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Wednesday, November 4, 2026

Peace Class with Mandy Kahn (11/4)



Friends, Peace Class meets tonight. Join in LIVE by simply clicking on this Zoom link at the start time 6:00 pm.
Weekly Peace Class on Zoom (prs.org)
Please note this this week, clocks here in California shifted back an hour, from Pacific Daylight Time (PDT) to Pacific Standard Time (PST). If joining from Arizona, Hawaii, or from abroad, please check to see what 6:00 pm PST translates to in any other area: Time Zone Converter.

It's free and ALL are welcome at Peace Class. What happened last week? There were guided meditations and other activities, plus this message:

NOW WE ARE AT WAR

Bibi dictates to Dept. of War Secretary Hegseth
Now we are at war. As we look around, we see, in various forms of violence, what is inside the collective consciousness we all share.

There must be much anger, much resentment, and much sadness in the collective consciousness for us to see this violence externally. Now let us gaze upon this moment in history. Seeing it, we stand at a point of opportunity. Why?

We can ask ourselves: Do I choose this violence? Do I choose to continue this Era of Belligerence?

If we do, then there's nothing to change: We, as a human collective, made this violence, and if we choose to continue living as we have been living, we will get more of it.


"Be the peace you wish to see in the world."
Perhaps next time, the violence will be in a different region; perhaps next time, it will directly affect different people and everyone else indirectly. If we do NOT change our habits, there will be more of the same, more violence. That is the result if we see this and choose to remain as we are.

But there is another option. And that is to see this outbreak of violence and to say, I do not choose this. I choose something else. If we say (if any individual says) that, we are at a powerful point of opportunity, because we have the inspiration required to change what needs to be changed to see something new in the world. "Be the change you want to see in the world," urged Indian peace activist Mahatma Gandhi.
What change did the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. want? He wanted peace, so he became that peace and said: "Be the PEACE you wish to see in the world."
  • EDITORIAL NOTE: However Gandhi or MLK Jr. may have lived out their personal lives, one liberated India from harsh British imperial rule, the other from brutal American racism and institutional discrimination. First, they had to see and understand the mechanisms then subvert them. Gandhi was educated in England, so he did see how the empire worked. MLK Jr. learned in university and from activists (such as peace activist, friend, and Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh) how the USA and the American War Machine were operating. Second, they seized the opportunity to dismantle those empires' hold on and exploitation of others. Third, they did it peacefully, even if Malcolm X or others, remaining in anger, would have wished for violence to oppose violence. That could never work. Why? If violence beats violence, then violence wins. But if energizing peace beats depleting violence, then the power of peace wins. And it shows that peace, which is sustainable, is the way. War destroys, exhausts, ruins itself and sets enemies aflame against it, which is in no way sustainable, however many battles it may seem to win in the short run. Everyone told them peace and justice would be impossible.
What is war?

I feel sad and guilty. I will kill these feelings.
War is the resentment, anger, sadness, and guilt that festers in the collective consciousness, manifesting outwardly in the world of form.

Before we see the outbreak of war, we might find it possible to ignore the discomfort that indicates that there are massive amounts of resentment, anger, sadness, bitterness, and guilt in the collective.

Just so, before the body has a 105-degree fever, we might ignore the runny nose we experience the week before, which is indicating to us that this body needs rest, resilience, and care.

I feel sick with fever for more ego and money.
If we do address it, it never happens. If we fail to address the issue when we see early symptoms, sickness will manifest. So it has, now. The runny nose of how we have felt about each other, the runny nose of how we have felt after we judged each other with thought-violence, has turned into a life-threating fever; it has manifested into outward violence anyone can see.

And now that we can see it, some will ask, How can we change this? How do we END this war? How do we bring about peace?

I choose genocide! Deal with it, stupid Arabs!
The root of this violence is many people feeling something that could be translated into the phrase: “I have not been honored.”

How can we bring the opposite of that phrase into the world? How can we become the phrase, “I honor you, honor myself, and honor all beings”? How can we become this “I honor all beings” presence?

Israeli Jews say no to genocide, yes to peace!
How can we become the “I have compassion for all beings” presence? First, it is simple, by setting an intention (a determination, the root of what the Buddha explained determined action/karma).

Simply speaking, we can intend: Let me be the “I honor all beings” presence in the world. Let me fill with the spirit of the phrase “I honor all beings.”

It's too hot! No, it's too cold! Now it's just right.
When we slip into a bathtub and the water is too hot, we run the cool tap to balance the overall temperature. The same is true of our collective humanity: When we see war, we know that many are feeling the phrase, “I have not been honored.” We can balance that by simply adding the spirit of The Honoring of All Beings into our collective consciousness.

Just as adding cool water to scalding water balances the temperature into a mild and tolerable tepidness, our Honoring of All can restore balance to the collective. But here's the most important thing I've come here to say:

We can carry the Honoring of All Beings Presence and still have strong political opinions. Carrying The Honoring of All does not result or require neutrality of opinion. This is exceptionally important to understand. We can have any opinion and still carry the I Honor All Beings presence. Here's how.

How? Compassion can be added to our strong opinions. We can think or say, “I have a preference here; I have a preference for Group A or Group B, or perhaps a preference for neutrality. And even as I prefer that, I carry compassion for all beings. I also honor all beings. I honor them because I know that everyone deserves a safe world.

“I know that compassion-for-all is the thing that builds it. So even as I have my preferences, however strong, I surround that preference with my compassion-for-all.”

Vote with me for more war and capitalist profits.
The lie that we were told is that it is our responsibility to choose sides, and in choosing sides, we must oppose others, condemn them, carry vitriol for those who dare to stay on the “wrong,” namely, the side we did not choose. No. We CAN choose a side, and we can still feel compassion-for-all.

Understand, our opinions are a part of our experience of selfhood, and we are here to be who we are. We are loved as who we are. We will never be asked to step away from our point of view by those who understand what we are here to do, which is to be ourselves. We do not need to be less ourselves to be instruments of peace in this world. We can be exactly ourselves and we can be instruments of true peace.

A nation says no to kings and dictators.
Whatever our opinions are—whether we have a preference for neutrality or a preference for one group or another, or anything in between—we can be aware of it, and we can express it, and we can still build a bridge to the Age of Peace.

When we see violence and say, “I don't condone that violence” and add our vitriol, our vitriol actually builds more violence.

Republicans in power, give us peace!
I wish I didn't have to say that, because many won't like hearing it. But it is objectively true. And we have been shielded from the truth for too long. We deserve to exercise our true power. Our true power is to choose the kind of world we want to build first then to consciously engage the tools that will build what we want.

If we want a peaceful world, choose it by pairing compassion-for-all with any opinion. If we want more war, choose it by pairing it with vitriol, with cruelty of thought, and with harsh judgments of others with any opinion.

We need change. Change now or be voted out.
That is how we choose what will come. We choose not by what our opinions are, but by what feeling we pair them with. That is the greatest secret behind war:

It's not which side we choose that truly affects the violence around us. It's what feeling we pair whatever we have chosen. If we pair our opinion with compassion-for-all, we are choosing the Age of Peace.

If we pair our opinions with vitriol, with cruelty, with judgment, with violence of thought, we are choosing the Era of Belligerence.

Any of the following three phrases builds peace:
  1. I have a preference for neutrality, and I carry the spirit of compassion-for-all.
  2. I have a preference for Group A, and I carry the spirit of compassion-for-all.
  3. I have a preference for Group B, and I carry the spirit of compassion-for-all.
Any one of these builds a bridge from where we are to the Age of Peace.

Why are we here?

We are here to be live out integrity: peace, peace
We are here to be ourselves. But we are also here to build the world that we want. If we were taught that we were obligated to carry vitriol for those we disagree with, we were told that by those who preferred we build more of the Era of Belligerence or by those who had been told how to be by those who prefer the Era of Belligerence.

I am choosing the Age of Peace, so I am telling everyone the truth about how to build it. The future is ours to build. We build the future with our thoughts (beginning with our intentions) and with the emotions that surround our thoughts.

We build it by how we think of others, judge them, and how we think of ourselves and judge ourselves. We were probably told that we build the future with our opinions.

Imagine all the people living life in peace.
But we really build it with the feelings we generate, by way of our thoughts, thought-habits, that surround our opinions. I honor others' opinions, even if they differ from mine. And I honor what others choose to do with their infinite ability to build our world together.

But I offer these words to make it clear what we are choosing between and how so we can be sure that we are building what we really want.

  • Mandy Kahn (prs.org) edited by Dhr. Seven, Wisdom Quarterly
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Monday, July 13, 2026

I've had it with those drugged out hippies


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Israel threatening to kill Trump [like JFK, Kirk]

They wouldn't dare take out another one after trauma of the last Zionist hit. O, wouldn't they?
Jewish Max Blumenthal straightens out Zionist hasbara - Excusing child rape in Epstein Files
John F Kennedy shot by snipers, but secret agents can always pin it on pre-placed patsies
(Katie Halper) "Israel is threatening to kill Trump": Israeli military expert Haim Bresheeth-Zabner

IDF: An Army Like No Other



An Army Like No Other (IDF terror cell)
This is a history of the IDF that argues that Israel is an aspiring Zionist empire/Western nation formed by its viciously violent army.

Israel's offensive imperial army, euphemistically named the Israel "Defense" Forces (IDF) in George Orwell's Doublespeak, was established in 1948 by Zionist David Ben-Gurion, Israel's first prime minister.

He believed that "the whole [new European] nation is the army." In his mind, the IDF was to be an army like no other.

It was the instrument that might transform a diverse occupying population of migrants and landgrabbers into a new "people." Since the foundation of the unconstitutional "state" of Israel, therefore, the IDF has been the largest, most costly, and most influential institution in Israel's Jewish society.

Epstein painting: Pres. Bush with 9/11 towers
It is the nursery of its economic, social, and political Ashkenazi ruling elite class.

In this fascinating history, Bresheeth-Zabner charts the devolution of the IDF from the Nakba (the "Catastrophe" rained down on the indigenous Palestinian population) to the continued assaults on Gaza, formerly the largest open-air political prison in the world.

It shows that the state of Israel has been built on propaganda (hasbara) and formed out of the blood of its endless imperial wars.

He also gives an account of his own experiences as a young conscript during the 1967 War. He argues that this army is embedded in all aspects of daily life and Zionist white Jewish identity.

Charlie Kirk should have read more US history
The world should not merely see it as a fighting force enjoying a nuclear international reputation, but as the central financial, ideological, and political institution of Israeli society.

As a consequence, readers have to reconsider assumptions on what any kind of "peace" might look like. An Army Like No Other: How the Israel Defense Forces Made a Nation
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Thursday, July 9, 2026

Bibi, Ana K, TDS, Islamic Japan, DDN, comic


Israel orders Trump back into Iran War
The Joe Biden'ing of Trump's brain

Iran has beaten Israel and USA?
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Thursday, July 2, 2026

Tucker's 3rd party: Non-Republicans (AOC, Bernie)

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Thursday, June 11, 2026

Always 2 wars, never 1 (Peace Class)

Friends, this is the talk I gave last week presented here edited by Wisdom Quarterly:
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The War of Opinions

Should I write DC a strongly-worded letter?
When we are belligerent and violent, there are always two wars happening simultaneously, the War of Bombs and the War of Opinions.
 
The War of Bombs requires the War of Opinions as its fuel. If we end the War of Opinions, we simultaneously end the War of Bombs.
 
Is this what John Lennon and Yoko Ono meant?
We are all responsible for the War of Opinions, so we can end it at any time. The way we end the War of Opinions is by thinking then saying this: "Whatever opinion you hold, I have compassion for you, and whatever opinion I hold, I have compassion for myself."
 
If we choose these mental positions, we will never have to agree with each other to see the end of belligerence, violence, war, disputes, arguments, and doing harm.

First we disagree then we go to war
(Maron in the Garage) I can no longer talk to my Trump voter friends
 
Talking is easy; doing is a little harder.
The true cause of violence is not disagreement; it is how we think about each other and feel about each other when we disagree with each other.
 
Violence can only happen if it is acceptable for us to withhold compassion from those with whom we disagree. This is the cause of war.
 
Our differences of opinion do not cause violence. What causes violence is that we are willing to withhold compassion from others, any others, because of their opinions.

Jewish Pres. Bernie wants war
 
As soon as we become unwilling to withhold compassion from anyone, we will see the end of violence, immediately, at that exact moment.
 
When our compassion ends nowhere, there will be peace on earth.
 
Opinions (holding views)
It's you, Bibi. - No, Donny, you're the War Prez
We are taught to use the opinions of others to justify withholding compassion from them.
There is only one reason to withhold compassion from anyone: to actively build more violence on this planet. That's what our withheld compassion does.
 
If we are trying to accomplish something other than that by withholding compassion, then we are using the wrong tool. If we want to build peace, the tool that will build it is compassion-for-all.

 
These times
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It's a dog's life these days.
The trouble with these times [is that they aren't a-changin' enough] is that many are trying to build peace by withholding compassion from those who disagree with them. That action builds war. So they are trying to build peace with that which only builds war.
 
That is like saying, "I'd like to build a house to sleep in, a good strong dwelling, so I'm going to build it out of water." [What do we think we are, fish, mermaids, aquatic plants?]


Man builds Water House, uses wood
 
Now if we could just nail into sheet water.
Water is useful for many things, but we can't cut it into blocks and build shelters with it. [What if we freeze it first? Igloo ice, sure, but this is water we're talking about, not permafrost ice in the arctic.]
 
Our misunderstandings are so basic to our belief system that we do not see that we are trying to build a house with something we cannot build a house with. That's how elemental our misunderstandings are. But that's also how powerful our opportunities are.
 
All we need to do is say, "Now that I can see that I've been trying to build a house with blocks of water, let me try again, but with blocks of wood, and see what happens." Voila: a beautiful, solid house.

A house made of water would not be nearly so nice or durable...or livable at all.
 
Not by hatred but by...this is an eternal law.
And so it is with peace. We can say, "Let me try using compassion-for-all to build peace, and see if that works any better than withholding compassion." And it will work every time. That is an eternal and universal law.

One can't build walls with wet fluid water; one can't build true and lasting peace with hatred of the people who disagree with us.
 
I had a water house once, called the Sea
Our hatred builds something: It builds more of the Era of Belligerence.

It does not build peace in the world. It also does not build peace for us personally — in our day-to-day experience, our family and circle of friends, our workplace and our minds/hearts.
 
What builds peace for us, in our personal experience, is to say this: "I disagree with that point of view yet still have compassion for the person who holds it."
 
That builds the kind of deep peace that makes it easier for us to do everything we have to do throughout the day. It makes it easier to be a parent, easier to be a friend, easier to be a whatever.

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A war brings these forces to our attention, but they are always at play, in smaller ways, within our lives. Disagreements break out in the home and the workplace. And we always make more peace for ourselves when we feel and think this:
 
"I disagree with the way my boss (spouse, child, friend, whoever) sees this situation. Still, I hold deep compassion for this person."

The War of Bombs
Pentagon lies, manipulates U.S. press

That'll teach 'em to disagree with us, eh, John?
The War of Bombs requires the War of Opinions to exist. Without our War of Opinions, their War of Bombs will very quickly lose steam and peter out.
 
A fire requires fuel -- such as wood and oxygen, plus certain conditions, like heat and the absence of rain.
 
War is a Racket. Just ask Fatty Fatpants
Similarly, the fire of war requires certain conditions to ignite and burn and grow.

Remove the War of Opinions and, no matter how many lit matches are thrown onto the fire of war, it will not ignite.
 
Compassion-for-all is like soaking fuel used in the fire of war. No matter how many flames are dropped on wet wood, it won't catch on fire. Our compassion-for-all ends this war and every war.
 
I serve my king with no question, Sir. - Good boy
When our compassion ends nowhere, there will be peace on earth. When our compassion goes everywhere, there is no ready fuel for war.
 
What will happen when we start to pair compassion-for-all with whatever opinion (view) we hold?

 
Could we eat our way to peace, Will Tuttle?
What will happen is that we will spend more time in our Peace Mind, which is the higher portion of our consciousness. And when we do this, we'll see new solutions—solutions that already exist, except that we cannot see them yet because they can only be seen from the more loving portion of consciousness.
 
When we have compassion for others, we free them from our hatred, vitriol, animosity, belligerence, so they visit their Peace Minds more often, too.
 

Republican gals love soldiers who kill for God.
And when we are all in our Peace Minds, new solutions will be so easy to see that we almost won't be able to comprehend how we ever stayed at war or disagreeing for so long.
 
Solutions to our problems already exist. Whether we can see them yet depends on our perspective. Where are we placing conscious attention in our own consciousness? Is it our Peace Mind?
 
It's not that this conflict, or any conflict, is based on an unsolvable problem. It's that we cannot yet see a solution that will resolve this issue from our current perspective.
 
Move our perspective, and the preexisting solution becomes apparent.
 
What's the one thing we can do to serve the world? We can learn to transition our own perspective upwards so we can see more solutions and bring more innovations to humanity.
 
What's another thing we can do? We can pair compassion with everything we think and feel. Compassion can be added to any thought, like this:
 
"I greatly disagree with what that leader has done, and I have compassion for everyone who lives in that country, even for the leader herself," or "I think that's a terrible thing to do, and I have compassion for the person who has done it." Just add one in.

I love you, Yoko. - STFU, John. (Peace❤️Truth)
No consensus of opinion needs to be reached to end the War of Opinions. We can end war without a single opinion ever changing.
 
We end it by adding our compassion-for-everyone to any opinion we have.
 
That ends the war, because now it's not a War of Opinions that we're seated within—it's simply a landscape of opinions that are allowed to exist.
 
It's not a War of Opinions when there is compassion-for-all present. Now it's a community of unique human individuals who compassionately respect each other. We came here to be unique.
 
We did not come here to create a consensus of opinion. We came here to be in a vibrant (lively and diverse) community of original thinkers, coexisting, more than tolerating but appreciating differences.

Peace Class, free, Wednesdays on Zoom
We came here to learn how to do that in peace.
 
What makes that possible is this phrase: Regardless of how we see things, we have compassion for one another. That choice-of-thought builds the kind of peace we came here to build.

In peace, Mandy
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