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THE DEMYSTIFICATION OF ZEN
CHAPTER CONTENTS
ONE
THE "TAO"
TWO
ZEN
IT MUST FIRST BE UNDERSTOOD THAT ZEN IS A MEANS TO PSYCHOLOGICAL
THREE
ENLIGHTENMENT AND SATORI
THE WORD "ENLIGHTENMENT", AS USED IN THIS TEXT, IS TO KNOW OF
HUMAN SUFFERING AND CONFLICT, TO KNOW ITS CAUSE, AND HOW TO ELIMINATE
THAT CAUSE FROM THE MIND.
THE WORD "SATORI, AS USED, IS THE CONSEQUENCE OF THIS
ENLIGHTENMENT AND IS OUR AFFIRMATIVE COMMITMENT TO ELIMINATE FROM THE
MIND, THE CAUSE OF CONFUSION, CONFLICT AND INSANITY, ONCE KNOWN, AND
THE RELATIVE TIME NECESSARY TO DO SO.
IF THE REASON FOR COMMITTING OURSELVES TO ELIMINATING THE CAUSE
OF SUFFERING FROM THE MIND IS OUT OF COMPASSION FOR OUR OWN SUFFERING
OR FOR OUR OWN GAINS, WE WILL EXPERIENCE A PSEUDO-SATORI, WHICH IS
FOUR
NIRVANA
NIRVANA IS A STATE OF MIND FREE OF THE CAUSES OF HUMAN SUFFERING
AND CONFLICT, IS THE CONSEQUENCE OF ENLIGHTENMENT AND SATORI, AND IS
MIND AT ONE WITH THE TAO. NIRVANA IS MIND UNENCUMBERED BY EVALUATION,
COMPARISON AND DISCRIMINATION. IT IS A MIND PEACEFULLY AT ONE WITH
ALL THINGS. THIS NON-JUDGEMENTAL MIND IS ONE OF SENSUAL EXPERIENCE
OF, AND SPONTANEOUS PARTICIPATION IN THE TAO.
FIVE
THE CAUSE OF HUMAN SUFFERING AND CONFLICT
THE CAUSE OF HUMAN SUFFERING AND CONFLICT IS OUR COMMITMENT TO
THE ILLUSIONS WE CALL VALUES, MORALS AND ETHICS.
VALUES, MORALS AND ETHICS DO NOT EXIST OUTSIDE OF OUR CULTURALEXISTENTIAL MINDS. THEY DO NOT EXIST IN REALITY AND ARE THEREFORE A
FIGMENT OF OUR CULTURALLY AND EXISTENTIALLY INDOCTRINATED IMAGINATION.
WE BELIEVE OR THINK VALUES EXIST WHEN IN FACT THEY DO NOT. THIS
DESCRIBES THE SCHIZOPHRENIC MIND. THE SCHIZOPHRENIC MIND IS SEPARATED
FROM REALITY AND CENTERED IN UNREALITY OR WHAT PSYCHOLOGISTS CALL
FANTASY, BELIEVING THIS FANTASY TO BE REAL. CULTURAL/EXISTENTIAL
HUMANITY EXISTS ENTIRELY WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF ILLUSIONARY VALUES,
MORALS AND ETHICS AND IS THEREFORE ABSOLUTELY SCHIZOPHRENIC.
WE ARE EITHER AFFIRMATIVELY COMMITTED TO THE EXISTENCE OF VALUES,
MORALS AND ETHICS OR WE ARE NOT. IF WE ARE COMMITTED TO THE EXISTENCE
OF VALUES, MORALS AND ETHICS, WE ARE SCHIZOPHRENIC AND CONSEQUENTLY
INSANE. IF WE ARE NOT COMMITTED TO VALUES, MORALS AND ETHICS, THEN
CONFUSION, CONFLICT AND INSANITY ARE NOT A PART OF OUR PSYCHOLOGICAL
NATURE. THE TERM INSANE IS USED TO DESCRIBE THE PERSONAL AND SOCIAL
ACTIONS OF THE SCHIZOPHRENIC PERSONALITY.
THERE CAN BE NO CONFLICT WITHOUT THE VALUES OF RIGHT OR WRONG
BEING OFFENDED OR DEFENDED.
THERE CAN BE NO GUILT OR REPRESSION WITHOUT THE VALUES OF RIGHT
OR WRONG, GOOD OR BAD HAVING BEEN APPLIED.
THERE CAN BE NO PSYCHOLOGICAL NEUROSIS OR PSYCHOSIS WITHOUT THE
FEARS ASSOCIATED WITH THE LOSS OR GAIN OF THAT VALUED.
THERE CAN BE NO ANXIETY WITHOUT THE ANTICIPATION OR EXPECTATION
CONCERNING FUTURE UNCERTAINTIES ABOUT SUCCESS OR FAILURE.
THERE CAN BE NO FRUSTRATION WITHOUT A DESIRED GOAL BEING
THWARTED.
THE ILLUSIONARY CONCEPTS OF VALUES, MORALS AND ETHICS EXIST SO
THAT WE MAY JUDGE, SEPARATE AND DIVIDE, AND THEN PIT THE ONE SIDE
AGAINST THE OTHER. THIS ENABLES THE PERSONS INVOLVED TO FEEL EITHER
SUPERIOR OR INFERIOR AS THE CASE MAY BE. THIS IS THE UNDERLYING
MOTIVATION FOR ALL CULTURAL-EXISTENTIAL ACTIVITY.
DUE TO THE DIVISIVE AND CONFLICTING NATURE OF DUALITY,
CULTURAL/EXISTENTIAL HUMANITY CAN BE DESCRIBED AS BEING NOT ONLY
SOCIOPATHIC (ANTI-SOCIAL) IN ITS ATTITUDE AND RESPONSE TO HUMANKIND,
BUT ALSO PSYCHOPATHIC (AGGRESSIVELY ANTI-SOCIAL) MUCH OF THAT TIME.
SINCE CONFUSION, CONFLICT AND INSANITY ARE THE CONSEQUENCE OF OUR
COMMITMENT TO VALUES, MORALS AND ETHICS, AND PEACE EXISTS WHEN THERE
IS NO CONFUSION, CONFLICT OR INSANITY PRESENT, IT CAN BE CONCLUDED
THAT PEACE IS THE CONSEQUENCE OF HAVING NO VALUES, NO MORALS AND NO
ETHICS.
IF VALUES, MORALS AND ETHICS ARE THE DIRECT CAUSE OF ALL HUMAN
SUFFERING AND CONFLICT AND DO NOT EXIST IN THE TAO/EDEN/REALITY, AND
IF PEACE AND SANITY ARE TO BE REALIZED, WE MUST REFUSE TO TAKE PART IN
THEIR USE.
SIX
THE EGO AND SUPER-EGO
THE EGO IS DEFINED AS A PRIMARY STATE OF MIND, AT ONE WITH
REALITY, HAVING NO CONSCIENCE AND IS CONSCIOUSLY AWARE OF "I AM" AND
"IT IS".
THE "SUPER-EGO" IS A SECONDARY STATE OF MIND, NOT EXISTING AT
AS
PRESENTED,
THE
CULTURAL/EXISTENTIAL SUPER-EGO.
ZEN, IS THE MORTAL ENEMY OF ANY INDIVIDUAL, ORGANIZATION OR
RELIGION COMMITTED TO THE ILLUSION THAT IS VALUES, MORALS OR ETHICS.
SEVEN
SENSUAL
OUR SENSES ARE PERCEIVING REALITY WITH MINDLESS PERFECTION. DO
EIGHT
LOVE AND HATE
LOVE AND HATE ARE THE EMOTIONAL, MENTAL/VERBAL RESPONSES TO
VALUABLENESS.
NINE
THE CENTERED MIND
BEING NEITHER FOR THIS NOR AGAINST THAT, THE BUDDHA/CHRIST/REALITY
MIND IS ABSOLUTELY CENTERED AND BEING NO LONGER INNOCENT TO THE CAUSE
OF HUMAN SUFFERING AND CONFLICT, CANNOT BE TAKEN FROM THAT CENTER.
THE ILLUSIONARY, DUALISTIC, VALUISTIC, CULTURAL/EXISTENTIAL MIND,
BEING FOR THIS AND AGAINST THAT, IS ABSOLUTELY OFF CENTER AT ALL
TIMES.
SINCE THE CULTURAL/EXISTENTIAL MIND IS OFF CENTER, THE BODY,
TEN
FREEDOM FROM DESIRE
WE CANNOT HAVE FREEDOM FROM THE IMAGINARY PRISON OF THE CULTURALEXISTENTIAL MIND WITHOUT DESIRING IT, ALTHOUGH, PARADOXICALLY, THE ACT
OF "DESIRING" FREEDOM WILL KEEP US FROM BEING FREE.
FIRST WE VALUE, THEN WE DESIRE THAT WHICH WE VALUE. TO ELIMINATE
DESIRE, WE MUST ELIMINATE FROM THE MIND THE NEED TO VALUE.
IF WE DESIRE TO BE FREE FROM THE PRISON OF THE
CULTURAL/EXISTENTIAL MIND, WE MUST NOT PLACE ANY IMPORTANCE ON THE
MEANS OR THE END, FOR TO VALUE THE MEANS (ZEN) OR THE END (NIRVANA) IS
TO IMPRISON OURSELVES HOPELESSLY IN DESIRE.
ZEN, BY ELIMINATING VALUE, CONSEQUENTLY ELIMINATES DESIRE.
ELEVEN
TWELVE
THE CHRIST SPIRIT WITHIN
THE "SECOND COMING OF CHRIST" IS OURSELVES AS NON-DUALISTIC, NONJUDGEMENTAL, REALITY CENTERED MINDS.
THE SO CALLED "ANTI-CHRIST" IS NONE OTHER THAN CHRISTIANITY
ITSELF, AS EXPRESSED THROUGH ITS COMMITMENT TO ILLUSIONARY VALUES,
MORALS AND ETHICS AND ANY PRACTITIONER THEREOF.
