Dalai Lama, only money makes me happy

(༄།ནང་ཆོས།། ☸️) Dalai Lama: Does inner happiness come from money? #Buddhism #love #fypシ

Greed is good [karma], Snidely Whiplash?

Yeah, but, hey, Dolly Lamar, I like money. I love money. My Christian friends, who all want to be rich, say "THE LOVE OF MONEY is the root of all evil" (Ecclesiastes 5:10, 1 Timothy 6:10). I don't know what "evil" they're talking about, but I'm pretty sure the historical Buddha's main donor, Anathapindika (whose name means "giver of alms," "feeder of the hungry," born Sudatta), was super rich merchant banker, a billionaire in his day and one of the "noble ones," that is, an enlightened person (stream enterer, the first stage of awakening). So it seems to me that it isn't "money" that's the problem so much as the clinging to it -- craving, grasping, longing, yearning, striving, and being greedy and rapacious for it. I'll never have enough. There is no "enough" of an intangible idea of "rich" or "wealthy" or "having enough."

(Laugh Factory) Joe Wong at the Laugh Factory in Hollywood on religion

• Dalai Lama via ༄།ནང་ཆོས།།; Joe Wong on religion in USA; Editors, Wisdom Quarterly

Mayans attended first 'Thanksgiving'?

Mayans at the First Thanksgiving?

They Had Names

(Nathaniel Jeanson) Premiered Nov. 28, 2025: In 1621, the “Pilgrims” (settler colonial imperial invaders from England) shared the first “Thanksgiving” with their new Native American “neighbors” as they displaced then killed them off.

Who were these neighbors? Mayans? New scientific discoveries announced just this year have turned our understanding of the first Thanksgiving inside out.

BOOK: They Had Names is available for purchase here: answersingenesis.org/store...

Links for technical justification:

• 2020 paper: answersresearchjournal.org/yo...
• 2025 paper:  answersresearchjournal.org/ge...
• 2022 book on global genetic history: answersingenesis.org/store/pr...
• 2025 pre-European North America book: answersingenesis.org/store/pr...
• They Had Names (Hardcover) | Answers in Genesis

Father Homer reborn. How to treat parents

• What is Father's Day and when is it? (When is it?) In the US, it is celebrated on the third Sunday in June

Siddhartha Gautama, Scythian Shakyamuni

Thus have I heard. On one occasion the Blessed One [the Buddha] was living near Savatthi at Jetavana in Anathapindika's monastery.

Then in the forenoon, having dressed, he took bowl and [double] robe, and entered the city of Savatthi for alms.

Now at that time the Brahmin Aggika Bharadvaja was at home preparing a fire ceremony to make oblations (burnt offerings) to his God.

The Blessed One came to that Brahmin's residence. And the Brahmin, seeing the Blessed One from afar, yelled at him:

"Stay there, shaveling! Stay there, wretched wandering ascetic! Stay there, outcast!"

When he spoke this way, the Blessed One said to the Brahmin: "Do you know, Brahmin, who an outcast is and what the conditions are that make one an outcast?"

The Buddha was much respected.

"Actually, no, Venerable Gautama, I do not know who an outcast is nor the conditions that make one an outcast. It would be good if Venerable Gautama were to explain the Dhamma to me so that I might know who an outcast is and what the conditions are that make one an outcast."

• [The abusive terms used by the Brahmin and the respectful address that follows need a word of explanation. The Brahmin had just prepared his offering to his God, Great Brahma, when his eyes fell upon the Buddha. To the Brahmin the sight of a wandering ascetic (samana), a shaven-headed recluse, is an unlucky omen. So he burst into angry words. The Buddha, however, was unruffled and spoke to him gently in words with a soft cadence. The Brahmin was apparently ashamed of his unskillful outburst and, repenting of his folly, addressed the Buddha courteously. Commentary: Note the Buddha's emphasis on anger and hatred in his very first stanza.]

"Listen then, Brahmin, and pay attention. I will explain."

"Yes, Venerable Sir," replied the Brahmin.

1. "Whoever is angry, harbors hatred, and is reluctant to speak well of others [discredits the good of others], perverse in views, deceitful — know that person as an outcast.

