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Monday, October 26, 2026

Secret to 🧘‍♂️. Rap. Cali surf's up: king tides

COASTAL FLOODING - SECRET TO FLOW STATE MEDITATING
Good thing I figured out how to stand up on this slippery board when it was easy and level.

Settle down, Pretty Woman. Hold still. Relax. Ease into it and pay undistracted attention.

I'm not afraid of no high tides. Whatever!
(Watchers.news) Warnings remain in effect for the San Diego and Orange County coasts through October 29, 2026, as high tides and elevated water levels threaten roads and low-lying properties.

The National Weather Service (NWS) also has Coastal Flood Advisories for other shoreline areas, including Los Angeles-area beaches, San Francisco Bay, San Luis Obispo, Monterey Bay, and Humboldt Bay.

Coastal flood alerts remain in effect across the Los Angeles, Oxnard, San Diego, and San Francisco forecast areas through Thursday, October 29th.

Water looks pretty skanky and poopy today, Bro
The National Weather Service (NWS) has a Coastal Flood Warning for San Diego and Orange counties and Coastal Flood Advisories farther north, with high tides and elevated coastal water levels forecast to flood vulnerable low-lying locations and contribute to shoreline erosion, loss of precious sand, and road closures. More
Is surfing the most Buddhist sport?

Man, I'm just ONE with waves
What is a "Buddhist sport"? To be sure such activities exist. One thinks of yoga postures and stretch-series, skateboarding, public speaking, performing, standing on a stage freestyle-rapping trying not to shake or let anyone see you sweat, getting into THE ZONE. That zone is what modern psychology calls the flow state and what the rest of the world has long called "Zen."

Zen has a literal meaning -- jhana, dhyana, chan... But most Zen practitioners do not know much about it, being nowhere close to satori or kensho, just sitting in their shikantaza, imagining they're making progress to no goal.

It's "beginner's mind" everyday
Let's study shoshin or beginner's mind today in Zen Garden School

Oh, I thought "Zen" was blissfully zonking out.
"Zen" used to mean "meditation" but in the sense of meditative absorption rather than contemplative practices in the fourfold setting up of mindfulness (sati).

Any sporting activity that allows one to be mindful -- that is, not discursively thinking like that oppressive inner voice slave-driving us most of the time, but rather inner silence, focus, attention excluding all distractions -- could be "Buddhafied," made more natural (less consciously effortful, less of a struggle, more of an allowing, more of an accepting of what is).

What's the secret? Please tell us the secret!!!
How to become a great surfer. Step 1: Practice balancing on surfboard when it's still and easy.


How can you tolerate all that heat, sir?
What is the secret? The secret is obvious, so obvious most of us would rather have a "better" secret for instant enlightenment and no effort at all.

Those secrets follow and unfold from the first and most obvious secret: practice. In the mystical East, India and the Indosphere in particular, this sort of "practice" is called sādhanā by adepts.

It is regular rather than irregular, persistent rather than on-and-off, daily rather than just on the weekends, continuous rather than broken... Imagine getting into a very warm tub. How is that done, assuming there's a "best" or "right" way?
  • How does the old joke go? Musician lost in Manhattan asks a taxi driver, "How do you get to Carnegie Hall?" The driver smiles and snaps, "ANSWER"?
The best way to get in untested waters?
One jumps in, scalding the skin, splashing most of the tub water onto the floor, screaming, flailing, biting down on the tongue, squinting, scrunching, holding one's junk? No, obviously not. That's no way to do it. What are we, children?


Be as an actual child, behaving naturally, with sensitivity, responding to the immediate environment, testing, starting slowly and gently.

One slides in smoothly, hardly disturbing the surface, easing into it until it's tolerable and relaxing, letting go, unclutching, untightening, undoing -- allowing. The water washes over one, soothing and softening the muscles, with a smile on the mug. This is the way to the first kind of Buddhist meditation called serenity (samatha).
  • It's easy at first then it's impossible. Why impossible? The Buddha pointed out Five Hindrances, obstacles that ruin everything. Introducing them, he teaches how to overcome.
Oh, I get it, just relax and allow the soothing.
It's natural, so if we "allow" it rather than "trying" to do it, "struggling," "muscling," "over-efforting," "pushing," "shoving," or tormenting ourselves, poof there it is suddenly, like magic. Now, how to hold it? Hold it as a gentle child would hold a butterfly that doesn't fly away, most delicately, gingerly, tenderly, not staring at it or wanting anything from it, just radically accepting it and ALLOWING.

Ooh, I can do it right here, right NOW.
The second kind of Buddhist meditation (vipassana bhavana or "cultivating liberating-insight") takes a skilled teacher, which are not easy to find. The purpose here is to directly know-and-see things as they really are. What things? Just two, matter and mind, physics and psychology, the world and self, or as the great living Meditation Master Pa Auk Sayadaw puts it, ultimate materiality and ultimate mentality. How?

With a foundation in serenity (stillness, samma-samadhi, concentration, the eight absorptions), attention is turned from the breath (or nimitta) to setting up the Four Foundations of Mindfulness. But in the meantime, just to get to the flow state, the surfing, the rapping, the accepting, allowing, the peace to be experienced here and now, exhale, let go, smile.

In a flow state? Now, how to freestyle rap?
I'm the king of this shiznit, the linguist, all scientifical, like an English major of da streets!

The flow state in psychology
Freestyle rap, simply known as freestyle, is a style of hip-hop music where an artist normally improvises unwritten verses, with or without instrumental beats (or beatboxing). The lyrics are recited with no particular subject or structure [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] until it becomes a challenge, slam, or competition. It is similar to other improvisational music, such as jazz [6], where a lead instrumentalist acts as an improviser with a supporting band providing a beat. Freestyling was originally verse that is free of style, written rhymes that do not follow a specific subject matter or predetermined cadence. A newer style with improvisation grew popular starting in the early 1990s. It is now mainly associated with hip hop and takes a calm, cool, and collected (unstressed) demeanor to do well. More

Freestyle Rap Battles get vicious
Asian actor dunks on fat basketball Shaq

Flow for creativity and charisma
British biddy beats Burrus bad

What about B-Balling (basketball)?
RAP: "Look at Me Now"

Ain't no way no white man can rap!
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Thursday, May 29, 2025

Dried plants bring dead land to life

Vegetation restoration and its environmental effects on the Loess Plateau, China (MDPI.com)

How could dead and dried plant matter bring a mountain and a dry, dusty desert plateau back to life, making a wasteland lush with green plants and a restored ecosystem after its manmade ruin?


The Loess Plateau [a] is in north-central China. It is formed of loess, a clastic silt-like sediment formed by the accumulation of wind-blown dust. It is located southeast of the Gobi Desert and is surrounded by the Yellow River. It includes parts of the Chinese provinces of Qinghai, Gansu, Shaanxi and Shanxi [4].

The depositional setting of the Chinese Loess Plateau was shaped by the tectonic movement in the Neogene period, after which strong southeast winds caused by the East Asian Monsoon transported sediment to the plateau during the Quaternary period [5].

The three main morphological types in the Loess Plateau are loess platforms, ridges, and hills [4], formed by the deposition and erosion of loess.

How could dried plants give life to dead mountain?
Most of the loess comes from the Gobi Desert and other nearby deserts [6]. The sediments were transported to the Loess Plateau during interglacial periods by southeasterly prevailing winds and winter monsoon winds.

After the deposition of sediments on the plateau, they were gradually compacted to form loess under the arid climate [4]. Loess Plateau
What's happening in the world?
(DemocracyNow.org) World headlines for May 30, 2025
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Tuesday, April 4, 2023

The Sphinx: How was it built? (video)

Ancient Egypt's most incredible wonders revealed | loveexploring.com

Edgar Cayce's A.R.E.
Edgar Cayce said there was a Hall of Records, recording the history of the earth, underneath its left paw. Graham Hancock found and filmed the passages, entering from its side and skull. Now the authorities want to move it for its own protection? Suspicious. Perhaps this water is eroding it from underneath is all a cover story.

How was the Sphinx built and what did it look like? | Blowing Up History
(Quest TV) Aug. 17, 2020. The Great Sphinx at Giza is the oldest known monumental sculpture in Egypt and one of the enduring mysteries to Egyptologists. But with extensive excavation, research, and applying modern technological analysis, the story of how this enigmatic carving came to be, and what it looked like, is starting to emerge.
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