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!