2. "Whoever in this world kills living beings, once born or twice born,* in whom there is no sympathy for living beings — know that person as an outcast.

• [*Dvijam, birds, are "twice-born" in that they are first born as an egg and then are born again out of their shells when they hatch.]

3. "Whoever destroys and besieges villages and hamlets and becomes notorious as an oppressor — know that person as an outcast.

4. "Be it in village or forest, whoever steals what belongs to others, what is not freely given — know that person as an outcast.

5. "Whoever having actually incurred a debt runs away when pressed to pay it, saying, 'I owe no debt to you' — know that person as an outcast.

6. "Whoever, coveting anything, kills a person going along the road, and grabs whatever that person has — know that person as an outcast.

7. "One who for one's own sake or for the sake of another or for the sake of wealth, utters lies when questioned as a witness — know that person as an outcast.

8. "Whoever by force [rape] or with consent [adultery] associates with the spouses of relatives or friends — know that person as an outcast.

Good karma: Treat parents like buddhas.

9. "Whoever having wealth supports not one's own mother and father who have grown old — know that person as an outcast.

10. "Whoever strikes and annoys by [harsh] speech, mother, father, brother, sister, mother-in-law, or father-in-law — know that person as an outcast.

11. "Whoever, when questioned about what is good, says what is detrimental, and talks in an evasive manner — know that person as an outcast.

12. "Whoever, having committed an unskillful deed, wishes that it may not be discovered by others, and commits harm in secret — know that person as an outcast.

13. "Whoever, having gone to another's house and partaken of choice food, does not honor that host by offering food when receiving a visit — know that person as an outcast.

14. "Whoever deceives a Brahmin priest or wandering ascetic or any other mendicant [alms person] by uttering lies — know that person as an outcast.

15. "Whoever when a Brahmin or wandering ascetic appears during mealtime angers that person by harsh speech and does not offer that person [any alms] — know that person as an outcast.

16. "Whoever in this world, shrouded by ignorance, speaks harsh words (asatam) or falsehood [asantamtipi patho (SnA)] expecting to gain something — know that person as an outcast.

17. "Whoever, debased by pride, exalts oneself and belittles others — know that person as an outcast.

18. "Whoever is given to anger, is miserly, has base desires, and is selfish, deceitful, shameless, and fearless [in doing what is unskillful] — know that person as an outcast.

19. "Whoever reviles the Enlightened One [the Buddha], a disciple of the Buddha, a recluse, or a householder — know that person as an outcast.

20. "Whoever not being an enlightened person, a consummate one, pretends to be one, is a thief in the whole universe — the lowest of outcasts.

21. "Not by birth is one an outcast; not by birth is one a Brahmin. By deed one becomes an outcast, and by deed one becomes a Brahmin.

22. "Know by the example now cited [the fact that by birth one is not an outcast]: There was an outcast's son, Sopaka, who became known as Matanga.

23. "This Matanga attained the highest fame difficult to gain. Many were the warriors (kshatriyas) and Brahmins who went to attend on him.

24. "Mounting the celestial chariot [the Noble Eightfold Path, and driving] along the passion-free high road, [Sopaka, now a monk], reached the Brahma realm having given up sense-desires.

25. "His [lowly] birth did not prevent him from being reborn in the Brahma realm. There are Brahmins born in the family of preceptors, kinsmen of [Vedic] hymns.

26. "They are often seen committing unskillful deeds. In this life itself they are despised, in the next they are reborn in an unfortunate state of existence. High birth does not prevent them from falling into a woeful state or from censure [here and now].

27. "Not by birth is one an outcast; not by birth is one a Brahmin. By deed one becomes an outcast, and by deed one becomes an Brahmin."

Honoring the worthy ones is good karma.

When the Buddha had spoken, the Brahmin Aggika Bharadvaja said to him:

"Excellent, O Venerable Gautama, excellent! O Venerable Gautama, it is just as if a person were to set upright what had been overturned, or were to reveal what had been hidden, or were to point the way to one who had gone astray, or were to hold an oil lamp to the dark so that those with eyes might see things, even so in many ways has Venerable Gautama expounded the Dharma, the Doctrine.

"I go for guidance (sarana) to Venerable Gautama, the Dharma, and the [Arya-] Sangha [the community of those disciples along the stages of enlightenment]. May Venerable Gautama accept me as a lay follower who has gone for guidance from this day onwards so long as life lasts."

• The Simpsons; Ven. Piyadassi Thera (trans.), Vasala Sutra: "The Discourse on Outcasts" (Sn 1.7, PTS Sn 116-142), 1999, edited by Ashley Wells, Dhr. Seven, Pat Macpherson, Wisdom Quarterly, orig. published 6/21/20

Kundalini Syndrome: Third Eye or Schizo?

The Third Eye, Schizophrenia, and Kundalini Syndrome: I wasn’t ready for that level of manifestation

The third eye is the sixth chakra

(Eye Opening) In this video, I share my personal experience of a spiritual emergency, a spiritual crisis, kundalini syndrome, or psychic trauma (however one wishes to label it) that happened not too long after I had a life-changing experience of my third eye suddenly opening.

• The seven main chakras along the spine are nexus points associated with different areas of life, the lower three being rooted to the earth in the body, the heart being the centered transitional point, and the upper three "spiritual" spinning energy wheels, which is the literal meaning of chakra. The lowest is survival (lum), the next is sexual (vum), the third is digestion and assimilation (rum); the fourth is the heart (yum), a green-hued area vibrating frequency; the fifth is the throat (hum) about expression and speaking our truth; the sixth is the most famous, the third eye (aum or om) between the brows; the seventh is silent at the crown of the head, full release.

I ended up hospitalized for a week, heavily medicated, and diagnosed with "schizophrenia" and "bipolar disorder" ["mania"]. I am neither of those.

Western medicine doesn't know how else to label what was happening to me. I was simply having a spiritual awakening and did not have any guidance, so I slipped into fear.

The intention of this video is to give some advice so that others do not have to go through what I did.

Quotes from and suggested readings:

• Kundalini Rising: Exploring the Energy of Awakening (affiliate link)
• Living with Kundalini: Autobiography of Gopi Krishna (affiliate link)
• Spiritual Emergency: When Personal Transformation Becomes a Crises (affiliate link).

Check out this life-changing third eye experience I had, with accompanying quotes from masters and spiritual texts:

• The Eye Opening: Enlightenment is Possible (affiliate link)
• Audiobook now available: audible.com/pd/B09WCJWD1S.

Suggested video

• A Third Eye Experience: How it Opened and Revealed the Love-Light in Everything • My Third Eye Opened: How it Happened and i...

#kundalini #spiritualawakening #spiritualquotes #newage #raiseyourvibration #enlightenment #eyeopening #thirdeye #ajnachakra

• Eye Opening, Nov. 1, 2023; Vanessa, Dhr. Seven, Crystal Q. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Giving Buddhist Gratitude (Lion's Roar)

"Grrr!" like a lioness roaring for American Buddhism

The Spiderman theme is such a catchy earworm to get stuck in your head that it's good to convert it into these season-appropriate lyrics:

How can you be so happy?

Gratitude, gratitude

Does whatever a spider could

Spins a web any size

Catches thanks just like flies

Look out, here comes some gratitude!

Is it strong? Listen, Bud:

It's got super-magnetic suds

Can it spring from a thread?

Take a look overhead

Hey there,

There goes that gratitude!

In the chill of night

At the scene of a crime

Like a streak of light

It arrives every time!

Gratitude, gratitude

Friendly neighborhood gratitude

As for fame, it's ignored

Action (karma) is

Its reward

To it

Life is a great big bang up

Wherever there's a hang up

You'll find some

GRATITUDE!

Fake Buddha quote gone good -- a wise teaching

Gratitude (Lion's Roar)

Gratitude is a crucial part of Buddhist spiritual practice, helping practitioners to live mindfully, compassionately, and peacefully, with a heart opening attitude of gratitude.

In Buddhist Pali terms, "gratitude" is kataññutā (or kataveditā), literally, “to have a sense of what was done [for us, for our benefit],” gratefulness.

