Nina Hartley of SF Zen Center, part 1 of 2: Pornstar Zen +^

[Disbasing Zen Stories]

Toxic Zen Story #1B, part 1 of 2: Green Dragon Zen: Nina Hartley, founder of Pornstar Zen, her mother/zenmaster Zenkei Blanche Hartman - Abbess of the San Francisco Zen Center, her mother's zenmasters (1) Sojun Mel Weitsman - Abbot of the Berkeley Zen Center, and (2) Shunryu Suzuki-Roshi - founder of San Francisco Zen Center, Green Gulch Farm in Marin and the Tassajara Zen Mountain Center in Carmel Valley; and Zen Parenting in Berkeley.

part 1 of 2.

How did Marie Louise Hartman of Berkeley High School Drama Club, with a RN degree from SF State, become Nina Hartley of 650 triple X-rated films and videos, also known as "Anal Annie" ?

Well ... Nina's (Marie's, Anal Annie's) very own mother and Zen teacher is none other than Zenkei Blanche Hartman, Abbess/teacher at the San Francisco Zen Center, AND the Green Gulch Farm in Marin AND the Tassajara Zen Mountain Center in Carmel Valley, and was also disciple to both Sojun Mel Weitsman and Shunryu Suzuki-Roshi.

Having stepped into the sandals of Suzuki-Roshi at the three centers he founded, Nina's mother may be the most influential American in Zen, and on the SF Zen Center website, Abbess Zenkei Blanche Hartman lists four children (one of whom is Nina) and five grandchildren (none of whose are Nina's).

From Nina Hartley's own website (Nina.Com):

| ' ... my parents began studying Zen in '69. Needless to
| say, I have been profoundly affected by their decision.
| Zen Buddhism is the single most influential philosophy
| in my life... '
|.
| 'I don't have bad sex any more, ever. By making
| conscious sexuality my mantra, I always get the most
| out of every sexual experience, whether a friendly hand
| job in Helsinki or getting it up the butt from Ernest.
| '
|.
| 'What is important for both Ernest and me is living a
| full, authentic life. I have my parents to thank for
| that example, as my mother quit her job in '74 to study
| Zen full time with my father... '

The answer to how she got where she is: Zen Parenting ... and, by the way, taking it up the Void causes pain and suffering for a reason ...

____ Background for Toxic Zen Stories _____________________

https://groups.google.com/group/alt.zen/msg/b4ad0ce368728934?hl=en

____ Introduction ________________________________________

Dogen (1200-1253): The founder of the Japanese Soto school of Zen.
Dogen would quote the Lotus Sutra, but did not consider it any differently from other sutras of the Buddha, this in spite of the Buddha's own admonition to consider it higher than the previous (Sutra of Immeasurable Meanings and before) and following sutras (Nirvana Sutra and later). Hence, only provisional truth and partial enlightenment could be had from it by him. The kind of enlightenment that leads to compassionless domination of others ... as mere, empty extensions of one's own Solipsistic body.

Dogen was popular with the government, because his teachings removed the compassion from Samurai and Daimyo, rendering them fierce and merciless warriors, who would shun no tactic to win, no matter how vile.

____ Toxic Zen Story ______________________________

Briefly, Marie Louise Hartman (AKA Nina Hartley, AKA Anal Annie) grew up in Berkeley, California, where her parents began practicing Zen in 1969, when she was at the impressionable age of 10.

Although her parents were originally Jewish, she correctly states that the "Zen Buddhism is the single most influential philosophy in my life."

The children were polarized, her brother became an orthodox Jew, and doesn't speak with her, and she went on to become one of the most famous porn actresses in history, making over 650 films and videos.

Her parents are directly connected by Master-Disciple chain to Dogen and Bodhidharma.

To be specific: the San Francisco Zen Center (and Green Gulch Farm in Marin and Tassajara Zen Mountain Center in Carmel Valley) was founded by Shunryu Suzuki-Roshi of the Green Dragon Society of Soto Zen. Most of Northern California Zen is essentially Green Dragon.

Sojun Mel Weitsman, Abbot at the Berkeley Zen Center, was disciple to Shunryu Suzuki-Roshi.

Nina's (Marie's, Anal Annie's) very own mother and Zen teacher is none other than Zenkei Blanche Hartman, Abbess/teacher at the San Francisco Zen Center, AND the Green Gulch Farm in Marin AND the Tassajara Zen Mountain Center in Carmel Valley, and disciple to both Sojun Mel Weitsman and Shunryu Suzuki-Roshi.

