Buddhist love at first sight: WHY? 😍💘

"Winds in the east, mist coming in, like something is brewing about to begin. Can't put my finger on what lies in store, but I feel what's to happen all happened before."

Have we met before? | Seven signs of a past-life connection

(Buddha's Wisdom) 🔍 WHY DO SOME STRANGERS INSTANTLY FEEL LIKE FAMILY? What are the signs we have known someone in a past life? And what does Buddhism actually teach about these karmic connections?

Lana Del Rey "Video Games"

This video examines seven experiences often linked to past-life (what non-Buddhist traditions call "reincarnation") relationships, from instant trust and unexplained recognition to recurring conflict and shared spiritual growth.

Ashe "Moral of the Story" (official audio)

Through ancient Buddhist texts, traditional stories, disputed past-life cases, meditation teachings, and modern memory research, let's explore Buddhist rebirth without assuming that the oversimplification that a "permanent soul" (atta or atman) is traveling from one life to another. That is what is happening, conventionally speaking but, ultimately, it is a pernicious wrong view.

Catherine O'Hara "Sally's Song" (from The Nightmare Before Christmas)

• What are the OBSTACLES to progress in serenity, meditation, insight, and enlightenment? The Five Hindrances: affection (lust, attachment, passion, clinging), aversion, restlessness, fatigue, doubt.
• Lana Del Rey "Once Upon a Dream" (music video)

Diana Ross theme from Mahogany ("Do You Know Where You're Going To")

DISCOVER

1. Seven signs that may make someone feel strangely familiar
2. Why the strange old couple greeted the Buddha as if he were their long-lost son
3. The reported recognition of the 14th Dalai Lama and the case of Swarnlata Mishra
4. Why the Buddha said "a being who has not [already] been your mother is not easy to find"
5. The Jātaka Birth Story about the couple who raised the Buddha for 1,500 births
6. Why guided past-life regression is not the Buddhist method of recalling previous lives
7. The Buddha’s overlooked second explanation for why two people feel drawn together

Sonic Youth "Becuz" [Because of You]

TIMESTAMPS

• 00:00 The couple who called the Buddha “son”*
• 02:09 When a stranger feels like family
• 06:36 The ones who came back
• 12:57 Can meditation show you?
• 17:38 The second explanation

Elton John "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" (lyrics)

• *(NOTE: The Sāketa couple (Nakula-mata and Nakula-pita)'s first meeting and the rival wives come from commentarial literature written centuries after the Buddha, drawing on older oral tradition. This video presents them as the tradition tells them, not as verified history. (Nakula-pita and Nakula-mata Gahapati)

📚 SOURCES AND FURTHER READING (affiliate links)

Primary texts:

• Bhikkhu Bodhi (trans.), The Connected Discourses of the Buddha (Saṃyutta Nikāya)
• Bhikkhu Bodhi (trans.), The Numerical Discourses of the Buddha (Aṅguttara Nikāya)
• Bhikkhu Ñāṇamoli and Bhikkhu Bodhi (trans.), The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha (Majjhima Nikāya)
• E. B. Cowell (ed.), The Jātaka, or Stories of the Buddha's Former Births
• E. W. Burlingame (trans.), Buddhist Legends (Dhammapada Commentary)
• Bhikkhu Ñāṇamoli (trans.), The Path of Purification (Visuddhimagga)

Clairo "Sofia" (I Know We Can Do It If We Try)

Modern cases and research:

• Ian Stevenson, Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation
• Morey Bernstein, The Search for Bridey Murphy
• Scoboria et al. (2017), "A mega-analysis of memory reports from eight peer-reviewed false memory implantation studies," Memory
• John F. Kihlstrom, “Hypnosis, Delayed Recall, and the Principles of Memory”

Winds in the East (movie montage)

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• SOKO :: "First Love Never Die" (official video)
• An Unusual Prince/Once Upon a Dream (from "Sleeping Beauty")
• Buddha's Wisdom, Sept. 26, 2026; Ashley Wells and Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Japan's secret to beauty, youth, longevity

Japan's One Secret to Health, Beauty, and Longevity

Will I be turning Japanese? I really think so

(Samurai Matcha) ✪ Members first on Sept. 21, 2026. I’m filming this in one of the many empty houses in my Japanese neighborhood. I’m staying here for a month just to try it. ☺️ 

For anyone interested in R's KOSO, here's the link ✌️ dpbolvw.net/click-1011103... Use code SAMURAIGUT for 15% off (works on first subscription order, too). Subscribe and become a friend today: samuraimatcha.

