Wednesday, September 30, 2026

Let's kill this woman together? (Pike)



State's attempted murder fails

LIVE: Tennessee to carry out execution of Christa Pike
Christa Pike alive after botched execution: Live updates

What results from collective karma?
WSMV 4 Nashville(WSMV 4 Nashville) Streamed live 6:00 pm. The U.S. Supreme Court appointed and under corrupt Republican Pres. Don Trump has decided to allow Tennessee to follow through on its delayed state-sanctioned murder execution of Christa Gail Pike. Read the full story: wsmv.com/2026/09/30/tns-o...
Peaceful demonstrators gather during March 4th "mercy demonstration" to stop death penalty in front of Tennessee State Capitol, Sunday, Sept. 27, 2026, in Nashville, Tenn. ahead of the Sept. 30th scheduled execution of Christa Pike (George Walker IV/AP)


Nature/God says "no" to killing Christa?

Time to end USA's barbaric death penalty

Capital punishment, also known as "the death penalty," formerly called judicial homicide [1, 2], which was changed because it sounded too much like it is, MURDER BY WE THE PEOPLE, is the state-sanctioned killing.

This kind of murder, which is really called the democide of a person as "punishment" for actual, suspected, or supposed misconduct [3].

The sentence ordering that an offender be "punished" in such a manner is called a death sentence, and the act of carrying it out is an execution.

A prisoner who has been sentenced to death and awaits execution is condemned and is commonly referred to as being "on death row" and while alive is usually referred to by cruel staff and fellow inmates as "dead man walking."

Etymologically, the term capital (lit. "of the head," a reference to decapitation, derives from the Latin capitalis, from caput, "head") refers to execution by beheading [4].

But there are various other methods of execution the state and its agents and cheerleaders enjoy -- all of them guilty, without seeming to know it or to care about it, of grave karmic offenses.

For to applaud, approve of, promote, speak in praise of, enable, and/or argue for, even in ignorance, will lead the doers to thereby face misery unutterable when their karma of grave wrong speech -- which is tantamount to murder (like a leader yelling "Fire!" in front of a death squad during an execution -- ripens and bears its bitter fruit in this and/or future lives. More

COMMENTARY
"Hang him high!" scream the murderers.
For readers who find this hard if not impossible to believe, consider the case of Buddhist monks and nuns. Unlike ordinary Buddhists who uphold the Five Precepts (to abstain from killing, stealing, sexual misconduct, wrong speech, and consuming intoxicants that occasion heedlessness), they by their ordination hold themselves up to a higher standard. That means between 227-311 monastic rules, and countless additional rules of etiquette and conduct. Among all those hundreds of precepts and observations, there are FOUR extremely important "defeat" offenses (parajikas).

Foremost among these is killing. So the question comes up, "What constitutes 'killing'?" As detailed in the Vinaya (Monastic Disciplinary Code), if a monastic were to so much as praise abortion, euthanasia, suicide, or any other kind of killing and it were to result in someone dying (by abortion, suicide, euthanasia, etc.) that monastic would instantly be guilty of the most grave defeat offense, murder, killing, wrong speech. That person would instantly not be a monk or nun and could never re-ordain in this lifetime. This person would face the karmic consequences of killing. How then could anyone think that encouraging, enabling, defending, praising, or otherwise promoting killing in the case of the death penalty (capital punishment) is a trivial or defensible thing?

There are only three reasons for bad karma (unskillful actions), and they are greed, hatred (which includes fear), and delusion (affection/attachment or aversion/cowardice or delusion/ignorance. One speaks and acts in ignorance with an aversion to murder and the murderer and thereby becomes a party to murder and therefore a murderer. What kind of foolishness is this? We will say we are innocent, that we didn't know, that we didn't mean it, that we were only following God's injunction and biblical interpretations by evil men and bad men of the church, patriarchs, fools... It will not matter. We will be guilty of murder just the same. Now one may bring up this poorly worded term "mercy killing" (a euphemism for euthanasia) and defend it, even as one has made excuses to imagine that abortion is fine and even good.

