Showing posts with label brain gain. Show all posts
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Monday, February 2, 2026
Wednesday, July 2, 2025
Money, beauty! How can I love debt?
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| CEO Kiana Danial wants to get rich by offering to make you rich on linkedin.com |
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| Kiana Dufour signed. Wants rich spouse? |
Do our names have anything to do with our life paths?
If one names a daughter "Kiana," will that benefit her more in terms of money or beauty, the main driving forces of a worldly life?
It would be best if she were virtuous, accruing profitable (kusala, wholesome) karma the Buddha called merit to gain the five most desirable things in this world, at least when looked at in the long term.
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SUTRA: Five things everyone wants
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| What you want, get it by karma. |
"But of these five things, O householder, I do no teach that they are to be obtained by prayer or by vows [making deals with God or the universe, promising to do something in exchange for a boon]. If one could obtain them by prayer or vows, who would not do it?
"For a noble disciple, O householder, who wishes to have long life, it is unbefitting to pray for longevity or to take delight in doing so. Instead, one should follow a path of [practice in] life that is conducive to longevity. By following such a path, one will obtain long life, be it human or divine.
"For a noble disciple, O householder, who wishes for beauty... happiness... fame... [rebirth in] a heaven, it is unbefitting to pray for them or to take delight in doing so. Instead, one should follow a path of life that is conducive to beauty... happiness... fame... [rebirth in] a heaven.
"By following such a path, one will obtain beauty, happiness, fame, and [rebirth in] a heaven." (AN 5.43)
This vulgar and explicit hit song is about trying to get rich in America
How to get rich right now
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| I'm the most beautiful Kiana in the world (Morales/listal.com) |
Poor people have bad debt. 😖
Wealthy people take advantage of good debt. 🤑 In fact, right now, debt is my favorite type of income!
Our Million Dollar Family Accelerators have accomplished so much using leverage.💰
But be very careful not to confuse the two types of debt in day-to-day life. 🚨
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| OD Martinique: Kiana (Quebec MOI) |
📈 In contrast, good debt, also known as funding or leverage (gearing), is defined by the money one may owe to acquire an asset, an investment. It’s something that reproduces after itself to make more wealth — like a skillset gained that will keep on giving for years to come.
Here are some debt strategies wealthy people use to generate wealth:
- 🏠 Leverage in Real Estate: Taking out a mortgage to invest in property can amplify returns.
- 💼 Investment Loans: Borrowing to invest in appreciating assets like stocks or funds.
- 📈 Business Expansion: Securing loans to expand or start a business.
- 💰 Tax Advantages: Borrowing against investments to fund purchases without triggering capital gains taxes can optimize wealth growth.
- 🎓 Education and Skill Development: Loans for education or skill enhancement that leads to higher income potential.
Remember, leveraging debt for wealth requires caution and an understanding of the risks involved.
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SUTRA: Reasons for getting rich
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| Are we all agreed that these five are good? |
"... A noble disciple with riches through work and zeal, gathered by strength of arm, earned by sweat of brow, justly obtained in a lawful way, makes oneself happy, glad, and keeps that happiness; one makes one's parents happy, glad, and keeps them so -- likewise wife and children and assistants.
"...When riches are gotten in this way, one makes friends and companions happy, glad, and keeps them so.
"...When riches are gotten in this way, bad luck... is warded off, and one keeps one's goods in safety.
"...When riches are gotten in this way, one makes the five oblations [pūjā] to one's kin, guests, spirits, kings, and deities.
"...When riches are gotten this way, the noble disciple institutes offerings of lofty aim, celestial, ripening in happiness, leading heavenward [to the deva planes, akasha loka, sagga], for all those recluses and good people who abstain from pride and indolence, who bear all things in patience and humility, each mastering self, each calming self, each perfecting self.
"Now if the wealth of that noble disciple, heeding these five reasons, comes to destruction, let that disciple consider: 'At least I have heeded those reasons for getting rich, but my wealth has gone!' Therefore, one is not upset.
