SS troops. He later became the
political leader of Gaza. After the war he fled the pursuit of the
British to Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Iran, and Egypt, planting future
terror organizations, like the Muslim Brotherhood. He was a devoted
and public follower of Der Fuhrer, who had General and Professor
Haushofer (Geographer and father of Lebensraum), the former military
attache to Japan and avid Zen practitioner as his mentor during his
time in prison writing Mein Kampf. After the failed attacks by the
Arab League that caused the founding of Israel, the Mufti was on the
move again, sowing the seeds of defeated and undying hatred across the
Middle East.
David Ben Gurion, a Zen practitioner who was often seen reading D.T.
Suzuki's Zen tripe, was the first prime minister of Israel, which has
to this day, only been recognized by a few of its neighbors as a
legitimate state. He embraced the true cause for the destruction of
the European Jews. Kibbutzes (communes) across Israel are hotbeds of
Zen.
Moments before the dot-com bust of the late nineties, Zen master Larry
Ellison of Oracle, who lives inside a luxorious Zendo, briefly became
the richest man in the world, suspended aloft over a sleeping humanity
poised for financial implosion.
Zawahiri, Bin Ladin and Mullah Omar of the Taliban are among the
inheritors of Hitler's Mufti, and their 19 followers that led the 9/11
attacks were schooled in the martial arts to subjugate their unarmed
victims on the planes. The 4 followers of Al Qaeda that perpetrated
the attacks on the British Transit system were a martial arts
instructor and his 3 students. "All of the martial arts are based on
Zen." - Chuck Norris
In the NBA Finals of 2001, just this time of year, Phil Jackson and
his Zen Lakers win and that tied Phil Jackson with Red Auerbach as the
winning-est NBA Basketball coach of all time. As the year of Roshi
Jackson's glory built towards the February 2nd of 2002 Zen Lakers
visit to the White House and the awarding of Dubya with the Zen Lakers
team jersey, something else was building right alongside that chain of
events.
Werner Erhard, schooled at Esalen by D.T. Suzuki, Alan Watts and
others, founded EST, which became Landmark Forum - the darling
corporate trainers for the Wall Street elite in the late nineties and
the turn of the 21st century. Landmark Forum moved their headquarters
into the tenth floor of Tower 1 of the World Trade Center in the late
spring of 2001. They wanted to be close to their hottest new clients
at the top of the world, Cantor Fitzgerald. After the plane landed
amongst their willing supporters, the Landmark masters exited the
building without any difficulty.
The darling of Wall Street, Zen master Steve Jobs, of the twin jewels
of Apple and Pixar, was paraded up and down the halls of finance as
the best and brightest corporate leader (ignoring his decimation of
Mac market share after shutting down the open hardware initiative of
his predecessor), all the while the twin jewels of the American
economy, real estate and the stock market, were being undermined to
the tune of 8 trillion dollars each.
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There are a bewildering plethora of Zen stories just like these,
endless variations on the theme, yet all the same.
What will inevitably become a disaster, both personal and political,
for the Obama administration and the nation and the world at large
(but not for Rush, Newt and Cheney) is what is called 'fixed karma' or
unchangeable destiny in Nichiren Daishonin's Buddhism. Nothing can
stop the downward travel of this large stone towards the unprotected
White House and all of our carefully constructed hopes and dreams ...
save for one thing. Only those who care to chant Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo
to limit the destruction of this event can alter this destiny. Even
now, we can change this.
What danger, you ask? Zen is powerful, particularly when it is so
close to its ultimate goal, to breathe in the rarefied air of victory
within the Oval Office, a great demon passing unnoticed through the
phalanxes of Secret Service agents. Gloating in rapture over the
unfortunate and trapped occupants of humanity's most powerful and now
defenseless office. What a joke, these deluded mortals.
Only the daimoku of the Lotus Sutra (chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo) can
limit the effectiveness of this strike, left unabated, the devilish
function will pause for the Lakers to get to the White House, for
maximum effectiveness of his 'lesson' for us to pay attention to
Nichiren Daishonin. This is the wrong way to learn of course, we would
rather listen and take heed.
Southern California will fare the worst, and take the brunt of this.
The size of the retribution should be directly related to the size of
the celebration, both on the public scale and the private scale.
I will repeat myself in saying that Rahm Emanuel needs to find
something else for the White House to be focused upon at the crucial
moment. Every hero has his Achille's heel. Obama's heel is the NBA, he
cannot possibly perceive the danger of this rightly. Were he to do so,
he would respond that he was rooting for the Magic and is heart-broken
and despondent over it. Too depressed to celebrate the Laker's win.
-Chas.
____________________________________________________________
[Keep in mind when reading chapter two of the Lotus Sutra, that it is
the core of the "theoretical" first half of the Lotus Sutra. As such,
it expresses theoretical ichinen sanzen, the theoretical wisdom of the
Lotus Sutra.
When you read this section it can raise in your mind the provisional
view of Buddhism, that enlightenment is attained through worshipping
statues or various practices over many lifetimes, which is incorrect.
In fact, the one and only way to attain the enlightenment related to
the Lotus, is the practice of the Lotus Sutra, which in this time is
chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo.]
LS Chap. 2
If there are living beings
who have encountered these past Buddhas,
and if they have listened to their Law, presented alms,
or kept the precepts, shown forbearance,
been assiduous, practiced meditation and wisdom, and so forth,
cultivating various kinds of merit and virtue,
then persons such as these
all have attained the Buddha way.
After the Buddhas have passed into extinction,
if persons are of good and gentle mind,
then living beings such as these
have all attained the Buddha way.
After the Buddhas have passed into extinction,
if persons make offerings to the relics,
raising ten thousand or a million kinds of towers,
using gold, silver and crystal,
seashell and agate,
carnelian, lapis lazuli, pearls
to purify and adorn them extensively,
in this way erecting towers;
or if they raise up stone mortuary temples
or those of sandalwood or aloes,
hovenia or other kinds of timber,
or of brick, tile clay or earth;
if in the midst of the broad fields
they pile up earth to make a mortuary temple for the Buddhas,
or even if little boys at play
should collect sand to make a Buddha tower,
then persons such as these
have all attained the Buddha way.
This anthology:
Buku
What about your complicity and support for the Zen Man Burton Watson
and his flawed translation of the Lotus Sutra? Are you not a slanderer
destined to the Lower Realms?
Is this not more of, the SGI members talk the talk but fail to walk
the walk?
Mark, your best friend in the entire world.
Chainsaw
Does anyone understand what the fuck this thread is about? It reads like
Zippy the Pinhead conversing with ELIZA.
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Kurt
Chainsaw <asad...@bakemono.net> wrote:
Chas is our "Buddhist" equivalent of one of those tin foil hat, lives in
a trailer in the desert, conspiracy guys.
He's fairly harmless but likes to bait these groups with the constant
reposting of his manifestos (some are many years old, now).
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To reply by email, remove the word "space"
Chainsaw
He's got the whole Zippy thing down pat. Does he eat Ding Dongs with
taco sauce?
juanjo
> Kurt wrote:
> > In article <hfhi4l$qk...@news.eternal-september.org>,
Well you will have to ask him about the ding dongs
halfawake
I'd like to hear that conversation actually.
robert
- - - - -
juanjo
Well, if Chas is involved, stand back because it is likely to be a
very messing conversation. Kind of like sitting in the front row at a
Gallagher show.
Buku
Charles talks the talk of Zen refutation but unlike Nichiren, he
overlooks the associations of the Soka Gakkai with Zennists. He is
aphony product of the phony religion of Soka.