Dating Pete Davidson: Is it his g/f or his karma?

Caroline Blair (PageSix.com, Nov. 14, 2022); E! News; Ven. Walpola Rahula (Wiki); Seth Auberon, Crystal Quintero, CC Liu (eds.), Dhr. Seven, Wisdom Quarterly

Pete Davidson, Emily Ratajkowski dating, ‘really like each other’

I'm the hottest stud in the US of A

Move over, Mr. Emily R. (Sebastian Bear-McClard) and you, too, Kim Kardashian.

Sickly [anemic or toxic liver] comedian Pete Davidson, 28, and [possibly the most beautiful woman in the world] Emily Ratajkowski, 31, are reportedly dating each other.

“Pete and Emily have been talking for a couple months now,” a source told Us Weekly on Monday (11/14/22), adding they’re “in the very early stages, but both really like each other.”

Machine Gun Kelly loves his Pete, the Big D.

The source explained that the two met through mutual friends who set them up. “Pete makes Emily laugh, and he loves how intelligent she is,” the insider continued.

The couple initially sparked romance rumors after they were spotted “holding hands” on a date in Brooklyn, New York, on Saturday night, according to an anonymous tip on the Instagram gossip account @DeuxMoi.

The model and the “Saturday Night Live” (SNL) alum have kept quiet on the alleged spark.

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Our deeds (karmas) control our lives

Dear, Bad Karma, you may have missed...

(WQ) Make more good karma (merit or punya). It's wherever we're going to be. The results of past and present actions are constantly ripening and coming to fruition, producing their results (vipaka and phala). Good karma is as useful to criminals and creeps as it is to saints and super people, maybe more so.

We get akin to how and what we give. Let go.

It's no use thinking or saying that Pete Davidson and Ye West don't "deserve" the partners they get. They obviously, in some sense, do; the partners think so even though those of us who are outside looking in are thinking, "Nooooo!"

NOTE: Not everything that happens is the result of karma (the coming to fruition of past deeds), but our actions have a disproportionate influence on our current circumstances, thoughts, feelings, and results -- what we're experiencing now.

That means we can take the wheel and start steering this cruise ship for the better. Turn the wheel. Nothing will happen right away. But over time, everything that happened was because of how we steered. If karma is the cause of the bad we don't want, it's also the cause of the good we do want.

• The Workings of Karma (2nd revised edition)

The great scholar-monk Pa Auk Sayadaw explains

Greed, hatred, and delusion are constantly yielding disappointment and misery. A secret the Buddha, who was a karmavadin (or "teacher of the efficacy of action"), is that the source of all the good and wished for results come from nongreed, nonhatred, and nondelusion.

These three have positive expressions as letting go, kindness, and wisdom. But the English words we use can hardly track the original Pali and Sanskrit terms of lobha, dosa, and moha and their positive counterparts alobha, adosa, and amoha.

Our deeds are neither rewarded nor punished

Cougar Kim Kardashian on the rebound found young Big Pete to her liking. It gave him a boost.

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I like karma. It's good. Don't know how I did it

Ven. Walpola Rahula states: "The theory of karma should not be confused with so-called 'moral [or poetic] justice’ or 'reward and punishment.’

The idea of moral justice, or reward and punishment, arises out of the conception of a supreme being, a "God," who sits in judgment, who is a law-giver, and who decides what is right and wrong.

The term 'justice’ is ambiguous and dangerous, and in its name more harm than good is done to humanity.

The theory of karma is the theory of cause and effect, of action and reaction; it is a natural law, which has nothing to do with the idea of justice or reward and punishment.

Every volitional [willed] action produces its effects [phala] or results [vipaka]. If a good action produces good effects and a bad action bad effects, it is not justice, or reward, or punishment meted out by anybody or any power sitting in judgment of your action, but this is in virtue of its own nature, its own law" [Note 58: What the Buddha Taught, Kindle edition, 860-866].

How to see each other in future lives (sutra)

Key & Peele, "I Said Bitch" (Comedy Central); Ven. Thanissaro (trans.) Samajivina Sutra: "Living in Tune" (AN 4.55, PTS: A ii 61) edited by Dhr. Seven, Sheldon S., Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Karma is the key to events.

Once the Blessed One was staying among the Bhaggas in the Deer Park at Bhesakala Grove, near the Crocodile Haunt. Then early in the morning he dressed and, with robe and bowl, went to the home of the householder Nakula's father (Nakulapitā).

When he arrived he sat on a seat made ready. Nakula's father and Nakula's mother (Nakhulamātā) greeted the Blessed One, bowed, and sat respectfully to one side. Sitting there, Nakula's father said:

The Buddha's parents reunited in this life.

"Venerable sir, ever since Nakula's mother was a young girl brought to me [to be my future wife as arranged by our loving parents] when I was a young boy, I am not aware of being unfaithful to her even in thought, much less in body. We want to see one another in this life and in the future in lives to come."

