disappointing zen stories

Toxic Zen Story #31: The Zen-Tantric Wing of the Democratic Party.

DIFFICULT QUESTION 1. How can one highly-decorated Vietnam veteran
after another (McCain, Gore, Kerry) have the utmost difficulty in
defeating George W. Bush for the Office of President of the United
States, when George W. Bush is a hypocritical coward* from a family of
traitors* ?

.. * See "Toxic Zen Story #30: The Zen-Tantric Wing of
.. the Republican Party."

DIFFICULT QUESTION 2. How can George W. Bush pull off these victories
in spite of the worst mishandling of the job of Commander-In-Chief in
history, never admitting his glaring and obviously erroneous attitude,
judgement and behavior, when his political base rests almost totally on
the approval of former and current service personnel?

DIFFICULT QUESTION 3. How can he get away with this, after parading
around in a flight suit on the deck of an aircraft carrier, declaring
victory just before the real fight begins, pretending to search under
tables on camera for WMD at a political dinner, and generally acting
like a complete fool on almost every opportunity?

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The answers to these difficult questions lie with the basic structure
of the Democratic Party.


.. Sweeping Generalization:

.. Democrats Love Humanity, but Despise Principles.


.. Thomas Jefferson founded the Democratic Party in 1792 as
.. a congressional caucus to fight for the Bill of Rights
.. and against the elitist Federalist Party. In 1798, the
.. "party of the common man" was officially named the
.. Democratic-Republican Party and in 1800 elected Jefferson
.. as the first Democratic President of the United States.
.. Jefferson served two distinguished terms and was followed
.. by James Madison in 1808. Madison strengthened America's
.. armed forces -- helping reaffirm American independence by
.. defeating the British in the War of 1812. James Monroe
.. was elected president in 1816 and led the nation through
.. a time commonly known as "The Era of Good Feeling" in
.. which Democratic-Republicans served with little
.. opposition.

So, the Democrats started out initially in an ad hoc way as a "means to
an end", to fight for the Bill of Rights.

Once that end was accomplished, and not being founded on basic
principles, the Democrats have never historically had any firm
principles, except Jefferson's heavily-flawed love of humanity (He kept
slaves, but treated them well ...)

This mistake in not settling on the core beliefs is one that will take
a long, long time to rectify. Right off the bat, things go astray:

.. The election of John Quincy Adams in 1824 was highly
.. contested and led to a four-way split among Democratic-
.. Republicans. A result of the split was the emergence of
.. Andrew Jackson as a national leader. The war hero,
.. generally considered -- along with Jefferson -- one of the
.. founding fathers of the Democratic Party, organized his
.. supporters to a degree unprecedented in American history.
.. The Jacksonian Democrats created the national convention
.. process, the party platform, and reunified the Democratic
.. Party with Jackson's victories in 1828 and 1832. The
.. Party held its first National Convention in 1832 and
.. nominated President Jackson for his second term. In 1844,
.. the National Convention simplified the Party's name to
.. the Democratic Party.

After that the Civil War, the Reconstruction Era, the era of Jim Crow
in the South, and all of these turbulent changes betray the political
expediency which comes from a Democratic Party with no clear and basic
principles.

It was during the First World War under Wilson, the Depression and
Second World War under Roosevelt, and the Marshall Plan and Cold War
years under Truman where the Democratic Party finally forged its
principles: a love of humanity, and a basic distrust of "isms", except
for the Jefferson-ism of his intent which underlies the Declaration of
Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Jefferson's
intent to serve Humanity is truly the basic root and core belief of the
Democrats. But how do you grasp intent? It is very hard to isolate what
intent is.

The search for this meaning placed them on a path, where one principle
after another had to be discovered, grasped and then discarded ... in a
desperate and continuous search for a belief system that could allow
Humanity to flourish.

In the terms of the man who most clearly defines modern Democrats, Bill
Clinton's ... "Whatever works" is appropriate. This is an unequivocal
upholding of a Positive Moral Relativism, which seeks for good ends,
but allows bad means (like lying to the American Public).

Of course, lying about girls in the Oval Office is nowhere near as bad
as lying about WMD, or any of the vast quantities of lies by the Bush
White House. However, Bill Clinton "The Liar" loses points for creating
that trend, for opening the door to George W. Bush "The Endless Liar"
with an entire White House organization that endlessly and blatantly
lies as well.

The problem of grasping around for principles at a critical moment of
need ... is that sometimes you can come up with someTHING toxic, or a
complicity with someONE toxic.

So Democratic campaigns under Clinton and Gore had to deal with
scandals related to supporters who were unsavory. In 1996, convicted
Chinagate figures John Huang, Charlie "Yah-Lin" Trie and Johnny Chung
all donated money which actually came from Chinese Military sources.

Not having learned his lesson, Gore in his incredibly close losing
effort in the 2000 campaign, was caught in a front page photo in a
Buddhist Temple, taking money from a bald-headed Buddhist Priest.

As Nichiren (Japan 1222-1282), who had extremely negative views of all
Buddhist priests and monks in general, stated many times:

.. According to the Buddhist teachings, prior to Shakyamuni
.. slanderous monks would have incurred the death penalty.
.. But since the time of Shakyamuni, the One Who Can Endure,
.. the giving of alms to [or receiving from] slanderous
.. monks is forbidden in the sutra teachings. Now if all the
.. four kinds of Buddhists within the four seas and the ten
.. thousand lands would only cease giving alms to [or
.. receiving from] wicked priests and instead all come over
.. to the side of the good, then how could any more troubles
.. rise to plague us, or disasters come to confront us?
..
.. - On Establishing the Correct Teaching
.. for the Peace of the Land.

This is because in all the vast proliferation of Buddhist priests and
monks, those ones that practice the Buddhism of Shakyamuni in this
time, without distorting his teachings and ignoring his intent, are
impossible to find.

All the remaining (slanderous) priests are doing something incredibly
different from Shakyamuni Buddha: either distributing sutras that do
not resemble his teachings, or that he did not want taught, or doing
strange practices, like hand-to-hand combat that he would have
profoundly abhored ... and they do it all in his name, under the
umbrella of Buddhism.

An often-repeated Zen saying is: "If You See the Buddha on the road,
kill him." That would be the ultimate act in the identity theft, fraud
and counterfeiting that is perpetuated by modern "Buddhist" priests.
(Zen believers will try to explain away the "real" meaning of this
phrase, but that teacher would have stated it differently, had his
intent been other than murderous. And successive Zen believers would
not have retained and re-stated it endlessly, had their intent not been
equally vicious.)

Anyone who has ever met a Buddhist priest (in modern times),
particularly IN Asia, where their arrogance and cruelty is unbounded,
would know that they are definitely NOT NICE PEOPLE.

Brutal expedients are part and parcel of the technique of a Zen Master:

| Gutei raised his finger whenever he was asked a question
| about Zen. A boy attendant began to imitate him in this
| way. When anyone asked the boy what his master had
| preached about, the boy would raise his finger.
|.
| Gutei heard about the boy's mischief. He seized him and
| cut off his finger. The boy cried and ran away. Gutei
| called and stopped him. When the boy turned his head to
| Gutei, Gutei raised up his own finger. In that instant
| the boy was enlightened.

This story is Japanese, but is about a Chinese Ch'an Master. This
profound act of blatant child torture is considered a religious text to
Zen Buddhist monks and priests. It would also not be treasured down
through the centuries, unless it had a resonance with a hidden evil.

And just who are the Zen-Tantric Wing of the Democratic Party?

Zen believers for John Kerry:

.. Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Kevin Bacon, who meditated every
.. night at the Zen center during the filming of Mystic
.. River.

Physical Zen (martial arts) for John Kerry:

.. Uma Thurman, Quentin Tarentino, John Cusack, etc.

Tantric (Tibetan) believers for John Kerry:

.. Sharon Stone, Richard Gere, etc.


and his ulterior motives:

.. Pals of John Cusack think he's suddenly gone wacko!
.. Sources say the star's acting like the cocky con man in
.. his landmark film "The Grifters," whispering that he's
.. "targeted" John Kerry's daughter Alex -- and wooed her at
.. the Democratic Convention so he can marry her, infiltrate
.. the White House and enter politics!

