Anyone who makes a new discovery not inline with the status quo such as some settled scientific theory always runs the risk of being laughed at, persecuted, ostracized, or even murdered. Real substantial change is a frightening thing for 99% of humanity. Especially, for those who have a vested interest in not letting change happen, since change represents for them a loss of their power and wealth. Fear of change drives their behavior and cruelty.

When Buddhism entered the West certain parts of it were acceptable for public consumption insofar as Buddhism appeared to deny a spiritual content or anything of a transcendent of super-worldly nature (later this was found not to be true). Over time, it became psychologized offering meditation to the world; a sure fire means of dealing with day to day stress. The effectiveness of meditation seemed to have been proven by the extensive efforts of Transcendental Meditation (TM) which being somewhat of a pioneer in meditation for the West, conducted a number of scientific studies (needless to say the hardcore materialists don't buy any of this since in their opinion brains, not minds, control us).

Coming to my own encounter with Zen Buddhism over these many years, I took Zen further which, historically, went only as far as one-pointedness of mind. I learned from this particular experience that this permits one to go to a much higher level where there is a direct encounter with a super-essential being, a spiritual friend, and what can only be described as an empowerment by Buddhas. This is verified by the Lankavatara Sutra under the phrase "light of Mahayana". I have been more or less secretive about this because the modern disposition is pretty much barbaric when it comes to the subject of spirituality. It is as if there were some kind of unseen demonic force or thought police governing the hearts and minds of people. Step out of the norm and you soon find out who the thought police are.

Coming back to my own experience, I had a super vision of how the world really was which lasted for what seemed like two weeks (there is no sense of time). This was to my amazement real Buddhism, the kind expressed in the Lankavatara Sutra. Everything was a configuration of Mind/light for want of a better term. I also saw first hand the implications of this which were, needless to say, astonishing. This, to be sure, was a future world not yet here but, hopefully, a world that will be here one day where the light of compassion is unceasing. During this period, this super-essential being who guided me, which seemed to be female, explained the Dharma to me, told me what I would be doing ten years in the future and even told me I would be using an Apple computer (yes, it was Apple). This was around June, before or after the time Jobs and Woz coined the term in 1976 for their company.

Eventually, I found that the Internet was a good place to show the corrected Buddhism using my Apple computer! This is when I realized just how dominated Buddhism was by counterfeit Buddhism and fake Buddhists, none of whom could understand Buddhism in countless lifetimes. The single most thing they resisted, waging war against, was the simple fact, which I discovered, that what animates us is deathless, eternal and compassionate whereas the animated is finite, being always subject to birth and death; trapped within a vicious circle. From this the most simple and basic deductions about Buddhism come. The most notable is do not cling to the animated! The other is connect (samadhi) with the animative. When I looked at the Pali Nikayas and the Lankavatara Sutra I laughed. It was not a laugh at these marvelous discourses but a laugh at the abject spiritual poverty of the human race which made ever effort to maintain their poverty.

Those who defend the status quo are perhaps the most mentally ill of all our species; who are just defending a vast prison system with its wardens, prison guards and brainwashed inmates. Those who wish to escape this vast prison system can do so but the animated is not the vehicle for such an escape. We first have to learn to recognize the prison then to psychically renounce it. Then one day we will catch a glimpse of true freedom by one-pointedness of mind.