tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71041367159241368842024-03-18T17:00:31.376-07:00Wisdom Quarterly: American Buddhist JournalThe Dharma, sutras, and commentarial interpretations of interest to American Buddhists of all traditions with news that not only informs but transforms. Emphasis on meditation, enlightenment, karma, social evolution, and nonharming.
(To contact us, leave a comment marked "private").Wisdom Quarterlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16270831701299130326noreply@blogger.comBlogger19549125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7104136715924136884.post-38558720198645749452024-03-18T17:00:00.000-07:002024-03-18T17:00:00.249-07:00Lay ordination: Berkeley Zen Center (video)<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://berkeleyzencenter.org/2017/06/29/lay-ordination-5/">Berkeley Zen Center</a>; Dhr. Seven, Ananda (<a href="http://meetup.com/zen-07" target="_blank">Dharma Buddhist Meditation</a>), Wisdom Quarterly</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRrOXlbbt6r5zTkeFDAII2qM4D0aS7Wst3ECPDuRtiD2otsuo-1vEAVa8gZkK7ozM1YIL9RVxCjFWR4aN6KEhh-WHsGNabyOiX23o2gwVEaZOHm7NBqQueoUj2gM2Z_H9W9K9jwe1K8V9ZcPU2-zPTpvejy3FGNR9EZ4fm3DW0beF_OKiW7-bmJn12akI/s500/berkeley%20zen%20center,%20old%20plum%20mountain,%20film%20tricycle%20org.png" style="clear: left; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="372" data-original-width="500" height="297" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRrOXlbbt6r5zTkeFDAII2qM4D0aS7Wst3ECPDuRtiD2otsuo-1vEAVa8gZkK7ozM1YIL9RVxCjFWR4aN6KEhh-WHsGNabyOiX23o2gwVEaZOHm7NBqQueoUj2gM2Z_H9W9K9jwe1K8V9ZcPU2-zPTpvejy3FGNR9EZ4fm3DW0beF_OKiW7-bmJn12akI/w400-h297/berkeley%20zen%20center,%20old%20plum%20mountain,%20film%20tricycle%20org.png" width="400" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5pdMesajEb1yV2C-MrBw3l40gteYAjYHawXF66Fo5wKGqMU_AgIYFmjNuvIOGJsdj_U1oIOqJ5rVPkOeX9s1ZMFl3EwkrJpDgietFaE4zlZCwhL58B08BBRHGcYVrpNElTdMNYGK8AAd88n7pXVq4OHM1Qem0OjxTN5sTxLSWUw69llPe4l5qXcjyC6Y/s1000/berkeley%20zen%20center%20old%20plum%20mountain%20imdb%20com.jpg" style="clear: left; 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margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="817" data-original-width="1036" height="158" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlNlJnGu6rOMan8kcQH8iDcSQZY0NW2FBESxTwKLJzbtIfgX3jbBmPV3Tuwoa38NLH7j7xN5FG1LG4XVZlV2hOu51DdPMFJsYbS1CDQF8gkSj6gptdml3V6Y2VA6JAgNGdm4ySHW4MctZvuzUMNYb9BKt7QG3JQeicfTd8LKJLHYDzkwBLeXcl5wBxhLI/w200-h158/berkeley%20zen%20center%20buddha%20SF.png" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><a href="http://BerkeleyZenCenter.org">BerkeleyZenCenter.org</a></b></td></tr></tbody></table>Three members of the <b><span style="color: #f1c232;">Berkeley Zen Center</span></b> <i>sangha</i> (spiritual community) received "lay ordination" (<i>Zaike Tokudo</i>) from Sojun Weitsman Roshi and Hozan Senauke Sensei in the summer of 2017.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Such commitment to practice is possible in Mahayana Buddhism, particularly in the Japanese tradition practiced in the United States.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">This ceremony takes place once a year at BZC and is a significant rite of passage for each participant and for the whole <i>sangha</i>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><ul><li><a href="https://tricycle.org/article/film-club-watch-old-plum-mountain-film-about-berkeley-zen-center/"><b>Film Club: Watch Old Plum Mountain, a film about the Berkeley Zen Center (<i>Tricycle: The Buddhist Review</i>)</b></a></li></ul><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbG-UFuyStsP8V1lkOBGd2iV9-mngBGMNtuut266eCoE0Tu81eo6o54oU-wQbVvDizGhhi8Vu1r2oTwQ-GcO0N-Mj7q_gi-gCyZ907hvT9j6y-HWGq09-rm4789uU2Chnl1Jk6LvE_xP2AEK4m1yTszSjcI5S-5PZP4feGIomg1mLRkyZ8LNdv3JV6J90/w200-h150/berkeley%20zen%20center,%20zaike_2017.jpg" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">You're never too old to RNR if you're TYTD.</span></td></tr></tbody></table>Those present have the feeling that we are all together witnessing and participating as those ordaining <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rakusu" target="_blank">receive the Buddha’s precepts</a></b>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Those ordaining are welcomed into the lineage of Shakyamuni Buddha and Suzuki Roshi’s family.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><ul><li>Sojun Roshi’s students:</li><ul><li>John Lake
Hei Ko Shin Kan ("Calm Lake Deep Insight")</li><li>Matt Haug
Ji Dô I Shin ("Compassionate Path Healing Heart")</li></ul><li>Hozan Sensei’s student:</li><ul><li>Tim Lane
Kô Ryû Gen Shin ("Peaceful Dragon Sees Heart")</li></ul><li><a href="https://berkeleyzencenter.org/2017/06/29/heart-sutra-class/"><b>Heart Sutra Class | Berkeley Zen Center</b></a></li><li><a href="https://blogs.sfzc.org/blog/2021/02/10/a-new-abbot-for-old-plum-mountain-zen-center/"><b>A new abbot for the Berkeley Zen Center (Old Plum Mountain Zen Center) | Sangha News Journal (sfzc.org)</b></a></li><li><a href="https://app.sfzc.org/"><b>SFZC Dharma App</b></a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasquale_Esposito_(actor)"><b>Actor Pasquale Esposito from Italy to lay ordination</b></a></li><li><a href="https://berkeleyzencenter.org/dharma-talk/hozan-senauke-zazen-instructions/"><b>Hozan Senauke: Zazen Instructions | Berkeley Zen Center</b></a></li><li><a href="https://media.berkeleyzencenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/2024-BZC-Calendar-Final.pdf"><b>2024 BZC Calendar (berkeleyzencenter.org)</b></a></li></ul><div><b><span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large;">How to sit <i>zazen</i>: instructions</span></b></div><div><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="300" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/W2zm7s0GeK0" title="Hozan Senauke ~ Zazen Instructions" width="410"></iframe></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: xx-small;">This is a talk given at Berkeley Zen Center on Friday, May 14, 2021, by Hozan Alan Senauke. AUDIO: Listen to an audio-only version of this talk: Podcast: <b><a href="https://media.berkeleyzencenter.org/20210515HozanSenauke-ZazenInstructions-2.mp3" target="_blank">Play in new window</a></b> | <b><a href="https://media.berkeleyzencenter.org/20210515HozanSenauke-ZazenInstructions-2.mp3" target="_blank">Download</a></b> | <a href="https://berkeleyzencenter.org/dharma-talk/hozan-senauke-zazen-instructions/#" target="_blank">Embed</a>. Subscribe to The Berkeley Zen Center Podcast: <a href="https://berkeleyzencenter.org/feed/podcast/" target="_blank"><b>RSS</b></a>.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><img alt="Hozan Alan Senauke" class="avatar circle lazyloaded" data-src="https://media.berkeleyzencenter.org/ASenauke-BrownRakusuSmall-150x150.jpg" height="128" src="https://media.berkeleyzencenter.org/ASenauke-BrownRakusuSmall-150x150.jpg" style="border-radius: 50%; border: 1px; float: left; margin: 3px 20px 0px 0px; object-fit: cover; vertical-align: middle;" width="128" /><b><span style="color: #f1c232;">ABOUT</span></b>: Hozan Alan Senauke: Sensei began practicing at BZC on Dwight Way and later established his practice as a student of Sojun Roshi in the early 1980s. He was ordained as a Zen priest at BZC in 1989, receiving Dharma Transmission from Sojun at Tassajara Zen Center in 1998. After serving as <i>tanto </i>(head of practice) and then as vice-abbot at BZC, Hozan was installed as abbot in January of 2021. <b><a href="https://berkeleyzencenter.org/author/hozan-alan-senauke/" target="_blank">More</a></b></div></div>Wisdom Quarterlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16270831701299130326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7104136715924136884.post-89859554516176656082024-03-17T08:15:00.000-07:002024-03-18T03:56:32.533-07:00Irishman was first Westerner to be a monk<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span>Irishman <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U_Dhammaloka" target="_blank">U Dhammaloka</a> (</span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7104136715924136884/7084020173344153338" target="_blank">Laurence Carroll</a><span>), The Dharma Bum; Dhr. Seven, Pat Macpherson (eds.), </span><a href="http://wisdomquarterly.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Wisdom Quarterly</a><span>; </span><a href="http://thedharmabum.eu/">TheDharmaBum.eu</a><span>, </span><a href="http://wwwdana.io/thedharmabum">Dana.IO/thedharmabum</a></span></div><div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj5qAOcYQrLWj6Z-n2q-vol_AgWLF47f-fJS8uWYyMNfoBw2pgVwt3GMkLi53zyL_8PFtluPIXwbCwlHKLD6kObR5MWzVXY6_nBWXZsh-3uAIqdpjfG3L403CKJMariK7QXeo7NCe_ZYyWDNqhQLqbnlqvryPow-EZx_QCvhjG9Hd99M63fOb2fjlbM3g=s545" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="545" data-original-width="545" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj5qAOcYQrLWj6Z-n2q-vol_AgWLF47f-fJS8uWYyMNfoBw2pgVwt3GMkLi53zyL_8PFtluPIXwbCwlHKLD6kObR5MWzVXY6_nBWXZsh-3uAIqdpjfG3L403CKJMariK7QXeo7NCe_ZYyWDNqhQLqbnlqvryPow-EZx_QCvhjG9Hd99M63fOb2fjlbM3g=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiylTY3NQ_7e_qw1bLgQYvm135mloQQn8r4Cl-ULeHTJd7OtvbNFFj1T_6fK1JiXtP0SAcVNEUa0Cxyuv0Y5qQ0yvnbtD8sln8e4rvzQUsUO_MDaw0MkbwR1v68MA-ehqG5_l_Aak0Y0c0cuN9BwfUH4JPOpUODkkO1Xuw_eQuDEPeTf7ZZ1f0s-6iTb8/s640/u%20dhammaloka%20irishman%20the%20dharma%20bum%20documentary,%20WQ.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="640" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiylTY3NQ_7e_qw1bLgQYvm135mloQQn8r4Cl-ULeHTJd7OtvbNFFj1T_6fK1JiXtP0SAcVNEUa0Cxyuv0Y5qQ0yvnbtD8sln8e4rvzQUsUO_MDaw0MkbwR1v68MA-ehqG5_l_Aak0Y0c0cuN9BwfUH4JPOpUODkkO1Xuw_eQuDEPeTf7ZZ1f0s-6iTb8/w400-h400/u%20dhammaloka%20irishman%20the%20dharma%20bum%20documentary,%20WQ.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://wisdomquarterly.blogspot.com/2021/03/first-western-buddhist-monk-irish.html"><b><span style="font-size: xx-small;">First Western Buddhist monk: Irish U Dhammaloka (Wisdom Quarterly)</span></b></a></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="300" mozallowfullscreen="" src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/131488311" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="410"></iframe><iframe allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="300" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/UKHm7xaQRvA" width="410"></iframe><br />
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<i>The Dharma Bum</i><b> </b>is a feature-length, partially animated documentary film that tells the tantalizing true story of Dubliner <span style="color: #f1c232;"><b>Laurence Carroll</b></span>, who became <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U_Dhammaloka" target="_blank">Venerable Dhammaloka</a></b>.</div>
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<li><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Any relation to Lewis Carroll, author of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice%27s_Adventures_in_Wonderland" target="_blank"><i>Alice in Wonderland</i></a>? Of course not, because "Lewis Carroll" is the <i>nom de plume</i> (pen name) for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Carroll#Antecedents" target="_blank">Irish</a>-connected Oxford don <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Carroll" target="_blank">Dodgson</a>, the author of classic literature for little Alice Liddell.</span></li>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Laurence Carroll was born in Dublin in 1856 and spent his early life as an alcoholic hobo drifter bumming his way across the United States of America.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">This freethinking, un-Catholic, un-Christian, atheist activist worked the shipping route <span style="background-color: initial;">from San Francisco, California, to</span><span style="background-color: initial;"> Japan.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: initial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="349" data-original-width="820" height="170" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Hyg3HkKnJwk/WrBIBVQux-I/AAAAAAACFok/WQB5fxGR-OMKIikZHR0tcrXw9I4VsN54gCLcBGAs/w400-h170/first%2Bwestern%2Bmonk%2Bwas%2Birish%2Blaurence%2Bcarroll%252C%2BU%2BDhammaloka%252C%2Bireland%2Bcalifornia%2Basia%2Banti-colonialist.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: left;" width="400" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">I'm glad I became a Buddhist and did so much to spread freethinking against the British Empire.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="color: #444444; font-size: xx-small;"><div style="text-align: right;">.</div></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: initial;"></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: initial;">After five years as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anagarika" target="_blank"><b>monastic apprentice</b></a>, he became<span style="color: #f1c232;"><b> the first Western man to ever don the saffron robes of a Theravada Buddhist monk</b></span>.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><ul><li>Carroll was not the only amazing Irish-American Buddhist monastic: There was also Zen Buddhist "saint" (<i>bodhisattva</i>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maura_O%27Halloran"><b>Maura Soshin O'Halloran</b></a></li><li><a href="https://wisdomquarterly.blogspot.com/2022/03/poem-finnegans-awake.html"><b>American Buddhist Journal: POEM: "Finnegan's Awake"</b></a></li></ul><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiegZ9L8yKln8z2PadmBYH9NTiWx-1D3bOcYW2EvV5z5hhCguc993njIzJqypWPzO5azdtiO3xFTydgWD3sN8XN7slho9yWpmmXrsMHo50ebMIO_6CUkIDcJxw8ynmald9GurD0taVNrYhYbBvDuWypZADAsjqEA99-Cc9YwrF4uitWDdLpzgr9wPS0QtU/s268/maura%20soshin%20o'halloran%20twitter%20irish%20women.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="188" data-original-width="268" height="281" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiegZ9L8yKln8z2PadmBYH9NTiWx-1D3bOcYW2EvV5z5hhCguc993njIzJqypWPzO5azdtiO3xFTydgWD3sN8XN7slho9yWpmmXrsMHo50ebMIO_6CUkIDcJxw8ynmald9GurD0taVNrYhYbBvDuWypZADAsjqEA99-Cc9YwrF4uitWDdLpzgr9wPS0QtU/w400-h281/maura%20soshin%20o'halloran%20twitter%20irish%20women.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://wisdomquarterly.blogspot.com/2023/03/the-irish-zen-buddhist-saint.html"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b>Irish-American female Zen Buddhist saint (bodhisattva) in Japan: Soshin O'Halloran</b></span></a></td></tr></tbody></table><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="300" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/etDN04qJj7w" title="YouTube video player" width="410"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: medium;">Ven. U Dhammaloka: First Westerner to ordain as a Buddhist monk</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEics3kWTSJs15hreiiiYuaufjBx9wO4nEEzjXYMlQgsXwne79V-1SdiXNjiN20OLgLCDmnuscrLnac4DKXlKWA_VIVr2AR-k6p-lsoA2OCvUByRtuPnxEMubj0HIsACr9I_j41kN3VD8b6EqeON8-6czdW-7VmesF3wUVb3Drrhnf_T9fq-02r7aSWJWg=s786" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; text-align: left;"><img border="0" data-original-height="786" data-original-width="757" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEics3kWTSJs15hreiiiYuaufjBx9wO4nEEzjXYMlQgsXwne79V-1SdiXNjiN20OLgLCDmnuscrLnac4DKXlKWA_VIVr2AR-k6p-lsoA2OCvUByRtuPnxEMubj0HIsACr9I_j41kN3VD8b6EqeON8-6czdW-7VmesF3wUVb3Drrhnf_T9fq-02r7aSWJWg=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><yt-img-shadow class="style-scope ytd-video-owner-renderer no-transition" id="avatar" loaded="" style="background-color: transparent; border-radius: 50%; clear: left; display: inline-block; flex: 0 0 auto; float: left; height: 48px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; opacity: 1; overflow: hidden; transition: none 0s ease 0s; width: 48px;"><img alt="" class="style-scope yt-img-shadow" id="img" src="https://yt3.ggpht.com/ytc/AKedOLS7AeyBy-pPRv-9tJlO6Hq1zbLs8lo7jbW6PUiErA=s48-c-k-c0x00ffffff-no-rj" style="background: transparent; border-radius: var(--yt-img-border-radius,none); border: 0px; display: block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: var(--yt-img-margin-left,auto); margin-right: var(--yt-img-margin-right,auto); margin-top: 0px; max-height: var(--yt-img-max-height,none); max-width: var(--yt-img-max-width,100%); padding: 0px;" width="48" /></yt-img-shadow><span style="font-size: xx-small;">(<b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCM1fdp3QRVjCGRtI5EOcJfg" target="_blank">Belfast Buddhist</a></b>, 4/1/16) Venerable <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U_Dhammaloka" target="_blank">Dhammaloka</a></b> was ordained in Theravada Buddhist Burma (Myanmar) prior to 1900, making him one of the very earliest attested Western Buddhist monks. He was a celebrity preacher, vigorous polemicist, free thinker, and prolific editor in Burma and Singapore between 1900 and his conviction for sedition and appeal in 1910–1911. Drawing on Western atheist writings, he publicly challenged the role of imperial Christian missionaries and by implication the British Empire. His Irish name was <b><span style="color: #f1c232;">Laurence Carroll or Larry O'Rourke or Willam Colvin</span></b> from Cork and Munster.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>
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<span style="background-color: initial;">They gave him the <span style="color: #f1c232;"><b>new Buddhist name U Dhamm<i>a</i>loka</b></span>,<b>* a</b></span><span style="background-color: initial;"><span style="background-color: initial;">nd that is just the beginning of the story!</span><b><span style="background-color: initial;"><br />
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U </a></b><span style="background-color: initial;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U_Dhammaloka" target="_blank">Dhammaloka</a></b> was <span style="color: #f1c232;"><b>erased from history</b></span>. His existence lay dormant for over 100 years. Why?</span><span style="background-color: initial;"> The reasons are explored in the film.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: initial;">This Irishman caused quite a stir in his life, as he singlehandedly took on the mig</span><span style="background-color: initial;">ht of the Christian <span style="color: #f1c232;"><b>British Empire</b></span> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_rule_in_Burma" target="_blank"><b>colonial Burma</b></a>.</span><br />
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<li><span style="background-color: initial; font-size: xx-small;">[<span style="color: #f1c232;"><span><b>George Orwell</b></span> </span>was also decrying </span><span style="background-color: initial; font-size: xx-small;">British </span><span style="background-color: initial; font-size: xx-small;">colonial <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimes_against_humanity" target="_blank"><b>crimes against humanity</b></a> </span><span style="background-color: initial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="background-color: initial; font-size: xx-small;">in Burma and England </span>for which he wrote <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four" target="_blank"><b><i>Nineteen-Eighty-Four</i></b></a>, and he wrote about the city monks of Burma -- eviscerating the layabouts -- in an essay "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_an_Elephant"><b>Shooting an Elephant</b></a>"].</span></li>
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<span style="background-color: initial;">In the film we discover why he was under constant <span style="color: #f1c232;"><b>police surveillance</b></span> and ultimately had to fake his own death as he transformed himself from an alcoholic bum to <span style="color: #f1c232;"><b>the original Dharma Bum</b></span>.</span><span style="background-color: initial;"> <a href="http://thedharmabum.eu/" target="_blank"><b>More</b></a><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><ul><li><a href="https://www.facebook.com/thedharmabum/"><b><i>The Dharma Bum</i> - a documentary - Home | Facebook</b></a></li><li><a href="https://www.irishamerica.com/2021/05/goodbye-columbushello-st-brendan/"><b>Goodbye Columbus, hello St. Brendan | Irish America</b></a></li></ul><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDEbubGUXj6RCcYnU2OGozJMSt_H1ylHQwCTLxKxQuYf9VL7JMNsa4Ola-8ku9vJLMR9PdpFGwnNiTKOPzECExLlHO5tMW66x1yQebNKadINyMtDRdlXGumZIGyLVa8zY9cW9_b03tX-g2xi3BYxEdGv1rWQu9SA7PFNLhVpk7DkDakGaKxValBupoiOA/s1328/irish%20monk%20who%20sailed%20to%20america%20in%206th%20century%20legend%20grunge%20com.png" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="668" data-original-width="1328" height="201" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDEbubGUXj6RCcYnU2OGozJMSt_H1ylHQwCTLxKxQuYf9VL7JMNsa4Ola-8ku9vJLMR9PdpFGwnNiTKOPzECExLlHO5tMW66x1yQebNKadINyMtDRdlXGumZIGyLVa8zY9cW9_b03tX-g2xi3BYxEdGv1rWQu9SA7PFNLhVpk7DkDakGaKxValBupoiOA/w400-h201/irish%20monk%20who%20sailed%20to%20america%20in%206th%20century%20legend%20grunge%20com.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.grunge.com/1228972/the-legend-of-the-6th-century-irish-monk-who-may-have-sailed-to-america/"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">The Legend of the 6th Century Irish monk who may have sailed so America (grunge.com)</span></a></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: xx-small;">.</span></div><div><b><span style="color: #04ff00; font-size: large;">Happy St. Paddy's Day?</span></b></div><div><div><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Wisdom Quarterly Wikipedia edit</span></div></div><div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB8_u-pmLUKPnKRFSj4PcaD85Lj0WbvwDgaFueTiGeWtltJXhZhKQWXFCWC7MSo9GAQE-kvgMLvei_dW1g5jUsG2OUXQYIKgW7gs1AqXQEZRq_721UcF494cZ1Bvk6VX8HXLj4qqQt0uJTuGQJmoqncKaCJevobQSo_8zbPHsaeKSabFAo6WNHxFJs6fI/s413/Saint_Patrick_Catholic_Church_(Junction_City,_Ohio)_-_stained_glass,_Saint_Patrick_-_detail.jpg.webp" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="413" data-original-width="330" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB8_u-pmLUKPnKRFSj4PcaD85Lj0WbvwDgaFueTiGeWtltJXhZhKQWXFCWC7MSo9GAQE-kvgMLvei_dW1g5jUsG2OUXQYIKgW7gs1AqXQEZRq_721UcF494cZ1Bvk6VX8HXLj4qqQt0uJTuGQJmoqncKaCJevobQSo_8zbPHsaeKSabFAo6WNHxFJs6fI/w160-h200/Saint_Patrick_Catholic_Church_(Junction_City,_Ohio)_-_stained_glass,_Saint_Patrick_-_detail.jpg.webp" width="160" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">The Patrician Roman Patriarch Pat</span></td></tr></tbody></table>As we celebrate Saint Paddy's Day today, one has to wonder why British Protestant Patrick gets so much credit from the Imperial Catholic Church.</div><div><br /></div><div>Saint Patrick (Gaelic Pádraig, Latin Patricius, "father of the people") was a 5th-century <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romano-British_culture" target="_blank">Romano-British</a></b> anti-pagan, Christian missionary, and patriarch named bishop of Ireland by an outside entity.</div><div><br /></div><div>Known as the "Apostle of Ireland," he is the primary patron saint of Ireland, the other patron saints being <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigid_of_Kildare" target="_blank">Brigid of Kildare</a></b> and <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columba" target="_blank">Columba</a></b>. <b><span style="color: #f1c232;">Patrick was never formally</span></b> <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canonization" target="_blank">canonized</a></b> [2], having lived before the current laws of the Catholic Church on these matters.</div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.quora.com/Is-St-Patricks-Day-a-celebration-of-genocide"><b>Is St Patrick's Day a celebration of genocide? (Quora)</b></a></li><li><a href="https://springwolf.net/2013/03/17/why-pagans-dont-celebrate-st-paddys-day/"><b>Why pagans don’t celebrate St. Paddy’s Day</b></a></li><li><a href="https://irishfolklore.wordpress.com/tag/druid-genocide/"><b>Druid Genocide (Ireland's Folklore and Traditions)</b></a></li><li><a href="https://www.grunge.com/1228972/the-legend-of-the-6th-century-irish-monk-who-may-have-sailed-to-america/"><b>The 6th century Irish monk who sailed to America (grunge.com)</b></a></li><li><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/study-woke-attitudes-linked-to-anxiety-depression-and-a-lack-of-happiness/ar-BB1k2aRR"><b>Study: “Woke” attitudes linked to anxiety, depression, and a lack of happiness</b></a></li></ul></div><div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqo4uYa6AY1PgJuCKxJNA66TB5RcTc0-kRzuWTDPPIi1SeoUznpSxbaUu6cttEnUrh-RGFOuVaoJ2bq3UTJ2OSBDR26GYHb2C5qVsdehCzAVixx31fakTtJtg895fkwwofwVnptHLdDpY2D2hWc3t0mlY8wQ_fhWNAcQozZC0NzxCrYxeym27WhYi1HD0/s768/irish%20girls%20in%20folkore%20msn.com%20AA1dIbkr.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="511" data-original-width="768" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqo4uYa6AY1PgJuCKxJNA66TB5RcTc0-kRzuWTDPPIi1SeoUznpSxbaUu6cttEnUrh-RGFOuVaoJ2bq3UTJ2OSBDR26GYHb2C5qVsdehCzAVixx31fakTtJtg895fkwwofwVnptHLdDpY2D2hWc3t0mlY8wQ_fhWNAcQozZC0NzxCrYxeym27WhYi1HD0/w200-h133/irish%20girls%20in%20folkore%20msn.com%20AA1dIbkr.jpg" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b><a href="https://springwolf.net/2013/03/17/why-pagans-dont-celebrate-st-paddys-day/" target="_blank">We may have been better off as pagans.</a></b></span></td></tr></tbody></table>Nevertheless, he is venerated as a "saint" in the Catholic Church, which also venerates <b><span style="color: #f1c232;">the Buddha as a Catholic saint</span></b> (St. Josaphat), the Lutheran Church, the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_Ireland" target="_blank">Church of Ireland</a></b> (part of the Anglican Communion), and in the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Orthodox_Church" target="_blank">Eastern Orthodox Church</a></b>, where he is regarded as <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal-to-apostles" target="_blank">equal-to-the-apostles</a></b> and Enlightener of Ireland [3, 4].</div><div><br /></div><div>He was a slave in Ireland for years, escaped back to England then seems to have returned to extract his revenge as a patriarch to impose Roman church law on the Emerald Isle.<b></b></div><div><br /></div><div>Patrick is credited with forcing Christianity on Ireland, converting a pagan society in the process, despite evidence of an earlier Christian presence [7].</div><div><br /></div><div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWGBYEGzq7lcFXF6bi8od4hclWnKeZwWimlIbaM9Fj32a9fdg_OaCa9rITuU8FgZ5dtrEIwSaUCR5SOjwvmGoyDQwVZnFBXcD_S_iNAhec4yobvMxtwwzmH6d68wS4RF58qM3PU-8YM5Eq2PKpkI1CIECJwd864cPT6RTNWNkTm9Mlf3lI5O4IiHBk-D0/s570/irish%20st.%20patrick's%20day%20why%20we%20celebrate%20irishcentral%20com.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="380" data-original-width="570" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWGBYEGzq7lcFXF6bi8od4hclWnKeZwWimlIbaM9Fj32a9fdg_OaCa9rITuU8FgZ5dtrEIwSaUCR5SOjwvmGoyDQwVZnFBXcD_S_iNAhec4yobvMxtwwzmH6d68wS4RF58qM3PU-8YM5Eq2PKpkI1CIECJwd864cPT6RTNWNkTm9Mlf3lI5O4IiHBk-D0/w200-h133/irish%20st.%20patrick's%20day%20why%20we%20celebrate%20irishcentral%20com.jpg" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">We defend Catholicism b/c the British don't like it</span></td></tr></tbody></table>In Patrick's autobiography, <i>Confessio</i>, when he was 16, he was captured at home in Britain by Irish pirates and taken as a slave to Ireland. He writes that he lived here for six years herding animals before escaping and returning to his England.</div><div><br /></div><div>After becoming a cleric, he returned to spread Christianity in northern and western Ireland. In later life, he served as a bishop, but little is known about where he worked.</div><div><br /></div><div>By the 7th century, he had already become the "patron saint of Ireland." His feast day is observed on March 17th, the date of his death not his birth. It is celebrated in Ireland and among the worldwide <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_diaspora" target="_blank">Irish diaspora</a></b> as a cultural holiday celebrating all things Irish.</div><div><br /></div><div>It is hardly as a religious observance nowadays, but in the dioceses of Ireland, it is both a <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solemnity" target="_blank">solemnity</a></b> and a holy <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_day_of_obligation" target="_blank">day of obligation</a></b>, even if pagans mourn the genocide he wrought upon the island.</div><div><br /></div><div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihuv0uWOtv7dF6Pa7GB1yy0FlBC70FuUdTqlvIka_FxmY0pexV9fk-6lUKH2jY-toMZHfpjLcHGGvvMqlsItzgM9Is8K0hznup8r2EcyV060X1caljC58dM5w1-OylZ3ii6k8VfWcqCjUBAtJM93CzhMFguTNj3G6sF5lt1wqd6YvBEosYAwzcx1rT3-E/s420/irish%20in%20mexico%20Erin_Go_Bragh_Banner.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="210" data-original-width="420" height="100" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihuv0uWOtv7dF6Pa7GB1yy0FlBC70FuUdTqlvIka_FxmY0pexV9fk-6lUKH2jY-toMZHfpjLcHGGvvMqlsItzgM9Is8K0hznup8r2EcyV060X1caljC58dM5w1-OylZ3ii6k8VfWcqCjUBAtJM93CzhMFguTNj3G6sF5lt1wqd6YvBEosYAwzcx1rT3-E/w200-h100/irish%20in%20mexico%20Erin_Go_Bragh_Banner.jpg" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Patrick%27s_Battalion#/media/File:Erin_Go_Bragh_Banner.svg" target="_blank">Good John Riley's flag of the Mexican regiment</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table><b><span style="color: #f1c232;">The Irish are so much like the Mexicans</span></b> in this regard, taken over and thoroughly saturated by the Holy Roman Empire, as if the Church liberated the people when it enslaved them and still tries to rule every aspect of their lives and exact tribute for Rome.</div><div><br /></div><div>So much is this connection felt that there are <i><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Patrick%27s_Battalion" target="_blank">Los Patricios</a></b> </i>("<b><span style="color: #04ff00;">The Patricks</span></b>" not <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regiment_of_Patricians" target="_blank">Patricians</a></b>), who were US mercenaries ordered to fight Mexico, but when they understood the fight, led by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Riley_(soldier)"><b>John Riley</b></a>, they took the side of Mexico and fought against the US, as anyone who champions the underdog might well have done. <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Patrick" target="_blank">More</a></b></div><div><ul><li>Who wrote the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulgate"><b>Vulgate</b></a>?</li></ul></div></div>
</div></div>Wisdom Quarterlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16270831701299130326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7104136715924136884.post-39581570009869350582024-03-17T08:01:00.000-07:002024-03-18T09:39:45.892-07:00Is it Druid Genocide Day or St. Patrick's Day?<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Matt Anderson (<a href="https://www.valknutmeadery.com.au/druid-remembrance-day" style="text-align: left;">valknutmeadery.com.au</a>); Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz8QsamGI227ksMOZ3ZOYsC5D0TWEl2qot67bhaLKzAU_P5_-Y8hDUolqGPbTF8T-S9KCP2iXekCrgq9-9A6sum32Sc1_RNdjSKwqY25iO_myytYiZ3XDWCKhyAeLzblT_fpBgTuSWOiAD20c3gs6H7CKQTZ_E2oVihuGl3-AHw_KtqlmBqXhAOS1KYB8/s350/druid,%20valknut-meadery.com.au-blog-druid-remembrance-day-walking-1920w.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="271" data-original-width="350" height="310" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz8QsamGI227ksMOZ3ZOYsC5D0TWEl2qot67bhaLKzAU_P5_-Y8hDUolqGPbTF8T-S9KCP2iXekCrgq9-9A6sum32Sc1_RNdjSKwqY25iO_myytYiZ3XDWCKhyAeLzblT_fpBgTuSWOiAD20c3gs6H7CKQTZ_E2oVihuGl3-AHw_KtqlmBqXhAOS1KYB8/w400-h310/druid,%20valknut-meadery.com.au-blog-druid-remembrance-day-walking-1920w.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqa9NRmFT_TRtOK5vt1QJRaOFtJZQ4mYYHM9U5n32KIdQICKn_pL_YzfL4Uga7wscc-3qaVuG83IiyiBNBtgW3TvvA7ldMANf696oxyEmG_qc0mpXMFfqOm6ZsfVO4BakJ5Cz1zthn1djLLObh3cegMV23Heg6XOnIL5Nz933C_Qw0aG8XppQadnmZPgw/s570/Newgrange_Web_Size__1____icp%20irish%20central.webp" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="380" data-original-width="570" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqa9NRmFT_TRtOK5vt1QJRaOFtJZQ4mYYHM9U5n32KIdQICKn_pL_YzfL4Uga7wscc-3qaVuG83IiyiBNBtgW3TvvA7ldMANf696oxyEmG_qc0mpXMFfqOm6ZsfVO4BakJ5Cz1zthn1djLLObh3cegMV23Heg6XOnIL5Nz933C_Qw0aG8XppQadnmZPgw/w400-h266/Newgrange_Web_Size__1____icp%20irish%20central.webp" width="400" /></a><div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large;">This Day in History: Druid Remembrance Day</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrM1JOu8s7nwpMSa1yA_AqMABRbAdkh0AJlfsX4eaoX73fVTXZEnh8pVox_m55-0eEyV3cH7uNL-AVQxwya18R-mmYJ8yZ8HQNbLLFUjyFQYthMeUXuB1i2-1VJHW6T7QGi0UqUSa3alYotP2DTiCVTodTUeY4tPiDeSL4krNIKzhL8bkVueGC97AT2ks/s500/druids%20valknut-meadery-blog-druid-remembrance-day-reading-1920w.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="350" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrM1JOu8s7nwpMSa1yA_AqMABRbAdkh0AJlfsX4eaoX73fVTXZEnh8pVox_m55-0eEyV3cH7uNL-AVQxwya18R-mmYJ8yZ8HQNbLLFUjyFQYthMeUXuB1i2-1VJHW6T7QGi0UqUSa3alYotP2DTiCVTodTUeY4tPiDeSL4krNIKzhL8bkVueGC97AT2ks/w140-h200/druids%20valknut-meadery-blog-druid-remembrance-day-reading-1920w.jpg" width="140" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Celtic Druid, shaman, seer</span></td></tr></tbody></table>On March 17th, we will not be celebrating someone greatly responsible for the cultural genocide of the Celtic pagans and Druids.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Instead, it's more appropriate to celebrate the life and culture of the Druids who were wiped out during Saint Patrick's missionary days.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Make sure to note that this was a "cultural genocide." So it doesn't mean Padraig went around killing all the Druids. Instead, he convinced the kings and leaders of the time to convert to a foreign religion, which meant no one needed Druids anymore.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large;"><b>WHO WERE THE DRUIDS?</b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDRj2zboT2rJY6eRbdQNmFkeeeovHtyHK8-1bJHuM9NEprC4ovJod6qhQPge6zocyHAaW8n2sx7oyzC957GHQzY6njGS4SHl2EyiOpXofFPA7g9f_8sPpmjAg-XeLengVCzpaw6kNjhhAB3O3qVKwyecKdOVzeFO1b-Yval9GsMKEJYhF4PSuQrNgx3e4/s500/druid%20valknut-meadery-blog-druid-remembrance-day-british-1920w.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="350" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDRj2zboT2rJY6eRbdQNmFkeeeovHtyHK8-1bJHuM9NEprC4ovJod6qhQPge6zocyHAaW8n2sx7oyzC957GHQzY6njGS4SHl2EyiOpXofFPA7g9f_8sPpmjAg-XeLengVCzpaw6kNjhhAB3O3qVKwyecKdOVzeFO1b-Yval9GsMKEJYhF4PSuQrNgx3e4/w140-h200/druid%20valknut-meadery-blog-druid-remembrance-day-british-1920w.jpg" width="140" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Knowledge keeper</span></td></tr></tbody></table>Ever since the Indo-European days, Druids were the keepers of the traditional laws, storytellers, wandering poets, priests, the philosophers of the time, astronomers, and king makers.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The name Druid means something like the Sanskrit <i>rishi,</i> "to see" (a "seer," "visionary"). They were the intermediaries connecting the people and the gods.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The word shaman (Buddhist Sanskrit <i>shramana</i>) is related to seer, meaning "one who sees in the dark."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">They were the most important people of their time, roughly between 4500 BCE (before common era) to 400 CE.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEuUXVvmognxj8UO8vlBBL77pXMYnFisswoN1YAkf66Sl2mXIHdRZLXLDQ6YzQY3F7aANZqIAYqlVxJd8yE4SMQayLj1p9df2n3r8fWj0tGTbwCN3ZkRbGXWYb9eTedfROqkGnOnY_JB4a0_cnh8Gu6Un6YQeS4vv5LJNbhdG-vKTGQxbZ9pbB6sJmpsw/s800/newgrange%20winter%20solstice%20live%20stream%202023%20irishcentral%20com.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="800" height="125" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEuUXVvmognxj8UO8vlBBL77pXMYnFisswoN1YAkf66Sl2mXIHdRZLXLDQ6YzQY3F7aANZqIAYqlVxJd8yE4SMQayLj1p9df2n3r8fWj0tGTbwCN3ZkRbGXWYb9eTedfROqkGnOnY_JB4a0_cnh8Gu6Un6YQeS4vv5LJNbhdG-vKTGQxbZ9pbB6sJmpsw/w200-h125/newgrange%20winter%20solstice%20live%20stream%202023%20irishcentral%20com.jpg" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Secret architecture of the Druids</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;">The Celts, along with their Druids or seers, emigrated from Central Europe west to the British Isles and Ireland, taking their rich culture, art, and traditions with them. The ancient tales of their ancestors and their gods helped the Celts remain a fearless people.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Fearless people are hard to control.
