He is Baaaaaa-ack

After another failure trying to be a Zen Master, Old Cassidy is back as Tenpa.  He’s back to Vajrayana now.

Let's explore some of Cassidy's Zen-isms and see how they would fit with a Vajrayana snake-er-um teacher.

From HannyaShingyo, Thursday, December 31:  “Huang-Po said no matter how fucked up, stop conceptual thought and you are Buddha.” 

What?  Damn!  You thought again and your "Buddha" just evaporated.  That won’t work. How bout this one?

On same day:  “I recklessly tried everything for myself without ‘teachers.’”

Well that explains your failure there, doesn’t it?  No teacher.  No way.  No shit.

So how about this one from @Jyakunen on Wednesday, September 29, “Passions lead to supreme bliss; delusions find perfect enlightenment; afflictions reveal Nirvana; sensory appearances are all it.”

That’s kinda the opposite of the truth, isn’t it?  Like rolling in shit and thinking you smell good.  If you believe that, I have some samsara cologne for you to try. 

So how many times will this snake shed his skin until he finds something he's qualified to do? And why of all things would a felon NEED to be SOME KIND of religious teacher?

Be a watchmaker so you can steal watches!

A dental assistant so you can steal gold caps!

A banker would have obvious benefits!

Why the hell do you have to pick on Buddhism?

Crawl back into your hole, you viper.  

Happy Birthday?

FULL EQUATIONS

October 12th is the birthday of Jetsunma Ahkön Lhamo, the first Western woman to be recognized as a tulku, or reincarnate saint, in the history of Tibetan Buddhism.  She is well loved and widely respected in the Buddhist world, and she has been responsible for hooking many sentient beings onto the path of Dharma in this lifetime.  That , of course, is something that Bill Cassidy (aka Tulku Tenpa, JigmeRinpoche, Dried Shit Zen, etc.) hates to even think about.  He simply cannot stand having someone, especially a woman, be what he so wants to be.  So to throw a little cold water on her birthday celebration he posts a death threat on his blog, Digital Tibetan Buddhist Altar.  Naturally it’s a cryptic death threat posing as an innocuous astrology report.  Bill doesn’t think most people are clever enough to add 1+1 and get 2.  It’s part of his arrogance thing, that’s he’s oh, so much cleverer than anybody else.  

Too bad that Bill can’t add up whole equations though.  He thinks he’s so very, very clever, but he can’t see even the simplest things.  For example, viciously slandering a pure Dharma teacher and attacking her in any way possible + seducing a nun to break her vows and live in sin with him + stealing from Buddhist organizations + posing as a whole string of alleged Buddhist teachers in order to lure naïve, unsuspecting practitioners into his vile schemes = what?  Not hard to figure out that equation, but it seems to be beyond Bill.  Maybe you should go back and take a beginning math course, Bill.  It’s never too late to start anew.

Ickybones-Sushi

I know a man with a backyard plan
He thinks to build a castle in sand
Like any 14yr old man would plan
If he had a yard filled with sand.

He scrapes and scrabbles all day long
At night he types his Bullshit song
He rants and raves about his plays
And digs the sand every day

He needs to be a guru, sure.
But never says what he stands for
He' never seen that other shore
And Lord Buddha he deplores.

Oh, dear friend, can you not see
You will not show true identity
You won't show accountability
You're full of culpability.

So where's this going?  How to be
A man of authenticity?
Too late for that dear, we see you
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Spiderwebs and Dissing the Prophet

Oh, what a tangled web we weave!  Yes, the spider gizmo looks great, especially for Buddhists who are trying really hard to uphold the equality of all life.  And, yes, it's nice that His Holiness the Dalai Lama buys tools and things from the internet source that the spider rescue thing comes from.

Not that there aren't more important things one could say about the Dalai Lama!

In fact, the November 17 post from blogger and convicted felon William Cassidy (who likes to call himself "Tulku Urgyen Tenpa"--as if!) continues and expands his trend of trivializing Buddhism.

Not content with that project, he has used a mere gossamer wisp of connection to segue into AK47's in Pakistan, Islamic insurgents, and . . . the Prophet.  (Peace be upon him!)  The story about the Prophet remaining undiscovered in his hideaway in a cave because of a spiderweb at the entrance . . . well, maybe it is told that way.  But it's a story we learned as a child (from Children's Digest, in fact) about Robert the Bruce of Scotland.  To each his own?

"To each his own" would be a charitable interpretation of the blog's parting shot at all people of faith:  "So you can give one of these to your Muslim friends.  For Christmas.  You'll excuse me, as now I have to go sing Kumbaya."  That belief thing?  Whether Buddhist, Muslim, or Christian--the blogger displays equal opportunity contempt.