Showing posts with label fight back. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fight back. Show all posts

Friday, May 1, 2026

Burning monk fights fire with fire: Vietnam War

 
We'll kill that g**k for imperial US corporations
(Buddha's Wisdom) May 1, 2026: 🔥 The photo the world has never forgotten during the imperial U.S. War on peaceful Buddhist Vietnam: The Burning Monk, Ven. Thich Quang Duc, became one of the most haunting images of the Vietnam War era.
On June 11, 1963, he sat down in a Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City) intersection and didn't move. But behind the famous photograph is a deeper Buddhist story about:
  • persecution,
  • nonviolent protest,
  • meditative stillness (samadhi), and
  • the monk whose final act shook the Catholic Ngo Dinh Diem regime and forced the world to look at Vietnam differently.
We had to kill Buddhists to rule by force!
It was the visible shape of a lifetime of Pure Land Buddhist practice, pressed all the way to the edge. This is the untold story behind the most powerful photograph of the 20th century and what Buddhism actually teaches about the mind that met that morning.

🔍 DISCOVER:
  • The real story behind Thich Quang Duc, the Burning Monk
  • How Buddhist persecution in South Vietnam led to the 1963 Buddhist crisis
  • How one photograph traveled from Saigon to Washington DC and changed global opinion...
  • and why U.S. President John F. Kennedy stopped mid-sentence when he saw it at breakfast
  • The heart relic that didn't burn...and what Vietnamese Buddhist tradition says it means
  • How Rage Against the Machine, Czech copycat Jan Palach [like many Tibetan lamas under communist Chinese oppression], and Dependent Origination connect one Saigon intersection to six decades of history
  • What Buddhism teaches about compassion, courage, and meeting suffering without hatred 🙏
Fight war [the state] not [its] wars
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⚠️ CONTENT ADVISORY! This video discusses the dying [by suicide] of Thích Quảng Đức (June 11, 1963) as a historical and Buddhist educational subject. While no graphic footage is shown, the topic involves dying, political persecution, and religious violence. Viewer discretion is advised.

Who sells weapons to the world? War profiteers
This video is produced with deep respect for Thích Quảng Đức, the Vietnamese Buddhist community, and the historical record.
📚 SOURCES AND FURTHER READING (affiliate links)
Primary Sources: — Thích Quảng Đức's final letter, June 10, 1963 (translated versions available via Vietnam Buddhist archives) — Malcolm Browne, Muddy Boots and Red Socks (1993) — firsthand account of June 11 1963 https://amzn.to/4980Unr — David Halberstam, The Making of a Quagmire (1965) — eyewitness testimony https://amzn.to/4cLJNKE Buddhist Texts: — The Dhammapada (especially Chapter 1 — the Yamaka Vagga) — Sukhāvatīvyūha Sūtra — foundational Pure Land text on Amitābha's vow — Larger and Smaller Pure Land Sutras — the practice of nianfo/nembutsu 

HISTORICAL AND SCHOLARLY
— Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnam: Lotus in a Sea of Fire (1967) — written in direct response to the Buddhist crisis https://amzn.to/4cWRegz — Edward Miller, Misalliance: Ngo Dinh Diem, the United States, and the Fate of South Vietnam (2013) https://amzn.to/4eEY2ST — Neil Sheehan, A Bright Shining Lie (1988) — broader Vietnam War context https://amzn.to/424gBs3 — Mark Moyar, Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954–1965 https://amzn.to/42EAx4T On the Relic: — Vietnamese Buddhist Federation records on the heart relic preservation and enshrinement (2025) Historical records on Xa Loi Pagoda, the Hue Vesak crisis, and Buddhist protests in South Vietnam Reporting and archival material on the Diem regime, Madame Nhu, and U.S. reactions to the Buddhist crisis Malcolm Browne’s Associated Press photographs and reporting from Saigon, 1963 This video references and discusses Malcolm Browne's 1963 Associated Press photographs, archival news footage, and other historical materials related to the events of June 11, 1963 in Saigon, South Vietnam.

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Wednesday, April 15, 2026

Bruce Lee on Muscle Beach, Los Angeles



In 1971, Bruce Lee was enjoying a day with his wife Linda Lee Cadwell and family at "Muscle Beach," a portion of Venice Beach next to Santa Monica under LAX's flight path, when Kurt Wagner — a 315-pound strongman who could deadlift 750 pounds — publicly challenged his Buddhist/Taoist/Chinese philosophy.

What happened in the next six seconds shocked the entire "Muscle Beach" crowd and changed strength culture forever.

This is the untold story of when raw power met precision, when mass confronted understanding, and when a world-champion strongman learned that everything he believed about strength was incomplete.

🥋 The confrontation that Muscle Beach never forgot
🥋 How a 135-pound man dropped a 315-pound giant in six seconds
🥋 The solar plexus strike that penetrates through muscle
🥋 Why mass without wisdom is just weight to carry
🥋 The strongman who became Bruce Lee's student

Kurt Wagner thought his 315 pounds of muscle made him unstoppable. Bruce Lee showed him that technique, properly applied, can overcome any size advantage — not through luck, not through tricks, but through deep understanding of anatomy, physics, and human movement.

This is the legacy of Bruce Lee teaching that real strength isn't measured in pounds, but in wisdom and understanding.

Joe Rogan: This is impossible 

(The Hidden Record) Only Dr. Joel Wallach (criticalhealthnews.com) knows what killed legendary and superhuman Bruce Lee (Kung Fu, Jeet Kune DoChinese martial arts). It was his bad diet, going to extremes, killed by gluten and insufficient micro and macro nutrients.

Tuesday, March 3, 2026

Hooray for WAR? USA/IL secretly losing


(The Jimmy Dore Show) Sickly IL (pronounced "ill") is Israel (by UN definition, which also calls it ISR) is out to drag a country it has controlled for decades, blackmailing a line of Zionist Christian white male presidents.

Israel and CIA run the USA


Why Iran’s strategy matrix terrifies the U.S. – Prof. Jiang Xueqin

Economic Hit Man
(Prof Jiang Media) March 3, 2026: Check out Prof. Jiang Xueqin's recommended books to supplement these ideas: ► The Divine Comedy (The Inferno, The Purgatorio, and The Paradiso) by Dante Alighieri: amzn.to/3NZSkztAnna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy: amzn.to/3ZQfsmyConfessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins: amzn.to/4kskgs4.

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Tel Aviv, Israel getting pounded

Future of Iran: ungovernable pie to divide.
US military dominance does not guarantee victory—and that is the central tension explored in this analysis of a potential illegal attack and protracted war on Iran by vassal state the United States by its dominating client state Israel.

While U.S. and Israeli forces possess overwhelming technological superiority, history tells us that power alone does not determine outcomes. Strategy, flexibility, and political endurance often matter more.

'Regime change' lie: Empire of IL

This discussion revisits the 2002 Millennium Challenge simulation, where asymmetric tactics exposed vulnerabilities in conventional military doctrine. The lesson was clear: Smaller powers avoid direct confrontation and instead redefine the battlefield through drones, decentralized strikes, and cost-imposing strategies.

When low-cost systems [like those exhibited by the outgunned Vietnamese] force billion-dollar defensive responses, war becomes an economic contest as much as a military one.

Reason to attack Iran? Destroy China

The US War on Vietnam stands as a historical reminder that rigid empires struggle against adaptable adversaries. The broader argument is that any Iranian response would not center on matching strength with strength, but on shaping the terms of engagement—uniting domestic support, building alliances, influencing global opinion, and incrementally weakening the enemy before any ground invasion ever occurs.

In this view, the decisive struggle unfolds long before tanks cross borders. The real question is not who is stronger, but who can adapt faster.

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Sunday, February 1, 2026

'Fight till Death' in Human/Animal World


Countless worlds in 31 Planes of Existence
What deeds (karma in Buddhism) lead to rebirth in the animal womb (tiracchana yoni). The simple answer is breaking any of the Five Precepts. Upholding these moral precepts is the basic minimum to ever be reborn on the human plane.

Animals in the Buddhist worldview are believed to inhabit a distinct "world" (loka) that is separat from humans. But the dividing line is not in space. Rather, it is in terms of state of mind. This "Animal Womb" (Sanskrit Tiryag-yoni, Pāli Tiracchāna-yoni) World is part of the downfall (apaya).

Rebirth as an animal is considered very unfortunate -- even though some animals are very beautiful, long lived, and treated well due to previous karma. In general, rebirth as an animal involves much more suffering than is found in the human world (manusya-loka).

The real "human world" we don't see
Humans live long lives in peace and prosperity...not here, but in other human worlds.
 
We think we understand the "human plane" because we are living on it. We do not. We do not understand even a fraction of human life on this plane, which we are told is a "plane(t)" and no one is allowed to question that and be taken seriously.

There are countless "human" worlds existing in "world systems" in all directions in space. But just here, wherever "here" is, the Buddha spoke of four "lights" or "islands" (dipas, usually translated as "continents," but they are more likely other divisions, places, dimensions because the strange beings that inhabit them are very different from the ordinary "humans" we take for granted all around us). What is behind the Ice Wall, the next human subdivision or "continent"?
  • FOUR "HUMAN" WORLDS right here, main divisions: (1) Jambu-dīpa, located in the south (of the axis mundi Mt. Sumeru (a "mountain" too big to be an actual peak here like holy Mt. Kailash, K2, Everest, or the even taller Mauna Kea when measured from base to peak as one would normally measure anything), named after the Jambu tree, with human beings who are five to six feet tall and length of life currently at 120 years (though varying between 10 years at its lowest ebb and 80,000 at its height); (2) Pubbavideha located in the east, named after the acacia tree, similar to Yggdrasil the "world tree" in Norse mythology, with humanoid people about 12 feet (3.7 meters) in height, living for an average of 700 years; (3) Aparagoyāna located in the west, named after a giant Kadamba tree (Anthocephalus chinensis), with humanoid inhabitants living not in houses but sleeping on the ground, standing about 24 feet (7.3 m) tall and living for 500 years (though usually 500 just means "a long time"); (4) Uttarakuru, located in the north, with a giant tree called a Kapparukkha, an "aeon-tree," because it lasts for the entire kappa (Pali) or kalpa (Sanskrit) with humanoid inhabitants living in cities built in the air/sky/space (akasha), extraordinarily wealthy, not needing to work for a living – with food that grows by itself – having no private property, standing about 48 feet (15 m) tall and living for 1,000 years under the protection of Vaiśravaṇa.
  • (Does any of this sound like "our 'planet' or 'human world,'" the one we know as we travel around? Or maybe The Jetsons were onto something.) More unbelievable details: The Earthly Realms in Buddhist cosmology
  • There are almost certainly more of these, as spoken of in Vedic, Hindu, and Jain texts, with a series of planes inside, below ground: Agartha (Hollow Earth).
The Animal World
Help, I'm drowning, I'm drowning in samsara!
The Buddhist commentaries (tika) depict the many types of suffering associated with the animal world. Even when human beings are not present to torture, imprison, slaughter, and devour them, they are attacked by other animals and ripped to shreds -- or live in fear of it. They endure extreme changes of environment throughout the year and have no secure habitation.

Animals that live among humans are often groomed, molested, experimented on, then slaughtered for their bodies, or captured and forced to work with beatings until they are slaughtered at the premature end of their miserable lives.


This is nice. Diane and I are rich and live well!
Moreover, animals as a rule suffer from ignorance even more than humans, not knowing or understanding with any clarity what is happening to them or why. And they are unable to do much about it, acting primarily on instinct, if they can manage to figure anything out. Some animals understand what is going on, remembering past lives and wondering why humans cannot hear them or respond to their feelings and cries and complaints. (See an animal communicator if this seems impossible to believe). More
Slayer: “Fight till Death”
(Slayer) We were living like animals "In Praise of Death," only living to die (and Hell Awaits)

Will the Eagle conquer the Serpent?
Metal and men clash once more to the end/ Warriors above, with the power to kill, descend/ Militia of blood, troops of hate march to die/ Soldiers of Hell, veterans of death arise

[CHORUS:] Prepare for attack/ Your body will burn/ Endless war/ There's no return/ Prepare for attack/ Death will arrive/ Your orders are clear/ No way to hide/ Fight till death

Senseless death of all mankind overtakes/ Armored assassins destroy, at will, your escape/ Children of sorrow are trampled into the grave/ There is no future, no fucking world to be saved [CHORUS]
 
To reign in Hell [guitar solo: Jeff Hanneman]/ Gods of steel unleash their destruction on man/ Reign of death, what is the final command?/ Scepters of hate are dropped upon this Earth/ Clouds of terror destroy all hope of rebirth [CHORUS]

Prepare for attack/ Your body will burn/ Endless war/ There's no return/ Prepare for attack/ Death will arrive/ Your orders are clear/ No way to hide/ Fight till death/ Fight till death/ Fight till death/ Fight till death.
  • Slayer; Seth Auberon, Dhr. Seven, Amber Larson, Pfc. Sandoval (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly Wiki edit

Thursday, November 6, 2025

National Nachos Day (cooking recipes)

(The Vegan Roadie) Lois Ellen Frank on Indigenous cooking

Chips, Beyond Burger, dairy-free shreds, spices
Nowadays, one can find a sheet-pan dinner recipe for pretty much any flavor that one craves. But before all of these existed, there were nachos.

The original sheet-pan meal can be found on virtually every bar and diner menu across the country. While nachos are now a popular Tex-Mex dish, they're a distinctly Mexican creation. Texas?

Invented in 1940, nachos were born when Ignacio Anaya, nicknamed "Nacho" (which is short for the Spanish name Ignacio, from the Latin Ignatius), threw together a quick snack of
  • corn (chips)
  • dairy (cheese)
  • chili (jalapeños)
  • veggies (tomato, black olives, cilantro, guacamole)
  • protein (pinto beans, Beyond Burger crumbles)
to sate the hunger of some guests visiting the restaurant he worked at in Piedras Negras ("Black Rocks"), Mexico.

The dish was an instant smash and quickly took hold in other restaurants before Texas-based businessman Frank Liberto created ballpark nachos in 1976, making them even more popular and readily available in the United States.

Nachos are typically eaten as a side or an appetizer, but with some careful doubling-up of ingredients and a few additions, they can become a hearty lunch or dinner.

The beauty of nachos is that while they have a few classic elements and ingredients, they can also serve as a vehicle for creativity and new flavors -- made fully vegan with full flavor.

So if anyone has ever had the urge to mix up a dish of nachos, here are some tips needed to make this dish even more special. More
99 - Seed to Plate, Soil to Sky with Lois Ellen Frank (Keep On Cookin' Pod)
(The Vegan Roadie) March 11, 2024: Keep On Cookin' Podcast with Dustin Harder. Let's go plant-forward.

Seed to Plate, Soil to Sky
This enriching cookbook celebrates eight important plants Native Americans introduced to the rest of the world: corn, beans, squash, chile, tomato, potato, vanilla, and chocolate/cacao—with more than 100 recipes.

When these eight Native American plants crossed the ocean after 1492, the world’s cuisines were changed forever. In Seed to Plate, Soil to Sky, James Beard Award-winning author and Chef Lois Ellen Frank introduces the splendor and importance of this Native culinary history and pairs it with delicious, modern, plant-based recipes using Native American ingredients.

Native plant based cookbook recipes
Along with Native American culinary advisor Walter Whitewater, Seed to Plate, Soil to Sky shares more than 100 nutritious, plant‑based recipes organized by each of the foundational ingredients in Native American cuisine as well as a necessary discussion of food sovereignty and sustainability.

A delicious, enlightening celebration of Indigenous foods and Southwestern flavors, Seed to Plate, Soil to Sky shares recipes for dishes such as Blue Corn Hotcakes with Prickly Pear Syrup, Three Sisters Stew, and Green Chile Enchilada Lasagna, as well as essential basics like Corn Masa, Red and Green Chile Sauces, and Cacao Spice Rub.

The “Magic 8” ingredients share the page—and plate—to create recipes that will transform our world.

BOOK: amzn.to/49HTAgA. Lois Ellen Frank: bio.site/redmesacuisine. IG: lois_ellen_frank. Dustin Harder: dustinharder.com IG: @thedustinharder David Rossetti: davidrossetti.com. IG: @drossetti

Friday, October 17, 2025

Shaolin master fights real Korean GIANT

Awesome trick move pulled off by Shaolin Kung Fu Yi Long in Muay Thai match: r/gifs
(SportEye) Chinese Shaolin Kung Fu Master Yi Long versus the Korean Giant Hong-man Choi
Special Korean secret to power? - Sober martial arts vs. drunk Western bar bully
Western style brutality and homosexuality repaid. - Crips vs. Bloods in Los Angeles, 1979

Tuesday, October 14, 2025

Hitler, Beav & Butt, Trump Peace Prize?

You and the Dems want War. I want Putin Peace.
Trump gave a good speech, probably the best of his life. Nobel Peace Prize? Why not? War criminal Obama got a preemptive one then lined up war after war for his overseers. Is he a moronic idiot? Maybe. But that seems to work in his favor. He can keep doing his NLP tricks and no one seems to notice or mind, thinking he's just being dumb. All of his arguments are tautologies, not arguments at all, slogans with self-closing loops. Hitler did that.

Reduce anxiety by not worrying. Here's how. - Jimmy Dore keeps it brief: Liar Trump truths it

Trump's audience, which doesn't have the bandwidth to pay that much attention, loves it. It's simple. It's to the point then repeats the point. It doesn't get bogged down with facts or logical thought processes. It's about assumptions and gut feelings, implicit biases and racist/sexist tendencies. Republicans have been said to prefer this over the mealy-mouthed mishmash of Democrats. Only Billy Clinton and B.S. Obama could speak well. And not since Ronnie Reagan has anyone connected with business interests, right wingers, movers and shakers, and the military. (This is not Trump's brainchild; he had a script written for him called Project 2025).


