Wisdom Quarterly: American Buddhist Journal

Tibetan nun dared to teach yoga (Chöd)

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

Machig Labdrön (Tibetan མ་གཅིག་ལབ་སྒྲོན་, sometimes referred to as ཨ་སྒྲོན་ཆོས་སྒྲོན or Ahdrön Chödron་) [1], the "Singular Mother Torch from Lab" (1055–1149) [2].

She was a Tibetan Buddhist nun (ani) believed to be a reincarnation of Yeshe Tsogyal.

Machig Labdrön was the renowned 11th-century Tibetan tantric Buddhist master and yogini who originated several Tibetan lineages of the Vajrayana practice of Chöd (Tibetan གཅོད་).

Buddhist leader Chökyi Drönma
Nyingma scholar Khenchen Palden Sherab Rinpoche states that the Chöd tradition developed by Machig Labdrön is "a radical synthesis of the Prajnaparamita tradition and tantra guru yoga that 'cuts' through the ego" [3].

Historical texts portray Machig Labdrön as the originator of the Chöd lineage, which she developed in Tibet.

This was confirmed in her own lifetime by Indian Brahmin priests and others, and Machig Labdron's creation of the Chöd lineage is not doubted by its modern practitioners [4].

The highest female incarnation in Tibet, the first Samding Dorje Phagmo, Princess Chökyi Drönma (1422–1455), a female tulku (incarnation) lineage of Vajravārāhī, was understood to be an emanation of Machig Labdrön (King of the Empty Plain, Stearns, 2007).

Violent denunciation by Maoists: Samding Dorje Phagmo, parents during Cultural Revolution

Vajravarahi mandala

The influences of other practices on Chöd are debated. Some posit Machig Labdron may have come from a Yungdrung Bön [black magic shaman] family, a position that contradicts historical records [5].

According to Namkhai Norbu, Chöd might be interpreted through combining native Tibetan shamanism with the Dzogchen teachings.

Other Buddhist teachers and scholars offer differing interpretations of the origins of Chöd. Not all of them agree that Chöd has Bön shamanistic roots [6]. More

The Tibetan Yoga of Dreaming

Tibetan tantric dream yoga (milam) In the yoga of dreaming (rmi lam), the yogi and yogini learn to remain aware (lucid dream) during the states of dreaming and use this skill to practice yoga in the dream... The Yoga of the Dream State is a suite of advanced tantric daily practices (sadhana) of the entwined Mantrayana (Vajrayana) lineages of Dzogchen (Nyingmapa, Ngagpa, Mahasiddha, Kagyu, and Bönpo). It consists of tantric processes and techniques in the trance bardos [liminal spaces] of dream and sleep or the Six Dharmas of Naropa, the "dream body" and the "bardo body" being identified with the "vision body" (yid lus)...

Tantric sex (sexual yoga)
Sex, love, and abuse with Guru "Baba"
Tibetan tantric practice
Buddha's Wisdom, July 29, 2026; CC Liu, Amber Larson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly Wiki edit

Ecstatic absorption: Bliss of the Jhanas

2026-07-28T17:00:00.000-07:00

(Buddha's Wisdom) The Four Jhanas (meditative absorptions): From Rapture (piti) to perfect equanimity (upekkha)

Jhana: meditative "absorption" ("meditation") chiefly refers to the first four meditative absorptions of form

Gandhara: meditating Buddha

Namely, these are the form absorptions of the fine-material sphere (rūpa-jjhāna or rūpāvacara-jjhāna, see avacara). These profound absorptions are reached through full (ecstatic) stillness, samādhi, concentration (appanā).

At this time there is a complete (albeit temporary) suspension of fivefold sense-activity and of the Five Hindrances (pancha-nīvarana). However, this state of consciousness is one of full alertness and lucidity and, it is said, singlepointedness (ekagata) of mind/attention.

This degree of concentration becomes a fully absorbed state. It is generally developed by the practice (cultivation) of one of the 40 subjects of tranquility meditation (samatha-kammatthāna, see bhāvanā).

There are four higher (more refined) states of absorption called the Four Formless Attainments of the immaterial Spheres (arūpāyatana). These are called the four absorptions of the immaterial sphere (arūpa-jjhāna or arūpāvacara-jjhāna).

The usual text, often met with in the Pali canon sutras, runs as follows:... More: jhāna

How shall "I" become Nobody?

2026-07-28T16:55:00.000-07:00

(Flowing Void) Why being nobody is the ultimate power of the Tao

Did Zen folk, being Taoists, get it?

Avenged Sevenfold "Nobody" (official video)
I went to a Buddhist retreat needing something to happen; nothing happened.
My friend, a regular American woman into yoga, also went but not expecting anything, hoping for anything, "needing" anything; something happened.
I asked, "How?! How is this happening? What did you do differently?"
She claims she didn't "do" anything. She just sat. She just attended to the present moment with bare awareness, almost like that R.E.M. song, "Stand in the Place Where You Are." She didn't say that. She mentioned thinking about the song "Just Breathe" for inspiration sometimes.
I asked, "You're thinking about music?"
She answered, "No, but intrusive thoughts come and go. Sometimes by habit I engage them before mindfully-remembering and then letting them go, letting them cross like clouds in a vast open sky." And she mentioned visualizing the in-and-out breath as steam in a steam room or a small whirligig (windspinner) at her nose turning as the breath moved.
I asked, "You spend your time visualizing?"
She answered, "No, but sometimes to focus, I imagine some indicator of the breath just to help get focused."
I asked, "How do you stay energized and focused for so many hours of the retreat schedule day?"
She surprised by answering that she used a little peppermint under her nose.
I asked, "You spend your time huffing essential oils?"
She answered, "No but it's a nice pick me up in the morning, and it's good to feel a chill on the spot above the lip where I place my calm attention."
I started to see the pattern. Everything I asked and conceived was about getting and gaining.
And everything she answered was about letting go, relaxing, and staying aware without "thinking" (i.e., ruminating, perseverating, proliferating, drifting away on a tide of discursive thinking).
A Buddhist retreat, like a Christian church service, is not somewhere to go to gain. It is a place to go to lay down the burden and let go a little, release, share, give, abandon, listen, allow with radical acceptance of what is. Imagine only ever going to church (mass, temple, the sabbath ritual) with a laundry list of wishes for the God. How well was that ever going to work? But a person with a purer heart goes just to receive the Word or the Spirit or advice embedded in the sermon to give more donations to the church or whatever nonsense most sermons are on nowadays. Surely that purer person would get more out of the experience than the person with the list treating the God of that church like a restaurant, ATM, or the lap of Saint Santa Claus (Nicholas).
So let us follow in the example of the woman who "succeeded" in getting what everybody else on that retreat was after. About three other women got it, too, including Buddhist meditation teachers Shaila Catherine (Wisdom Wide and Deep: Jhana and Insight) and Dr. Nikki (The Persian Buddhist: Dr. Nikki).
Oddly, strangely (coincidentally?), these three women are all from California, but the long retreat was on the east coast at IMS with a rare enlightened master. I do not now recall if there was a male among the very small group of retreatants/meditators who "succeeded" in getting somewhere very deep with their meditation. But it was impossible to overlook the fact that even if there were, it was still 75% women who succeeded. So I asked her about this.
She answered, "I did notice, and I asked the Teacher, and he explained, 'It's easier for women.'"
I asked, "Why in the world would it be easier for women? Surely, they have it harder than men in this world, which after all we are told is 'a man's world.'"
She agreed, and she mentioned that she asked him the same question, and the great master, a successful scholar-practitioner not teaching only from theory but having a great deal of direct practical personal experience with the historical Buddha's Path, answered. He explained that it is how women are (by nature at this time) and how they are treated now (by injustice). Their way, as anyone can see in terms of American sex-role stereotyping and gender asymmetries (that they are treated less than, overlooked, underestimated, ignored, disregarded, and all that) actually gives them an advantage in meditation and spiritual progress.
I said, "Why? Why would that be?"
She answered, as it came right back around to slap me in the face and punch me in the gut, that it is because women, generally, are NOT striving, struggling, needing, demanding, insisting, interfering, pushing, muscling, and all the "wrong" (disadvantageous, self-defeating, dysfunctional) things we men generally do.
I asked, "Well, isn't everyone there -- having paid and taken time off work and putting in all those hours of silence, getting up early, eating only in the morning, detoxing from technology, giving up their cell phones, social media, and email accounts -- doing EXACTLY that?!
She answered, "Yes, except for the four of us, for some reason. It's not like we knew each other or knew what the others were doing. We were each just minding our business, not socializing, not looking around, not taking walks, not arguing, not demanding, not all of that stuff that everyone else [being American] were in the habit of doing."
I said, "Oh, I see! It's exactly all that grasping, needing, struggling, striving, and kicking @$$ that is getting in everyone's (well nearly everyone's) way!
She answered, "It would seem so."
Then I realized I was pushing her for these answers, and she was kind enough, because we had known each other for so long and been such friends, and because I encouraged her and made sure she got to this retreat, that she tolerated this interrogation of sorts. I was startled by what she was saying, and she was saying precious little unless I pushed. I realized anyone with common sense and common decency would never push like this or ask pointed questions. But this is how I pressed that very teacher to answered and explain things, which he did as he kindly inquired about my practice and how I was doing and why I was so worried or interested in what anybody else was doing. (I didn't have enough sense to trust in him that when I was ready, I would learn all these things directly and not need to be so bullheaded in asking). But because I had not made progress, I'd been left to wonder what I was doing wrong, aside from everything. It was only my luck, my precious good karma, that I had the good fortune of knowing more than one person who had done it right (or was currently doing it "right" in the sense of the eight path factors of "right mindfulness, right effort, and so on) that I could see by comparison where I veered off. I already knew about my veering off. What I needed to know, for myself and Wisdom Quarterly readers was, What's the right road, the right path, the right practice? Now I was getting a dose of it. I had only been "a little" off but that little had grown to a complete derailing and going off the road, as a boat traveling a long distance -- with course correcting along the way -- would end up way off track like a wayward Columbus. I was stressed out in asking all these things.
She answered without stress, gently smiling at my silliness, manliness, foolishness, and blindness.
But there is an extraordinary thing I realized/remembered as I was talking to her about these things (Dhamma), these matters so rare in the universe that only someone with a real kalyana-mitta can ever hope to hear, and it came when I formulated a preface to a question like a lawyer would, establishing common ground, being on the same page. I wanted to ask her about her level of attainment and that of the others. But to do so, I needed to establish that she was ahead of all the others on the retreat, or was it the case that the elder and much more experienced meditator and teacher Shaila Catherine was ahead, and where was Nikki Mighafori in the ranking, and for that matter, at what level was the teacher?
She answered no answer, just a perplexed look, a series of sounds and utterances that gave me to believe we were not sharing common ground and not on the same page.
I pushed, "Look, regular people are 'uninstructed ordinary worldlings,' right?"
She answered, "Okay?" as if confused by my very lowest common denominator question.
And I kept pushing, and any Aryan (any "noble" disciple, any attained person of whatever ever rank, stage, or level) is greater than that, right?
She answered more perplexed, "Okay??"
I pushed to the point of breaking, "What? You won't give me that? There are ordinary people and there are attained people, and they're not the same because of a 'change-of-lineage' (gotrabhu), riiiiight? The Buddha said as much! It's foundational to the whole Teaching in this school of Buddhism. This is not hard. This is not a trick question..."
She responded, "And why are you asking?"
I, exasperated, kept pushing through, as if I were doing a set of heavy weights at the gym and just needed to get a certain number of reps in even if it hurt, "I'm trying to establish that there's a difference. There are ordinary people there and extraordinary. And among the latter group, there are gradients..."
She looked puzzled, dismissive, not catching on, "Okay???"
I barked, "Well, come on! There's that, right? And this is when she blew my mind. Did you, dear reader, know that enlightened people (in the specific Buddhist sense of the word bodhi and not what other traditions, religions, or systems think or mean when they use the exact same word) DO NOT THINK OF THEMSELVES as better than anyone? Sure, you did. Anyone can figure that out. They know there's no ego; they go lording it around over anyone's head. BUT, did you know, enlightened people (of whatever stage or level) DO NOT THINK OF THEMSELVES as worse than anyone? Sure, come on, that can be deduced by anyone who gives it a little thought. "Saints" (Aryans, the noble ones) are nice. Here's the mindblower: Reader, did you know that enlightened people DO NOT THINK OF THEMSELVES as equal to anyone? 🤯 (See the Pali canon sutta "With Khema" AN 6.49: Khema Sutta—translated by Bhikkhu Sujato for suttacentral.net) And this is what was happening here. We were getting snagged and tangled up on the very first presupposition of stages and levels. It's not that she didn't know or had forgotten that there were levels, but what had happened is that she had DIRECTLY REALIZED that in reality she is no better, no worse, and not equal to others. These Aryans just don't think that way. It doesn't occur to them. They don't frame things that way anymore. And they may not even remember ever having done so, or so it would seem as I tried to remind her that this is how the whole world thought, including the Buddha, if we can deduce this from his teaching that there were levels of attainment and therefore it is possible to designate someone as higher, lower, or equal to someone else, anyone else.
She just looked at, as if remembering, then came back to herself, "And????" leading me to make my point, whatever my point was originally going to be. I didn't remember, and there was no sense in asking if we could not agree on that much for starters. This was a nonstarter.
"Wow," I thought, the things in the ancient sacred texts are really true: Aryans are this way or that, whether it makes sense to us or not, whether it fits our frames, whether we agree or would have it otherwise. Buddhism (the Buddha Dharma), what the Buddha taught, was not "hammered out by mere reasoning." The Buddha directly saw these things, knew these things, taught a path-and-practice for others to be able to DIRECTLY know and see these things. I bowed to her and left it at that for the moment. There are some things we are not meant to know before we are ready to know it. And all of this, it seems, was none of my business. It would become my business when I directly experienced these things and became one who knows-and-sees. This is a teaching for the wise, after all, not for those sunk in worldliness, distraction, delusion, resentment, aversion, fear, greediness, selfishness, self-centeredness, or all manner of wrong view arising from ignorance, delusion, and holding views.
And now I realize that one way to talk about all this might be through the Taoist video at the top of this article. Maybe on this path we are becoming what we always were and have been -- nobody. Certainly, nobody special. Not better, not worse, not equal. The worldly mind will completely reject this out of hand. It's preposterous! This is a patriarchy founded on a hierarchy as taught by the oligarchy and a lineage of worldly rulers all the way up to the first heaven. And we must submit to them because that's the way God wants it. 🙄 That's ludicrous and preposterous, but it just might be closer to the truth than the way we've been carrying on here in the world IF "the God" we are talking about is the Monad (the One in Gnosticism, the Brahman not Brahma in Buddhism, possibly even the Tao in Taoism). That GOD doesn't want or not want, doesn't look on needing it to be one way or another. In that sense, there is just being. We can just be (though technically there is no "being," only becoming, this ceaseless impersonal process of radical impermanence as everything falls apart and rebuilds all the time, marked by three universal characteristics the Buddha taught again and again, implicitly and explicitly: All things are radically impermanent, utter unable to ever fulfill us, and impersonal whether we imagine there to be a stable "self" or not. That's reality. Here we are over here never really in touch with what's real due to all the distractions, talking, ruminating, thinking, and everything else coming at us all at once. If we slow down, let things be, allow, accept, welcome experience as it is without needing to change or "improve" it, we can quite possibly make quick progress to the end of all suffering and the arising of liberating-insight, the wisdom that has gone beyond, that which we set as our goal when setting off on a spiritual path. So "be nobody." After all, that's what really are already, and the sooner we get right with it, the happier we are likely to be so we can see things sa they really are and always have been.