Having stepped into the sandals of Suzuki-Roshi at the three centers he founded, Nina's mother may be the most influential American in Zen, and on the SF Zen Center website, Abbess Zenkei Blanche Hartman lists four children (one of whom is Nina) and five grandchildren (none of whose are Nina's).
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So, responding to her circumstances, Marie shed her Berkeley High School Drama Club personna after getting her degree in nursing, and went to Hollywood as Nina Hartley, to make her name as the first pretty and wholesome-looking girl in porn history whose early claim to fame was gleefully taking it up the rear, with the unmistakably intentional screen name of Anal Annie.

From the Internet Movie Database (IMDB):

. 'Appeared on many day time talk shows including Oprah
. Winfrey and Phil Donahue, often as a charming and
. articulate defender of the X-rated film industry. '
.
. 'Often to discuss alternative marriages such as her own
. open three-way marriage where she, her husband, and a
. third woman (to whom he had committed to prior to her)
. all share a home. '
.
. 'Retired from eligibility as AVN (Adult Video News) star
. of the year following third win, and is now in their
. hall of fame. '
.
. 'Appeared in a MTV documentary about the porn industry.
. '
.
. 'Said in an interview that she chose the name "Nina"
. because it was easy for Japanese tourists to say during
. the time she was a dancer in San Francisco. She chose
. "Hartley" because she liked the popular camera
. commercials Mariette Hartley was making with James
. Garner at the time. '

Nice tribute. I'll bet Mariette Hartley reeeeally appreciated that.

. 'Switched from nursing to pornography because she
. couldn't handle seeing people die. '

This is not to judge Nina in any way as a person. She is doing her best to make sense of the incredible evil that life has presented her with.

The problem is simply and purely: her evil circumstances have not been altered in her life, only coped with. And that coping has produced further distortion of the Buddha's teachings as she founded her own sect of Pornstar Buddhism ...
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From Nina Hartley's own website (Nina.Com):

| 'Birthday: March 11, 1959 Height: 5' 4" Weight: 140 lbs.
| Measurements: 35-26-39 Bra: 34C/D Shoe: 8M if open
| toed, 81/2 for pumps Sexual orientation: Heterosexual
| butch dyke '
|.
| 'Marital status: divorce finalizing after 20
| years together. Currently engaged to Ernest Greene.
| Children: none. I'm fine with that Education: BSN from
| San Francisco State, class of '85, magna cum laude. I
| have never earned a paycheck as a nurse, though I'm
| very glad I finished college '
|.
| 'My parents have been married since 1947 I have
| two older brothers and one older sister I have 8 nieces
| and nephews, ages 5-27 I have no grand nieces or
| nephews yet Except for one gay cousin and a gay aunt, I
| seem to be the only queer person in my family '
|.
| 'I grew up in Berkeley, California and graduated from
| Berkeley High School in 1977. I just attended the 25th
| anniversary class reunion last month. I was very active
| in the drama department there, and am still friends
| with many I met there. '
|.
| 'My mother's mother and sister lived very near us, and I
| saw my grandmother at least once a week, and my aunt
| and cousins regularly. I am the youngest in my
| generation of kids, going out to third cousins. '
|.
| 'I developed an interest in theater and performing arts
| by high school. I didn't go onstage much in school,
| spending my time instead in the costume department of
| the high school. One claim to fame was that I made
| Timothy Hutton's ("Ordinary People") toga for his role
| as the god Bacchus in Euripedes' classic, "The
| Bacchae". The drama department of my high school was as
| good as any two year college's, and as good as many
| four years'. '
|.
| 'My first boyfriend was T., a drama teacher at school. I
| dated him from the time I graduated in '77, to about
| '82. I first started seeing Dave in '80. Believe me,
| there's a book in there somewhere! '
|.
| 'After searching for meaning in their lives after their
| political disillusionment (they were members of the
| communist Party, and my father lost his job in radio
| after being blacklisted in '57), my parents began
| studying Zen in '69. Needless to say, I have been
| profoundly affected by their decision. Zen Buddhism is
| the single most influential philosophy in my life.
| While my mother is Jewish, and my father, Lutheran,
| church life was not part of my childhood. My parents
| were seekers, and Zen is what they found to be useful
| for them in their search for understanding and meaning.
| While I am not a practicing Buddhist, I find Zen
| philosophy the most useful and practical on a day to
| day basis. '

So, Marie is exposed to the most virulent and corrupting form of Zen at the tender age of 10.

Since her mother sat with Shunryu Suzuki-Roshi, who is the founder of San Francisco Zen Center, Green Gulch Farm in Marin and the Tassajara Zen Mountain Center in Carmel Valley ...