Thankfully, the Romans did not occupy Ireland, but their new imperial faith [and their worship of Ceasar's Messiah] did. It was an imposed faith that was used to bring all nations and cultures under the rule of one God.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large;"><b>WHO WAS "SAINT" PATRICK?</b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhN8DjOTzMJZxcTGMUMxtxK2dtTBoJU2Gp5hoeTtFAwKOdWndYP3Gh2vJN4sDmXMQxFVX_nW5NZP7HEJi4G1Dnr2RdmHtgu900zfy07G8N0QtgXz-Bpnv2YXRbPMo_jjA0ZCj-Gab3RpmbqMNdoeoX9Un2rXSi2jAPDHP_WrLSqnmKH0hhw_RiwbzvUvcA/s1024/gay%20flag%20behind%20the%20pop%20francis,%20getty%20images%20com.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="705" data-original-width="1024" height="275" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhN8DjOTzMJZxcTGMUMxtxK2dtTBoJU2Gp5hoeTtFAwKOdWndYP3Gh2vJN4sDmXMQxFVX_nW5NZP7HEJi4G1Dnr2RdmHtgu900zfy07G8N0QtgXz-Bpnv2YXRbPMo_jjA0ZCj-Gab3RpmbqMNdoeoX9Un2rXSi2jAPDHP_WrLSqnmKH0hhw_RiwbzvUvcA/w400-h275/gay%20flag%20behind%20the%20pop%20francis,%20getty%20images%20com.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Rome's Gay Mafia the Vatican, with its cardinals, bishops and pope, rule the Catholic world.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFJHtd7gRY0RybvTGI2QtDoYmzJX-BReARVd_mP6HXBrZ2Nx-v8BpRVCouHJwGwq0Hxn4RlKn2lW_DYCx8vjOsju5MlalL6SEfBeBj27eKD02PiJWL7ukTbMeP1eFKPjHaPuidsDNS7v41Q0cwmYqOr2xT8P_Z9_C_4PhvjVPt4pkmqDD_r-CG54-PbDY/s612/irish%20lives%20matter%20is%20racism%20in%20ireland%20%20police%20hate%20crime%20incident%20BBC.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="304" data-original-width="612" height="199" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFJHtd7gRY0RybvTGI2QtDoYmzJX-BReARVd_mP6HXBrZ2Nx-v8BpRVCouHJwGwq0Hxn4RlKn2lW_DYCx8vjOsju5MlalL6SEfBeBj27eKD02PiJWL7ukTbMeP1eFKPjHaPuidsDNS7v41Q0cwmYqOr2xT8P_Z9_C_4PhvjVPt4pkmqDD_r-CG54-PbDY/w400-h199/irish%20lives%20matter%20is%20racism%20in%20ireland%20%20police%20hate%20crime%20incident%20BBC.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdIajmYYjdxaSZ4oS3YCCvtC_Z1ov7vnDqermfbec30WpgMwru7d_MS4kG1cb2362eVWDtHDp0pJqGwgyR0_9_7Zc8Glff9gX-tC1TshPlOSYrPyC7qoJopE5BRfpJENBq1fb3eo2WQ_NhxZBZtWLsy2y5yYurgQHgQhv2YXuyiwfaGTwFP3JNnA-7n_U/s570/Newgrange_green_Getty%20ireland%20irish%20central.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="356" data-original-width="570" height="125" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdIajmYYjdxaSZ4oS3YCCvtC_Z1ov7vnDqermfbec30WpgMwru7d_MS4kG1cb2362eVWDtHDp0pJqGwgyR0_9_7Zc8Glff9gX-tC1TshPlOSYrPyC7qoJopE5BRfpJENBq1fb3eo2WQ_NhxZBZtWLsy2y5yYurgQHgQhv2YXuyiwfaGTwFP3JNnA-7n_U/w200-h125/Newgrange_green_Getty%20ireland%20irish%20central.jpg" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Newgrange green, Ireland (Getty/Irish Central)</span></td></tr></tbody></table>Here are two fun facts about St. Paddy.
He wasn't Irish but rather a Roman Brit.
He is mostly known for driving the snakes out of Ireland, never mind that there have never been any snakes in Ireland.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Snakes" seems to have been a metaphor for pagans, because he wanted everyone to view them as evil for their refusal to following the new faith.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The conversions made the old Celtic faith irrelevant. The Romans eventually got rid of the Druids along with the culture of the people. Over time Druids ceased to exist.
Written records were uncommon back then. The Druids were not allowed to write down their knowledge.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">So all of that cultural history was lost. It had been recorded in the minds of the Druids, so once they were eradicated, their history was too.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Becoming a Druid involved a lifetime of study and dedication. So celebrating the Druids and their rich history is a much better way to celebrate Celtic pride than worshiping St. Patrick. <i>Skål. </i><b><a href="https://www.valknutmeadery.com.au/druid-remembrance-day" target="_blank">Source</a></b></div></div>Wisdom Quarterlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16270831701299130326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7104136715924136884.post-33184577649154075672024-03-17T08:00:00.000-07:002024-03-18T04:00:40.700-07:00Oops, Trump not guilty? Jan. 6 insurrection<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>Rising </i>(The Hill), 3/1724; <a href="http://veteransforpeace.org" target="_blank">Pfc. Sandoval</a>, <a href="http://aclu.org" target="_blank">Seth Auberon</a> (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiM15Kc7SamNWAtRbBywDdOopuc16s8dsPcvFsR586pQEpU5BXXtGozU0fpqBzvpjPgz710KMMH3EVBy_zJhFGcfm-OOm4Qmhw0YWQP3Txt9CsRX_9BAN2lMaszg2n23sl664q1kCyTIlcFxb0cNRxG0-evYITnTD0EEgKu5wDVSroZ2plIxlF2TfUwpXM/s1276/vikings%20for%20trump,%20jan%206%20sham.png" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="676" data-original-width="1276" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiM15Kc7SamNWAtRbBywDdOopuc16s8dsPcvFsR586pQEpU5BXXtGozU0fpqBzvpjPgz710KMMH3EVBy_zJhFGcfm-OOm4Qmhw0YWQP3Txt9CsRX_9BAN2lMaszg2n23sl664q1kCyTIlcFxb0cNRxG0-evYITnTD0EEgKu5wDVSroZ2plIxlF2TfUwpXM/w400-h213/vikings%20for%20trump,%20jan%206%20sham.png" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="300" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/3tjCsGMFpKc" title="NEW Fed Jan 6 Probe UNLEASHED: Terry Schilling Breaks It Down" width="410"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large;"><b>New federal Jan. 6th probe UNLEASHED: Terry Schilling breaks it down</b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSBznmJ0ObkEZkN-FlEozHE3M8XZZRDVFc7Ih55bfqv6jDYb2xNL1ZPRzflrXoG-Oet1cnpkWUEfqgbi9NJnd7IgB_d2RcTIUflKCDrHe3qKD-qw5FiRoNb89ohOHrnvJSjRIwuf7QYsyTvwoOXrPLkSlA6F_luMqMzJSLmDitJU4OeoFjDLwC-WFav2g/s1377/trump%20is%20an%20a%20hole,%20gives%20himself%20a%20funny%20nickname,%20people%20laugh,%20HuffPost.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="684" data-original-width="1377" height="99" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSBznmJ0ObkEZkN-FlEozHE3M8XZZRDVFc7Ih55bfqv6jDYb2xNL1ZPRzflrXoG-Oet1cnpkWUEfqgbi9NJnd7IgB_d2RcTIUflKCDrHe3qKD-qw5FiRoNb89ohOHrnvJSjRIwuf7QYsyTvwoOXrPLkSlA6F_luMqMzJSLmDitJU4OeoFjDLwC-WFav2g/w200-h99/trump%20is%20an%20a%20hole,%20gives%20himself%20a%20funny%20nickname,%20people%20laugh,%20HuffPost.jpg" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">I want an apology or I'm calling for a <b><span style="color: red;">bloodbath</span></b>.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><yt-img-shadow class="style-scope ytd-video-owner-renderer no-transition" id="avatar" loaded="" style="background-color: transparent; border-radius: 50%; clear: left; display: inline-block; flex: 0 0 auto; float: left; height: 40px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; opacity: 1; overflow: hidden; transition: none 0s ease 0s; width: 40px;" width="40"><img alt="" class="style-scope yt-img-shadow" draggable="false" id="img" src="https://yt3.ggpht.com/ufkgi6azP725UyK8Ad_xynigjb-25sM1FtXkGbu90Y_Pupe-oTx1g6Oprnq12kZqZO8v3H8L54A=s48-c-k-c0x00ffffff-no-rj" style="background: transparent; border-radius: var(--yt-img-border-radius,none); border: 0px; display: block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: var(--yt-img-margin-left,auto); margin-right: var(--yt-img-margin-right,auto); margin-top: 0px; max-height: var(--yt-img-max-height,none); max-width: var(--yt-img-max-width,100%); padding: 0px;" width="40" /></yt-img-shadow>(The Hill)
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Website: <b><a href="http://Hill.TV">Hill.TV</a></b></span></div>Wisdom Quarterlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16270831701299130326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7104136715924136884.post-52500628834378407252024-03-17T07:30:00.000-07:002024-03-18T09:41:15.448-07:00LA Mushroom Club: Metaphysics (3/18)<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.meetup.com/la-mycological-society-putting-the-fun-in-fungi/events/299697821/" target="_blank">LAMS Resident Mycologist Rudy Diaz</a> (<a href="http://lamushrooms.org">lamushrooms.org</a>); Jen Bradshaw, Dhr. Seven, Ananda (<a href="http://meetup.com/zen-07" target="_blank">Dharma Buddhist Meditation</a>) (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimXDuxZt91sEB5F5izFjNUmroE1U_OPTeCTC94eF8qjPD9p2iSwRXokwkGtOPRjqz5UpPQUsz8PvXYYVEJ7F4SWtgf_YbV2nKk6I-4f8cPD1yCYlFLypgXdzMktfjfhy45wuPhmPG3IMRU6H39usk_GV7LcCfqwaJiuHIW2OQCcIV2vPKhi5Fd6P-YDaY/s812/mushrooms%20LAMS,%20meeting%20rudy%20diaz%20WQ.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="676" data-original-width="812" height="333" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimXDuxZt91sEB5F5izFjNUmroE1U_OPTeCTC94eF8qjPD9p2iSwRXokwkGtOPRjqz5UpPQUsz8PvXYYVEJ7F4SWtgf_YbV2nKk6I-4f8cPD1yCYlFLypgXdzMktfjfhy45wuPhmPG3IMRU6H39usk_GV7LcCfqwaJiuHIW2OQCcIV2vPKhi5Fd6P-YDaY/w400-h333/mushrooms%20LAMS,%20meeting%20rudy%20diaz%20WQ.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><p data-pm-slice="0 0 []">Visit a Los Angeles Mycological Society (<b><a href="http://lamushrooms.org" target="_blank">LAMS</a></b>) general meeting after February's very successful annual Wild Mushroom Fair at the LA Arboretum.</p><p></p><p><strong>PROGRAM</strong>: "Mushroom Abnormalities and Metaphysics of Identity" with guest speaker <strong>LAMS Resident Mycologist</strong> <strong><a href="https://lamushrooms.org/people/rudy_diaz.html">Rudy Diaz</a></strong>. <b><span style="color: #f1c232;">FREE</span></b>. RSVP:<br /></p><ul><li><a href="https://www.meetup.com/zen-07/events/299741528/"><b>Disclosure Project (LA) (Mushroom Club General Meeting), Mon, Mar 18, 2024, 7:30 PM | Meetup</b></a></li><li><a href="https://www.meetup.com/zen-007/events/299742050/"><b>Nature Center (Valley) (Mushroom Club General Meeting), Mon, Mar 18, 2024, 7:30 PM | Meetup</b></a></li><li><a href="https://www.meetup.com/zen-7/events/299741913/"><b>PasaDharma (Foothills) (Mushroom Club General Meeting), Mon, Mar 18, 2024, 7:30 PM | Meetup</b></a></li></ul><p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg00I7NwUgWZR-xNGX2uEZMOoHOuZctYiO8FKY60SlIFB0tEhmN4_49ih_WEbTMGQnmPHETikJEOpyyTtJ2Hl_-JCSaNNLushHNdoEeYB4a5JeCN7TotEpVnoQ3H66gB2QQP4xdA4O6y4ngii1pu-DZg7RrdbqVNvxQZRRHMMgk_W9KXkataC2wtNtb458/s207/lams%20mycologist%20mushrooms%20Rudy_Diaz-Y150.png" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="150" data-original-width="207" height="145" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg00I7NwUgWZR-xNGX2uEZMOoHOuZctYiO8FKY60SlIFB0tEhmN4_49ih_WEbTMGQnmPHETikJEOpyyTtJ2Hl_-JCSaNNLushHNdoEeYB4a5JeCN7TotEpVnoQ3H66gB2QQP4xdA4O6y4ngii1pu-DZg7RrdbqVNvxQZRRHMMgk_W9KXkataC2wtNtb458/w200-h145/lams%20mycologist%20mushrooms%20Rudy_Diaz-Y150.png" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">What do we know about mushrooms?</span></td></tr></tbody></table>Living organisms are unique in that they show goal-oriented chemical actions that achieve self-maintenance and replication.<p></p><p></p><p>Although they give the appearance of direction, these functions are fulfilled through the random motions of molecules.</p><p></p><p>The central questions in biology, "the study of life," derive from a strange phenomenon, the emergence of “form” from “non-form.” It's like Buddhism's Heart Sutra says, "Form is emptiness just as emptiness is form..."</p><p></p><p>Fungi, displaying remarkable tolerance for aberrations in form, serve as a window into basic properties of complex traits and their evolution.</p><p></p><p>In order to make sense of these “traits” in a genetic context, it is necessary to reevaluate assumptions made about how life operates in general.</p><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_n3G7e70AA1HC-1xuXPnGD3CxLAJvGuhzZHDRVx1TzddHP9XClc_xr94qfldsXw4zjw5cxxgMLXTWGcWhZoshO_er72pCdV2ghdAvrFIFqn7xrgFntnnnmu90uzszzh2CDhKarOPGMxxCi39AefoT5hn3WOREC47nOTnzeBFi6DDcCpo3gQz7RvNGcUE/s4032/mushroom%20by%20emmy_510437226.webp" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_n3G7e70AA1HC-1xuXPnGD3CxLAJvGuhzZHDRVx1TzddHP9XClc_xr94qfldsXw4zjw5cxxgMLXTWGcWhZoshO_er72pCdV2ghdAvrFIFqn7xrgFntnnnmu90uzszzh2CDhKarOPGMxxCi39AefoT5hn3WOREC47nOTnzeBFi6DDcCpo3gQz7RvNGcUE/w150-h200/mushroom%20by%20emmy_510437226.webp" width="150" /></a></div>Specifically, in asking the question “<b><span style="color: #f1c232;">Why does this mushroom look abnormal?</span></b>” we are confronted with a more intimidating question: “How can separate individuals look the same?”<p></p><p></p><p>The common answer claims that genes encode a “program” for the construction of forms. By sharing the “same” genes, two individuals follow the same program.</p><p></p><p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRaHo_4kV8hk5dp_t7zZYdsC4m3H_3RwtIYOTQV3Um2cJ9v9TWkhyphenhyphenGZXciuXbe6Qx2fFZB3VbdVGU8IYmED11x49l2wifloug6nmtIdqx2PRM-UFlwbgbyeaIFGaVd_E6zP8p9DgewtilDpxHfs55P7f-WnOOCpB1neOoIW1VmGDiabUmndsuP2_uWZkg/s4032/mushroom%20by%20emmys_510437224.webp" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRaHo_4kV8hk5dp_t7zZYdsC4m3H_3RwtIYOTQV3Um2cJ9v9TWkhyphenhyphenGZXciuXbe6Qx2fFZB3VbdVGU8IYmED11x49l2wifloug6nmtIdqx2PRM-UFlwbgbyeaIFGaVd_E6zP8p9DgewtilDpxHfs55P7f-WnOOCpB1neOoIW1VmGDiabUmndsuP2_uWZkg/w150-h200/mushroom%20by%20emmys_510437224.webp" width="150" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Inky cap about to go black</span></td></tr></tbody></table>However, the genetic control of biological traits is not predetermined (Diaz et al., 2023). Rather, it is more appropriate to view similarities between individuals of a species as owing to genetic (i.e., informational) “constraints.”<p></p><p></p><p>In mushroom (fruiting body)-forming fungi, loose-enough constraints on development seem to have allowed many instances of repeated evolution in reproductive forms.</p><p></p><p>More info about LAMS events, including a biography of this month's speaker, is available on the <strong><a href="https://lamushrooms.org/calendar.html">LAMS Calendar</a></strong> page. Directions to location at the community center: <strong><a href="https://lamushrooms.org/directions.html">LAMS Locations</a><br /></strong></p><ul><li><strong><a href="https://www.meetup.com/la-mycological-society-putting-the-fun-in-fungi/events/299697821/">LAMS General Meeting, Monday, March 18, 7:30 pm | Meetup</a></strong></li><li><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/va-considers-using-psychedelic-drugs-to-fight-ptsd-among-veterans/ar-BB1in9ce"><b>VA considers using mushrooms and psychedelic drugs to fight PTSD among veterans</b></a></li></ul><p></p></div>Wisdom Quarterlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16270831701299130326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7104136715924136884.post-48792265802344103292024-03-17T07:20:00.000-07:002024-03-18T13:18:29.559-07:00Weds. Peace Class w/ Mandy Kahn (Zoom)<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.meetup.com/members/221268561/" target="_blank">Mandy Kahn</a> (<a href="http://mandykahn.com">mandykahn.com</a>), <a href="https://www.meetup.com/peace-class-study-group/" target="_blank">Heartsong (Meetup)</a>; Dhr. Seven (ed.), Wisdom Quarterly</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="960" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFZ3SywLdpMB0VQnU11_K5kh3f8u_gWDKwoN50YhRQaRKu_-jysYm_KdDQckw7YKqL7xPyp6WLT1-ej263JW5dpHgCTTSj5Vg6qxAtP4r2elxR5lDtPExETTlrLT8NaECrcjP8Wrsu4idxJNZc9NhzdRlJwilvUm1oafPL8q1sYL6l6U94MriWaSOGFIU/w400-h400/peace%20sign%20by%20vicki%20hunter-carreno%20pinterest%20com.jpg" style="color: #f1c232; font-size: x-large;" width="400" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisURlD_pQXUTx9HuHriRWmPL7d7YvW4CxDRImcm4cKp6j1FZrkXhQ-LJ48ADkY1zFeSylQPvBcn1brbnm6w9mrzTSzxSu15f6hHdFHs_jI1Kj5gX3X8jry1jLNk68zPR2W0OrV8GowcjJTFFfmK_MBG3z2Psf2JGI3hovR2mKKUnfb8rfF4G67YQlGMjA/s640/mandy%20kahn%20GAL%20girlsatlibrary%20com.png" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="640" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisURlD_pQXUTx9HuHriRWmPL7d7YvW4CxDRImcm4cKp6j1FZrkXhQ-LJ48ADkY1zFeSylQPvBcn1brbnm6w9mrzTSzxSu15f6hHdFHs_jI1Kj5gX3X8jry1jLNk68zPR2W0OrV8GowcjJTFFfmK_MBG3z2Psf2JGI3hovR2mKKUnfb8rfF4G67YQlGMjA/w400-h268/mandy%20kahn%20GAL%20girlsatlibrary%20com.png" width="400" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQM5NJsQM1rWrIh-e82vlPnhrho0agSQ_2y17Q28Rt0427-qtxJDdRwxZMkaX1dicKhrE3UhGNJb3fujfFQQwfHWFopNH2EcgFIo_9s6wqsaTZPjVCUaDMHXd6FK30iR_PTfOjPPJTAcnGW0jqbBh9ZLKs73E7htHheMVeAzU9doDgSQ2ep0S1de7WUuA/s531/peace%20class%20mandy%20kahn%20scaled_512.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><img border="0" data-original-height="531" data-original-width="512" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQM5NJsQM1rWrIh-e82vlPnhrho0agSQ_2y17Q28Rt0427-qtxJDdRwxZMkaX1dicKhrE3UhGNJb3fujfFQQwfHWFopNH2EcgFIo_9s6wqsaTZPjVCUaDMHXd6FK30iR_PTfOjPPJTAcnGW0jqbBh9ZLKs73E7htHheMVeAzU9doDgSQ2ep0S1de7WUuA/w193-h200/peace%20class%20mandy%20kahn%20scaled_512.jpg" width="193" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Wednesdays FREE on Zoom (6:00 PM)</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;">Peace Class is a free, interactive online gathering to manifest inner peace and establish world peace. It is led by Mandy Kahn and takes place every Wednesday night at 6:00 pm (Pacific Time) via Zoom. ALL are welcome to attend.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The building of world peace is the establishing of inner peace. So our global contribution, as a participant in this peace circle, is profound.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOVgtk6ldleMHV7c1P1v_YLeXgEPNkiqVvmUqxU-agz7swazuA3-emUxWtcCOODMJQO7oD0EzG2Gs8M1cgva1LWgy-zkwfkIzBrRdI7Z3Qo_dO52e32CJ-rk2J-l_f5wlSovK56yGB4DhGyh-sLgpyRQBoFfWvyTCwUSnD6mGVO0oNf3Mo-GkvWjufNQw/s1024/mlk%20and%20thich%20nhat%20hanh,%20pinterest%20co%20uk%20peace.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="1024" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOVgtk6ldleMHV7c1P1v_YLeXgEPNkiqVvmUqxU-agz7swazuA3-emUxWtcCOODMJQO7oD0EzG2Gs8M1cgva1LWgy-zkwfkIzBrRdI7Z3Qo_dO52e32CJ-rk2J-l_f5wlSovK56yGB4DhGyh-sLgpyRQBoFfWvyTCwUSnD6mGVO0oNf3Mo-GkvWjufNQw/w200-h200/mlk%20and%20thich%20nhat%20hanh,%20pinterest%20co%20uk%20peace.jpg" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Friends MLK Jr. and Thich Nhat Hanh on peace</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;">Each class meeting includes a short talk that focuses on one aspect of the nature of peace, followed by journaling as a peace-building practice. This provides each participant the opportunity to develop a set of peace-building skills that may be used at any time.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Each class is an hour and includes a brief peace meditation, teachings about pioneer peacebuilders like Peace Pilgrim, and the opportunity to share personal peace-building discoveries with the group.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The peace circle is grateful to be joined by peace advocates from around the world in this love-filled, supportive space.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy9TEo9ZNQ4sBawPR2vdJhEgRVegQcTyvrxLlV68tHQEZnXnAiy_d3gIw103C0rm0XkZzIPNY37y6APH9FuzPHusYYGvrVE-gQhpbbq63icx9JWVy1_sZggQO9I_b4TMCZU96MD2Tfn4YHPReAEmZ-VLiZ954TRGP54jolnqLo7g0Ndgvn7HZNJ6PkxUg/s948/hippie%20bracelets%20hands%20love%20peace%20friendship%20artisan-made%20love%20bracelets%20ad.png" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="496" data-original-width="948" height="209" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy9TEo9ZNQ4sBawPR2vdJhEgRVegQcTyvrxLlV68tHQEZnXnAiy_d3gIw103C0rm0XkZzIPNY37y6APH9FuzPHusYYGvrVE-gQhpbbq63icx9JWVy1_sZggQO9I_b4TMCZU96MD2Tfn4YHPReAEmZ-VLiZ954TRGP54jolnqLo7g0Ndgvn7HZNJ6PkxUg/w400-h209/hippie%20bracelets%20hands%20love%20peace%20friendship%20artisan-made%20love%20bracelets%20ad.png" width="400" /></a></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE7NifHddd8wQVk2LFkyViZkFw7yjQzVqKKfuDqzhIV2JcNEkpxO9kYYD_o7lYgSzCiMSV_s4oyoNA7VEYYq2fIDSZ8DJ0wWeycp8kPgTThjPkoy7DunaJ4W1SqHcSCTJdBpDqCVPOGRcY7pqguWg1VzvM_UdhrM0b2TKfzD8sDkfGI4V7MIRZxxDWmcA/s1200/peace,%20buddhist%20peace%20fellowship,%20profile,%20lion's%20roar%20com.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1200" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE7NifHddd8wQVk2LFkyViZkFw7yjQzVqKKfuDqzhIV2JcNEkpxO9kYYD_o7lYgSzCiMSV_s4oyoNA7VEYYq2fIDSZ8DJ0wWeycp8kPgTThjPkoy7DunaJ4W1SqHcSCTJdBpDqCVPOGRcY7pqguWg1VzvM_UdhrM0b2TKfzD8sDkfGI4V7MIRZxxDWmcA/w400-h300/peace,%20buddhist%20peace%20fellowship,%20profile,%20lion's%20roar%20com.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">What part of peace, love, and understanding are you not understanding? Hugs for everyone!</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: xx-small;">.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL8_hv3Qlikpqzme0woMcQTfOH4El8AAq_QhBz0kxm08cqFTtLoNKcPqMopsrLkQR8s0DAD9jfwlUpiPJfpHeflERxQkMV848NWL-ZaK7jF-50uSe56x3DOVfoXyj0naPukHdnd1qXgdu40SzTKp24APFN5DoWqCsRGw8AhVoLCIZY5Nj0WpLaXhoe6Ck/s802/mandy%20kahn%20meetup%20at%20PRS.png" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="802" data-original-width="672" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL8_hv3Qlikpqzme0woMcQTfOH4El8AAq_QhBz0kxm08cqFTtLoNKcPqMopsrLkQR8s0DAD9jfwlUpiPJfpHeflERxQkMV848NWL-ZaK7jF-50uSe56x3DOVfoXyj0naPukHdnd1qXgdu40SzTKp24APFN5DoWqCsRGw8AhVoLCIZY5Nj0WpLaXhoe6Ck/w168-h200/mandy%20kahn%20meetup%20at%20PRS.png" width="168" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.meetup.com/members/221268561/"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Mandy Kahn | Los Angeles Meetup</span></a></td></tr></tbody></table>Each meeting is a stand-alone lesson. Feel free to drop in for a single class or the entire series.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Participants also have the option of keeping Zoom cameras off and just observing, if that contributes to a feeling of greater comfort.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">This class is an online how-to, exploring a range of topics that include:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><ul><li><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitHDIxjcF5XDZFeKjV2s-T35pH_OXMF9C-q400R0b_2KS2A0hvOPMdZRvQ918zljADPblGMAi14lsnkffg6BNRL846jkV5MVQGXyrwEnz5OeJfgxRvPWWssNEbIbPywUXcaJRXU_N-tEtGNg9IdJMi3Q_9Y0VWb7bPZS2MCFENhYT3tChDRtnFy40Ecfs/s2250/mlk%20jr.%20and%20gandhi%20for%20peace,%20sahajameditation%20wordpress.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="2250" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitHDIxjcF5XDZFeKjV2s-T35pH_OXMF9C-q400R0b_2KS2A0hvOPMdZRvQ918zljADPblGMAi14lsnkffg6BNRL846jkV5MVQGXyrwEnz5OeJfgxRvPWWssNEbIbPywUXcaJRXU_N-tEtGNg9IdJMi3Q_9Y0VWb7bPZS2MCFENhYT3tChDRtnFy40Ecfs/w200-h160/mlk%20jr.%20and%20gandhi%20for%20peace,%20sahajameditation%20wordpress.jpg" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Gandhi was inspired by Jesus, MLK by Gandhi</span></td></tr></tbody></table>How to engage the healing perspective of a peace mind</li><li>How self-love builds world peace</li><li>How stepping out of the guilt cycle allows inner peace to occur naturally</li><li>How to build a healing <b><span style="color: #f1c232;">ceasefire</span></b></li><li>How inner peace evolves our physical bodies</li><li>How to use the mantra “I honor all beings” to build world peace.</li><li>How peace enters the collective consciousness to heal ancient wounds</li></ul></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large;"><b>Details</b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKZJXbRiwsFyRXMS4RiE1jkeMR6tyTrSF2j7eOA2akA1fk0ROtuGEcnlUnWakS9oXMb-H3Ga4GBqEMAk6pcK8DnWhCnmZNM1G2D1981oc0JELhp4DdwCzj5grjjM2CLzyzfIV0BKj5nyJ6EKGR0QgxKL4r0zgwZS7uA0QJXQtBsHFz_CxWnIm-ISKbyWE/s1704/ceasefire,%20israel,%20peaceful%20demonstration,%20pro-palestine.png" style="clear: left; display: inline; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1704" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKZJXbRiwsFyRXMS4RiE1jkeMR6tyTrSF2j7eOA2akA1fk0ROtuGEcnlUnWakS9oXMb-H3Ga4GBqEMAk6pcK8DnWhCnmZNM1G2D1981oc0JELhp4DdwCzj5grjjM2CLzyzfIV0BKj5nyJ6EKGR0QgxKL4r0zgwZS7uA0QJXQtBsHFz_CxWnIm-ISKbyWE/w400-h225/ceasefire,%20israel,%20peaceful%20demonstration,%20pro-palestine.png" width="400" /></a></div></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large;"></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy5jvIv6OKWrDVIv9cHe48C5lVsS6KHTW2qGomD2ZexHNr5x5DdOYLqdTJQRQ-12lIJRVJjOvF_gERNEaQqHMottXIHXsDritxyFIo1Dmg7gZsOMKBUg5TlzV0htuqTvoa7vzBOxrjPms5S2JgLVa6bxPcEPUD7RyCdh-Wpnx37k2mWHct3j-vSjU2_o4/s800/equanimity,%20how%20to%20maintain%20peace,%20heatherslang%20com.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="800" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy5jvIv6OKWrDVIv9cHe48C5lVsS6KHTW2qGomD2ZexHNr5x5DdOYLqdTJQRQ-12lIJRVJjOvF_gERNEaQqHMottXIHXsDritxyFIo1Dmg7gZsOMKBUg5TlzV0htuqTvoa7vzBOxrjPms5S2JgLVa6bxPcEPUD7RyCdh-Wpnx37k2mWHct3j-vSjU2_o4/w200-h200/equanimity,%20how%20to%20maintain%20peace,%20heatherslang%20com.jpg" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Practicing inner peace leads to equanimity.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="text-align: justify;"></span><div style="text-align: justify;">Peace Class is a FREE, weekly, Zoom-based gathering presented by the <b><a href="http://prs.org" target="_blank">Philosophical Research Society</a></b> (PRS) and led by teacher Mandy Kahn.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><ul><li>Every Wednesday night at 6:00 pm Pacific</li><li>Attendees welcome to participate or just watch</li><li>Bring something to write on and something to write with</li><li>Anyone is welcome to attend with or without signing up ahead of time</li></ul></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large;">ABOUT: Who is Mandy Kahn?</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjds6wkc5MDaU6Fkr3O_x5wMsz_NK0KKxWdw8rH55drVsCQyG4RoCThM4TIB2ey5Xp4k3yvCqlJe44YkyzDo7sx9C-f6S54WLobTbqUNBzbArg9lJvCFwwpr-U2xQgBgrMPeHVSLWFXPsCP59jftADP9-AAAY2Zs50_MKKeHoW08esEhKPPMVEFBAp42gM/s320/mandy%20kahn%20goodreads.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="320" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjds6wkc5MDaU6Fkr3O_x5wMsz_NK0KKxWdw8rH55drVsCQyG4RoCThM4TIB2ey5Xp4k3yvCqlJe44YkyzDo7sx9C-f6S54WLobTbqUNBzbArg9lJvCFwwpr-U2xQgBgrMPeHVSLWFXPsCP59jftADP9-AAAY2Zs50_MKKeHoW08esEhKPPMVEFBAp42gM/w400-h225/mandy%20kahn%20goodreads.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRcMQcBnENW8zFwWkf648qji7sunFPm7bSqOGuMHj6iNmHpIlIxa9g2agbZMvN3KDYA_B2nJw7Ic0gi54zmHv4p2N7LQCJ4IpHoWBWlAHn58A5zTkN47odglJYGWZYehZE8Xf_NAns1WEJtDQNg4njvAcW-Q7vez90YxBrYcfzqjhJnmvsTjcoMaiZr8Y/s1500/mandy%20kahn%20immersive%20poems%20amazon%20com.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1125" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRcMQcBnENW8zFwWkf648qji7sunFPm7bSqOGuMHj6iNmHpIlIxa9g2agbZMvN3KDYA_B2nJw7Ic0gi54zmHv4p2N7LQCJ4IpHoWBWlAHn58A5zTkN47odglJYGWZYehZE8Xf_NAns1WEJtDQNg4njvAcW-Q7vez90YxBrYcfzqjhJnmvsTjcoMaiZr8Y/w150-h200/mandy%20kahn%20immersive%20poems%20amazon%20com.jpg" width="150" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>Peace Piece</i> (film by Courtney Sell)</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://mandykahn.com" target="_blank">Mandy Kahn</a></b> is a peace advocate and poet, author of two collections of poems — <i>Glenn Gould’s Chair</i> and <i>Math, Heaven, Time </i>— both published by London-based press Eyewear.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Her work has been included in the <i>Best American Poetry</i> anthology series and in former Poet Laureate Ted Kooser’s syndicated column "American Life in Poetry."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Kahn is the writer-in-residence at the <b><a href="http://prs.org" target="_blank">Philosophical Research Society</a></b>, a center for spiritual discourse founded in 1934 by wisdom scholar Manly P. Hall.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwkH0MWu6-RrsrLZbulJUQYHEsicbtiVvdxcZT3yPfAF1sqrWvEV9mSmi3-Cx-neI_ICf8WCrmqsZbuxhRFwjfd3KULQlrYzfgLSl946-eg6buRIGw_KHHB6oVyILCT1GcmS4q_5cSt3kH877MXB3O5FiaJKcIBIx8q1DW8_1bZAGumrEKngUfYPPucVw/s499/tuttle%20world%20peace%20diet,%20vegan%20professor%20former%20zen%20monk,%2041Xr1ue4jjL._SY291_BO1,204,203,200_QL40_FMwebp_.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="499" data-original-width="334" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwkH0MWu6-RrsrLZbulJUQYHEsicbtiVvdxcZT3yPfAF1sqrWvEV9mSmi3-Cx-neI_ICf8WCrmqsZbuxhRFwjfd3KULQlrYzfgLSl946-eg6buRIGw_KHHB6oVyILCT1GcmS4q_5cSt3kH877MXB3O5FiaJKcIBIx8q1DW8_1bZAGumrEKngUfYPPucVw/w134-h200/tuttle%20world%20peace%20diet,%20vegan%20professor%20former%20zen%20monk,%2041Xr1ue4jjL._SY291_BO1,204,203,200_QL40_FMwebp_.jpg" width="134" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>The World Peace Diet</i> (Tuttle)</span></td></tr></tbody></table>She teaches for PRS with a weekly online class on the nature of peace and regularly presents peace-building concerts on the PRS grounds in Hollywood, which feature poetry, classical music, and immersive performances.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />She is the subject of Courtney Sell’s feature-length documentary <i><b><span style="color: #f1c232;">Peace Piece: The Immersive Poems of Mandy Kahn</span></b></i>, released by Indie Pix and available on DVD and available for streaming on Amazon Prime Video, Google Play, and elsewhere.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">She has given readings at Cambridge University, the London Review Bookshop, and Shoreditch House in the UK, at Motto in Berlin, at Colette in Paris, at Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco, at the New School in New York, at the Barrick Museum in Las Vegas, and at many venues in Southern California.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In addition to writing books, Mandy Kahn regularly presents immersive poems: live works of literature that incorporate performance, audience participation, and musical technique.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLsFBXSzYpYEJXWWX_eoCqxPpOYmSCSSzS2yjH0ZOy0OlA8fbzFC4fOHwGIuX02B0J6Zj0HoxKdhG3nn5T1Dindoaq6mNYH_8uRy3rHnMg7Us6UrVP7g9uRlZ7SqNwwCGz3ptt9mGxAack8GaWuqPWtCUcWUBZAiZwY9i-UMiRKRXzk1HDtYKwDTam-XI/s778/war%20is%20over,%20john%20lennon%20and%20yoko%20ono,%20peace%20activism%20by%20intention.dreamideamachine%20com.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><img border="0" data-original-height="551" data-original-width="778" height="142" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLsFBXSzYpYEJXWWX_eoCqxPpOYmSCSSzS2yjH0ZOy0OlA8fbzFC4fOHwGIuX02B0J6Zj0HoxKdhG3nn5T1Dindoaq6mNYH_8uRy3rHnMg7Us6UrVP7g9uRlZ7SqNwwCGz3ptt9mGxAack8GaWuqPWtCUcWUBZAiZwY9i-UMiRKRXzk1HDtYKwDTam-XI/w200-h142/war%20is%20over,%20john%20lennon%20and%20yoko%20ono,%20peace%20activism%20by%20intention.dreamideamachine%20com.jpg" width="200" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Yoko Ono, John Lennon, the Beatles love peace</span></td></tr></tbody></table>In 2019, she presented a program of immersive and interactive poems at the Getty Museum called “Gateways to Peace,” which was performed by a cast of seven actors and three opera singers.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Kahn has been interviewed by BBC Radio, the <i>Los Angeles Review of Books,</i> and <i>Flaunt</i> magazine, among others. She is the recipient of the 2018 Shakespeare Prize in Poetry. (The Shakespeare Prize is awarded annually to a poet or playwright based in Los Angeles County; other recipients include Tom Stoppard, Ray Bradbury and Poet Laureate Dana Gioia).</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><ul><li><a href="https://www.meetup.com/peace-class-study-group/"><b>FREE TO RSVP: Peace Class | Meetup</b></a></li></ul><ul><li><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHaRo6aCzGKKR4Xx-qHYzEe1MiIFtDPlVgiCJLgbqV7_OU2wxksURRIxJmt7APZHCPnHKLycAIIDDz32TOLRAxPA6qmL8zTpVO81NR7UlrrYj4Lo46YRsE6jEhZTRp3te_7SwZ_ZOez89HS-M9Tjp3e3pCKdi-10IadP0vvkIPUgYZvMVQ9348XCXAS5E/s320/mandy%20kahn%20peace%20class%20wednesdays%20online%20from%20PRS%20hollywood.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="320" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHaRo6aCzGKKR4Xx-qHYzEe1MiIFtDPlVgiCJLgbqV7_OU2wxksURRIxJmt7APZHCPnHKLycAIIDDz32TOLRAxPA6qmL8zTpVO81NR7UlrrYj4Lo46YRsE6jEhZTRp3te_7SwZ_ZOez89HS-M9Tjp3e3pCKdi-10IadP0vvkIPUgYZvMVQ9348XCXAS5E/w200-h200/mandy%20kahn%20peace%20class%20wednesdays%20online%20from%20PRS%20hollywood.jpg" width="200" /></a>MAR 20 @ 6 PM PDT</li><li>MAR 27 @ 6 PM PDT</li><li>APR 3 @ 6 PM PDT</li><li>APR 10 @ 6 PM PDT</li><li>APR 17 @ 6 PM PDT</li><li>APR 24 @ 6 PM PDT</li><li>MAY 1 @ 6 PM PDT</li><li>MAY 8 @ 6 PM PDT</li><li>MAY 15 @ 6 PM PDT</li><li>MAY 22 @ 6 PM PDT</li></ul><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFjv6B3UpRHl3M033vMcThPIvkJC898G-oF53yMQUto69rVgBJMu2a9FzTzXChVFZcN_t9cg9BmwtD3h4wYNbkj4Q61aGtKChF1uVdwTZ-gM7yARN9ue1EbVUSS9XsNjxyAcmdqFnQsq-Cp-b0ns0GYiqgPdQczp0pnWRCrpl5WhmmLmFdRMoD5Y-NOqI/s2000/killer%20cops%20patrol%20peaceful%20protests,%20white%20cop%20kills%20black%20motorist%20in%20minnesota,%20sparks%20unrest%20bostonherald%20com.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1324" data-original-width="2000" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFjv6B3UpRHl3M033vMcThPIvkJC898G-oF53yMQUto69rVgBJMu2a9FzTzXChVFZcN_t9cg9BmwtD3h4wYNbkj4Q61aGtKChF1uVdwTZ-gM7yARN9ue1EbVUSS9XsNjxyAcmdqFnQsq-Cp-b0ns0GYiqgPdQczp0pnWRCrpl5WhmmLmFdRMoD5Y-NOqI/w400-h265/killer%20cops%20patrol%20peaceful%20protests,%20white%20cop%20kills%20black%20motorist%20in%20minnesota,%20sparks%20unrest%20bostonherald%20com.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Mandy, if peace and asking nicely don't work, we're ready to roll and give war <i>another</i> chance.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuNmp7QuLhfKIW5wwJtElNRC_9_JdxjsHKqD-znZvVKRhmBf6_hTTUnDh_D8UDTDYp4HXZFprQdQ7lhJVN8bK-tPDrWHS-Vx_020-UAHtxDxqEzAYlCxK4RMg-G-Dyphvg7Fb1-WN2en3h_s6-GyCkFQeDglzPcF85LgkpzkNY9XrqJtGoOTHcqR_lVT0/s275/protest,%20this%20is%20a%20peaceful%20protest.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><img border="0" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="275" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuNmp7QuLhfKIW5wwJtElNRC_9_JdxjsHKqD-znZvVKRhmBf6_hTTUnDh_D8UDTDYp4HXZFprQdQ7lhJVN8bK-tPDrWHS-Vx_020-UAHtxDxqEzAYlCxK4RMg-G-Dyphvg7Fb1-WN2en3h_s6-GyCkFQeDglzPcF85LgkpzkNY9XrqJtGoOTHcqR_lVT0/w200-h133/protest,%20this%20is%20a%20peaceful%20protest.jpg" width="200" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">This is a <i>peaceful </i>protest. Put the weapons down</span></td></tr></tbody></table></div>Wisdom Quarterlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16270831701299130326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7104136715924136884.post-39187298633054155412024-03-17T07:15:00.000-07:002024-03-18T09:40:56.996-07:00Adventures in Church: Sunday services<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Seth MacFarlane's <i>Family Guy</i> on religion; Serpentza (YouTube) on China; Dhr. Seven, Ashley Wells, Ananda (<a href="http://meetup.com/zen-07" target="_blank">Dharma Buddhist Meditation</a>), Wisdom Quarterly</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhATjiZ7NbA2u3qAM4u5LU7SgIm9mVMO23IHWNkXXfC_GU1eFTufbJ5yGZhEE88cd0DIhCF96GyLjIQzPEd2BGPqObh_y4DIrfZ60u_JvUZeft-P3PX7uI5m8Zlx1DK0bWVZj91bnpTw0U0kgp_d2grdLzj5aguWmNfJnSm1SUNMc0PVIb39pcn3SzZ5Is/s768/religion,%20drunk%20in%20church,%20hypocrites,%20msn.com,%20AA18RkP1.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhATjiZ7NbA2u3qAM4u5LU7SgIm9mVMO23IHWNkXXfC_GU1eFTufbJ5yGZhEE88cd0DIhCF96GyLjIQzPEd2BGPqObh_y4DIrfZ60u_JvUZeft-P3PX7uI5m8Zlx1DK0bWVZj91bnpTw0U0kgp_d2grdLzj5aguWmNfJnSm1SUNMc0PVIb39pcn3SzZ5Is/w400-h300/religion,%20drunk%20in%20church,%20hypocrites,%20msn.com,%20AA18RkP1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCOA3T7Ak-11Hn1zjYHkKkFIFCNe_Hah749gNV3pEHXxc-MfCKZ3gVhjnxyO4JLTNLgTJzyyDQbmlsKdItIv20weLkP_a_GDcz76LK5tEgHRC3yjJ-UXMGr6mexIA64hlGQCWcUGTt7vylQSmm0AA2YKY7W425iFwGefEPOUoYlHo7DEdRfnbCDrrVoHg/s512/beauty%20quaker%20sailor%20doante%20a%20boat%20or%20jet%20ski%20to%20charity%20boat%20angel%20youtube%20ad.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCOA3T7Ak-11Hn1zjYHkKkFIFCNe_Hah749gNV3pEHXxc-MfCKZ3gVhjnxyO4JLTNLgTJzyyDQbmlsKdItIv20weLkP_a_GDcz76LK5tEgHRC3yjJ-UXMGr6mexIA64hlGQCWcUGTt7vylQSmm0AA2YKY7W425iFwGefEPOUoYlHo7DEdRfnbCDrrVoHg/w200-h200/beauty%20quaker%20sailor%20doante%20a%20boat%20or%20jet%20ski%20to%20charity%20boat%20angel%20youtube%20ad.jpg" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">What does the holy spirit (<i>prana</i>) have in store?</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;">I always imagined that if I were to have a kid, I would take <i>srim</i> (she/her/him) to all the churches and temples so as to give the child a good basis for making an informed decision about which religion, if any, to adopt in this life.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I, of course, would be a Buddhist (and a non-Judeo-Christian one at that), but I wouldn't want to impose that on the <i>personality</i> born to me as my newfound "family." Yes, like all parents I imagine I would like the developing child to one day say, "You know, Parent, you were right: Buddhism is the best one!" But I wouldn't hold my breath. Kids have to rebel. But they usually come around after that phase.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><ul><li><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi17nyrRzYJ6Ct1Rjsrut-Y2tvQ8_3XToA84XLzbrAy1TpLL5XD63jL_r_0d_F4w95Do5AQrDOlv2GSjWyBuoBj_xBth4wTi8ZIDX_Q5EXBBRmuin85COVhaiR2_-VeLkNw6MimiQk5n0RPHkBoqbDuIQjxt5NWDweDkgZLLLK1Ys9wSvsvjOQBgZ-yAjY/s480/family%20guy%20stewie%20brian%20regret%20alcohol%20drinking.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="288" data-original-width="480" height="120" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi17nyrRzYJ6Ct1Rjsrut-Y2tvQ8_3XToA84XLzbrAy1TpLL5XD63jL_r_0d_F4w95Do5AQrDOlv2GSjWyBuoBj_xBth4wTi8ZIDX_Q5EXBBRmuin85COVhaiR2_-VeLkNw6MimiQk5n0RPHkBoqbDuIQjxt5NWDweDkgZLLLK1Ys9wSvsvjOQBgZ-yAjY/w200-h120/family%20guy%20stewie%20brian%20regret%20alcohol%20drinking.jpg" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Take me to temples, Brian. - I'm not your dad.</span></td></tr></tbody></table>Having been raised Catholic, the best of all religions BECAUSE it's the easiest one to reject in your youth. Why? It's so preposterous and fitted to imperialism, guilt, fear, exploitation, and egregious sinfulness and making excuses for everything. If, when you're reborn and you don't want to be a Christian like everyone else, get reborn into a Catholic family. First of all, it should be easy, as there are more Catholics than anything else other than, perhaps, <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_folk_religion" target="_blank">Chinese animists</a></b> who subscribe to an admixture of Taoism, Confucianism, and Buddhism, Capitalism, and Communism as the sort of state religion of police state mass surveillance as is found on other planets. If there's anything that matters more than anything else in China today, it has got to be the almighty <i>Yuan</i> (money). Think America's bad? See how desperate they are for cash and coin on the streets of China, where Winston once lived:</li></ul><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="200" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/yMROoi8wigs" title="The Chinese Economy Really is THIS BAD!" width="300"></iframe></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">(Serpentza) Jan. 31, 2024: The Chinese economy really is this bad!</span></div><div><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;">We can only model a spiritual tradition or religion, inspire, and hope for the best from Fate, Kismet, and Karma (knowing that past deeds really rule the underlying tendencies of newly reborn beings more than present actions, words, or ideas).</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHWvZvhTZ462QqswvdrtuCZRNTN-TNKIPjyTk_nxgDM_qwsdKwLGxyMHG-mh8DL5eSGdTp1V6uTd97FIM2D-staDHZfQUfbDbMz-exR54gTTkOl9yaeSRD1XW3ZS6GtbtWgDw15IAAuIpisUoSY9qL-fq-aEEuRxUSRt5DGYTF1D6fuKEwlxqLmr1TDW0/s250/Daria_Logo.svg.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="248" data-original-width="250" height="198" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHWvZvhTZ462QqswvdrtuCZRNTN-TNKIPjyTk_nxgDM_qwsdKwLGxyMHG-mh8DL5eSGdTp1V6uTd97FIM2D-staDHZfQUfbDbMz-exR54gTTkOl9yaeSRD1XW3ZS6GtbtWgDw15IAAuIpisUoSY9qL-fq-aEEuRxUSRt5DGYTF1D6fuKEwlxqLmr1TDW0/w200-h198/Daria_Logo.svg.png" width="200" /></a></div>Then I remembered. I do have a kid! Well, of sorts, that little Shiznit, me. I have to raise myself. It's a lifelong project, extending over many lives in my case. Inner-child, outer-adult, Peter Pan Syndrome human being, what do I know? So where am I going to learn it? At the feet of gurus, as a <i>chela </i>(disciple), on a heroic journey into the woods like Bela in <i>Poor Things</i> or HCE in <i>Finnegans Wake,</i> the woods of course being a metaphor for the Big Bad World out there or the Sick Sad one on <b><span style="color: #f1c232;">Daria</span></b>'s TV.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">My friend, Coby, invited me to a Quaker Meeting this morning for the regular meditation and potluck and to pitch an idea he had to them. Sounds good. There aren't many Meeting Houses, so we arranged to meet there. Only I got lost after a nearly-late start because today is National Time Change Day when we spring forward after months of having bounced back.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large;">The first church</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3Scd5rvtwm0rG9CxXRKjO_UHjt34UDM6Y87v_LvEh8e1nFiXXIktHAa9lfBmFXZuO0MAhW2hF9Y21l0LZV4ouK4zSKyC7qiO3wBW8Gcv-edVsCcINcG0gFRoCKQwpHal8LzPVRpaT9rWNWkxq7zsWV1Hdca9gqZcMrarFnsmVXtQ0xoReIXpGUHWsiM8/s2500/depression,%20major%20depression%20on%20the%20rise%20among%20everyone,%20new...%20nbcnews%20com%20health.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1406" data-original-width="2500" height="113" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3Scd5rvtwm0rG9CxXRKjO_UHjt34UDM6Y87v_LvEh8e1nFiXXIktHAa9lfBmFXZuO0MAhW2hF9Y21l0LZV4ouK4zSKyC7qiO3wBW8Gcv-edVsCcINcG0gFRoCKQwpHal8LzPVRpaT9rWNWkxq7zsWV1Hdca9gqZcMrarFnsmVXtQ0xoReIXpGUHWsiM8/w200-h113/depression,%20major%20depression%20on%20the%20rise%20among%20everyone,%20new...%20nbcnews%20com%20health.jpg" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Why are Irish novels more interesting?</span></td></tr></tbody></table>I made it in time, showed myself in, where congregants were already seated. A very nice female preacher passed and said hello, giving me a personal welcome. Then she introduced today's guest preacher from Hawaii, a Wayne Dyer of a man, bad, bloated, barefoot and wearing a Hawaiian shirt unbuttoned down to his hairy navel. "Nice," I thought, "very relaxing." The singing by the choir was great, very catchy as they got up, accompanied by piano.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">So I took out my notebook and began to compose a new opening scene for my Irish novel. I was in the middle of it when I texted my friend, realizing I had just become the 'ayhole who texts in church.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The preacher at the <b><a href="https://www.yelp.com/biz/church-of-truth-center-for-awakening-consciousness-pasadena" target="_blank">Church of Truth</a></b> (<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/153886774742067/" style="text-align: left;">Pasadena Church of Truth, Center for Awakening Consciousness | Facebook</a>) bounced between Protestant Evangelism and <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaiian_religion" target="_blank">Hawaiian spirituality</a></b> and the "heavenly light," which I thought he translated from <i><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Da_kine" target="_blank">da kine</a></b>.</i> But he was using another term. Indigenous Hawaiians believed in "heaven"? Certainly, there's a celestial sphere they could look up and see, and "kings" may have come down to rule them, take their <i><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaiian_religion#Prayer_and_heiau" target="_blank">mana</a></b></i>, and leave rules for them to follow not exactly knowing why.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">There's was no reply, so I searched the address and realized I was three blocks from the correct church building. What are the chances? It goes to figure. They're a lot alike, and Coby doesn't let details like exact addresses stand in his way.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I waited for an opening, a pause in the preacher's homily, then bolted for the door, raced to the right religious building, a beautiful old house, not unlike the Craftsman architecture the City of Pasadena is famous for.</div><div><br /></div><b><span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large;">The second church</span></b><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7WZr3g1X5mTMe-6PwZivCtNTHy4Mx2h2WSY7-k8LLHDaAqtPTFVwpjF9NBlJxmA-TsmH_6rOM6izLezCIKwRJ0JRx6J9Pfn409hzz5SNyZwHyyYnELVmCQcC8DvDgz9y0shOC7EZHrV3X6arj1MDUhc2Ya4wHt9dox1Zmtderlm_RWHuI2f072th8OdY/s1611/quakers%20meeting%20pasadena%202024.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="961" data-original-width="1611" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7WZr3g1X5mTMe-6PwZivCtNTHy4Mx2h2WSY7-k8LLHDaAqtPTFVwpjF9NBlJxmA-TsmH_6rOM6izLezCIKwRJ0JRx6J9Pfn409hzz5SNyZwHyyYnELVmCQcC8DvDgz9y0shOC7EZHrV3X6arj1MDUhc2Ya4wHt9dox1Zmtderlm_RWHuI2f072th8OdY/w400-h239/quakers%20meeting%20pasadena%202024.png" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I saw Coby leading the kids in some singalongs in the back, remembered I was told the meditation was in the main hall, and figured the front door must be the way in. Quite a deduction. Little did I know that behind that door <i>was</i> it, 50 people, 99% white, in pensive silence, shoegazing.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I had soft soles, so I was able to take a seat without further disruption, only the door didn't quite close. Someone had to get up to close it. Finally, the preacher got up, walked to the center of the room (the pews being arranged in a squared circle), and began to tell an interesting anecdote about how his female relative in the 1800s went to Korea (called Chosun) as a missionary and taught medicine.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">She didn't speak the language nor know the culture. But she did write about the experience, and much to his surprise, the Korean government published her observations in six volumes now available on Amazon. He bought them, read them, and was bored to tears by their mundane and very undescriptive contents. They were all about her and her days, with next to nothing about the country, the people there, their habits, customs, odd ticks.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">She didn't seem concerned with that, so she started teaching Western medicine and soon trained three Korean nurses to help as her assistants. The catch was they had to convert to Christianity, presumably Quakerism, to be eligible. They were willing.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">So she moved to Pyongyang (or some similar sounding place north of Seoul). There she founded the country's first Western medical school, where a young female Korean developed a girl-crush on her. What became of this lesbianism we are not told, but that youth took her crush all the way to the top, becoming Korea's first Western-trained doctor.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Then the "preacher" stopped, who it turned out was just a parishioner (because there are only parishioners in the Quaker tradition) took his seat again, and everyone fell into silence.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">This was the oddest Sunday service I'd ever seen, not a mass, not a singalong except for the kids in the garden. Then I remembered the time change. (Today, March 11, 2024, is when time sprang forward).</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I could not have arrived on time. That could not have been the start of the service. And, no, it was not. For someone else stood up and gave a spicy testimony. Actually, she just talked about her wardrobe and how long it took her to choose it earlier that morning. Then she sat down.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large;">Protestantism</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I started to understand the Protestant movement from what a young <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presbyterianism" target="_blank">Presbyterian</a></b> -- a gorgeous blond shooting instructor with a twin sister -- had explained to me. She in her twenties became a "right honorable pastor" before they booted her out of the pulpit. The <i><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presbyter" target="_blank">presbyters</a></b></i> are elders, but they're ordinary people, part of a "church" of people, a Christian community.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">They were strangely beautiful Norwegians, one slightly more beautiful than the otherwise identical twin because one smiled a lot, and this one not so much. Boy, she was cold and anxious, laconic, not much given to speech. It's like what they say about cold climate Scandinavians. What do they say? "Did you hear about the Norwegian man who loved his wife so much, he almost told her?"</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Church" is not a building. It's more a verb. If one is going to church, one is going to do something, and doing something is not a noun. One who attends a communing <i>communes</i> with the community, the "church," because church is churching -- communing with those who commune. Just about everything is at its root a verb, as Buddhist teachers like Alan Watts famously explain.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><ul><li>In fact, in Buddhism, one of the reasons "nirvana" is so hard to understand as not nothingness, not annihilation, not a void, not oblivion, yet it's not anything we can readily grasp without experiencing it. It's not a noun, not a person, place, or thing. (If it were a thing, it would have constituent factors that condition it, but it is the "unconditioned element." There's no sense in trying to think about it to figure it out. Our thinking will only mislead us. It is a verb that one might translate as "nirvanering" (quenching, slaking, cooling, bringing all suffering to cessation).<br /></li></ul></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="300" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/IqhYqRPHccE" title="Family Guy - Brian tells Stewie about Religion" width="410"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Watts makes this point nicely. Take your hand. Look at it. Extend all the fingers. What's it <i>doing</i>? It's handing (being a hand). Now wave it. What's it doing? It's waving; it's a wave. Now ball it into a fist. What's it doing? It's fisting. What is it? A fist when it fists, a wave when it waves, a hand when it hands things over. We call it by its function.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Actually, Watts doesn't mention the waving. It's a hand when it's open, a fist when it's closed, and they are not two separate things. By calling them at one moment a "hand" about to shake another (gladhanding someone) then a "fist" about to punch someone, we hallucinate two things into existence. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">But there isn't. It's just this five-factored thing (or six factors or as many factors as anyone cares to analyze, dissect, and deconstruct).</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><ul><li><span style="font-size: xx-small;">It's the same way with the Five Aggregates clung to as "self." We can analyze the aggregates (heaps, groups), count them, separate out the 50 mental formations or shrink them back to one batch. We can know-and-see them with acute attention. But grasping them the way we do, we hallucinate an ego into being. There are just factors, and they get named. And the solution to the riddle is, If "I" do not have form (a physical body), feeling (sensation), perception (mental sorting), formations (like intention), and consciousness (awareness), then who does? A: No one does. The body has body, feeling has feeling, perception has perception, formations have formations, and consciousness has consciousness. They are processes (verbs) not nouns for anyone to "have." They cling to themselves, and a sense of "self" arises, but it is not what it seems. It's real, just and hand and fist are real, but it is not independent of its constituent factors. It cannot stand apart from those things, and it is not really those things -- all of which are always changing (impermanent), disappointing (suffering), and impersonal (not self).</span></li></ul></div><div style="text-align: justify;">A hand doesn't really fist (when balled up); it <i>is</i> a fist. Its action is what it is. A fist doesn't really wave; rather, a hand does another thing, and we give the thing that it's doing a name, make it a noun. In just the same way, rain does not rain down. The very raining down is what we call "rain." Rain is a verb, a <i>function</i> of water, not different from it.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Yet we treat things as nouns and become confused, deluding ourselves that something has come into existence. A fist does not come into existence, an illusion does. A hand (a waver) fists, and so is called a "fist" as if the hand had disappeared and a fist replaced it. It's right there. It hasn't gone anywhere. It's all that's there, useless without a doing, nameless until it does something. It hands, so we first called it a hand. Then the thing that it did got a name. That doing became a noun....</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #f1c232;">So here we were churching</span></b>. It's all very different from Catholicism and the priestly ritual of the mass, with its entrancing mumbo-jumbo Latin, Gregorian chanting, sorcery and incantations, echoing off the floor and walls built just so as to create a grand sound effect and amplification.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The candles, costumes, curses, rhetoric, benedictions (<i>bene</i> = <i>bien</i> = good, beneficial + diction = words, utterances, blessings), the mystery and magic of it all, and the molestation and hypocrisy, the paying of indulgences and taking orders from the corporate body's CEO, literally called "the Father," <i>il Papa</i> or Pope. It's a gas.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZF-7NHnPj6yJ18YJn3TfAPt1COdUoWpe-79pKMsGvxHstSaD4DQcgzSKGN-CxVLnaaN6DEqQzSO7BHruinxu0iaU2Al25sC8PAqHMnjTtIa8Jc948GYXRy-FO8HwbJ77537pwqxTH9Yu-8JoPk3zPmHBhh6_gDLlnFgUan1zvA03x4MlcOck5eZit8c4/s1280/berkeley%20zen%20center.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZF-7NHnPj6yJ18YJn3TfAPt1COdUoWpe-79pKMsGvxHstSaD4DQcgzSKGN-CxVLnaaN6DEqQzSO7BHruinxu0iaU2Al25sC8PAqHMnjTtIa8Jc948GYXRy-FO8HwbJ77537pwqxTH9Yu-8JoPk3zPmHBhh6_gDLlnFgUan1zvA03x4MlcOck5eZit8c4/w200-h150/berkeley%20zen%20center.jpg" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Berkeley Zen Center, Bay Area, California</span></td></tr></tbody></table>Here, now, all of that was stripped away. We were all <i>imams</i> with something to say, something to teach, glory in the ordinary. It was like reading Robert Frost poetry. One doesn't even know it's poetry at first. It's clean, crisp, unornamented. I suddenly understood <i>why</i> all the attendees and residents at the <b><span style="color: #f1c232;">Berkeley Zen Center</span></b> (<b><a href="https://berkeleyzencenter.org/" target="_blank">BZC</a></b>) were the way they were, a bunch of disaffected Abrahamic religion types.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I wanted meditation to make sense at BZC. But there were 101 unspoken rules about how everything was done. Everything was a ritual but one stripped of its mystery and meaning. It, to quote Tate McCrae, "is what it is and was it was."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">There was no big thing to read into everything. It was all just Everyday Zen, fulfillment in Ordinary Dharma, the love of sparse and empty spaces, unadorned wood, lots of black robes, trees and flowers, German sandals and detachable monastic robes (because no one was a monastic in the Theravada sense of full-time, usually lifelong binding vows and abstentions, as if everyone were a monastic just for the moment and would then take off the uniform and go back to being just a regular Jane and Joe with a regular job going back to a regular home and marriage. I'd return to class with more questions than answers.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">It made no sense, all that pretending, but the pretense was that we were dropping all pretenses. Everyone was equal (even though we weren't). And the community had no hierarchy or apparent authorities, just rule by committee and unquestionable customs, by whatever ancient master could be quoted as the authority of why we should have no authorities. "If you meet the Buddha on the road..." they used to say and smile as if they were clever. I would shiver, thinking WTF kind of thing is that to say?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Here now, many cities removed, down south in Pasadena (Hollywood adjacent), where we are far more religious, far more hypocritical, far more into seeking, and far more accepting of the mystical than the practical, unlike the northern climes of the Bay Area, and Berkeley in particular, I found myself in a hall full of familiars. But that was way back on March 11, 2024. How would they be on St. Patrick's Day? I'll have to find out.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><ul><li><b><span style="color: #f1c232;">Orange Grove Friends Meeting</span> (<a href="http://ogmm.org">ogmm.org</a>) an unprogrammed group of </b><b>Quakers in Los Angeles</b></li></ul></div>Wisdom Quarterlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16270831701299130326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7104136715924136884.post-58183226345079562412024-03-17T07:07:00.000-07:002024-03-17T22:22:47.635-07:00POEM: "Finnegan's Awake"<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Dhr. Seven, Wisdom Quarterly; <a href="https://www.cartoonstock.com/directory/i/irish_stereotypes.asp">Cartoonstock.com</a>; The Clancy Brothers ("Finnegan's Wake")</span><div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj_4rj0wViyCu7DkopGYQtj77C8tDsbPLKZ7ACk0siiXEqQBfkQI-jWAHbdj5Pi1577r-coFyy3_fPa4rkt9gYp19fJypA9XXgwQBHJP1IgGv54DgVr2mBDVbFy01LWO6H4Q5v-yYFIPBUxoeURMz3KDCCzMXu5_rMVFdpBtUZunxpTtapyH6J62RtVTA=s548" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="548" data-original-width="446" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj_4rj0wViyCu7DkopGYQtj77C8tDsbPLKZ7ACk0siiXEqQBfkQI-jWAHbdj5Pi1577r-coFyy3_fPa4rkt9gYp19fJypA9XXgwQBHJP1IgGv54DgVr2mBDVbFy01LWO6H4Q5v-yYFIPBUxoeURMz3KDCCzMXu5_rMVFdpBtUZunxpTtapyH6J62RtVTA=w325-h400" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cartoonstock.com/directory/i/irish_stereotypes.asp"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b>Irish stereotypes cartoons and comics - funny pictures from CartoonStock.com</b></span></a></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="color: #444444; font-size: xx-small;"><div style="text-align: right;">.