• (Samurai Matcha) Why Japanese meals keep eaters thin (flavor from dashi with umami savory taste...)
• How to make nukadoko? docs.google.com/document/d/1D...
• Be my friend: Instagram: samuraimatcha.journey, Facebook: mizuno.akihito

GET IN TOUCH: If you’d like to talk, feel free to email me at samuraimatcha.japan@gmail.com. I try my best to reply to things, but there sadly aren't enough hours in the day to respond to everyone all the time, so please be patient or reach out again.

Go minimal like Blue Zone Okinawa

(ThinkMinimal) 10 Japanese simple eating habits to stay young after 60

• What is a "Blue Zone"? Longevity region
• Where is mysterious Okinawa, Japan?

The Japanese secret to vitality

Youthful, thin, pretty, long-lived? *Giggle*

What if there were ONE secret to Japanese healthy weight, youthfulness, beauty, and amazing longevity? Westerners rush to say, "It must be genetics" because in that way, they can give up. There's nothing we can do about genetics (as if the West never heard of epigenetics), so let's do nothing.

In the age-old debate between Nature (genes) and Nurture (karma, our actions now), there's much more to be said for karma. First of all, the way most people use the word "karma," they mean both the intentional actions being willed and carried out AND the results of those acts from the past (vipaka, phala). Looked at that way, karma accounts for a lot of (but not all) nurture and a lot of (but not all) nurture.

Nurture is our environment and what others choose to do. How it affects us, that is greatly due to the habits, states, and traits we have built up over many past lives and all of this one. (Karma is vast and touches just about everything).

Nature is not limited to genetics, our innate nature, but all of the biology. In this way, we can see that how we nurture determines if it works well or to our detriment.

• Clean house with castor oil like an Amish grandma: ‘Secret’ natural cleaner saved $ thousands! (xmp.x-all.com)

Hollywood secret? My grandma knew it!

The Japanese one secret, which the West used to know and respect, is called chokatsu or "gut health." The West used to know this? Before researchers, scientists, and the medical field gave us terms like probiotics and intestinal health, our grandmothers were well aware of the benefits of fermentation. It's an ancient practice of cultivating good (usually lactic-acid producing) bacteria to preserve food and up bioavailable essential minerals, the unknown key to human health.

Minerals are the essential micronutrients (criticalhealthnews.com). Dr. Joel Wallach says that, sadly, minerals are no longer in our depleted soil because we no longer regularly throw ashes into the ground from wood burning. The sea still has those 92 trace minerals, and maybe seaweeds like the thickener Irish sea moss, and vegan sushi nori leaves, salty kombu, and other sea plants can still provide them. 

• Chokatsu, Japanology Plus (S5 E98):
• VIDEO: Improving Gut Health (Japanology Plus)

Eat beans, not beings. Let's end farting

If beans, lentils, legumes make you gassy, watch this! Hormone issues and gut health

You would've lived longer with beans, Homer

(The Real Weight Loss Coach) The Real Weight Loss Coach Podcast. This episode reveals:

• 👉🏽 Beans: Nature's detox miracle: How soluble fiber breaks the cycle of hormone recycling and toxin buildup
• 👉🏽 Stress, hormones, and legumes: the surprising link between bean consumption and anxiety management
• 👉🏽 Menopause mysteries solved: Why adrenal health and protein intake are crucial for smooth hormonal transitions
• The Simpsons and farting (r/TheSimpsons)
• Enzyme naturally prevents farting (flatulence)

"Beano" is an OTC enzyme to prevent gas

The "secret" to gas prevention and elimination is proper food combining.: Eat the right things together, and do not mix foods that digest differently in the same meal.  The "secret" to excellent vegan (plant-based) nutrition is food complementing. Wait a few hours for the complementary amino acids and nutrients. For example, as long as beans and rice (or amaranth, corn, sorghum, quinoa, or any grain) are eaten within 24 hours of each other, the body will get a complete protein. But if eaten together (a bad combination), the meal will result in poor digestion. Eat greens with all meals. Avoid sugars, heavy salting, or drinking while eating. Eat fruits (which are of two kinds, starchy and non-starchy) fresh, seasonal, and by themselves; they contain their own enzymes for digestion. Nuts mix well with beans for a complete protein if avoiding grains altogether, which is a good idea to avoid "grain damage" from gluten, gliadin, and other chemicals made by plants to protect themselves from being eaten. A full-spectrum vegan digestive enzyme is also good for strong digestion and for healing and repair after surgery or strenuous activity. The younger we are, the more we have the ability to make enzymes to break foods down with proper chewing and unstressed eating.

