Showing posts with label kismet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label kismet. Show all posts

Monday, September 29, 2025

If we're not in control, how should we live?

Master Oogway's wisdom in Kung Fu Panda

Our present and past deeds (karma) shape our future destiny (kismet) (Kung Fu Panda).
  • Buddhism Podcast, Sept. 29, 2025; Amber Larson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Wednesday, December 27, 2023

KARMA: Israel's crimes drive IDF Jews crazy

Ashley Wells, Sheldon S., Amber Larson, Dhr. Seven, Wisdom Quarterly

Netanyahu and his rhetoric/lies made me do it!
Ever wonder what the Jewish-Christian expression "God is not mocked" means? If there's no God, at least no God of the sort described by Jews and Christians as omnipotent and omniscient (something dismissed as untrue by the Buddha in a very theistic world of subtle complexity expressed in the voluminous Vedas or "Knowledge Books" of ancient Proto-India known as the Indus Valley Civilization), how do results reach a living being?

Israel's crimes are CIA and US crimes
There are Brahmas (Gods), and even Brahman (godhead or the ultimate reality), but not a "God" that is in control of everything, knowing everything, and the source of everything onto whom we place responsibility for the world being unfair or for all good things happening. So it seems this "god" who is not mocked refers to a lawfulness of the universe, an impersonal truth about things: karma. Karma very simply means the regularity of the universe to yield results corresponding to the quality of the intentions behind our actions and the actions themselves.

What, the bad I did comes back to me?! KARMA is a bitch or a blessing: As we do, so we get.
The glorious IDF (US-funded) war machine
If with a mind beset by greed, hatred/fear, or delusion we act, it will not produce a good (welcome, pleasing, wished for) result. It may seem to, but that is only because the act (the karmic imprint) has not yet yielded its exponential results. Likewise, if we act with an underlying motivation of nongreed, nonhatred/nonfear, or nondelusion, the result cannot fail to be good (welcome, pleasing, wished for). These are very broad categories.

What is wished for when we steal? Greed (craving, desire, hoarding, grasping, lust, avarice, liking) is motivating us. Then we have the thing wished for, the thing stolen. Are we satisfied, are we pleased, are we now ahead on the great scoreboard of life? We would seem to be, but no we are not. And the act (deed, karma) has NOT yet produced its results (whether mental resultants/vipaka or fruit/phala). So it SEEMS to have worked:

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The Truth is true whether or not we believe it.
We got what we wanted; crime pays; greed is good (inasmuch as it brings us what we want). What are religions talking about? Virtue yields pain and deprivation, whereas immorality and evil produce welcome results, no? No. The karma (the sin, if you will) has not yet come to fruition, but it will. And when it does, the results shall be unwelcome, displeasing, the very opposite of what we wanted. For example, if we wanted more, we shall have less. If we wanted peace of mind, we'll have worry and fear and anxiety. If we wanted to be rich, we'll be poor.

Beware of promoting Israel by biblical genocide.
So how will a spell of soldiering turn out? The Buddha explained very clearly: It will not end in Valhalla (the Hall of Heroes struck down in battle), not in heaven with 80 virgins (nymphs) at our disposal, patriotic glory. It will end in fear, alcoholism, PTSD, rebirth in hell, shortened lifespan, derangement, guilt, violence, insanity, and much deprivation. This is what governments are doing to subjects/citizens tricked into giving themselves over to the military.

Look at this poor guy, a regular Zionist Jew doing his militant/terroristic duty to the state -- mandatory military service, given the intoxicating power to abuse and kill his neighbors in fear and loathing. What will be the result. We can begin to see what it will be. Listen to him, how glorious his patriotism and bravery, his manliness and machismo, his popularity with the girls inducted into the same army as lures for men to follow.

Tuesday, December 5, 2023

Tibet intervenes in Israel-Palestine conflict

FPMT, 7/11/18; Sravasti Abbey, 10/10/23; Amber Larson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
We love His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama. It's kismet! (And FPMT is nice, too. Shalom).

Two Tibetan Buddhist monks promote peace in the Palestine-Israel conflict
(Shantideva FPMT-Israel) This video contains the highlights from the visits of Geshe Tenzin Zopa and Dagri Rinpoche, who came to see "Combatants for Peace" and "Women Wage Peace" during 2017 and 2018. The visits were introduced by Shantideva Study Group FPMT Israel: Working for Peace in Israel and Palestine and the spreading of the precious Dharma. Read the complete article here: fpmt.org/fpmt-community-news...


Israel-Palestine conflict through a Dharma lens
(Sravasti Abbey) Oct. 12, 2023: Venerable Thubten Chodron talks about the recent Israel-Palestine attack from a Dharma point-of-view and describes how we can use intense life difficulties to motivate our spiritual practice.