My psychotic breakdown: Cage the Elephant

2026-07-28T16:54:00.000-07:00

Cage the Elephant, Neon Pill album (2024)

(CBS Morning) Cage the Elephant's Kentucky boy Matt Shultz opens up about his psychosis, ADHD medication gone wrong (thanks, $Big Pharma$), and healing through rock music and guns:

Between 2020–2024, Shultz had a paranoid "mental health crisis" for the making of Neon Pill (2024).

He experienced a severe adverse reaction to prescribed ADHD medication, which led to paranoid delusions and a break from reality. His condition culminated in a high-profile arrest in January 2023 in NY, where he was found with two loaded firearms.

Double crossed by pharmaceuticals

Cage the Elephant was once double crossed by a "Neon Pill"

Shultz later avoided jail time through a plea deal and underwent extensive treatment, which he has credited with saving his life [12]. This turbulent period deeply influenced Cage the Elephant's sixth studio album, Neon Pill.

Have the pills done too much?

Big Pharma sold me the drugs: Em Beihold "Numb Little Bug"

The album features lyrics reflecting Shultz's psychological descent and recovery, blending confessional songwriting with the band's evolving, genre-fluid sound. Songs like "Neon Pill" and "Rainbow" trace his personal trauma, including a temporary divorce from his wife Kentucky-based actress, dancer, and musician Eva Ross [13].

We're not into psychedelics...or are we?

Cage the Elephant "Come a Little Closer" (official psychedelic video)

In interviews, Shultz has spoken candidly about the dangers of blurring performance personas with personal identity and has since adopted a more grounded public presence.

Cage the Elephant: Hey, Man, at least you're on the radio "Social Cues"

I remarried the woman I divorced.

The band's return to touring in 2024 was met with critical acclaim, and Shultz has described the experience as a profound reset, offering new perspective on fame and artistic identity [12].

On Oct. 10, 2024, CBS Mornings aired a segment featuring Shultz and his brother Brad. In it Matt opened up about his psychosis [14]. More

"Beaches in Tennessee"

Cage the Elephant "Beaches in Tennessee" (visualizer)

PHOTOS: Singer Matt Shultz of Cage the Elephant (Alamy)
CBS Morning; Cage the Elephant; Em Beihold; Seth Auberon, Pfc. Sandoval, Sheldon S. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly Wiki edit

Arresting war criminal Bibi Netanyahu

2026-07-28T16:49:00.000-07:00

Jewish Zionist organization that rules world

(Volksgeist) The all-American CIA-groomed, blood libel declaring recruit Ben Netanyahu (aka "Ben Nitay," "Bibi," whose real name is Benjamin Mileikowsky, grandson of Russian Zionist Rabbi Nathan Mileikowsky).

Zionist grandfather Rabbi Mileikowsky was the father of scholar and academic Benzion Netanyahu (née Mileikowsky), and the grandfather of the current military dictator/prime minister of Israel, who has ruled for 25% of its existence.

Ben bosses me like many presidents before me
The self-defined roles and functions of the CIA are roughly equivalent to other brutal secret police agencies the CIA inspired such as Germany's BND, UK's MI6, Australia's ASIS, France's DGSE, Russia's FIS, China's MSS, India's R&AW, Pakistan's ISI, Egypt's GIS, Israel's Mossad and Shin Bet, and South Korea's NIS.

POLL: Americans hate Bibi's Israel

(Let's Be Clear with Ana Kasparian) POLL: Most Americans have

had it with genocidal Jewish American Netanyahu and Zionist Israel

(DDN) Too extreme for Bibi? Shocking leaked calls of dead Graham

(TYT Investigates) Mayor Zohran Mamdani claps back at war criminal Netanyahu
Murderer of Jewish Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (enemy of right-wing Jewish occupiers/"settlers"
The Oslo Accords
Mossad (Jewish CIA) like Shin Bet (Shabak) Jewish NSA
Epstein's second-best friend Jewish Israeli PM Ehud Barak
Boss of Donald Trump, blackmailed nominal head of USA

I understand him now and what I have to do. - He understands me now and what he has to do.

I died and met gods Shiva 'n Jesus (NDE)

2026-07-28T08:00:00.000-07:00

(shaman oaks) She died and met two gods: Jesus and Shiva (near death experience, NDE)

(Dalai Lama) Is there really no God? This Dalai Lama explains
Buddhism is nontheistic, not atheistic, and Buddhists are free to believe, follow, worship, or depend on a god (Maha Brahma, the Great Supremo), gods (brahmas, devas), or whatever conception they have of the "divine" (divinity)
Archaeologists discovered a 5,000-year-old tomb filled to the brim with ancient treasures
Archaeologists found a lost temple in the sand that solves a major historical puzzle
Dinosaurs died out within hours, new study suggests

(Religious Debate) Richard Hawkins humiliates Mormon believer Brandon Flowers

Gnosticism: Who are 'Archons,' Sophia?

2026-07-28T06:45:00.000-07:00

(Gnostic Talk) Who are the Archons aiding and abetting the Demiurge (Yaldabaoth, Yahweh, Jehovah, YHWH) in ruling this trap or prison called the physical world? This simulation, saṃsāra, or matrix is the world they control.

7 other Gods the Bible really talks about — but the Church never does

The Apocryphon of John
The Gospel of Philip: "Ignorance [Buddhism's avijja] is the mother of all evil [bad karma born of greed, hatred, and fear], not malice, not weakness, ignorance." That is why Buddhism and Gnosticism are classified as "wisdom traditions."

The Aeon Sophia, what is her real name?

Palestinian picks Israel over Palestine

2026-07-28T06:06:00.000-07:00

(Hamzah Reacts) A real Palestinian man chose and now advocates for genocidal Zionist Israel. He's an "Arab" Israel Firster, revealing the power of PTSD, terror, torture, and "getting minds right" by reeducation in Israeli prisons and detention centers

What is Zionist Jewish Israel's plan for the US after genocide in Middle East? Let's ask Bibi

(Double Down News) Israel rules USA and soon the world

Today I was in DC to tell Trump what to do next

When it comes to antisemitism in American hip-hop, the answer is more complicated. But rappers have taken enough photos with Mr. Farrakhan and spit enough bars equating [greedy] Jewish people with financial or political power that it's always been a conversation.

In the wake of basketball star Kyrie Irving sharing an Amazon link to an antisemitic documentary and Kanye West villainously deciding that he wanted to share some cyanide poison with Hitler, BLP Kosher's viral rise can be a step towards a conversation in both the hip-hop community that he wishes to be a part of and the Jewish community that he is already a part of. More

The real Zionist Israeli Operative Erika Kirk

2026-07-28T06:00:00.000-07:00

(Olivia Swing) The Erika Kirk dots we are not supposed to connect

Alex Jones: Impeach Trump over Iran War

2026-07-28T06:00:00.000-07:00

Pres. Trump's approval hits new low in latest poll

(Will Sexton) Section 19 just proved U.S. government is Satanic

(The Young Turks) Alex Jones Cenk Uighur, Ana Kasparian

(Mr. Newberger's AI Funnies) Trump's new film: Nobody's Laughing

Alex Jones ripped to shreds by LWT: 🤣

Alex Jones: Last Week Tonight w/ John Oliver: actual funniest episode of LWT?

