Nature of Mind: Why thoughts never stop

(Buddhism Podcast) The Nature of Mind: Why thoughts never stop | Buddhist Wisdom

• Maha Kaccana or Kātyāyana (Buddhist monk)
• Mental proliferation: papanca

Contacting world's uncontacted tribes

(Geography Now) What are the world's oldest ethnicities?

Are there really uncontacted bands of humans left on the surface of the planet? Besides in the warm and green parts of Antarctica we are banned from seeing and Sentinel Island off the coast of India or deep in New Guinea and still wandering around in the thick Amazon or out on the Kalahari, aside from those, is there a single human who does not know there are other humans, carrying on destroying the planet? It would seem so. They're probably better off not knowing what we're doing. What about one of the oldest countries in the world, the Kush we now call Ethiopia, are there secret tribes there, riding around on tiny boards with even tinier wheels, doing the impossible?

(Geography Now) Native American reservations explained

(TheSkateNomad) The Skater Girls of Ethiopia

Jon Stewart on Trump's US shutdown

Jon Stewart makes the case for Dems holding the line in Trump's shutdown warfare

(The Daily Show) Oct. 6, 2025: Jon Stewart dives into the emerging effects of the government shutdown [which seems to be a big government to protect Trump from being exposed by the Epstein Files (Client List) when one more Democrat gets into her office and votes for their release, which she is being kept from doing only by this government shutdown, as explained by Kim Iversen below], the battle over healthcare that has Republicans and Democrats pointing fingers, and Trump's delight in using the shutdown to continue steamrolling Democrats and the Constitution. #DailyShow #JonStewart #Trump #blackmailed

Why shutdown?

Greek, Persian influences on Early Buddhism

Monks of the Mines (National Geographic) in ancient Afghanistan/Gandhara, Central Asia

Greek and Persian influence on Early Buddhism

Non-Jonesian Indology, Alexander (Ranajit Pal)

(Ajahn Sona) Premiered June 22, 2025: This video essay explores the influence of Western culture -- particularly those of ancient Persia (Aryan Iran) and Greece -- on Indian Buddhism in the first 500 years after the Buddha's passing [into final nirvana].

Focusing on the region of Gandhara (in present-day Afghanistan/Pakistan, Central Asia), this video traces how early encounters between these civilizations shaped the development of [Greco-] Buddhist art, writing, and the transmission of ideas [particularly along the Silk Road].

Through reflections on script, statuary, and cultural exchange, this documentary sheds light on the oft-overlooked role that Western thought played in shaping early Buddhism -- a legacy that still echoes to this day.

• 0:00:00 - Title
• 0:00:15 - Chapter 1: Two empires arrive in India
• 0:24:11 - Chapter 2: Roots of writing the Dhamma
• 0:52:23 - Chapter 3: Buddha statues and monasteries
• 1:22:48 - Photo/video credits
• 1:24:00 - About Ajahn Sona

Greco-Buddhist Relations in the Hellenistic Far East (Olga Kubica)

Gray schist seated Buddha, Gandhara, 2nd/3rd century (Christie's)

Early Buddhism = Gandhari

Other videos with Ajahn Sona on Greeks in Early Buddhism:

• June 25th Interview
• Earliest Western Buddhist Monks
• Hercules and the Buddha: The Legend...

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• Who were the nomadic Scythians?
• The Buddhas of Bamiyan, Afghanistan
• Pillars of Ashoka: borrowing ideas to build empire
• Ajahn Sona, June 22, 2025; Dhr. Seven, Amber Larson (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

The Cosmic Buddha Cave? (Ancient Aliens)

Underground alien connections: Esoteric encounters | Ancient Aliens

There's nothing under us but dark dirt

(HISTORY) May 15, 2025:  Enlightenment by spelunking? Welcome to the Hollow Earth civilization of Agartha (the original Mexican Atzlan or European Atlantis?) Is that you, Ākāśagarbha Bodhisattva (Kokūzō Bosatsu)? Shingon (Esoeric) Buddhism is closely related to Vedic Hinduism.

Shingon (真言宗, Shingon-shū, "True Word/Mantra School") is one of the major schools of Buddhism in Japan and one of the few surviving Vajrayana lineages in East Asian Buddhism. It is a form of Japanese Esoteric Buddhism and is sometimes called Tōmitsu (東密 literally, "Esoteric [Buddhism] of Tō-ji") [1].

The word shingon is the Japanese reading of the Chinese word 真言 (zhēnyán) [2], which is the translation of the Sanskrit word mantra, which means something like "thought instrument" (Japanese "true words" or om'yomi).

The Zhēnyán lineage was founded in China (circa 7th–8th centuries) by Indian vajrācāryas ("esoteric teachers") like Śubhakarasiṃha, Vajrabodhi, and Amoghavajra. 

These esoteric teachings would later flourish in Japan under the auspices of a Buddhist monk named Kūkai (空海, 774–835), who traveled to Tang China and received these esoteric transmissions from a Chinese master named Huiguo (746–805).

Kūkai established his tradition at Mount Kōya (in Wakayama Prefecture), which remains the central pilgrimage center of Shingon Buddhism. More

Check out these otherworldly (inner earth) discoveries and more in this Ancient Aliens compilation:

• 1. Forbidden Caves 0:00
• 2. Underground Aliens 5:45
• 3. Forbidden Caves 2 12:05
• 4. Underground Aliens 2

Our Earth is hollow? - Shush, it's a secret!

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• #AncientAliens, History Channel, May 15, 2025; Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly Wiki edit Shingon

Is the Vatican sitting on UFO docs?

Is the Vatican sitting on UFO documentation? | Banfield

Vallée: UFO disclosure could trigger complex religious, security questions

Will the new pope be any different, harkening back to radical Pope John Paul and his liberalizing of the Holy Roman Empire's universalist church? He may not be allowed. Pope Francis (the future Saint Francisco) could not get much done due to push back from conservatives in the church, even though he was accused of apostasy and hypocrisy but, y'know, who is he to judge? He had crimes to keep covered up, so ETs and their UFOs have to take a back seat. But the next pope, whose name will be Peter the Roman, may see things differently. All hail. Every knee shall bend to imperial Rome's rule again, just like the good old days of the Spanish Inquisition and the shutting down of Galileo by the infallible seat of power. No questions allowed!

Secret vault under the Vatican opened after 500 years, and it holds terrifying discovery

(FactFile) For centuries, the Vatican [the literal corporation at the heart of a site formerly dedicated to the worship of MITHRAS then converted to Messiah/Maitreya worship in JESUS, a Christ figure mostly concerned with the adoration of his mother, the Virgin Mary, and by extension her famous young Jewish/Nazarene son] has kept some of the world’s biggest secrets hidden behind thick walls and locked gates. But now, after 500 years, one of the most mysterious vaults has been opened. What have they found inside? Historians and researchers have uncovered things that were thought to be lost forever — relics, priceless treasures, ancient writings, and discoveries that could completely change what we think we know about history.

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Area 51, time travel, Ant People, J. Rod

TOP SECRET Area 51 Information | Ancient Aliens

(HISTORY) Watch as big space alien secrets (like the existence of ET "J. Rod" and more are revealed in this Ancient Aliens compilation. Stream next day and stay up to date on all favorite shows on The HISTORY Channel (history.com/schedule). Area 51: The J. Rod Enigma (GreekReporter.com)

• Blink-182′s Tom DeLonge and former Pentagon officials get History Channel show to prove aliens exist (Military Times)

Ancient Aliens: Extraterrestrials detected by massive telescope (Season 19)

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• Ancient Aliens, The History Channel, 12/29/24; Pfc. Sandoval, Xochitl, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

New Yeti/Bigfoot ogre footage

(Top 15s) Top 15 most convincing Bigfoot (ogre, Yakshi, Yeti, Yaksha) sightings caught on tape

(Maximum Fear) Max shows new Bigfoot footage not see before *EXCLUSIVE FOOTAGE*

Tonight is a big night for cryptozoology and Sasquatch / Bigfoot / Abominable Snowman / Yeti / Yowie / Skunk Ape / Almas / Orang Pendek research as American anthropologist Dr. Mireya Mayor, Ph.D. (who discovered the world's smallest primate and is now looking for the largest) from Expedition Bigfoot appears on Coast to Coast to discuss her primate research and discoveries (such as the world's smallest primate).

• Psychic Tara talks to Bigfoot, who says name of their species is 'Ayloyn' (Hear more names and them talking)
• Do Buddhists really believe in cryptids? There was a famous interaction between the Buddha and a "Bigfoot" called the Ogre (Yakkha, Yaksha, Rakshasa) Alavaka, which produced the Alavaka Sutra

Giants/Almas/Yetis in Buddhist Central Asia

Tibetan Buddhists from Nepal, Bhutan, Tibet, and Russia really believe in Bigfoot

Here are our names and us talking

These creatures are varieties of Yeti, different kinds of hominid primates. They are 100% real. (Some seem to be interdimensional with uncanny superhuman powers, which makes considering them "real" problematic).

Tibetan lore describes three main varieties of Yetis:

• the Nyalmo, which has black fur and is the largest and fiercest, standing around 15 feet tall;
• the Chuti, which stands around 8 feet tall and lives at an altitude of 8,000-10,000 feet (2,400 and 3,000 m) above sea level; and
• the Rang Shim Bombo, which has reddish-brown fur and is only 3-5 feet (0.91 and 1.52 m) tall [12].

Other terms used by Himalayan peoples, many of them Vajrayana (Esoteric) Buddhists, do not translate exactly the same, but refer to legendary and indigenous wildlife:

• Michê (Tibetan མི་དྲེད་, Wylie mi dred, ZYPY Michê), which translates as "man-bear" [8, 13].
• Dzu-teh – dzu translates as "cattle" and the full meaning translates as "cattle bear," referring to the Himalayan brown bear [7][10][14][15].
• Migoi or Mi-go (Tibetan མི་རྒོད་, Wylie mi rgod, ZYPY Migö/Mirgö) translates as "wild man" [10][15].
• Bun Manchi – Nepali for "jungle man" that is used outside Sherpa communities where Yeti is the common name [16].
• Mirka – another name for "wild-man."

Local legend holds that "anyone who sees one dies or is killed." The latter is taken from a written statement by Frank Smythe's Sherpas in 1937 [17].

Bigfoot and cryptids: The clearest sightings captured on camera in 2024

• Kang Admi is the "Snow Man" [15].
• Jungli Admi is the "Wild Man" [18].
• Xueren or Yeren (Chinese  雪人) is the "Snow Man."

Other names and locations

In Russian folklore, the Chuchuna is an entity said to dwell in Siberia. It has been described as 6-7 feet tall and covered with dark hair.

According to the native accounts from the nomadic Buddhist Yakut and Tungus tribes, it is a well-built, Neanderthal-like man wearing pelts and bearing a white patch of fur on its forearms.

It is said to occasionally consume human flesh (cannibalism because it is understood to be a kind of human, not an animal), unlike their close cousins, the Almas, Almasty, or Almastis. More: Yeti

30 scariest Bigfoot encounters caught on camera (AI boost)

Sasquatch clears campground + Bigfoot encounters from the Northern Cascades of Washington

(Salish Sasquatch) Nov. 29, 2024: We travel to Concrete, Washington, to speak with a man named James and his wife, Sandy. They share an encounter where a Sasquatch (Yakkha) entered a campground and cleared it out. James also shares his other encounters, including g a fantastic recall of Sasquatch stalking.

(Flash of Beauty: Paranormal Bigfoot)

New Bigfoot videos you haven’t seen! *EXCLUSIVE FOOTAGE*

(Maximum Fear) Dec. 3, 2024: This is new exclusive Bigfoot videos and footage that hasn't been seen! Today we take a look at new Sasquatch (Yakkha, Yeti, Rakshasa, Yowie, Sasquatch, Bigfoot) footage and sightings coming from India, Russia, Canada, Michigan (USA), and many other places, which is very convincing evidence of humanoid bipedal primates alongside humans around the world.

From HD Sasquatch trail cam videos to Bigfoot hunting clips, there is more new material to examine. This compilation showcases the best and clearest cryptid sightings and most convincing Sasquatch (wild men, bear men, monkey men) encounters.

So grab an "I Found Bigfoot" mug and allow fear to be maximized as we recap the Top 10 best Bigfoot ogre clips of all time. Caught on Camera 2024 2nd Channel: @MoreMaximumFear NEW BIGFOOT Maximum Fear Merchandise: maximumfear.myspreadshop.com

Easter Island has Native American DNA

Sexy Polynesians seduced Native American Indians on the mainland in ancient times?

Moai: the "ancestors" of the Rapa Nui people on Easter Island are honored in stone.

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Ancient DNA from Easter Island/Rapa Nui shows Polynesians and Native Americans interbred

We should welcome the sea people.

The headline says it all, but where, when, why? The why seems obvious enough. Where and when?Stephen Luntz reports for IFLScience.com:

The population of Rapa Nui, dubbed "Easter Island" by Europeans who stumbled onto it on Easter and proceeded to rape, kidnap, and enslave the people, interbred with Native Americans from the Americas before Europeans arrived, despite a distance of 2,300 miles (3,700 kilometers) between them, ancient DNA suggests.

Thrust together, they made the best of it.

The islanders, once the poster children for a people who brought about the environmental collapse of their world through overharvesting of resources [a recently debunked but still popular theory], also appear to be innocent of this charge, according to the same research.

• Easter Island never collapsed: study

The island of Rapa Nui is so incredibly remote that even finding it is considered one of humanity’s most remarkable achievements before the acquisition of technology like compasses and large vessels.

We welcome Rapanui, intermarry.

The remarkable civilization built there by the native [American and Polynesian] people was made famous by the enormous moai (carved monoliths) they constructed, but it has fascinated anthropologists for other reasons.

One of these is the possibility that the inhabitants sailed on and reached South America. On the one hand, it’s a lot harder to miss a continent than a small island, but on the other hand, this would have required a voyage almost twice as long as the one from the other Polynesian islands from which the Rapanui people came.

Europeans kidnapped, raped, and enslaved us.

Genetic testing of the modern population of Rapa Nui has shown a diversity of ancestry, but that is distorted by the Europeans who first visited in 1722 and subsequently kidnapped most of the population for slaves.

Now, however, DNA has been found from 15 people who lived on the island, in some cases as far back as 1670, and whose remains are stored in the Musée de l’Homme in Paris.

Aztlan/Atlantis is overseas in underground caverns.

The possibility of interchange between Polynesia and the Americas via Rapa Nui has been very controversial, but the presence of foods like sweet potato, which originated in South America, is hard to explain any other way.

It also seems the first South American chickens were Polynesian breeds. The new study shows that about 10 percent of the ancestry of the pre-European contact Rapanui was Indigenous American.

That means some of the population not only sailed all the way to South America but found their way back to their tiny dot in the vast Pacific, bringing people they’d visited with them.

Not surprisingly, the Native American genetic inheritance of the population most closely matches peoples from coastal Chile and Peru. More

• IFL Science: Historic spacewalk may have broken space law, a population of Neanderthals were isolated for 50,000 years, and much more this week
• Stephen Luntz, IFLScience.com via MSN.com, 9/14/24; Xochitl, Ashley Wells, Pfc. Sandoval (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Were Vikings aware of the Buddha?

Where is beauty greater than Estonia, Russia, Scandinavia, Denmark, Germany, and Belarus?

Bring me back one of those metal statue figurines, Warrior. I'll give you this charmed fruit.

Hey, that guy's Black! Were there really Black Vikings? The media says they were all redheads

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Viking Buddha: Helgo Treasure

Were Vikings Buddhists? First of all, Vikings is a general term that means "Pirates" more than redheaded Icelandic peoples. Second, what would it have taken for them to be Buddhists?

They would have had to understand the language of the Asians with whom they came in contact. It is more likely, given their reputation, that they raided rather than traded.

• The Buddha was Indo-Aryan from Central Asia (the "Middle Country" [between East and West, called the Majjhima-desa in the texts) with a mother from what is now part of Iran (formerly Persia), below his home country of Gandhara (in a Scythian region that is modern Afghanistan), according to maverick Indian historian Dr. Ranajit Pal: Amazing “Viking” treasure featuring gold, silver, and a vase is from IRAN may not be VIKING at all
• 9th-century Viking hoard found undisturbed in Norway
• 'Incredibly well-preserved' arrow older than Vikings found in melting ice
• The surprising answer to, “Were there Black Vikings?”
• Europe’s most extraordinary archaeological discoveries, ranked
• Archaeologists unearth oldest fortified settlement in Europe

Norwegian Olympian with "Viking" spirit

White Buddhists of Europa and Scandinavia

• (Where in Europe is Scandinavia? Upper left)
• The Land of the Vikings
• Buddhism in Sweden
• Buddhism in Norway
• Buddhism in Denmark
• Rampant white-on-white violence: Vikings in Norway were much more likely to die violent deaths than those in Denmark (Live Science)
• Buddhism in Finland
• Buddhism in Estonia
• Buddhism in Scotland
• Indigenous Sami peoples of Lapland Sápmi (Finnmǫrk)
• Buddhism in Iceland
• Buddhism in Kalmykia (only indigenously Buddhist Europeans)
• Buddhism in Europe
• Buddhism in Buryatia
• Buddhism in Belgium
• Buddhism in the Czech Republic
• Buddhism in Russia and Siberia
• Buddhism in Ukraine

We were also interested in art

Archeological discoveries indicate contact with Asia and knowledge of the Buddha, which they would have seen as the "Light of Asia," the "Prince of Peace," a massive figure in the ancient Orient.

That they traded in Asian wares suggests that they knew what they were dealing in, seeing significance in the beauty of figurines and pieces of advanced art from that part of the world.

There is a Viking Buddha, and now we find a ten-year-old piece is actually a much older work of art from Asia found in Scotland.

Viking Guru, the Great, on Audible podcasts

Interestingly, the greatest Viking today is a Buddhist or in any case very friendly to Buddhists. He is the interviewer known as Viking Guru, who has repeatedly interviewed British Buddhist teacher Beth Upton and others.

Here is the latest headline from the Viking Era: A Viking Era vessel found in Scotland a decade ago turns out to be from Asia

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• Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly