ED,
>Yes, as they so nicely say in Japan: "The nail that sticks out gets hammered
>down."
I don't know about the US, but in the UK there is something called the 'tall
poppy syndrome' where the media relentlessly intrude into a person's
life (usually unsolicited, but not always) and then hypocritically proceed to
publicly break-down that person for being too prominent. If the analogy here
escapes you, then I think you're going to need a bigger hammer.
>>Have your claims to realization of Buddha Nature been accredited by authentic
>>Zen Masters?
Wow, that's a pretty ugly question and the first time in 10 years anyone has
ever felt the need to ask me. Kinda reminds me of that that scene in Raging
Bull
where Jake LaMotta, out of unwarranted paranoia, asks his brother, "Did you
fuck
my wife?" Of course, his brother (played by Joe Pesci), being a much classier
act than me, refused to answer. No, I have never received 'inka' from an
"authentic Zen Master" and I have never attended a Zen temple diligently enough
to qualify. Rather, have my 'openings', 'break-throughs', 'glimpses' been
recognised in dokusan (noone I've ever had dokusan with uses words like 'Buddha
Nature'/kensho/satori)? Well, have you ever fucked someone else's wife
(Sometimes in Zen we do use *you*)?
Mike