America is subservient to Jewish Israel says right winger

Vaxxed: Dr. Fauci lied big, his diaries show

2026-07-28T06:00:00.000-07:00

(The Young Turks) REVEALED: Dr. Tony Fauci is a HUGE liar (fraud, gain of function research, Wuhan Lab, China, profit motive, COVID 19 was a plandemic)

Pfizer tested one vax, gave another (TJDS)
rense.com
stevequayle.com
How can I see the movie Vaxxed?:
rumble.com
bitchute.com
The Jimmy Dore Show

Lust for Sofia or Love of Wisdom?

2026-07-27T16:20:00.000-07:00

Forget that silly Latina Sofia Verga'raw and stare at me (SuicideGirl wiki 'thirst trap')

(comedyspace.) Nobody gets thirsted after and trapped like American actor Sophia Vergara

I'm not a Latin sex simbolo.

Sofía Vergara, 54, is smart and beautiful, so voluptuous and brainy with shine and humor that it has made her one of the highest-paid actresses in the USA [3, 4, 5]. Happy birthday (July 10th)! The Latin (Colombian) North American is an actress, TV hostess, personality, and the most enchanting judge on America's Got Talent: 16-year-old Thai Buddhist female guitar prodigy stuns Sofia and the other judges with hard rock version of "Zombie" | Nene Royal | AGT 2026

I dress like this to work all the time. I'm on TV!

Sofi is perhaps best known for her role as Gloria Delgado-Pritchett on the ABC sitcom Modern Family (2009–2020) and more recently as Griselda Blanco from the Netflix miniseries Griselda (2024). She has received five nominations each at the Primetime Emmy Awards and the Golden Globe Awards. She rose to prominence when co-hosting two TV shows for the Spanish-language TV network Univision in the late 1990s. After acting in the English-language film... More

The Buddha: She's "foremost in wisdom"

Goddess of Wisdom Pallas Athena (Sophia) - Ven. Khemā, the nun "foremost in wisdom"

Queen Khema and the illusion of beauty: becoming a nun on seeing the truth 😊

Honey trap: "sexpionage"
Enlightened Buddhist nun Khemā, the Buddha's chief female disciple declared "foremost in wisdom"
The Buddha's chief female disciples Khema and Uppalavanna
On Women as Teachers in Early Buddhism: Dhammadinna and Khema | Buddhist Studies Review
Gender and Authority in Buddhist History: From Enlightened Masters
Pali canon Literature of Sri Lanka, Burma, and Thailand (Theravada)
CLASSIC: The Great Disciples of the Buddha (Bhikkhu Bodhi)

Sex is a trap, Jack, wait and see.

A thirst trap is a type of social media post intended to sexually entice viewers [1, 2, 3, 4]. It refers to a viewer's "thirst" (tanha, craving, grasping, clinginess, lust, attachment, sensual desire), a colloquialism likening sexual frustration to dehydrated thirst.

It implies desperation, with the afflicted individual being described as "thirsty" [4, 5, 6] in the Buddhist sense and soon caught in a trap.

The phrase entered into the American lexicon in the late 1990s. It is most related to internet slang that developed in the early 2010s. Its meaning has changed over time, previously referring to a graceless need for approval, validation, affection, or attention [7, 6], for which the term "attention whore" was coined. More

The other Sofia, Goddess of Wisdom

(MorgueOfficial) The Lost Gospel: Jesus secretly worshipping Goddess?

Gnosticism's Nag Hammadi texts: gnosis.org

Buddhist Perfection of Wisdom
The great Gnostic Sophia: Sophia (Wisdom) was a Greek goddess. In Gnosticism, Sophia is "Wisdom," Sofia (Koine Greek σοφία, sophía—"wisdom," Vulgate Latin Sapientia, as in sophists) is a central idea in Hellenistic Greek philosophy and religion, Platonism, and especially Gnosticism.

Originally carrying a meaning of "cleverness or skill," the later meaning of the term, "sound judgment, intelligence, practical wisdom," is close to the meaning of phronesis ("practical wisdom, intelligence") and was significantly shaped by the term philosophía (the "love of wisdom") as used by the philosopher Plato.

The Goddess Sophia in the East and West

If Carrot Top can, anyone can.

In the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church, the feminine personification of Divine Wisdom or Holy Wisdom (Ἁγία Σοφία, Hagía Sophía) can refer either to Jesus Christ the Logos or Word of God (as in the dedication of the church of Hagia Sophia in Emperor Constantine's City) or to the Holy Spirit. References to sophía in Koine Greek translations of the Jewish Hebrew Bible are translated from the Hebrew term Chokmah (ḥoḵmā). More

Buddhistdoor quote: Ayya Khema (1923–1997)

Comedyspace.; Dhr. Seven, Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Seth Auberon (ed.), Wisdom Quarterly

Naked Poetry and Füde (NY to LA)

2026-07-27T16:00:00.000-07:00

Now I'd like to bring out Leehee Bee, a hot piece of asymptote on our stage for the first time.

Reading my poetry is a new kind of "naked"

What performing poetry reveals about language, vulnerability, the fear of being (mis)understood

lihi be, the i in mi, this breath and body

A few months ago, I [Lihi Be] stood on a stage in New York City and performed slam poetry for the first time. The scene was hosted by Nuyorican Poets' Cafe at the Bowery Poetry Club, a small, legendary room where decades of poets have stepped up to a microphone and turned their inner worlds into sound.

It's the kind of place where language has history. where words have weight, where the air still feels charged from the voices that came before.

Could I stand in front of people fully nude?

I remember standing there, waiting my turn, feeling my heart beating in my throat, which surprised me. I’ve spoken in front of rooms before. I’ve guided workshops, taught movement, led breathwork journeys where people open parts of themselves that are tender and alive.

Holding space for others doesn’t scare me. But this was different. This time, I wasn’t holding material space; I was the material. A poem I wrote alone earlier that morning was about to leave the page and hit the stage, entering a room full of strangers, not through dead ink, but through my living breath, my voice, my body.

New York City as seen from high above Central Park, a kind of Griffith Park, Los Angeles

New York City's famous spoken word space at the Bowery Poetry Club (wiki)

What is The Füde Experience? Naked eating, social bonding, courageous self-inquiry together

The Füde Experience: naked eating with Lihi Be at FÜDE LA (thefudeexperience.com)

Does anyone here need a bath to wash away dirty thoughts of body image negativity?

Holiday hosting: rosemary ritual cleanse (The Füde Experience)

Lihi Benisty poetry: Self

Until that moment, "poetry" was something I wrote, never something I performed. When I published my book, The Self, Reframed, it felt like a big step outward. Suddenly the poems were technically "public." Someone, anyone, could order the book, underline a passage, carry a piece of it into her own life.

Butt even then, there was still distance. The page protected me. Readers meet a poem alone. They can pause, reread, close the book, throw it in the garbage disposal, flip the switch, make acid-free wood pulp that washes out to sea... That meeting happens quietly, inside their own interior worlds.

Shame? We refuse to limit ourselves

Slam poetry is different: Spoken word removes the distance. When one performs a poem, there is no safe distance, no page between the room and the I performing. My breath carries my language. My nervous system becomes part of the delivery. My voice, my pauses, my trembling chest -- all of it becomes part of my poem.

In some ways, it feels easier to be naked than to perform one's own poem, in the woods, with someone you love, in front of Mother Nature, playing pretend it's Adam and Eve in a Sumerian garden.

Holy Adam and Eve had no shame

Look, it's the real me!

I was in New York for a series of gatherings -- one of them a nude experience I was hosting with the Füde Experience: a roomful of naked people exploring embodiment, mindful presence, the simplicity of being in our bodies without the usual layers of social armor.