It is more than just a feeling or a verbal expression of thanks. It is an important part of spiritual practice. Practicing gratitude can help us cultivate mindfulness, compassion, an awareness of the interconnectedness of all beings and things, and a peaceful, open-hearted attitude toward life and our fellows all around us.

Buddhism and gratitude are connected in a variety of ways, including:

• Appreciation for life [particularly our chance at this human life, which was brought about by our past karma, which had to have been good to produce this result and which was helped by others because there are just as many or more bad influences in the universe]

What a teacher can do for students, I have done.

Buddhism emphasizes the extreme preciousness — both the rarity and grand opportunity — of being reborn as a human being. Why? It is because this rebirth offers the potential for quick spiritual growth and enlightenment here and now. Buddhist practitioners incorporate gratitude into daily life, expressing thanks for, among other things, food, shelter, clothing, and the opportunity to cultivate wisdom (insight) and compassion (boundless loving kindness that seeks to alleviate the suffering of others).

• Appreciation for others

The contemporary American Theravada Buddhist teacher Ven. Thanissaro (Geoffrey DeGraff) notes that the Buddha pointed out that there are two kinds of people who are hard to find in the world, “The one who is first to do a kindness, and the one who is grateful and thankful for a kindness done.” This is the Buddha saying that because they are rare, we should be both kinds.

• The Lessons of Gratitude (Ven. Thanissaro)
• The Monastery of Open Doors (Soto Zen)

Mindfulness

Ever mindful, wakeful, present in this moment

Buddhism places a strong emphasis on being fully present in this moment with awareness and non-judgment. Practicing mindfulness helps us attune to the beauty and richness of each moment, the ever-present NOW, fostering a sense of gratitude for presence and, by extension, for life itself.

Impermanence

Contemplating radical impermanence — one of Buddhism’s “Three Marks of Existence” — can lead to a sense of gratitude for the opportunities and joys that arise and even for life’s unwelcome challenges.

• Two excellent Buddhist reminders of this are American Tibetan Buddhist nun Pema Chodron (Welcoming the Unwelcome: Wholehearted Living in a Brokenhearted World and the classic When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times) and British Thai Theravada Forest Tradition Buddhist monk Ajahn Brahm (Who Ordered This Truckload of Dung?: Inspiring Stories for Welcoming Life's Difficulties about seeing opportunity in what we regard as the sh*tty or dunglike things that happen to us in life)

Letting go/Generosity

I'd never let go of my beautiful hair except for...

Generosity (non-clinging), a core Buddhist practice and the first of the Ten Perfections or paramis (and later Six Perfections or paramitas in Mahayana writings), involves giving without expectation of return. Engaging in giving cultivates a sense of gratitude for our ability to help and support others, and for what it means when someone does the same for us.

Loving-Kindness (Metta)

Making love at insightla.org with Trudy & Co.

Metta-bhavana, or universal "loving-kindness meditation" (cultivating agape) is a practice of sending thoughts of gratitude and goodwill to oneself and others -- building up to a universal expression covering ALL beings, even the ugly, mean, foul, enemy, antagonistic, bad ones (who often turn out, in the long run, to be great and precious teachers whether we realize it or not). When we experience the profound emotion of LOVE of this kind (boundless, infinite, unbiased, and unlimited), we feel deep gratitude for all life and all that this life gives us. More: Gratitude in Buddhism | Buddhism A–Z

• Gratitude (kataññu-katavedi) Abhayagiri Monastery
• Eckhart Tolle: gratitude, allow, radically accept
• Lion's Roar (lionsroar.com); edited and expanded by Dhr. Seven, Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Ashley Wells, Wisdom Quarterly, Thanksgiving 2024

How to handle family at the table (JKL)

We're the perfect nuclear family, multiracial and awesome. Right, Dad? - Ask your mother.

What if we could laugh it off like bodhisattvas?

Trump’s terrible tariff plan, MAGA grifters on Cameo, handling family on Thanksgiving

(Jimmy Kimmel Live) Nov. 26, 2024: Dictionary.com chose [onomatopoeic "hawk tuah" which one can translate as] demure as the Word of the Year...

• Every dictionary chooses its own opinion on WOTY
• Oxford Word of the Year 2024: VOTE NOW (Oxford University Press)
• Choosing the 2023 Word of the Year: Q&A with Ben Zimmer and Kelly Wright — Planet Word Museum
• CollinsDictionary.com goes for Charli XCX's "brat"
• Why it matters that "authentic" is Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Year

The All-American Family (Family Guy)

Rep. Lauren Boebert joined Cameo, there are a bunch of MAGA grifters on the app now, Trump is making good on the tariffs he promised, Genocide Joe is planning to celebrate Thanksgiving with his family in Nantucket, he was in Staten Island to serve food at a Friendsgiving for the Coast Guard where he was caught on camera stealing food, 35% of Americans consider slaughtered turkey to be their most disliked Thanksgiving dish, there are lots of experts giving advice on how to handle a potentially controversial political conversations with family at the holiday table, and we take a moment before Thanksgiving to reflect on all that we’re grateful for. #Kimmel

• Is that Gratitude or Attitude? A Thanksgiving Quiz
• Seth MacFarlane (Family Guy); Jimmy Kimmel (Jimmy Kimmel Live), Nov. 26, 2024; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

Gratitude in Buddhism (Thanksgiving)

The great karmic quality of gratitude in Buddhism; Doug of Doug's Dharma reminds us that katannuta (knowing what has been done for us) is found throughout the text, counting our blessings for our own benefit here and now in meditation; Tibetan Buddhist monks chanting and praying before a massive statue of the Buddha-to-come (Maitreya) and the Goddess of Compassion (Kwannon); Japanese Mahayana Buddhist/Shinto practice of gratitude toward the dear departed.

Gratitude toward parents and others in Buddhist texts

In the Early Buddhist texts such as the Nikāyas and Āgamas, devotion to ancestors (filial piety), particularly parents, is prescribed and practiced in three ways:

1. to repay the gratitude toward one's parents,
2. as a good karma or merit, and
3. as a way to contribute to and sustain the social order [1].

Repaying the debt of gratitude

Two qualities are often named as a pair, kataññuta and katavedita. The first refers to acknowledgement of the indebtedness towards others, whereas the second quality is interpreted as repaying such debt [2, 3].

Buddhist texts often encourage children from the age of discretion (18 or 20) to take care of their parents, remember their gratitude to them, honor them, and do everything they can to repay their gratitude to them [4, 5].

The care and attention parents (guardians) have given a child is seen as deserving of full acknowledgment from the child.

In one of the most important discourses for laypeople called the Sigalaka Sutta (Sigalovada Sutta or "Advice to Householders"), several ways are mentioned in which children can repay their parents:

"I will perform duties incumbent on them, I will keep up the lineage and tradition (Pali kula vaṃsa) of my family, I will make myself worthy of my inheritance/heritage."

The deity Sakka, King of the Devas, is reputed to have had seven rules of conduct according to which he lived his human life and was reborn in the exalted position as king (or first among equals) in two celestial words, the World of the Thirty-Three and the Realm of the Four Great Sky Kings.

The first of these was, "As long as I live, may I maintain (support) my parents." This rule is also cited in the Commentary to the Dhammapada, indicating the impact of filiality during that period [6].

• Kataññu Suttas: "Gratitude" (Pali canon)

However, in the early discourse called the Kataññu Sutta, the Buddha describes through several metaphors the difficulty of repaying the gratitude one has for one's parents only through material means only [1]. It would not be enough:

The sutras say that even if children were to carry their parents on their shoulders their entire lives, or set them up as kings and queens of a country, they would still not have repaid the immense debt to their parents [7].

Eventually, the Buddha states that it is only possible to repay one's gratitude to one's parents by teaching them the Dharma (Truth, that which is in line with reality, the Teaching that Leads to Liberation, what is meant to be embodied in what we call Buddhism), timeless spiritual qualities, such as confidence (saddha, faith) in Buddhism, morality (virtue), generosity (letting go, dana), and wisdom (direct knowing-and-seeing) [8].

Though this discourse was translated and cited in many Buddhist traditions and schools, it came to be more emphasized with the arising of Mahāyāna (self-described "Greater Vehicle") Buddhism in India in the 1st century CE [9].

In a third early discourse called the Sabrahmā Sutta, parents are described as worthy of respect and gifts because they have created their children and are the ones who educated their children in their formative years [10, 11], setting them up for this life.

Furthermore, beyond giving them life (a vehicle for receiving the results of their own karma as they wander through samsara), parents have provided the basic requirements for a child to survive [12].

Children who attempt to pay back their debt to their parents by providing for them are considered "superior people" (Pali sappurisa) who can expect to go to a heavenly rebirth in the afterlife, whereas people who are negligent in this regard are called "outcasts" (Pali vasala, people of the lowest sort) [13].

Buddhist studies scholar Guang Xing believes a comparison is drawn here between the devotion to Brahma (the "Supremo," a creator god) and the devotion toward one's parents, of which the latter is considered better, because parents are considered the real creators [14].

Parents are also compared to "worthy ones" (Aryans, "enlightened ones") and buddhas, which is similar to the filial devotion expressed in the Hindu Taittirı̄ya Upaniśad [10].

In a fourth discourse Mahāyañña ("great sacrifice") in the Aṅguttara Nikāya, the Buddha compares reverence toward one's parents, family members, and spiritual teachers to the ancient practice of fire worship, then concludes that these people are much more useful and meaningful to tend to than the fire [15].

The parents are mentioned here as first and foremost [12].

However, Buddhist Studies scholar Reiko Ohnuma points out that Buddhist texts describe the ideal Buddhist monastic as a person who puts into perspective one's attachment to parents, which is seen as a hindrance to spiritual progress. Gratitude, helping, and loving are praised; clinging (upadana) is not.

One develop even-mindedness (equanimity), raising the vibration of universal love (metta, agape) to the same pitch, feeling feelings of love toward loved ones and foes alike. More than this, one strives to love all beings with the devotion a mother shows to her only son.

On a similar note, the texts say a monk should see all older females as his mother (and those of the same age as his sisters, and younger ones as his daughters), the same holding for nuns imagining older men as their father, brothers, or sons, not only biological relatives.

Viewing people in this way is considered a helpful method to practice the celibate life [16], as there is a natural aversion to incest in most people.

• Gratitude and filial piety in Buddhism Wiki edited by Wisdom Quarterly

How to repay one's parents (sutra)

Mom, are you defecating? No, that's okay. I'll just wash this dress shirt. *Smiles*

"Meditators, I will teach about a person without integrity and one with integrity. Listen, pay close attention, and I will speak."

"As you say, venerable sir," they responded.

The Buddha then said, "Now what is a person without integrity? A person without integrity is ungrateful and unthankful. This ingratitude, this lack of (knowing what has been done for one) thankfulness, is promoted by rude people.

"It is just the sort of thing people without integrity do, whereas a person with integrity is grateful and thankful. This gratitude, this thankfulness, is promoted by civil people. It is just the kind of thing people with integrity do."

People in the world

{II,iv,2} "I say, meditators, there are two people who are not easy to repay. Who are these two? One's mother and father.

"Even if you were to carry one's mother on one shoulder and one's father on the other shoulder for 100 years, and were to look after them by anointing and massaging them with oil, bathing them, rubbing their limbs, even as they defecated and urinated right where they sat [on one's shoulders], one could not in that way be able to pay or repay one's parents.

"Even if one were to establish one's mother and father in absolute sovereignty over the whole of this great earth (every country and territory), abounding in the seven treasures, one could not in that way be able to pay or repay one's parents. Now, why is that?

"Mother and father do much for their children. They care for them, nourish them, introduce them to this world.

"However, anyone 

• who rouses one's unbelieving mother and father, settles and establishes them in confidence (saddha, faith, conviction),
• who rouses one's unvirtuous mother and father, settles and establishes them in virtue (sila),
• who rouses one's stingy mother and father, settles and establishes them in letting go (dana, generosity),
• who rouses one's foolish mother and father, settles and establishes them in wisdom (panna, direct knowing and seeing, discernment),

"to this extent one indeed pays and repays one's mother and father."

