Capitalist salesman Kevin Trudeau says he was initiated into uncle's "The Brotherhood"
Feel the feelings without clinging to them.
There is a saying we should all know. For by knowing it, we can love it and live it. Kevin Trudeau [Hevin' True Dough?] the miracle way to happiness is to take 100% responsibility for everything that happens to us.
"Well, that's impossible!" we may exclaim. "I can't be responsible for what others do to me!" Are we going to wait for them and react accordingly? Wouldn't it be better to act as if everything that happens to us were our fault?
"The buck stops here." If it stops here with me then it starts here with me, too. That is a good and useful way to approach "karma" -- the POWER OF OUR DEEDS TO PRODUCE RESULTS (eventual fruit and immediate mental resultants), now and in the interminable future.
Rather than wasting time wondering if everything is our fault, the advice given to successful Trudeau was to act as if everything were our fault. Love it. Live it. Because when we do, we will see a miracle.
There's no more waiting for the universe or others or anything to do things. It's just us.
Blue Monday is on Jan. 19 this year: Blue Monday is the name given to the third Monday in January by former Cardiff University health psychologist [1] Cliff Arnall in 2005 [2, 3, 4]. Prof Arnall is a current member of The British Psychological Society (BPS) [5]. It is said by UK travel company Sky Travel to be the most depressing day of the year. It takes into account weather conditions and only applies to the Northern Hemisphere temperate zones. More
For example, say a gal were lost on a desert island in the middle of the sea. Should she wait for lunch, or ruminate about who's to blame for her getting there? Is there anything to learn from being there? Are those coconuts just going to climb down?
Get up, dig for fresh water, find a way to scramble up the palm tree, bring a broken rock to cut down a coconut, which provides purified drinking fluid full of electrolytes and protein rich healthy fats in a delicious gel. Keep the shells. They'll come in handy for lots of things. Take a dip in the sea and gather some seaweed. Lay it out in the sun, which will make it very taste. Then the herb, root, fruit, and vegetable hunt begins. There's gathering to be done. Fire and cooking will come soon, and this forsaken wilderness will be converted into a paradise, a Blue Lagoon (based on the novel The Blue Lagoon).
Oh, but doesn't it feel so much better to feel sorry for ourselves?
What is Blue Monday?
Each January, a certain Monday carries a reputation for being the year’s most emotionally difficult day.
Known as "Blue Monday," it’s often linked with low moods, depleted motivation, and a post-holiday slump.
While the idea started as a publicity stunt, it has since become an annual reminder of something real and important: Mental health matters – especially when days are short and emotions feel heavy. In 2026, Blue Monday falls on January 19th.
Ram Dass (Dr. Richard Alpert) in India, meets guru
What is it? Blue Monday 2026 is observed on the third Monday in January and is often described as “the saddest day of the year.”
The label may be more symbolic than scientific, but the feelings it points to are common. After the holidays, many people experience a dip – financially, emotionally, and physically.
Cold weather, shorter daylight hours, and pressure to stick to resolutions can all contribute. More
I won $10,000,000 and have never been happier. Oh, wait, I would have burned it if I'd known
Life is short. What’s the purpose of living? | Buddhist Wisdom
(Buddhism Podcast) Buddhism Explained. Life is short — but what is it really for? This video looks into the quiet question many of us carry: Why are we here, and what gives life meaning? Using simple Buddhist wisdom, it shows how our constant chasing and avoiding can lead to deep restlessness. Instead of trying to fix life, we can learn to be fully present with it [to see it for what it really is and, seeing it, letting go and thereby being liberated from it]. The answer may not be something we find, but something we live.
00:00 - The question beneath all questions — Why ask at all?
04:03 - The Endless Cycle — chasing happiness, fleeing from sorrow
08:07 - The ripple of our actions — Why death isn’t an escape
14:40 - The Middle Path — walking through life, not around it
18:14 - The point is presence — Living the answer in this moment
Trump’s plan to save Hollywood, Biden’s farewell and we say toodle-loo to TikTok
(Jimmy Kimmel Live)
Jan. 16, 2025: The air quality is still ungood in Los Angeles amidst the LA Fire, Pres. Genocide Joe Biden delivered his farewell address to the nation from the Oval Office, Fox & Friends took aim at him for sitting on a pillow (hemorrhoid donut), a bunch of celebrities have already started sending their well-wishes as G-Joe moves on...
Trump laid out his plan to save Hollywood with help from Jon "Midnight Cowboy" Voight, Mel "Mad Max" Gibson, Sylvester "Rocky" Stallone, we have been collecting essential items for victims of the fires in our back parking lot and we delivered what we have so far to the hard-hit community of Altadena, northeast Los Angeles. Jimmy talks to the vice chair of the town council Nic Arnzen.
To help their community head to altadenarotary.org. Friend Evan Fox with the Yeastie Boys Bagel Truck was also on hand making sandwiches there for everyone with World Central Kitchen. The FDA announced a ban on Red Dye #3, TikTok is set to be banned on Sunday (unless Trump doesn't feel like it or Elon or Mr. Wonderful buy it), and there’s an old friend on hand standing by to pick up the slack. #Kimmel
Trump throws tantrum before inauguration, LA Fire conspiracies, TikTok to be banned
(Jimmy Kimmel Live) Jan. 15, 2025: The winds in Los Angeles were not as strong as they were predicted to be last night, the Biden administration appears to have finally negotiated a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, which Trump immediately took credit for, Genocide Joe also delivered what the White House was calling his “farewell address,” Trump threw a tantrum about the flags being flown at half-staff during his inauguration because of Jimmy Carter passing away, he announced his plan to create a new government agency to collect tariffs he wants to impose called the External Revenue Service (ERS), Elon Musk is gearing up to head the new Department of Government Efficiency (doge-coin), he is also set to have an office in the White House complex, Pete Hegseth seems to have garnered all the support he will need to be secretary of defense, we finally found the dumbest person in the Senate, we touch base with Chef Evan Funke who is feeding first responders at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena next to Altadena with World Central Kitchen, crazy fire conspiracies are running wild on TikTok, Jimmy’s monologue gets interrupted by a TikToker who is worried about the potential ban, and this week’s award for Excellence in Reporting.
There's no comparison to Beatle George Harrison, who wrote and sings this masterpiece, while nearly all the credit for the band's greatness goes to the other two competing with each other, and no one even remembers Pete Best. What about Ringo? Who?
LYRICS: I look at you all, see the love there that's sleeping / While my guitar gently weeps / I look at the floor and I see it needs sweeping / Still, my guitar gently weeps // I don't know why nobody told you / How to unfold your love / I don't know how someone controlled you / They bought and sold you // I look at the world and I notice it's turning / While my guitar gently weeps / With every mistake, we must surely be learning / Still, my guitar gently weeps / I don't know how you were diverted / You were perverted, too / I don't know how you were inverted / No one alerted you / I look at you all, see the love there that's sleeping / While my guitar gently weeps / (I look) Look at you all / Still, my guitar gently weeps / Oh, oh / Yeah, yeah
We weep for the world -- steeped in ignorance, the root of all harm, giving rise to greed (lust) and aversion (fear), liking and disliking, the Roots of Good and Evil. Who cares if someone is good or evil? That person is going to care when the RESULTS come around. Karma really brings about what we experience, what we are experiencing now. So it is vital to grasp what "karma" means and what it doesn't. The greatest karma meme ever sums it up, a picture of credit card with the slogan: "Karma: It's everywhere you're going to be." (That's based on an old credit card commercial, which if people have never seen it because the successful marketing campaign ended a long time ago, may not get the impact of why it's a clever meme and a vital message/warning. If we knew that everything was going to follow us, none of it unseen or forgotten, we might behave differently, very differently. But we think we're getting away with everything, think there is nothing to come of this (what we do, say, and think). Pink Floyd has a great song about this from the CD Animals called "Sheep."
What do you get for pretending the danger's not real?
Meek and obedient shall follow the leader
down well-trodden corridors into the Valley of Steel
What a surprise, a look of terminal shock in your eyes!
Trump nominates Kash Patel to head FBI and Biden’s last-minute pardon | The Daily Show
(The Daily Show) Dec. 2, 2024: Jon Stewart on Trump’s pick to lead the FBI, Biden’s last-minute pardon for his son Hunter, and how Democrats can't seem to hold the high ground no matter how low Republicans sink. #DailyShow #JonStewart #Biden
Okay, Mexicans we get. But what is a Chicano/a? - It is a blend of American and Mexican.
In the Zocalo of Mexico City, el presidente waves the bandera and cries out, Viva Mexico!
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Mexicans are romantic Latino/as
Happy Cinco de Mayo (Spanish "5th of May"), an American holiday most celebrants think is the Mexican equivalent of the "4th of July." That day is actually the 16th of September, celebrated on the eve of.
The "Cry from Dolores" (Grito de Dolores) occurred in Dolores ("Pains"), Mexico, on September 16, 1810, when Roman Catholic priest Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla rang his church bell and gave the call to arms that triggered the Mexican War of Independence [from European colonial forces].
Isn't that right, young Mexicans at Sick NW?
The Cry of Dolores is most commonly known by the locals as El Grito de Independencia ("The Cry of Independence").
Every year on the eve of Independence Day, the president of Mexico reenacts the cry from the balcony of the National Palace in Mexico City, while ringing the same bell Fr. Hidalgo used in 1810.
During a patriotic speech, the president calls out the names of the fallen heroes who died during the War of Independence and ends the speech by shouting Viva Mexico! ("Long live Mexico!") three times followed by the Mexican National Anthem. More: Cry of Dolores
How shall we celebrate? - Let's eat! We'll have the vegan gluten-free Mexican Buddha Bowl
Real Americans (of the Americas) know Spanish
Looks delicious!
It's good to bear in mind when attempting to learn or speak Spanish that Spanish is NOT the indigenous language of Mexico or the Latin America. Spanish is a colonial European language from Europe's Iberian Peninsula used by Spain to take over, forge an empire, and dominate the "New World."
To think Spanish is the way to the heart of the culture is like imagining that learning "American" is the way to get to know the US of A. There are many languages the U.S., the tongues of immigrants, with many more dialects and accents.
Fortunately, we have a standardized English so that newscasts from around the country are mutually intelligible. But try speaking New Yorkese in the South, and you're in for a surprise or that stuck up Nor'easter Harvard Square jabber in laid back California and someone will hand you a decongestant (or laxative).
With enough time, these would all divide into unique languages. Originally, the First Nations had their own languages and it's unclear that there was a way for them all to communicate by verbal means. They managed but were not merged into an "empire" as we are today, with England and English on top.
Edward Vining's map (1885) of journey of Buddhist missionaries from Buddhist China and Afghanistan to California and Mexico, following coastline north all the way up then east and south down along the Pacific coast.
What does Mexico have to do with Buddhism? That's a good question. Buddhist missionaries arrived in Fusang (Mexico, California, and the Pacific coast) before either Catholic priests or Christian missionaries.
Alex Jones finally agrees to liquidate assets to pay Sandy Hook families
(The Young Turks) June 7, 2024: TYT Clip of the Day, Hour 1: Alex Jones will liquidate his personal assets, including his stake in his company InfoWars, to pay a minute fraction of his $1.5 billion in damages the court says he owes to Sandy Hook families. John Iadarola, David Shuster, and Wosny Lambre discuss on The Young Turks, which is begging for donations: https://tyt.com/team
As bad as it sounds, as much schadenfreude as some may be experiencing, Jones is still in business. His personal assets are to be liquidated. Everything he hid in his businesses or put elsewhere are fine and safe. InfoWars will continue. Prison Planet will continue. Everything will continue just like before, except that a few million from Jones' many millions will be distributed like 9/11 insurance money to people who played along or were harmed.
UPDATE: Alex Jones ordered to liquidate assets to pay Sandy Hook families [for hurting their feelings]
(CBS Evening News)
June 14, 2024: Bigmouth conspiracy theorist and "InfoWars" host Alex Jones was today (6/14/24) ordered by a federal judge in Texas to liquidate his personal assets in order to pay the approximately $1.5 billion in damages he owes the families of victims of the [government's false flag] 2012 Sandy Hook mass shooting, who sued him over [what the court has determined are] his false claims that the school shooting was a hoax [no matter what the evidence says. After all, this is an emotional issue, not a trial over what the government did or did not do]. Omar Villafranca has the latest.
Patriotic passion for poor gay frogs
Send me lots of your money.
Who in the world is Alex Jones? Here, the mystery is revealed about InfoWars and Prison Planet's capitalist Christian hero, with a Jewish wife and a family able to move to Israel at any moment, super patriot, former Trump supporter, hater of all evil except some, US government critic, fat manly man and promoter of paramilitary survival and lover of police and food, it's the extreme salesman Alex Jones. His defense in court was that his entire demeanor was a character, an act, and that everyone knew that and did not take him seriously if he questioned false flag operations like the alleged Sandy Hook school shooting and other conspiracy theories. So while he continues to make money, he did not stand by his previous claims.
Alex Jones co-hosts go silent as he breaks down over Infowars shutdown
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