Get spiritual with "New Age Chick" (JP Sears)

JP Sears, Chandler Juliet, Premiered Dec. 2021 and July 2023; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

✨New Age Chick steals parking space from the wrong guy (w/JP Sears) 🔮

(Chandler Juliet) Crystals cannot replace character. It's time to get woke, but a phony, pseudo, fake awakening just won't do. Anyone can talk the talk, but who among us can walk the walk? Is it NAC or JP Sears?

• "You stole my parking space!"
• "I have had my aura expanded to each corner of this parking lot, so my energy was technically occupying this space before you got here, and now you're standing on my indigenous homeland."
• It’s an honor to lose at the spiritual bypassing game from a true spiritual guru, hysterical JP Sears. Follow him. 

How to avoid taking responsibility using spiritual bypassing. Warning: Do not try this if you hit someone’s car. Just own up to when you make a mistake and apologize. It’s the most “higher self” thing to do.

Friends, hope you enjoy this half-baked comedy sketch my friend, Tara Parker, and I made about how some people in the local sangha, or "spiritual community," don't know how to take responsibility and own up to when making a mistake. Relate? It's a fun comedy skit [I will repeat years later with JP Sears] and have a LOT more in the pipeline [to project from by rear end chakra], mostly inspired by my bizarre experiences with bizarre characters one only meets in weird places like Los Angeles. Know someone who talks like this? They exist. LOL.

EXCLUSIVE content, more sketches, photoshoots, and first listens of upcoming EP, Language of Love, by joining my Patreon! PATREON: Patreon.com/ChandlerJuliet STREAM LOVE LANGUAGE fanlink.to/ChandlerLoveLanguage. Follow: instagram.com/chandlerjofficial. #spiritualbypassing #newage #awakenwithjp. Featuring @AwakenWithJP! #lovelanguage #behindthemusic #behindthescenes

Speak to Improve on Silence

Wisdom Quarterly edit of Wikipedia entry "Noble Silence"

Do not speak unless such speech improves on silence (Hulpy Carmen Haessler/Flickr.com)

  

"Noble silence" is a term attributed to the Buddha for his reported responses to certain questions about reality.

 

Reality can be known, seen, and experienced. But it is not always possible to represent it accurately or even well with language.
  
Sometimes language gets in the way and increases misunderstanding.
  
On various occasions when asked by Ananda why he did not answer a brahmin or ascetic, the Buddha explained. It was a linguistic or logical trap; to give any answer would only confuse the questioner who was holding detrimental assumptions.
  
The kindest thing to do in such cases, even if it made the Buddha look bad or angered his would-be debaters, was to maintain noble silence. (This sometimes served to bring the interlocutor around to seeing the shortsightedness of those assumptions).

On another occasion, the Buddha was unable to reconcile two disputing factions of Buddhist monastics. Rather than argue with them, he simply retreated into the Parileyyka Forest. This eventually brought them to their senses.
   

In various instances the Buddha was asked 14  unanswerable questions.

  

In similar situations he often responded to polemical descriptions of reality by saying that BOTH antithetical options presented to him for debate were inappropriate.

  

This does not indicate misology or disdain for philosophy on the Buddha's part.

  

Rather, it indicates that he viewed these questions as not conducive to enlightenment, liberation from suffering. They do not lead to true knowledge.

  

Dependent origination -- an insight meditation practice not a philosophical explanation -- is thought to be one of the Buddha's great contributions to philosophy. It provides a framework for the analysis (deconstruction) of reality that is not based on metaphysical assumptions regarding existence or non-existence.

  

Instead, it is based on direct apprehension of conditional phenomena as they are presented to the mind/heart. This informs and supports the Buddhist approach to liberation through virtue, concentration (stilling the mind), and meditative training collectively known as the Noble Eightfold Path.

  

So there is no need to speak of the ultimate truth when it is directly visible to the practitioner who puts into effect the teachings of the Buddha rather than discussing them endlessly. One improvement on silence, therefore, might go like this:

No one saves us but ourselves

No one can and no one may

We ourselves must tread the Path 
Buddhas only point the way

Why we argue (Parable of the Blind Men)

John D. Ireland (translator), Wisdom Quarterly edit, Inspired Utterances (Ud. 6.4)

Buddhist novice meditating above the tangled canopy (Mattravel/Flickr.com)

Thus have I heard. At one time the Buddha was staying near Savatthi in the Jeta Wood at the multi-millionaire's monastery.

At that time there were a number of recluses and brahmins, wanderers of various sects, living around Savatthi. They were of various views, of various beliefs, of various opinions. And they relied for their support [by reasoning] based on their various views.

• There were some recluses and brahmins who asserted and held this view: "The world is eternal; only this is true, any other (view) is false."
• There were some recluses and brahmins who asserted: "The world is not eternal; only this is true, any other (view) is false."
• There were some who asserted: "The world is finite...
• The world is infinite...
• The life-principle and the body are the same...
• The life-principle and the body are different...
• The Tathagata [person who has attained liberation from samsara, such as the Buddha] exists beyond death [of the body]...
• The Tathagata does not exist beyond death...
• The Tathagata both exists and does not exist beyond death...
• The Tathagata neither exists nor does not exist beyond death; only this is true, any other (view) is false."

And they lived quarrelsome, disputing, and wrangling, wounding one another with verbal darts, saying:

• "Dharma [liberating truth] is like this
• Dharma is not like that!
• Dharma is not like this
• Dharma is like that!"

Then a number of Buddhist monastics, having put on their robes in the forenoon and taken their bowls and outer cloaks, entered Savatthi for almsfood. Having walked in Savatthi for almsfood and returned after the meal, they approached the Buddha, prostrated themselves, sat down to one side, and said:

"At present, venerable sir, there are a number of recluses and brahmins, wanderers of various sects, living around Savatthi. They are of various views... saying: 'Dharma is like this!... Dharma is like that!'"

[The Buddha replied:] "The wanderers of other sects, disciples, are blind, not seeing. They do not know what is [karmically] beneficial [in terms of practice now and future results from profitable and unprofitable actions willed, performed, and accumulated]; they do not know what is harmful. They do not know what is Dharma; they do not know what is non-Dharma.

"Not knowing what is beneficial and what is harmful, not knowing what is Dharma and what is non-Dharma, they are quarrelsome... saying: 'Dharma is like this!... Dharma is like that!'

"Formerly, disciples, there was a certain king in this very city of Savatthi. And that king addressed a man: 'Come now, my good man, bring together all those persons in Savatthi who have been blind from birth.'

"'Yes, your majesty,' that man replied, and after detaining all the blind people in Savatthi, he approached the king and said, 'All the blind people in Savatthi have been brought together, your majesty.'

"'Now, my good man, show the blind people an elephant.'

"'Very well, your majesty,' the man replied to the king, and he presented an elephant to the blind people, saying, 'This, blind people, is an elephant.'

The blind men examine an elephant (jainworld.com)

"To some of the blind people he presented the head of the elephant, saying, 'This is an elephant.' To some he presented an ear of the elephant, saying, 'This is an elephant.' To some he presented a tusk... the trunk... the body... the foot... the hindquarters... the tail... the tuft at the end of the tail, saying, 'This is an elephant.'

"Then, disciples, the man, having shown the elephant to the blind people, went to the king and said, 'The blind people have been shown the elephant, your majesty. Now do as you see fit.' Then the king approached those blind people and said, 'Have you been shown the elephant?'

"'Yes, your majesty, we have been shown the elephant.'

"'Tell me, blind people, what is an elephant like?'

"Those blind people who had been shown the head of the elephant replied, 'An elephant, your majesty, is just like a water jar.'

"Those blind people who had been shown the ear of the elephant replied. 'An elephant, your majesty, is just like a winnowing basket.'

"Those blind people who had been shown the tusk of the elephant replied, 'An elephant, your majesty, is just like a ploughshare.'

"Those blind people who had been shown the trunk replied, 'An elephant, your majesty, is just like a plough pole.'

"Those blind people who had been shown the body replied, 'An elephant, your majesty, is just like a storeroom.'

"Those blind people who had been shown the foot replied, 'An elephant, your majesty, is just like a post.'

"Those blind people who had been shown the hindquarters replied, 'An elephant, your majesty, is just like a mortar.'

"Those blind people who had been shown the tail replied, 'An elephant, your majesty, is just like a pestle.'

"Those blind people who had been shown the tuft at the end of the tail replied, 'An elephant, your majesty, is just like a broom.'

"Saying 'An elephant is like this, an elephant is not like that! An elephant is not like this, an elephant is like that!' they fought each other with their fists. And the king was delighted (with the spectacle).

"Even so, disciples, are those wanderers of various sects blind, not seeing... saying, "Dharma is like this!... Dharma is like that!'"

Then, on realizing the significance, the Buddha made this inspired utterance on this occasion:

Some recluses and brahmins, so called,
Are deeply attached to their own views;
People who only see one side of things
Engage in quarrels and disputes.

Source: ATI - For free distribution only, as a gift of Dharma (dhamma-dana).

The Dalai Lama/Dorje Shugden Controversy

Documentary in three parts (Part 2, Part 3)

Unpleasant facts within the Tibetan community are easily forgotten. Therefore, this documentary is of historical importance.

For centuries the deity Dorje Shugden has been worshipped by the greatest and most important Buddhist masters, many of whom are among the most respected in Tibetan history. This includes the Dalai Lama's own teacher, Kyabje Trijang Dorje Chang.

If the Dalai Lama thinks that all of the great masters were mistaken, he denies them their qualification. They would not be great masters.

• Question: If the great masters have worshipped this deity for centuries, were they all wrong?
• Dalai Lama: "Wrong! Yes, wrong!"

The Dalai Lama's criticism and defamation of his own Root Guru created the schism of the Gelug order of Tibetan Buddhism and conflicts within the Tibetan community.

Dorje Shugden practitioners are currently experiencing ostracism and oppression in India and throughout the world due to the Dalai Lama's ban on their practices.