... and since she was later to be RENAMED Zenkei Blanche Hartman, and become Abbess/teacher at all three of those top Zen facilities founded by Suzuki-Roshi ...

... it is quite reasonable to put forth the proposition that Abbess Zenkei Blanche Hartman has stepped into the sandals of Shunryu Suzuki-Roshi himself and attained rank equivalent to his in American Zen.

This means that Nina Hartley (Anal Annie, also RENAMED from Marie Hartman to adapt to Japanese culture) has tapped into to the main arterial flow of the greatest evil in this world, Green Dragon Soto Zen, the Zen the gave us World War II:

see:

Toxic Zen Story #2: Haushofer and Hitler: Green Dragon Zen
Toxic Zen Story #11: Rape of Nanking: Green Dragon Zen
Toxic Zen Story #12: Lieutenant Colonel Sugimoto Goro: Green Dragon Zen
Toxic Zen Story #13: D.T. Suzuki and WWII: Nuremberg Zen

This is what makes for very twisted history ...

| 'Berkeley was, in the 60s and 70s, rather like living on
| Mars. I have very little in common with others of my
| age who were raised in more conventional places with
| more conventional families. I adhere to liberal social
| and political ideas, though I am not in lock step with
| any political party or agenda. But Berkeley is a large
| part of who I am and how I got to be the way I am.
| Since my fans seem to like what I'm about, it seems
| fair to let them know where it all came from. '

It does seem fair. Hence this article.

| 'I came of age during the last time sex was considered
| to be, overall, more positive than negative. The 70s
| were not just about lame politics and stupid clothing
| fashion, but also about thinking in new ways about sex,
| gender, culture and empowerment. The idea that women
| could take control over their own pleasure, and should
| communicate what they needed to their partners, was
| only one important idea that came of age then. '

So, where in that logic, does it make it right to co-opt the Buddha's own identity to make a new Buddhism, using all the terminology of the Buddha, like bodhisattva and compassion. Why not make a new Nina-ism that is twisted in it's own right?

Because that would not be profoundly evil enough to satisfy the devilish function that is manifest in Nina's life, due to contact, from age 10 until now, with the San Francisco Zen Center people, Weitsman, Shunryu Suzuki and her mother, now the Abbess/teacher at three Zen Centers.

| 'I was highly influenced by this new thinking. The most
| important books for me as a young teenager were: "Sex
| For One", by Betty Dodson (www.bettydodson.com); "The
| Joy Of Sex", by Louis Comfort, and "The Pearl", a
| reprint of a Victorian porn magazine. I loved porn the
| first time I read any of it. I loved Playboy magazine,
| too. I especially liked all the full-page, full-color
| cartoons. My favorites were the ones with the satyrs
| and nymphs cavorting naked in the meadows. To this day,
| Ernest calls me a "wood dyke". '
|.
| 'One favorite cartoon in Playboy, from '73-75, had a
| beautiful young bachelorette returning to her fabulous
| Manhattan apartment. The caption, as she speaks to her
| equally beautiful roommate: "What a boring party. I
| would have left sooner but I couldn't find my clothes."
| How I wanted to live a life like that! It held me in
| good stead for all the orgies I went to as a swinger:
| bring a sports bag and keep your things together!
| (note: I'm actively seeking a copy of that cartoon. Any
| help will be most appreciated!) '
|.
| 'I was very shy, socially, though my mind was full of
| sexual thoughts. I didn't date much, though I did enjoy
| the wrap parties that were held after a play was over.
| I necked a bit, but I didn't fuck anyone until I was
| 18. I sneaked into my first porn movie when I was a
| senior in high school and was transfixed. I knew at
| that time I wanted to do sex performance. I never did
| get to be in a big movie (video was taking over when I
| started), but I did work with several of the men I saw
| in that first one. The movie was "Autobiography of a
| Flea", and the actors I went on to work with were: John
| Leslie, Paul Thomas, Jamie Gillis and one other whom I
| can't recall at this moment. I believe John Holmes was
| in it, too, but I never did work with him. '
|.
| 'I started dancing in '83, as a sophomore, as a way to
| live out fantasies, perform, meet other bisexual women
| and a fun way to earn money. It never was about the
| money as much as it was about the sexual experience. I
| wanted to live a sexually free life, and to have sex
| without having to be "in love", which, at the time, I
| had no clue as to what it was. Twenty years of marriage
| did little to increase my understanding of what "love"
| was. '
|.
| 'I made my first video, "Educating Nina" in 1984, after
| Dave, my ex, met Juliette Anderson in the local
| supermarket. After my graduation in '85, I went into
| video full time. I loved performing from the first time
| I did it. My first on-screen partners were Billy Dee
| and Karen Summers. '
|.
| 'I've done about 650 videos since then. I've won a lot
| of awards over the years, for both sexual and non-
| sexual performances. I started the educational series
| in '96 for Adam and Eve, and I like those very much.
| Since I have been with Ernest, I've started doing
| fetish videos as well, usually as a dominant unless I'm
| working with Ernest, in which case I am submissive to
| him. '
|.
| 'For me, sex has been my vocation, my meal ticket, my
| path to happiness and self- understanding. It is my
| meditation and communion with Ernest. My interest in
| sex is unabated by all that I've had: I'm always
| interested in it: watching it, doing it, helping others
| do it better, listening to others have it, lending a
| helping hand (quick, more lube!). Since it is a body-
| based activity, the good that comes from it lasts and
| lasts and affects other parts of my life. There is
| always something to learn about oneself through sex,
| even less-than-satisfying sex. '
|.
| 'I don't have bad sex any more, ever. By making
| conscious sexuality my mantra, I always get the most
| out of every sexual experience, whether a friendly hand
| job in Helsinki or getting it up the butt from Ernest.
| '
|.
| 'What is important for both Ernest and me is living a
| full, authentic life. I have my parents to thank for
| that example, as my mother quit her job in '74 to study
| Zen full time with my father. Ernest and I both value
| the life fully lived, and examined carefully. We both
| needed to live a life where our interest in sexuality
| was an asset, not a liability. '

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From "Nina Hartley - Tricks and Treats: Sex Workers Write About Their Clients", edited by Matt Bernstein Sycamore:

| 'SEX WORK AS SPIRITUAL PRACTICE '
|.
| '"Bodhisattvas Among Us: Compassionate Sex Workers" '

Here we go. Heaping slander upon the humongous pile of slander brought to her by her mother's distorted views of the Buddha's teachings and intent, by ignoring the Buddha's own golden words not to distort his teachings in any way:

Nina founds her own philosophy of life, but further aggravates the grave error of Zen, by using the terms of the Buddha, and co-opting Buddhism instead of calling it Nina-ism or Anal Annie-ism, or some other thing.

| 'I doubt that many of the thirty thousand men I meet and
| greet each year ever fathom that I am looking at them
| as much as they look at me -- and I'm usually naked!
| When they finally meet me in person (some after more
| than a decade of waiting), they are often too dazed,
| giddy, dumbfounded, boisterous, or shy to have any
| serious conversation with me. '
|.
| 'There are exceptions, of course (I've had many
| wonderful conversations with fans over the years), but
| it remains true that most are not aware of my
| perception of them. After sixteen years as an adult
| entertainer, I can now place any fan accurately into
| one or more of the many categories of fandom. Although
| there are significant differences among subgroupings,
| most fans are bound together by one thing: they, almost
| to a man, are the walking wounded of the gender wars. '
|.
| 'They don't often realize that their pain and confusion,
| ignorance, hope, anger, and longing are obvious to
| anyone with my experience. Some would be mortified,
| others relieved, to have their most personal secrets
| known without having to actually speak them. This
| transparency makes a fan as vulnerable as a newborn. It
| is healing to me to practice compassion when confronted
| with such primal feelings and to reflect back to these
| men a healthier and saner sexuality so that they can
| take it home with them and use it to make their lives
| and relationships a little better. There is great power
| in dispensing that "balm of Gilead," and that power
| must be tempered by compassion. '

And here Nina steals and redefines the Buddha's motive: compassion.

In the Lotus Sutra, which according to the Buddha himself is his highest teaching, compassion is nothing more or less than upholding the Law in your life and the lives of others.

That devotion to, and faith in, the Law manifests your Buddha nature, and opens and reveals the innate wisdom of the Buddha in your life.

Perceiving the Buddha's wisdom, the Buddha's compassionate action is the only acceptable course.

Compassion = Upholding the Law (Lotus Sutra: Nam Myoho Renge Kyo)
. + Wisdom
. + Action

Not Pornstar sexual healing for the paying customers.

| 'Being open to their pain and helping to soothe it is
| greatly aided by my status as a veteran sex
| professional and registered nurse (RN). Raised in
| Berkeley, California, the youngest of four children, my
| parents were middle-class Communist professionals; by
| the time I was ten, they had metamorphosed into Zen
| Buddhist refugees, overwhelmed by the trauma of my
| father's blacklisting. I was raised in a Buddhist
| household, and my parents remain active in San
| Francisco's Zen community to this day. I expected to
| complete college, and I did, earning a Bachelor's of
| Science in Nursing, magna cum laude, in 1985. I started
| dancing while attending school full-time. My class and
| educational background prevented me from feeling or
| being victimized by others' lack of respect for sex
| work/workers. I know my value, and my fans' admiration
| and devotion demonstrate it. '

Some mighty powerful delusions operating there ... she demands that they give her money and bend to her will in how they address her. As long as they go along with her notion of Zen sexual healing, they are all right with her. They become followers of Pornstar Zen. The receive a twisted form of benefit, her limited favors, and in return they get to worship the Pornstar Zen Goddess of the Unattainable.

