NEW Tate McRae, Lola Young "Messy"

We prefer our artists and music a wee bit "messy."

LYRICS: "Messy"

You know I'm impatient

So why would you leave me

waiting outside the station?

When it was like minus 4 degrees 

And I get what you're saying

I just really don't want to hear it right now

Can you shut up for like once in your life?

Listen to me

I took your nice words of advice about

How you think I'm gonna die

Lucky if I turn 33

Okay, so yeah, I smoke like a chimney

I'm not skinny, and I pull a Britney

Every other week

But cut me some slack

Who do you want me to be?

'Cause I'm too messy

And then I'm too f*cking clean

You told me, "Get a job"

And you ask where the hell I've been

And I'm too perfect

'Til I open my big mouth

I want to be me

Is that not allowed?

And I'm too clever

And then I'm too f*cking dumb

You hate it when I cry

Unless it's that time of the month

And I'm too perfect

'Til I show you that I'm not

A thousand people I could be for you

And you hate the f*cking lot

You hate the f*cking lot

You hate the f*cking lot

It's taking you ages

You still don't get the hint

I'm not asking for pages

But one text or two would be nice

And please don't pull those faces

When I've been out working

my arse off all day

It's just one bottle of wine or two

But hey, you can't even talk

You smoke weed just to help you sleep

Then why you're out getting stoned at 4 o'clock

And then you come home to me

And don't say hello

'Cause I got high again

And forgot to fold my

clothes

'Cause I'm too messy

And then I'm too f*cking clean

You told me, "Get a job"

And you ask where the hell I've been

And I'm too perfect

'Til I open my big mouth

I want to be me

Is that not allowed?

And I'm too clever

And then I'm too f*cking dumb

You hate it when I cry

Unless it's that time of the month

My "Rubber Band" is about addiction

And I'm too perfect

'Til I show you that I'm not

A thousand people I could be for you

And you hate the f*cking lot

You hate the f*cking lot

You hate the f*cking lot

#LolaYoung #Messy

Illuminati darling and would-be pornstar Tate McRae goes for it: "Sports Car"

Canadian super star Tate McRae "Sports Car" (official video) selling her something for fame?

What is this cr...? I mean, it's great, Tate!!!

It can't just be our ears. This song and aesthetic are so very reminiscent of what? Remember a hit ("Unholy") for transgender Kim Petras and her chubby co-singer, what's his name, Jam Jiff? It's also so very Charli XCX. What a rip, Tate. (Tate's previous hit, "Greedy," is great but too sexy a striptease video for us to have posted; of course, in light of what Olivia, SZA, Megan, Taylor, Chapel, Katy, Bey, and others have to do to get noticed, it's brutal out there). See McRae on tour (tatemcrae.com), where she's "Miss Progressive," an insult to political liberals who are more forward thinking than all the regressive forces arrayed against us. Her new smash hit follow-up album release drops at midnight and can be heard for a first listen on KISS (102.7 KIIS-FM Los Angeles | iHeart).

Sam Smith, Kim Petras - "Unholy" (official LGBTQIA+ music video)

• Tate Mcrae is really a dancer, poet, and intellectual (TeenBuzz Radio podcast interview)
• Olivia Rodrigo is the best of the lot: ♫ good 4 u
• Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

Be Quiet Youth Group: Mindfulness Meetup

Amber Larson, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Thai Forest Tradition monastics, Australia

The "Be Quiet" group are young mindfulness enthusiasts aged 18-35 who meet once a month with a Buddhist monk or nun to practice and have inspiring discussions inspired by Buddhist teachings, while being inclusive of everyone’s spiritual practices. No registration required.

• When: 1st Saturday of the month (except during the Rains Retreat)
• Time: 5:00-6:00 pm
• Where: Dhammaloka City Centre,
• 18 Nanson Way, Nollamara, Australia
• Contact: facebook.com/groups/bequietperth
• Eventbrite.com.au/e/be-quiet-mindfulness-meet-up-tickets-247169449477
• bequiet@bswa.org

Zen story: What if I don't get all I want?

