[Buddha-l] URGENT WARNING TO DUTCH ACADEMICS

[Richard Hayes]

While this warning is directed primarily at Buddhist studies scholars in the Netherlands, all denizens should realize that the problem addressed here is not confined to Zuid-Holland. We are speaking here not of a local problem but of a GLOBAL CRISIS.

This past semester, Leiden University in the Netherlands had a guest professor in Buddhist studies from (as one Dutch academic phrased it) "a backwater university in the United States." That backwater university was the University of New Mexico, and the guest professor was an obscure associate professor of philosophy named Richard Hayes. Little did the academic community in Leiden suspect that gasthoogleraar Hayes was not in the Netherlands as an innocent lecturer in Buddhist philosophy. That was a front, as will be immediately apparent to anyone who follows the money and traces it back to who sponsored his guest professorship.

Gasthoogleraar Hayes's stay in the Netherlands was sponsored by an organization founded by a proselytizing Japanese Buddhist industrialist named Numata, who founded an organization the express purpose of which is to spread the Buddhist religion, and especially Japanese Pure Land Buddhism, to all parts of the world. This mission is carried out by sponsoring guest professorships in Buddhist studies in major universities all around the world (including McGill, another university with which Hayes has had connections). It can be safely assumed that no guest professor is chosen who does not fit the profile of the Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai, the organization founded by Numata to spread Japanese Pure Land Buddhist faith and practice to all corners of the planet earth. 

Hayes carried out the missionary agenda of the BDK almost faultlessly, not only by given weekly Pure Land Buddhist sermons (thinly disguised as lectures on Indian Buddhist philosophy) at Leiden University, but also by giving talks in Utrecht and Amsterdam. Perhaps the most bold and insidious covert action of all was his appearance at a high school in Gouda, where he tried to convert two classes of innocent high school students to Pure Land Buddhism. Although his Japanese Pure Land Buddhist missionary agenda was covered up by his giving the appearance of talking about Charles S. Peirce and William James, it was quite obvious to anyone who knew the source of Hayes's funding what his true purpose was. 

Investigation into the background of gasthoogleraar Hayes shows that he comes from a very long line of proselytizing missionaries. He is descended from William Bradford, Precilla Mullens, John Alden and a Dutchman from Leiden named Moses Symonson, all of whom went to Massachusetts with the express purpose of spreading Christianity to the trees and turkeys of the Atlantic coastal regions of North America. (Just read the Mayflower Compact if you doubt the missionary agenda of the English and Dutch Protestant pilgrims.) Christian missionary fervor is literally in Hayes's DNA. Moreover, investigations of Hayes's family tree have shown that his own education was paid for by money his father had inherited from ancestors who had founded the Ball Corporation, a classical Weberian Protestant capitalist organization that used the manufacture of glass jars and other containers as a front for carrying out Christian missionary work. (Why did they go into the glass container business? Well, it's obvious isn't it?) So not only does Hayes have Christian missionary genes, but his education was backed by Protestant capitalists.

Now this gets a little confusing. If we follow the money, it turns out Hayes is both a Christian and a Buddhist missionary. But it's not as confusing as it may first appear. BDK was obviously duped. It is obvious that the BDK chose Hayes to carry out their Buddhist missionary work, because they saw in him a person capable of carrying out their agenda. As a simple DNA swab of his cheek will confirm, he is a born missionary. The fatal flaw in the reasoning of BDK, of course, came about because they assumed a Christian missionary could become a Buddhist missionary. The BDK people obviously failed to read their Nāgārjuna. As Nāgārjuna showed repeatedly, everyone is stamped with an identity (svabhāva) that makes any kind of change absolutely impossible. That's what "emptiness" means, after all. It means that everything is empty of the capacity to be anything other than what it is for all eternity. In other words, Nāgārjuna was warning his readers that there is undeniable truth to the maxim "Once a Christian, always a Christian." Hayes could no more shake his Christian missionary genetic code and become a Buddhist missionary than a bat can become a peacock. And since his entire career has been funded by various organizations that were fronts for Christian evangelism, all one needs to do, besides, following the genes, is to follow the money.

Needless to say, this very list, buddha-l, having been founded by Hayes and backed by moneys supplied by people with Protestant backgrounds, is clearly a front for Christian missionary work. (Need we be reminded that Hayes himself admits to being a Quaker?) Read messages on this forum at your own peril, being forewarned that no message ever gets past the censorious moderators that does not in some way promote evangelical or pentecostal Christian faith and practice.

Yours in constructive whistle-blowing,
[Name withheld to protect the witness]