What Nothingness.

What Void.

Ah, the utterly impossible desire of it: a beautiful girl who will do anything you want her to do: but only for money and only with someone else.

| 'There are many venues where I meet my fans: conventions
| (where I am scantily dressed); peep booths (where we
| can both be naked); Polaroid photo sessions (where I
| can be dressed, topless, or naked); and university
| classes and on the street (where I am dressed). At each
| of these places (except the peep booths), they can hug
| and touch me. This contact is incredibly powerful and
| intimate, and I cherish it greatly. For the most part,
| my fans understand and accept that they are probably
| never going to sleep with me, so the significance of
| the touching is magnified. I look them in the eye, hug
| them, and let them hug me and feel my body (within
| legal limits, that is). I love the physicality, so I
| caress them as much as possible (ruffle hair, nibble
| and kiss earlobes, squeeze shoulders, smack their
| butts, etc.), making tangible my affection and
| acceptance. '

Ahhh, touching and feeling the Void. And afterwards that post-hedonistic nothingness ... empty feeling.

But wait, you didn't really have sex !!! You must reeeeeeally hate yourself for paying for that.

| 'In our repressed, pleasure-phobic culture, people,
| particularly males, are chronically touch starved. The
| difference in how we handle male versus female infants
| is well documented. The connection between the nature
| of the touch received by babies and how it impacts
| their future "emotional intelligence" must be
| acknowledged by society so that we can address it
| calmly, change our understanding of the role of sex
| work, and eliminate the laws that criminalize so much
| of it. It is a sad fact that men generally have few, or
| no, socially approved nonsexual outlets to experience
| caring, human(e) contact. For many, this absence of
| positive touch adds greatly to the growing psychosis of
| our times and is manifested, in part, by an increase in
| violence in our culture, especially among the young. '

So, to her mind, earthly desires are there in her customers to be undermined and corrupted, for greed. If it were simply for enlightenment she would do it all for free, HOWEVER, she learned that much from her mother/zenmaster Zenkei Blanche Hartman - Abbess of the San Francisco Zen Center, her mother's zenmasters (1) Sojun Mel Weitsman - Abbot of the Berkeley Zen Center, and (2) Shunryu Suzuki-Roshi - founder of San Francisco Zen Center, Green Gulch Farm in Marin and the Tassajara Zen Mountain Center in Carmel Valley:

You don't get to be Abbot/Abbess and founder of three Zen Centers by lacking skill in acquiring loot. You never forget to charge the suckers-of-the-Void.

So, Nina's customers are co-opted to support her new way of Zen: Pornstar Zen.

It's like worshipping a moving statue of the Buddha that you can never aspire to ... like the deification of the Buddha that so many kinds of evil Buddhism have fallen into. Except this deity is herself undermined and corrupted by her mother's Zen mind - connected directly to the artery of evil back through Suzuki to Dogen to Bodhidharma.

| 'The revolutionary eruption, thirty years ago, of long-
| suppressed feminine rage and anger that so
| characterized the early days of the feminist movement
| also created the culture-wide fallout that we are still
| sorting out today. Many are still reeling from the
| initial blast: collateral damage includes a wide-scale
| abandonment of the nurturing of mates, children, and
| society that is only now beginning to be addressed. In
| this confused landscape, there are fewer and fewer
| places where a wounded spirit can seek shelter and
| comfort, recognition and acceptance. The sex worker
| can, and does, provide this comfort, whether s/he is
| aware of it or not, and even when the consumer is
| unaware that s/he is seeking these things. Sex workers
| are the medics at the front lines of the gender wars,
| the Clara Bartons and Florence Nightingales, patching
| up the troops, reviving their spirits so that they want
| to live another day. When sex workers are also
| educated, conscious, and willing the healing potential
| increases exponentially. Banded together as part of a
| larger movement, this potential staggers the
| imagination. As has been said before, "When prostitutes
| unite, powerful men tremble." '

Oh, I see. Her twisting of the Buddha's teachings into a new form of Zen to corrupt the Pornstar-bewitched, is really just ... Feminism. I somehow don't think that Betty Friedan had Anal Annie in mind when she wrote the "Feminine Mystique". So, Nina Hartley has grabbed onto that, too. Maybe Betty is OK with that, only she has a right to decide that.

| 'At clubs across the country where I dance, there are
| usually one or two women who really like their jobs
| and, more important, don't resent or hate men for their
| sexuality. These dancers are drawn to me because they
| can tell that I am empowered and don't disrespect
| either the customers or myself. In mentoring these
| precious few, I let them in on the single biggest
| secret of live sex performance (particularly dancing):
| the men don't know it, but they are coming to church.
| They are seeking absolution, acceptance, understanding,
| compassion, kindness, and caring from a willing,
| friendly woman -- if she is pretty, so much the better.
| They believe themselves to be fundamentally unlovable
| because of their sexuality; if women really knew what
| got them off, they would be cast into the void. '

Here, she mentors her "precious few" disciples of Pornstar Zen. The men are here for a religious experience, let's corrupt those vulnerable, defenseless suckers with Zen. Surprise !! You came for a quick thrill, and got a lot more VOID than you intended !!!!

| 'Granting these men acceptance and understanding instead
| of disgust and ridicule is the single most profound
| aspect of sex work. Reinforcing that understanding with
| an orgasm is, in my opinion and experience, the most
| effective way to get this message across permanently.
| The more a sex worker understands her/his role in both
| the psyche of the customer and the scheme of the
| greater society and history, the better s/he can do
| her/his job. The fringe benefits for her/him are
| maintaining mental health and building a loyal customer
| base. '

This is the way the Icchantika, the mind of evil operates. If you admire or especially, worship an impure person who has distorted the Buddha's teachings into a new evil, you catch a large dose of the virus yourself. The dose only increases as you keep administering the poison. And nothing, save the Lotus Sutra itself, can relieve the suffering induced from slandering the Lotus Sutra.

| 'Being a "star," instead of an anonymous worker, I am
| treated differently by consumers of commodified sex.
| Media exposure (TV, movies, print, video) has served to
| make me more visible and to grant me legitimacy in the
| eyes of many. As a deliberately open sexual woman,
| people come to me as to a confessor, doctor, or
| therapist. They tell me very personal and private
| things with never a thought that I might find it
| distasteful or might not keep it secret. Their relief
| at finally being able to simply talk to someone without
| being judged is palpable. After unburdening themselves,
| they wait anxiously for my response. That response can
| make or break someone's self-image, their intimate
| relations, even their ability to respond sexually
| (alone or with a partner). '

And they get a huge dose of toxin for every little offering, they make: alms to the icchantika. As Nichiren states in the Rissho Ankoku Ron, Fuse and Fuju, neither receiving alms, nor giving alms to the icchantika is advisable.

| 'Fans hand over a lot of power to such an "adored one."
| My code of ethics demands that I honor that and always
| treat them kindly. My position as a respected "expert"
| obligates me to keep my ego out of it, to be firm (or
| even stern), and to urge them to keep working toward
| wholeness and love. The average person is still like a
| child when it comes to her/his sexuality. All her/his
| fears, insecurities, shame, guilt, self-esteem,
| capacity for joy and love lie jumbled together in an
| inchoate mass of quivering need; s/he yearns to be
| known by one wiser, and loved anyway, accepted to the
| core, if only for a moment. '

The Devil King of the Sixth Heaven of Desire (jpn: Dai Rokuten no Mao, or Tenshi-ma, skt: Devaputra), the highest level of Heaven, which is the Sixth World of the Ten Worlds of T'ien-t'ai, is characterized by rapture. Tenji-ma is merely a negative function that exists in our own heart.

Both the corrupting and the corrupted ones experience great rapture during the culmination of the process of undermining their lives together.

But, the Void inside becomes bigger and hungrier, like a black hole sucking all the life out of any unlucky star that gets too close.

As in a black hole, as you get really close (inside the Schwarzschild radius), time stands still, a side effect of General Relativity that appears to hold, even in the realm of spirituality.

Those spreading the greatest evil most widely are not perceived to be affected by their own influence, because at the center ... time has slowed tremendously, ... but not stopped.

To maintain that perception, they must corrupt at an ever increasing rate.

The largest possible extent of negative influence is a victory for the mind of evil.

| 'I provide this service, along with others in my field,
| willingly, grateful for the opportunity to help my
| fellow man and satisfied that I can do what I do best.
| As is true of any effective art, what gives my work
| resonance is its emotional authenticity. What is
| wonderful about sex work is its dual reality as both a
| bona fide healing art and legitimate artistic
| expression. Sex workers should take pride in the
| important work they do an the essential service they
| provide: simple human kindness in time of need. As
| Buddha said, "What greater wisdom is there than
| compassion?" I work toward a society that can honor sex
| work instead of fear it. I work toward a society that
| will no longer need to commodify sex, one that does not
| equate sex with evil or debasement. Although I dream
| that one day people will be able to look to one another
| for love, support, and community, until that day
| arrives, sex workers are desperately needed. '

I am completely certain that Nina-ism or Anal-Annie-ism, was not the Buddha's intent.

Upholding the Law, and the Lotus Sutra was his final admonition in the Nirvana Sutra, that was his stated intent.

Honestly discarding provisional teachings, like those that Zen relies upon, that was his stated intent.

Casting the transient and revealing the True, that was the intent of his golden words and none other.

But let's look at the poisoned tree that bore the fruit of Marie Louise Hartman, AKA Nina Hartley, AKA Anal Annie.

Here is some of her mother's distorted teachings .... from four posted lectures by the Abbess/teacher of the San Francisco Zen Center, Green Gulch Farm in Marin and the Tassajara Zen Mountain Center in Carmel Valley.

She that inherited the mantle, and walks now in the sandals of Shunryu Suzuki-Roshi.

Abbess Zenkei Blanche Hartman. The most influential American in Zen, mostly because of her daughter's great and evil influence upon the world.
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| ' Beginner's Mind '
|.
| ' Abbess Zenkei Blanche Hartman '
|.
| ' I want to talk today about beginner's mind.
| The first book of Suzuki Roshi's teaching was
| named Zen Mind, Beginners' Mind. He founded two
| temples. One of them is named "Zen Mind Temple"
| (Zen Shin Ji, Tassajara) and the other is named
| "Beginner's Mind Temple" (Ho Shin Ji, the City
| Center in San Francisco). In that presentation,
| Zen mind and beginner's mind seem to be equated.
| Suzuki Roshi highly esteemed beginner's mind.
| What is it? '

I'd say, a mind far less corrupted than it will become after exposure to Zen.

| ' A few years ago, I went with a group of
| people to Eiheiji monastery in Japan. We were
| sitting in the guest meditation hall, and
| Matsunaga Roshi came in and sat with us. He's
| head of the international department at Eiheiji
| now, but he was in Los Angeles for a number of
| years. We sat together for a while, and then he
| started to talk. He said, "When I visited San
| Francisco thirty years ago," (that was at the
| very beginning, over at Sokoji temple) "I could
| not understand Suzuki Roshi's meaning. But now,
| sitting in this zendo with you, I can feel
| beginner's mind. Now I understand his meaning."
| What is this beginner's mind? '

All this name-dropping and place-identification. Isn't that suspicious? Does her authority require backup? Is her logic free-standing and self-supporting or is it derivative and referential? Let's see.

| ' Beginner's mind is Zen practice in action.
| It is the mind that is innocent of preconceptions
| and expectations, judgements and prejudices.
| Beginner's mind is just present to explore and
| observe and see "things as-it-is." I think of
| beginner's mind as the mind that faces life like
| a small child, full of curiosity and wonder and
| amazement. "I wonder what this is? I wonder what
| that is? I wonder what this means?" Without
| approaching things with a fixed point of view or
| a prior judgement, just asking "what is it?" '

But we know that things as they are cannot be perceived, because the aspect of something and our view of it may not be aligned. Perception adds information to the various aspects of a thing perceived, even in a child's eye. Children have the karma or destiny to be born in their circumstances, with their five components of Form, Perception, Consciousness, Conception and Volition.

Assuming that anyone's eye or mind, which is not yet undermined by the "Zen Experience" is "Zen practice in action" is foolishness, and counter-indicated by what life tells us.

For instance, in the uncertainty principle, where the observer's act of observing modifies the observed: this means always modifies, not just sometimes.

The Lotus Sutra states that the True Entity is inseparable from All Phenomena.

So, all discussions of seeing "life as it is", are just BS. "There are not two lands, pure and impure" - Nichiren. You are in the Saha World (Impure) and that is also the Buddha's Land (Pure).

Hence you are simultaneously a deluded mortal and the Eternal Buddha since the Beginningless Past. "Two, but not two."

The Zen mistake is to assume "One, but not Two." They comprehend Non-Duality, that they are the Buddha, but forget that the other poor sucker whose hand is not the "hand that holds the sword is the Buddha's hand" - D.T.Suzuki (pre-war), THAT poor sucker is also the Buddha since Beginningless Time.

You are not the only person in the room, and NO (in direct opposition to what it says in alt.zen), when you blink your eyes, the world does not disappear. It just looks dark.

