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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• An Unusual Prince/Once Upon a Dream (from "Sleeping Beauty")
• Buddha's Wisdom, Sept. 26, 2026; Ashley Wells and Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Life in Russia: Sami, comedy, sanctions

(Eli from Russia) Things people don't understand about Russia: 7 weird Russian habits

(Eli from Russia) Life in the most sanctioned country in the world

(Eli from Russia) I stayed with Sami (formerly referred to as Laplander) reindeer herders in a village in the Russian Arctic | Expedition to the Far North

• Sámi people: Indigenous whites (Nordics) of the North

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Strange Palestine: rules to know (video)

DiscoveryQuest, 1/20/24; Shauna Schwartz, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

12 taboos in Palestine and weird things that shocked the whole world

(DiscoveryQuest) Can anyone believe it? There's a place where one can be fined for touching ants, forbidden to shake hands with females and, even more unbelievably, just being there because that means not being allowed to use one's own left hand.

• [Why the left hand? It's the same way in Asia. It's got poop on it from washing up without wasting toilet paper and is therefore ritually impure.]

Please visit my region (Lebanese Khalifa)

One might think these things are being made up, but don’t rush to conclusions. Join this journey to Free Palestine in the next few minutes and be astonished by the 12 prohibitions and strange things unique to this place.

[Well, these things used to be true. Now there's just one rule: Please don't sit on the rubble; our beheaded and dismembered children, killed by Zionist-Jewish Israelis, are under there.]

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Truth about flossing we aren't being told

I'm a dentist so I know flossing is not the answer.

(Dr. Ellie Phillips) The truth about flossing teeth. Most of us have been told our entire life to floss teeth daily because flossing is the staple of a healthy mouth. This is what we are told by dentists, TV, family, and friends. But it's not true, well, not exactly. It could cause harm. There are better things to do (xylitol sugar, licorice, massaging, etc.)

Grow back gums by disinfecting and letting nature do it.

• 00:00 Intro
• 00:54 Lack of Science
• 01:40 How to Floss
• 02:56 Effects on Oral Health
• 04:55 Infection Risks
• 06:12 Flossing Story
• 08:27 Is Flossing Appropriate?
• 08:51 Flossing Alternatives
• 09:41 Bacteria Transmission
• 10:30 Message to Women/Gum Recession
• 12:43 Why I Was on the BBC World News
• 13:26 When to Floss
• 15:22 Research Studies
• 18:08 Next Research Study
• 20:38 3rd Research Study
• 22:03 Human Microbiome Project
• 24:49 Importance of Saliva

How often should we floss? The truth of the matter may surprise most people because of what flossing actually means to oral health. Remove cavity bacteria. Keep the mouth clean (not sterile, which only invites infection by harmful bacteria) with the right probiotics (good bacteria).

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• Dr. Ellie (drellie.com, July 11, 2023): Eds., Wisdom Quarterly, Aug. 13, 2023, UPDATED 2026

Relationships: Happy over Sad News

Master this Habit to Keep Relationships Healthy

Conventional relationship wisdom says that being supportive during times of loss and sadness is a good way to strengthen a relationship bond, right? It turns out, however, that celebrating good news with each other may mean even more.

Researchers who studied couples’ interactions say that the happiest pairs are those who respond positively to their partners' successes. “This was the strongest predictor of current and future relationship satisfaction,” says Shelly Gable, PhD, psychology professor at the University of California at Santa Barbara, who led the study.

• To strengthen your relationship, break these rules

Why It’s So Powerful

Favorable feedback does more than just flatter. “It validates accomplishments, but it also validates your relationship by showing that you get what’s important to each other,” says Michele Marsh, PhD, a clinical director for the Council for Relationships in Philadelphia.

Plus, talking to your guy about what occurred lets him relive it a bit, only this time he’ll associate the positive rush with you. The reverse response is also telling. If you’re not stoked by what your guy considers a win, it conveys that you may be jealous, threatened, or just not interested.

That may be why couples in the study who weren’t thrilled by each other’s good fortune were more likely to break up down the line. More>>

• 5 Surprising Ways You're Sabotaging Your Relationship

Animal Consciousness

WQ editorial staff (proposed Wikipedia edit of "Animals in Buddhism")

The position and treatment of animals in Buddhism is important for the light it sheds on Buddhists' perception of their own relation to the natural world, on Buddhist humanitarian concerns in general, and on the relationship between theory and practice.

Animals are regarded in Buddhist thought as sentient (feeling) beings. They are different in intellectual ability but no less able to feel than humans. Animals are cycling through rebirth (Samsara) just as humans are. According to Mahayana Buddhism, animals possess "Buddha nature." In both cases, they possess the potential of becoming enlightened.

Tibetan thangka representing the various states of existence in Samsara. The rudimentary depiction of the Animal Realm shows this plane collectively rather than attempting to depict its staggering complexity (bodhipaksa.com).

According to this doctrine of rebirth, humans (due to their karma or deeds/intentions) can be reborn in the animal world or other unfortunate destinations. The human world is regarded as the lowest "fortunate" destination. Animals, according to their store of past karma, may be reborn as humans or in worse worlds.

Karma and Rebirth Destinations

• Animal rebirth results from lapses in Five Precepts and:
• delusion, excessive greed and/or annoyance
• meat-eating, behaving like an animal in this life.

For instance, in one discourse (MN 57; PTS: M i 387) the Buddha cautions that Dog and Ox Duty Ascetics will, by their practice, gain rebirth among dogs and oxen. This accords with the general view that deeds -- that are willed, performed, and accumulated -- more associated with animals than humans result in rebirth in a plane or condition appropriate to experiencing the results. What are such deeds? Behaviors and habits that are slovenly, brutal, dull, vicious, base, lascivious, gluttonous, petty, cruel, and so on.

• Human rebirth achieved by Five Precepts.
• Lower celestial rebirth achieved by Eight Precepts.
• Higher celestial rebirth is attained by 1st-4th Jhanas.
• Formless rebirth is attained by the 5th-8th Jhanas.

Like all living beings, animals are ceaselessly wandering on in Samsara. This goes on for so long that it is difficult to meet anyone we have not already been related to countless ways. In an unbounded series of lives, with beings interdependently related, it is from time to time possible to sense and experience the "oneness" of all -- the deep relationship or spiritual empathy (mudita) that sees no separation.

The Buddha explained that sentient beings -- even those born in the animal realm -- have been in past rebirths been our mothers, brothers, sisters, fathers, children, friends, and associates. One could not, therefore, make a hard distinction between moral rules applicable to animals and those applicable to humans; ultimately humans and animals were part of a single family. They are all interconnected.

In cosmological terms, animals are believed to inhabit a distinct "world," separate from humans not by space but by state of mind. This realm is called Tiryagyoni (Sanskrit) or Tirac-chānayoni (in the exclusively Buddhist language, Pāli).

Rebirth in the animal realm is considered an unhappy rebirth since it usually involves more suffering than relief, whereas the humans generally enjoy a balance of the two. The Buddha compared it to someone wandering through a desert.

S/he is parched and comes across a nearly barren tree, and moving on comes across a shade tree, and moving on comes across an oasis, and so on. Each station represents, very generally, various rebirth destinations from the world of hungry ghosts to animals to humans to celestial beings, and so on for a total of 31 general planes of existence.

Buddhist commentaries literature depicts the great variety of suffering associated with the animal realm: Even where no cruel and desperate human beings are present, animals are attacked and eaten. Other animals attack them, and they live in fear. They are forced to endure environmental extremes, and they have no security of habitation.

Those that live among humans may be treated as pets or slaughtered for their bodies. They may be worked, beaten, experimented on, or otherwise tormented. Moreover, they suffer from ignorance with little opportunity to understand what (or why) these things are happening. With so little clarity or culture, they are unable to do much to better their state, relying instead mostly on habit and instinct.

• More: Animals in the Jatakas ("Rebirth Tales") such as the famous horse Kanthaka

Secrets of frugal Millionaires

Secrets of frugal millionaires
Interviews with 70 millionaires reveal how they spend their money and keep more of it. Habits of the rich

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