The Grammy winning performance:
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| Wisdom of Happiness: Dalai Lama |
Bad Bunny speaks before Super Bowl
Bad Bunny quotes the Buddha at 2026 Grammys to spite ICE and Trump. - Sound is magical.
Sunday, February 1, 2026
Dalai Lama wins Grammy for spoken word
Real Happiness Meditation Challenge
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- Let's get to know accomplished Theravada JuBu meditation teacher Sharon Salzberg, best hippie friend of Jack Kornfield, Sylvia Boorstein, Joseph Goldstein, Dipa Ma (Nani Barua), Dipa, and countless meditation practitioners at Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts and Los Angeles
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The Challenge begins Sunday, February 1, 2026. Each lesson in February becomes available daily as we move through the month. Lesson One becomes available on February 1st...Lesson Five becomes available on February 5th, and so on.
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| Real Happiness: Power of Meditation: 28-Days |
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- Week 1 • Concentration | Sharon Salzberg
- Real Happiness Meditation Challenge 2026
- Remember, it BEGINS on Sunday, Feb. 1, 2026
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| American Buddhist teacher Sharon Salzberg |
- Sharon Salzberg, FAQs, 2026; Crystal Q., CC Liu, Sheldon S., Dhr. Seven, The New Real Happiness Crew (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Peace Walk in freezing cold: Global warming?
(Walk for Peace) Ajahn never sleeps lying down in as a dhutanga practice
Is "global warming" real? Who dares to say that it is not? The mainstream media shoves that message down our throat whether we like it or not. University researchers are enticed to find those results and punished when they find anything else. And no one seems to be counting the artificial manipulation of the weather with chemtrails, H.A.A.R.P., and other secret means. Humans are warming it, but it is a concerted effort to warm it and say in an alarmist way that that warming is galloping out of control now. We ignore our eyes. We ourselves do not review the data. When the meteorologist who founded the Weather Channel (weather.com) looked at the data, he did NOT find much of a rise. And he asked his colleagues about. There has been about a 1 degree rise in our lifetimes. Where are all the other headlines coming from and why? They will make us believe and demand that they intervene. We will not only give up our rights, we will demand they be taken away. There may be a mini ice age on the way, but we'll never hear about that above the din of alarmism and artificial youth movements kickstarted to promote an agenda. Natural global warming being brought on by consumer activity? Unlikely. Being brought on by corporate officials and their masters? Obviously.
(AmeriScope) Love travels quietly across the country and into Virginia
Stray dog karma
Zionist Israeli IDF soldiers joining ICE
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| Uncle Schlomo wants you for the IDF wing of ICE |
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| The imperial IDF of Israel |
- Project Constitution: 121 former Israeli Zionist Jewish IDF (Israeli Defense Forces) soldiers are working for ICE in the USA.
- Israeli Zionists confess genocide: breakingthesilence.org.il
- ICE agents enter home after minor challenges them — citing “implied consent”
Plants are conscious, emit sounds, TALK
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| The Secret Life of Plants |
Talk to plants? While we may not be able to hear them, plants could very well be talking back. [Perhaps they are not great listeners, after all, but they are conscious enough to "speak"]. They talk all the time and especially if they are having a bad day. (Did we forget to water them again?) For the first time in the world, Tel Aviv University (TAU) researchers recorded and analyzed sounds distinctly emitted by plants. The click-like sounds, resembling the snap of popcorn, are emitted at a volume similar to human speech but at higher frequencies, beyond the hearing range of the human ear.
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| Professors Yosi Yovel and Lilach Hadany (TAU) |
Researchers: "We found that plants usually emit sounds when they are under stress, and that each plant and each type of stress is associated with a specific identifiable sound. [That is a distinctive mark of speech rather than just sound making.] While imperceptible to the human ear, the sounds emitted by plants can probably be heard by various animals, such as bats, mice, and insects." More
- Science already knew plants "communicate" with chemical signals and scents (VOAs) through roots, leaves, stems:
Listen to sound plants make when 'stressed'
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| Indian scientist Bose proved it |
A team at Tel Aviv University in Israel recorded and analyzed click-like sounds resembling the popping of popcorn.
They found that the sounds plants emitted are at a volume similar to human speech, but humans cannot hear them due to the high frequency.
- Sounds emitted by plants under stress are airborne and informative: Cell
- Science & Astronomy | Israel decoded plant communication signals — hearing trees scream during drought | Facebook
- Plants emit sounds – especially when stressed | Tel Aviv University
- Indian botanist Cambridge at JC Bose on the Secret Life of Plants (SRF)
- VIDEO: Plants are CONSCIOUS, scientist J.C. Bose proved
- Who was visionary Indian scientist Jagadish Chandra Bose?
- Paramhansa Yogananda revealed Bose's plant research in his bestselling classic Autobiography of a Yogi (Chapter 8)
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| Stone, metal, mineral, crystal are all conscious. |
"While imperceptible to the [ordinary] human ear, the sounds emitted by plants can probably be heard by various [naturally more sensitive] animals, such as bats, mice, and insects," the researchers said.
Meditation? How conscious are plants?
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| Sujata helped Siddhartha become the Buddha because she thought he was a tree spirit. |
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| Journeys with Plant Spirits |
Journeys with Plant Spirits includes a progressive series of introductory meditations, adapted from ancient wisdom traditions, to lay the foundation for working with plant spirits.
Emma Farrell explains how to take a connection and relationship with Nature to a deeper level to access plant spirit healing through meditation with plants.
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| Dryad (tree spirit) lives in tree |
Offering a progressive series of preparatory meditations adapted from shamanic and indigenous wisdom traditions, the author reveals how to lay the foundation for communicating, working, and developing relationships with plant and tree spirits -- for spiritual connection, personal development, and inner peace.
She then presents meditation journeys with specific plant spirits, focusing on the frequencies within the plant’s bioresonance that can assist us.
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| Siddhartha awakened with the help of a Tree. |
Each plant is an expression of the spiritual force of Mother Nature and carries a unique blend of her medicine and wisdom. This book details step-by-step how to effectively work with plant spirits for emotional and spiritual healing, enabling us to awaken spirit to become truly multidimensional and whole. More
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- Yosi Yovel, Lilach Hidany, U of Israel (english.tau.ac.il/plants_emit_sounds); The Independent (UK); Anton Petrov; Emma Farrell; Dhr. Seven, Kalyani, Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation) (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
'Must-Know Go-To Survival Plants' (book)
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| Must-Know Go-To Survival Plants of North America |
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| American plant expert Christopher Nyerges |
This easy-to-read book includes a line drawing for each plant and photos that make identification easy. There is also a numerical graph that gives each plant a “score,” depending on how useful the plants are for
- food,
- medicine,
- water,
- fire,
- shelter, and
- other uses.
There is also a guide on how to use and store plants, showing whether a plant can be eaten raw or cooked, and whether it is best when stored dried, frozen, or pickled, or all three.
The authors include plants readers are likely to find anywhere across North America. They also include plants they use most of the time because these plants are widespread, common, easy to recognize, and good tasting.
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| Also available on Amazon |
The book contains 29 entries, though it covers many more than 29 individual plants. For example, in the tree section, there is a discussion of elderberries, oaks, and willows. What they say about these three genera of trees is applicable to every species worldwide of elders, oaks, and willows.
There are 20 species of Sambucus (elder) worldwide, about 600 species of Quercus (oak trees) worldwide, and about 400 species of Salix (willows) worldwide.
What is written about Rubus (blackberry) applies to all species, and comments about cattail apply to all 15 species worldwide.
The book talks about individual species used as food -- such as chickweed, lamb’s quarter, and purslane. Several in the section on herbaceous plants contain many individual species, such as grasses, with about 10,550 species worldwide, and onions of which there are about 500 species worldwide, and seaweeds.
Seaweeds are marine algae, divided into the three major categories: green, red, and brown for a combined total of about 10,000 species worldwide.
The book is a refreshing addition to any botanical collection whether one studies as a novice or expert.
- BOOK: Must-Know Go-To Survival Plants of North America (School of Self-Reliance)
- Christopher and Helen Nyerges, SchoolofSelf-Reliance.com; Amazon.com; Dhr. Seven, Xochitl (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Slavery ended Feb 1, 1865? 13th Amendment
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| Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz |
- When did [chattel] slavery really end in the United States? (Marquette University Law School)
- Slavery NEVER really ended because the 13th Amendment still allows it
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Please end slavery already - MLK - Feb. 1st is National Freedom Day in the USA, celebrated because in 1865, Pres. Lincoln signed the joint resolution from the House and the Senate that eventually became the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution—the amendment that officially ended slavery in the U.S. even though it still legally exists. More
- This Day in History: Lincoln signs proposed 13th Amendment
- Black History Month begins today
- Slavery in the United States
- Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
- CAAM | #blackhistory: On February 1, 1865, Abraham Lincoln signed the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
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| What do you mean you want to rape/enslave me? |
And when the USA invaded the Old West using the "Monroe Doctrine" and "manifest destiny" as pretexts, it stole half of the land that was Mexico, under Spanish rule. So a large part of this country is in fact Mexico except that "might makes right."
Cover up of molester Trump: Epstein Files
Elon Musk divulges enough evidence to prosecute Trump for child sex crimes right now
(Daily World Brief) Elon Musk exposes Epstein links as Trump begins to unravel - political bombshells. There's now a "prosecutorial roadmap."
Peace Walk: Don't cry at funerals. Practice
- (Walk for Peace 2026) I got the lover I wanted and still suffered (double and triple the amount): clinging (upadana) then heartbreak (duḥkha)
- Practice: Setting up Four Foundations of Mindfulness
- What is sati? The Four Establishments of Mindfulness
- Meet my "lover" and show me yours: Many U.S. lovers
Why does bad happen to the good?
- Theravada Buddhist response to death and dying: Transfer of merit to the "grateful dead," which gives them skillful karma to benefit them in the afterlife
- Buddhist monks and dog Aloka Walk for Peace (2025-2026)
- Walk for Peace | Faith, Blind Faith, or Confidence? What do you believe… and how do you know it’s true?
- (Bon-influenced) Vajrayana Buddhist response to dying: The Tibetan Book of the Dead or Bardo Thodol (to help them liberate in the liminal state)
- Give Now to Save the Wild: stop a road in Alaska
- VIDEO: Are Christian folks triggered by the monks?
- VIDEO: COLD: Walk for Peace (Buddha's Wisdom)
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
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| Will you practice wise reflection? |
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