From Buddha to Asperger

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The Coming Race From Buddha to Asperger

(Brief Excerpts)
Callum Jensen (pen name, Dan Green)
... I experienced one of the most calming and harmonic
days of my life parallel to another in May 1994 at
Samye-Ling when HH the Dalai Lama was paying a special
visit before 20,000 attendees to consecrate the completed
Temple that had been in construction since 1970. Being
amidst Tibetan Buddhists and persons with autism, I found
myself recognising a 'sameness' and similar deep vibe, and
wondered why this could be so....
Key to Buddhist doctrine is the concept of
impermanence, the continual changing nature of all beings
and objects. Given this, we can ask a question - if
Buddhism, instigated by the presence and investigations of
one Gautama Buddha, - like all else must change, then into
what? In September 2009, the National Health Service in
England made a startling announcement, that one in every
hundred adults in the country has autism, the neurological
condition described as a complex developmental
disability.... To quote [Leo] Kanner ..., we read, 'It whenever
possible disregards, ignores, shuts out anything that
comes to the child from outside.' Kanner went on to stress
that the lack of contact he was describing was only in
dealing with people whereas on the other hand objects
might be acceptable. He chose his other defining feature as
obsessive insistence on sameness, 'Most simply in the
form of repetitive stereotyped movements and noises,
additionally in the adoption of elaborate rituals and routines
and lastly, the surfacing of strange, narrow preoccupations
better expressed as highly focused intense fascinations
and fixations.' ...
... Looking into the name of 'Leo Kanner', we find

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contained in anagram 'Koan' - the technique employed by

the Zen Buddhist seeking paradox to transcend
conceptual/logical thought as demonstrated in Asperger
Syndrome!...
The term 'autistic' comes from Swiss psychiatrist Paul
Eugen Bleuler, who in 1908 used the word from the Greek
'autos' meaning 'self', to describe the social withdrawal
seen in adults with schizophrenia. Our foray in the world of
the Far East strongly suggests that the origin of this word,
and the species-to-be, far pre-dates 1908, for the Mother
Tongue locates its origin in the Tibetan word 'Tsa-u-ma' anagram 'autasm' - which refers to 'central channel', a
further reference to a middle, to the Tibetan Lamas the
major energy channel of what is known to them as the vajra
body, visualised as a hollow tube of light in front of the
spine. Tibetan mysticism tells us that this central channel
connects vertically from the crown of the head to an area in
front of the spinal base. At strategic points down this
straight line are seven focal points referred to as 'energy
wheels', a further notation implying the autistic fascination
with spinning, commonly known today to all as chakras.
The vajra body is a collective system of channels, energy
winds (the energy serving as the mount for various dense
and subtle states of consciousness) and drops (used in the
generation of great bliss) that can be activated though yoga
tantra. It is down the central channel that various bursts of
energy can be directed outward, often misinterpreted as an
autistic outburst, more correctly the overload energy of the
PWA [person with Autism] referred to by the Chinese as
Chi....
The conclusion of my long and personal investigation
has brought me a greater cosmic understanding of the role
of both Buddhist and PWA, a tangible connexion between
various schools of the Eastern Buddhist's search for
enlightenment and the unfolding and ongoing evolution of
the autistic consciousness as evinced in the common
aspiration of turning within, detachment and elaborate
ritual. After two and a half thousand years it appears to me

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that the Buddhist is handing over the baton in a new style

of race. The role of the person with autism and Aspergers
and where it is destined to lead us, has now begun for
earnest.
From:
http://ellisctaylor.homestead.com/cjthecomingrace.html
and:
http://ellisctaylor.homestead.com/cjthecomingrace2.html

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