"And if one's wealth increases, let one think: 'Truly, I have heeded those reasons and my wealth has grown!' Therefore, one will not be upset in either case." (AN 5.41)
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| Author Kiana Danial |
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- Kiana Danial, CEO: Debt; Brazilian athlete Kiana Dufour (BlackSportsOnline); Ven. Nyanaponika (trans.) via Hellmuth Hecker, Anathapindika: The Great Benefactor, Dhr. Seven, Crystal Q., CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Thursday, May 29, 2025
Spelling Bee 100 (Monty Python, Ananda)
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| Mmm, is it S-U-P-E-R-C-A-L-A-F-R-A-G-E-L-I-S-T-I-C-E-X-P-I-A-L-I-D-O-C-I-O-U-S? |
(Scripps National Spelling Bee) 2025: 100 YEARS OF THE BEE
Monty Python's Flying Circus competitive mass spectacle sport of Novel Writing (The Final Rip Off)
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A century of spelling keeps going strong
A field of 243 top young spellers will converge on National Harbor, Maryland, from [today] May 27 to May 29, 2025, to compete in a historic Scripps National Spelling Bee.
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the iconic American competition, which was first held on June 17, 1925, with just nine participants.
“Reaching 100 years is more than a milestone — it’s a testament to the enduring power of words, learning and the human spirit,” said Corrie Loeffler, executive director of the Scripps National Spelling Bee.
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| I always knew I'd do it! Yes! Thanks, Saraswati! |
This year’s 243 national qualifiers advanced through local and regional bees that took place through the end of March. All rounds of this year’s national competition — preliminaries, quarterfinals, semifinals, and finals — will take place at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center, Maryland.
Highlights of 2025 Scripps National Spelling Bee field
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| Yes, well, it comes as no surprise really. *Yawn* |
Only one 2024 finalist advanced to the 2025 national competition: Faizan Zaki, who finished second last year behind Bruhat Soma, following his record-breaking spell-off.
Tarini Nandakumar is competing in her fifth consecutive Scripps National Spelling Bee. She was a finalist and finished ninth in 2023.
Navtaj Singh, Micah Sterling and Avinav Prem Anand are competing in their fourth straight national competition. Harini Murali is in her fourth Bee overall, as is Zaki.
There are spellers from all 50 states and the [ruling imperial seat of power known as the] District of Columbia [Columbia being the original name of "America," after the titular goddess who was buried and erased from U.S. history, as if Amerigo Vespucci gave the Americas their name].
Texas has the largest representation with 22 national competitors. California is next with 20, followed by Ohio with 15, and Illinois with 13. Florida and New York have 12 each.
There are 13 competitors from outside the 50 United States, representing the Bahamas, Canada, Germany, Ghana, Guam, Kuwait, Nigeria, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. More
Celebrating a 100-year tradition...
2025: 100 YEARS OF THE BEE
(Scripps National Spelling Bee) 2025 - For a century, the Scripps National Spelling Bee has been much more than a competition. It has become a symbol of perseverance, intellect, and community. From its humble beginnings to becoming a cornerstone of American culture, the Bee has empowered millions of students, fostered lifelong friendships, and united communities in the love of language and learning. Through the words we spell, we tell stories — stories of personal triumph, academic achievement, and the diverse fabric of the American experience. As we honor this incredible milestone, we celebrate not just 100 years of history but 100 years of making an impact on generations of learners and the communities they inspire. Join us in commemorating this momentous occasion, as we reflect on the past, celebrate the present, and look forward to an even brighter future.
What is spelling but memory? Memory, like most things, is due to karma: Ananda
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| Ananda recounting all the suttas, beginning each with, "Thus have I heard." (First Council) |
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| This is the Middle Way avoiding extremes |
- [It makes sense that Ananda would also be the Buddha's son but that this would have been suppressed or discarded in most traditions. One shining piece of evidence is when Ven. Rahula (whom the Buddha had ordained at age 7) was 18, he was getting very frisky and overwhelmed by sensual craving, presumably due to hormones at that age and the luxurious life he had left behind in the palace in his former kingdom of Kapilavatthu. He was walking with the Buddha and Ananda, if memory serves, making comments about how at that moment there were in the world only three people with the past karma to become "world monarchs" (cakkavati or chakravartin rulers).
Prince Siddhartha had turned his back on that possibility, forecast by soothsayers when he was a child, much to his father King Suddhodana's delight. Ananda was already a monk for a long time. And there was him. If Rahula disrobed, returned to the palace, and let nature take its course, he could become king of this world. Such talk worried the Buddha, who instructed a monk that -- after 11 years in the robe learning the basics -- Ven. Rahula was now ready to intensively put the Teachings into practice. He did and thereby attained arahantship. If the other person there was Ananda, it would be among these three close relatives that the karma existed to attain to the status of a world-monarch.] Was Ananda the Buddha's son?
Ven. Rahula, the Buddha, and Ven. Ananda
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| Ananda lived one kappa = 120 years |
Another monk was put in charge of the Vinaya (Monastic Disciplinary Code rules). But Ananda was only a stream enterer at the first stage of awakening. So he made a strenuous effort to put into practice all that he knew, had heard directly from the Buddha, and committed to memory. It was no use. He failed. This path cannot be accomplished simply by a "sense of urgency" (samvega), which is important to recognize the meaning of the Buddha's last words to be a lamp unto oneself and work out one's own salvation with diligence (to mindfully put into practice the theory of the Teaching in so consistent a manner that one makes an end of all suffering in no long time). Because he tried so hard, Ananda failed. He had slacked off for years, so he never attained arahantship, full realization.
Now the opposite problem was impeding him -- to much efforting, too much strain, too much craving and grasping. He needed santosha ("contentment") to ease his mind so it could blossom. The night before the Council was to meet, he practiced intensive meditation deep into the night. Finally, he recognized his failure with frustration and exhaustion, so he gave up and decided to go to sleep.
Laying off the pressure (surrendering, giving up, letting go of craving it and needing it), he began to lie down. He was going from the extreme of too much to the other extreme of too little, at one moment achieving balance between the two, the Middle Way that avoids extremes of austerity and luxury. He became the only disciple to achieve awakening outside of one of the "four bodily positions" (lying down, sitting, standing, or walking). He attained, because he let go, between sitting and lying down.
He sat right up and experienced the paths-and-fruits of self-realization (magga-phala). He was welcomed into the Council by the other fully enlightened beings and recited all the discourses he had heard over the preceding 25 years as the Buddha's chief assistant. This is why all sutras begin not with "once upon a time" but rather "thus have I heard" (Evam me sutam).
- Buddhist tradition maintains that the disciple Ānanda used the formula for the first time, as a form of personal testimony... [to say that he himself was attesting that this is what the Buddha had said]. Scholars may rightly doubt that this could be true for all sutras, certainly not applying to later apocryphal Mahayana inventions, which have become some of the most famous "sutras" [sutured together sermons with a single throughline or thread] of all, namely, The Heart Sutra, The Diamond Sutra, The Lotus Sutra... More
Nevertheless, it is undisputed that Ananda had a tremendous memory like a spelling bee champion. And one is forced to wondered what it is about India (ancient Maha Bharat, Jambudvipa, Asoka's Empire) that produces to many remarkable memory banks in little boys and girls of Indian origin.
- Is it Goddess Saraswati's doing?
- Is it the clean vegetarian (ahimsa) diet?
- Is it past study of the Vedas (in previous lives) as Brahmins memorizing countless slokas?
- Is it genetically handed down?
- Is it training and the way the Indian system chose to educate its children?
- Is it rich minerals in the soil coming down from the Himalayas nourishing the babies?
- Is it Hinduism (or Islam or Jainism or Sikhism)?
- Is it yogic magic?
- Is it British colonial rule, forcing everyone into a Western model of learning and punishment and stealing Indian and Islamic innovations (in mathematics and sciences, like the invention of "zero" and the Ayurveda or "health sciences") and calling them British?
The Buddha praises Ananda
“The foremost of my monastic disciples who are very learned is Ānanda… with a good memory is Ānanda. ...with an extensive range is Ānanda. ...[foremost] in retention [memory] is Ānanda. ...[foremost] as a personal attendant is Ānanda.” Source: AN 1.219–234: Catuttha Vagga—Ven. Sujato (trans)
- Scripps National Spelling Bee; Monty Python; Ven. Sujata (suttacentral.net); memory and the story of Ananda explained by Dhr. Seven; Ashley Wells, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Sunday, February 23, 2025
Pinocchio Day: Pineal Gland Eye
"Pinocchio The PINEAL GLAND"
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| Wait, it's a real day? - Of course it is! |
The divine eye in Buddhism, the dibba cakkhu, is the third eye around the forehead, transcendent vision, the ability to "see" beyond the sight of our human eyes, perhaps rooted deep in the brain where another eye (replete with rods and cones) resides in the complete dark. What subtle waves, what broad spectrum photons, what light source is it responding to?
(daily MOTIVATION
Secrets of pineal gland: scientific proof
(i24NEWS English) The Secrets of Pineal Gland Scientific Proof
- #PinealGland #Pinocchio; daily MOTIVATION, Aug. 16, 2023; i24NEWS English, The Secrets; Pat Macpherson and Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Thursday, February 29, 2024
Scientist: ‘smoking gun’ COVID-19 intentionally created by researchers in Chinese lab
MSN.com, 2/29/24; Pfc. Sandoval, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
COVID-19 may [likely] have been created in a Chinese lab [Wuhan], a British professor told the United Nations Wednesday (2/28/24), with another expert claiming that evidence of the likelihood has reached “the level of a smoking gun.”
He cited evidence found in a 2018 document from the lab that talked of making such a virus. “[The document] elevates the evidence provided by the genome sequence from the level of noteworthy to the level of a smoking gun,” Dr. Ebright said in the piece by former New York Times Editor Nicholas Wade.
The proposal was ultimately rejected and denied funding by DARPA (the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), but Wade suggested that their work could have been carried out by researchers in Wuhan who had secured Chinese government funding. More
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| Hospitals were incentivized ($) to label everything they saw (flu cases) as "Covid" to increase profits. |
Dr. Richard H. Ebright, a molecular biologist at Rutgers University, was quoted saying in a new Wall Street Journal article that the virus that killed millions around the world may actually have been manmade in China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology.
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| The plan-demic, Big Pharma's money cow |
The papers from the lab cited by Dr. Ebright contained drafts and notes regarding a grant proposal called Project DEFUSE, which sought to test engineering bat coronaviruses in a way that would make them more easily transmissible to humans [which is called "gain of function," as Dr. Fauci has to concede he knew about and funded.]
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| Pharmaceutical-industrial complex spreads fear |
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
A Prescription for "Brain Gain"? (radio)
Health & Science - Listen Now [20 min 4 sec]
Fresh Air from WHYY, April 20, 2009 · In the modern world of busy schedules and busier lives, some people are turning to "neuro-enhancing" drugs to gain a competitive edge.
As journalist Margaret Talbot writes in the April 27 issue of The New Yorker magazine, a variety of students, professors and business people are taking drugs intended for attention deficit disorder, narcolepsy, and epilepsy in an effort to enhance brain function and get ahead.
Proponents of "cosmetic neurology" say that the drugs allow people to reach their full potential, while critics warn that the drugs have not been tested for off-label uses, and that some may be addictive or harmful.
Talbot has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 2003. She has previously worked as an editor at The New Republic and a contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine. She is a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
- Related NPR Stories
Feb. 5, 2009 More Students Turning Illegally To "Smart" Drugs
March 17, 2008 Brain Enhancers: "Professor's Little Helper"?
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