I got money and power. What's next, Mars?
By aligning with multi-billionaire lonE ksuM (Lone Kissum-up?) and his gang of youths with computer skills and prying eyes looking at everyone's private data, he gets to take credit for change, innovation, and disruption of the Swamp. He's been lying about draining it for a long time. Now he's doing something, something insiders have been wanting to do for a long time. Trump is the face of it but not the brains, just like Reagan. And what does the nominal opposition (Left in name only) have? Old man Bernie Sanders who can't afford denture paste. *Exhale* It's pathetic. The party of Pelosi and the Squad's AOC, Waters and Kucinich... Where is Kucinich? Get an elderly caveman with a cane to heckle him at the onset of two hours of coherence, that only seems to have helped Trump. Democrats looking down at their phones in boredom through the address, that was funny. Boo for the Bad Man. Yay for the sign holders? Jimmy Dore, what is your analysis?
  • Mike Judge (Letterman); Sarah Silverman as Hitler (Conan O'Brien Show); Common Sense News (Beavis & Butthead); Jimmy Dore (TJDS); Pfc. Sandoval, Sheldon S., Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly, March 5, 2025

Tuesday, October 7, 2025

Is Shaolin Zen Temple kung fu real?





Buddhist vs. Shaolin monks: What's the difference?
Maling Shaolin Kung Fu Academy edited by Wisdom Quarterly
Shaolin Temple, nestled in the Songshan Mountains of China's Henan Province, is renowned for its rich history and dual traditions of Buddhism and martial arts.

Within its sacred walls, both peaceful Buddhist monks and Shaolin "warrior monks" live and practice, each following distinct paths of spiritual and physical cultivation, providing a fascinating glimpse into two distinct yet intertwined traditions.

Explore the daily lives, rites of passage, and unique practices of these Buddhist monks, revealing a rich tapestry of discipline, devotion, and heritage that continues to captivate and inspire people around the world.

A difference in monks

Buddhist monks can be found in various regions across the world, each embodying the diverse traditions and practices of Buddhism.

In [Mahayana Buddhist] China, there are multiple sects such as Chan (Zen) Buddhism, Pure Land Buddhism, and Tibetan Buddhism [which claims to be a distinct branch called Vajrayana], each with its unique rituals, teachings, and monastic disciplinary codes.

Outside of China, Buddhism existed in an earlier form in countries like Thailand, Sri Lanka, Burma (Myanmar), Cambodia, Laos, with Theravada Buddhism being predominant in Southeast Asia.


Mahayana Buddhism flourishes in East Asia, including financial powerhouses Japan and Singapore.

These regional differences lead to a rich variety of practices [and old and misleading distinctions like "Northern" and "Southern" schools, extant Mahayana vs. defunct Hinayana], from the monasticism of Theravada Southeast Asia to meditative and austere lifestyle of Japanese Zen monks to the vibrant rituals and chanting of Tibetan monks [and other Himalayan traditions in Nepal, Bhutan, India, Mongolia, and Russia].

Despite these regional differences, all Buddhist monastics (monks and nuns) share a common dedication to the principles of mindfulness (sati), ethical living (sila), and the pursuit of enlightenment (bodhi).

So what’s the difference between Chinese Mahayana Buddhist monks and Shaolin monks?

Buddhist monks
Literary monastics (wenseng) study
Religious affiliation: Buddhist monks adhere to the teachings and practices of "Buddhism" -- which might be divided between those who follow the historical Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama) and those who have moved beyond that to devotional practices worshipping Cosmic Buddhas like Amitabha and Vairocana or great Bodhisattvas like Budai and Guan Yin.

Buddhism a spiritual tradition that encompasses many schools and sects. Buddhism originated in proto-India and spread to other parts of Asia [particularly South and Central Asia] then to China, where it became one of the three major religions along with Confucianism and Taoism.

Monastic orders
Warrior monks (wuseng) train to fight
Buddhist monastics belong to monastic orders or communities (sanghas), where they take vows of celibacy, poverty, and self-discipline.

They devote their lives to the pursuit of enlightenment and the alleviation of suffering, following the Noble (Ennobling) Eightfold Path and other Buddhist principles.

Spiritual practices
Buddhist monastics engage in a wide range of spiritual practices, including sitting meditation, walking meditation, mindfulness practices, protection (paritta) chanting, sutra recitation, and ritual ceremonies.

They seek to cultivate wisdom, compassion, and mindfulness through their practices, aiming to attain nirvana -- liberation from the cycle of rebirth and death known as samsara. More: Buddhist vs. Shaolin Monks: What's the Difference?