Standing naked in a room with others didn’t feel nearly as vulnerable as standing on this stage. In fact, being naked felt surprisingly simple. Source: a poem is a different kind of naked (seeds of the self)

We're bringing it to Los Angeles

Have the experience in Los Angeles with Dharma Buddhist Meditation (Aug. 7, 2026)
RSVP: Naked Vegan Food Experience, Meditation, Poetry, Healing, Friday, Aug. 7, 2026, 7:00 PM | Meetup

"No bikinis! Cover up those shameful bodies...or you are headed for hell!" - Loving Christian

Lihi Be (Benisty)

AUTHOR: Lihi Be (Benisty), teacher of somatic self-inquiry, breathwork, movement, teacher, mentorship, poetry, summer retreat leader, author of The Self, Reframed. She leads a dynamic blend of somatic practices to navigate emotional landscapes. She is profoundly committed to the poetic art of self-inquiry through breathwork and movement. Her teaching is distinguished by her ability to weave these elements into a cohesive practice that respects the complexity of the human experience. Her poetry serves as a reflective mirror, deepening the themes she navigates in her somatic work and offering an additional avenue for connection and self-discovery. She lives in Los Angeles, California. (Substack, Instagram, FÜDE in LA, Amazon, Facebook, Omega Institute, lihibe.com)

Put yer clothes on 'n get the Hades outta here!
Building community through resonance: The Füde Experience is a reader-supported publication for free and paid subscribers; to receive new posts and support, see: fudeexperience.substack.com (Website: thefudeexperience.com)

Nuyorican Poets' Cafe Poetry Slam at the Bowery Poetry Club Mondays (@bowerypoetry

We'd ride our bikes in the nude to see someone get on stage and really get naked with poetry.

Lihi Bi (seeds of the self), March 4th, 2026; Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Dhr. Seven, Ashley Wells, Jen B. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Avalokitesvara Enlightenment Day (8/1)

2026-07-27T07:30:00.000-07:00

Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva

This weekend (either Saturday or Sunday), Hsi Lai Temple will be conducting a noontime offering to the great Kwan Yin Pusa (Guanyin Bodhisattva), who began as the male deva Avalokita (Avalokitesvara).

It is unknown which day it will be because it is officially posted as "Sunday, 8/1, at 10:00 am, but Sunday is 8/2, Aug. 2, 2026. So maybe it starts on Saturday at 10 and culminates with noontime offerings at 12 the next day? Call the temple for proper details.

Hsi Lai (Coming West) Temple
3456 Glenmark Drive (near 60 Fwy)
Hacienda Heights, LA, CA 91745
info@ibps.org, (626) 961-9697

It will be located in the Hsi Lai Temple main shrine at the top of the steps near the giant incense cauldron that looks like the Liberty Bell. Fortunately, for the Fo Guang Shan (lit. "Buddha's* Light Mountain") Movement Buddhists of the world and others, there will be a Livestream (live from Los Angeles):

Buddha's Light Mountain

Fo Guang Shan (FGS, Chinese 佛光山, Pinyin Fó guāng shān, lit. "Buddha's Light Mountain") is an international Chinese Mahāyāna Buddhist organization and monastic order. It is based in Taiwan and practices Humanistic Buddhism, whose roots are traced to the Linji School of Chan Buddhism.

The headquarters, Fo Guang Shan Monastery, is located in Dashu District, Kaohsiung, Buddhist Taiwan, and is the largest Buddhist monastery in the island country .

[Of course, mainland China lays claim to Taiwan as an integral part of the PRC (People's Republic of China) just as it insists that Bon/Vajrayana Buddhist Tibet and similarly oppressed Muslim Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in the northwest are part and parcel of the nominally communist actively capitalist post-kingdom].

The organization is also one of the largest charity organizations in Taiwan. Its counterpart for laypeople is known as the Buddha's Light International Association. Founded in 1967 by Hsing Yun, the order promotes Humanistic Buddhism and is known for its efforts in the modernization of Chinese Buddhism.

The modernist order is famous for its use of technology, and its temples are often furnished with the latest equipment [1, 2]. Hsing Yun's stated position for Fo Guang Shan is that it is an "amalgam of all Eight Schools of Chinese Buddhism." More

(*Sadly, while it sounds like one big, united Buddhist family, in fact the Buddha in the title refers to the "Cosmic Buddha" Amitabha, as in Amitofu, not the historical one from Earth, who is lovingly called the Sage of Scythian Shakya/Saka Clan, Shakyamuni, Siddhartha Gautama)
Hsi Lai Temple, Los Angeles; CC Liu, Crystal Q. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly Wiki edit FGS

Narrow is a Fragile Heart: Western nun

2026-07-27T07:00:00.000-07:00

Episode 62: A Narrow Heart is a Fragile Heart | How to Stop Feeling So Alone

(Handful OfLeaves) Handful of Leaves Podcast. Support British Bhutanese Vajrayana Buddhist nun Ani Pema Deki's charity fundraiser: openingyourhearttobhutan.com.

Buddhism in Bhutan

"Opening Your Heart to Bhutan" is a registered UK charity, whose work is providing education, medicine, and shelter to children facing the greatest challenges in Bhutan.

In this episode, Lopen Ani Pema Deki (Ven. Emma Slade) — a former London investment banker who left after a near-death experience in Jakarta (Indonesia) to ordain as a Buddhist nun high in the Himalayas of Bhutan — explores what it means to widen the heart and become truly unbreakable.

She contrasts fleeting, manufactured happiness with the effortless joy that arises from practice, explains how small acts of kindness build resilience, and reflects on faith, karma, and why some people in Bhutan seem less vulnerable to life's ups and downs.

Perfect for listeners curious about practical spirituality, courage, and living with greater purpose.

Key Takeaways:

🧭 Choose Liberation, Not Comfort — Why training the mind matters, and how practice aims for freedom from samsara rather than temporary ease.
💫 Real Joy vs. Manufactured Bliss — The difference between practice-born joy (stable, effortless) and short-lived worldly pleasures.
🤝 Small Acts, Big Heart — Two-minute kindnesses, widening our circle of care, and the role of faith/teacher in sustaining practice.

⏱Timestamps:

(00:00) – Introduction to Lopen Ani Pema Deki (Ven. Emma Slade), former banker turned Buddhist nun
(01:00) – The challenge of practicing Dharma in a busy modern life
(02:31) – Are we seeking comfort in samsara or liberation?
(02:51) – What happiness really means from a Buddhist perspective
(03:40) – Joy and bliss: natural results of Dharma practice vs. worldly joy
(05:28) – Reflections on Bhutan and why happiness can’t be measured easily
(06:20) – Mental resilience and faith in Bhutanese life
(07:17) – Small daily acts of kindness in a busy life
(07:53) – Expanding motivation beyond yourself and loved ones
(08:52) – Why bother about anyone else besides your loved ones?
(09:20) – Why widening your heart supports resilience
(10:24) – The Bodhisattva path: stretching beyond your comfort zone
(11:14) – How British Lopen Ani Pema Deki (Ven. Emma Slade) became a Buddhist and later a Buddhist nun
(11:40) – Meeting her teacher in Bhutan
(12:24) – Moments of clarity and deep spiritual connection
(14:27) – Karma and how Lopen Ani Pema Deki (Ven. Emma Slade)’s path ripened in Bhutan
(15:18) – Sneak preview of Part 2

ABOUT THE SPEAKER: 👤 Lopen Ani Pema Deki (Venerable Emma Slade) was born in Kent, England, and was educated at Cambridge University and the University of London, where she gained a First-Class degree. She is a qualified Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and worked in Fund Management in London, New York, and Hong Kong. A deep-seated yearning to enquire into the deeper aspects of humanity arose following a life-changing business trip to Jakarta, where she was held hostage at gunpoint. She resigned from her financial career and began exploring yoga and meditation and methods of wellbeing with the ultimate aim of turning a traumatic episode into wisdom and conditions for thriving. She qualified as a British Wheel of Yoga teacher in 2003 and, over the last 19 years, has run numerous yoga workshops and retreats. Her interest in Buddhism as a science of the mind strengthened after meeting a Buddhist lama (teacher) on her first visit to Bhutan in 2011.