His intent to undermine, comes directly from that Zen mind, which never
stops conniving.

On Frontline's interview show on John Kerry, called "The Choice 2004.",
there is a disturbing image.

Front and center on his desk is a figure in green, known as the
"Laughing Buddha". It is a laughing and dancing Buddhist Priest, and a
slanderous priest at that.

Anyone knowing such a person, would know that they never, ever dance
for joy. This kind of a moment only comes from Rapture in the life of a
Buddhist Priest. That rapture only comes from undermining a lay
believer's life for money, or doing some awful deed and getting away
scott free, like theft, rape or even murder.

No one in Asia, at least in modern times, "trusts" a Buddhist priest,
or thinks of them in any way other than dread. A smart person, on
seeing one coming down the trail, would reverse course or take another
path. The presence of such an obscenity on the desk of John Kerry
explains a lot. It is a very, very bad luck piece and bestows the worst
kind of ill-fortune on one who possesses it.

Whoever bestowed that evil statue on John Kerry, is someone whose
intent is secretly not for his success. Maybe they wish he would leave
public life, or secretly wish he would fail. Whoever they are, they
should remove it, because since he is attached to them, John Kerry
cannot.

These kinds of gifts, related to evil distortions of a religion that
the giver does not fully understand ... are never accidental, and have
hostile meaning between giver and receiver.

As did the advice from a "friend" to John McCain that he give that
speech at the 2004 convention for George W. Bush, the coward who so
thoroughly and unfairly attacked his service record in the primary in
2000.

As did the advice from a "friend" to Albert Gore to go to that Buddhist
Temple and recieve that gift from that Buddhist priest in the 2000
election, on camera.

And that meaning always comes across clearly in an extremely painful
result on election eve. And the closer the loss, the more intense and
long-lived the agony of defeat.

This election (2004) looks really close. With these kinds of evil
friends, do we need to ask what empowers the intense attacks by the
swift boat vets for "truth"?

Now that the results are in ... my point is made.

And John Kerry will get to relive this agony of defeat endlessly in the
Senate chamber.

That is, unless he becomes an even stronger and more aggressive foe to
the evils of the Bush Administration.

Arrogant evil such as this, that comes with its own occult power to
hypnotize the public can only be defeated by endless and unceasing
resistance.

It only grows when you "go along" with that evil.

That wagoso, or evil unity only leads to a greater hellishness.

John Kerry needs to lead every charge in the Senate against this evil,
not join the ranks of the damned.

The Senate Democrats need to resist, with every fiber of their being.

John Kerry needs to follow Gandhi and "Become the change you wish to
see in the world."

It is harder now, but the battle must be clearer to John Kerry, more
obvious in the aftermath ... Democracy is NOT the ultimate answer,
because the German people Democratically brought on the Third Reich,
and it CAN HAPPEN HERE, baby.

Resistance to evil IS the the only way to end evil's dominion, in each
and every case. No matter how many people vote for evil, it is still
wrong.

And to the rest of the world ... do you all realize that those
"bunker-buster nukes" which John Kerry valiantly fought, and which the
Bush Administration so much wants to use ... will never be used on
American soil?

Just where in hell do you think they WILL be used?


____ 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 acausality, your initial intention to
explore Being and essence doesn't matter ... the result is always the
same: chaos and misery, and utter ruination and emptiness to you, your
family, and your country.

But things don't have to be that way ...
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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 (and many other
.. wonderful things) are online at the SGI website:

http://www.sgi-usa.org/buddhism/libr...tra/index.html

.. To find an SGI Community Center:

http://sgi-usa.org/thesgiusa/findus/index.html
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LS Chap. 2

For those of dull capacities who delight in a little Law,
who greedily cling to birth and death,
who, despite the innumerable Buddhas,
fail to practice the profound and wonderful way
but are perplexed and confused by a host of troubles--
for these I preach nirvana.

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