This is what happens when we only WANT/CRAVE in life: a Zen story

(Dare to do. Motivation) June 5, 2023. This is a beautiful short story by the Zen owl Nisshitsu. What if we become like [the Western character spoken of by Nathaniel Hawthorne in] Young Goodman Brown?

Listen to your heart. Be happy. Persist [don't give up]. Have faith/confidence [always believe]! Leave a like and a comment and tell the creator what you think. Stay blessed.

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Jewish Buddhist LOVE: Zen (Shinzen Young)

Shinzen Young (YouTube); CC Liu, Pat Macpherson, Ananda (DBM) (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

After Enlightenment? Love deeply and act effectively - Shinzen Young

What do these ten pictures represent?

(Shinzen Videos) Los Angeles JuBu Shinzen Young weaves stories of the famous Ox Herding pictures and various impressive bodhisattvas ("beings bent on supreme enlightenment") -- including a Holocaust survivor and Buddhist activist, and a "marathon monk" he has known and been influenced by, to get to the true point of this Buddhist practice.

• For more about the Ox Herding pictures

I'm a Jewish Buddhist (JuBu).

Go to shinzen.org for more information on Shinzen Young and his teachings -- including meditation retreats, blog, speaking engagements, and writings.

Home Practice Program includes live monthly phone teachings. Life Practice Program includes live 45 minutes of Shinzen Young guiding practitioners to help their lives. 

Core Free Introduction to Unified Mindfulness recorded and edited by Stephanie Nash: strategicmindfulness.net youtube.com

• mindfulnessarts.org/blog
  

This is a re-posting of a video that was added on 7/7/17, which had over 400 views in less than 20 hours, but a slight edit had to be made, and this repost is the new video.

Self-importance is key to unhappiness (video)

Getting free of self-importance is the key to happiness: Polly Young-Eisendrath

(TEDx Talks) TEDxMiddlebury, Aug. 18, 2013. Dr. Polly Young-Eisendrath, Ph.D. discusses the idea that we can control and manage our lives as counter to our happiness. After considering the true meaning of happiness, she highlights several uniquely human emotions — shame, guilt, envy, and jealousy — that pose as obstacles to this happiness and offers solutions to overcome these emotions.

ABOUT: Polly Young-Eisendrath is a speaker, writer, Jungian analyst, and mindfulness teacher. She is a long-time practitioner of Zen Buddhism and vipassana (insight meditation) in the tradition of Jewish Buddhist teacher Shinzen Young (through which she is a certified teacher). She has published many chapters and articles on Buddhism, psychotherapy, spirituality, resilience, and Jungian psychology. She is also clinical associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Vermont and in independent clinical practice in central Vermont. Her 14 published books have been translated into more than 20 languages, including The Self-Esteem Trap, The Resilient Spirit, Women and Desire, and The Cambridge Companion to Jung. She is working on a spiritual memoir called Love Broken Open.

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations).

Healing Duality: Shinzen Young (Dharma Talk)

(Deep Mindfulness) Healing Duality: American Teacher Shinzen Young on Transcending Separation as he recalls growing up Jewish in Los Angeles at a Japanese language school with full immersion into the culture. He learned advaita or non-duality and canonical Buddhist languages with his mild Asperger's, which has made him a polymath and scholar, mathematician and scientisst, a speaker and teacher of the Dharma, particularly from the Mahayana perspective with its heavy Hindu influences.

Hacking enlightenment: Can ultrasound help?

The Guardian, 6/29/21; Shinzen Young; Dhr. Seven, Pat Macpherson (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Hacking enlightenment: can ultrasound help us transcend [delusion to reach] reality?

(The Guardian) ARIZONA, USA - Can technology improve the way we meditate? At the University of Arizona, Dr. Jay Sanguinetti and Jewish-American Zen meditation master Shinzen Young are using ultrasound to find out.

They want to improve our ability to achieve mindfulness [being present and accepting the present moment without reacting with clinging to the pleasant, aversion to the unpleasant, or boredom with the neutral] -- as well as enhance our cognition and wellbeing. They believe it could revolutionize the way we treat those with depression and trauma. But as investors from Silicon Valley become interested in the technology, the pair are fighting to make sure the device is used in the right way and for the right reasons.

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Progress of Insight vs. Shinzen Young's System

The Progress of Insight vs. Shinzen Young's System 🌱 How I teach this path of Spiritual Enlightenment

(Deep Mindfulness, 9/23/19) Interested in a course on this topic? Find out more here: deepmindfulness.io/pos. Have you ever wondered how to navigate the Progress of Insight and Shinzen Young's meditation system? How does this traditional Buddhist Dharma path of classical enlightenment and [autistic spectrum] Shinzen Young's ultra-detailed secular mindfulness system? This video discusses how one teacher guides people through this material. The first key is to stop treating the "stages" of insight as stages and instead look at them as skills to develop. When we develop these skills enough, the stages arise on their own. This video briefly explores some of the tools used to help bridge these two systems.

Intro to Shinzen Young on Paths of Awakening

Introduction to Shinzen Young: A Conversation on Paths of Awakening

(Deep Mindfulness, 12/23/21) Register for the "Progress of Shinsight" course here: 🌱 DeepMindfulness.io/pos. In Part 1 of this wide-ranging discussion with American meditation master Shinzen Young, we discuss the relationship of his system and the Progress of Insight meditation map, The Mind Illuminated, and other views on awakening. We also discuss the philosophy behind the experiential path of awakening. Finally, we begin talking about the relationship between art and awakening.

Content: Timecodes:

• 0:00 - Intro
• 1:01 - The Progress of Shinsight class:
• 3:36 - Shared Lineage, Shinzen, Bill Hamilton, Daniel Ingram, and Kenneth Folk
• 6:40 - From pre-Buddhism to modern mindfulness. Good News/ Bad News
• 9:03 - Polarities in Art History and in Buddhism
• 10:13 - The Mind Illuminated - How do “Attention and Awareness” fit into your system?
• 16:18 - How is the Unified Mindfulness (UM) is a skeleton key of meditation practices?
• 21:07 - UM is system for awakening in any meditation system.
• 26:53 - Comparing Attention/ Awareness and Nama/Rupa
• 30:00 - Visiting Teacher from Burma - Ven. Taungpulu Sayadaw
• 33:24 - “There is Nothing but Nama/Rupa”
• 36:37 - The problem communicating great teachings.
• 39:12 - How Conceptual Art and Meditation are talking about the same thing (intro - cut for technical difficulties)

🌱 FREE: The 15 Foundation Guided Meditations (in my opinion)

Meditation lovebirds travel to Thailand, Burma

The Final Vlog? What happened in Thailand and Burma

(Deep Mindfulness) Mindful Living Vlog_007, April 19, 2018. This is our most ambitious vlog yet. It covers what happened on our trip to Thailand and Burma (now called Myanmar by the military dictatorship). And we address a few big questions.

• GO DEEP: Learn about Meditation Mentorship: DeepMindfulness.io/mentorship
• CONNECT: Deep Mindfulness collective: @DeepMindfulness on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter
• Sayadaw U Tejaniya is the retreat master in Burma
• Sayadaw U Tejaniya and the mental defilements

The practice is AWARENESS. Be aware that you're aware, the awareness of awareness. There are sights, sounds, smells, sensations, and savorings of the senses. And there's awareness of these, which is to say awareness that we are aware. While aware we watch for four things accompanying awareness of whatever kind in whatever situation:

1. Clinging (like)
2. Averting (dislike)
3. Unconsciousness (don't know)
4. Equanimity (alert and calm)

Buddhist Radio LA, KPFK FM (Alan Watts)

Roy of Hollywood Tuckman, Something's Happening A and B (KPFK.org/archives, 90.7 FM Los Angeles or kpfk.org, midnight to 5:00 AM); Dhr. Seven, Pat Macpherson, Wisdom Quarterly