This crucial chance meeting led to her studying Buddhism with this lama and, eventually, led to her becoming the first and only Western woman to be ordained in the last Himalayan [Buddhist] Kingdom of Bhutan as a Buddhist nun. #OpeningYourHeart #BuddhistWisdom #MindfulLiving #FaithAndPractice

📄 Transcript: bit.ly/hol-ep-62

Resources:

Lopen Ani Pema Deki (Ven. Emma Slade) website: emmaslade.com
Lopen Ani Pema Deki (Ven. Emma Slade) charity fundraiser: openingyourhearttobhutan.com

Special thanks to sponsors:

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🎬 Editor: Hong Jiayi ✍️ Transcribers: Cheryl Cheah, Tan Si Jing, Bernice Bay 🎨 Visuals and Sound: Anton Thorne, Tan Pei Shan, Ang You Shan 📱 Get connected: Telegram: bit.ly/hol-telegram. Instagram: bit.ly/hol-instagram-podcast. Facebook bit.ly/hol-facebook-podcast. Spotify spoti.fi/3w2jfQ1.

Handful OfLeaves, Sept. 23, 2025; Dhr. Seven, Amber Larson, Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Jen B. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly, orig. 12/19/25

Surf's up! Triple threat: wavy, hot, humid

2026-07-27T06:30:00.000-07:00

Fat Happy Zen monk Budai can surf
Why do waves go so well with Buddhism? There's something about sex, sand, and suffering -- which one meets with while reading The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy on the beach. But becoming a greater surfer has much more to do with wu wei (the ease of effortless flow), wushu (martial arts), and applying Taoist principles like yin and yang to Zen (jhana) Buddhist practice, which involves mindful in-the-moment awareness and radical acceptance of what is.

Southland facing a triple threat of heat, humidity, and high surf

Temperatures topping 100 inland raise fire risk

Rong-Gong Lin II (July 21, 2026, Los Angeles); Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

Bethany Hamilton, attired in surf wear on fancy board, all part of surf culture

Super Girl Surf Fest 2026

Southern California will face a triple threat this week of dangerous heat, muggy weather and, along the coast, hazardous high waves. It may be better for surfing, but it will be risky for all beachgoers who get near the water.

"We're looking at an at least several days -- if not longer -- heat event, which can really be concerning," said meteorologist Robbie Munroe of the National Weather Service's Oxnard office. Hollywood may catch fire on the Sunset Strip from all the tourists dripping sunblock.

Surfing analysis: Brad Gerlach on Mikey February

We only watch to, uh, um, observe her form

Prepare: World Surf League 2026

From Tuesday through next Monday, temperatures could hit 109 in Paso Robles, 108 in Lancaster, 106 in Canoga Park, 102 in Santa Clarita, 99 in Covina, 92 in DTLA, and 87 in Long Beach.

Officials warned of elevated fire danger across large swaths of SoCal starting Tuesday, with a high risk of fast-moving and "plume dominated" fires driven by heat and instability. Such blazes have large vertical growth and can spread rapidly even when not driven by the wind. More: latimes.com

Woo Way: The Tao of Surfing

It all started with my coach...then 10,000 hours later I was riding the face of Poseidon

No, BRUCE, bad boy! Let go of the surfers! They're not sea mammals or salty snacks!

With no "self," there are only conditions.
Wisdom Quarterly's new book on going with the flow while out to sea among brutal sharks, cancerous sun, chapping wind, and rich territorial surf punks suffering from localism and getting into fights about it.

Why do waves go so well with Buddhist practice? There's something about "sex, sand, and suffering" -- which one meets with while reading The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy safely on the beach. But it has much more to do with wu wei, wushu, and applying Taoist principles to Zen practice.

Ancient surfboard from 1600s found in Hawaii

For instance, when out on a wave about to ride, instead of "doing," try "allowing." Go with the flow. Rather than interfering or trying to cut against the grain, embody radical acceptance of what is and ride it out. That's what Wisdom Quarterly's resident Meditation Teacher Seven says is a far better approach than struggling to dominate.

In surfing as in life, prepare for the gnarly.

Let the waves dominate so that the only thing to do is allow, allow, allow. Then in this allowing, suddenly it becomes effortless and intuitive, perfectly obvious and impossible to explain with words.

People do sometimes try to express it in words, but it all becomes a jumble of oohs and ahhs like surf slang or Himalayan shoestring spiritual seekers on ayahuasca down in the jungles of the Amazon with shamans Michael Harner.

Natives knew plant medicines
As a graduate student in the 1950s, Michael Harner undertook field research on the culture of the Jívaro (Shuar) Natives of the Amazon in Ecuador [5] as he began to pursue a career as an ethnologist. His UC Berkeley doctoral dissertation (1963) became the basis for his book, The Jívaro: People of the Sacred Waterfalls [6]. In 1960-1961 he reported that he became a participant-observer by experimenting with the powerful plant medicine ayahuasca with the Conibo of the Peruvian Amazon [5]. He wrote about in the articles "The Sound of Rushing Water" (1968)[7] and "The Role of Hallucinogenic Plants in European Witchcraft" (1973)[8]. Dr. Harner, Ph.D. returned to the Native Jívaro in 1964, 1969, and 1973, at which time he learned the use of the psychoactive entheogen maikua (Datura brugmansia, jimsonweed) [5]. More

Dr. Michael Harner: shamans know their plants

There's a similar feeling to be had by skateboarding or hang gliding, BASE jumping or surviving the pit (slam dancing to a favorite song at a concert). Surfing seems very safe by comparison. It all becomes instinctive and beyond thinking. It's a good place to be just for that moment, rising above the turmoil of the mind or diving into the silence of the heart. Rumi would understand. The historical Buddha pointed out the detailed Path to it.

What is surfing?

Hawaiian surfer on North Shore near Sunset Beach Paumalū (Daniel Ramirez/Wiki)

I'dunno, Bro, looks pretty gnarly. Let's just tan.

Surfing is a surface water sport in which an individual surfer (or two) uses a carefully modified wood, fiberglass, or polyurethane board to "ride" on the face, the forward section, of a swelling wave of water. This swell usually carries said surfer toward shore or to a watery death by drowning for not respecting Mother Nature enough. Waves suitable for surfing are primarily found on ocean shores. But they can also be found as standing waves in the open ocean, artificial simulators, lakes, rivers in the form of a tidal bore, or wave pools (and also in a physics experiment when a tide pool is sent back to sea). More

Where to Surf in Los Angeles | Discover Los Angeles
Woman applies a lot of sex wax before surfing
Surf Spots - California Beaches: The Wedge? That's Newport Beach. LA's Palos Verdes Peninsula isn’t known for its surfing outside of local circles, and there is a sad reason for that. It’s called “localism.” The area has a severe case of the disease. Located between Los Angeles and Long Beach, and possessing some excellent breaks, one would think this place would be much better known. Locals know all about surf spots like Palos Verdes Cove (near the crumbling peninsula called Palos Verdes Estates), Lunada Bay, Haggertys at Malaga Cove, among others.
Best Surfing in California (South Counties) | Billabong
Best surfing spots in California: 12 waves to surf | Red Bull
Southern California surf spots: Which one is best? | Los Angeles Times
California’s Best Surfing Waves | Visit California
Discover the Top 10 Surfing Beaches in Southern California | Pacific Surf
Online Newspaper & Magazine Publications Catalog | PressReader

What's going on in the SoCal water?

Giant LA all drains into Santa Monica Bay

A few weeks ago, LA and OC beaches were being subjected to king tides, riptides, with dangerous surfing conditions for experts only. The cause this time seems to be a tropical storm elsewhere disrupting the height and frequency of waves. Surfers may love it as they avoid great white sharks, but others will find it hard to take a dip or swim. Localism is, of course, a greater danger as human sharks with a sense of entitlement circle strangers and drive them out. Expect swells, tubular conditions at The Wedge and elsewhere. Warning: Water may be a little contaminated due to crumbling infrastructure. Sharks are a tiny worry compared to the microscopic contaminants and plastic particle debris. Enjoy.

Dhr. Seven, Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Jennifer B., Seth Auberon, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

End of System of a Down: sold souls?

2026-07-27T06:15:00.000-07:00

(Guitar Meets Science) The 6 hours that destroyed SOAD

(The Metal Verse) Serj vs. Daron: The conflict that destroyed SOAD

System Of A Down "Sugar" (LIVE 2025 Santiago, Chile) #daronmalakian #systemofadown

(Taylor Alesia) Every time a celebrity admitted to selling their soul: "Faustian bargain" 👿

All cars to get kill switch (whistleblower)

2026-07-27T06:15:00.000-07:00

Dissidents shall report to Sector 7 for termination

(Let's Be Clear with Ana Kasparian) WTF is the "automobile kill switch" Congress is pushing, as exposed by good Libertarian troublemaker-whistleblower Thomas Massie?

Imagine drive down the road listening to Kenya Grace "Strangers" and the A.I. algorithm decides your car needs to be killed with an autonomous kill switch so that it can't move unless the State allows it.

Congress is pushing a mandate to make a law so that robots can better control a disorderly human population, some of whom drive and others of which consume intoxicants, and a few who do both at the same time.

Citizen Massie, report to Sect. 7! Trump orders it

These organic savages cannot be allowed to harm our children and society. The Computer Overlords have spoken and soon all new cars will have to have an expensive mandatory way to stop any new car on the road.

WANTED for bothering Trump
Think of the order it will bring as it ends all DUIs and troublesome drivers who choose not to stop when ordered, not sufficiently insured, in possession of late library books, smoking drugs not prescribed by their supervisors, or have a low social credit rating, or are otherwise wanted for suspected thoughtcrimes against the State, or anything else.

Orwell's fevered dreams are finally coming about better than he could have ever imagined. All hail the Overlords! - All hail!

Megyn Kelly is horrible ('This Fckn Guy")

2026-07-27T06:01:00.000-07:00

(Hysteria) Megy Kelly: Everything you didn't know about her sh*tty past

(The Young Turks) Bibi Netanyahu denounces Ana Kasparian

Jewish Brit exposes America (Borat)

2026-07-27T05:00:00.000-07:00

(Amazon Prime Video UK & IE) The very best of Borat's pranks | Prime Video

(JoBlo Movie Clips) Borat Pamela Anderson scene, Hollywood

(The Clean Laugh Club) Ricky Gervais: Truth about Epstein's Island, Hawking

Andy Tate's dating advice for Barron

2026-07-27T05:00:00.000-07:00

(Adam Mockler) Young Baron Trump was in on it

(The hidden News USA) Trump tried to use Barron against Obama -- but Barry shut it down

(Andrew Mockler) Andrew Tate defecates uncontrollably, bad jail conditions

Merging Israeli IDF with USA: Section 219

2026-07-24T06:00:00.000-07:00

Perfectly articulated: withdraw genocidal military aid 🔥 - Ana Kasparian slams Jenna‼️

(The Young Turks) It's time to PANIC about Section 19 (to merge USA with IDF) Kasparian

What Israeli war crimes?

(Kim Iversen) Zionist Israeli Jews keep up psychotic behavior [like Nazis?]

(Double Down News) Israel caught targeting NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani

(CGTN America) [Fmr. UN Special Rapporteur to Palestine] Francesca

Albanese: We are in the hands of predatory [Jewish Zionist] elites

Heroic whistleblower Francesca Albanese

The first Jewish U.S. President Trump

(Military.com) The House is preparing to vote on the Fiscal Year 2027 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) with Section 219 (formerly called Section 224) still embedded in the roughly $1.1 trillion bill.

The House approved the rule governing debate on H.R. 8800 by a 214-211 vote Tuesday, July 21, 2026. The vote allowed the chamber to proceed with the NDAA but excluded the amendment from [heroic and maligned peace warriors] Reps. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) and Ro Khanna (Democrat-California) that would have removed Section 219.

USA could withdraw support for Israel?

(TJDS) US officials express "regret" about supporting Israel's Gaza genocide

I helped Israel. I blackmailed Trump

Lawmakers will not receive a separate vote on the bipartisan [both side, Republicans and Democrats] amendment that sought to remove the section, a proposal to expand U.S.-Israel defense technology cooperation that has garnered strong rebukes in certain political and defense circles.

The House expects to hold a recorded vote on the complete NDAA on Wednesday.

(The Daily Show) Trump lies, excuses not fixing economy at Georgia rally, Don Jr. on coke

Does Donald Trump Jr. do coke (cocaine) like his dad used to before destroying his sinuses

Bibi: I'm Polish from Chicago, and this is all going to plan just like we planned at the CIA.

What Section 219 would do

I may be a Neo-Nazi, but I'm not Anti-Semitic. I love me my Zionist Israel and King Bibi!

Your Majesty, welcome to the USA-DOW! - Pete

Section 219 would direct Defense [Trump's Department of War] Secretary [Pete Hegseth] to designate a Pentagon “executive agent” to oversee the United States-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative. That official would coordinate bilateral defense research, development, testing, evaluation, and industrial cooperation [as in the Christion Zionist military-industrial complex].

The proposal originated as the bipartisan and bicameral United States-Israel FUTURES Act, introduced in the House by Reps. Ronny Jackson (R-Texas) and [Black military man turned politician] Don Davis (D-N.C.) with companion legislation from Sens. Ted Budd (R-N.C.) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) More:

US-Israel Defense Integration on Horizon as House Keeps Section 219 in NDAA (military.com)
Anthropologist sees the face of the Taung Child and proves that Africa was the "Cradle of Humanity" | MSN
Pfc. Sandoval, Shauna Schwartz, Ashley Wells, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

There is NO more racism in the USA, none

2026-07-24T05:57:00.000-07:00

MindSquire gave internet racists some instant karma

Racism in the United States?
Ku Klux Klan woos kiddies with candy
The Indian in the Cupboard (film)
Our Friend, Martin (animated film)
Chattel slavery in the United States?
(What is chattel slavery?)
Howd'ya say Chappell Roan? Chapelle Rone?
Precious (incest and depiction of Blacks)

Dave Chappelle on race in America

(Conan O'Brien) Future Pres. Dave Chappelle on whites, Blacks, Jews

Ron Taylor ain't never seen no racism

(Spotlight by Laugh Society) We grew up watching racist-sexist movies and TV (Ron Taylor)

But not today, right, just the past? Ku Klux Klan woos kids with sweets (bazonline.ch)

"Ku Klux Kiddies" in USA: The KKK's little-known Youth Movement | HISTORY

Proud Christian Klansmen burn cross in North Carolina, 1958 (State's Exhibit No.4)

Sale of negroes in U.S., 1860
If only there were a way to erase racism: Eracism Foundation (eRACE Racism) Join eRACE to show the world that we run together against discrimination, prejudice, and racism. We run for real change and that starts one sister (and one mister) at a time, with everyone reaching across the race lines. Running is our vehicle, and connection is our superpower. Invite friends (open to men and women) to team up for this important virtual event. More: eraceracismbgr.com

"I don't see color," "I got Black friends"

(The Daily Show) Satirist Leslie Jones on right-wing claims

"racism is over," and what ally-ship really means

Implicit bias differs from explicit racism

Where do American kids get these racist and sexist ideas? Ku Klux Klan, Georgia, 1948)

American racism manifesting as KKK night rally, Chicago, Illinois (circa 1920)

Nazis borrowed many U.S. ideas

Most American racism is not overt like young white males famously display behind the safety of computer monitors, trolling others from their middle class bedrooms. It's implicit, which means it is often hidden to us. We don't realize what we're doing. It's like when satirical Sacha Baron Cohen (as Borat and as Bruno) interviewed white frat boys in their Winnebago and on the beach in Florida for Spring Break.

