Naked: How to get NUDE with us (1/18)

(Chase Hughes) What it feels like to see through and inside into other people (and ourselves)

Self-help can hold us back

(Chris Williamson) The lie that keeps us insecure forever: Dr K Healthygamer

WHAT HAPPENED?

The "all" that is burning was like a dream.

We gathered, cleaned, offered dana and took the Five Precepts with the abbot, ate lunch, meditated, then culminated the day with a chanting of the Patthana ("Conditional Relations"), and a Q&A period with the Sayadaw explaining that all things (composites) are "empty," which is to say utterly impersonal. This, however, is only true for one who knows and sees. One can directly see all manner of physical and psychological (material and mental phenomena) particles, kalapas and cittas and see that they are not "self" just as the historical Buddha saw. But why would anyone want to see such a thing?

This is "awakening" from the illusion of the suffering we identify as we remain tenaciously attached to the Five Aggregates clung to as self. What, then, if we were to let go? Of course, we do not have the power to let go. Form will not let go of form, feelings will not give up feeling, perceptions will not stop perceiving, mental formations will not give up fabricating our reality, and consciousness will not stop processing stimuli and data from the outside world.

Alan Watts on letting go: This whole thing (samsara) is an illusion

So we can get or stay dressed?

And so long as the illusion lasts that these five heaps take all of this to be the work of a soul or self (atta, atman, jiva), the possessions of a self (I, me, and mine), just so long will suffering continue and get worse. To be done with it, to lay the burden down, we must bring about calm and focus -- sustained attention to see things as they really are. When that is seen, letting go happens by itself. A woman clutches a rope. How long will it take her to let go in horror and disgust when she realizes it is a venomous snake?

Just so, the aggregates cling to the aggregates (and all that they feel belong to this imaginary "self" or "soul" or "ego" they are constantly constructing). How long will it take to let go when they realize that all of this has been impersonal, impossible to satisfy (because things can never offer fulfillment), and radically impermanent (arising, turning, and hurtling toward destruction)? In an instant of seeing, one clings no more. Therefore, to get there, let us let the mind/heart settle into stillness, develop clear-seeing (vipassana), and awaken to direct insight of the Truth. The Truth will set us free.

EVENT: Adults getting nude in L.A.

Register: Dharma Buddhist Meditation

This Sunday, Jan. 18, 2026, go to Temple or Church, preferably some place silent and contemplative. We'll be at the new Buddhist temple in the San Gabriel Valley doing "good karma," cleaning and building it up to make a lovely place for everyone to come practice the historical Buddha's authentic teachings preserved in a Southeast Asian country that honors the Pali canon while sitting next to Mahayana China.

Six-Minute X-Ray: Rapid Behavior Profiling

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Author and profiler Chase Hughes (narrated by Jonam Ross) has 4.8 out of 5 stars (with 1,754 reviews) and has a #1 Best Seller in Physiological Aspects in Psychology.

With skills specifically designed for intelligence operations (intel ops), Chase Hughes releases yet another groundbreaking audiobook. In Six Minute X-Ray, learn the most powerful people-reading system in the world.

Hughes exposes and unpacks simple techniques that come together to allow anyone to see beyond the mask that people are wearing. In less than six minutes, know more about the hidden side of the person speaking than their own friends and family -- no joke.

(N.A.S.A.) "Electric Flowers" (Mario C. Remix) ft. Nina Persson, RZA

How to see behind the masks we wear:

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  Masks we wear may be better?

  Identify anyone's (including our own) hidden fears and insecurities in less than five minutes
• Quickly and easily get an 80 percent read of a person before meeting
• Enable people to become the most vulnerable, open, confident, and best version of themselves during the first six minutes of meeting them
• Discover hidden secrets about a person in six minutes to gain access to their most hidden beliefs and values
• Use this information to create undivided attention and cooperation
• Exactly how to tune in and adapt language to the internal language of anyone speaking

(N.A.S.A.) My grief says, "I need you to know I need you."

Alan Watts: Mind over Mind | self-improvement, grace, paradox of control

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  Rapid Behavior Profiling: Lying? Grief?

  Detect deception the moment it occurs, and know exactly how to deal with it
• Professionally qualify or disqualify the person or team being met within the first meeting
• Get past the social and corporate mask of people – and see them as they are
• Determine the truth behind the desires, fears, and motivations of a counterpart, even when they don’t say it
• Read a room of people like a special agent – guaranteed
• Recognize dominance, fears, and needs before speaking with the person or group
• Become aware of your own social needs and weaknesses and prevent yourself from being misled or manipulated
• Instantly identify the physical position to take when speaking with a person of interest
• Create rapport with the person instead of the mask they’re wearing
• And much more... More

Who is CHASE HUGHES? He's former intel who also wrote The Behavior Ops Manual.

• Why the world is the way it is: POWER
• Chase Hughes, amazon.com; Alan Watts; Nina Persson, RZA (N.A.S.A.); Ashley Wells, Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Dhr. Seven, Shauna Schwartz, Pfc. Sandoval (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly