Christening and baptising are Eurocentric acts of psychological and physical destruction of non-European culture that has evolved to interpret the world in entirely different ways. The act of ‘Christening’ and particularly ‘baptising’ - exist as a means for the recipient to actively participate in the historical and existential ‘rejection’ of their religious and political understanding of the world as if it were ‘inferior’ and of a ‘lesser’ value than that of the Eurocentric ignorance encountered. When non-White people arrived into 14th and 15th century England, they were automatically freed from a state of institutional slavery and transitioned into a state of wage slavery. This transition is merely a legal rearrangement of the relationship of the individual to the prevailing economic forces extant in the external world. This rearrangement is often (mindlessly) termed 'freedom' but wage slavery is just another form of economic slavery eulogised by the bourgeoisie. It may be a preferable state to that of institutional slavery, but it is a lesser state for the working class than the freedom and self-determination found within the state of Socialism. To accept ‘Christening’ and ‘baptising’ is in effect the ‘forcing’ of the accepting of predatory capitalism, and bizarre idea that Europeans are spiritually, physically and culturally ‘superior’ to every other non-White person, either singularly or collectively. Therefore, by ‘rejecting’ christening and baptising the individual is remaining free from accepting the (inverted) spiritual essence of the modern, capitalist system!
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Dear Gillian
What is interesting is that after decades of effective inner and outer martial arts practice, I have arrived at a profound 'stable' state of mind, body and spirit (whatever that is). This journey has traversed many inner and outer levels or states of being. Mostly, this has included a logical approach to physical training motivated by 'doubt' a) in the process itself, and b) in my ability to keep-up the practice or c) to carry-out the prescribed practice correctly. This 'doubt' was inward whilst the physical 'outer' Chinese martial arts techniques were superb and highly effective. This 'doubt' (which ceased to function about 14-years-ago in c. 2007) acted like a force of magnetism drawing my 'uncertain' inner-being toward to the solid and stable outer-structure of the martial arts techniques and how they might be used in self-defence (function) and mind and body health and fitness (longevity). There is now a great awareness. A great all-embracing sense of psychological being that appears to be united with mind, body and environment. This unity I term 'spiritual' because all this seems 'transcendent'. Of course, whilst being driven on by the inner doubt to practice physical martial arts (as a form of 'armouring' against external attack), I also committed myself to intense Ch'an meditative practice as a means to 'uproot' this doubt which all motivating throughout my entire life to 'take action' in many different arenas - it also contained an element of 'weakness'. As I interpreted this 'weaknesses' as a major problem that a) held me back in a state of fearful 'non-action', or b) sabotaged physical actions so as to render all exertion completely pointless! The mind 'cleared' and 'expanded' - it became all-embracing so that the body stopped appearing to be 'outside' of it and took its place entirely within psychological awareness. Although I had my initial experiences of the realisation of a 'still' and 'empty' mind with its awareness expanding and embracing all things around 1990 - it took another 15-years for this experience to settle-down (2005), and about another two or three years for all vestiges of 'doubt' to completely dissolve (2007/8). What did happen around 1990, however, is that my physical use of outer Chinese martial arts technique deepened, expanded and matured, and since the time of 'teaching' in my own right (as opposed to 'training' under a teacher) - I have never lost a fight in the training hall. (Around a year before this experience, I was following a strict Chinese (Mahayana) Buddhist 'monastic' regime and sitting in meditation for hours a day practicing the hua tou 'Who is hearing?' Suddenly, whilst sitting in my 'cell' and without warning, my mind 'ceased to move' becomingly utterly and completely 'still'. This was accompanied by deep sense of permanent ecstasy! My Chinese teachers correctly taught me with 'silence' - whilst my Western teacher Richard Hunn (1949-2006) - my Western Ch'an teacher - correctly taught me with words! Ironically, he drew my attention to the authentic Chinese Ch'an texts. 'Neither be attached to the (realised) inner void - nor hindered by (the 'external') hindering phenomena'. It was deep within the 'silence' of my Chinese Ch'an Masters (including Chan Tin Sang [1924-1993] that I discovered the poignant meaning of Richard Hunn's spiritually 'vibrant' words. This is how I knew that Richard Hunn was correct in his understanding. Later, this dual instruction [into non-duality] led to the next shift in perspective This occurred a year later after a further period of intense practice, and was a product of a complete change or 'turning about' [see the 'Lankavatara Sutra'] at the deepest essence of the mind. It was such a profound and important 'first principle' that I nearly omitted it from the list of all the important events! I was once meditating sat on the ground outside 'returning' all sensory data 'back to its 'empty ground' essence - when a cool and refreshing Summer's freeze blew gently across my face. Suddenly, my mind instantaneously 'turned the right way around' immediately abandoning its previous 'inverted' functionality and appeared to 'expand', assume an 'all-embracing' position of being, whilst this 'new awareness' thoroughly permeated the physical-body and penetrated the physical universe throughout the past, present, and future! This permanent shift in psychological and physical manifestation changed 'me' from the DNA-chemical foundation upward and influenced all the views and opinions I now hold!) This includes not only transforming the experience of sparring with students (which is now unified experience premised upon wisdom, loving kindness and compassion) - but also manifested within the otherwise 'brutal' realm of 'honour fights' whereby unknown and unfamiliar individuals suddenly turn-up at my training hall and (disrespectfully) ask to spar! They wish to gain fame and fortune through 'out of control' violence which involves (for them) the 'beating' and 'exposing' a local (Chinese) gongfu teacher! How did this happen? I think whereas my opponents were still motivated by a deep and profound sense of 'doubt' (often involving a profound 'self-hatred') - I no longer experienced this 'doubt' which 'divides' human-beings during combat. Doubt by this time in my life had become nothing more than a profound sense of enhanced 'awareness' full of compassion and understanding. This is all held in place by a physical (martial) ability that can use 'gentleness' just as easily as 'harshness' to 'control' or 'regulate' physical interactions. Signed: Adrian Chan-Wyles [陳恒豫 - Chan Heng Yu] (22.11.2021) - '釋大道' (Shi Da Dao) Witnessed and Authenticated by Yau, Gee-Cheuk [邱芷芍] (22.11.2021) - 'Gee Wyles' - Wife of Adrian Chan-Wyles Let’s start with the thorny issue of ‘Zionism’ which was unanimously declared a form of ‘White Supremacy’ by the United Nations (UN) in 1975. The modern State of Israel was imposed upon the Palestinian people without their knowledge or consent by the imperialist British. Although emerging out of the era of the Nazi German Holocaust (a campaign of genocide targeting the Jews, the Romany, the Disabled, the Homosexual, the Communists and the Politically Dissident) which saw the systematic murder of around six million Jews and five million non-Jews – the modern State of Israel has its roots in the racist, Zionist ideology prevalent in the West from around 1880 – which managed to politically influence British (imperialist) foreign policy since at least 1917 (through the Balfour Declaration). At that time, and giving-in to Zionist (terrorist) agitation in Palestine, the British unilaterally declared that a ‘State of Israel’ would be carved-out of an existing Palestine! This policy was not enacted until 1948, and involved heavily armed Jewish mobs attacking, killing and driving-out the Palestinians from the ancestral lands their people had occupied for thousands of years (referred as the ‘Nakba’ by the Palestinian victims of this new ‘genocide’).
The Zionists responsible for this outrage pursue a White, racist ideology which they superimpose over their Jewish identity so that the two become conflated with one another, and those who protest this fascistic activity paradoxically leave themselves open to unfounded and unwarranted allegations of ‘anti-Semitism’. Ironically, the protection of Jews from fascism requires genuine anti-fascists to target the rampant ultra-nationalism inherent within Zionism, to the same intensity and extent as the anti-fascist movement attacks any and all forms of far-right ideology advocating race-hate and violence! Zionists are ‘White’ and advocate the death and destruction of the ‘non-White’ Palestinian people! It is this ultra-nationalism of Zionism that is the enemy – and not Judaism itself. A number of affluent middle-class Jews living within 1880s Germany allowed themselves to be swayed by the far-right political rhetoric prevalent at the time, and aligned themselves with it as a means to ‘camouflage’ themselves into being ‘accepted; into mainstream ‘White’ German society. What Zionists do not tell you when they call you ‘anti-Semitic’ is that across the world millions of Jews also RESIST Zionism and routinely refer to it as ‘fascism’. Be strong in your anti-fascism and do not be swayed by the murderous and bullying tactics that is ‘Zionism’! In the above article, Leonard Cohen espouses a load of incomprehensible and contradictory gibberish that appears dangerously close (in essence) to ‘aligning’ itself with Zionist’ ultra-nationalist rhetoric. This was an in interview given around 2006 about his time spent in a Japanese Zen Monastery in the Las Angeles hills (a place of self-deception and self-delusion) catering to the rich and famous: ‘I wasn’t looking for a religion,” Cohen once reflected. “I already had a perfectly good one [his Jewish faith]. And I certainly wasn’t looking for a new series of rituals. But I had a great sense of disorder in my life, of chaos and depression, of distress.’ Really? If his so-called ‘Jewish faith’ met all his requirements for a healthy and good inner and outer life – then why is he suffering (in his own words) ‘... a great sense of disorder in my life, of chaos and depression, of distress’? This type of delusional psycho-babble sounds very similar to the incomprehensible media statements released by the Israeli government every time its military forces wantonly break the law and murder innocent men, women and children! What probably never helped matters for ‘Leonard Cohen’ (the suffering individual) is that the Japanese Zen Buddhist tradition is renowned for its inherent corruption of supporting State fascism both before and during WWII, and how key Japanese War Criminals not only went ‘unpunished’ after WWII by the occupying US Authorities – but were used by the Americans to export their particular brand of fascistic (and anarchic) Buddhism to the West! The parallels between corrupt Japanese Zen and Zionism are stark. DT Suzuki was probably the most well-known these criminals (who harked from a long line of Japanese War Criminals) who assisted in the distortion of Buddhist philosophy so that the Buddhist establishment could add its wait to whatever an ‘out of control’ government and State decided to do in the secular world. These individuals went ‘unpunished’ because the US government believed that their ‘fascistic’ Buddhism formed a natural barrier to the spread of Chinese Communism into Japan (and the West)! The other issue discovered by Leonard Cohen is the inherent corruption found within the Japanese Zen tradition which has refused to adhere to the Vinaya Discipline laid-down by the Buddha over two-thousand years ago! Indeed, the eminent Chinese Ch’an Buddhist – Master Xu Yun (1840-1959) - lived through the rampant destruction of China inflicted by the Kwantung Army of Imperial Japan during the 1930s and 1940s, witnessing the barbarous acts first-hand. He always taught that such immorality stemmed from the Japanese Buddhist tradition refusing to teach its monks, nuns and laity the ‘correct’ Buddhist morality and discipline in the temples and monasteries! The above article explains Leonard Cohen’s experience: ‘The five years that Cohen spent living in Mount Baldy, under the strict instructions of the monastery’s founder, Kyozan Joshu Sasaki Roshi, was intended to cure him of his mental health woes. While it added much-needed structure to his life, Cohen found an unlikely drinking buddy in Roshi, and they enjoyed late-night whiskey sessions together. However, his search for inner peace ultimately came to no avail, and in 1999, Cohen decided to walk away.’ It would appear that in all this mockery of ‘Buddhism for cash’ no one advised Leonard Cohen to ‘return’ all that he ‘hears’ (sees, smells, tastes and touches) back to its empty perceptual essence! Whilst the ‘fake’ Japanese ‘Zennists’ sucking at the teat of US capitalism created a ‘mirage’ for rich people to head for but never reach – no one taught Leonard Cohen the ‘correct’ Buddhist path? Now, Leonard Cohen thinks he has been a Zen Buddhist priest for five-years and the Western media indulges his self-delusion whilst simultaneously failing to confront his Zionism! Every facet of religiosity must be subjected to the light of reason, as there can be no hiding place for any form of 'inverted' thinking or wrong way around interpretation of reality. All must be crystal clear so that the light of reason and the pure light of consciousness are identical in nature and no longer represent two divergent (and antagonistic paths) pertaining to reality. Certainly, this process of 'clearing-out' the mind and body should not - and cannot - result in a one-sided 'this side of reality' concreteness that firmly rejects in its unfolding process every facet that exists 'other there' in that 'other side of reality' - as if the two-sides to this dualistic-process possess no eternal foundation of unity and reconciliation. In this regard, whenever the reader happens to come across a picture featuring Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels hard at intellectual work together in their study, it should not be wondered at (when it is realised) that what is being witness (and 'observed') is nothing less than a form of 'monasticism' in both momentum and process! Of course, this may not be identical with the more formal type of Christian monasticism that they brutally 'crucify' in their collaborative masterpiece 'The Manifesto of the Communist Party' (1948) - and yet what is seen is all the conscious processes of the mind gathered together in a directed and focused intellectual entity of light that serves (quite literally) to carve-out a hitherto (and unknown) statement of 'fact' and 'reality' which serves to educate the working-class into abandoning all hitherto prevalent 'inverted thinking' and inner and outer historical 'attachments' to conventional religion. This being the undoubted case, it is remarkable to observe that within the creative process that defines the sublime work of Marx and Engels, there lies at the heart a tremendous 'physical discipline' which demands that their human-bodies be kept in one (suitable) location, and that no matter what bodily call or potentially 'over-powering' urge is experienced (other than the necessity of toilet and light refreshment), the body will 'stay put', remain more or less 'passive', and allow the mind to perform its dialectically continuous task of 'outpouring' its multitudinous (non-inverted) interpretations of reality, and all the knowledge and wisdom that process entails. 'Nothing is easier than to give Christian asceticism a Socialist tinge. Has not Christianity declaimed against private property, against marriage, against the State? Has it not preached in the place of these, charity and poverty, celibacy and mortification of the flesh, monastic life and Mother Church? Christian Socialism is but the holy water with which the priest consecrates the heart-burnings of the aristocrat.' Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels - The Manifesto of the Communist Party - Chapter III. Socialist and Communist Literature - 1. Reactionary Socialism
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