</div></span><div><b style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large;">"Finnegan's Awake"</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">A modern Irish poem by Seven</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEixVo3FSzxmw-RcZlUaK7TvlKX7Y5GGzwIDXL4QlIc8uUPeU-hypTMPwwVrWTAxj0l16jBJvx0r_vD28k5fqKu2h7oZH36L1LF0cYeNHED5gYVRTPRtS1uxJyyTA9tbMIH6SsJ5io9NXt0TpiTBvHLc3d7fqFWwMKkskvvyTWjOEEf-sPYrpXdDWAzJLA=s550" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="343" data-original-width="550" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEixVo3FSzxmw-RcZlUaK7TvlKX7Y5GGzwIDXL4QlIc8uUPeU-hypTMPwwVrWTAxj0l16jBJvx0r_vD28k5fqKu2h7oZH36L1LF0cYeNHED5gYVRTPRtS1uxJyyTA9tbMIH6SsJ5io9NXt0TpiTBvHLc3d7fqFWwMKkskvvyTWjOEEf-sPYrpXdDWAzJLA=w400-h250" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://americanhistory.si.edu/blog/when-irish-american-eyes-are-smilin"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">When Irish American eyes are smilin' | National Museum of American History (si.edu)</span></a><br /></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjqQXLLCBt5H--nj4KXVRv8CsOM_XEjvI-o1ElTfU4o_JFla58DBifnMH8rwgjNjYI45VwCQj5d1iDBsw3yGXNCSlBXlaDpkAto8qxL8FiEV4PexmRNenx9xqxBYTO1Wbh1gM3mfytsUX7-6PtX23XDoBo48AJ_GymOzsZB1I2hJb0ArcOVmFhw9eGVsA=s500" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="495" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjqQXLLCBt5H--nj4KXVRv8CsOM_XEjvI-o1ElTfU4o_JFla58DBifnMH8rwgjNjYI45VwCQj5d1iDBsw3yGXNCSlBXlaDpkAto8qxL8FiEV4PexmRNenx9xqxBYTO1Wbh1gM3mfytsUX7-6PtX23XDoBo48AJ_GymOzsZB1I2hJb0ArcOVmFhw9eGVsA=w198-h200" width="198" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://ar.pinterest.com/pin/448319337881782339/"><b><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Irish humor or <i>craic</i> (ar.pinterest.com)</span></b></a></td></tr></tbody></table>THIS IS AN ABBREVIATED PORTION OF A LONGER LYRICAL, TONGUE-TWISTING WORK THAT TELLS THE STORY OF <b><span style="color: #f1c232;">THE BUDDHA'S LIFE</span></b> IN THE VEIN OF JAMES JOYCE'S </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnegans_Wake" target="_blank">FINNEGANS WAKE</a></b>. </i><span>LIKE JOYCE, THE INSPIRATION FOR THIS WORK WAS THE FAMOUS IRISH SONG, "</span><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnegan%27s_Wake" target="_blank">FINNEGAN'S WAKE</a></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">." IT'S ODD THAT WHEN <i>YOU </i>TALK TO GOD, IT'S CALL PRAYER, BUT WHEN GOD TALKS TO <i>ME</i>, IT'S CALLED SCHIZOPHRENIA.<br /><br /></span></div>[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prologue" target="_blank">PROLOGUE</a>]</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><i>I will <b><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/oratio" target="_blank">pray</a></b> you a poem.</i></div><div><i>In Irish but in English.</i></div><div><i>Yet you won't understand because</i></div><div><i>You don't </i>sing<i> your language.</i></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"<b><a href="https://youtu.be/_mLBm1YytJ4?t=80" target="_blank">Scratch pictures on asylum walls</a></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="https://youtu.be/_mLBm1YytJ4?t=80" target="_blank">With broken nails and matchsticks</a></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="https://youtu.be/_mLBm1YytJ4?t=80" target="_blank">Hypodermic</a></b>" or pneumatic,</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Get under my skin with your fix!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">To a drop of the <i><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whisky" target="_blank">craythur</a> </b></i>I was born,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="https://www.romper.com/p/i-tried-whiskey-as-a-teething-remedy-because-i-had-no-clue-it-was-dangerous-8332194" target="_blank">A thimble of</a> <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prologue" target="_blank">fuisce</a></i></b>, a <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn_whiskey" target="_blank">mash of the corn</a></b>,</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Unlike <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Bushmills_Distillery" target="_blank">Bushmills</a></b> a <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jameson_Irish_Whiskey" target="_blank">comforting</a></b> <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cupboard#/media/File:Serwantka.JPG" target="_blank">'board</a></b>,</div><div style="text-align: justify;">No room for the <b><a href="https://www.wayfair.com/kitchen-tabletop/sb1/bone-china-mugs-teacups-c1775030-a75493~435179.html" target="_blank">cups</a></b> where the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankard" target="_blank">tankards</a></b> are stored.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">To a <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuber" target="_blank">tuber</a></b>'s <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_whiskey" target="_blank">fine tincture</a></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I was turned on,</div><div style="text-align: justify;">A poteen, a <i><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poit%C3%ADn" target="_blank">poitín</a></b></i> [\pot-cheen\],</div><div style="text-align: justify;">All mellow and brown.</div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhmdTx0gQTEC7FfUYjnFR37EkayA8W3fbkSZq3oQBtVHwShePxA4t8b_3pEasqILoeeO0d1Qkz-Uqje5F4JTI4kaCxoTjo5h2qoGXwhcNvjfm6GvBognXdVprrUXvrp_FvRS95pIM44lknoF-XvKszEU3K-M8ohEGQ4FdZEnvtdbOIUZcQocoRmcYYQcQ=s966" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="966" data-original-width="958" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhmdTx0gQTEC7FfUYjnFR37EkayA8W3fbkSZq3oQBtVHwShePxA4t8b_3pEasqILoeeO0d1Qkz-Uqje5F4JTI4kaCxoTjo5h2qoGXwhcNvjfm6GvBognXdVprrUXvrp_FvRS95pIM44lknoF-XvKszEU3K-M8ohEGQ4FdZEnvtdbOIUZcQocoRmcYYQcQ=w198-h200" width="198" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span>[Mara is </span><b><a href="http://www.zeluna.net/russian-fairy-tale.html" target="_blank">The F'end</a></b><span> in many guises.]</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table>A Liam, a Rhea, a Ryan, a <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rip_Van_Winkle" target="_blank">Rip</a></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Around a cadaver a sway and a <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_whiskey" target="_blank">sip</a></b>,</div><div style="text-align: justify;">A <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paddy_(given_name)" target="_blank">Pat</a></b>, a Maria, a Michael, and a <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtic_onomastics#Surname_prefixes" target="_blank">Mic</a></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_intoxication" target="_blank">Slosh</a></b> the carcass in a rite Catholic <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infant_baptism#Roman_Catholic_Church" target="_blank">rinse</a></b>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shillelagh_(club)" target="_blank">Shillelagh</a></b> shake; <b><a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shellacking" target="_blank">shellac</a></b> shenanigans;</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Sheet and shout and shoot sharp shingles to shush 'em;</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Unsheathe and shear and bathe sheep in springs;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnegan_(surname)" target="_blank">Finn'</a></b> <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phineas_Gage" target="_blank">Ph'n</a></b>, friend us again!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="300" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/bRXWWZ74Qe8" title="YouTube video player" width="410"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgFl1Jg-kn0TPNfIhEeWxq-ZeqlNSEmXgvG0q1ojMY4QYbU1M9Rizj2j334mIp2NZEW8O5cc8W1SIJ-pb944KA-80ZMxnoNsYlVMLNVMeAZOG155whWNdFblUgfBCo0Kqgvn1tkz4PA46suE1YfXhgNL_oi5W7PTFh6QuMkLyCTUenAgPe_dtRnegtthw=s1280" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgFl1Jg-kn0TPNfIhEeWxq-ZeqlNSEmXgvG0q1ojMY4QYbU1M9Rizj2j334mIp2NZEW8O5cc8W1SIJ-pb944KA-80ZMxnoNsYlVMLNVMeAZOG155whWNdFblUgfBCo0Kqgvn1tkz4PA46suE1YfXhgNL_oi5W7PTFh6QuMkLyCTUenAgPe_dtRnegtthw=w400-h225" width="400" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The <b><a href="https://www.riverbendbookshop.com/book/9798748659178" target="_blank">Oracle</a></b> spoke but <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumerian_language" target="_blank">Sumerian</a></b>,</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Like the Gilg and the Manx on the Isle of Man:</div>"<b style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english-german/the" style="font-style: italic;" target="_blank">Die</a></b><span style="text-align: justify;"> Ivory Isle, </span><b style="font-style: italic; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9Cbermensch" target="_blank">uber mensch</a></b><i style="text-align: justify;"> </i><span style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://bookshop.org/books/castle-werfenstein-and-the-wonder-women-of-vril-maria-orsic-and-the-beings-of-light/9781973160793" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">Damen</a>,"</span><div><span style="text-align: justify;">Cried </span><b style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://1stmuse.com/maria_orsitsch/" target="_blank">Mary</a></b><span style="text-align: justify;">, their little lamb.</span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Gil or Gilly, he's a Gilligan;</div><div style="text-align: justify;">This weird <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare" target="_blank">O' Willy</a></b> won't <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volition_(psychology)" target="_blank">will</a></b> again.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">He's a handful, I tell it's true, Liam.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Finn' Ph'n, friend us again!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">[DIALOGUE]</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gautama_Buddha" target="_blank">Siddhartha</a></b> saw <i><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sa%E1%B9%83s%C4%81ra" target="_blank">samsara</a></b></i> end;</div><div><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sa%E1%B9%83s%C4%81ra" target="_blank">Revolving-Round</a></b>, <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana" target="_blank">spin no more</a></b> <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arhat" target="_blank">instead</a></b>!</div><div>But we pose to our old friend:</div><div>Come, Finnegan, <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebirth_(Buddhism)" target="_blank">become</a></b> again!</div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">What is a <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigil#Vigils_at_the_time_of_death" target="_blank">wake</a></b>? To raise <i><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dead_(short_story)" target="_blank">The Dead</a></b></i>?</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Then <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dice#Use" target="_blank">shimmy-toss</a></b> my own <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_two_cents" target="_blank">two cents</a></b>!</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Shake the spirit and rouse the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiritus" target="_blank">breath</a></b>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Come, Finnegan, <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhava" target="_blank">become</a></b> again!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjwX6InUgKqzRSSEbzQADZQyRC0a-z9VCXPIPeYYGcLY5gDnovOyn96DEwiWriaHyT2hkx3_2e71fyIJicHEQokNtr2cDmUuL68Mz7qFrM0BHhkD8FywYXvzba0dxb7VHOfSgAJYUDupDHgT_G4ga5jNLxbF_5OisJrwNAtWA0tmWb2jv39mja8luKUVg=s800" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="536" data-original-width="800" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjwX6InUgKqzRSSEbzQADZQyRC0a-z9VCXPIPeYYGcLY5gDnovOyn96DEwiWriaHyT2hkx3_2e71fyIJicHEQokNtr2cDmUuL68Mz7qFrM0BHhkD8FywYXvzba0dxb7VHOfSgAJYUDupDHgT_G4ga5jNLxbF_5OisJrwNAtWA0tmWb2jv39mja8luKUVg=w400-h268" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Mara's three daughters (Lust, Discontent, and Delight) interrupt Sid's meditative absorption.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="color: #444444; font-size: xx-small;"><div style="text-align: right;">.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjPg0EU6YWHhzYa8BAhmpTFASYCJNn6GKyDXXdqlC6CT3O0Ky0LHDUdzY8Wzq_ADR7F95eY8Ztzwq8HsysXS1SUJxMLvHkPbluyP6S1GJqFHAAWEmb3jMoF6SIngKMJtJsKHqR8oy60x6mF6IP-xIryoyiQ8_dz2SqDXWJazasuAs_YW967I4aYgeDf0Q=s719" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="719" data-original-width="600" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjPg0EU6YWHhzYa8BAhmpTFASYCJNn6GKyDXXdqlC6CT3O0Ky0LHDUdzY8Wzq_ADR7F95eY8Ztzwq8HsysXS1SUJxMLvHkPbluyP6S1GJqFHAAWEmb3jMoF6SIngKMJtJsKHqR8oy60x6mF6IP-xIryoyiQ8_dz2SqDXWJazasuAs_YW967I4aYgeDf0Q=w167-h200" width="167" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Lust, Discontent, and Delight</span></td></tr></tbody></table>Shirley, Shannon, and Shay <i>ahem</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;">like <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mara_(demon)#Three_daughters" target="_blank">fiendish daughters</a></b> of <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mara_(demon)" target="_blank">The F'end</a></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">To pull thee from thy <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhy%C4%81na_in_Buddhism" target="_blank">'sorption</a></b> then</div><div style="text-align: justify;">pale in search of <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquor" target="_blank">spirits</a></b> in a <b><a href="https://shortstoriesshort.com/story/the-jinn-in-the-bottle/" target="_blank">pen</a></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Corked and screwed and waxed wick-end</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Bitter as the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine" target="_blank">Grape</a></b>, <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinness" target="_blank">Guinness</a></b>, or <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethanol" target="_blank">Grain</a></b>,</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I say, I sing, I say again:</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Come, Finnegan, become again!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Wan wolves who wander for <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood" target="_blank">crimson</a></b> drink</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/vomit" target="_blank">Wretch</a></b> and writhe by <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aconitum#Wolf's_bane" target="_blank">'bane</a></b> beside a splint.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Hale men who haggle at <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Haddock" target="_blank">Haddock</a></b> hint</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Then writhe and wretch to get a <b><a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/words-to-describe-small-amounts" target="_blank">stint</a></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhuktHjJ2cRwGb-mr1ctnNii-zwsEDQ8RXYUHPpUhVmWz6M01b-n0ED8WoTa5S5Q7mulrpXSCzp_Xwowk3YuAWPEIgWRKOXksjkeNNtqr9dF2p8z8-bkl31bG1MhQTZL2V7ijqOOdjsFgMCZaAtjvuMKJOOTdQCvBtGrifP1YnTSuXla4iPmyBKWPPzYA=s275" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="275" data-original-width="183" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhuktHjJ2cRwGb-mr1ctnNii-zwsEDQ8RXYUHPpUhVmWz6M01b-n0ED8WoTa5S5Q7mulrpXSCzp_Xwowk3YuAWPEIgWRKOXksjkeNNtqr9dF2p8z8-bkl31bG1MhQTZL2V7ijqOOdjsFgMCZaAtjvuMKJOOTdQCvBtGrifP1YnTSuXla4iPmyBKWPPzYA=w133-h200" width="133" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">[Poetic inspiration plus the Bard]</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Shropshire_Lad" target="_blank">A Shropshire Lad</a></b></i>, a filly wink</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare" target="_blank">Bard</a></b> of Avon, <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herb" target="_blank">cauldron ingredient</a></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">A skinny finny to feed the fink.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Come, Finnegan, become again!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Ne plus ultra, Naiad and Nymph,</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Dryad, Damsel of Dark Forest, minx</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Meadow maiden of mirth and myth,</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Come, Finnegan, become again!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flanagan_(surname)" style="text-align: left;"><b>Flanagan</b></a>, Hannigan, Flanders, and <b><a href="https://forebears.io/surnames/haigh" target="_blank">Haw</a></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Millicent, Gilligan, Moira, and <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maw" target="_blank">Maw</a></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The crow ascends till it empties it <b><a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/craw" target="_blank">craw</a>.</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reincarnate" target="_blank">Descend</a></b>, Finnegan, descend!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhSLBI5Z-f_FfAOhTWDfRH7JdjhbiyAMq_UPav0GOgZ5htcc4MQiBiAlRCCo48-D970OIZMtjB_68bDMlIIO56TuQvxpSxmhJFMES2tSMRKM4igi7YPj_oZ_q3yRAfWlUGc2qEMmWytoYZf4JehjMIdcgAknVqtULSBpP0BtrWpG_WNOU9LiVc9hPSeDg=s2015" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2015" data-original-width="1476" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhSLBI5Z-f_FfAOhTWDfRH7JdjhbiyAMq_UPav0GOgZ5htcc4MQiBiAlRCCo48-D970OIZMtjB_68bDMlIIO56TuQvxpSxmhJFMES2tSMRKM4igi7YPj_oZ_q3yRAfWlUGc2qEMmWytoYZf4JehjMIdcgAknVqtULSBpP0BtrWpG_WNOU9LiVc9hPSeDg=w146-h200" width="146" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Vril Society Oracle Maria Orsitch</span></td></tr></tbody></table><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hennessy" target="_blank">Hennessy</a></b>, <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee_whiskey" target="_blank">Tennessee</a></b>, <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_Beer" target="_blank">Tiger</a></b>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_wine" target="_blank"><b>Todd'</b></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Our sighting grew to a <b><a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hallucination" target="_blank">vision</a></b> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahman" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">GOD</a>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The winged agree, <i>The awed are odd.</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Descend, Finnegan, descend!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">With a mane to wick the dew <b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Maria-orsic-originated-created-earths/dp/1300599375" target="_blank">Or switch</a></b>,</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Messenger, came through in Gaelic:</div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Thy <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vril" target="_blank">Iv'ry</a></b> Isle, <i>uber-</i>dames, damn it..."</div><div style="text-align: justify;">So, come, Finnegan, become again <i>again</i>!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>And so on and so forth.</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large;">"Finnegan's Wake" (The Clancy Brothers)</span></b></div><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="300" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/0HWT6XD014I" title="YouTube video player" width="410"></iframe></div>Wisdom Quarterlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16270831701299130326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7104136715924136884.post-40006404104286400362024-03-17T05:30:00.001-07:002024-03-18T09:42:19.309-07:00Casting Call: Audition for "Lines" (comedy)<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://sore-estimate-d6e.notion.site/So-you-want-to-audition-for-Lines-252e895f7db04d7bbb229dd3842e00f6">Sore-estimate-d6e.notion.site</a>; jen, Ananda (<a href="http://meetup.com/zen-07" target="_blank">Dharma Buddhist Meditation</a>), Wisdom Quarterly</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiThfXnKbodqb8VWJx8BH8ZuSCSmDzBHRTj8lwRo3R8PxZZBmw7jmn8VE_2B7HVlUiz4iw4NWKXEyhE8lN16-DADcmzrju24OsHK3pNYP1gAECKOmuA3hm_U3Fam3f6N_jENvhN5MxgvVJjOxo-n0hFXyo9B85KHIej41fQWu5Z5_katKOztY1l_qluubA/s845/Lines%20play.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="626" data-original-width="845" height="296" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiThfXnKbodqb8VWJx8BH8ZuSCSmDzBHRTj8lwRo3R8PxZZBmw7jmn8VE_2B7HVlUiz4iw4NWKXEyhE8lN16-DADcmzrju24OsHK3pNYP1gAECKOmuA3hm_U3Fam3f6N_jENvhN5MxgvVJjOxo-n0hFXyo9B85KHIej41fQWu5Z5_katKOztY1l_qluubA/w400-h296/Lines%20play.png" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://sore-estimate-d6e.notion.site/So-you-want-to-audition-for-Lines-252e895f7db04d7bbb229dd3842e00f6" style="font-weight: bold;">So you want to audition for Lines</a>? Are you an actor or are you interested in acting? <b><span style="color: #f1c232;">Hollywood Fringe</span></b> meta-comedy <i>LINES </i>is casting. Stipend provided. Audition tapes are due by Friday, March 22, 2024, at 11:59 pm (PST). </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Super awesome, kind, cool, and organized team. The simplistic and flimsy flyer has a QR code for details. This where it leads: <b><a href="https://sore-estimate-d6e.notion.site/So-you-want-to-audition-for-Lines-252e895f7db04d7bbb229dd3842e00f6">site</a>.</b></div><div><p style="text-align: justify;">We are now casting for <em>Lines</em>, a meta-comedy premiering at the Hollywood Fringe this summer in June of 2024. Below is a dedicated page with all of the information: character bios, key dates, rehearsal commitment details, and next steps. Check out the <a href="https://www.instagram.com/stonefruitarts/"><b>Instagram</b></a> to meet the dm and chat.🌟</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large;"><b>📝 SUMMARY</b></span><br /><i>Lines</i> opens on a blank stage with nothing but an empty hospital bed. One by one, members of the Jennings family enter the hospice room to say goodbye to Gladys, their dying matriarch.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">This repeats the next day, and the next…and family tensions are revealed as they deliver monologues of regret, resentment, and gratitude to the sound of a heart rate monitor.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Without any warning, the Playwright stands and calls the whole thing off, declaring their work "a piece of sh*t." From the back row, an Audience Member convinces them to finish.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">The Playwright, with nudges and advice from the Audience Member, begins to write new scenes in real time, experimenting with different themes, introducing and then retracting new plot points, changing character’s traits, and struggling to generate something that feels authentic and true to the story — especially for the character Gerry.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Gerry remains inconsistent, mysterious, or absent until the climax of the play when it is revealed that Gerry is in fact the self-insert of the Playwright [they/them], who is reckoning with their complicated relationship with their own recently deceased mother.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Only by acknowledging their grief does the Playwright finally figure out how to write Gerry’s goodbye to their mother — and they enter the play to deliver the final monologue in a moment of long-awaited catharsis and vulnerability. <b><a href="https://sore-estimate-d6e.notion.site/So-you-want-to-audition-for-Lines-252e895f7db04d7bbb229dd3842e00f6" target="_blank">More</a><br /></b></p><ul><li><b><a href="https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/sn/sn42/sn42.002.than.html"><i>Talaputa Sutta</i>: "To Talaputa the Actor" (accesstoinsight.org)</a></b></li><li><b><a href="https://www.accesstoinsight.org/ptf/dhamma/sacca/sacca4/samma-ajivo/index.html">Right Livelihood: Considering a career in acting? You may want to reconsider, says American Buddhist monk Ven. Thanissaro, Wat Metta California (accesstoinsight.org)</a></b></li></ul><p></p>
<!-- notionvc: 99b87e02-ca46-4b91-b9ec-5889b0191ee3 --></div>Wisdom Quarterlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16270831701299130326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7104136715924136884.post-54934529407465588102024-03-16T09:00:00.000-07:002024-03-17T01:11:48.864-07:00RICH: Celebrities who are rich and unhappy<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Marco Sander, 11/15/21; Ashley Wells, Seth Auberon, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="300" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/MX1hnaco65U" title="Celebrities on Being Rich But Not Happy + Giving Advice" width="410"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFtAyAdyNesTht7zMNNsWu2sIzSG7kxU8girf7LakcN2Djr50Cvjy-i0L7HB31EbHLczWLY9p_t0TXgnVuVVQjZl5oDL1ZJJcpYqFrfj2odIKIUXL0KrVOuRf8QiJCDl8mQEY1TIKrnboMgS0Kp6LdwARhX_nnvheCQjoo0PhfCXRgwa0arlArhH1xK_4/s1107/ryan%20gosling%20and%20margot%20barbie%20robbie.png" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><img border="0" data-original-height="650" data-original-width="1107" height="118" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFtAyAdyNesTht7zMNNsWu2sIzSG7kxU8girf7LakcN2Djr50Cvjy-i0L7HB31EbHLczWLY9p_t0TXgnVuVVQjZl5oDL1ZJJcpYqFrfj2odIKIUXL0KrVOuRf8QiJCDl8mQEY1TIKrnboMgS0Kp6LdwARhX_nnvheCQjoo0PhfCXRgwa0arlArhH1xK_4/w200-h118/ryan%20gosling%20and%20margot%20barbie%20robbie.png" width="200" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Hey, Margot, I'm married to a Latina, Barbie.</span></td></tr></tbody></table>I can't wait to be rich and famous. It will solve all of my problems because I'll have money to burn, be loved by everybody, get the best out of life, have power and influence, be able to give and donate to my favorite causes.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">It's going to be great and then I won't have low self-esteem or care what anyone thinks about me, what they say about me, what they write about me, the rumors they, oh cr*p, why don't they just shut up? You don't know me! You just know my persona, not the real person.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjIRslVELxIQIkXKq70k0L0XyQpLD68PpM6JbN9QQzyRquNr2d3SUnxhLqPTeSKnfjIjIJ4ilAm51-Y5wnJVw32Op-SScoLq0rCCLUrxlPoLtGhhLxWUvedK4Q50p1RJ2FEnGeY2oLUHf_ZzhWRZh9zNO4KhFpOjR6XYdKiV-6a-CBetoRiSI0oPTZ4fA/s1000/hollywood%20celeb-kids%20https%20go.reference.com%20entertainment%20celebrity-kids-we-didnt-realize-were-all-grown-up.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="564" data-original-width="1000" height="113" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjIRslVELxIQIkXKq70k0L0XyQpLD68PpM6JbN9QQzyRquNr2d3SUnxhLqPTeSKnfjIjIJ4ilAm51-Y5wnJVw32Op-SScoLq0rCCLUrxlPoLtGhhLxWUvedK4Q50p1RJ2FEnGeY2oLUHf_ZzhWRZh9zNO4KhFpOjR6XYdKiV-6a-CBetoRiSI0oPTZ4fA/w200-h113/hollywood%20celeb-kids%20https%20go.reference.com%20entertainment%20celebrity-kids-we-didnt-realize-were-all-grown-up.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>Well, at I'll have the money and more of it coming...as long as stay relevant and keep the projects and offers coming. Oh goodness, how am I going to do that? There will always be a younger better more beautiful competitor nipping at my heels. That's it! I'll nip and tuck, and no one will ever know it. I'll stay young looking forever.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Oh my gosh, what if the makeup can no longer cover my cracks and wrinkles? Man, I was so much better off being anonymous, able to go anywhere without being hounded or bothered.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">And all these taxes and leeches trying to take away my stacks of cash with their appeals and hair brain ideas for me to invest in. Sometimes I think I would have been better off without this burden. Wait! What am I saying?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Law of Attraction rules say I have to always be in alignment, believe in myself, give gratitude as I already have what I want... Just listen to these winners whine and complain about how hard it is to be rich. Try being poor! It's going to be great when I get there.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large;">Celebrities on being rich but not happy and giving advice</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><yt-img-shadow class="style-scope ytd-video-owner-renderer no-transition" id="avatar" loaded="" style="border-radius: 50%; clear: left; display: inline-block; flex: 0 0 auto; float: left; height: 40px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; opacity: 1; overflow: hidden; transition: none 0s ease 0s; width: 40px;" width="40"><img alt="" class="style-scope yt-img-shadow" draggable="false" id="img" src="https://yt3.ggpht.com/5oBwJsi8N3xUzOeFqhkyfX_4gnlBtqWG6sybpTZ-hLC7YDhKXbe3gTW4iVJ10weADkGcxtBHJw=s48-c-k-c0x00ffffff-no-rj" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: var(--yt-img-border-radius,none); border: 0px; display: block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: var(--yt-img-margin-left,auto); margin-right: var(--yt-img-margin-right,auto); margin-top: 0px; max-height: var(--yt-img-max-height,none); max-width: var(--yt-img-max-width,100%); padding: 0px;" width="40" /></yt-img-shadow>(<b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/@MarcoSanderCoaching" target="_blank">Marco Sander</a></b>) Celebrities open up about their depression and anxiety, stress and sadness despite of being rich and famous. Celebrities such as Margot Robbie, Cardi B, Billie Eilish, Dwayne the Rock Johnson, Cara Delevingne, Harry Styles, Charli D´amelio, Ed Sheeran, and Brad Pitt open up about not being happy, secure, or at peace. <b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/celebrities" target="_blank">#celebrities</a></b> <b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/fame" target="_blank">#fame</a></b> <b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/rich" target="_blank">#rich</a></b> <b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/unhappy" target="_blank">#unhappy</a></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large;">Celebrities</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB_vVRuFNFLW2NEbcqqOluiA-qAE4Xssvv2d_GaVjHlnTKS4IhKG292dNsDx_EWHriR89uZWoHNf3ImRKqt1-lSsjEI_qU-ZfRrM1wuY1qyan7rXsJKkXijXsq0bNtojeWOBATFZCt-s7hYPEE38msD45eVIAzgSukBvrMU_LwLcgla82G9Qw2hFOhzh0/s1080/celebrities%20who%20date%20normal%20people%20stars%20insider%20na_5d16449fa502a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="618" data-original-width="1080" height="114" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB_vVRuFNFLW2NEbcqqOluiA-qAE4Xssvv2d_GaVjHlnTKS4IhKG292dNsDx_EWHriR89uZWoHNf3ImRKqt1-lSsjEI_qU-ZfRrM1wuY1qyan7rXsJKkXijXsq0bNtojeWOBATFZCt-s7hYPEE38msD45eVIAzgSukBvrMU_LwLcgla82G9Qw2hFOhzh0/w200-h114/celebrities%20who%20date%20normal%20people%20stars%20insider%20na_5d16449fa502a.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>0:00 Cardi B