(Foodora Quest) Every bean explained: Some can feed nations, poison, change the way we eat

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CHAPTERS in this podcast episode:

• 00:19 Introduction to Karen Hurd
• 01:56 Karen's Military Background
• 03:08 The Carpet Beetle Infestation
• 06:55 The Struggle for Diagnosis
• 15:56 Discovering the Cure
• 21:22 The Power of Soluble Fiber
• 22:18 Lymphatic System and Liver Functions
• 22:54 Bile and Fat Absorption
• 24:53 Soluble Fiber and Detoxification
• 28:04 Beans and Gas: The Fermentation Process
• 30:17 Hormones and Digestion
• 37:50 Menopause and Adrenal Glands
• 45:39 Final Thoughts and Health Advice

Where to find KAREN HURD's website: karenhurd.com

• Foodora Quest; Karen Hurd, The Real Weight Loss Coach, Sept. 24, 2024; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

The healthiest TV family in the Sixties

How could these groovy ghoulies be praised by psychologists?

Wednesday Addams dance to "Goo Goo Muck" - Healthiest "family" on TV (1964)

• Porn? 'Wednesday' costume for Halloween
• The Addams Family (1964 TV series)
• The Addams Family (1991 film)
• The Addams Family (2019 film)
• The Addams Family (animated)
• The Addams Family (musical)

15高清星空投影仪: US family sibling violence - What if Wednesday today were to get gnarly?

How can I regain my health and beauty?

Could Resilia black seed and oregano oil pills - Shop for Soursop Bitters right now!

help if wife cheats with younger gym trainer? - What if the real problem is parasites?

• Resilia SCAM ALERT: Other brands tested BETTER (trustedconsumersreviews.com/best-oregano-oil-supplement) Try Gaia
• 5 signs body has parasites song
• Flush out the toxics – Serene Herbs
• Old men with aging face, it's the muscle underneath (Serlino Lab retinol palmitate)

Mind cannot be seen, so where is it?

(Buddhism Podcast) The mind cannot be seen, so where is it? | Buddhist Wisdom

But what is aware that it is aware?

There is a mind-door, greenish in hue, near the heart. This heart-mind seems to be the physical base of consciousness, not the brain in the cranium. When meditating, attention can be adverted to the area around the heart. There there is a mirror reflecting experience, consciousness, awareness. If the "mind" were in the brain or the head, it seems attention would be placed there to find it. But it is very much down closer to what in the West we refer to as the seat of our emotions. The Buddha did not specify a physical base for vijñāna (consciousness) or manas (in Early Buddhism). However, he seems to have been well aware of the practical application of locating this base for the sake of realizing the ultimate nature of mind-and-matter (nama-rupa), ultimate mind (a stream of cittas) and ultimate materiality (a stream of kalapas). But this is for advanced practitioners of Buddhist meditation rather than philosophers and speculators. For those, perhaps Zen no-mind would be better or the compelling mind-only (Yogachara) view.

• Buddhism Podcast (video); text by Dhr. Seven, Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Wisdom Quarterly

Machiavelli's understanding of sexual desire

(Psyphoria Echo) 7 hidden signs a woman wants you: she'll never say it | Machiavelli

The Polyamorous Professors Geoffrey Miller
and Diana Fleischman on Rebel Wisdom

(Wisdom Unleashed) After studying 500 prostitutes, modern evolutionary psychologist Dr. Geoffrey Miller] discovered this truth about women -- confirming what Niccolò "The Prince" Machiavelli had tried to teach centuries earlier in his book The Prince:

The Prince and what prostitutes can teach us about evolutionary biology

(Self Dark MirrorYT) What 400 prostitutes taught Machiavelli about male weakness

California dreaming: early San Francisco prostitutes cycle through money (wiki)

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Portrait of Machiavelli (by Santi di Tito)

The Prince (Italian Il Principe, Latin De Principatibus) is a 16th-century political treatise written by Machiavelli, an Italian diplomat, philosopher, and political theorist.