Non-substantiality does not mean Nothingness, and the True Entity is not a void.

| ' Earlier this week I was having lunch with
| Indigo, our small child at City Center. He saw an
| object on the table and got very interested in
| it. He picked it up and started fooling with it:
| looking at it, putting it in his mouth, and
| banging on the table with it-just engaging with
| it without any previous idea of what it was. For
| Indigo, it was just an interesting thing, and it
| was a delight to him to see what he could do with
| this thing. You and I would see it and say, "It's
| a spoon. It sits there and you use it for soup."
| It doesn't have all the possibilities that he
| finds in it. '

Oh, now the allusions to the "infinite possibilities" manifesto of EST. Blanche has been listening to the deluded ravings of Alan Watts. The truth is that life is causal, not acausal.

There is a purpose and a point to life. We will accomplish the determination of the Tathagata, either immediately and happily, or belatedly and with more suffering. There are infinite possibilities WITH CONSTRAINTS.

In the next moment, the car you are driving will NOT become a flying pink elephant. THERE ARE CONSTRAINTS, which Zen seeks pointlessly to remove.

| ' Watching Indigo, you can see the innocence
| of "What is it?" '

The innocence of children ... Have you ever seen the stricken look on the face of a three-year old that has had a toy taken away by a four-year old? It only appears inconsequential to our eyes, who do not see the infinite injustice that is present and the changing of the attitudes and behavior of the child. What seems like an inconsequential thing to us, looms enormously to a child.

Any child that can walk has a network of learned behaviors that are hopelessly complex, and are far beyond scientific analysis, other than that which is skin deep. Just the interaction of human speech and the mind, is an endless subject.

| ' Can we look at our lives in such a way? Can
| we look at all of the aspects of our lives with
| this mind, just open to see what there is to see?
| I don't know about you, but I have a hard time
| doing that. I have a lot of habits of mind-I
| think most of us do. Children begin to lose that
| innocent quality after a while, and soon they
| want to be "the one who knows." We all want to be
| the one who knows. But if we decide we "know"
| something, we are not open to other possibilities
| anymore. And that's a shame. We lose something
| very vital in our life when it's more important
| to us to be "one who knows" than it is to be
| awake to what's happening. We get disappointed
| because we expect one thing, and it doesn't
| happen quite like that. Or we think something
| ought to be like this, and it turns out
| different. Instead of saying, "Oh, isn't that
| interesting," we say, "Yuck, not what I thought
| it would be." Pity. The very nature of beginner's
| mind is not knowing in a certain way, not being
| an expert. As Suzuki Roshi said in the prologue
| to Zen Mind Beginner's Mind, "In the beginner's
| mind there are many possibilities, in the
| expert's there are few." As an expert, you've
| already got it figured out, so you don't need to
| pay attention to what's happening. Pity. '

What kind of an expert? It would seem that you have experts "figured out" and are not leaving room for those experts who stay open and capable of replacing a particular theory with the next and more powerful theory, which is the whole purpose of the scientific method.

Empirical disciplines (science, engineering, economics, business) are inductive, in that the next new development or experiment can wreck any theory or system, and a new theory or system must be developed to replace the old and erroneous one.

Theological, Philosophical or Mathematical disciplines are deductive, based on principles or premises, and some system of logical extension by a series of arguments.

The proposition 1+1=2 has been figured out.

Bertrand Russell and Lord Whitehead proved that statement at the end of the first volume of Principia Mathematica, and that proof was deduced directly from Logic. You can construct other Mathematics, using other premises than construction from this base, and Set Theory and Group Theory have done a fine job of working in a new space. But even they are deductive.

Deductive disciplines are constrained by the accepted truth or premise, by being ideal.

Inductive disciplines are constrained by observation, by what works, by being real.
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end of part 1, continued in part 2 of 2 ...

Question: how did Marie get that way (Nina, Annie)?

The answer to how she got where she is: Zen Parenting ... but it is difficult to understand and explain the truth, while you are still in the grip of the Void ...

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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 in the shape of a Green Dragon, 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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LS Chap. 16 .....

All harbor thoughts of yearning
and in their minds thirst to gaze at me.
When living beings have become truly faithful,
honest and upright, gentle in intent,
single-mindedly desiring to see the Buddha
not hesitating even if it costs them their lives,
then I and the assembly of monks
appear together on Holy Eagle Peak.
At that time I tell the living beings
that I am always here, never entering extinction,
but that because of the power of an expedient means
at times I appear to be extinct, at other times not,
and that if there are living beings in other lands
who are reverent and sincere in their wish to believe,
then among them too
I will preach the unsurpassed Law.