Salzberg, Boorstein, Kornfield, and Goldstein

"Insight Bay Area" (spiritrock.org); Amber Larson, Crystal Q. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

ONLINE: Monday Night Dharma Talk & Meditation Jack Kornfield & Friends

Thursdays in Metta May: Orienting Ourselves: Conversations with Founding Teachers with Sharon Salzberg, Sylvia Boorstein, Jack Kornfield, Joseph Goldstein, and Michelle Latvala (calendar).

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Ram Dass: Jack Kornfield 💗 Trudy Goodman

What PSYCHICS saw: COVID-19 (video)

Be Inspired, March 24, 2020; Ashley Wells, Pfc. Sandoval (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly; CNN; ET
The views, information, or opinions expressed in video are solely those of the individuals involved and do not necessarily represent those of Be Inspired Channel, the primary purpose of which is to educate and inform. This channel does not constitute medical or other professional advice.

Was it created in U.S. or Wuhan labs? Coronavirus COVID-19 predictions

You will obey and not question civil authorities!

It can't all be psychic intuition, as Dean Koontz just researched the most likely scenario (or was fed it by someone high up). Did Nostradamus write a quatrain about it? Did Fatima whisper? Did the Tibetan Oracle tell the current Dalai Lama?

O, Mystic Masters, tell us what is really real.

Another psychic went on Coast to Coast (3/24/20) to tell two-face host Noory that she saw a disease being "unleashed." She emphasized that exact word. At that time swine flu had been launched as a sort of test run to terrify the world. But she foresaw something much bigger around 2020.

Cardi B and other laughable items from sensational entertainment media

But Sylvia Browne, who published her prediction in a book, described this flu in detail and said it would suddenly disappear, as it's doing. Governments must be shutting off their 5G, a primary cause of this illness. But she says it will return ten years later.

Controlled media (CNN) mocks 2020 "predictions" that barely came true.

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These sound like planned deployments of new and virulent bioweapons more than natural disease processes etiologists know about. Flu pandemics have radio, radar, and microwave radiation bombardment like 4G and 5G wifi as their basis. See Dr. Thomas Cowan, MD, science-activist Arthur Firstenberg, Dr. Devra Davis, psychic Rudolf Steiner, and Stop5G.net for ample evidence the mainstream media will not be talking about.

• Social media censorship: Free speech has to stop so that government and industry can take control like a dictatorship (The Guardian)

Spiritual is Ordinary (football)

Amber Larson, CC Liu, Seth Auberon, Wisdom Quarterly; Buddhist meditation teacher Sylvia Boorstein (Spirit Rock), It's Easier Than You Think: The Buddhist Way to Happiness

(MT) FOX NFL Sunday, Part D'oh -- the historic intersection between The Simpsons and FOX NFL

Sylvia Boorstein (OB)

A few years ago I was teaching in another city, and the person who was to be my host telephoned me in advance to see if I had any special food requirements. I appreciated his concern and explained my eating preferences. I also mentioned that I don't normally eat much for breakfast but that I do like coffee in the morning.

He replied, in a very surprised voice, "You drink coffee?" I realized I had just made a heretical confession. I needed to do some fast mind scrambling to find a graceful way to explain to my host (without losing my spiritual stature) that I do, indeed, drink coffee.

"You drink coffee?" (funny-pics.co)

There are some peculiar notions about what constitutes "being spiritual." I have a cartoon on the wall of my office that shows two people having dinner in a restaurant. One of them is saying to the other, "It's such a relief to meet someone who isn't on a spiritual question." I agree. There is an enormous possibility of getting sidetracked into self-conscious holiness, of putting energy into acting the part of a "spiritual person."

Outside of the US, football doesn't matter. But futbol (soccer) means the world.
 

Ball games keep us fit for war (theworld.org)

A dear friend of mine, as he has become more and more established as a meditation teacher, has become less and less hesitant about telling people he loves football games. He even admits he gets very excited about the games, cheering at his television set as if he were sitting in the stadium.
 

No dispassionate attitude of "May the best man win" for him! I know he has a wonderful level of understanding, and he behaves like a regular person in a regular world. Being a meditator and developing equanimity do not mean becoming weird.

I think I chose the title for this book long before the book itself was written. Indeed, I was motivated to write largely because I wanted to tell people that spiritual living does not need to be a big deal. More

• It's Easier Than You Think (SylviaBoorstein.com)
• Quotes: It's Easier Than You Think (Goodreads.com)

(Smithsonian) Video games can become an obsessive distraction.

Former (literal) Nazi Pope Angers Jews

NOTE: WQ's interfaith efforts seek to understand the world. The pope (like the Dalai Lama, gay activist Rabbi Eger, and Miss California) is a political figure. So he...*

Although some deny it, and most Catholics are unaware of it, Pope Benedict XVI was in fact -- by his own admission in his memoirs -- a member of the Nazi Youth (NPR). This was in Germany, the pope's home (or father) land, as European correspondent Sylvia Poggioli reports on NPR today.

• Listen Now (Morning Edition)
• The Pope's Visit to Israel (NPR)

It was, he explains, compulsory service. Church leaders of course play this down, but some go so far as to deny it. It should therefore come as no real surprise that Israel is up in arms over the pontiff's visit to the Christian holy land.

• VIDEO: War of Words, the Pope in Israel
• Vatican defends Benedict from Israeli criticism

The pope's stated aim is to reconcile with the Jews [now that they are a world power on par with the Church], which it is "irrevocably committed" to doing. He stated this to Israel's two chief rabbis. Will Jews worldwide accept the offer? Will Catholics accept homosexuality in the clergy? Gay marriage? Child molestation? Hypocrisy?

• American Nazi Demjanjuk now being held in German prison
• Former Catholic archbishop's shocking admission: He's gay
• Jewish lesbian gay-marriage activist heads Board of Rabbis

Morning Edition, May 12, 2009 · Pope Benedict XVI visited two of the key religious sites of Islam and Judaism today, Jerusalem's Temple Mount and the Western Wall. On the second day of his pilgrimage to the Holy Land, he also had separate meetings with Muslim and Jewish leaders. His visit has revealed just how delicate a political minefield the Holy Land can be for the pope. Steve Inskeep talks with NPR's Sylvia Poggioli about reaction to his visit.

Miss California keeps her crown, defends her speech
Carrie Prejean speaks out now that she is allowed to retain her crown and title despite a recent teen sexual photo scandal and comments opposing gay marriage. She holds back tears

• Watch Prejean's emotional moment
• ACatholicView.blogspot.com: Miss California

Pretty, pampered dummy for free speech

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PHOTOS: Nazi Youth symbol, Pope Benedict (middle-east-online.com); Miss California Carrie Prejean (OMG).

Pageant leader resigns
Miss California USA director Shanna Moakler says she no longer believes in the pageant. Her bold words

*So he, not Catholicism, is being scrutinized. The pope is the titular head of the Church, not an accurate representative of a billion plus Catholics worldwide. The same is true of Jews not represented by Israel or NPR. But most of all it is true of Californians who reject a beauty pageant contestant dubbed "Miss California" even when she defends freedom of speech and sexy photos while decrying expanded marriage rights.