But I don't want to be killed. - Then don't kill.
Why would euthanasia, which we imagine is motivated by mercy, goodness, wanting to save money, not wanting to see someone suffer, offering them "dignity" to spare us and save themselves any embarrassment... The fact is when killing -- by drugging, injecting, pulling the plug, depriving the dying of nourishment or water or warmth (as by the ancient killing method of exposure) or air, suffocating, or use of an automatic Kevorkian device (Jack's Thanatron) -- one necessarily needs aversion, even if for the decisive moment of injecting, administering deadly drugs, pulling the cord, and so on. Because that intentional, willful act is accompanied by aversion, the doer is guilty of murder/killing and so faces the results at some time in the future, even if one is praised now or deludedly imagines oneself an "angel" of death with the strength and courage to "kill for the good."
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Is penis size important? (comedy)


Michelle Wolf (born June 21, 1985) is an American standup comedian, writer, producer, and television host. She worked as a contributor and writer for Late Night with Seth Meyers and The Daily Show with Trevor Noah. She spoke as the featured performer at the 2018 White House Correspondents' Dinner. She hosted the Netflix comedy talk show series The Break with Michelle Wolf and performed in the 2019 stand-up comedy special Joke Show. More
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LIVE: Mandy Kahn's Peace Class (9/30)


Peace isn't the opposite of war
From Mandy "No-Mind" Kahn: Friends, I hope everyone's summer was as replenishing as mine. Weekly Peace Class resumes tonight (Wednesday, Sept. 30, 6:00 pm, PT) on ZOOM. Share it with friends.

Participants may attend silently, even anonymously, because only my face is visible. Student interactions, though encouraged, are entirely optional. Anyone who is curious about class can quietly slip in to get a feel for it.
Peace Class Wednesdays, 6:00 pm (prs.org)
There are many who do not attend class, but who participate in the community via weekly emails or reading many edited Peace Class talks at Wisdom Quarterly. Everyone is invited to join that way.

Here's what to expect in class. This Wednesday evening, enlivened and renewed, let's begin this vital work together.
Inner peace for a peaceful world
With co-host peace activist David Selsky on sound and tech support

Thanks, Mandy! I tried to tell 'em
ABOUT: Presented by the Philosophical Research Society (prs.org) in Hollywood, Los Angeles. Peace Class is now entering its seventh year. Each class meeting presents participants with a short talk that elucidates one aspect of the true nature of peace.

Each hour-long class includes a collective "peace meditation," teachings about pioneer peacebuilders like Peace Pilgrim, and the opportunity for participants to share personal peace-building discoveries with the group.

The World Peace Diet (Dr. Will Tuttle, PhD)
Peace Class is FREE and is open to all with no signup required. Each session is a stand-alone lesson, and participants can feel free to drop in for single meetings or attend the full series.

Weekly peace, monthly poetry
Poet Kahn on LA billboard
Brought to you by Mandy Kahn with the help of PRS and Wisdom Quarterly. There may be a live in-person class again in the future. Until then, drop by for monthly Deep Dive Poetry in PRS's Library of World Religions in Hollywood.
Live form the PRS Library of World Religions: Deep Dive Poetry (MK on IG, 9/17/26)
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Tibetan healing sounds: soothing


Dear Ama (Tibetan folk music)
(Sound Passport - A Journey Through World Music) Dear Ama | Folk music sings of life on plateau

Tibetan Healing Sounds | Release Stress, Anxiety, Emotional Blockages
Monk in Tashilhunpo pours butter tea
(Sacred Mind and Tranquil Mind) 🌿 Tibetan Healing Sounds is a peaceful soundscape created to help slow down, release everyday stress, and gently let go of emotional tension.

