Wisdom Quarterly: American Buddhist Journal

Vajrapani Bodhisattva: The Thunderbolt

2026-07-09T17:15:00.000-07:00

(Buddha's Wisdom) VAJRAPANI: The Thunderbolt Bodhisattva who challenged Lord Shiva himself | Om Vajrapani Hum

Fierce protective spirit being

Vajrapani (Sanskrit Vajrapāṇi, Pali Vajirapāṇi, "holder of the thunderbolt," lit. meaning, "Vajra in [one's] hand") is one of the earliest-appearing bodhisattva in various sub-schools of Mahayana Buddhism.

He is alleged to be the protector and guide of the historical Buddha Gautama and rose to symbolize the Buddha's power.

Vajrapāni is also called Chana Dorje and Chador and extensively represented in Buddhist iconography as one of the earliest three protective deities or bodhisattvas surrounding the Buddha. Each of them symbolizes one of the Buddha's virtues... More

Abuse of the Buddhist term "mindfulness"

2026-07-09T17:10:00.000-07:00

(Natasha Yehenara) Psychology's corporate takeover of Buddhist mindfulness (sati)

"Mindfulness" defined by Ven. Analayo Bhikkhu

Ego (buddhism podcast) The Buddha didn't teach us only to be "present." He taught us to remember (recollection, the faculty of sati)

The Buddhist Dark Night of the 'Soul'

2026-07-09T17:00:00.000-07:00

(Buddha's Wisdom) Breakdown or breakthrough.

Catholic/Christian mystics understand, “To get your breakthrough, sometimes God needs to break you.”
Dark Night of the Soul: What it is and how to move through it

Dark Night of the Soul
The Dark Night of the Soul (Spanish La noche oscura del alma) is a phase of passive purification in the mystical development of an individual's spirit, according to the 16th-century Spanish mystic and Catholic poet St. John of the Cross.

St. John describes the concept in his treatise Dark Night (Noche Oscura), commenting on his poem of the same name.

John of the Cross, 1656

It follows after the second phase, the illumination in which God's presence is felt, but this presence is not yet stable.

The author himself did not give any title to his poem, which together with this commentary and the Ascent of Mount Carmel (Subida del Monte Carmelo) forms a treatise on the active and passive purification of the senses and the spirit, leading to mystical union [1] or "yoga" through samadhi.

El Greco "View of Toledo" (Google Art Project)

In modern times, the phrase "dark night of the soul" has become a popular phrase to describe a crisis of faith or a difficult and painful period in one's life.

The poem

Dating and subject: The poem of St. John of the Cross, in eight stanzas of five lines each, narrates the journey of the individual (soul, personality, persona, ego, self, spirit) to mystical union with God or the Godhead (Brahman). More

The Dark Night of the Soul

By St. John of the Cross

Dark Night of the Soul (by ogipavkovic on DeviantArt)

I. In a dark night,

With anxious love inflamed,

O, happy lot!

Forth unobserved I went,

My house being now at rest.

II. In darkness and in safety,

By the secret ladder, disguised,

O, happy lot!

In darkness and concealment,

My house being now at rest.

III. In that happy night,

In secret, seen of none,

Seeing nought myself,

Without other light or guide

Save that which in my heart was burning.

IV. That light guided me

More surely than the noonday sun

To the place where He was waiting for me,

Whom I knew well,

And where none appeared.

V. O, guiding night;

O, night more lovely than the dawn;

O, night that hast united

The lover with His beloved,

And changed her into her love.

VI. On my flowery bosom,

Kept whole for Him alone,

There He reposed and slept;

And I cherished Him, and the waving

Of the cedars fanned Him.

VII. As His hair floated in the breeze

That from the turret blew,

He struck me on the neck

With His gentle hand,

And all sensation left me.

VIII. I continued in oblivion lost,

My head was resting on my love;

Lost to all things and myself,

And, amid the lilies forgotten,

Threw all my cares away. Source

The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (Douglas Adams)

Fun and spirituality with the poet Rumi

2026-07-09T16:20:00.000-07:00

(Daughter of Iran) Thinking is an Ego Trap: Thought will not solve our problems

(Shams of Tabrez) Life-Changing Rumi Poems (Ancient Wisdom for Modern Hearts)

Tomb Shrine of Rumi in Konya, Raulana Jelaledin Muhammad Rumi (wikipedia)

Rumi 'loves' disciple Chelebi

The History of Iran, formerly Persia, is rich and wondrous. Among the many strongest features of Cyrus the Great's powerful (Achaemenid) Empire is its enduring love of poetry. One need only to think of one of the world's greatest poets, Rumi (aka Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī).

