When one engages someone else in any sort of interaction, one engages in a sort of contract.

This is very often an unspoken contract. One is generally socially aware of the ways in which one is civilly obliged to interact with another person.

Yet very often, one will engage another person in a dehumanizing way, in a sense, forcing them into a contract that they did not agree too.

I'm going to talk about two things today. Firstly, Zen masters.

Secondly, I will talk about people who attempt to idolize them and their actions, and pretend to protect and carry on their tradition by creating a dogma out of them.

In the case of the great masters of ancient China, they transmitted the Dharma by engaging directly with seekers according to their needs. This manifested in claps, shouts, phrases, words, actions to awaken the aspirant to the One Mind.

Their behaviour was shifted according to the situation, entirely responsive and dynamic. It was clear that they had no dogma, the ones of greatest capacity relying on nothing whatsoever, always fluid and engaging in a robust and spontaneous way. They may have had ritual and pattern in some aspect of their lives and their practice but they did not teach with dogma.

Individuals all engage with the world in countless, unfathomable ways. Their understandings differ, beliefs differ, actions differ. Yet there are some individuals who are coercive and threatening, who seek to be in positions of power. Generally, such individuals adhere to an ideology which they can clearly present as superior to other ideologies as a means to have power. The very nature of their struggle is one which involves a dogmatic set of principles which act as an entity seeking to destroy others and defend itself. It often relies upon labelling an individual, a label which denotes affiliations with a outright rejectable csteog of belief or ideology. In this way, it is a very fascist and coercive behaviour, incredibly subversive, dangerous and bullyish.

I encourage others to engage with these ideas and ask yourselves why the hypocrisy of some individuals subsist, when such individual only seeks to destroy free discussion, to bully and denigrate others. Who has no wish to engage truthfully and on equal terms. I encourage people to engage with the idea of double-speak and how this individual engages in it and how it speaks volumes on his hypocrisy. It's clear who it is I'm speaking of, no need to say it, but one thing must be said. This forum is not healthy, and has not been for some time. If the moderators are not going to do their job, then it is up to the community to clarify the very real issues that plague the forum and do something about it.

My humble and heartfelt words.