The soothing resonance of Tibetan-inspired sounds creates a calming space where the heart-mind can become quieter, the body can relax, and the whole integrated person can reconnect with a deeper sense of inner peace.

These Tibetan Healing Sounds are suitable for meditation, mindfulness, deep relaxation, yoga, quiet reflection, or winding down before a restful sleep.

Let the peaceful tones create a comforting space to slow down and reconnect with ourselves.

Take a few peaceful moments each day with these Tibetan Healing Sounds and allow the release of stress, calm anxious thoughts, let go, and reconnect with a deeper sense of inner peace.

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The real Tibet [China] today

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View from the "Rooftop of the World"
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Irish: 'Voice of Boston Airport' (contest)

Family Guy roasts Boston Brahmins and other folk of New England and the Northeast
Stewie, try a shot of this and see if it makes you sound more like a Bostonian instead of a...

I'd be too embarrassed to do it, Brain.
One Massachusetts resident has until Oct. 4, 2026, to submit a reading of the Massport script to win this contest, which be narrowed down to five contestants and the opened up to a public vote. Family Guy's Peter Griffin may want to try out as the most iconic, if Ben Affleck and Matt Damon find this task too demeaning for their on-screen personas to handle. Family Guy: The Boston Method


Local news covers the contest
(All Things Considered) This story has gotten so big, it has reached the western shores of the contiguous United States, banging into Los Angeles airwaves with the force of LAist's airing of All Things Considered. ATC brings stories of the day, thoughtful commentaries [that try not to be biased or slanted for Israel and monied Zionist interests], insightful features on arts and life, music and entertainment, all brought alive through sound. NPR hosts: Ailsa Chang, Mary Louise Kelly, Juana Summers, and Scott Detrow. LAist hosts: Nereida Moreno and Julia Paskin Weekdays 1:00-3:00 pm and 4:00-6:30 pm, weekends at 4:00 pm (laist.com). Family Guy reveals "The Boston Method" to help Peter's peter perform better in Boston
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Israel invents history to promote Zionism

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Cheering on murder in Ukraine? (EU vs RU)


New drones, deadlier attacks: Dystopian reality in Ukraine
I was a Jewish TV actor, and now I play president in real life, ruled by outsiders in NATO.
 
Left joins call for mass murder?
(NPR, Sept. 30, 2026, 45-minute listen) Dave Davies interviews Editor-in-Chief of The Economist Zanny Minton Beddoes. She is just back from her fourth visit to Ukraine.

She claims to have personally witnessed that Russia [which is defending itself against NATO, US and EU incursions and pressure that are never brought up in the one-sided Western media] has ramped up production of missiles and deadly drones, while [U.S.-armed] Ukraine [after gloating and doing what Israel, the Mossad, Shin Bet, the EU, CIA, and Pentagon tell it to do] is now desperately short of interceptors to resist the onslaught and murder Russians in big cities with long-range drones it previously had access to, along with help from Elon Musk's Sky Link internet system for targeting Russian civilians in revenge attacks.

EU/US pushed us with NATO and lied about it.
“[Kiev or Kyiv] has been under really extraordinary [retaliatory] bombardment from the Russians, and they [the Russians] are basically trying to make life unlivable in a city of several million people [after Ukraine tried to make Russian cities with many more millions of people unlivable],” she tells Dave Davies. They also discuss the state of relations between Europe, Canada, and the U.S. in the dismal Trump era.
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Swedish child prisoners, German lesbians

(Dangerously Informed with Evie) I found out why Sweden is building prisons for children


(Dangerously Informed with Evie) I found out why Germany's anti-gay party (the AFD, "Alternative for Germany" or Alternative für Deutschland) is led by a lesbian mother-of-two married to a Sri Lankan Buddhist lesbian partner (Sarah Bossard) over the past 20 years. Her name is Alice Weidel (alice-weidel.de)
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Chauvet Cave's advanced ancient human art


Paintings found in Chauvet Cave, France
The Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave (French Grotte Chauvet-Pont d'Arc) in the Ardèche department of southeastern France is a cave that contains some of the best-preserved figurative cave paintings in the world [1], as well as other evidence of Upper Paleolithic life [2].

It is located near the commune of Vallon-Pont-d'Arc on a limestone cliff above the former bed of the river Ardèche, in the Gorges de l'Ardèche.

Discovered on Dec. 18, 1994, it is considered one of the most important prehistoric art sites. On June 22, 2014, the United Nation's cultural agency UNESCO granted it World Heritage status [3].

Romania stamp (Steppe Wisent Chauvet Cave)
The cave was first explored by a group of three speleologists: Eliette Brunel-Deschamps, Christian Hillaire, and Jean-Marie Chauvet (for whom the cave was named) six months after an aperture now known as "Baba's Hole" (Le Trou de Baba) was discovered by Michel Rosa (aka Baba) [4].

At a later date the group returned to the cave. Another member of this group, Michel Chabaud, along with two others, travelled farther into the cave and discovered the Gallery of the Lions, the End Chamber. Chauvet has his own detailed account of the discovery [5].

Ancient lions painting found in Chauvet Cave
In addition to the paintings and other human evidence, they also discovered fossilized remains, prints, and markings from a variety of animals, some of which are now extinct.

Further study by French archeologist Jean Clottes has revealed much about the site. The dates have been a matter of dispute, but a study published in 2012 supports placing the art in the Aurignacian period, approximately 32,000–30,000 years ago.

A study published in 2016 using an additional 88 radiocarbon dates showed two periods of habitation, one 37,000 to 33,500 years ago and the second from 31,000 to 28,000 years ago, with most of the black drawings dating to the earlier period. More: Chauvet Cave
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Tuesday, September 29, 2026

The Buddha's imprint: Dhammapada

(Einzelganger) Buddhist wisdom for inner peace
The Dhammapada (Pali धम्मपद, Sanskrit धर्मपद, Romanized Dharma-pada) is a collection of the historical Buddha's sayings in verse form. It is one of the most widely read and best-known Buddhist collections [1].

The original version of the Dhammapada is in the Pali canon's Khuddaka Nikāya, a division of sacred texts in Theravada Buddhism.

The great Indian Buddhist monk Buddhaghosa
The famous Buddhist scholar-monk and commentator Buddhaghosa ("ghost or voice of the Buddha") explains that each saying recorded in the collection was made on a different occasion in response to a unique situation that had arisen in the life of the Buddha and the massive community of male and female monastics he founded.

Buddhaghosa's translation of the commentary to it, which is called the Dhammapada Aṭṭhakatha, presents the details of each of these events and is a rich source of legend for the life and times of the Buddha [2].

Levi's jeans corporation borrows a saying from the Buddha found in the Dhammapada.
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There are many translations.
ETYMOLOGY: The title "Dhammapada" is a compound term composed of dhamma and pada, each word having a numerous denotations and connotations. Generally, dhamma refers to the Buddha's "doctrine" or "eternal truth" or "righteousness" or is a collective term for all "phenomena" [3] or "things." At its root, pada means "foot" (or "footprint"); thus, by extension, especially in this context, means either "path" or "verse" (cf. prosodic foot) or both [4].

English translations of this text's title have used various combinations of these and related words [5, 6]. More
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Monday, September 28, 2026

How to meditate wrong: Zen


(ECHOES OF LOST KNOWLEDGE) The Zen teaching that tells us to stop "trying" | Bodhidharma, the First Patriarch of Zen (Chan). 

What more could there possibly be than just this?
Why doesn't Zen Buddhism teach a path to enlightenment like the historical Buddha did? They are of the opinion that we are "already enlightened," so there's no need to speed up the process of realizing or remembering that, as in Hindu teachings of lila ("divine play," awakening to itself). It seems the Buddha would have mentioned that if he agreed with the Brahmin priests and their Vedas; yet, he took an adversarial position and presented a superior vision of what "awakening" (bodhi) and "nirvana" (moksha, "liberation," vimutti, "freedom") are. Below are the remainder of the instructions for those not content to believe they are already awakened beings who sit shikantaza just to sit because that's what sitters (zazen practitioners) do.
What is the way to enlightenment after effortlessly settling into the "zen" state of serenity and stillness?
Path of calm and insight
The eight spokes of the Dharma wheel
If Buddhism is the marriage of wisdom and compassion, then the historical Buddha's path-of-practice is calm and insight. To gain calm, let go (no effort required). To gain insight, practice vipassana ("clear seeing") by the fourfold setting up of mindfulness (sati), a practice called satipatthana.

Insight into what? Mind-and-body to see three personally verifiable marks of existence
The historical Buddha Gautama
In Early Buddhism, the Pali term dhamma vicaya (Sanskrit धर्मविचय-) has been variously translated as "keen investigation of things" (Wisdom Quarterly), the "analysis of [various] qualities" [1], "discrimination of dhammas [phenomena]" [2, Note 1], "discrimination of states" [3], "investigation of [the] doctrine [the Dharma]," [4, Note 2], and "searching [for] the [ultimate] Truth" [5].
The meaning, which may seem tricky to translate, is clear and not ambivalent in context. In the two Four Foundations of Mindfulness sutras (MN 10, DN 22). It is the systematic investigation of physical-and-mental phenomena (dhamma, "things") -- "body and mind" in terms of their ultimate constituents, which are "form particles" (rupa kalapas) and "mind moments" (cittas).
Pa Auk student, American Shaila Catherine
  • It would be wonderful if scholars stop disputing and practiced instead. Why? Practitioners who read and follow the two sutras can see the meaning very easily; however, in real practice, it is far better to seek out a competent teacher who has known-and-seen these things. In that way, there is no speculation, interpretation, or arguing. The path is already known and handed down, not in books, but in meditation halls.
  • Meditation Master at Pa Auk
    The scholar-monk and master practitioner Pa Auk Sayadaw (Ven. Bhaddanta Āciṇṇa) is all about the practical: How will one ever be able to "see" a particle (kalapa)? By purifying (visuddhi) the heart/mind, one is suddenly able to make use of all its powers. But particles move far too fast and live far too briefly to ever be discerned or analyzed by the mind's eye because the mind/heart has a speed limit due to the number of impulsions (javanas) in a mind-moment.
  • So here's the trick. Locate the "mind door," which is a green light near the physical heart. This door is a mirror of sorts reflecting everything in consciousness. It records. And the recording can be played back in slow-motion so as to see the life of the kalapa (form particle, which has three distinct phases that can be observed directly: arising, turning, passing). It does not stand even for a single moment, but rather passes through these three submoments.
  • Practical instructions, not theory
    How can anything composed of form (materiality, the mahabhuta or Four Great Elements, which are actually four qualities of matter, not matter itself, which come in pairs as outlined in Pa Auk Sayadaw's book Four Elements Meditation) be real if everything "form" is made up of is particulate matter, countless particles that are constantly arising, changing, and passing away -- always hurtling towards destruction? This is not a belief; for it to be effective, one must directly and literally know-and-see it happening all the time, everywhere, but particularly in this fathom-long body many call my "self." Most people can quickly comprehend that the body is, of course, not the "self." But nearly everyone gets stuck believing that the "self" must therefore be the mind (the watcher, the doer, the knower) or consciousness (awareness through the six senses, the interplay of cittas and cetasikas or mind-moments and mental concomitants, which is an impersonal process, not a thing in and of itself).
  • The "Four Elements"? At a Pa Auk Meditation Center, in Burma, California, Georgia, or elsewhere, discern in this very body: 1. The "earth element" as hardness, softness, roughness, smoothness, and heaviness, lightness; 2. the "water element" as flowing (saliva), cohesion (stickiness); 3. the "fire element" as heat, cold (relative temperature variations, including the burning chemical "digestive fire" of the stomach or coolness of the outbreath); 4. the "air element" as pushing, supporting (dhammawheel.com).
  • Pa Auk student Beth Upton as nun, Burma
    The Buddha searched for a self that was not be found and went into very great detail to catalogue that process masquerading as a "self" (soul, atman, atta, ego, personality, true self, higher self), which is recorded in the very dense collection of sacred texts, the Abhidhamma, and Buddhaghosa's meditation manual The Path of Purification. See A Guide Through the Abhidhamma for a comprehensive introduction to the details. It will be impossible to ever believe there is, ultimately speaking, no self until one does a systematic search of mind, of which consciousness is but one component.
  • Wait, why would anyone in his, her, or their right mind ever want to find out that there's no self? Surely that would mean annihilation, oblivion, falling into the void, the vast emptiness, utter destruction, the loss of everything?!
  • Knowing and Seeing (Pa Auk)
    One would want to because that is the entrance into the stream that leads inevitably to full awakening, enlightenment, and liberation from all suffering here and now in this very life. It is on account of not seeing this, not comprehending Dependent Origination, that we have all been lost and wandering, life after life, through this interminable and miserable (unfulfilling) samsara, seeking for pleasure now here, now there, existence after existence, state after state, world after world until there's nothing new that we have not already experienced many times over only to be disappointed and misled yet again.
Samatha, Jhana, Vipassana: Practice
This, of course, will be impossible...until the meditative absorptions (jhanas) purify and intensify the heart/mind to make that investigation, discrimination, analysis.