Frat boys with Bruno on Spring Break

(WestStainesTV) Da Ali G Show, Bruno: Daytona Beach [gay] wrestling

American branding his Black slaves

DEFINITION: An implicit bias stereotype is the pre-reflective attribution of particular qualities by an individual to a member of some social out group [1]. "Those people are all like that." This color skin equals that set of behaviors.

It is an unconscious bias that stems from a natural human tendency to divide the social world into groups [2].

We wish we could still have slaves

Racist Sexist Frat Boys Scene | BORAT (2006) movie CLIP HD

U.S. interracial "folk pornography": quadroon bride (Mosler)
("Quadroon" is a racial classification in the colonial Americas)

"John Wayne was a Nazi"?

(M.D.C.) Was the famous television cowboy Mr. John Wayne a racist?

Whipping (flogging) a slave to teach him

Implicit stereotypes are shaped by experience and based on learned associations between particular qualities and social categories, including race and gender [3], leading to racism and sexism or gender role stereotypes of how people are "supposed" to be.

Slavery in the 13 colonies, 1770s

Perceptions and behaviors can be influenced by the implicit stereotypes we hold, even if we are unaware we are holding such stereotypes [4].

Implicit bias is an aspect of implicit social cognition, the social phenomenon that our perceptions, attitudes, and stereotypes can operate prior to conscious intention or endorsement [5]. We may have taken it on from our family of origin or circle of friends, associates, and media figures.

It don't hurt 'em; they can't feel

It's real. The existence of implicit bias is supported by scientific articles in psychological literature [6]. The term implicit stereotype was first defined by psychologists Mahzarin Banaji and Anthony Greenwald in 1995 [7].

Implicit stereotypes (unconscious associations held by individuals) can influence behavior even when they contradict our consciously endorsed beliefs. This effect is particularly observable in real-world contexts such as judgments of fame and hiring processes [7, 8]. More

What do we tell ourselves and others to make our crimes seem okay? (Slavery in U.S. 1840)

Think of it: We're done with them. Now send them back to Africa, even the ones from here (The Liberaor)
Art of negotiation: Master Class with Chris Voss
MindSquire; Ron Taylor; Sacha Baron Cohen; I. Rony, Seth Auberon, Ashley Wells, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Ritual Jewish child abuse rocks Israel

2026-07-24T05:20:00.000-07:00

NKUSA protest AIPAC: Haredi Orthodox Jews (nkusa.org) "Israeli state" is a biblical crime

Where did that blood come from, baby Jews?

(Reason2Resist with Dimitri Lascaris) Ritual Jewish child sexual abuse scandal rocks Israel with Vanessa Beeley | Will Syrian "terrorists" invade? No, not my chosen people! Not in my country and soon-to-be Middle Eastern Empire of "Greater Israel." America, maybe, but not Holy Eretz Yisrael HaShlema (ארץ ישראל השלמה). Israel First! Shalom.

Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (R.A.I.N.N.)
Operation Cast Thy Bread (Jews poison water wells?)

(Rathbone) Can anyone explain what this is? Moloch worship? Satanic Judaism? Voodoo?

What can anyone do in the USA or Israel?

When abused by family, who is there to turn to?
RAINN (Rape, Abuse, and Incest National Network) is an American nonprofit anti-sexual assault organization, the largest in the USA [4].

RAINN operates the National Sexual Assault Hotline, as well as the Department of Defense (Trump's new Department of War) Safe Helpline, and carries out programs to prevent sexual assault, help survivors of sexual crimes, and ensure that perpetrators are brought to justice through victim services, public education, public policy, and consulting services [5].

Where is Moloch worshipped today? Cabiria (Turin)

RAINN was founded in 1994 by Jewish American Scott Berkowitz, with initial funding from The Atlantic Group and Warner Music Group [6].

Tori Amos was the organization's first spokesperson [7, 8, 9]. Christina Ricci has been the national spokes-person since April 25, 2007 [10], and she is a member of its National Leadership Council [11, 12]. More

Vehicle plows through LGBTQ+ event in Germany (NPR)
ימין לשמאל הרב יונתן שטנצל הרב אשר וייס הרב דוד יצחק מנדלבוים כתיבת ספר תורה (Haredi Judaism/Wiki)
Reason2Resist with Dimitri Lascaris; Rathbone; Shauna Schwartz, Sheldon S., Ashley Wells, Pfc. Sandoval (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly Wiki edit RAINN

Rooting for colonizer Spain? (comedy)

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(scottdavid) BORAT'S GUIDE FOR [AMERICAN] MEN

Get Funny or Die Tryin (Sammy Obeid)

Sammy K. Obeid (born Feb. 9, 1984) is a Palestinian-American [1, 2, 3], writer, and stand-up comedian. He has released one comedy album, Get Funny or Die Tryin. The New York Times described his comedy as displaying "an analytic style full of wordplay, clever misdirection, and ethnic humor riffing on his Middle Eastern roots" [4].

Did the Americas root for colonizer Spain?

On his website (SammyObeid.com), he is described as "Lebanese-Palestinian-Syrian-Italian-American [5, 6, 4]. He has been featured on America's Got Talent, Conan, and Last Comic Standing.

He once performed 1,001 nights of comedy in a row (just like the classic of world literature One Thousand and One Nights), which he claimed was a world record [7]. Obeid is also a host for the Netflix show 100 Humans and the founder of KO Comedy (IG) [8]. More

(The Daily Show) Did a secret "Stargate" in Iran cause Trump-Israel's war? What is Stargate 10?

(UJ) Katt Williams goes off on Trump, Kamala, Amerikkka | stand up

Wisdom Quarterly: American Buddhist Journal

Tibetan nun dared to teach yoga (Chöd)

Ecstatic absorption: Bliss of the Jhanas

How shall "I" become Nobody?

My psychotic breakdown: Cage the Elephant

Arresting war criminal Bibi Netanyahu

I died and met gods Shiva 'n Jesus (NDE)

Gnosticism: Who are 'Archons,' Sophia?

Palestinian picks Israel over Palestine

The real Zionist Israeli Operative Erika Kirk

Alex Jones: Impeach Trump over Iran War

Vaxxed: Dr. Fauci lied big, his diaries show

Lust for Sofia or Love of Wisdom?

Naked Poetry and Füde (NY to LA)

Avalokitesvara Enlightenment Day (8/1)

Narrow is a Fragile Heart: Western nun

Surf's up! Triple threat: wavy, hot, humid

End of System of a Down: sold souls?

All cars to get kill switch (whistleblower)

Megyn Kelly is horrible ('This F*ck*n Guy")

Jewish Brit exposes America (Borat)

Andy Tate's dating advice for Barron

Merging Israeli IDF with USA: Section 219

There is NO more racism in the USA, none

Ritual Jewish child abuse rocks Israel

Rooting for colonizer Spain? (comedy)

Megyn Kelly is horrible ('This Fckn Guy")