He wrote it in the form of a realistic instruction guide for new princes. Many commentators have viewed that one of the main themes of The Prince is that immoral acts are sometimes necessary to achieve political glory [1, 2].

Melania Trump is/was a whore escort

(Keith Edwards) Leaked audio confirms Melania was an escort [who "dated" and may have had a baby with pimp, Israeli spy, and professional child molester Jeffrey Trump before marrying Donny Trump]

From Machiavelli's correspondence, a version was apparently being written in 1513, using the Latin title De Principatibus ("Of Principalities") [3].

However, the printed version was not published until 1532, five years after the death of Machiavelli. This was carried out with the permission of the Medici Pope Clement VII.

But "long before then, in fact since the first appearance of The Prince in manuscript, controversy had swirled about his writings" [4].

Japanese women rent middle aged men? Rental Family

Although The Prince was written as if it were a traditional work in the mirrors for princes style, it was generally agreed as being especially innovative.

This is partly because it was written in the vernacular Italian rather than formal Latin. More

American Evolutionary Psychologist Miller's sex research

The Mating Mind: Sexual Choice

Dr. Miller's 2003 book The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature proposes that human mate choices, courtship behavior, behavior genetics, psychometrics, and life cycle patterns support the survival value of traits related to sexual selection, such as art, morality, language, and creativity.

According to Dr. Miller, the adaptive design features of these traits suggest that they evolved through mutual mate choice by both sexes to advertise [in]heritable fitness [13].

• WHO IS DR. MILLER? Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Dr. Miller graduated from Columbia University in 1987 [5], where he earned a BA in biology and psychology. He received his Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from Stanford University in 1993, with Roger N. Shepard as his principal adviser [1].

Behavior

Dr. Miller's clinical interests are the application of fitness indicator theory to understand the symptoms, demographics, and behavior genetics of schizophrenia and mood disorders.

His other interests include the origins of human preferences, aesthetics, utility functions, human strategic behavior, game theory, experiment-based economics, the ovulatory effects on female mate preferences, and the intellectual legacies of Charles Darwin, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Thorstein Veblen.

 

In 2007, Dr. Miller (with Joshua Tybur and Brent Jordan) published an article in Evolution and Human Behavior, concluding, based on a sample size of 18 strippers at a club in Albuquerque, New Mexico, over a two-month period, that lap dancers make more money during ovulation [14, 15].

Spent: Sex, Evolution [and Shopping]

For this paper, Dr. Miller won the 2008 Ig Nobel Award in Economics [16].

 

In his 2009 book Spent: Sex, Evolution and the Secrets of Consumerism, Dr. Miller attempts to apply Darwinism to consumerism, arguing that marketing has exploited our inherited instincts to display social status for reproductive advantage [17].

He makes the claim that marketing persuades people—particularly the young—that the most effective way to display social status is through consumption choices over than conveying traits such as intelligence and personality through direct communication [18]. More

• Wisdom Unleashed; Ashley Wells, Pfc. Sandoval, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Play main stage at Warped Tour '25

But we don't know how to become a band that can win! - Then watch this new doc about Led Zep

Forget just attending the show. Perform on the main stage like a boss at the show! How?

Get warped, Man, and wear Vans to skate.

While many punk rockers are excited about the resuscitated Vans Warped Tour returning this summer (2025), the touring festival’s highly anticipated comeback has spurred another iconic event to follow suit. Welcome back the Ernie Ball Battle of the Bands for 2025!

Over the years, the Ernie Ball Battle of the Bands has often provided emerging talent with a platform to further their careers and acts such as Nothing More, Mayday Parade, PVRIS, James Valentine, and others have benefitted from taking part in Ernie Ball Battle of the Bands competitions before finding greater fame.

Ernie Ball 'Battle of the Bands' returns

I would totally fall for someone in a band 💖

Tying in with the Vans Warped Tour’s return, the Ernie Ball Battle of the Bands competition will be back for 2025 with one band eventually being selected to perform on the main stage of Vans Warped Tour at all three of the 2025 stops in Washington, D.C., Long Beach (Los Angeles/Orange County), and Orlando, Florida.