In the meantime, the practice of Four Elements Meditation and the application of discernment (by wise reflection or yoniso manasikara, which includes seeing things as they really are, including their repulsive aspect or patikula-manasikara that we normally work so hard to ignore) to body-mind phenomena in the application of right effort, so as to gain entry into the first absorption (jhana, the first "meditation") if "mindfulness of in-and-out breathing meditation" (which is the first practice in the setting up of the first of the Four Foundations of Mindfulness) has failed to bring one there.

Pa Auk students on jhanas
ETYMOLOGY: According to Rupert Gethin, "Dhamma-vicaya means either the 'discrimination of dhammas' or the 'discernment of dhamma'; to discriminate dhammas is precisely to discern dhamma"[6].

But, again, this is the confusion of something very simple and straightforward. One does NOT study Dharma (capital D Dhamma) during mindfulness meditation. What one DOES do is analyze, discern, and discriminate the "things" (phenomena, dhammas) the sutra specifies:
  • 2. feelings (pleasant, unpleasant, neutral, whether corporeal or spiritual);
  • 3. mind states (lustful or free of lust, angry or free of aversion, deluded or free of delusion, contracted or expansive, exalted or mundane, surpassable or unsurpassable, samādhi or not-samādhi [still and coherent or not], released or bound);
  • 4. mind-objects (the [presence or absence of] the Five Hindrances and the Seven Factors of Enlightenment). See Lists of the Fourfold Setting up of Mindfulness or satipatthana here.
  • 1. The first foundation is the body, and the body is usually known through parts of the body or more deeply by knowing the Four Great Elements in their tangible expressions as hard, soft, wet, dry, hot, cold, smooth or rough, heavy or light, and so on. (See Four Elements Meditation for details). More: dhamma vicaya (Wikipedia)
Yeah, I thought I made that pretty clear.
Rest assured, Bodhidharma has an excellent point to make. Striving, struggling, muscling, forcing, pushing, thirstily struggling is NOT the way. Let go of all that [waste]. Just be. Just observe the becoming that is going on all by itself. There is nothing to do or change for the heart/mind to come to the first absorption. It's just that we needed to stop caging ourselves in "trying" or "needing" it to be this way or that. It is far better to practice allowing and accepting, wakefulness and dispassionate mindfulness.
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