Zionist Israelis and American imperialists, who together are trying to establish a Western beachhead in the center of the Middle East and calling it "Greater Israel," may hate Iran, but we love it and Iranians, the original Aryans.

Rumi's darkest lesson: How we become our own worst enemy: Jewish king

The Buddha's mothers (sisters Queen Maya and Queen Prajapati), according to maverick Indian historian Dr. Ranajit Pal, were Aryan-Iranians from a region now known as Sistan-Baluchistan, south of Buddhist Afghanistan, in ancient Gandhara (Indo-Scythia of the Sakas/Shakyas), the original Kapilavastu, which was not in Nepal as we are told. (See Non-Jonesian Indology and Alexander).

(Shams of Tabrez) Rumi's secret of form and meaning (namarupa)

Mawlana ("Rumi") meeting Shams-i Tabrizi (Cāmiʿü’s-siyer of
Muhammed Tahir, Topkapı Palace Museum Library, Istanbul)

Whirling dervishes and Lala
visit Rumi's tomb in 1580

The Buddha's father, Scythian King or Tribal Chieftain Suddhodana, was a Central Asian from Kabul and Bamiyan, it would seem. But even if the historical Buddha and his biological parents bore no relation to the region, modern Iran is still a magnificent ancient society and a power to reckon with in the region.

It is a horror and a travesty that the CIA, NSA, NSC, Mossad, Israel, UK, TC, and USA meddle in it so much since at least the time of the Shah of Iran and U.S. puppet dictator gone rogue Saddam Hussein.

Buddhism explained with an Irish accent

2026-07-09T15:27:04.643-07:00

Well, don't that beat all? Tuatha Dé Danann, I tink that's brilliant, always been partial to Booda.

(Cognito) Irish brogue/Gaelic accented "BUDDHISM EXPLAINED"

What's the Irish version of Buddhism?

We are the Tuatha Dé Danann

Buddhism is the THIRD largest religion in the world when we restored the 1 billion Buddhists in China the communist regime refuses to count since communism is officially atheist and insists party member comply.

Nearly all Chinese Buddhists follow three blended traditions (Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism) and now have to mix those with a communist version of capitalism). The country's regime is trying to supplant religion with this new capitalist-friendly communism and a nanny state with mass surveillance, bringing the actual total number of Buddhists to more than 1.5 billion. That makes Buddhism the third largest missionary (universalist) "world religion."

Good thing we in US are not spied on

(The Young Turks) What the FLOCK (AI-driven camera system)?

Catholicism is the biggest religion in the world. Combining its total with Protestantism and Eastern Orthodoxy, and many strange sects and post schismatic traditions, Christianity has the most nominal adherents.

Islam is said to be growing but is already the second biggest world religion, having gone from place to place by the sword, just as Christianity used to do with imperial crusades, ethnic cleansings, and forced conversions.

Buddhism is the original missionary tradition, but neither then nor now is it out to convert anybody away from their faith. Exposing them to the Teachings of the Awakened One capable of curing suffering and making people better at adhering to their beliefs and practices, it has been most welcome.

Why? Just as in the Buddha's time, the Buddha's Dharma ("Doctrine") is not actually a "religion." But the West treats all daily activities and beliefs as "religious" systems when, since the time Sumer, Greater Egypt, and the very advanced Indus Valley Civilization held sway, what we now call "religion" was just the collective daily habits and somewhat superstitious customs of whole societies that made little to no distinction between ordinary life and spirituality.

Buddhism in Celtic Britain and Ireland before Christianity?

Buddhism in Celtic areas?

Transcultural Buddhism: Celtic Buddhism in pre-Christian Britain

The first Western Buddhist convert to become a monk was Irish

British forces arrival in Mandalay, Burma, in 1885: U Dhammaloka (wiki)

Irish Burmese Theravada Buddhist monk Ven. Dhammaloka in 1902, age approximately 50

The Irish Buddhist: Forgotten Monk

His name was Venerable (U) Dhammaloka (born Laurence Carroll in the 1850s) from Boostertown, Dublin County, Ireland.

He reportedly gave at least five names for himself, including Laurence O'Rourke and William Colvin [2]. On occasion he used the nom de plume "Captain Daylight."

It is accepted that he was Irish, almost certainly born in Dublin in the 1850s, and emigrated to the United States, possibly via Liverpool. More

Celtic Buddhism, a new lineage

celticbuddhism.org

Welcome to CelticBuddhism.org, a site of benefit and inspiration to those who enter and proceed on the path of Dharma.

The lineage of Celtic Buddhism was suggested in the 1970s during a conversation between the renowned [and abusive, scandal-ridden, Shambhala] Tibetan lama Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche and his student John Perks. The actual development is the result of the mixing of their minds.

What would an Irish Buddhist do?

The lineage was formally incorporated as a non-profit in 1989, when it took on official status. After meeting for years in rented rooms, Venerable Seonaidh Perks established the Anadaire Celtic Buddhist Center on 11 acres in Saxtons River, Vermont, where the sangha ("spiritual community") erected a stone circle that has aided in increasing and focusing energies for transformation.

Sangha members are encouraged to establish a daily meditation practice. Practices range from a host of traditional Tibetan [Vajrayana] Buddhist practices to the more contemporary practices of the Celtic Fire visualization and working with the mandala of the Celtic cross. We also encourage integrating everyday practices in art, music, healing through various modalities -- including animals, and in the world of business.

As a group, some members have gone on yearly retreats to Maine (USA) or to further connect with latent Celtic energies to Ireland and Scotland. One member has delved into thangka painting to explore the emerging Celtic Buddhist mandala.

In March 2010, we celebrated the ordination of Sister Griffin as abbess of Glen Ard Abbey, a newly formed Celtic Buddhist monastery. More: celticbuddhism.org

Dhr. Seven, Pat Macpherson, Amber Larson (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

🔯 'Never again' means for anyone, anywhere 🕎

2026-07-09T14:00:00.000-07:00

(AJ+) This Jewish American journalist spotlights Palestinian voices | Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!

Amy Goodman (born April 13, 1957) is an American broadcast journalist, syndicated columnist, investigative reporter, and author.

Since 1996, she has been the main host and executive producer of Democracy Now!, an independent global news program that she co-founded. It is broadcast daily and syndicated nationally on radio, television, and the Internet, including by transcription.

On this award-winning program, she elevates voices and perspectives rarely covered in the irresponsible U.S. corporate media. Highlights of Goodman's investigative journalism career include coverage of... More

Evangelical Christians can be Zionists, too

"Never again" means no more genocide, ethnic cleansing, crimes against humanity, and racist war crimes against anyone anywhere. Jews used to believe it, but many have now been hoodwinked into thinking it only applied to them, mostly referring to elitist Ashkenazi (European) Jews. Consider The Nakba (the "Catastrophe") is The Holocaust committed by Zionist Jews for the past 75 years, which continues in Palestine, Gaza, the West Bank, and parts of Jerusalem, Lebanon, Iran, Syria, Jordan, Egypt, and is coming to the rest of the geopolitical Middle East soon.

NION: Not in our name
A.N.S.W.E.R.
Jewish Voice for Peace
Jews Against Israel: nkusa.org
Rabbis for Human Rights (rhr.org.il)
National Council of Jewish Women
Veterans for Peace
CODE PINK: Women for Peace
Website: democracynow.org

Bibi, Ana K, TDS, Islamic Japan, DDN, comic

2026-07-09T12:00:00.000-07:00

Former CIA Chief of Disguise explains how spies and body doubles use disguises | WIRED

Theoretically, could a dead man be impersonated by the CIA or Mossad? Fascinating look at the disguises that CIA operatives use to conceal their identities (TechEBlog)

Bibi lives [in Zionist hearts but is dead to this human world]

Israelis handcuff ‘Baby Netanyahu’ in showdown | ‘Blood on our hands…’ (Times of India)

Israel orders Trump back into Iran War

The Joe Biden'ing of Trump's brain

(Sammy Obeid)

(The Daily Show) Trump declares Iran ceasefire "over" and goes no-contact with Spain

Who needs Buddha? We now have Allah!
Buddhist Japan goes Islamic, according to senile Trump: What is the "Islamic Republic of Japan"? There is no such country. Japan is Buddhist and Shinto, not an Islamic republic. It is a constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary government, and Japan is currently also a major U.S. ally. The idiotic phrase appears to have been a verbal slip as [senility and dementia set in for] Trump, who likely meant the Islamic Republic of Iran, historic Persia's official name.
The number of Muslims in Japan is growing fast (The Economist)
Trump threatens war crimes against Iran, and he is ready to target and murder civilian noncombatants

Iran has beaten Israel and USA?

(Double Down News)

(World Brief Affairs)

Prepare to die (rebirth) with the Dalai Lama

2026-07-09T11:55:00.000-07:00

I'm a holy man. I don't molest or kiss boys. And I don't meet with Zionist Israeli...that much.

(Dalai Lama) The truth about death that no one tells us

I saw the Dalai Lama at Jeffrey Epstein's!

So what if he came to my house? It wasn't authorized! Age in reverse: End in an orgasm

I saw the Dalai Lama at Jeffrey Epstein's house - Biographer: Michael Wolff

Then after death, rebirth again

Dalai Lama explains destiny and rebirth in 10 minutes (mind blowing)

Why's Dalai Lama in Epstein Files?

He never met him. Okay, maybe he met him, but it was not official!

Death, the impossible possibility
LYRICS "Death Certificate" (by Carcass): A grim myriad/ a grey kaleidoscope/ Sterile, contrasting/ Born and die/ Institutionalized/ a bleak epitaph/ An epilogue so sad

CHORUS: Cross indexed/ cross dissected/ Cross referenced/ controlled senescence/ Cross indexed/ cross bisected/ Cross referenced/ certificate of death/certified dead!

Machine coded/ Reduced to hard memory/ In a database/ Digitalized/ Statistical obituary/ Your only legacy/ Your final resting place// CHORUS

London protest against Israel's war crimes

2026-07-09T09:00:00.000-07:00

(Times World Now) Hundreds storm Downing Street to demand Israel release Gaza Dr. Abu Safiya and to take accountability for its ongoing genocide

Israel vs. Turkey: Erdogan lambasts Bibi, Greece. Gets F-35s from Trump

The Total Eclipse of Bonnie Tyler (the Heart)

2026-07-09T08:00:00.000-07:00

(ITV News)

Bonnie Tyler "Total Eclipse of the Heart (Turn Around)" (official video) That raspy voice!

(Ass' Press) Bonnie Tyler, who topped charts with 'Total Eclipse of the Heart,' dies at 75

Bonnie Tyler "It's a Heartache"

Bibi? CIA chief of disguise on masks, spy tricks

2026-07-09T07:30:00.000-07:00

Bibi Netanyahu wearing silicone mask - Watch Netanyahu’s face change in an instant

Is it me, or is it silicone? Can't tell, right? CIA-Mossad-AI can do so much nowadays! Ha ha!

(WIRED) Nov. 25, 2020: Former CIA Chief of Disguise JM breaks down Cold War spy gadgets | WIRED. During the Cold War, surveillance in Moscow was the most difficult kind of surveillance that the USA had encountered around the world.

Moscow had its own set of rules since it was such a difficult place to work. Former CIA Chief of Disguise Jonna Mendez talks about some of the tactics, gadgets, masks, and disguises CIA operatives used in the field during the Cold War.

Check out Jonna Mendez’s most recent book The Moscow Rules or find more information about her on her website on themasterofdisguise.com. Moscow Rules on amazon.com...

We've been spying for decades

(WIRED) Fmr CIA Chief of Disguise breaks down Cold War spy cameras

Archival images courtesy of the International Spy Museum (SPY) in Washington, DC, a Guinness World Record recognized nonprofit with the largest collection of spy artifacts in the world. At the Museum, see firsthand some of these spy gadgets: spymuseum.org. Additional archival images courtesy of: Clint Emerson’s Five Second Mask, also courtesy of International Spy Museum Image of Trigon courtesy of the CIA who does not endorse the contents of this production Crypto Museum: cryptomuseum.com. Getty Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division.

Subscribe to WIRED on YouTube ► wrd.cm/15fP7B7 Listen to the Get WIRED podcast ► link.chtbl.com/wired-ytc-desc. Get more incredible stories on science and tech with daily newsletter: wrd.cm/DailyYT Also, check out the free WIRED channel on Roku, Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, and Android TV. Here you can find your favorite WIRED shows and new episodes of our latest hit series Tradecraft. ABOUT WIRED WIRED is where tomorrow is realized. Through thought-provoking stories and videos, WIRED explores the future of business, innovation, and culture. Former CIA Chief of Disguise Breaks Down Cold War Spy Gadgets | WIRED

Save the Trees with Julia Butterfly Hill (7/8)

2026-07-07T17:15:00.000-07:00

(The Shift Network) Julia in the Storm: Julia Butterfly Hill: Fear is simple and profound

Evening for the Trees with Julia Butterfly Hill

ABC 20/20: The Story of Julia Butterfly Hill in 3 minutes and 20 seconds

Julia Butterfly Hill . com

Internationally recognized environmental activist Julia Butterfly Hill travels to Pasadena to headline a public fundraiser supporting community efforts to preserve 193 trees slated for destruction and removal by the PUSD (Pasadena Unified School District).

Her appearance comes as the school district's tree-removal plans have drawn widespread public condemnation, concern, legal action, peaceful protests and demonstrations, and extensive regional media coverage.

Despite weeks of advocacy, the school district has not yet committed to permanently preserving any of the remaining trees slated for destruction and removal.

Trees at San Rafael Elementary School, including mature and protected trees, were removed during bird nesting season without city tree permits or on-site biological monitoring.

Pasadena Presbyterian Church
585 E. Colorado Blvd.
Pasadena, Los Angeles, CA 91101
Wednesday, July 8, 2026, 6:30-8:30 pm
RSVP or DONATE: bit.ly/PUSDtrees

Meetup RSVP: Dharma Buddhist Meditation
PasaDharma: Los Angeles Foothills
Nature Center, San Fernando Valley

To save trees is to save our planet

Pasadena is honored to welcome Julia Butterfly Hill. She is traveling here to support efforts to preserve the trees of the Pasadena Unified School District.

She is an internationally-recognized environmental advocate best known for her historic 738-day treehouse sit to protect an ancient, giant California redwood, an act of peaceful civil disobedience that inspired people around the world.

Join us for an evening hosted by the youth working to protect the PUSD trees.

Julia Butterfly Hill will speak
Local youth will perform music
Artwork and tee-shirts will be available
We'll hold a raffle
This is a fundraiser for the trees
Circle of Life Foundation: circleoflife.org

Student tickets: $5 (with valid student ID at door)

Adult tickets: $25–$1,000 (pay what you can)

Support the cause of saving trees

J Butterfly Hill (Young Heroes)

If not attending in person, it is possible to support this effort by making a donation.

All proceeds directly support the community effort to preserve the Pasadena Unified School District's trees from destruction to remediate grounds.

Join us in standing together to protect these remarkable trees before more are lost.

Earth First
Trees Foundation
Amigos De Los Rios (Altadena)
The Jane Goodall Institute
Jane Goodall Sprouts Club

(ABC 20/20) The Story of Julia Butterfly Hill

Visiting with Julia Butterfly Hill high atop and inside of Luna the Tree

Not time, accident, tragedy, nor finding true love has not stopped the dryad

Better Video Tutorials (Teaching New Stuff Daily): 1.envato.market/coderevolutio...

Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Dhr. Seven, Jen (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

White House recognizes Buddhist holiday

2026-07-07T16:45:00.000-07:00

(Buddha Dharma) White House VESAK 2026 from the White House to Bodh Gaya ("Enlightenment Grove"), the light of Buddha-Dharma (the timeless "Teachings of the Awakened One") More

WAR: US re-attacks Iran! Bias at CIA's CNN

2026-07-07T16:35:00.000-07:00

(The Young Turks) Zionist US Pres. Trump just proved he never wanted peace in Iran

(Democracy Now!) Top U.S. and world headlines: July i, 2026 More: democracynow.org

Combining US military Pentagon forces with Israel's IDF war criminals?

(Let's Be Clear with Ana Kasparian) Reports reveal US posturing for new attack on Iran for Israel

Why do Trump and corporate media insufflate the American public?

(The Jimmy Dore Show) Zionist Polish American Jew (Benjamin Mileikowsky from Chicago) warmonger PM Bibi Netanyahu smears Jewish victims (kibbutz socialists) of Oct. 7th

I'm kind of a doctor. I give insufflation.

The Cabal News Network: Rense.com is dissatisfied with the reportage over at CNN. What used to be a Cable News Network has become a CABAL News Network. What's a cabal?

A "cabal" is a group of people who are united in some close design, usually to promote their private views or interests in an ideology, a state, or another community such as Neo-Nazi white supremacists, often by intrigue and usually without the knowledge of those who are outside their group.

The use of this term usually carries negative connotations of political purpose, conspiracy, and secrecy [1, 2]. It can also refer to a secret plot or a clique, or it may be used as a verb (to form a cabal or secretly conspire) [1, 3].

(The Damage Report) Dan Bongino loses it meltdown as Cuomo calls out Epstein nightmare

We create the mainstream media, and we control it via governmental intel collaboration.

Jewish mysticism is a cabal[lah]

ETYMOLOGY: The term cabal is derived from Kabbalah (a Jewish word that has numerous spelling variations), the Jewish mystical interpretation of Hebrew scriptures (קַבָּלָה).

In the Jewish language (not to be confused with Yiddish), it means "received doctrine" or "tradition" [4], while in European culture (Christian Cabala, Hermetic Qabalah) it became associated with occult doctrine or a secret [5].

It came into English via the French cabale from the medieval Latin cabbala and was known early in the 17th century through usages linked to Charles II and Oliver Cromwell.

By the middle of the 17th century, it had developed further to mean some intrigue entered into by a small group and also referred to the group of people so involved, that is, a semi-secret political clique [6].

Butt smoke enema?

Accoutrements of insertion

(Wiki) The tobacco smoke enema, an insufflation of tobacco smoke into the rectum by hose and pipe, was a medical treatment employed by European physicians for a range of ailments.

The West recognized tobacco as a medicine soon after it was first imported from the "New World," and tobacco smoke was used by Western medical practitioners as a tool against cold and drowsiness.

Butt applying it by enema was a technique allegedly learned from the North American Indigenous peoples [1]. The procedure was used to treat gut pain and in attempts to resuscitate victims of near drowning.

Liquid tobacco enemas were often given to ease the symptoms of a hernia. During the early 19th century, the practice became obsolete due to poor efficacy and risk of nicotine poisoning. More

Sports: first World Cup rooting for England

2026-07-07T16:30:00.000-07:00

(Diane Jennings) European (EU) World Cup fans just hot hit with USA's 250th birthday

(Thogden) The moment England's soccer team knocks Mexico out of the 2026 World Cup

(StuntPegg) My first time watching and cheering for my nation at a World Cup game

United States loses to Belgium

(FOX Sports) USA vs. Belgium Highlights 🌎🏆 2026 FIFA World Cup™ | Round of 16

England beats Mexico (two nations mourn)

(NBCLA) "So heartbreaking": Mexico fans in Los Angeles react to loss against England

Expert Trump jinxes everything he touches

(The Daily Show) Trump meddles in USA World Cup game and America's 250th takes a nosedive

The Daily Show celebrates 250 years of America, and Maybe 250 more?

(FOX One) Fifa World Cup Round of 32: France vs. Sweden

Hopis remember: Grand Canyon underworld

2026-07-07T15:59:00.000-07:00

(Last Cartographer) What the Hopi said was living beneath the Grand Canyon, USA

British couple travel to SoCal 'paradise'

2026-07-07T15:50:00.000-07:00

(Those Happy Days) As an adventurous British couple into skate punk, we ignored the warnings about expensive Southern California (in search of bangers and mash or other bad toxic food and drink like cheap fast food burgers, fried potatoes, and nauseating pints).

We traveled from state to state, driving from affordable Arizona to the warm beach town of San Diego on the tip of SoCal on the border with Mexico, which everyone calls the Mexican border.

Israeli PM Bibi wants no more US welfare

2026-07-07T15:45:00.000-07:00

(Rathbone) I❤️Israel. US military partner and CIA-sponsored genocidal Zionist state (Palestine)

✡️ The CIA assures us that Ben Milewkowski (fake Jewishy name Biyimin Netanyahu, "Bibi," ) was born in Tel Aviv, 1949; teenage years in NJ. Returned to Israel in 1967 to commence his service in IDF coinciding with 6-Day War. 5-year's service. College education post-IDF service at MIT & briefly at Yale.

You can't badmouth the chosen people!
Ashkenazi Jews are more intelligent than everyone else: Our intelligence, which is genius [1, 2], is a stereotype of some Jews [3] that is related to the historical race and intelligence controversy and the IQ tests we rule. It asserts that Western Jews from Europe -- who are a subgroup of the Jewish diaspora (dispersed outside of the future "Greater Israel," which Zionist Jews say their realtor, God, decreed their property no matter who's living on it as the Land of Israel) that coalesced in Central and Eastern Europe -- tend to exhibit notably higher levels of intelligence than every other ethnic group in the world. We are the "chosen" people, so God prefers us and naturally made us smarter. More

Jewish presidential candidate Jill Stein - Trying to eat lunch with Ashkenazi Jews in USA

I agree with Israel about everything and I'm not even a Jew. Well,
kind of Jew'-ish. I mean, I'm a Jew and a lawyer, but I'm atheist.

The Buddha on meditative absorption

2026-07-06T16:00:00.000-07:00

Ego (buddhism podcast) The Buddha attained [temporary mental purification and permanent] enlightenment (bodhi) from developing the meditative absorptions (jhana), not in them

Knot Wisdom: Short Attn Span Theater

2026-07-06T05:00:00.000-07:00

Ancient Egyptians visited Australia?

The Gosford glyphs (Australian Geographic)

(Wiki) The Gosford Glyphs, also known as Kariong Hieroglyphs, are a group of approximately 300 Egyptian-style hieroglyphs located in Kariong, Brisbane, Australia. They are found in an area known for its Aboriginal petroglyphs, between Gosford and Woy Woy, New South Wales, within the Brisbane Water National Park. Academics and authorities have tried to dismiss them as a hoax after their discovery in the 1970s, but there is no proof other than disbelief. These authorities are still attempting to prove the false belief that they were carved by ancient Egyptians about 4,500 years ago [1]. So far they have been unable to do so. But to think the ancient Egyptians made it not only to the Grand Canyon in the Southwest USA. More

This can't be real, and we won't stand for it! The Gosford glyphs, debunked (Australian Geographic)
Eds., Wisdom Quarterly assembled July 28, 2024

The way out: Ennobling Eightfold Path

2026-07-05T22:00:00.000-07:00

The Noble Eightfold Path: Why Buddhism begins here | Buddha's Wisdom

(Buddha's Wisdom) July 5, 2026: 🔍 THE ENTIRE BUDDHIST PATH HIDES INSIDE ONE SMALL WORD. The Noble Eightfold Path is Buddhism's way out (vimutti, moksha) of suffering (dukkha), yet almost everyone reads it as if were eight rules to obey, like a report card. It was never that!

This video rebuilds the Eightfold Path to Enlightenment from the ground up, showing why it isn't eight steps at all, why we're already walking a version of it right now, and how one mistranslated English word quietly changed how the whole teaching is understood.

📿DISCOVER

Why sammā (usually translated "right") actually means aligned, whole, and in harmony, not "right answer versus wrong answer"
The wrong Eightfold Path the Buddha described in the Great Forty, the shadow path most people are walking right now without knowing it
How the eight factors collapse into just three trainings: wisdom, ethics, and meditation (stillness, samadhi, concentration)
The ancient riddle of the tangle that became the skeleton of Buddhaghosa's Path of Purification (Visuddhimagga)
Why the path is the Fourth Noble Truth, the cure written at the foot of the diagnosis, and how it ends by erasing itself
How the Eightfold Path connects to Dependent Origination and the tangle of suffering

⚡ Ever felt the Eightfold Path was a scorecard being failed? This is the video that reframes it completely. Subscribe to Buddha's Wisdom.

Seeing what's actually happening now

2026-07-05T21:45:00.000-07:00

Seven signs: I'm now closer to Nirvana

2026-07-05T07:00:00.000-07:00

(Buddha's Wisdom) We're closer to Nirvana than we think: 7 signs the Buddha described in Theravada Buddhism's Pali canon.