0:06 Dwayne Johnson
0:18 Cara Delevingne
0:32 <b><span style="color: #f1c232;">Machine Gun Kelly</span></b>
0:45 <b><span style="color: #f1c232;">Harry Styles</span></b>
0:55 Josh Radnor
1:09 Charli D´amelio
1:23 Demi Lovato
1:33 <b><span style="color: #f1c232;">Justin Bieber</span></b>
1:45 <span style="color: #f1c232;"><b>Billie Eilish</b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">1:59 Elizabeth Olsen
2:10 Felicity Feline
2:24 <b><span style="color: #f1c232;">Katy Perry</span></b>
2:38 Ed Sheeran
2:51 <b><span style="color: #f1c232;">Zendaya
</span></b>3:03 <b><span style="color: #f1c232;">Brad Pitt</span></b>
3:16 <b><span style="color: #f1c232;">Keanu Reeves</span></b>
3:26 Sam Smith
3:40 Michael Phelps
3:53 <b><span style="color: #f1c232;">Nicki Minaj</span></b>
4:02 Kristen Bell
4:13 <b><span style="color: #f1c232;">Dua Lipa</span></b>
4:26 Pink</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">4:40 <b><span style="color: #f1c232;">T-Pain</span></b>
4:51 Jake Paul
5:05 <b><span style="color: #f1c232;">Doja Cat</span></b>
5:19 <b><span style="color: #f1c232;">Kendall Jenner</span></b>
5:30 Essena O´Neill
5:40 <b><span style="color: #f1c232;">Iggy Azalea</span></b>
5:51 Jesse Eisenberg
5:59 K<b><span style="color: #f1c232;">im Kardashian</span></b>
6:11 Machine Gun Kelly
6:24 Justin Bieber
6:37 <b><span style="color: #f1c232;">Addison Rae</span></b>
6:51 Kristen Bell</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">7:02 <b><span style="color: #f1c232;">Khalid
</span></b>7:11 <b><span style="color: #f1c232;">Mac Miller</span></b>
7:24 Alexi Panos
7:38 Grant Cardone
7:50 <b><span style="color: #f1c232;">John Cena</span></b>
8:04 Gary Vaynerchuk
8:14 Eric Clapton
8:29 <b><span style="color: #f1c232;">Robin Williams</span></b>
8:40 J. Cole
8:50 Jesy Nelson
9:03 <b><span style="color: #f1c232;">Drake
</span></b>9:17 Madison Beer
9:30 <b><span style="color: #f1c232;">Dave Chappelle</span></b> 9:44 Russell Brand</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">9:58 Billie Eilish
10:11 Tom Shadyac
10:24 Kendall Jenner
10:30 <b><span style="color: #f1c232;">Chris Rock</span></b>
10:43 <b><span style="color: #f1c232;">Beyonce
</span></b>10:57 Logic
11:10 <b><span style="color: #f1c232;">Colin Farrell</span></b>
11:19 Dawn Richard
11:29 Dan Bilzerian
11:42 Andy Rooney
11:56 <b><span style="color: #f1c232;">Steve Harvey</span></b>
12:06 Sophie Turner
12:16 <b><span style="color: #f1c232;">Gwyneth Paltrow</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">12:28 <b><span style="color: #f1c232;">Margot Robbie</span></b>
12:41 Kristen Stewart
12:47 Scarlett Johansson
12:58 PewDiePie
13:07 James Arthur
13:21 Elizabeth Olsen
13:35 <b><span style="color: #f1c232;">Jay-Z</span></b>
13:45 Jennifer Garner
13:59 <b><span style="color: #f1c232;">Adam Sandler</span></b>
14:12 Kyle Kingsbury
14:22 <span style="color: #f1c232;"><b>The Beatles</b></span>
14:32 Kristen Bell</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">14:42 <b><span style="color: #f1c232;">Kendrick Lamar</span></b>
14:53 Madison Beer
15:02 <b><span style="color: #f1c232;">Madonna </span></b>
15:12 <b><span style="color: #f1c232;">Selena Gomez</span></b>
15:19 Steve Harvey
15:31 Tony Robbins
15:43 Tupac Shakur
15:54 Tyson Fury
16:05 Ethan Hawke
16:16 Whitney Houston
16:29 <b><span style="color: #f1c232;">Lottery Winner</span></b>
16:41 <b><span style="color: #f1c232;">Taylor Swift
</span></b>16:49 Alanis Morissette</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">16:58 <b><span style="color: #f1c232;">Angelina Jolie</span></b>
17:09 <b><span style="color: #f1c232;">Anne Hathaway</span></b>
17:19 <b><span style="color: #f1c232;">Emma Stone</span></b>
17:34 Kristen Bell
17:47 <b><span style="color: #f1c232;">Ariana Grande</span></b> 18:01 Tony Hale
18:11 ?
18:23 <b><span style="color: #f1c232;">Ben Affleck</span></b>
18:34 Bo Burnham</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">18:48 Brooke Shields
18:57 <b><span style="color: #f1c232;">Prince Harry</span></b>
19:08 Shane Dawson
19:20 ?
19:33 ?
19:47 <b><span style="color: #f1c232;">Halsey
</span></b>20:00 Chris Evans
20:22 Colin Farrell</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">20:32 <b><span style="color: #f1c232;">Dalai Lama</span></b>
20:45 Dax Shepard
20:58 Barack Obama
21:06 ?
21:20 <b><span style="color: #f1c232;">JK Rowling</span></b>
21:33 Mike Tyson
21:45 Reese Witherspoon
21:55 Lady Gaga
22:09 <b><span style="color: #f1c232;">Jennifer Lawrence</span></b>
22:20 John Mulaney</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">22:29 <b><span style="color: #f1c232;">Lady Gaga</span></b>
22:39 Jon Hamm
22:52 Justin Bieber
23:05 <b><span style="color: #f1c232;">Kanye West</span></b>
23:18 Keke Palmer
23:31 Kendall Jenner
24:45 Pete Davidson
23:59 <b><span style="color: #f1c232;">Leonardo Di Caprio</span></b>
24:13 <b><span style="color: #f1c232;">Louis CK</span></b>
24:25 Maria Sharapova</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">24:38 Michael Jackson
24:50 <b><span style="color: #f1c232;">Daniel Craig</span></b>
25:02 Stranger
25:15 Robbie Williams
25:22 <b><span style="color: #f1c232;">Sarah Silverman</span></b>
25:38 <b><span style="color: #f1c232;">Shawn Mendes</span></b>
25:45 ?
25:59 Steven Rogers
26:10 Taraji P. Henson
26:23 Brad Pitt
26:33 Katharine Brooks
26:41 <b><span style="color: #f1c232;">William Shatner</span></b>
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Seven (ed.), Wisdom Quarterly</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeM1J45dn_ocwPR1XhFYJLJe53Wgk3nhj5OQnrCo8ZG38oROrPCGjVbIMEfHenX8slsVOejwBsuU6-xK_uiSrVlso6D2fUJqlPRiwEZW7ZPUubQqwq_Ek4ledfYR4789r5tn1q6n7Wjd-SdJKX4Q72YBlMqLadD30pOEdaijy2CgLUKrpmAGsqUdMPdag/s600/miss%20liberty%20film%20vegan%20spirituality%20compassion%20consortium%20600_519310722.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="338" data-original-width="600" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeM1J45dn_ocwPR1XhFYJLJe53Wgk3nhj5OQnrCo8ZG38oROrPCGjVbIMEfHenX8slsVOejwBsuU6-xK_uiSrVlso6D2fUJqlPRiwEZW7ZPUubQqwq_Ek4ledfYR4789r5tn1q6n7Wjd-SdJKX4Q72YBlMqLadD30pOEdaijy2CgLUKrpmAGsqUdMPdag/w400-h225/miss%20liberty%20film%20vegan%20spirituality%20compassion%20consortium%20600_519310722.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_ZXamqR17_-rdyBJ0hLUyautT_vF-N58AULKV-JXMnbFDvPOds0VYSH0UV8FfPyS-pUH_2pMVIVRsumpnGlxs0JfErcgqRGfX8hOAXNVmGP4NFHkUIZbXTftxVT_vrpshkn0Ht-xC_PcC8kL8LdI6YaQ73OGHMsbvH_bXduIJ4Rb9wWk7ETyeeu3RNx0/s1024/mahavira%20in%20meditation%20just%20like%20the%20buddha,%20jainism%20wiki,%201024px-Ahinsa_Sthal.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="688" data-original-width="1024" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_ZXamqR17_-rdyBJ0hLUyautT_vF-N58AULKV-JXMnbFDvPOds0VYSH0UV8FfPyS-pUH_2pMVIVRsumpnGlxs0JfErcgqRGfX8hOAXNVmGP4NFHkUIZbXTftxVT_vrpshkn0Ht-xC_PcC8kL8LdI6YaQ73OGHMsbvH_bXduIJ4Rb9wWk7ETyeeu3RNx0/w400-h269/mahavira%20in%20meditation%20just%20like%20the%20buddha,%20jainism%20wiki,%201024px-Ahinsa_Sthal.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large;"><b>JAINISM AND MISS LIBERTY FILM</b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMzKufilqVtVjQ8buAUGJdh8kL4Hu59r1h37s4kSZR_nXc9esXh0wqUm9f9MruSqtiUtSqt7ijpD62NhUh-lrhuqORH7soG7oV2bQfzCTbi67I6O_i1ZNAZlZHaEgu1q80OecyCl0ebjeKEpG5bD5k5QnB4rb7-lG2pvuMrOMymSt5ZrNmOMRIP8Dmq_o/s464/Mahavira%20the%20Jina,%20Vardhamana,%20in%20Kevalajnana,%20transcendent%20wisdom,%20Jainism%20WIKI.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="422" data-original-width="464" height="182" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMzKufilqVtVjQ8buAUGJdh8kL4Hu59r1h37s4kSZR_nXc9esXh0wqUm9f9MruSqtiUtSqt7ijpD62NhUh-lrhuqORH7soG7oV2bQfzCTbi67I6O_i1ZNAZlZHaEgu1q80OecyCl0ebjeKEpG5bD5k5QnB4rb7-lG2pvuMrOMymSt5ZrNmOMRIP8Dmq_o/w200-h182/Mahavira%20the%20Jina,%20Vardhamana,%20in%20Kevalajnana,%20transcendent%20wisdom,%20Jainism%20WIKI.jpg" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Mahavira, naked ascetic, founder of Jainism</span></td></tr></tbody></table>The Compassion Consortium (<b><a href="http://www.compassionconsortium.org">compassionconsortium.org</a></b>) service on Sunday, March 17, 2024, features spiritual guest Saurabh Dalal (DC and NYC areas), an engineering consultant and physicist.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">He is passionate about promoting a vegan lifestyle of <i><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahimsa" target="_blank">Ahimsa</a></b></i> (non-violence, non-harming), which provides compelling solutions to many global problems. He is a member of <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jainism" target="_blank">the Jain tradition</a></b>, an Indian religion with <i>ahimsa</i> at its center.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiduDAb2bDUGCetPhFvS3SX8oz-XR5AzRXRWTSUtXIJS5GhLfdkKnmKgJFLxsUR6VOxUdn2Z0PYferiicBdzkPBDj8xIZQ6RshnC_9csqzaP_elc-XCfBJPw8bIfrEjrh48klqO3rDHLU5mPQtbV60BziErhf-nd0nFUfM4t9BVBv7bQjSqzY0wa0m7m5M/s977/jainism,%20this%20is%20the%20jina%20mahavira%20not%20the%20buddha%20gautama.png" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="579" data-original-width="977" height="119" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiduDAb2bDUGCetPhFvS3SX8oz-XR5AzRXRWTSUtXIJS5GhLfdkKnmKgJFLxsUR6VOxUdn2Z0PYferiicBdzkPBDj8xIZQ6RshnC_9csqzaP_elc-XCfBJPw8bIfrEjrh48klqO3rDHLU5mPQtbV60BziErhf-nd0nFUfM4t9BVBv7bQjSqzY0wa0m7m5M/w200-h119/jainism,%20this%20is%20the%20jina%20mahavira%20not%20the%20buddha%20gautama.png" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Not the Buddha but his contemporary</span></td></tr></tbody></table>Saurabh is a lifelong vegetarian and has been an ethical vegan since 1991. He volunteers for numerous groups as a board member or advisor for like-minded organizations, has been active in the Jain community internationally, and has practiced ethical investing for decades.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><ul><li><a href="https://www.meetup.com/vegan-spirituality/events/299383501/"><b>COMPASSION CONSORTIUM: JAINISM AND MISS LIBERTY FILM, Sun, Mar 17, 2024, 1:00 PM | Meetup</b></a></li><li><a href="https://misslibertythemovie.com/"><b>Miss Liberty The Movie - A Taste of Freedom</b></a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethics_of_eating_meat"><b>Ethics of eating meat</b></a> (complicity in killing)</li></ul></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_TzNAf_t-IecuIgBelluGp5G3Noazr7XprkTHnKLkw-nsJ-Uv7uFSNtuk3IdSGhttFcF5OyHqeJrnFCiAE00LRXfEa7KKr8qZcO-QlC1ssl2UwO1DceikdlwYnhcLtUFaHjhfWTE1uE-jbWNALGgZ7cpSUh2DJ8TvtlP3HVmvYQ_ESsmKVp9nCaGjN7g/s259/mahavira%20jainism%20what%20were%20the%20main%20teachings%20quora%20com.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="259" data-original-width="195" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_TzNAf_t-IecuIgBelluGp5G3Noazr7XprkTHnKLkw-nsJ-Uv7uFSNtuk3IdSGhttFcF5OyHqeJrnFCiAE00LRXfEa7KKr8qZcO-QlC1ssl2UwO1DceikdlwYnhcLtUFaHjhfWTE1uE-jbWNALGgZ7cpSUh2DJ8TvtlP3HVmvYQ_ESsmKVp9nCaGjN7g/w151-h200/mahavira%20jainism%20what%20were%20the%20main%20teachings%20quora%20com.jpg" width="151" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Mahavira (<b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahavira#Names_and_epithets" target="_blank">Nigantha Nataputta</a></b>)</span></td></tr></tbody></table>He explores ways of integrating sound science into related areas of his activism. Jainism is one of the three most ancient <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_religions" target="_blank">Dharmic religions</a></b> of India, along with Buddhism (protestant <b><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%9Arama%E1%B9%87a" target="_blank">Shramanism</a></i></b>) and Hinduism (Vedic Brahmanism) with roots that extend back to at least the mid-first century B.C.E.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Today, Jainism remains an integral part of Indian culture. It teaches that the path to enlightenment is through nonviolence and harm reduction to living beings (including plants and animals) as much as possible.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Jains believe plants, animals, and even some inanimate things (like fire, air, and water) have souls (or the divine spark), just as humans do.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The principle of nonviolence includes doing no harm to humans, plants, animals, or nature. For that reason, all Jains are strict vegetarians — so strict, in fact, that eating root vegetables and some fruits is not allowed because removing the root would kill the plant.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">However, Jains can eat vegetables that grow above the ground, because they can be picked while leaving the rest of the plant intact in complete dedication to nonviolence.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><b><span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large;">Miss Liberty</span></b></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaz6bfbDyE1TGn_KtsKCQ3jPCfi5YXt2mOMqzxTVWER-yInUhxglQLfpFTKTq7aUcQ3iJaFB9OQb4V_Izof_QD2HQM_vQ6Xz93aOo5fIH7r2uQEXKJ7R0FH8KgdxoL3rCnAReVDDO4FpU8_sYTh26sALtDNcODL7MHb7oY9ki4rT5RDJdC_fX6pjHX5vE/s816/miss%20liberty%20vegan%20hero-img.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="816" data-original-width="565" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaz6bfbDyE1TGn_KtsKCQ3jPCfi5YXt2mOMqzxTVWER-yInUhxglQLfpFTKTq7aUcQ3iJaFB9OQb4V_Izof_QD2HQM_vQ6Xz93aOo5fIH7r2uQEXKJ7R0FH8KgdxoL3rCnAReVDDO4FpU8_sYTh26sALtDNcODL7MHb7oY9ki4rT5RDJdC_fX6pjHX5vE/s320/miss%20liberty%20vegan%20hero-img.jpg" width="222" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://misslibertythemovie.com/"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b>Miss Liberty The Movie - A Taste of Freedom</b></span></a></td></tr></tbody></table>The Compassion in Action segment on March 17 features a presentation of the feature film <i>Miss Liberty</i>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Victoria Moran and Rev. William on March 17th introduce their feature film <i>Miss Liberty</i>:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #f1c232;">SYNOPSIS</span></b>: Bob Sanders, a computer tech, is owed money by the owner of a slaughterhouse in their small Midwestern town. When a used up dairy cow manages to escape the packing plant and take refuge in his backyard, he keeps her as collateral, resulting in human drama, legal intrigue, a hint of romance, and you-didn't-see-this-one-coming ending.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">That, in a capsule, is <i>Miss Liberty</i>, the family feature film currently in development and co-written by Rev. William Melton and Victoria Moran. It gets the message of farm animal rights, workers' rights, and veganism out to a larger audience who would never voluntarily watch a "vegan movie" but would love a darn good movie about a cow with a vegan as its female lead.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">That lead is Patricia Levinson, aka "Cow Patty," the animal rights attorney who comes from NYC to attempt to save a cow named "Miss Liberty." </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">n a change of pace for Compassion Consortium Sunday services, the screenwriters will temporarily move from their regular 3rd Sunday assignments and be interviewed by Elaine Hutchison as Compassion in Action guests.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Victoria Moran, a vegan for 40 years and an animal advocate and vegetarian for over 50, is the author of 13 books, with a 14th, <i>Age Like a Yogi</i>, coming in early 2025.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">She was also lead producer for Thomas Jackson's 2019 documentary, <i>A Prayer for Compassion</i>, about food choices and spirituality.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In the CiA segment, Rev. William and Victoria discuss with Elaine why the time has come for <i>Miss Liberty</i> and how viewers can be part of it.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Compassion Consortium is <i>Miss Liberty's</i> nonprofit partner, so all donations to the project are both tax-deductible and matched dollar for dollar, bringing it that much closer to "a theater near you."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Visit the website (<b><a href="http://misslibertythefilm.com">misslibertythefilm.com</a></b>) and follow the project on X (Twitter), @MissLibertyFilm. <a href="https://www.meetup.com/vegan-spirituality/events/299383501/" style="text-align: left;"><b>More</b></a></div>Wisdom Quarterlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16270831701299130326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7104136715924136884.post-50314643022515620192024-03-16T08:05:00.000-07:002024-03-17T01:13:00.813-07:00InsightLA: Youngish Adults Practice Group<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://insightla.org/event/youngish-adults-santa-monica-online/">InsightLA Meditation Practice Group - Santa Monica/Online</a>; Dhr. Seven, Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation) (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly</span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwzFGo2G0Zu_TaxeJUO6angfafBTi3o8_6GooL5aOfHzPnmqKfaMx39qg268irK41eLp0QoTqWWVN_p-mD41eORwpbiY7ZcS4D1cZllZH-Qni1CVd8az6tD31AxVLpBG9omRB2wKHHYrWVbVYJFNDP4xi9REjt4pcLvRMpvP7y_1n2UK5N2PCDMelvXxk/s769/insight%20la.jpeg" style="clear: left; display: inline; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="433" data-original-width="769" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwzFGo2G0Zu_TaxeJUO6angfafBTi3o8_6GooL5aOfHzPnmqKfaMx39qg268irK41eLp0QoTqWWVN_p-mD41eORwpbiY7ZcS4D1cZllZH-Qni1CVd8az6tD31AxVLpBG9omRB2wKHHYrWVbVYJFNDP4xi9REjt4pcLvRMpvP7y_1n2UK5N2PCDMelvXxk/w400-h225/insight%20la.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFBzTc8bRlyAPJAw3MlUX6zF34u5PExcUBbCjxNpyTIuq1DoLbQPChY5dGhPWaYppPEXHVr49NZasqhD5s8vYbpZsSgGHKs_5ZYkUb3faen-MOVpobL_TqZ0YaQb5vqhXbvwtaXYVZ7hDap897uQNumcJtZ7BcsSHMZs5Xx9-TFHSkH3NQgqrd3ren2Qg/s367/insight%20la%20org.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="122" data-original-width="367" height="66" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFBzTc8bRlyAPJAw3MlUX6zF34u5PExcUBbCjxNpyTIuq1DoLbQPChY5dGhPWaYppPEXHVr49NZasqhD5s8vYbpZsSgGHKs_5ZYkUb3faen-MOVpobL_TqZ0YaQb5vqhXbvwtaXYVZ7hDap897uQNumcJtZ7BcsSHMZs5Xx9-TFHSkH3NQgqrd3ren2Qg/w200-h66/insight%20la%20org.png" width="200" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Interested in mindfulness meditation with a supportive hybrid in-person/online community of peer practitioners. Join us either by Zoom online or in-person at the Benedict Canyon Retreat House, within beautiful nature-rich environs. Share the collective wisdom related to sitting meditation practice.</div><p style="text-align: justify;">**All weekly meetings beginning in January 2024 will be held Sundays from 7:00-830 pm PST. Attendees will have optional time for connection from 8:30-9:00 pm after the session finishes.**</p><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Young-ish (in your 20s, 30s or 40s)?</strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;">What’s most alive in your practice? What are you struggling with? In a supportive group environment, we will meditate and explore practical application of the Buddhist wisdom tradition in daily life.</p><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">We’ll focus on the challenges you might be facing as a youngish adult, including:</p><ul><li><p style="text-align: justify;">How to live the teachings of mindfulness and compassion in daily life, navigating transitions, relationships, and careers.</p></li></ul><p style="text-align: justify;">If you have a topic that you would like to bring more mindfulness to, bring it up in the group!</p><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Who is this practice group for?</strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;">The Young-ish Practice Group is for people in their 20s, 30s, and 40s who would like to deepen their mindfulness practice and understanding of Buddhist psychology in community. All are welcome, regardless of previous mindfulness or meditation experience.</p><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Intentions:</strong></p><ul><li><p style="text-align: justify;">Explore Buddhist psychology and mindfulness science to support practical integration in daily life. (<strong>There's no need to identify as a Buddhist because ALL are welcome</strong>).</p></li><li><p style="text-align: justify;">Foster ongoing development of inclusive community and supportive friendship among younger practitioners.</p></li><li><p style="text-align: justify;">Practice in support of the cultivation of wisdom and the alleviation of suffering for all beings, without exception.</p></li></ul><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Typical Group Activities/Format:</strong></p><ul><li><p style="text-align: justify;">Welcome and introductions</p></li><li><p style="text-align: justify;">30-40 minute guided mindfulness meditation.</p></li><li><p style="text-align: justify;">Variety of Buddhist Dharma talks, exploration of mindfulness science, small group discussion, other experiential exercises.</p></li></ul><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Scheduled Teachers:</strong></p><ul><li><p style="text-align: justify;">March 17: Michael Karakashian</p></li><li><p style="text-align: justify;">March 24: Eileen Ybarra</p></li><li><p style="text-align: justify;">March 31: Lulu Toselli</p></li></ul><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Where is this event?</strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Santa Monica and online via Zoom. As weather permits, expect to be mostly outdoors.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">For those attending in-person, find <strong><a href="https://insightla.org/location/benedict-canyon-retreat-house/">directions and accessibility information here</a></strong>.</p><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Please consider carpooling</strong> as there is limited parking available (<strong><a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/19k9kS5r_fq7r7_4-rIWEdyWQraHBNaIkTjA9FRheQVs/edit#slide=id.p">more info</a></strong>). <strong>Click Sign Up</strong> to the left for ride-share options.</p><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">> <em>In keeping with the principles of the Dharma that underlie all InsightLA activities (primarily non-harming), we are requiring that all attendees be fully vaccinated in order to attend this in-person event. Masks are optional as all attendees are fully vaccinated. Attendance is limited to 30 to allow for social distancing.</em></p><div><hr style="text-align: justify;" /></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Donation Based</strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Although this is a donation-based class, registration is required. Suggested donation: $20. If you cannot attend, please cancel your reservation so that others may attend in your place. Space is limited.</p><ul><li><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>SIGN UP: <a href="https://insightla.org/event/youngish-middleish-adult/2024-01-21-19-00/">Youngish Adults (20s, 30s, 40s) Practice Group (insightla.org)<br /></a></strong></p></li></ul>Wisdom Quarterlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16270831701299130326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7104136715924136884.post-26585751226620707712024-03-15T21:45:00.000-07:002024-03-17T01:13:48.913-07:00A drug that removes desire and craving?<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.vox.com/authors/brian-resnick" target="_blank">Brian Resnick</a> (@B_resnickbrian@vox.com), <a href="https://www.vox.com/science/24086968/glp-1-ozempic-semaglutide-craving-desire-science-wanting-liking-opioids-alcohol"><span>Vox.com</span></a>,<span style="text-align: justify;"> March 7, 2024; Dhr. Seven, Amber Larson, Pat Macpherson (eds., Wisdom Quarterly</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="351" data-original-width="500" height="280" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kumOfRiB1FM/XZQWH2i7tTI/AAAAAAACPzs/HVlxIzW5bHQ4yMOrn1v_W3FJVN7B4y1kQCLcBGAsYHQ/s400/so%2Bwrong%252C%2Bhumor%2Bin%2Bpoor%2Btaste%252C%2Bthe%2Bbuddha%2Bwould%2Bnot%2Bsmoke%2Bweed%252C%2Bprince%2Bsiddhartha%2Bmight%2Btake%2Bsoma%252C%2Bbuddha%2Bpizza%2Bheadphones%2Bmarijuana%2Bsmoke%2Bcannabis%2Bpot%2Bsend2pressnewswire%2Bcom%252C%2Bthisisthefrequency%2Bcom.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="400" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Is Buddhism (or Jainism because this is Mahavira) about hallucinatory drugs? NO! Wake up.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kumOfRiB1FM/XZQWH2i7tTI/AAAAAAACPzs/HVlxIzW5bHQ4yMOrn1v_W3FJVN7B4y1kQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/so%2Bwrong%252C%2Bhumor%2Bin%2Bpoor%2Btaste%252C%2Bthe%2Bbuddha%2Bwould%2Bnot%2Bsmoke%2Bweed%252C%2Bprince%2Bsiddhartha%2Bmight%2Btake%2Bsoma%252C%2Bbuddha%2Bpizza%2Bheadphones%2Bmarijuana%2Bsmoke%2Bcannabis%2Bpot%2Bsend2pressnewswire%2Bcom%252C%2Bthisisthefrequency%2Bcom.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em;"><span style="color: #444444;"></span></a></div><span style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: right;">.</div></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbm3zAf7Fqt3qx7JLPu2wHmjOYdsk0OWt-C6lc8f5yPA3pGw1kM2W3Vk8xjdtkmegjNAzquxECExrCcezh2uUlP5dyeobqi9OvBLvuJ-XF4iiIofjEVygPZluZuX6oIrB8LaDAmCXdCu7EW4GdFEfLXPbLw_wTmxma8iwQomT-pTkkCb-1ELG1A5JDO0E/s500/jesus%20smoking%20would%20christ%20be%20a%20white%20rebellious%20teenager%20and%20hipster%20listening%20to%20marley%20music%20on%20soundcloud%20com.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="500" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbm3zAf7Fqt3qx7JLPu2wHmjOYdsk0OWt-C6lc8f5yPA3pGw1kM2W3Vk8xjdtkmegjNAzquxECExrCcezh2uUlP5dyeobqi9OvBLvuJ-XF4iiIofjEVygPZluZuX6oIrB8LaDAmCXdCu7EW4GdFEfLXPbLw_wTmxma8iwQomT-pTkkCb-1ELG1A5JDO0E/w200-h200/jesus%20smoking%20would%20christ%20be%20a%20white%20rebellious%20teenager%20and%20hipster%20listening%20to%20marley%20music%20on%20soundcloud%20com.jpg" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">WWJD? Smoke ganja between healings? No.</span></td></tr></tbody></table>People say all "desire" (<b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ta%E1%B9%87h%C4%81" target="_blank">tanha</a></b>) is bad in Buddhism. This is inaccurate. Desiring liberation, enlightenment, nirvana, or to be free of desire are desires. Who would knock those ambitions? Can Buddhism be explained in a single post to explain why desire is not all bad yet has a central role to pay in our liberation? Probably not but here's a try.</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Brian Resnick introduces findings of a new scientific study that show why we crave and what can be done about it. Hint, it's has a lot to do with the neurotransmitter dopamine has a lot to do with it, and the class of drugs to which Ozempic belongs may be a cure (or for-profit "treatment") for addiction.</i></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: xx-small; text-align: justify;">.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><b>What's with Buddhism and desire (craving)?</b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ7YUWOSH7EV4Nfo38s1vOoWZJECjlAQsp_o_FW843il2wwEtqiEl6qfyPYlzQdpu9ufUH0J0wAQPAGx89_OxGDDK_s5chXU2FXaiMIXyE4X-qyfnwesFPVEumZc8Vrmd5WpxKgIJkTy-nuJvL3Z2OYY0xCFGa5zLaURtO6B2GBugnCvIoa7BvI2154s4/s1326/buddha%20first%20human%20representation,%20Gandhara_Buddha_(tnm)%20wiki.