"Steven Seagal Joins The Yakuza"

[Taro Toporific]

Just when you thought it was safe to go to the theater...

Steven Seagal Joins The Yakuza
And he's plotting a Rescue as well.
November 26, 2002 - Unless his legal problems land him behind bars, Variety reports that Steven Seagal has lined up two more future projects. ...Seagal will earn $4 million a piece to star in The Rescue as well as a remake of The Yakuza.The 1975 version of The Yakuza starred Robert Mitchum... It was about a veteran who goes to Japan to rescue his friend's kidnapped daughter from the titular Japanese mafia.

[The canaqu]

you mean people actually WANT to see Steven Segal win? God, I figured his career was finished when he beat up a sniper rifle shooting Randy Travis (I am not making this up) in Fire Down Below.... ok, so right now some people are wondering A: you mean you actually watched this movie? and B: you mean you actually recognized Randy Travis on screen? I have no explanation for this.

ahem... anyway, I was wondering something. If Segal has been declared a reincarnated llama, is a practicing buddhist, has met the Dali Llama, and is 8th dan in Aikido (a martial art about preserving peace), why is he making movies where he kills and maimes people repeatedly? And for the more metaphysical ones out there, how can this guy's karma not cause him to implode. I'm sure if I was practicing the way of the Buddha and then getting paid to kick people's asses for money, so seriously strange shit would be coming back to me.

[Taro Toporific]

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Hey, doesn't a standard koan go.... "[quote]

The above was said or not said by the Zen me.

[The canaqu]

He certainly has an active imagination. At various times he has stated he, "was in 'Nam (doubtfull), worked for CIA (no way with his high profile), etc.

I would certainly hope that our dear CIA, in all its ineptitude, would at least be able to brainwas- err, "train" it's agent NOT to go around telling people that they work for the CIA. Sort of a dead giveaway, don't you think?

Hey, doesn't a standard koen go: "If you see the Buddha in the road, kill him."

point taken, however A: he ain't killing buddhas and B: zen is an unfortunate way for the idiot and the insane to justify their actions. It's one thing to discuss finding one's path independent of doctrine, it's another to claim that a buddhist monk enjoyed Under Seige 2: Dark Territory

But, might as well end with a favorite koan of my own

"If a man asks about the Tao, and another man answers,
both know nothing."
-Lao Tzu

[Taro Toporific]

Hey, doesn't a standard koan go: "If you see the Buddha in the road, kill him."

point taken, however A: he ain't killing buddhas..

Well, if you meet "the Buddha in the road" with a flat tire on city Route 40 in East St. Louis at 2am Sunday morning, stupid stereotypical thoughts might turn to it...

Not like that ever happened to me ... I ended up being treated to free dinner breakfast and while my tire was patched for free by a couple of warehousemen in the 'hood.





Re: zen g/koans(sp?)
GOOGLE Searched web for zen koen. Results 1 - 50 of about 14.
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[The canaqu]

you weren't coming back from OZ or something were you ? Having grown up on the other side of the arch, all I'll say is that is not the streotypical story I hear told of journeys to the east. maybe you are a buddha then...

Re: zen g/koans(sp?)
GOOGLE Searched web for zen koen. Results 1 - 50 of about 14.
GOOGLE Searched the web for zen koan. Results 1 - 50 of about 5,790.

uh, do you always use google as an english dictionary?

isn't it sad- poor steven isn't even interesting enough for his own thread to talk about him

[Taro Toporific]

isn't it sad- poor steven isn't even interesting enough for his own thread to talk about him

Ok, back to gossip of his holiness, Tulku Steven Seagal...

Penor Rinpoche, the Supreme Head of the Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism....declared Seagal a tulku and a "terton" (someone with the abilities to perceive the root teachings of Tibetan Buddhism) in Feburary in a ceremony at the Namdroling Monastery in India. Only 30 others have been tapped as tulkus by Rinpoche.

Rinpoche's Stateside representative, Khenpo Tsewang Gyatso, called Seagal's spiritual elevation a great honor. "Seagal had his own vision of having some deeper knowledge in the dharma (divine law)," Gyatso said.

But some skeptics think the elevation from movie star to holy vessel had more to do with dinero than dharma. Some American Buddhists believe Seagal bought his title by donating to Rinpoche's school. "As much as I respect Penor Rinpoche, I still think this is a little fishy," writes one Buddhist in an Internet newsgroup. "Recognizing a tulku, especially when it is an American person with lots of fame and fortune, is like buying a stock option."

http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,1321,00.html

OR THINK OF THE WORSE THREAT: a Steven music CD!

IGN FILMFORCE: Steven, are you a rap fan?

SEAGAL: Yeah, I mean, I don't know if I'm a rap fan though. I'm a hip-hop fan. I believe  and this is my theory, and maybe I'm crazy  but I believe that rap, American rap, came from Jamiaca. I think it's a Jamaican DJ thing. I think Joel was the inventor of this interesting idea of the marriage of hip-hop and martial arts.

IGN FILMFORCE: You know, a lot of rappers have been getting into acting. However, you're doing the opposite. I'm told you're musically inclined and you've been experimenting with some tunes. Is there Steven Seagal CD in the future?

SEAGAL: I've been a musician since childhood, and music is my first love. I love it. I'm playing a lot and write a lot and I'll have an album coming out. I'm not going to be rapping, but I do like what this producing of my album  while I'm with a bunch of other good guys  and like with one of my closest friends whose working on it. So, I certainly will be going into music. It won't be rap, but I'll have some hip-hop in there.

[There's no specified date for the album's release.]
http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/35945p1.html

[The canaqu]

OR THINK OF THE WORSE THREAT: a Steven music CD!

well, no one stopped David Hasslehoff, and now we all will suffer...

btw, who is this "Joel" who invented hip hop and martials arts as a pathetic marketing ploy to the violent underprivledged youths of america? I get the feeling the Wu-Tang clan might have some choice words for him about taking credit for the own contribution to the disintegration of culture.

oh, see, we're off topic again...

[Taro Toporific]

OR THINK OF THE WORSE THREAT: a Steven music CD!

btw, who is this "Joel" who invented hip hop?....

Billy Joel?:wink:

OR THINK OF THE WORSE THREAT: a Steven music CD!

oh, see, we're off topic again...

Actually, "Let's topic off!"

In the beginning was The Groove, and it was good.
The Groove, spun on vinyl discs and guided by small diamond needles, imparted music to the world -- provided the needle was never disturbed. But some dared to touch the vinyl, stop the spinning disc and disturb the needle. They bent the Groove, and found that the bending created a music of its own: hip-hop."

--Vinyl Frontier: Hip-Hop History
http://www.sltrib.com/2002/Apr/04122002/friday/727545.htm


04/12/97 15:07:27 / Downbeat magazine

The roots of hip hop are not absolutely clear, in amongst the stories of originators there are grey areas. Like various forms of music, several people claim to have invented hip hop, whether through the medium of rapping, scratching, graffiti or break dancing.

The clearest piece of evidence shows that a Jamaican by the name of DJ Kool Herc sparked the flame that started hip hop. Herc came from his native Jamaica to New York in 1967, bringing with him a sound system (the "Herculords"). Around 1975 he started holding parties where he played funk and other forms of "black music". Herc soon realised that the crowd responded best to the breakdowns in the records, the part where the track stripped down to the drums.
http://www.fused.com/hh/g/hiphopdontstop.htm

[Taro Toporific]

Re: zen g/koans(sp?)
GOOGLE Searched web for zen koen. Results 1 - 50 of about 14.
GOOGLE Searched the web for zen koan. Results 1 - 50 of about 5,790.

uh, do you always use google as an english dictionary?

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