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

There is NO more racism in the USA, none

MindSquire gave internet racists some instant karma

Message for America: racist patriots (🇺🇸)

• Racism in the United States?
• Ku Klux Klan woos kiddies with candy
• The Indian in the Cupboard (film)
• Our Friend, Martin (animated film)
• Chattel slavery in the United States?
• (What is chattel slavery?)
• Howd'ya say Chappell Roan? Chapelle Rone?
• Precious (incest and depiction of Blacks)

Dave Chappelle on race in America

(Conan O'Brien) Future Pres. Dave Chappelle on whites, Blacks, Jews

Ron Taylor ain't never seen no racism

(Spotlight by Laugh Society) We grew up watching racist-sexist movies and TV (Ron Taylor)

But not today, right, just the past? Ku Klux Klan woos kids with sweets (bazonline.ch)

"Ku Klux Kiddies" in USA: The KKK's little-known Youth Movement | HISTORY

Proud Christian Klansmen burn cross in North Carolina, 1958 (State's Exhibit No.4)

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  Sale of negroes in U.S., 1860

  If only there were a way to erase racism: Eracism Foundation (eRACE Racism) Join eRACE to show the world that we run together against discrimination, prejudice, and racism. We run for real change and that starts one sister (and one mister) at a time, with everyone reaching across the race lines. Running is our vehicle, and connection is our superpower. Invite friends (open to men and women) to team up for this important virtual event. More: eraceracismbgr.com

"I don't see color," "I got Black friends"

(The Daily Show) Satirist Leslie Jones on right-wing claims

"racism is over," and what ally-ship really means

Implicit bias differs from explicit racism

Where do American kids get these racist and sexist ideas? Ku Klux Klan, Georgia, 1948)

American racism manifesting as KKK night rally, Chicago, Illinois (circa 1920)

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Nazis borrowed many U.S. ideas

Most American racism is not overt like young white males famously display behind the safety of computer monitors, trolling others from their middle class bedrooms. It's implicit, which means it is often hidden to us. We don't realize what we're doing. It's like when satirical Sacha Baron Cohen (as Borat and as Bruno) interviewed white frat boys in their Winnebago and on the beach in Florida for Spring Break.

Frat boys with Bruno on Spring Break

(WestStainesTV) Da Ali G Show, Bruno: Daytona Beach [gay] wrestling

American branding his Black slaves

DEFINITION: An implicit bias stereotype is the pre-reflective attribution of particular qualities by an individual to a member of some social out group [1]. "Those people are all like that." This color skin equals that set of behaviors.

It is an unconscious bias that stems from a natural human tendency to divide the social world into groups [2].

We wish we could still have slaves

Racist Sexist Frat Boys Scene | BORAT (2006) movie CLIP HD

U.S. interracial "folk pornography": quadroon bride (Mosler)
("Quadroon" is a racial classification in the colonial Americas)

"John Wayne was a Nazi"?

(M.D.C.) Was the famous television cowboy Mr. John Wayne a racist?

Whipping (flogging) a slave to teach him

Implicit stereotypes are shaped by experience and based on learned associations between particular qualities and social categories, including race and gender [3], leading to racism and sexism or gender role stereotypes of how people are "supposed" to be.

Slavery in the 13 colonies, 1770s

Perceptions and behaviors can be influenced by the implicit stereotypes we hold, even if we are unaware we are holding such stereotypes [4].

Implicit bias is an aspect of implicit social cognition, the social phenomenon that our perceptions, attitudes, and stereotypes can operate prior to conscious intention or endorsement [5]. We may have taken it on from our family of origin or circle of friends, associates, and media figures.

It don't hurt 'em; they can't feel

It's real. The existence of implicit bias is supported by scientific articles in psychological literature [6]. The term implicit stereotype was first defined by psychologists Mahzarin Banaji and Anthony Greenwald in 1995 [7].

Implicit stereotypes (unconscious associations held by individuals) can influence behavior even when they contradict our consciously endorsed beliefs. This effect is particularly observable in real-world contexts such as judgments of fame and hiring processes [7, 8]. More

What do we tell ourselves and others to make our crimes seem okay? (Slavery in U.S. 1840)

• Think of it: We're done with them. Now send them back to Africa, even the ones from here (The Liberaor)
• Art of negotiation: Master Class with Chris Voss
• MindSquire; Ron Taylor; Sacha Baron Cohen; I. Rony, Seth Auberon, Ashley Wells, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly