Alex Gong, Kickboxing Champ: Physical Zen +^

[Chas.]

Toxic Zen Story #7B: Physical Zen: Alex Gong, Kickboxing Champ with everything to live for.

. 'As Gong's body lay in the middle of Fifth
. Street, wrapped in a yellow tarp, and police
. interviewed witnesses, [his] students gathered at
. Fairtex. They were stunned and spoke with
. admiration for Gong. '
.
. 'Lam said Gong was a mentor and a leader. '
.
. ' "Alex was an amazing guy," Lam said. "He was
. the owner, but he was kind of like a big brother.
. It was a family environment. '
.
. ' "He was a fighter to the end. He was arguing
. with this guy to get him to pull over -- all he
. had to do was get his [license] plate, but he had
. to get into it with him," Lam said. '


____ Background for Toxic Zen Stories _____________________

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____ Introduction ________________________________________

It is by 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.
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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 ______________________________

From the San Francisco Chronicle: "Fender-bender hit-run turns fatal in S.F. - Kickbox champ chases down driver, winds up shot to death", by Jaxon Van Derbeken, Michael Cabanatuan, Chronicle Staff Writers, Saturday, August 2, 2003

(http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/08/02/MN283785.DTL )

. 'A world champion Thai-style kickboxer was
. shot to death in the middle of a busy San
. Francisco street Friday after he chased down a
. hit-and-run driver who had slammed into his
. parked car minutes earlier. '
.
. 'Alex Gong, 30, was pronounced dead at the
. scene on Fifth Street near Harrison Street.
. Witnesses said he was shot at point-blank range
. when he confronted the driver, who apparently
. waited for a traffic signal to turn green before
. opening fire and speeding away. '
.
. 'Gong, who had been working out at the South
. of Market training gym he runs at 444 Clementina
. St., was wearing yellow boxing gloves and boxing
. trunks when he was killed. '

So, Alex was right in the middle of Zendo activities. Dressed in his Zendo outfit. Right in the middle of attacking the Law...

. 'The slaying came one day after San Francisco
. Mayor Willie Brown and other officials announced
. the start of a campaign to crack down on hit-and-
. run driving. '
.
. 'The 4:30 p.m. incident began outside Gong's
. Fairtex gym when his car, also a Jeep Cherokee,
. was hit by a passing car. Enraged, Gong gave
. chase on foot, going a block east on Clementina,
. then a block and a half south on Fifth Street. At
. that point, Gong confronted the driver, who had
. been forced to stop as traffic backed up near the
. Bay Bridge on-ramp. '

Alex was acting as a good citizen. Everything should be all right then, yes? No. Because a small secular good deed is not comparable to a great evil, of slandering the Law, the Buddha's highest teaching of the Lotus Sutra. That is what Zen is, and everything that derives from Zen...

. ' ''The victim put his arm out to stop the
. driver, the driver pushed him back and then shot
. him -- point blank," said Marilyn Moore, a
. witness who was riding in a car on Fifth Street.
. '
.
. 'I JUST COULDN'T BELIEVE IT'
.
. ' "The victim grabbed himself and fell
. backward," she said. "The driver backed up, put
. the car in drive and drove off. He turned right
. on Harrison. '
.
. ' "I just couldn't believe it, I've never seen
. nothing like that in my life," Moore said. '
.
. ' Brian Lam, 26, an instructor at Fairtex,
. said members of the gym saw the initial fender-
. bender through an open garage door. Gong, who was
. inside training, took off barefoot after the man,
. said Lam, who grabbed a camera and followed. '
.
. ' "As I was running up, I see Alex arguing
. with the guy," Lam said. "The light turned green,
. the guy popped him. He definitely waited for the
. light to turn green." '

That red light was for Alex. To allow him to catch up with his moment of death, the moment he trained all his life for, and worked for assiduously. That emptiness, that void which his physical practice is centered on. It manifests in a single moment of Zen-consciousness...

. 'Lam said he tried to take a picture of the
. fleeing Cherokee, but was in a rush to help his
. mortally wounded friend. "I just yelled for
. people to help," he said. '
.
. 'A motorcycle officer on the way to the Hall
. of Justice nearby stopped, and he and Lam both
. attempted to resuscitate Gong. '
.
. ' "Last year, Alex paid for my CPR
. certification," Lam said. "I was giving him
. mouth-to-mouth, the officer was giving him chest
. compressions." '
.
. 'Lam said a single bullet struck Gong just
. above the heart. '
.
. ' "I thought he was dead maybe 10 seconds
. after he was shot," Lam said. '

Now we know the end of Alex's story, let's see how carefully he builds it. This may seem cruel, but people live out their lives for a reason, and you only take that reason away by ignoring, or walking away from the scene that was not an accident. Walking away and on to new exploits is the very heart of Zen. Before you move on, pause to look at how Alex built a tragic void for himself, his girl and her son, and a budding empire of Muay Thai gyms, based on the distorted view of Zen, and protecting the self against others ...

. 'S.F. RESIDENT'
.
. 'Gong, a resident of San Francisco, was born
. and raised in New England, and lived for a time
. in Central Asia before returning to the East
. Coast. He later moved to California and graduated
. from San Francisco State University with a degree
. in business. '
.
. 'Long interested in judo and tae kwon do, Gong
. discovered Muay Thai, a form of kickboxing and
. the national sport of Thailand, in 1994. He once
. said in an interview that he was drawn to the
. sport by the fluid movement and careful balance
. it requires. '

The Taoist roots of Zen are its most seductive feature... like a swaying and hypnotic cobra preparing to strike...

. 'He had a natural affinity for the sport and
. racked up an impressive array of championships in
. the middleweight and welterweight classes. He
. appeared regularly on HBO and ESPN and headlined
. fights at the MGM Grand and the Mirage in Las
. Vegas. He was a dedicated competitor who trained
. tirelessly, often waking at dawn to run five
. miles and perform scores of sit-ups, push-ups and
. other exercises before going to work. '

Practicing all the paramitas, like a good bodhisattva following the Precepts. Devadatta, the champion of Precepts who betrayed and attempted to murder the Buddha and replace him, would be so proud ...

. 'Gong worked equally hard as a businessman who
. introduced Muay Thai to California when in 1996
. he opened a San Francisco branch of Fairtex
. Combat Sports Camp -- founded in Bangkok in 1976.
. It wasn't long before the firm employed 20
. instructors and included more than 600 students.
. It is, according to the company's Web site, the
. nation's top Muay Thai training facility and the
. only one recognized by the World Muay Thai
. Council, which is under the authority of the Thai
. government. '

Right in there with the secular authority. Everything should have been prepared for an auspicious result...

. 'AN AMAZING GUY'
.
. 'Under Gong's leadership, Fairtex opened
. another facility in Daly City in 2000. '
.
. 'As Gong's body lay in the middle of Fifth
. Street, wrapped in a yellow tarp, and police
. interviewed witnesses, [his] students gathered at
. Fairtex. They were stunned and spoke with
. admiration for Gong. '
.
. 'Lam said Gong was a mentor and a leader. '
.
. ' "Alex was an amazing guy," Lam said. "He was
. the owner, but he was kind of like a big brother.
. It was a family environment. '
.
. ' "He was a fighter to the end. He was arguing
. with this guy to get him to pull over -- all he
. had to do was get his [license] plate, but he had
. to get into it with him," Lam said. '

In the end, he couldn't just be a citizen, an average guy and just take the numbers down and let the situation defuse itself. HE HAD TO BE THE STAR OF HIS OWN MOVIE, LIKE JACKIE CHAN.

He saw dollar signs in busting this perp. It would be on all the magazine covers. He could use it in his ads. He didn't realize until he saw his precious life passing away from him, that his movie was a tragedy.

. 'Gong's girlfriend of five years, Mai Tran,
. 26, of Millbrae, said Saturday that Gong regarded
. her son as his own and was "the most driven, the
. most passionate person I know." '

What a wretched outcome for her and her son, who idolized Alex...

. 'Philip Tong, 43, a San Francisco cleaning
. contractor and former student at the gym, said he
. happened to be driving by the intersection Friday
. night and saw a Jeep driving erratically,
. followed soon afterward by "someone running down
. the street, no shirt, no pants. I thought it was
. a street person." '
.
. This was the final view of Gong's life-movie ...
. no recognition of him as an individual, confusion
. of who or what purpose was being pursued ...
. emptiness
.
. 'Only later, when he read about the shooting
. on the Internet, did he learn it was Gong chasing
. the driver. Tong said he's talked to police but
. didn't see the driver or the shooting. '

____ 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 ...
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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 !!!
.
. The full 28 Chapters of the Lotus Sutra,
. Nichiren Daishonin's Gosho volumes I and II,
. the Record of the Orally Transmitted Teachings
. (Gosho Zenshu, including the Ongi Kuden) and the
. SGI Dictionary of Buddhism are located at:
.
http://www.nichirenlibrary.org/en/
.
. To find an SGI Community Center:
.
http://www.sgi-usa.org/sgilocations/
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Quoting from "The Entity of the Mystic Law", Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, p. 418 ...

The Complete and Final Teaching on Perfect Enlightenment Sutra declares, "The beginningless illusions and ignorance that beset all living beings are all produced by the perfectly enlightened mind of the Thus Come Ones."