Nakula's mother then said to the Blessed One: "Venerable sir, ever since I was a young girl brought to Nakula's father [to be his future wife] when he was a young boy, I am not aware of being unfaithful to him even in thought, much less in body. We want to see one another in this life and in the future in lives to come."

"Karma: It's Everywhere You're Going To Be."

[The Buddha advised them in karmic terms:] "If both husband and wife wish to see one another in this life and also in lives to come, they should [seek to] be in tune [with one another]

• in confidence (faith)
• in tune in virtue
• in tune in generosity, and
• in tune in wisdom [views].

Then they will see one another in this life and also in lives to come."

Spouses alike in

confidence,

morality, restraint,

living by the Dharma,

addressing one another

with loving words

benefit in many ways.

To them comes bliss.

Their enemies are dejected

when they are seen in tune in virtue.

having followed the Dharma

here in this world,

in tune in precepts and practices,

they delight in the world of the devas,

enjoying what pleasures they desire.

Why do we need MEN? Science answers

RadioLab.org (audio); Wisdom Quarterly

Okay, maybe a few men wouldn't be a bad idea. But why do we need them?

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Where have the good men gone?

Kay S. Hymowitz (WSJ.com)

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Not so long ago, the average American man in his 20s had achieved most of the milestones of adulthood: a high-school diploma, financial independence, marriage, and children.

Today, most men in their 20s hang out in a novel sort of limbo, a hybrid state of semi-hormonal adolescence and responsible self-reliance. This "pre-adulthood" has much to recommend it, especially for the college-educated. But it's time to state what has become obvious to legions of frustrated young women: It doesn't bring out the best in men.

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Clinging like an Electric Bird

Kelly Yanni (Australia)*
Buddha Bird (Roomwithaview/Flickr.com)

I had a boyfriend, an American Buddhist. He brought me to the Dharma. Helped me realize my independence. Always irritable, somehow he got needy and clingy. Wanting me to come to group meditation. I've got things to do. The guy couldn't even meditate in his own flat. I could, I could meditate there, not my place, but after I moved in with him.

"Enlighten me!" he would say after I attained. As if I could transfer my serenity-and-insight into his head. Don't think I didn't try. But what's so hard about it? Cheers, mate. Focus on the breath!

O.K., that's not quite it. Here it is: 1) Be silent. 2) Keep the Eight Precepts. 3) Focus on the breath to the exclusion of everything else. Don't think. (He thinks and talks way too much -- the opposite).

"Someone plugged you in. And sadly they clipped your wings. You can’t fly away, electric bird. Yeah, someone took your tweet when they fed you that bad seed. You can’t fly away, electric bird. Well your art, you fell into this part! You play the victim perfectly -- holding your beating heart. You used to be so smart; you fluttered round the yard making your magic. Got to set you free. You were blinded by deceit. You can’t fly away, electric bird. So now this room's your stage while you’re stuck there in that cage. You can’t fly away, electric bird" (Sia).

You'll see the breath. The mind will make it so. Ecstasy will override the body. So you'll be able to sit for a long time, hours. You don't want to come out. When the physical pleasure comes to seem coarse, go to the next absorption. It's happy, bubbly. When that seems coarse, go to the next one. There's peace.

If you get to just half of them, you're ready to practice insight. That's where I was ready to help him. But he wouldn't quiet down. He wouldn't even stop listening to music or complaining about irritating people. (Law of Attraction you'll just draw more crud in by complaining!) He couldn't appease his mind. Too desperate to attain.

It's what Siddhartha found out. Exactly the wrong way. Enlightenment does not come from craving, striving, and overexertion. It comes from calm-persistence. It comes from balanced effort. Exert and relax, exert and relax, until you build momentum. More concentration means less effort. Less concentration needs more persistence (with less frustration). Strive and let go, exert and relax, sit and enjoy, yin and yang together.

I wonder where he is now, lost in Samsara. Sometimes I worry about him. But then I remember a quote he taught me. Why'd he have to get so clingy? “No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path. Buddhas only point the way” (quote). I swear, that guy. Brilliant and beautiful, but like an electric bird. I don't have time to feel guilty about dropping him.

*EDITORIAL NOTE: This is a true story. We know the writer well. "Kelly," in this very life, has directly known and seen nirvana. The books say it's possible, yet no one accepts it. We wouldn't either if we didn't know the people involved. The American boyfriend has already been invited to share his side of it. It's tragic for him, wonderful for her, and wonderful for everybody else because there's a message here: It's possible for Westerners to make remarkable meditative attainments and gain enlightenment as lay people practicing intensively for relatively short periods of time. See the story of Dighavu (SN 55:3; V 344-46). We agree with the individuals here not to explicitly announce accomplishments or identities. But you can follow them to Perth: VIDEO

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