• See also: MN 110; SN 7.14; AN 4.73; Iti 106
• Ven. Thanissaro (trans.), Kataññu Suttas: Gratitude (accesstoinsight.org), edited by Amber Larson and Dhr. Seven, Wisdom Quarterly

Ajahn Brahm: What's right? Complaint danger

The Dangers of Complaining | Ajahn Brahm | March 1st

(Buddhist Society of Western Australia) Streamed live on March 1st, 2024: BUDDHIST SOCIETY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA: DHAMMALOKA CITY CENTRE.

Who Ordered This Truckload of Dung (Ajahn Brahm)

Why do we complain? [Perfection is the enemy of the good.] Theoretical physicist Ajahn Brahm explains the dangers of cultivating a fault-finding mind and the benefits of praise and looking for the positive.

Ajahn encourages us to put our energy into positive things. Outlook is everything. If we have a choice what to look for, praise will pay off much more than complaints.

Please support the BSWA in making teachings available for free online via Patreon: buddhistsocietywa. Recorded at Dhammaloka Buddhist Centre, Perth, Western Australia.

Buddhist Society of Western Australia’s teaching's page: bswa.org/teachings. To find the full playlist visit: buddhistsocietywa, or click on 'Playlists' in the top menu bar.

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• Pat Macpherson, Amber Larson (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

How to start getting lucky: Dr. Gallenberger

Boss Stewie, Dog Brian (Family Guy); Dr. Joseph Gallenberger, Ph.D., host G-Man Noory (Coast to Coast, 2/14/24); Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

One is reminded of Stewie Griffin as Brian's boss in the episode when he advised him, "Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right."

Dr. Gallenberger website: synccreation.com

Clinical psychologist Dr. Joseph Gallenberger, Ph.D., author of Liquid Luck: The Good Fortune Handbook, discusses the power of gratitude and his interest in psychokinesis (PK) -- the psychic ability to affect, change, and improve our external circumstances in the physical world.

In addition to psychic ability, he discusses his latest work in remote viewing (RV).

I'm the soft yin to Dr. Gallenberger's hard yang.

It is a yin-yang approach of both receptive and active (passive and energetic) approaches to psychically interacting with the world, healing and receiving.

We can do retro-causation (affecting the past now), time distortion, time dilation, and more. Get grounded and be in the present moment. Happiness creates more reasons to be happy (luck), so an optimistic bias can be quite helpful.

• AUDIO: coasttocoastam.com (Feb. 14, 2024)
• Can we be "lucky" in love, too? YES
• Virginia's Robert Monroe Institute
• BOOK CD: Start with body, intention, grounding

Liquid Luck: The Good Fortune Handbook

Can an average American schlub develop the Midas touch? Can we learn "luck" to win?

This is not the Buddha. It's lucky Budai

Manifestation expert Dr. Joe Gallenberger has distilled decades of wisdom about creating our dreams into a quick and effective meditation called "Liquid Luck."

He wanted to give ordinary people a simple and fun way to access heart-based manifestation and see immediate karmic results in the form of days filled with synchronicity, serendipity, and good fortune.

Liquid Luck: Fortune Handbook

With Liquid Luck's secrets released on CD, delightful tales have come flooding in, describing instant success.

People report receiving money from unexpected sources, winning lotteries and raffles, selling houses in an hour, having businesses take off, solving intractable problems easily, receiving brilliant ideas for inventions, and many more wonderful stories of manifestation.

Liquid Luck: The Good Fortune Handbook shares these inspiring stories, interwoven with exploration of the vital components for powerful creation of abundance.

Inner Vegas: Creating Miracles,
Abundance, and Health

In the explorer's own words, Gallenberger delves into the heart of how these principles work. He covers why happiness, gratitude, compassion, praise, love, and feeling abundant are essential and how these qualities can be increased in practical ways.

Dr. Gallenberger reveals how to transcend the limiting beliefs and emotions that usually keep us confined to old patterns.

His knowledge and the stories tell us that indeed we can be miracle workers in our own lives.

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The Princeton Engineering Anomalous Research (PEAR) Lab confirms "spooky action at a distance," as Einstein dubbed it, says this may be the way the universe operates whether we know it or not, like it or not, because even if we do not believe, it's still working.