CHRISTIANS, BY VIRTUE OF THEIR COMMITMENT TO ILLUSIONARY VALUES,
MORALS AND ETHICS, WHICH ARE THE CAUSE OF ALL HUMAN SUFFERING AND
CONFLICT, ARE EITHER INNOCENTLY OR KNOWINGLY DOING THE WORK OF THE
"SATANISTIC" SUPER-EGO MIND.
THIRTEEN
THE ZEN TEACHINGS OF GUATAMA SIDDHARTHA-BUDDHA. (THE SO CALLED
"FOUR NOBLE TRUTHS").
(1) TO KNOW THAT CULTURAL/EXISTENTIAL HUMANITY SUFFERS AND TO
UNDERSTAND THE NATURE OF THAT SUFFERING.
SUFFERING IS DEFINED AS CONFUSION, CONFLICT AND INSANITY, WHICH
IS NEUROSIS, PSYCHOSIS, GUILT, REPRESSION, ANXIETY, FRUSTRATION,
DEPRESSION, AND THE BIOLOGICAL STRESS CREATED BY THEM.
(2) TO KNOW ITS CAUSE.
THE CAUSE OF SUFFERING IS OUR AFFIRMATIVE COMMITMENT TO
ILLUSIONARY DUALITY, WHICH IS VALUES, MORALS AND ETHICS, WHICH IS
GOOD AND BAD, RIGHT AND WRONG, UGLY AND BEAUTIFUL, GREAT AND INFERIOR,
ETC.
(3) TO KNOW OF ITS ENDING.
THE END OF SUFFERING AND CONFLICT IS CALLED NIRVANA, WHICH IS
MIND AT ONE WITH THE TAO/EDEN/REALITY, WHICH IS MIND FREE FROM THE
NEED FOR VALUES, MORALS AND ETHICS AND THE CONFUSION, CONFLICT AND
INSANITY CREATED BY THEM.
(4) TO KNOW THE WAY THERETO.
TO KNOW THAT CULTURAL HUMANITY SUFFERS, TO KNOW THE CAUSE OF THAT
FOURTEEN
THE "AQUARIAN AGE" AND THE "BIBLICAL MILLENNIUM"
THE AQUARIAN AGE IS A TERM USED TO SIGNIFY A TIME OF ABSOLUTE
PEACEFUL COEXISTENCE WITH SELF, OTHERS AND NATURE.
THE MILLENNIUM IS DEFINED AS AN "AGE OF PEACE" DURING WHICH THE
"CHRIST MIND" IS TO INHABIT THE EARTH.
THE DEFINITIONS FOR THE AQUARIAN AGE AND THE BIBLICAL MILLENNIUM,
ARE IN ESSENCE THE SAME.
WHEN THE NON-DUALISTIC BUDDHA/CHRIST/REALITY MIND IS REALIZED,
THE AQUARIAN AGE AND MILLENNIUM WILL BE REALIZED, NOT BEFORE.
FIFTEEN
PERFECT-LESS-NESS
THE "PERFECT" NON-DUALISTIC MIND IS NEITHER PERFECT NOR
IMPERFECT.
THE "PERFECT" MIND IS PERFECTLY INDIFFERENT, BEING NEITHER FOR
NOR AGAINST.
THIS MIND IS NEITHER PROUD NOR HUMBLE, PURE OR IMPURE.
THE "PERFECT" MIND HAS NOTHING TO GAIN, NOTHING TO LOSE, NEEDS
SIXTEEN
THEREFORE
AS THE FOREGOING FACTS ARE FULLY UNDERSTOOD, WE ARE ENLIGHTENED.
IF WE AFFIMATIVELY AND AGGRESSIVELY COMMIT OURSELVES TO THIS
KNOWLEDGE, WE HAVE EXPERIENCED SATORI. SATORI IS THE TIME SPENT FROM
THE MOMENT OF OUR COMMITMENT TO THE ELIMINATION OF ALL VALUES, MORALS
AND ETHICS FROM THE MIND.
CONSEQUENTLY, WE ARE ON THE PATH TO A MIND AT ONE WITH THE TAO,
WHICH IS THE MIND OF BUDDHA.
CONSEQUENTLY, WE ARE ON THE PATH TO A MIND AT ONE WITH EDEN,
WHICH IS THE MIND OF A CHRIST.
CONSEQUENTLY, WE ARE ON THE PATH TO A MIND AT ONE WITH REALITY,
FREE OF SCHIZOPHRENIC ILLUSIONS AND THE CONFUSION, CONFLICT AND
INSANITY CREATED BY THEM.
ALL THREE MINDS DESCRIBED, BEING ONE AND THE SAME MIND.
SEVENTEEN
IN CONCLUSION
THE WAY TO INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIAL SANITY IS NOT DIFFICULT.
ONLY OUR LACK OF DESIRE FOR THE TRUTH CONCERNING THE CAUSE OF
HUMAN SUFFERING AND CONFLICT AND HOW TO ELIMINATE THAT CAUSE FROM THE
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