Roy of Hollywood turns Thursday nights (beginning at midnight in what is technically Friday morning, July 19) into a kind of Buddhist Radio broadcasting center, featuring Alan Watts (who is also featured on Sunday mornings at 8:00 AM) and Jack Gariss and notable teachers like Shinzen Young, Sharon Salzberg, Jack Kornfield, Joseph Goldstein, and other prominent Americans particularly from the SoundsTrue.com catalog. Listen free for 90 days following the broadcast in the Archives as illustrated above. More

Emotions, psych, control: meditation (TEDx)

TEDx Talks, Aug. 18, 2013; Ashley Wells, Crystal Q. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

(TEDxMiddlebury) "Getting Free of Self-Importance Is The Key To Happiness
 

Buddhist Polly Young-Eisendrath* explains that counter to our happiness is the idea that we can control and manage our lives. [That's extremely helpful to know in meditation.] After considering the true meaning of happiness, she highlights several uniquely human emotions -- shame, guilt, envy, and jealousy [Don't tell the other primates, like our cousins the bonobos and chimps] -- that pose as obstacles to happiness and offers solutions to overcome these emotions.

*SPEAKER: Polly Young-Eisendrath is a speaker, writer, psychologist/Jungian psychoanalyst, and Buddhist mindfulness teacher. She is a long-time practitioner of Zen Buddhism and vipassana (insight meditation) in the tradition of Shinzen Young, in which she is a certified teacher. She has published many chapters and articles on Buddhism, psychotherapy, spirituality, resilience, and Jung's psychology. She is also clinical associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Vermont and in independent clinical practice in central Vermont. Her 14 published books have been translated into more than 20 languages, including The Self-Esteem Trap, The Resilient Spirit, Women and Desire, and The Cambridge Companion to Jung. She is working on a spiritual memoir called Love Broken Open.

• TEDx: In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized* (*subject to certain rules and regulations).

Practice like your head is on fire (Insight LA)

Celeste Young (InsightLA.org); Dhr. Seven, Ananda M. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

This is special time of year for me, Celeste Young. When I was 17 I found the Dharma, and I often joke that because of my inner and outer turmoil and suffering I was highly motivated to practice.

The truth is that's not a joke at all. There's a Buddhist phrase "practice like your hair's on fire."This expresses a sense of spiritual urgency. I related to this very much, and for me it was like my heart was on fire.

The Dharma was truly my life, my path. I didn't feel I had a choice. Ten years ago I moved to LA on a whim and met Trudy Goodman and found InsightLA.org before we had a center. It was a very different time for meditation in Los Angeles, and I marvel at how things have grown.

I have been teaching mindfulness and the Dharma since 2011 when Trudy heard me give a 10 minute dana talk (a talk requesting support for the center and teachings) at the end of one of her evening teachings.

She pulled me aside afterwards and asked me to join her first teaching cohort at InsightLA. Later on, I was honored to begin subbing for her Sunday mornings when she was away.

That year a few of my senior colleagues were given teacher authorization in the Theravada tradition in a beautiful ceremony with Trudy, Sharon Salzberg, and Jack Kornfield. Then one year ago, several of my colleagues and I at InsightLA were given our own powerful teacher authorization ceremony with Trudy and Jack.

We also celebrated friends and colleagues who had graduated from the Spirit Rock Retreat Teacher Training and three others dear to me who are in the current training cohort with Dharma friends and colleagues I've practiced with for many years.

This past Tuesday was the Buddhist holiday called Vesak, honoring the Buddha's birth, enlightenment, and passing into final nirvana. It was also the one-year anniversary of my teaching authorization.

I want to share my gratitude for the Buddha, the Dharma, and the Sangha, and for all my teachers. The transformation of my heart and mind is beyond words I am able to express here.

I feel fortunate to live aligned with what matters so deeply to me and to share it with people. My only wish is to be able to pass on a fraction of what I've received. -- Love, Celeste

P.S. In August, I'm leading a 6-night silent meditation retreat in the Andalusian region of Spain, located in the beautiful foothills of their Sierra Nevada mountains. This region is gorgeous and known for its tranquil and peaceful energy. If this is something you might be interested in learning more about click HERE.