She also shares a letter from a Ukrainian student, who describes the hardships she and others have been facing and tells of how she’s taking it all onto the path to awakening.
Out of respect for the teacher (the venerable Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhist nun), the teachings, and the precious opportunity we have to receive them from afar, please attend the online teachings in the same way that you would if you were at the teachings in person. Comments have been disabled to maintain a wholesome learning environment and prevent opportunities for unskillful speech. Transcript

Thursday, November 30, 2023

OBIT: The dead monster Henry Kissinger

A. Goodman (Democracy Now, 11/30/23); Pfc. Sandoval, Sheldon S. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Henry Kissinger looking like a Star Wars figure "Jabba the Hutt" (Thomas Peter/Reuters)
Kissinger: America's Most Controversial
U.S. genocidal Sec'y of State Henry Kissinger, who came from Nazi Germany as a teen, is dead at the age of 100. The former U.S. statesman served as national security adviser and secretary of state for Pres. Nixon and Pres. Ford at the height of the Cold War and wielded influence over U.S. foreign policy for decades afterward.
  • No one gave a better assessment and obituary for U.S. War Adviser Henry Kissinger than now deceased Anthony Bourdain. He is quoted in this Democracy Now! video.
His direct actions led to genocide, massacres, illegal bombings, coups, destabilizations, profits for corporate war profiteers, leaving a bloody legacy in Catholic Latin America, Buddhist Southeast Asia, and beyond.

100 years of monstrous advice to US
Security Adviser Kissinger began ruining the U.S. and sending us down a genocidal path since leaving Harvard for Washington, DC, which would only be about 75 years of monstrous advice. However bad he was, those who took his advice must also be held to account.

I'm not a monster. I'm a human animal.
Once out of office, Kissinger continued until his death to advise U.S. presidents and other top officials who celebrate him as a visionary diplomat.

Yale University historian Greg Grandin says those glowing obituaries only reveal “the moral bankruptcy of the [American] political establishment” that ignores how Kissinger’s actions may have led to the deaths of three or four million people across the planet.


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Sunday, August 9, 2009

China: Typhoon kismet for Uighurs?

After Sharon Stone's unexpected brouhaha for wondering out loud if karma had anything to do with its massive earthquake disaster, WQ asks the unthinkable: Is the typhoon currently invading China's east coast kismet for its brutal abuse of Uighurs?*

1 million Chinese flee typhoon
Typhoon Morakot slams into China's east coast after bringing Taiwan its worst floods in 50 years. Details
Did China's economic stimulus cut energy consumption?
LHOON - China's massive stimulus spending on the environment -- to the tune of about US$30 billion -- appears to be having an effect. Reports AFP: China cut its average energy consumption by 3.53 per cent in the first half of 2009 from…

Uighur bomb threat on plane to Xinjiang
China's state news agency said Sunday there was a bomb threat on a plane from Afghanistan scheduled to land in Xinjiang, the restive western region of China that was rocked by ethnic riots last month.

Uighur accuses China of inflaming ethnic tension
China is inflaming ethnic tensions by deceiving its own people about last month's deadly riots in western Xinjiang province, an exiled Uighur activist whom Beijing blames for the unrest…

China refuses to budge on greenhouse gases
China refused to budge Wednesday on its demands that rich nations commit to large greenhouse gas cuts at upcoming climate change talks, while also declining to put a ceiling on its own…

No quick end to China's fiscal stimulus: researcher
BEIJING - China will stick to its loose fiscal policy for at least three years despite a growing budget deficit, a government economist said in comments published on Wednesday.

Chinese secrets agency says Rio spied for 6 years
A state secrets watchdog has accused mining giant Rio Tinto Ltd. of committing economic espionage for six years, saying in a report the spying caused "tremendous harm" to China's economic security.

China's first Mars orbiter in Russia for launch
China's first satellite to probe Mars has been transported to Russia for a launch later this year, state media reported Thursday.

China executes 2 men for defrauding investors
China executed two businessmen for defrauding hundreds of investors out of more than $127 million, calling the scam a serious blow to social stability, state media said Thursday.


*Answer: No, probably not. But its police state mentality cannot be helping climactic conditions in the empire. Things are interdependent, connected in unfathomable ways. Living beings are one with their environment: They emerge out of it, depend on it, and return to it. They have no separate existence from the whole. Since everything affects everything else, China is wise to respect the ethnic (non-Han) inhabitants of its occupied territories. Although neither karma nor kismet have the tendency to turn around that quickly, do mass acts bear a collective result? They did for the Buddha's relatives, the Sakyas, who were massacred.