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1326" data-original-width="800" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ7YUWOSH7EV4Nfo38s1vOoWZJECjlAQsp_o_FW843il2wwEtqiEl6qfyPYlzQdpu9ufUH0J0wAQPAGx89_OxGDDK_s5chXU2FXaiMIXyE4X-qyfnwesFPVEumZc8Vrmd5WpxKgIJkTy-nuJvL3Z2OYY0xCFGa5zLaURtO6B2GBugnCvIoa7BvI2154s4/s320/buddha%20first%20human%20representation,%20Gandhara_Buddha_(tnm)%20wiki.jpeg" width="193" /></a></div>Westerners are taught that the Buddha and, therefore, Buddhism oppose desire -- as if, just by wanting not to want we could get our wish. What's wrong with wanting?</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: justify;">As humans we rarely get what we want, and we often get what we <i>don't</i> want. So <i>wanting</i> can't be the key.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: justify;">The reason for this teaching is that the Buddha discovered Dependent Origination in answer to his quest to answer the question, <i><b><span style="color: #f1c232;">Why do we suffer?</span></b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: justify;">He found that like all things, "suffering" (<i>dukkha =</i> disappointment, pain, woe, ill, distress, unsatisfactoriness) arises dependent on conditions and not without them.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: justify;">Dependent Origination is that answer, 12 causal links: This leads to that; when this is, that comes to be; when that is not, that does not come to be. The suffering of this moment is based on causes and conditions rooted in the past.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: justify;">As he reviewed each of these factors, the links of this causal chain, he asked a key question: How can this be put to an end so that it (suffering) doesn't arise again?</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: justify;">Its antecedents (things that came before) are rooted in the past, and its results come to fruition fortuitously when they meet with the opportunity in subsequent lives. He saw actions (karma) in past lives bearing fruit at a later time, sometimes much later, and in this present moment.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: justify;">It is because there was <i>this</i> (karma in the past) that <i>that</i> (present results) came to be, and it is because of ignorance that that kind of action (unskillful karma) was produced. What kind? The kind that produces painful results.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: justify;">Ignorance is the fundamental basis of attraction (craving and clinging, desire and attachment) and aversion (manifesting as hate or fear).</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: justify;">And these three -- attraction, aversion, and ignorance, <i>lobha, dosa</i>, and <i>moha</i>, popularly translated as "greed, hatred, and delusion" -- are the roots of ALL bad karma.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: justify;">It's only called "bad," not as a moral judgment but because the Buddha -- and anyone who gains the power of knowing-and-seeing -- could see beings meeting the result of their previous and present actions. Edgar Cayce could see it, too. Any <i>rishi</i> can, and anyone who successfully strives can become a seer of such things, directly, independently, not based on anyone else.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: justify;">One can see these things in this Doctrine and Discipline (<i>Dhamma-Vinaya</i>) because Buddhism is not a faith, and this is not a belief system but a verifiable practice.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: justify;">In fact, if one does not practice it, one will not be able to know-and-see, to penetrate the Truth and be set free by it. The whole point of Buddhism is the gaining of enlightenment (bodhi, spiritual awakening) and reaching the safety of nirvana (<i>amata, nirodha, moksha, nibbana</i> -- the deathless state, cessation, liberation, complete freedom from all substrates of rebirth and suffering of every kind).</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: justify;">We are here on this side, beset by darkness (ignorance) and in great danger (of old age, sickness, death, desire/thirst/craving, not getting what we want, and getting what we don't want, losing what we love, and being paired with what we hate), to use a simile, and we can see across the water a further shore.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: justify;">That shore is free of these things, free of danger. But we are here, on this dangerous side, so how do we get to that side?</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: justify;">A Buddha (a supremely enlightened teacher capable of teaching the path to that enlightenment) comes into being, makes known the Teaching (<i>Dhamma/</i>Dharma), establishes the practice and a community of practitioners (<i>Sangha</i>). These are the Three Jewels.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: justify;">One hears the Dharma from the Buddha or a member of the <i>Sangha</i> who heard it from the Buddha, applies what is heard (puts it into practice rather than making a theory, faith, or belief of it), and comes to know-and-see for oneself.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: justify;">This knowledge and vision has to do with the true nature of reality. One can be told it, and it can be grasped conceptually, but it won't do much good. What's worse, it may just lead to a lot of thinking or believing, debating and conceptualizing, rationalizing and endless questioning.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: justify;">At some point the questions have to stop, and with confidence that this path holds promise and is verifiable, the <i>practice</i> of it has to start. There's no other way.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: justify;">The wandering ascetic Siddhartha was not sitting under a bodhi tree when a bo fruit (tiny fig) fell, hit him on the head, and he instantly became Newton. How then did it happen?</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: justify;">He tried many things, in this life and in many previous lives. And, as in the past, he practiced the absorptions or levels of <i>samadhi </i>(stillness), which temporarily purified the mind, and he attained bliss then peace, but he realized that this was not it, not the highest, not liberation (<i>moksha</i>), not enlightenment, not nirvana (the ultimate).</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><br />So he practiced something more that we call <i>vipassana</i> or "insight meditation" on top of that stillness. He practiced the systematic pondering of the Four Foundations of Mindfulness (body, feelings, mind, and mental phenomena), still asking the question, <i>"Why is there suffering?"</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2puAUQZ33y2A9TIAjzAXgztIL1mfIzApL4-OVtI4ICW7n5XSzLfMHtWAGf6tvwvaWi2ZHkH1RWs-jytIGDC80kHYAlWCh-r59d0bRx1oHP39gKdU0ssm3oR-foFAluY3co37bZnErxBE1SCyGgjYFv3PUqqwX1_exBe57uUHAUMzuAVkbqPKOMoAjl1M/s1024/blue%20eyes%20of%20the%20buddha,%20Boudhanath%20nepal%20Boudha_Stupa_IMG_7867_2018_37.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="575" data-original-width="1024" height="113" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2puAUQZ33y2A9TIAjzAXgztIL1mfIzApL4-OVtI4ICW7n5XSzLfMHtWAGf6tvwvaWi2ZHkH1RWs-jytIGDC80kHYAlWCh-r59d0bRx1oHP39gKdU0ssm3oR-foFAluY3co37bZnErxBE1SCyGgjYFv3PUqqwX1_exBe57uUHAUMzuAVkbqPKOMoAjl1M/w200-h113/blue%20eyes%20of%20the%20buddha,%20Boudhanath%20nepal%20Boudha_Stupa_IMG_7867_2018_37.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><span style="text-align: justify;">He then realized suffering (and everything else, too) was dependently-originated, that is, it was born of causes and conditions. "What were they?" he asked. And he saw that this present suffering depended on, for example, having been born. Why was he born? The karma of the past? Why was there karma in the past? And so on... <span style="font-size: xx-small;">CONTINUED ON FOLLOWING POST</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: justify;"></span></div><div><div><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large;">Is Ozempic an anti-desire drug?
Scientists are realizing GLP-1 drugs have the potential to turn down cravings — for more than just food<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmo-Q59J4iGTFMO3WuqMQQqIvFI7eRy48uG-0LpppMa7S9QGSiMMhfKAlrXRR5TxLJgOK51bkkvSwwLDPTf7eBTi8KK3mB7W8ZRF9FjTTkmfO9-Ju3s-eQavNaQsAaPIuR8RT7pxqAruB0Vv0xnq7p9YQ5Elm16inr6mPTA6Hu2v3tMzRoDd3IoETmSRw/s1570/ozempic%20anti%20desire%20drug,%20vox.com,%20TimLahan_final.0%20vox.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="883" data-original-width="1570" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmo-Q59J4iGTFMO3WuqMQQqIvFI7eRy48uG-0LpppMa7S9QGSiMMhfKAlrXRR5TxLJgOK51bkkvSwwLDPTf7eBTi8KK3mB7W8ZRF9FjTTkmfO9-Ju3s-eQavNaQsAaPIuR8RT7pxqAruB0Vv0xnq7p9YQ5Elm16inr6mPTA6Hu2v3tMzRoDd3IoETmSRw/w400-h225/ozempic%20anti%20desire%20drug,%20vox.com,%20TimLahan_final.0%20vox.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: xx-small;">We look at what we like, fixate on what will stimulate dopamine and/or serotonins, slaves to pleasure, bug-eyed for sugar, fat, and starch (Tim Lahan/Vox).</span></td></tr></tbody></table></span></b></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: xx-small;">.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Brian Resnick is Vox’s science and health editor and is the co-creator of <i>Unexplainable</i>, Vox's podcast about unanswered questions in science. Previously, Resnick was a reporter at Vox and at <i>National Journal</i>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCakrgUjBJYj4efSEgef-P2sD6KcYiq4PC968gX3xD4erqKh4Npl2B2xnYlM-KpEysQHg6eDvnA6yts50L4SW15TZCzUxEX05IQMgg6_uwkJI-I_DizWso_5v58LK9FwTPbN3rnrs7EiSqwTbcZbJmIbFITaNxCsyCZjW7IkDfnXEq3AON_Qv01IFt29A/s1024/travel%20beauty%20beach%20vw%20bug%20coke%20cola%20KBB-Classic_Cars-1024x683.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="683" data-original-width="1024" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCakrgUjBJYj4efSEgef-P2sD6KcYiq4PC968gX3xD4erqKh4Npl2B2xnYlM-KpEysQHg6eDvnA6yts50L4SW15TZCzUxEX05IQMgg6_uwkJI-I_DizWso_5v58LK9FwTPbN3rnrs7EiSqwTbcZbJmIbFITaNxCsyCZjW7IkDfnXEq3AON_Qv01IFt29A/w200-h133/travel%20beauty%20beach%20vw%20bug%20coke%20cola%20KBB-Classic_Cars-1024x683.jpg" width="200" /></a><b><a href="https://www.mcgill.ca/psychology/marco-leyton" target="_blank">Dr. Marco Leyton, Ph.D.</a></b>, assures me the cocaine he purchased was legal. [Likely story, but the Coca Cola company has the legal right, granted by the US government, to see cocaine from processed coca leaves it imports into the US because coke used to be an actual addictive ingredient of Coca-Cola.]</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Plus, it wasn’t for him, definitely not. It was for recreational cocaine users who had answered Dr. Leyton’s ad in a local newspaper to do drugs and collect <b><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/mcgill-pays-study-subjects-500-to-take-cocaine-1.382810" target="_blank">500 Canadian dollars</a></b> — risking their nasal passages for science.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Dr. Leyton had jumped through many hoops to get to this point — getting an okay from the Canadian equivalent of the FDA, exempting him from criminal prosecution, and clearing his own university’s ethics approval.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVR0C50EsHm7GsRtXZcG1OQ00YhEsrGWmymYeIp9-grFryF4XCr409nSrWtulHQvdia4gU20opZeIvmhy9BXs95yh7MghShG1uSvZa5yal2kZcP0frZZEg8CBjazFrZ2JtOltqtkHf8FoY80pCGyjfzbywtoD5QB_vvqC0MYoa4GSY1nZMc3XFtNupkow/s750/zelenskyy%20jewish%20cocaine%20ukraine%20rense%20com%20zn.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="750" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVR0C50EsHm7GsRtXZcG1OQ00YhEsrGWmymYeIp9-grFryF4XCr409nSrWtulHQvdia4gU20opZeIvmhy9BXs95yh7MghShG1uSvZa5yal2kZcP0frZZEg8CBjazFrZ2JtOltqtkHf8FoY80pCGyjfzbywtoD5QB_vvqC0MYoa4GSY1nZMc3XFtNupkow/w200-h133/zelenskyy%20jewish%20cocaine%20ukraine%20rense%20com%20zn.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>“I wasn’t asking people to bring in their own [illegal] cocaine,” Dr. Leyton, an addiction neurobiologist at <b><a href="https://www.mcgill.ca/psychology/marco-leyton" target="_blank">McGill University</a></b> in Canada, tells me. Now that could be unethical.
It was all in pursuit of one of the deepest questions that haunts us as individuals:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“Why do we really care about some things and not too much about others?” as Dr. Leyton says.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Really: <i>Why</i> do we want what we want?
With the drugs in hand, Dr. Leyton ran a small study for some insight [and valuable medical knowledge].</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">It involved just eight participants, but it’s noteworthy because it’s a relatively rare human experiment in a field that more commonly tests rodents (which have found similar results as the human studies).</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Plus, it’s just wild. I have never read these words in an academic journal before: Participants “were presented with cocaine paraphernalia consisting of a mirror, a razor, [a credit card,] a straw, and a bag with 3.0 mg/kg of cocaine hydrochloride.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The study took place over four days. And while the cocaine is the eyebrow-raising component of the study, a special protein shake was the actual key.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">On any given day, half the participants were randomly assigned to ingest a shake that was missing a key ingredient called <b><span style="color: #f1c232;">phenylalanine</span></b>, an important amino acid that helps our body manufacture the <b><span style="color: #f1c232;">neurotransmitter dopamine</span></b>. That’s the chemical released when our brain is expecting, or sometimes <i>demanding</i>, a reward, like a sweet treat or, as here, cocaine.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">So if one is like these study participants, fasting before this experiment, and were then only given a food source without phenylalanine, our body chemistry would subtly change.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Dr. Leyton thought the participants who consumed this weird breakfast would have less dopamine available in their brains.
After their shake, the participants were then invited to do blow [sugar, snot rocket, Columbian dandruff, the Devil's ashes].</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Or as the study plainly states, the participants “used the razor to divide the powder into three equal lines.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #f1c232;"><b><i>“</i></b></span></span><i><b><span style="color: #f1c232;">TOO MANY PEOPLE HAVE BEEN PUT IN AN UNFAIR BATTLE AGAINST THEIR WANTS. THEY’VE BEEN TOLD TO SOMEHOW EXERT WILLPOWER OVER A SYSTEM THEY HAVE LITTLE CONSCIOUS AWARENESS OF AND CONTROL OVER.</span></b></i><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #f1c232;"><b><i>”</i></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">They snorted it.
But remarkably, on the phenylalanine-free shake days, Dr. Leyton says, “they decreased their craving for cocaine.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">They said they were less interested in snorting it.
But it was more than that: The special shake “decreased the ability of the cocaine itself to produce more desire for the drug,” he says.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">And strangely, “it had no effect on the drug-induced euphoria,” Dr. Leyton claims. In other words, <b><span style="color: #f1c232;">they still liked cocaine</span></b>. They just didn’t want it as much.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">While talking to Dr. Leyton about his cocaine study, I wondered, Why isn’t the phenylalanine-free shake <i>The Answer</i> to addiction, to overeating, to similar problems of compulsive consumption?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Well, for one thing, because it’s impractical. Phenylalanine is in just about <b><a href="https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/phenylalanine" target="_blank">all protein food sources</a></b>. So unless someone wants to solely eat specially lab-generated shakes their whole lives, that’s not going to work. <b><a href="https://www.vox.com/science/24086968/glp-1-ozempic-semaglutide-craving-desire-science-wanting-liking-opioids-alcohol" target="_blank">More</a></b></div></div>Wisdom Quarterlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16270831701299130326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7104136715924136884.post-73764228332949054662024-03-15T21:40:00.000-07:002024-03-16T09:11:44.774-07:00Subtle Art of Not Giving a F: 40 truths (video)<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Mark Manson, March 9, 2024; Pat Macpherson, Dhr. 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Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly</span><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwo_lZml5qrBuTS1mPr77za0CqPeOa_2Y_Lz3LpDF-OOAmw0DirXkl3U78ZHgmyIfy85cYvxytZf76NPKZgds5mocfOPQ9JBJ6vRB1PN6NmHaKdW17QQm4M_3OD9cAp9YaIHwWlq673gPrJNTqTRgICKfWBlAyKb-v-ZsAMtlTQMD0eMMF7KA6_x6b9xc/s800/buddha-did%20not%20use-cannabis-seeds%20to%20survive,%20it%20was%20mustard%20or%20rice%20and%20probably%20an%20exaggeration,%20cannabis-history-by-cannaquestions.thehighest%20critic%20com.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="445" data-original-width="800" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwo_lZml5qrBuTS1mPr77za0CqPeOa_2Y_Lz3LpDF-OOAmw0DirXkl3U78ZHgmyIfy85cYvxytZf76NPKZgds5mocfOPQ9JBJ6vRB1PN6NmHaKdW17QQm4M_3OD9cAp9YaIHwWlq673gPrJNTqTRgICKfWBlAyKb-v-ZsAMtlTQMD0eMMF7KA6_x6b9xc/w400-h223/buddha-did%20not%20use-cannabis-seeds%20to%20survive,%20it%20was%20mustard%20or%20rice%20and%20probably%20an%20exaggeration,%20cannabis-history-by-cannaquestions.thehighest%20critic%20com.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">This cartoonish Fat Happy Buddha is NOT the Buddha of history. He is a <i>bodhisattva</i> named Putai, Budai, or Hotei. He was a kind, jolly, overweight monk who gave candy to children from a bag.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: x-small; text-align: right;">.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Buzznik Alejandro over at TheHighestCritic.com has a question, which he has already answered quite sure that he's right.</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large;">Q: Did the Buddha Gautama use cannabis?</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaeN9MH80G0667nKVZIF4h2E7GD3gCIVKiY8YpCfbyrtAqEeCIhWlLbOY47KALJDRDvJUnW8PSlmrS9AiNhWi6YdZea7jOQ-BrsBOC8hNqYXeopyievBU_zZird8mUVaZzuYAoEsw_9oKNmhR_5uKn9jQHreMgeuyHuhxq9vKxg1yXG2zMS5yXsRHj0Oc/s873/cannabis%20eat%20this%20not%20that%20msn%20com%20AARlLA5.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="582" data-original-width="873" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaeN9MH80G0667nKVZIF4h2E7GD3gCIVKiY8YpCfbyrtAqEeCIhWlLbOY47KALJDRDvJUnW8PSlmrS9AiNhWi6YdZea7jOQ-BrsBOC8hNqYXeopyievBU_zZird8mUVaZzuYAoEsw_9oKNmhR_5uKn9jQHreMgeuyHuhxq9vKxg1yXG2zMS5yXsRHj0Oc/w200-h133/cannabis%20eat%20this%20not%20that%20msn%20com%20AARlLA5.jpg" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Let's examine this Q from the view of a pot leaf</span></td></tr></tbody></table>According, to, <i>like,</i> some mystical sutra, Bro, you know, um, Siddhartha, who later became Buddha, used cannabis. He was all Buddhafied! But, check this out, <i>NOT</i> how you would think, not in the traditional sense.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit-4bXrP2XAbvdzFEz9coujHtozkX4Yau0-pnwd63AwSLajlBtAVnd4JVypQNb-et-wypJyQYl5JPoONuRIvd3HtpkAISoBF0mO88TYw76BSYSDDtG4eQFt1RoAVQSd8fJGuRIUih2GNKIVpgSMByZuCyKvtWDmgZxvySakGCstRSxFp54z654VL15i3U/s1108/fat%20happy%20lucky%20buddha,%20the%20bodhisattva%20budai.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1108" data-original-width="948" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit-4bXrP2XAbvdzFEz9coujHtozkX4Yau0-pnwd63AwSLajlBtAVnd4JVypQNb-et-wypJyQYl5JPoONuRIvd3HtpkAISoBF0mO88TYw76BSYSDDtG4eQFt1RoAVQSd8fJGuRIUih2GNKIVpgSMByZuCyKvtWDmgZxvySakGCstRSxFp54z654VL15i3U/w171-h200/fat%20happy%20lucky%20buddha,%20the%20bodhisattva%20budai.jpg" width="171" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">I didn't use weed either. I was a good monk</span></td></tr></tbody></table>It's said that prior to his Great Awakening [his <i>Maha Bodhi, </i>which means <i>prior </i>to when he was the Buddha, which means the "Awakened One"],<i> </i><strike>Buddha</strike> Siddhartha lived on nothing but a single cannabis seed per day for SIX YEARS! 🤯</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><ul><li><span style="font-size: xx-small;">It's a beautiful legend, and we hope it's true because raw hemp seeds are a superfood, a miracle, a health-wonder full of Omega 3, 6, and 9 essential fatty acids in balance, which is extraordinarily rare in nature. Everyone should eat raw hemp seeds every day. Put them in a blender with pure water, and it's an instant healthy white nut-milk with no other ingredients necessary.</span></li></ul></div><div style="text-align: justify;">What’s interesting about this, is that cannabis only receives slight reference in Buddhist legends even though it is rather significant to the religion.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><ul><li><span style="font-size: xx-small;">This is because it is not significant to the religion or the PRACTICE of the Ennobling (Enlightening) Eightfold Path the religion teaches. In fact, the only thing we can think of relating cannabis bud, flower, dab (hash exudations), or the plant as an entheogenic drug, has to do with Buddhism is that the Buddha was a Scythian (Shakyan) from neighboring Gandhara (now Afghanistan, nearby but not in magical Nepal, which is high in the Himalayas) from the foothills of the Hindu Kush, which is part of the Himalayan range, far to the west of Nepal. The Scythians were originally nomadic wandering in Central Asia before settling and adopting an agrarian way of life. They did not drink ordinary alcohol. They drank a special kind made of fermented mare's milk. A mare is a female horse, and the low-grade alcohol made from natural yeast falling on lactose and souring it makes a kind of less addictive alcohol than toxic grain-based alcohol. The Scythians had a drink called <i>soma</i> (<i>haoma</i>) into which they put cannabis to make a kind of mundane ambrosia (<i>amrita</i>). Some may have been a general name because the real stuff seems to have been the entheogen blue lotus, a DMT-type substance also popular in ancient Egypt. It's hard to imagine that Siddhartha, a prince of a Scythian group called the Sakas raised watching dancing girls and musicians, would never have tried it. Cannabis grows wild throughout the foothills, where it originated as a plant.</span></li></ul></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Prince Sidhartha Gautama, who became the Buddha Gautama, lived in Lumbini in the Himalayan foothills of Nepal, a region that’s rich in cultivated and naturally occurring <i>Cannabis indica</i> known as Nepali Indica.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><ul><li><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Prince Sid, who became "The Buddha" by virtue of his spiritual awakening at the age of 35 after six or seven years of intensive endeavor on his quest to discover why we suffer and what can be done about it, was born in Lumbini Garden but he never lived there. He was raised in Kapilavastu (which Dr. Ranajit Pal has demonstrated must have been in Bamiyan, Afghanistan, and its environs, which we feel safe to speculate were Mes Aynak and Kabul (Kabil, Kapil, Kapilavastu) because he lived in three different places, three seasonal capitals that relocated by season, hot, cold, and rainy. He awoke to the Truth. There is no record of him smoking or consuming cannabis to get high or anything else. If the seed was eaten as a food, he might have eaten it but only if it were provided to him as he was a wandering ascetic living on alms, having gone East to proto-India, just south of Nepal, in his pursuit of enlightenment.</span></li></ul></div><div style="text-align: justify;">As the story goes, Siddhartha the wandering ascetic (doing <i>tapas</i> or extreme austerities and self-mortifications as misguided penance to compensate for this anti-spiritual body, a common practice among yogis) became so weak because of excessive fasting, that he resumed eating because a woman named Sujata and her maid offered him food.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">He recovered his strength and realized the body is not a hindrance to spirituality. In fact, it can be a vehicle to it. His strength and health regained, he began his legendary meditation under the Bodhi tree. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><ul><li><span style="font-size: xx-small;">It is called the Bodhi tree because <i>bodhi </i>means "enlightenment" or "awakening." Prior to his great awakening, it was not called that. The tree (<i>Ficus religiosa</i>, a giant pipal tree, which is like a banyan) drops tons of fruit, small figs that are not eaten (and who knows why because they are delicious and nutritious) except as a resource during famine. Religious studies teachers in the US note that the chemical composition of these figs is one molecule different from acid, LSD. The implication being, Wouldn't he have eaten these under that tree and otherwise fasting because he was not getting up to go on alms. And though no one was offering this food, the Tree was. He called on the Earth, in the earth-witnessing mudra, to vouch for him. We know trees have dryads. That's why he was fed by Sujata. She and her maid were making offerings to the tree spirit near their house as she wanted to get pregnant. She became pregnant, and this was the big offering in gratitude. Seeing him with his long hair, possibly in dreads from not washing it, they mistook him for spirit of the tree.</span></li></ul><span style="font-size: xx-small;">🧘♂️🌲 . . #Buddhism #enlightenment #nobleeightfoldpath #weedhistory #cannabislegends #buddha #buddhism #buddhabless #hemp #hempflower #hemplife #weed #cannabisheals #meditate #cannabiscommunity #weedstagram</span></div></div>Wisdom Quarterlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16270831701299130326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7104136715924136884.post-83352158413236851842024-03-15T15:30:00.000-07:002024-03-16T20:18:26.653-07:00Springtime is for love BUT... ('Strangers')<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Kenya Grace, 9/1/23; Ashley Wells, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="300" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/uOC3bDewZoo" title="#KenyaGrace #Strangers" width="410"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="300" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/S2TaAcwC_zI" title="Kenya Grace - Strangers (Official Lyric Video)" width="410"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="300" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/qq7DkJQpoB0" title="@DivaAngelLife #shorts" width="200"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">For the love of attention/money, ready for porn?</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><ul><li><a href="https://wisdomquarterly.blogspot.com/2023/02/nothing-higher-to-live-before-love-rules.html"><b>Nothing Higher to Live For: Romantic Love</b></a></li><li><b><span style="color: #04ff00;">Women and their money</span>: <a href="http://try.dowjanes.com/webinar-l/">try.dowjanes.com</a></b></li></ul></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large;"><b>Love sucks, right Kenya Grace? "Strangers" (official lyric video)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><yt-img-shadow class="style-scope ytd-video-owner-renderer no-transition" id="avatar" loaded="" style="background-color: transparent; border-radius: 50%; clear: left; display: inline-block; flex: 0 0 auto; float: left; height: 40px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; opacity: 1; overflow: hidden; transition: none 0s ease 0s; width: 40px;" width="40"><img alt="" class="style-scope yt-img-shadow" draggable="false" id="img" src="https://yt3.ggpht.com/icgcIeC9loslCV2b9AHr4KmXSNUde52Gb76pROaCA-TsyPEoDsNwM8A5zmySHcier0NTVMOt=s48-c-k-c0x00ffffff-no-nd-rj" style="background: transparent; border-radius: var(--yt-img-border-radius,none); border: 0px; display: block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: var(--yt-img-margin-left,auto); margin-right: var(--yt-img-margin-right,auto); margin-top: 0px; max-height: var(--yt-img-max-height,none); max-width: var(--yt-img-max-width,100%); padding: 0px;" width="40" /></yt-img-shadow>(<b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX3IrV7uIir6yzMM9kOtH1Q" target="_blank">Kenya Grace</a></b>) <b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/kenyagrace" target="_blank">#KenyaGrace</a></b> <b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/strangers" target="_blank">#Strangers</a> <span style="color: #f1c232;">LYRICS</span></b>: It always ends the same/ When it was me and you/ But every time I meet somebody new/ It's like deja vu/ I swear they sound the same/ It's like they know my skin/ Every word they say sounds just like him/ And it goes like this/ We’ll get in your car/ And you’ll lean to kiss me/ We’ll talk for hours/ And lie on the back seat/ Uh huh uh huh </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="300" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_YfMgVX_uKc" title="Kenya Grace's 'Strangers': From working in a piercing shop to having huge VIRAL Number 1 song 🤯" width="200"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Who is this young musical entrepreneur?</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Then one random night when everything changes/ You won't reply/ And we’ll go back to strangers/ Uh huh uh huh</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">It’s something that I hate/ How everyone's disposable now/ Every time I date somebody new/ I feel vulnerable/ That it’ll never change/ And it will just stay like this/ Never ending dating breaking up/ And it goes like this/ We’ll get in your car/ And you’ll lean to kiss me/ We’ll talk for hours/ And lie on the back seat/ Uh huh uh huh</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Then one random night when everything changes/ You won't reply/ And we’ll go back to strangers/ Uh huh uh huh</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="350" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/qWQPFJ8TtBs" title="New song by Kenya Grace using Playtron and oranges #music #newsong #playtronica #shorts" width="250"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Singer Kenya Grace has real talent with modern equipment</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div>It always ends the same/ When it was me and you/ But every time I meet somebody new/ It's like deja vu/ When we spoke for months/ Did you ever mean it? / How can they say that this is love/ When it goes like this?/ We’ll get in ur car/ And you’ll lean to kiss me/ We’ll talk for hours/ And lie on the back seat/ Uh huh uh huh</div><div><br /></div><div>Then one random night when everything changes/ You won't reply/ And we’ll go back to strangers/ Uh huh uh huh</div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Listen to "Strangers": <b><a href="https://majorrecordings.lnk.to/strangers">majorrecordings.lnk.to/strangers</a></b>
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Production Company: SPACEHRTS.</span></div>Wisdom Quarterlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16270831701299130326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7104136715924136884.post-344890038401681052024-03-15T15:25:00.000-07:002024-03-15T19:54:17.814-07:00How I knew this relationship was over<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Joy Canoy, May 28, 2023; <a href="http://codepink.org" target="_blank">Ashley Wells</a>, CC Liu, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUs_8aBbxoIrHh8yv2voiMNZBUZVwxpxCGHY8WctoimZJ8wRyfsrmj4LjZmcQWhSWGWoyx8xn2YYe_OGDtKV40lyOTHtq5uC5HhPz6JRZfFCz_1V9uOrYAM8VspnLX5AU-1SY1kuWT9HL1UT20GOSZ6JPFbXZR7qQ1znv9bBqyrUGFsg6rkDOOtJVybyU/s800/heartache%20heartbreak%20when%20it's%20over%20and%20you%20know%20it%20freepik-@freepik-3.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUs_8aBbxoIrHh8yv2voiMNZBUZVwxpxCGHY8WctoimZJ8wRyfsrmj4LjZmcQWhSWGWoyx8xn2YYe_OGDtKV40lyOTHtq5uC5HhPz6JRZfFCz_1V9uOrYAM8VspnLX5AU-1SY1kuWT9HL1UT20GOSZ6JPFbXZR7qQ1znv9bBqyrUGFsg6rkDOOtJVybyU/w400-h300/heartache%20heartbreak%20when%20it's%20over%20and%20you%20know%20it%20freepik-@freepik-3.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbCFKijd0hjbPX5dmAiQeGNB1uuTHOaRoBdQ7T4MyhMLQgl34VBjQzGHY9BewfoY8EuKmqC5_Rh7CtleEdVw24vzEB9OWMzWGZfzSdv9HHkQ_rKBraSI0voPZm4OR7LIM1ahO0dUb4MT2ylkcrUcNkif0J55L3zbSLKOWMq4A5-HU7AWE8ROY7MGot23k/s626/hearbreak%20heartache%20X%20relationship%20pain%20kiss%20valentine's%20day,%20freepik%20com.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="483" data-original-width="626" height="154" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbCFKijd0hjbPX5dmAiQeGNB1uuTHOaRoBdQ7T4MyhMLQgl34VBjQzGHY9BewfoY8EuKmqC5_Rh7CtleEdVw24vzEB9OWMzWGZfzSdv9HHkQ_rKBraSI0voPZm4OR7LIM1ahO0dUb4MT2ylkcrUcNkif0J55L3zbSLKOWMq4A5-HU7AWE8ROY7MGot23k/w200-h154/hearbreak%20heartache%20X%20relationship%20pain%20kiss%20valentine's%20day,%20freepik%20com.png" width="200" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Unfortunately, the quest to find our one true love, often referred to simply as “The One,” is a universal aspiration shared by everyone.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">It is, however, disheartening to acknowledge that simply desiring this connection does not guarantee its attainment, as many individuals have learned through great personal experiences of suffering and turmoil.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Time and time again, hopeful romantics invest their utmost efforts into relationships, only to witness them crumble. Similarly, there are unfortunate individuals who gradually come to the realization that their relationship is not progressing in the most favorable direction, to put it mildly.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Here we find anecdotes shared by individuals recounting the extraordinary moments that led them to understand that their partners were not “The One.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><ul><li><a href="https://medium.com/mindfullove/relationships-arent-meant-to-make-us-feel-whole-b1c9227a0c03"><b>Relationships aren’t meant to make us feel whole | Elephant Journal | Mindful Love, Loss, Lust | Medium</b></a></li><li><a href="https://www.quora.com/Why-are-guys-so-sweet-in-the-beginning-and-as-the-relationship-progresses-they-are-not-as-sweet-anymore-How-do-I-change-this"><b>Why are guys so sweet in the beginning, and as the relationship progresses, they are not as sweet anymore? How do I change this? | Quora</b></a></li><li><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskMen/comments/146su7s/why_did_you_stop_putting_effort_into_your/"><b>Why did you stop putting effort into your relationship? : r/AskMen (reddit.com)</b></a></li><li><a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/07/harvard-psychologist-if-you-use-these-phrases-your-relationship-is-more-successful-than-most-couples.html"><b>Harvard psychologist: If you use any of these 9 phrases, ‘your relationship is more successful' than most (cnbc.com)</b></a></li><li><a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/14/finland-psychologist-happiness-researcher-phrases-we-use-every-day.html"><b>Finland psychologist, happiness researcher: Phrases we use every day (cnbc.com)</b></a></li></ul></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7rZmhaKLEqi-HtXIV_BX9vbliVQL-fJhj248RaVHbk2oAPUCITAi4UU4XnEGgt7xZZLMi9LbmuLiZuKwq7_FMVonOJe41cczfurvV6DAb8CbZlt3Elz18mOiL32RD_XxNRiXSItAbJMeM2BQUWleCJ0zjYIaO9WfIqsnjynZNX_G2Wock6qvkRG4q4Jk/s1306/wendy%20walsh%20and%20KFI%20co-host%20black%20woman%20instagram.png" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="879" data-original-width="1306" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7rZmhaKLEqi-HtXIV_BX9vbliVQL-fJhj248RaVHbk2oAPUCITAi4UU4XnEGgt7xZZLMi9LbmuLiZuKwq7_FMVonOJe41cczfurvV6DAb8CbZlt3Elz18mOiL32RD_XxNRiXSItAbJMeM2BQUWleCJ0zjYIaO9WfIqsnjynZNX_G2Wock6qvkRG4q4Jk/w400-h269/wendy%20walsh%20and%20KFI%20co-host%20black%20woman%20instagram.png" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKA7BwOlZvWE-AqlYSXFbuE4ZemrTgLiFeXLHzgqhUSp1_-rXZ8LeXBUFOL47aK6x_vTCWajbBRLMQLZpWO2PlIiuoBdwrbNlcVTvdJRzTRXM3CZJfnsz-4z1otsi54ZgYByGeAmaL55KUkIfF28xa7tFe_3fq9TlBdUZKPRA7J4FBNPGD90XvNG8pvmQ/s981/wendy%20walsh%20on%20IG.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="655" data-original-width="981" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKA7BwOlZvWE-AqlYSXFbuE4ZemrTgLiFeXLHzgqhUSp1_-rXZ8LeXBUFOL47aK6x_vTCWajbBRLMQLZpWO2PlIiuoBdwrbNlcVTvdJRzTRXM3CZJfnsz-4z1otsi54ZgYByGeAmaL55KUkIfF28xa7tFe_3fq9TlBdUZKPRA7J4FBNPGD90XvNG8pvmQ/w400-h268/wendy%20walsh%20on%20IG.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><ul><li><i><b><a href="https://wisdomquarterly.blogspot.com/2023/02/nothing-higher-to-live-before-love-rules.html" target="_blank">Nothing Higher to Live For: A Buddhist View of Romantic Love</a></b></i></li><li><a href="https://manifestinglifedaily.com/"><b>manifestinglifedaily.com</b></a></li><li><a href="https://www.lost-ways.net/"><b>The Lost Ways (lost-ways.net)</b></a></li><li><a href="https://thehealthiestfat.com/230911b/survey/survey.php"><b>Maybe I should fix my diet so my stomach will stop hurting: GundryMD (thehealthiestfat.com)</b></a></li><li><a href="https://www.iron-neck.com/pages/pain"><b>For some it's a pain in the neck, for others the back; for me, I have a lower opinion of it (iron-neck.com)</b></a></li><li><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/parenting/10-boys-vs-10-girls-were-left-unsupervised-in-a-house-for-5-days-the-results-were-wildly-different/ar-AA163rGI"><b>10 boys vs 10 girls were left unsupervised in a house for 5 days and the results were wildly </b></a><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/parenting/10-boys-vs-10-girls-were-left-unsupervised-in-a-house-for-5-days-the-results-were-wildly-different/ar-AA163rGI"><b>different</b></a></li></ul></div>Wisdom Quarterlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16270831701299130326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7104136715924136884.post-66469743626775976832024-03-15T14:55:00.000-07:002024-03-18T09:31:19.666-07:00Spring break in Miami, Florida? Not this year<div style="text-align: justify;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="300" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/jp5wkiawrcw" title="Miami Cracks Down on Spring Breakers, Ft. Lauderdale PD Sees An Opportunity | The Daily Show" width="410"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: medium;">Miami cracks down on spring breakers, Ft. Lauderdale PD sees an opportunity | <i>The Daily Show</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><yt-img-shadow class="style-scope ytd-video-owner-renderer no-transition" id="avatar" loaded="" style="background-color: transparent; border-radius: 50%; clear: left; display: inline-block; flex: 0 0 auto; float: left; height: 40px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; opacity: 1; overflow: hidden; transition: none 0s ease 0s; width: 40px;" width="40"><img alt="" class="style-scope yt-img-shadow" draggable="false" id="img" src="https://yt3.ggpht.com/vfgTwN2vtrIFe7jfON70eXNw9BH0LLujtyXs6Oc8OvvISFb9i-Bn4Bxxzkos_BwCxHjdytYa5g=s48-c-k-c0x00ffffff-no-rj" style="background: transparent; border-radius: var(--yt-img-border-radius,none); border: 0px; display: block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: var(--yt-img-margin-left,auto); margin-right: var(--yt-img-margin-right,auto); margin-top: 0px; max-height: var(--yt-img-max-height,none); max-width: var(--yt-img-max-width,100%); padding: 0px;" width="40" /></yt-img-shadow>(<b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/@TheDailyShow" target="_blank">The Daily Show</a></b>)
March 15, 2024: Where are college kids heading to now that Miami is shutting down spring break? Michael Kosta and Desi Lydic report on the hottest new Florida travel destination: Fort Lauderdale, where things are getting so wild, kids are considering careers in law enforcement. #DailyShow #MichaelKosta #DesiLydic</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">ABOUT: Jon Stewart and The Best F**king News Team host The Daily Show, an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning program analyzing the biggest stories in news, politics, and culture through a sharp, satirical lens. The Daily Show redefined the late night show category on TV and, with an audience of over 51M across social media platforms, has become a launching pad for some of the biggest stars in entertainment.
The Daily Show airs weeknights at 11/10c on Comedy Central.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDailyShow Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thedailyshow Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thedailyshow Stream full episodes of The Daily Show on Paramount+: http://www.paramountplus.com/. Watch full episodes of The Daily Show: https://www.cc.com/shows/the-daily-show</span></div>Wisdom Quarterlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16270831701299130326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7104136715924136884.post-9592811735836650262024-03-15T14:00:00.000-07:002024-03-16T00:43:01.459-07:00The Jimmy Dore Show: US War, TikTok<div><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://MikeMacRae.com">Mike MacRae</a>, Kurt Metzger, <a href="https://jimmydore.com">Jimmy Dore</a>; <a href="http://veteransforpeace.org" target="_blank">Pfc. Sandoval</a>, <a href="http://codepink.org" target="_blank">Ashley Wells</a> (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="300" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/8fe5HBchl_U" title="Al Pacino EXPLAINS His Oscar Night Debacle!" width="410"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Call: Hollywood actor Al Pacino explains his Oscar night debacle, presenting at the Academy Awards</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="300" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/TPBlDD5Y5OE" title="Trans Lt. Col. Says Military Should Be More Diverse! w/ Gen. Anthony Tata" width="410"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="300" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/za92N6XhtiE" title="Jimmy Tells American General “The U.S. Is The World’s Biggest Terrorist!”" width="410"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Look at the 1,000 foreign military bases the US has around the world. Jimmy Dore tells American general, “The U.S. is the world’s biggest terrorist!” This is just as Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. told us. "My country is the greatest purveyor of war in the world." The purpose of war today is protecting commerce, and the only real freedom our capitalist system/government is out to protect is "free trade."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><iframe allowfullscreen="" height="300" mozallowfullscreen="" msallowfullscreen="" oallowfullscreen="" scrolling="no" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/30382568/height/800/theme/custom/thumbnail/yes/direction/backward/render-playlist/yes/custom-color/1e73be/" style="border: none;" title="Libsyn Player" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="100%"></iframe>Wisdom Quarterlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16270831701299130326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7104136715924136884.post-17671731046082994662024-03-15T12:00:00.000-07:002024-03-16T21:15:45.082-07:00Maybe we should become Republicans? (SNL)<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">ScarJo, SNL; Jon Stewart; Jordan Klepper; Ashley Wells, Pfc. Sandoval (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="300" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/LJUl77rsFEw" title="Jon Stewart Calls BS on Trump & the GOP's Performative Patriotism | The Daily Show" width="410"></iframe></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="300" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/jDhCT11QC-E" title="Scarlett Johansson plays Sen. Katie Britt in a satire of her SOTU rebuttal on ‘SNL’" width="410"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #f1c232;">Jon Stewart calls BS on Trump and the GOP's performative patriotism | <i>The Daily Show</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><yt-img-shadow class="style-scope ytd-video-owner-renderer no-transition" id="avatar" loaded="" style="background-color: transparent; border-radius: 50%; clear: left; display: inline-block; flex: 0 0 auto; float: left; height: 40px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; opacity: 1; overflow: hidden; transition: none 0s ease 0s; width: 40px;" width="40"><img alt="" class="style-scope yt-img-shadow" draggable="false" id="img" src="https://yt3.ggpht.com/vfgTwN2vtrIFe7jfON70eXNw9BH0LLujtyXs6Oc8OvvISFb9i-Bn4Bxxzkos_BwCxHjdytYa5g=s48-c-k-c0x00ffffff-no-rj" style="background: transparent; border-radius: var(--yt-img-border-radius,none); border: 0px; display: block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: var(--yt-img-margin-left,auto); margin-right: var(--yt-img-margin-right,auto); margin-top: 0px; max-height: var(--yt-img-max-height,none); max-width: var(--yt-img-max-width,100%); padding: 0px;" width="40" /></yt-img-shadow><span style="font-size: xx-small;">(<b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/@TheDailyShow" target="_blank">The Daily Show</a></b>) March 11, 2024: Jon Stewart unpacks Biden’s fired-up State of the Union and Katie Britt’s disastrous GOP kitchen rebuttal, then calls bullsh*t on conservatives branding themselves the party of “true American patriots” and wrapping themselves in the flag and Constitution, while their leader Trump's rhetoric sounds more like an unhinged undemocratic king. #DailyShow #JonStewart #Trump</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large;">Scarlett Johansson plays Sen. Katie Britt in a satire of her SOTU rebuttal on SNL</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><yt-img-shadow class="style-scope ytd-video-owner-renderer no-transition" id="avatar" loaded="" style="background-color: transparent; border-radius: 50%; clear: left; display: inline-block; flex: 0 0 auto; float: left; height: 40px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; opacity: 1; overflow: hidden; transition: none 0s ease 0s; width: 40px;" width="40"><img alt="" class="style-scope yt-img-shadow" draggable="false" id="img" src="https://yt3.ggpht.com/YumP9t0QwvbwxVQ7K8aBN6G8CsoweSsxKtuoW6x4jdEb1nUvKQ6csqYLa6jdltJtjcE5HirK-2U=s48-c-k-c0x00ffffff-no-rj" style="background: transparent; border-radius: var(--yt-img-border-radius,none); border: 0px; display: block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: var(--yt-img-margin-left,auto); margin-right: var(--yt-img-margin-right,auto); margin-top: 0px; max-height: var(--yt-img-max-height,none); max-width: var(--yt-img-max-width,100%); padding: 0px;" width="40" /></yt-img-shadow>(<b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/@CurrentPulseNews3" target="_blank">CurrentPulse News</a></b>) Watch as Scarlett Johansson [wife of <i>Weekend Update's</i> SNL member Colin Jost] takes on the role of <b><span style="color: #ff00fe;">Senator Katie Britt</span></b> in a hilarious satire of her State of the Union rebuttal on<i> Saturday Night Live</i>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="200" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/cvasDkMWdXg" title="'Absurdly overdramatic': Republicans react to Katie Britt’s State of the Union response" width="300"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large;"><b>'Absurdly overdramatic': Republicans react to Katie Britt’s State of the Union response</b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><yt-img-shadow class="style-scope ytd-video-owner-renderer no-transition" id="avatar" loaded="" style="background-color: transparent; border-radius: 50%; clear: left; display: inline-block; flex: 0 0 auto; float: left; height: 40px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; opacity: 1; overflow: hidden; transition: none 0s ease 0s; width: 40px;" width="40"><img alt="" class="style-scope yt-img-shadow" draggable="false" id="img" src="https://yt3.ggpht.com/cexkusY_WDfoU04VaLRfZkPpwaFsopQ43v_g-6Na1U2eO-HV6J1pe3iEx5BI59tqqZou_zOeQw=s48-c-k-c0x00ffffff-no-rj" style="background: transparent; border-radius: var(--yt-img-border-radius,none); border: 0px; display: block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: var(--yt-img-margin-left,auto); margin-right: var(--yt-img-margin-right,auto); margin-top: 0px; max-height: var(--yt-img-max-height,none); max-width: var(--yt-img-max-width,100%); padding: 0px;" width="40" /></yt-img-shadow>(<b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/@msnbc" target="_blank">MSNBC</a></b>) March 8, 2024: Alabama Republican Sen. Katie Britt delivered the GOP (Grand Old Party = Republican) response to Biden’s State of the Union, and well, the reviews are in. <b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/katiebritt" target="_blank">#KatieBritt</a></b> #StateoftheUnion #GOP</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="300" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/eM8276dUa9s" title="'She gave it her best': Jordan Klepper reacts to Katie Britt's disastrous SOTU response" width="410"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">(Jen Psaki) Jordan Klepper, a contributor to <i>The Daily Show</i>, reviews and rips into Sen. Britt.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large;">The rebuttal to the rebuttal</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="200" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/5WcdSjGDPsI" title="Sen. Katie Britt Defends Biden Response Following 'SNL' Parody" width="300"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large;">Sen. Katie Britt defends Biden response following SNL parody</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><yt-img-shadow class="style-scope ytd-video-owner-renderer no-transition" id="avatar" loaded="" style="background-color: transparent; border-radius: 50%; clear: left; display: inline-block; flex: 0 0 auto; float: left; height: 40px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; opacity: 1; overflow: hidden; transition: none 0s ease 0s; width: 40px;" width="40"><img alt="" class="style-scope yt-img-shadow" draggable="false" id="img" src="https://yt3.ggpht.com/Je9rajpb5oYx8oBj9W1HsJrnEgzuLeMKmr1p8qg6V--iXVvdQWK_JOyh0BWyJCPWeo0yT4zp=s48-c-k-c0x00ffffff-no-rj" style="background: transparent; border-radius: var(--yt-img-border-radius,none); border: 0px; display: block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: var(--yt-img-margin-left,auto); margin-right: var(--yt-img-margin-right,auto); margin-top: 0px; max-height: var(--yt-img-max-height,none); max-width: var(--yt-img-max-width,100%); padding: 0px;" width="40" /></yt-img-shadow>(<b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/@GraemeONeil" target="_blank">Graeme ONeil</a></b>) March 10, 2024: Graeme O'Neil takes a look at Alabama Senator Katie Britt defending her response to Pres. Biden's State of the Union address, following Scarlett Johansson impersonating Katie on <i>Saturday Night Live</i>.</div>Wisdom Quarterlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16270831701299130326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7104136715924136884.post-45515234531154289642024-03-14T09:00:00.000-07:002024-03-14T21:48:18.527-07:00Mushroom Motherboard: fungus computing<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Simon Whistler, Megaprojects, 3/4/24; Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly</span></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFudPbjl23QoGpwRSH8bSlsdEY49Y4NFgYECOzG0H2WOo6MLu28ix1Co01tK1W1JkSNRf4iWdPOd-0h0BkbEPgNE01VmdK0srmJfA0sNenk_jGhcAg7Ran3gugyOj_qqrXuZU7YwFnuJUfUYIEwqG8AbRQTjA0XqLidOFt4Qu-YBtgz1yN09uHA31wOAg/s1350/mushroom%20planet,%20world,%20AI%20depiction.png" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="825" data-original-width="1350" height="245" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFudPbjl23QoGpwRSH8bSlsdEY49Y4NFgYECOzG0H2WOo6MLu28ix1Co01tK1W1JkSNRf4iWdPOd-0h0BkbEPgNE01VmdK0srmJfA0sNenk_jGhcAg7Ran3gugyOj_qqrXuZU7YwFnuJUfUYIEwqG8AbRQTjA0XqLidOFt4Qu-YBtgz1yN09uHA31wOAg/w400-h245/mushroom%20planet,%20world,%20AI%20depiction.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span>How ancient and important are mushrooms to this world? Ask </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Stamets">Paul Stamets</a><span> (</span><b><a href="http://fungi.com">fungi.com</a></b><span>)</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="300" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/5mIWo6dgTmI" title="The Mushroom Motherboard: The Crazy Fungal Computers that Might Change Everything" width="410"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large;">The Mushroom Motherboard: The crazy fungal computers that might change everything</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjM0-GxNIJhj8E156u0ohLrnNvy18veYIitzA7_1xNsXi9C37-Gw3tCOhyphenhyphenl_IGw5ozuDXswkFs-8ur8doltB_jaOj1mdU7242WsF-SHZnqbdg-_M768-fD76tU1jPBKsgAPfQXp_1iBHEkVaKd8ocaxqOzlihNhyMqbwKoFjOuzn5HfUudKJEoNJYMGAME/s1700/mushrooms%20slime%20mold%20computing%20AI%20depiction,%20Simon%20Whistler.png" style="clear: left; 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font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4f_aRvCsY-77RMPQyn4bvS-mRhhTcYmjWVk0RL5pgr-RXp8cp19NQzly-GrgLNGisOnRgmSNtP9iiGB4mGdL8knXBAzDto_ECVtYIWj1kZDOybFKQNAAVpSUw1BK76Mh8o3Kk7p_ei9O72DUbtvhwEjAC5lU16MkIQzsr9iIqilDfEQ3UsV-HuG_YfDY/s936/mushrooms%20mychorriza.png" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="936" data-original-width="904" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4f_aRvCsY-77RMPQyn4bvS-mRhhTcYmjWVk0RL5pgr-RXp8cp19NQzly-GrgLNGisOnRgmSNtP9iiGB4mGdL8knXBAzDto_ECVtYIWj1kZDOybFKQNAAVpSUw1BK76Mh8o3Kk7p_ei9O72DUbtvhwEjAC5lU16MkIQzsr9iIqilDfEQ3UsV-HuG_YfDY/w193-h200/mushrooms%20mychorriza.png" width="193" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycorrhiza">Mycorrhizal</a> relationship of mushrooms</span></td></tr></tbody></table><yt-img-shadow class="style-scope ytd-video-owner-renderer no-transition" id="avatar" loaded="" style="background-color: transparent; border-radius: 50%; clear: left; display: inline-block; flex: 0 0 auto; float: left; height: 40px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; opacity: 1; overflow: hidden; transition: none 0s ease 0s; width: 40px;" width="40"><img alt="" class="style-scope yt-img-shadow" draggable="false" id="img" src="https://yt3.ggpht.com/ytc/AIdro_kgDeq7EdKPHaPnhXEcyDNrw1tvuwd3UD1QRpou7g=s48-c-k-c0x00ffffff-no-rj" style="background: transparent; border-radius: var(--yt-img-border-radius,none); border: 0px; display: block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: var(--yt-img-margin-left,auto); margin-right: var(--yt-img-margin-right,auto); margin-top: 0px; max-height: var(--yt-img-max-height,none); max-width: var(--yt-img-max-width,100%); padding: 0px;" width="40" /></yt-img-shadow>(<b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/@megaprojects9649" target="_blank">Megaprojects</a></b>) March 4th, 2024: Let's unlock the secrets of fungal computing to discover the mind-boggling potential of fungi as <b><span style="color: #f1c232;">living computers</span></b>. From the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycorrhizal_network" target="_blank">Wood Wide Web</a></b> to the <b><span style="color: #f1c232;">Unconventional Computing Lab</span></b>, witness the evolution of mushroom technology. A "mushroom" is the fruiting body of a much larger network called the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycelium" target="_blank">mycelia</a></b>, the matted undergrowth of connections in forest and field. It was the earth's first communication network of hyphae, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycorrhiza" style="text-align: left;"><b>mycorrhiza</b></a> (<b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycorrhizal_network" target="_blank">CMN</a></b>) or <b><span style="color: #f1c232;">symbiotic relationship</span></b> between fungi and green plants. That <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=mushrooms+related+to+humans&title=Special%3ASearch&ns0=1"><b>mushrooms</b></a> would serve as <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entheogen" target="_blank">entheogens</a></b> (substances capable of <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entheogen" target="_blank">manifesting the divine within</a></b>) for humans and animals is an amazing coincidence. Or is it a <i>correspondence</i> to something, as one of our earliest human ancestors?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><ul><li><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/denver-introduces-psychedelic-crisis-training-program/ar-BB1jQMw0"><b>Denver introduces psychedelic crisis training program</b></a></li></ul></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Got a beard? Good: <b><a href="http://beardblaze.com">beardblaze.com</a>.</b>
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margin-left: 1em; text-align: justify;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiYpClGytnuMd0hxuajpy_7H1t7VJRGy6VM8m1j0qQkBWD3sIY9LgaWYSMie50Mdhdni8RM0g29wBOrNrIINfROnvqHmZKNgb41DTOQsdH-e1wGaIVAQM26S2LbLG0nUaStwterxoY0DGJbR2JhnQB8363AVU3rLUM9T1nEX3u3yz0NAqP3ZDBDatdXFs/s1920/julia%20fox%20dating%20kanye%20west,%20for%20attention%20maybe%20fappeningbook.com.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1280" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiYpClGytnuMd0hxuajpy_7H1t7VJRGy6VM8m1j0qQkBWD3sIY9LgaWYSMie50Mdhdni8RM0g29wBOrNrIINfROnvqHmZKNgb41DTOQsdH-e1wGaIVAQM26S2LbLG0nUaStwterxoY0DGJbR2JhnQB8363AVU3rLUM9T1nEX3u3yz0NAqP3ZDBDatdXFs/w133-h200/julia%20fox%20dating%20kanye%20west,%20for%20attention%20maybe%20fappeningbook.com.jpg" width="133" /></a></td></tr><tr><td _msthash="31944" _msttexthash="134147" class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span _msthash="91733" _msttexthash="437398" style="font-size: xx-small;">Performing: Kanye West</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span _msthash="303030" _mstmutation="1" _msttexthash="51171029"><div _msthash="400381" _msttexthash="954435378" style="text-align: justify;"><span _istranslated="1" _msthash="2942" _mstmutation="1" _msttexthash="194862369"><span _msthash="278723" _mstmutation="1" _msttexthash="51170106"><span _msthash="303030" _mstmutation="1" _msttexthash="51171029"><span _msthash="386207" _mstmutation="1" _msttexthash="51542543">It's funny how rock 'n roll, which really isn't that popular but has diehard fans, can manage massive festivals. Pop stars are obliged to perform at well-organized exhibition shows for radio station conglomerate that play their songs by pay-to-plays schemes or tit for tat arrangements. But what about rap and hip-hop? </span></span></span><span _msthash="303031" _mstmutation="1" _msttexthash="557510928"><span _msthash="416580" _mstmutation="1" _msttexthash="273303095"><b _istranslated="1" _mstmutation="1"><span _istranslated="1" style="color: #ff00fe;">Rolling Loud California </span></b> has it covered with the biggest rap festival we have ever heard of, stretching from March 14th opening night to St. Patrick's Day March 17th, 2024. Plenty of Irish will attend <i _mstmutation="1">fo'shur </i>because there are only so many times one can see <b _mstmutation="1"><a href="https://www.floggingmolly.com/tour" target="_blank">Flogging Molly</a></b>. There probably is no way to sleep on the grounds, but the hotels and Airbnbs are full or charging so much that it would be better and <i _mstmutation="1">cheaper</i><b _mstmutation="1"><span style="color: #04ff00;">$299-$799 (plus fees</span></b>, taxes, charges, nonrefundable processing stipends, associated remuneration add-ons, and of course wharfage). But WAIT! There's an easier way: scroll down and <b _mstmutation="1"><span style="color: #f1c232;">watch it HERE for FREE</span></b>! We're sure the Devil would be happy, the Devil being the owner of <b _mstmutation="1"><span style="color: red;">Nicki "Roman" Minaj</span></b>'s soul, one Lil Wayne of Young Money Entertainment record label. </span><span _msthash="406457" _mstmutation="1" _msttexthash="98759362"> to fly back home and return each night. But there are packages to cover sleeping arrangements. Good luck parking (take a shuttle). Must be at least 16 to attend and no drugs (lol), but there will probably be drugs. Inglewood used to be the ghetto, but now the price of houses has tripled to live next to the freeway and under the airport. The show doesn't really start until Friday. Bottom line, how much is this going to cost? How about all this and less for </span></span></span><a _istranslated="1" _mstmutation="1" href="https://www.rollingloudca.com/" style="text-align: left;"><b _istranslated="1" _msthash="303032" _msttexthash="227929">Rolling Loud 2024</b></a></div></span></span></span></span></span></span><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div _msthash="2792" _msttexthash="691522" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span _msthash="91735" _msttexthash="691522" style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large;">What's the big deal? The lineup:</span></b></div><div _msthash="2792" _msttexthash="691522" style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQQr5eV6pwyiLQFQVRPhpdVO8eXH1iDFR6NJvkUi_rrguLkcZ7Q_wDDELEtZNpTtlQhdGjryJ6K0_KsS5xlauK39qPbr0OPqgj8bGd810vJksZV-CCKQAh1upyF08IZ8M7oPHkvRU5RiNKRVoVaP9TQrgQYrsKMi_qQY98MMUb5t_Ix0tDfUcexDdL3FI/s510/rolling%20oud%20inglewood%20rap%20hip%20hop%203-16-24%202.100.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="510" data-original-width="464" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQQr5eV6pwyiLQFQVRPhpdVO8eXH1iDFR6NJvkUi_rrguLkcZ7Q_wDDELEtZNpTtlQhdGjryJ6K0_KsS5xlauK39qPbr0OPqgj8bGd810vJksZV-CCKQAh1upyF08IZ8M7oPHkvRU5RiNKRVoVaP9TQrgQYrsKMi_qQY98MMUb5t_Ix0tDfUcexDdL3FI/w364-h400/rolling%20oud%20inglewood%20rap%20hip%20hop%203-16-24%202.100.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPS_ARZ45who-SESxsq2q8OsWmDg6C6w8fNpCnZo2JEsu69A1bZRgw5eTTAnvndT2RQotZlOQJNpzVLq8vRJ-7npUgWqrdAfeOVT9I6RSyq3elLILqHcwUH4nl7YtOALKAvhSmnsyxK7NycD-_RkfHKDQ0UpDKLBvjpuG5tKCHG2f34LKYOqyzJdod_jo/s1972/rap%20rolling%20loud%20merch%20and%20tickets.png" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1034" data-original-width="1972" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPS_ARZ45who-SESxsq2q8OsWmDg6C6w8fNpCnZo2JEsu69A1bZRgw5eTTAnvndT2RQotZlOQJNpzVLq8vRJ-7npUgWqrdAfeOVT9I6RSyq3elLILqHcwUH4nl7YtOALKAvhSmnsyxK7NycD-_RkfHKDQ0UpDKLBvjpuG5tKCHG2f34LKYOqyzJdod_jo/w400-h210/rap%20rolling%20loud%20merch%20and%20tickets.png" width="400" /></a></div><div _msthash="2792" _msttexthash="691522" style="text-align: justify;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdSUFqknZGABgv8bZyCs9s9Vf62Xv_A-mISoEKz6DrgRkJAzcFJD1OYpz8maqF3JQTJIrrRkpVpDkaz9kcClK9h6IWUuXJWdF12fUSptwgK15oIJ-ZHkwOSGAxT6IYcTyRIjIN_whK3JdqJqlY_2ASRaAyZ9mm8MS8_i-UjjBzoASS1e6bapruU7q8smw/s1278/trump%20kanye%20west%20race%20white%20house%20oval%20office.png" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="717" data-original-width="1278" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdSUFqknZGABgv8bZyCs9s9Vf62Xv_A-mISoEKz6DrgRkJAzcFJD1OYpz8maqF3JQTJIrrRkpVpDkaz9kcClK9h6IWUuXJWdF12fUSptwgK15oIJ-ZHkwOSGAxT6IYcTyRIjIN_whK3JdqJqlY_2ASRaAyZ9mm8MS8_i-UjjBzoASS1e6bapruU7q8smw/w400-h225/trump%20kanye%20west%20race%20white%20house%20oval%20office.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td _msthash="58728" _msttexthash="3439098" class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span _msthash="75210" _msttexthash="3229200" style="font-size: xx-small;"> Is there any chance Trump will be there? Yes, he needs the Black vote real bad.</span></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li _msthash="5009" _msttexthash="6734130" style="text-align: justify;">Nicki Minaj, Kanye West Kardashian Yeesus YS DipSh*t, Future, Post Malone, YG & Tyga, Rae Sremmurd, Party Next Door, Big Sean, Bones, Suicide Boys, and 100 more</li><li style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.rollingloudca.com/live/"><b _msthash="2793" _msttexthash="593463">Rolling Loud LIVE 2024 (online)</b></a></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.ticketmaster.com/rolling-loud-california-tickets/artist/2418981"><b _msthash="2794" _msttexthash="1456325">Tickets, 2024 Concert Tour Dates | Ticketmaster</b></a></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.etickets.com/concerts/festival-tour/rolling-loud-festival/inglewood-ca/79218-4473/d?gad_source=5&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIwrTWhvf3hAMVXyStBh1THQilEAAYAyAAEgIBvPD_BwE"><b _msthash="2795" _msttexthash="1947309">Rolling Loud Festival Hollywood Park Tickets - eTickets<br /></b></a></li></ul><div style="text-align: justify;"><span _msthash="321255" _mstmutation="1" _msttexthash="94783" style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large;"><b _msthash="335501" _msttexthash="248170">WATCH HERE (3 STAGES)</b></span></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; text-align: justify;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOsWSsdhkjqQ7TrZoJ00RZTHKze95T22aN03iWbsTL5LOQzZJ6P9QVtf8dbNkxg9UIovDGqr_htISNI-HRBLt9AsJPUPLzuo0EdpvGvXKFnTb39yMDMrQTOd-qgeLGz-2Il5T7E7lQdIB2RYNziD6JQSO60GY2tdeMfMIELT_gTVN3xRLWx8yNSgbV8bA/s2560/rap%20rolling%20loud%20rlca_2024_mk_lu_fest_site_dh_3200x1520_r06-scaled.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1216" data-original-width="2560" height="190" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOsWSsdhkjqQ7TrZoJ00RZTHKze95T22aN03iWbsTL5LOQzZJ6P9QVtf8dbNkxg9UIovDGqr_htISNI-HRBLt9AsJPUPLzuo0EdpvGvXKFnTb39yMDMrQTOd-qgeLGz-2Il5T7E7lQdIB2RYNziD6JQSO60GY2tdeMfMIELT_gTVN3xRLWx8yNSgbV8bA/w400-h190/rap%20rolling%20loud%20rlca_2024_mk_lu_fest_site_dh_3200x1520_r06-scaled.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.rollingloudca.com/"><b><span _msthash="2790" _msttexthash="2151981" style="font-size: xx-small;">Rolling Loud California 2024 | March 14-17, 2024 | Hollywood Park</span></b></a></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="300" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/5yaUPgRFmq8" title="Ethika Stage LIVE @ Rolling Loud Cali 2024" width="410"></iframe></div></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="300" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/givd5PydN3Q" title="GoPuff Stage LIVE from Rolling Loud California 2024" width="410"></iframe><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="300" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/gE6bAUT3Kvk" title="Culture Kings Stage LIVE @ Rolling Loud California 2024" width="410"></iframe></div>Wisdom Quarterlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16270831701299130326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7104136715924136884.post-16129296036721763022024-03-14T06:55:00.001-07:002024-03-15T16:12:05.110-07:00Israeli regime change: Schumer wants Bibi out<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Senator Chuck Shumer (<a href="https://youtu.be/L8MLNSQjKFw" target="_blank">ABC News</a>; CNN) Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!; Owen Jones, 3/13/24; <a href="http://jvp.org" target="_blank">Sheldon S.</a>, Shauna Schwartz, Pfc. Sandoval, <a href="http://codepink.org" target="_blank">Ashley Wells</a> (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXk4GzGHGGvd3WblcvsNg8M1Amt3wt7leEV58EuKbPGs7Pm85T1lithAGFQiDbluVCa-0O2WZV0NOsgsLtjsDTTPXWkDgMJdOYb3_L3Lt1rE6CDQqQfDV_Yy0NzodJVCBo0Fc-CxrLesMv2gGqDPwQ1-vHC1Otg8-D2IjMdSVdBETgfCY65r8NggqYbjE/s1165/netanyahu%20body%20language%20is%20loud%20avvenire%20it%20incriminato,%20cropped,%20angry,%20pissed%20Wisdom%20Quarterly.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1002" data-original-width="1165" height="344" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXk4GzGHGGvd3WblcvsNg8M1Amt3wt7leEV58EuKbPGs7Pm85T1lithAGFQiDbluVCa-0O2WZV0NOsgsLtjsDTTPXWkDgMJdOYb3_L3Lt1rE6CDQqQfDV_Yy0NzodJVCBo0Fc-CxrLesMv2gGqDPwQ1-vHC1Otg8-D2IjMdSVdBETgfCY65r8NggqYbjE/w400-h344/netanyahu%20body%20language%20is%20loud%20avvenire%20it%20incriminato,%20cropped,%20angry,%20pissed%20Wisdom%20Quarterly.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Bibi Netanyahu has to go [to prison or exile]. Sen. Shumer is calling for elections in Israel.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="color: #444444; font-size: xx-small;"><div style="text-align: right;">.</div></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="200" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/s3CqVOuJ5I4" title="Schumer calls for new election in Israel and sharply criticizes Netanyahu" width="300"></iframe></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large;"><b>Sen. Schumer calls for new election in Israel and sharply criticizes Netanyahu</b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="300" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/L8MLNSQjKFw" title="Senator Chuck Schumer calls for new election in Israel for achieving possible two-state solution" width="410"></iframe></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><yt-img-shadow class="style-scope ytd-video-owner-renderer no-transition" id="avatar" loaded="" style="background-color: transparent; border-radius: 50%; clear: left; display: inline-block; flex: 0 0 auto; float: left; height: 40px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; opacity: 1; overflow: hidden; transition: none 0s ease 0s; width: 40px;" width="40"><img alt="" class="style-scope yt-img-shadow" draggable="false" id="img" src="https://yt3.ggpht.com/n5DRh94eycw6xGcOKTn6LKQwztTwaw24fXPniFTXA3VPgwJaiOFdBwJNtXRHYUf7OdEAk9upwH0=s48-c-k-c0x00ffffff-no-rj" style="background: transparent; border-radius: var(--yt-img-border-radius,none); border: 0px; display: block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: var(--yt-img-margin-left,auto); margin-right: var(--yt-img-margin-right,auto); margin-top: 0px; max-height: var(--yt-img-max-height,none); max-width: var(--yt-img-max-width,100%); padding: 0px;" width="40" /></yt-img-shadow><span>(<b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/@CNN" target="_blank">CNN</a></b>) March 14, 2024: Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (Democrat) criticized the genocidal Bibi Netanyahu government and called for new elections in Israel in a speech on the Senate floor on Israel's war on Gaza and illegal police state abuses in the West Bank, Palestine. </span>#CNN #News</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><ul><li><b><a href="http://jvp.org" target="_blank">Jewish Voice for Peace (jvp.org)</a></b></li><li><b><a href="http://BreakingtheSilence.org.il">BreakingtheSilence.org.il</a></b></li><li><b><span style="color: #f1c232;">Not in our name!</span></b> (<b><a href="http://ifnotnowmovement.org">ifnotnowmovement.org</a></b>)</li><li><b><a href="http://veteransforpeace.org" target="_blank">American Veterans for Peace</a></b></li><li><b><a href="http://codepink.org" target="_blank">Code Pink: Women for Peace</a></b></li><li><a href="https://www.instagram.com/shoresh_us/?hl=en"><b>شرش | Shoresh | שר”ש (@shoresh_us) Anti-Zionist Jews</b></a></li></ul></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large;">Top US and World Headlines — March 14, 2024</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="300" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/qUC3ZBUKRpo" title="Top U.S. & World Headlines — March 14, 2024" width="410"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><yt-img-shadow class="style-scope ytd-video-owner-renderer no-transition" id="avatar" loaded="" style="background-color: transparent; border-radius: 50%; clear: left; display: inline-block; flex: 0 0 auto; float: left; height: 40px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; opacity: 1; overflow: hidden; transition: none 0s ease 0s; width: 40px;" width="40"><img alt="" class="style-scope yt-img-shadow" draggable="false" id="img" src="https://yt3.ggpht.com/ytc/AIdro_nM_OXj4GLSzncdWm6yxQvhZMydp9QBF-w_SV8A7w=s48-c-k-c0x00ffffff-no-rj" style="background: transparent; border-radius: var(--yt-img-border-radius,none); border: 0px; display: block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: var(--yt-img-margin-left,auto); margin-right: var(--yt-img-margin-right,auto); margin-top: 0px; max-height: var(--yt-img-max-height,none); max-width: var(--yt-img-max-width,100%); padding: 0px;" width="40" /></yt-img-shadow><span style="font-size: xx-small;">(<b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/@DemocracyNow" target="_blank">Democracy Now!</a></b>) <b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLneypbodq-jYq9a6Y8BjobC6KJOIBLCZB" target="_blank">Latest Shows.</a></b> Support this work: <b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqa3F0TWV5YjdxUXlxM2ZVN1NSYi1QMmJNWTVRUXxBQ3Jtc0tudTRubFN5U1JMa2Nwd0NRVXpXd29ueFUyTDBvR0UwRTJUZXBDWUtqMmZDWXgzNzRXaHVfZHJuME92TGVrdlE5N1M2NEMzWVpxMzhDeFA1VEt5REpYUS1nVGhEdjlvY2hILW0yTGFEU2psblhDLWtuZw&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.democracynow.org%2Fdonate%3Fcampaign%3Dsm-desc-yt%26utm_campaign%3Dsm-desc-yt%26utm_content%3Ddescription%26utm_medium%3Dsocial%26utm_source%3Dyoutube&v=qUC3ZBUKRpo">democracynow.org/donate...</a></b> <i>Democracy Now!</i> is an independent global news hour that airs on over 1,500 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch livestream at <a href="http://democracynow.org"><b>democracynow.org</b></a> M-F 8:00-9:00 am ET.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="300" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/l5awMemBGfE" title="Finally BBC Wakes Up To Israel's War Crimes" width="410"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large;"><b>Finally, BBC wakes up to Israel's war crimes</b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><yt-img-shadow class="style-scope ytd-video-owner-renderer no-transition" id="avatar" loaded="" style="background-color: transparent; border-radius: 50%; clear: left; display: inline-block; flex: 0 0 auto; float: left; height: 40px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; opacity: 1; overflow: hidden; transition: none 0s ease 0s; width: 40px;" width="40"><img alt="" class="style-scope yt-img-shadow" draggable="false" id="img" src="https://yt3.ggpht.com/gNjd6dLxkfbImmI2zOrI5zolzigMy8vjukZwnmGW1HLTK6mm__F3Z8812knKc2KNE2nTTblbmg=s48-c-k-c0x00ffffff-no-rj" style="background: transparent; border-radius: var(--yt-img-border-radius,none); border: 0px; display: block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: var(--yt-img-margin-left,auto); margin-right: var(--yt-img-margin-right,auto); margin-top: 0px; max-height: var(--yt-img-max-height,none); max-width: var(--yt-img-max-width,100%); padding: 0px;" width="40" /></yt-img-shadow>(<b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/@OwenJonesTalks" target="_blank">Owen Jones</a></b>) March 13, 2024: There has been an abject failure to accurately reflect the horror of Israel's massacre in Gaza -- but the mainstream media is complicit and largely silent, until the BBC looked into IDF lies and war propaganda.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Please like, subscribe -- and help take on the pro-war media here: <b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbktSXzMtWGVoSVZsMjhYaXdfSXRPS0lVNTJkZ3xBQ3Jtc0tsZmRiSXJNZjFHcXhMR0R6UHFmMHprWU9OMDd2ejktYkI4ME9SdWd0X3dFVFJ4cE1aR1RiQ1E5MG5sLXBsQ3UzZ3J0ZjNjdjBBc1RzTDlvOGx0REFDZ1FZX01IaVFydmFXUGdPc0Y5Y2lZZUh4LU1ZWQ&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.patreon.com%2Fowenjones84&v=l5awMemBGfE" target="_blank">owenjones84</a></b></span></div>Wisdom Quarterlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16270831701299130326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7104136715924136884.post-36509186808225724322024-03-14T06:00:00.000-07:002024-03-15T16:12:22.042-07:00Happy (vegan) Pie Day! 3.14 (March 14)<div><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="text-align: justify;">Jamie Oliver (<a href="http://jamieoliver.com">jamieoliver.com</a>), Jan. 15, 2023; </span><a href="https://www.meetup.com/vegan-spirituality/events/" target="_blank">I</a><a href="https://www.meetup.com/vegan-spirituality/events/" target="_blank">mogen</a>, Seven, Ananda (<a href="http://meetup.com/zen-07" target="_blank"><b>Dharma Buddhist Meditation</b></a>), Bela (eds.), Vegan Test Kitchen, Wisdom Quarterly</span></div><div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpL3efV5xjSfs870xHYJUCGowpnUKqdbMui-0KA2f9gRBitmf2UbZ7OaOyIWpyXy_Isnf6WaZiWFXFLuAMlUFE4MHRZ-amn1pW5ZQbtIV5H2tMqWVFtBTMciroebx3p_21qen_NgSgBQSGjQZddI1abUVrRqLsoKu7bMuKPuEkH_TOw89z99Z9Z8QBn2U/s1280/pi%20day%20medicotopics%20Copy-of-Before-and-After-Home-Transformation-YouTube-Thumbnail-3-7.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpL3efV5xjSfs870xHYJUCGowpnUKqdbMui-0KA2f9gRBitmf2UbZ7OaOyIWpyXy_Isnf6WaZiWFXFLuAMlUFE4MHRZ-amn1pW5ZQbtIV5H2tMqWVFtBTMciroebx3p_21qen_NgSgBQSGjQZddI1abUVrRqLsoKu7bMuKPuEkH_TOw89z99Z9Z8QBn2U/w400-h225/pi%20day%20medicotopics%20Copy-of-Before-and-After-Home-Transformation-YouTube-Thumbnail-3-7.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Pi is important for math. Memorize it (3.14...) or use a Base 9 system and there's no need for it.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="300" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/vkTfd0SihMM" title="Vegan Shepherd's Pie | Jamie Oliver" width="410"></iframe></span></div><div><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhae74D5mxfupE7UE8rQDIBa9H9EQkFWdHABGduTvIC4JHP_D1qXDJ68CP5sb6k7d7rEku2uK8L3QNYVE14Vl0mSNXyQ-4ucCbL1nWC_CszyTc506NhsWQxIbLvM8vtU3YtbFAUUiBSTUCFqxMyUknTlxD-pPvp01Ey8BnV1mm-8De6VplBVIPYesHtJ4E/s1205/pi%20day%20wake%20up%20charlotte.png" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="688" data-original-width="1205" height="114" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhae74D5mxfupE7UE8rQDIBa9H9EQkFWdHABGduTvIC4JHP_D1qXDJ68CP5sb6k7d7rEku2uK8L3QNYVE14Vl0mSNXyQ-4ucCbL1nWC_CszyTc506NhsWQxIbLvM8vtU3YtbFAUUiBSTUCFqxMyUknTlxD-pPvp01Ey8BnV1mm-8De6VplBVIPYesHtJ4E/w200-h114/pi%20day%20wake%20up%20charlotte.png" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">This recipe covers two days, Pi and Nat'l Pie</span></td></tr></tbody></table>It's amazing what can be made into a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=making+vegan+pie"><b>vegan pie</b></a>. Anything the American palette is used to is covered and already being done. There's no need to reinvent the compassion wheel. Just follow along on YouTube or on the websites of many vegan chefs and test kitchens. It's fun. And it's delicious. The animals thank you, and always remember <b><span style="color: #f1c232;">EAT BEANS, NOT BEINGS</span></b>.</div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">There are plenty of alternatives to soy or wheat gluten, now more digestible, easier to assimilate, and gas and bloating are eliminated. Take with vegan digestive enzymes (and products like Beano and activated charcoal). Eat them sprouted, or soaked, drained, and prepared in a pressure cooker the way Dr. Steven Gundry recommends.</span></li></ul></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large;"><b>Vegan Shepherd's Pie | Chef Jamie Oliver</b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><yt-img-shadow class="style-scope ytd-video-owner-renderer no-transition" id="avatar" loaded="" style="background-color: transparent; border-radius: 50%; clear: left; display: inline-block; flex: 0 0 auto; float: left; height: 40px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; opacity: 1; overflow: hidden; transition: none 0s ease 0s; width: 40px;" width="40"><img alt="" class="style-scope yt-img-shadow" draggable="false" id="img" src="https://yt3.ggpht.com/lBMB_HvLyNlnszELbh5V0-qCUcuzTU95zE9PRPkNjbUr4Z1JUbzHXxEtaq9MeeCVD_VnRT37=s48-c-k-c0x00ffffff-no-rj" style="background: transparent; border-radius: var(--yt-img-border-radius,none); border: 0px; display: block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: var(--yt-img-margin-left,auto); margin-right: var(--yt-img-margin-right,auto); margin-top: 0px; max-height: var(--yt-img-max-height,none); max-width: var(--yt-img-max-width,100%); padding: 0px;" width="40" /></yt-img-shadow>(<b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/@JamieOliver" target="_blank">Jamie Oliver</a></b>) This vegan shepherd's pie is part of Chef Jamie's new, free, budget-friendly meal plan. It's a delicious meal designed to be good on the wallet without sacrificing any flavor. With sundried tomatoes, mushrooms, chickpeas, and lentils it's bound to be a favorite vegan hearty meal; perfect to warm up in the colder months.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Check out the full free meal plan in this link: <b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqa1VuNHdhSVREd3lmZFY1ZUtfY0EydDN5ZXMwQXxBQ3Jtc0tseDRaNi1kUmFWZDUxMkdNOTYxVUNPQ1FxTDMxRjIwZWt6ZHlGVVB4ZXEyNmU5OEsxMENuU1NQR0UwQmNhWUIxVEg2aHJ2d3NvbkNIRHZ1UGtpRzVSTUFPT1NDdDFGU1JxSVBIcHVEc2V6MXBZWUV0aw&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jamieoliver.com%2Fbudget-friendly-meal-plan%2F%23signup-login&v=vkTfd0SihMM">jamieoliver.com/budget-friendly...</a> </b>Thanks for subscribing: <b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/jamieoliver?sub_confirmation=1">youtube.com/user/jamieoliver...</a></b> For <b><span style="color: #f1c232;">more nutrition info</span></b>, click here: <b><a href="http://jamieol.com/Nutrition">jamieol.com/Nutrition</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvatAJQ2wUObPxhChyphenhyphenMIEaK5EEFarWJuKy6gtV3FQIhVEBmbUF4zgdCBq7tgo3YSJBbSU2nCqKeZd551z5I-q7bqBH4FxJc3MmO_R5T-tejqpuXAo1CFlrWOeJ-WilMdHJX0K3aSHb_dnAkvFZws1hmStZTGaUlQUghxUYYJi7iZRrgxe5QV1bn1EJe5A/s852/women%20money%20finances%20dow%20janes.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="478" data-original-width="852" height="113" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvatAJQ2wUObPxhChyphenhyphenMIEaK5EEFarWJuKy6gtV3FQIhVEBmbUF4zgdCBq7tgo3YSJBbSU2nCqKeZd551z5I-q7bqBH4FxJc3MmO_R5T-tejqpuXAo1CFlrWOeJ-WilMdHJX0K3aSHb_dnAkvFZws1hmStZTGaUlQUghxUYYJi7iZRrgxe5QV1bn1EJe5A/w200-h113/women%20money%20finances%20dow%20janes.png" width="200" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><ul><li><a href="https://try.dowjanes.com/webinar-l/"><b>Money and millennial women (try.dowjanes.co)</b></a></li><li><b><a href="https://lomi.com/pages/discover">What to do with food scraps? Garden (lomi.com)</a></b></li></ul></div>Wisdom Quarterlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16270831701299130326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7104136715924136884.post-67582822825408344672024-03-13T22:00:00.000-07:002024-03-18T09:32:36.991-07:00TikTok, Trump v Biden v RFK Jr. (comedy)<div><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span>Jimmy Kimmel Live, politics as comedy, </span><span style="text-align: justify;">March 13, 2024</span>; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly</span></div><div><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9x7gBWEcOq0dKG1K5HPkKlrlyHO1ZaumwRTDdWh02WKj-1kYqbJnurBaTiNlBaH3UnW_X-UNV49uR71Ar2_aaytyeEXITFq7vcG7Rxd_NyBqLvjnSPkVekZHZshEjVBYvZPhjyder2tGeif51SkxfVFQf525NQo7L3kYw5dd61GMdmsEu6WJxRkTJs3k/s246/dwaynes%20the%20rock%20johnson%20facebook.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="205" data-original-width="246" height="334" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9x7gBWEcOq0dKG1K5HPkKlrlyHO1ZaumwRTDdWh02WKj-1kYqbJnurBaTiNlBaH3UnW_X-UNV49uR71Ar2_aaytyeEXITFq7vcG7Rxd_NyBqLvjnSPkVekZHZshEjVBYvZPhjyder2tGeif51SkxfVFQf525NQo7L3kYw5dd61GMdmsEu6WJxRkTJs3k/w400-h334/dwaynes%20the%20rock%20johnson%20facebook.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Hey, Brother, I like your girlfriend's tee-shirt! Do you mind if I take her out some time?<br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table></span></div><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="300" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/LWTNEARMoLk" title="House Passes Bill to Ban TikTok, Trump & Biden Rematch Set & Aaron Rodgers on RFK Jr’s VP Shortlist" width="410"></iframe><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: medium;"><b>House passes bill to ban TikTok, Trump and Biden rematch set, Aaron Rodgers (and Gov. Jesse Ventura) on RFK Jr’s VP shortlist</b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><yt-img-shadow class="style-scope ytd-video-owner-renderer no-transition" id="avatar" loaded="" style="background-color: transparent; border-radius: 50%; clear: left; display: inline-block; flex: 0 0 auto; float: left; height: 40px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; opacity: 1; overflow: hidden; transition: none 0s ease 0s; width: 40px;" width="40"><img alt="" class="style-scope yt-img-shadow" draggable="false" id="img" src="https://yt3.ggpht.com/ytc/AIdro_l3z1bmQp9RxBlhQOls5vmXL4j-6-RH0H8Y86tcK3w=s48-c-k-c0x00ffffff-no-rj" style="background: transparent; border-radius: var(--yt-img-border-radius,none); border: 0px; display: block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: var(--yt-img-margin-left,auto); margin-right: var(--yt-img-margin-right,auto); margin-top: 0px; max-height: var(--yt-img-max-height,none); max-width: var(--yt-img-max-width,100%); padding: 0px;" width="40" /></yt-img-shadow>(<b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/@JimmyKimmelLive" target="_blank">Jimmy Kimmel Live</a></b>) The US House of Representatives passed a bill that would ban TikTok in America, "Honest Don" Trump is now not in favor of the ban that he originally proposed, Marjorie Taylor Greene is siding with The Don, the monologue gets interrupted by a TikToker, Genocide Joe Biden and dumb Trump officially clinched their parties nominations, independent (possibly libertarian) candidate RFK Jr. is reportedly looking at quarterback Aaron Rodgers as a possible VP candidate and conspiracy theorist Minn. Gov. Jesse Ventura, we are less than two weeks away from the start of the DJ "Lock Him Up" Trump trial related to the defamed stripper Stormy Daniels hush money case, Mike "the My Pillow Guy" Lindell’s legal bills are adding up, and the show heads out to Hollywood Blvd. to give men a women’s history mini-quiz for <b><span style="color: #ff00fe;">Women’s History Month</span></b>. <b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/kimmel">#Kimmel</a></b></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="200" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/l2-AYdv2QgQ" title="Dwayne Johnson on “Naked” John Cena at the Oscars, Taunting Wrestling Crowds & New Skincare Line" width="300"></iframe></div><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5reXTRrZwqvmaO3HQVn9psbpnxoVDRVRoB0XI9qSTS4jxpySqcOyDZMlcLn96X1U7SsWP7SPPOHoMfNL48QDKfuM6E4qiv61xCiIi2QHpOtPcYm9yKNaR7-iThrYNXGT33jrVfaQhHqSX_hjqdu3gdJnia_3B_HW2HwIkfqlUBCtPnrUfCv0MlKRCR3k/s640/dwayne%20the%20rock%20johnson%20stillcracking%20com%20kevin%20hart.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="436" data-original-width="640" height="136" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5reXTRrZwqvmaO3HQVn9psbpnxoVDRVRoB0XI9qSTS4jxpySqcOyDZMlcLn96X1U7SsWP7SPPOHoMfNL48QDKfuM6E4qiv61xCiIi2QHpOtPcYm9yKNaR7-iThrYNXGT33jrVfaQhHqSX_hjqdu3gdJnia_3B_HW2HwIkfqlUBCtPnrUfCv0MlKRCR3k/w200-h136/dwayne%20the%20rock%20johnson%20stillcracking%20com%20kevin%20hart.jpg" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Keven Hart can't get no love, except from Diddy</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;">There was once a great mean, a girlfriend who met The Rock with her boyfriend, wearing a homemade tee-shirt that read, "You are my Rock, my Dwayne, my Johnson." Ha ha, the boyfriend didn't like it, but Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson sure did. It was recreated in front of an envious Kevin Hart fresh from gay partying with Sean "Puff Daddy-P Diddy" Combs, no doubt. Now he's jealous of John Cena's <strike>package</strike> envelope stunt at the 2024 Oscars?</div></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">(Jimmy Kimmel Live) The Rock talks about presenting at the Oscars, celebrities he met for the first time, being in the audience during the 2017 Best Picture mix-up, running into a half-dressed John Cena backstage, taunting crowds leading up to WrestleMania 40, his new skincare line <i>Papatui</i>, and he takes Guillermo out for a spa day. <b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2-AYdv2QgQ">More</a> </b>#Kimmel</div>Wisdom Quarterlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16270831701299130326noreply@blogger.com0