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Ch’an Dao Blog Article – Neidan As We Get Older! (18.4.2025)

18/04/2025 Adrian (釋大道)

I suspect the ancient Greeks encountered Buddhist monasticism when visiting India (such as Pythagoras), learned the Buddhist method of “looking within”, and then adjusted the technique as a means to “prove” the efficacy of their particular philosophical perspectives (the work of Plotinus may be taken as an example of this endeavour). Later, via the Greeks, a community of Jews (in Qumran) started sitting in meditation to personally attain a “glimpse of Yahweh” – a practice that eventually spread to the reformed Jewish sect of “Christianity” – whose adherents started to meditate whilst sat in the caves found in the Egyptian Desert (this type of Christianity spread to Britain – hundreds of years prior to Catholicism – becoming “Celtic Christianity”).

St Albans: Consciousness Does Not Exist – and Dubious Examples of “Christianity”! (4.4.2025)

04/04/2025 Adrian (釋大道)

The Church suppresses and disempowers the working class in every narrative it constructs. The Workers are viewed as the scum of the earth by the middle class that runs most of the UK’s institutions. The Church today remains silent as the capitalist countries it’s supports brings the world once again to the brink of war. The Church is the devil incarnate which expresses itself through the self-serving literature it’s conspired to print and circulate. The Church calls this lie “freedom of expression”. Of course, it is only freedom of its own expression. Perhaps the biggest joke is that those without theological degrees are considered “unqualified” to see all this! Oh dear, no working 90 minutes a-week (on Sunday morning if the CofE priest can muster a congregation) with a free house and income tax exemption for me, then! Abolish this subterfuge – and the Workers will be one level nearer freedom.

USSR: Soviet Scientist – Yuri Knórozov – Made a Revolutionary Discovery 70-Years Ago! (29.3.2025)

29/03/2025 Adrian (釋大道)

In other words, by holding the power of the educated working-class mind firmly in check, the bourgeoisie retains its control of the means of production and prevents any genuine Revolutionary forces from gathering and developing within capitalist society – this is precisely “why” institutions such as Birmingham University actively “lie” about Socialism and its power to “free” the working-class mind and body from the yoke and burden of pointless and maniacal profit-making. Meanwhile, whilst demonising Socialism, the bourgeois West quietly “steals” the incredible academic breakthroughs achieved by the Socialist world (plagiarism) – whilst simultaneously obscuring and wiping-out the Socialist source of those breakthroughs.

USSR: Stalin’s [1953] Funeral – Greatest of the 20th Century – and the Resulting Stampede! (27.2.2025)

27/02/2025 Adrian (釋大道)

Since the recent détente of the US and modern Russia – the Russian-language Yandex search-engine has once again become easily available via the Western internet. Since I last regularly accessed the “deep” Russian internet – I have noticed that whereas there was about a 50%-50% distribution of pro and anti Stalin articles – a new narrative has been ordered which portrays Stalin as a mass killer who also achieved one or two great achievements for the Russian people (the new orientation is roughly 25& pro and 75% anti). This is a Western (capitalist), reactionary, Trotskyite, and entirely fascist attitude. Furthermore, it is pseudo-history. Joseph Stalin was working-class (most old Bolsheviks were middle-class) and was Georgian – not Russian (Stalin rejected all forms of nationalism – including Russian). The Soviet Union was a collective of around 15 or 16 countries (depending on era) that acted in Socialist collaboration. The history of the Soviet Union is not the history of Russia – even if Russia was the socio-economic driving force. The point of the 1917 Revolution was a new era in human evolution – a step forward and away from feudalism and capitalism.

Email: Studying Monasticism – BMA (UK) – Replying to Comment! (20.2.2025)

20/02/2025 Adrian (釋大道)

“Your exploration of Christian monasticism as a blueprint for spiritual and communal living is both insightful and thought-provoking. The parallels you draw offer a fresh perspective on how different traditions can inform and enrich one another. Your writing reflects deep contemplation and a genuine appreciation for the wisdom found in monastic practices. Thank you for sharing such a meaningful and well-researched reflection!”

US: Murdered Chinese Woman – Zhuang Menghan [庄梦涵] – Accused US “Boyfriend” of Abuse! (14.2.2025)

14/02/2025 Adrian (釋大道)

A 23-year-old Chinese student who was found dead at her off-campus residence on Feb. 4 had accused her boyfriend of abuse in a social media post, but the post was later deleted.

In the post, the victim said, “This guy abused me… He always acts like he’s innocent. He’s trying to send me to jail and everything he says is 99 percent lies. I thought it was true love, but I was blind.”

The Chinese Consulate General in Los Angeles confirmed her death on Wednesday.

Zhuang Menghan, also known as Emily King, was a fourth-year undergraduate student at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). A report from the local coroner revealed that she died from multiple injuries.

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