COMMENTARY

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The historical Buddha Gautama blissfully reclines into final nirvana (wiki)

But what is "nirvana" and why would anyone want it?

It is "the end of all suffering" or dukkha. It is the extinguishing of all greed, hatred, and delusion (craving, aversion, and ignorance) that keep the illusion and suffering going. It is the cooling of these fires (raging flames, smoldering coals, and blinding smoke). It is the highest bliss, the dissolution of all formations, the end of samsara, the incessant "continued wandering on" of rebirth and death.

Nirvana is the "deathless" (amata, amrita, ambrosia)
Nirvana is the "unconditioned element" (asankhata dhatu)
Nirvana is the highest peace, the true refuge (sarana)
Nirvana is the freedom (vimutti) from all afflictions
Nirvana is the liberation (moksha) by wisdom
Nirvana is the summum bonum of Early Buddhism and therefore of the back-to-basics Theravada school

But what is it, this thing with no equal?

In Theravada Abhidhamma texts such as the Vibhanga, where Sanskrit nirvana is called nibbana in Pali, the "unconditioned element" is defined this way:

"What is the unconditioned element (asankhata dhatu)? It is the cessation of passion, the cessation of hatred [aversion], and the cessation of delusion" [Note 12].

The Dhammasangani likewise describes it as that reality which is a sphere of experience unproduced by any cause or condition, according to L.S. Cousins [111].

The Dhammasangani also describes it in numerous other ways, such as the "immeasurable," "superior to everything," as "not past, present, or future" [the Ancient Greek anionic, the "not aeons," the "timeless," the "eternal now"], as "neither arisen nor not-arisen" and as "neither within nor without" [111].

In Buddhism, Jainism, and Hinduism, "aeon" is used as a translation of the term kalpa and sometimes maha-kalpa or "great aeon" (Sanskrit महाकल्प). A maha kalpa, which cannot be pinned down to an exact numerical figure, is often said to be 1,334,240,000 years or the life cycle of the world (cakkavāḷa).
Christianity's idea of "eternal life" comes from a Greek form of aión (αἰών) and the word for life, zōḗ (ζωή) [6], which has been translated to mean [timeless] immortality in the majority of texts, but is argued by some [7, 8, 9] to mean life in the next aeon, the Kingdom of God, or Heaven, instead.
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Another universalist reading, prevalent among Neoplatonists due to its similarity to views expressed in Plato's Timaeus [10], is that the "aeon" does not refer to a time, finite or infinite, but instead a Greek parallel of a Judaic view of distinct natures of time, between the χρόνος (chronos) of the present "age," or עולם הזה ('olam ha-zeh) and the αιώνιος (aionios) of the "age to come," or הָעוֹלָם הַבָּא ('olam ha-ba). More: aeon

Cousins also notes that "suggestively, however, it may be reckoned as nama (name) rather than rupa [form]. This does seem to suggest some element of underlying idealism of the kind which emerges later in the vijñanavada" (the "teaching of consciousness") [111].

Furthermore, for Theravada Buddhism, nibbana is uniquely the ONLY unconditioned element or phenomenon. Theravada argues that nibbana is unitary, that it cannot be divided.

Unlike other Buddhist schools, Theravada does not agree that there are any other unconditioned elements or phenomena, nor that there are different types of nirvana (such as the apratistha or "non-abiding nirvana" invented by Mahayana) [112, 111].

As noted by Thiện Châu, the Theravadans and the Pudgalavadans "remained strictly faithful to the letter of the [Buddha's original] sutras" and thus held that nirvana is the only unconditioned dhamma (phenomenon), while other schools posited various asankhata dhammas, such as the Sarvastivadan view that space (akasha) is unconditioned) [112].

Medieval Theravada exegesis

The fifth century Theravada scholar-monk and exegete Buddhaghosa says in The Path of Purification (Visuddhimagga): "It is called nibbana (extinction) because it has gone away from (nikkhanta), has escaped from (nissata), is dissociated from craving, which has acquired in common usage the name ‘fastening (vana)’ because, by ensuring successive becoming, craving serves as a joining together, a binding together, a lacing together, of the four kinds of generation, five destinies, seven stations of consciousness, and nine abodes of being" [Note 13]. More

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