Your other statements (even if you are so clever to never fully make a statement ), and the definitions for your categories, that you want to put us in, are based on assumptions or prejudices, that dont have any proove or rational reason for and therefor i assume, that what you want to do is to insult or discredit. Even if you always try to pull yourself out of it by saying: "dont get me wrong, i love you" your intentions are clear. Also the fact that you are even now surfing on the website, trying to find things that can be seen negatively somehow, is symptomatic for this kind of behaviour. (Please excuse my poor vocabulary...)
We don't use any deceptional recruitment tecniques, there is no use of false information i am not tryinig to cover something up. I for my part have tried to be perfectly honest with you and anybody else in this discussion, and so has anybody else that i know from our organisation... If you have any proove for these accusations, please step forward and say it formally, so we know were we stand If you do not have any proove, please be true to your liberal and intellectual claim, stop picking and come back to the root of this conversation.
For example, noone ever answered my three times asked question about the exhibition in which he uses a frontal stabbing motion to shoot of the top of the bottle with his fingers...Since we are making assumptions: That non-answering and the silence about it, seems a bit symptomical of trying to avoid something, maybe something that is difficult to explain...
I'm not saying that Huang is running a cult. Don't get me wrong. I am just providing information. I expect people to question. Then investigate. Evaluate. And eventually make their own decisions.
You expect that from intelligent people.
You expect that from intelligent people.
I expect people to question, to think and investigate, evaluate and making their own decisions also. In Fact that "questioning" was what i was trying to point out when i was speaking about reformists like Luther...Because thats exactly what he did. And that was what Huang Aguilar did when he decided to not be a part of any existing Buddhist lines. I am perfectly conform with you. I wonder why you think i would not be. Actually this belongs to the first teachings of the Master Aguilar in his Zen-Classes also. And anybody in our organisation is beeing called to do so. This is why this monastery is not a cult or anything similar (By the way: Similarities to Cults can be heavily found in any religion, even in Christianity or Buddhism itself). It is an open and free project, in which freedom comes first. The whole idea of Zen is to "awaken", so that people would see the world with different eyes, would see it as it is. Questioning is very important on that way. I do and did it just the same, and i hope i did not give an impression of the contrary, I tried to be very open in my answers to anybody and hoped i would not give this wrong impression. Instead i wanted to show, that my reasons are perfectly rational. So i dont get why you are now trying to go this way...
However your last sentence could also be seen as an insult, claiming that me myself, and other students of Huang Aguilar would not be intelligent. I guess you left that meaning open for choice. But I dont think that stitches like that are necesarry, do you?
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