• 25 rock + metal bands you might not know but will in 2025, maybe even including your own Two Cents and the Shy Boy (or whatever dumb@$$ name you come up for yourselves)

And that's just the beginning of what the winner will receive. There are over $100,000 in prizes and the potential for a record label contract on the line.

Live Nation and Kevin Lyman envision new format. - Rolling Stone writes an article about it.

About the Prizes + Contract

You don't have to look like a dipsh*t, but it helps. Just ask Post or poseur Travis Kardashian.

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FTW. Let's start a new life as hedonistic rockers

The 2025 Ernie Ball Battle of the Bands winner has an incredible prize pool for taking home top honors. Some of the items include:

• High-end guitar and bass gear from Ernie Ball, Ernie Ball Music Man, Sterling By Music Man, Marshall, Orange, Revv, Galien Krueger, and BOSS
• Top-tier drum equipment from SJC, Gibraltar, Zildjian, Vic Firth, Remo, and Humes & Berg
• Keyboard equipment from Roland and Korg
• Live and Studio equipment from Universal Audio, Electrovoice, Mackie, and Sennheiser
• A $1,000 Vans gift card for each main stage performer
• A feature in an episode of the Ernie Ball's Big Sound

In addition, one grand prize winner will have the chance to sign a record deal with EDGEOUT Records/Universal Music Group.

That’s a pretty great haul for an unsigned group looking for one of their first big breaks. If your band or you think you have what it takes, go ahead and sign up to compete for the Vans Warped Tour slot.

• ENTER: battleofthebands.com

Danger! It's all fun and games till someone gets hurt. - Kevin Lyman, who's going to be playing?

How to enter

Submissions are now open at battleofthebands.com and will run through May 1, 2025. A panel of industry pros will judge entries based on technique, creativity, originality, and entertainment value — but fan support matters, too!

I listen to so much music that I can create some.

Advice on winning

We're not that good yet, but we came up with this claptrap "Dazed and Confused" by not worrying

Man, why not me? I should just go for it.

Rally a [social media] crew, spread the word, and let the votes roll in! [What do those things mean? A) Tell your mom to tell her friends on Facebook. B) Listen to lots of eclectic, obscure, and popular bands for inspiration because YOU will be a blend of all of those. C) Imagine you're totally original, unique, and the Greek Gods' gift to the audience. How? If Ghostemane can believe in himself, then you can get delusional about your chances of stealing the spotlight for attention. It's as easy as ABC. It helps to be very troubled.]

• Chad Childers, Loudwire via MSN, Feb. 2025, Warped Tour Comeback Spurs Another Iconic Return; Seth Auberon, CC Liu, Sheldon S., Crystal Q. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

FILM REVIEW: Becoming Led Zeppelin

Becoming Led Zeppelin (Sony)

We saw it on an IMAX screen, sitting in the front row heads cranked up to take in the whole screen, for it to be in our faces and extra loud. And that it was. It's good, really good. It's no The Song Remains the Same, which is the first Led Zeppelin movie, a filmed concert at Madison Square Garden, New York, in the 1970s with the conceit of introducing them as legendary, bigger-than-life figures, particularly Page, who lived in a castle... More

Our music is out of tune (cymatics)

What is the shape of OM? A 1,000 petaled lotus?

CYMATICS: Science versus Music (Nigel Stanford) There's something real, something sacred

Making sound visible in this amazing resonance experiment

• Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels ordered the change to weaponize music and foment chaos to advance Hitler's agenda? besthealthysecrets.com/egyptian-frequencies-of-abundance

WHY has music been OUT OF TUNE since 1939? (432hz to 440hz)

What are cymatics? The scientific study of sound

(Gaia) Premiered Jan. 31, 2025: Are mathematics and music inherently linked with human consciousness?

Uncovering encoded connections of the universe by examining relationships between mathematical constants like Fibonacci’s Golden Ratio, Pi, and Phi, polymath Robert Edward Grant examines the mysterious missing links of mathematics and music.

From Pythagoras to Leonardo da Vinci and Stephen Hawking, Grant examines what humanity can gain from these legendary thinkers and universal constants.

We can't see wind, but trees sway, sand moves.

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• It's All In The Egg (UFO connection, videos)
• Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly