Dalai Lama: UFOs, gays, same-sex marriage

CC Liu, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

The Dalai Lama weighs in on same-sex marriage | Larry King Now (Ora TV)

(Larry King) Feb. 27, 2014. Full Dalai Lama interview available beginning March 10, 2014. "His Holiness" the Dalai Lama shares his thoughts on same-sex marriage and homosexuality. Subscribe to Larry King's YouTube Channel. What about UFOs and extraterrestrials?

Dalai Lama on turning 80, compassion, world in turmoil, guns, UFOs/ETs

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What happens when we die? | Neil deGrasse Tyson and Larry King

(TUkEk.art) Nov. 24, 2022. Neil deGrasse Tyson and Larry King discuss life, death, and the possibility of life after death (rebirth, reincarnation, and an afterlife). Artist-Creator: #Tukek.art. Subscribe. #tukekart #tukek #ArtSavesTheWorld #life #lifeafter #lifeafterdeath #philosophy #christianity #buddhism #heaven #larrykingnow #larryking #neildegrassetyson #spirituality #afterlife #death #thanksgiving #thanksgivingcelebration #thanksgiving2022

Dr. Eben Alexander, MD, on reincarnation and past lives

(Larry King) March 16, 2018. Neurosurgeon Dr. Eben Alexander explains how he says reincarnation works and why we usually can’t remember our past lives. SUBSCRIBE to Larry King's YouTube Channel: bit.ly/131HuYM, facebook.com/OraTV, facebook.com/LarryKing. #LarryKingNow

A new SLIPKNOT album? (video)

Pat Macpherson, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly; Corey Taylor; Larry King, Rock Feed
Larry King interviews lead singer Corey Taylor, who discusses a potential new Slipknot album, his desire to collaborate with Jay-Z, and his friend Chester Bennington’s suicide. Taylor also opens up about politics, including his views on Don Trump.

"Vermilion" [OFFICIAL VIDEO]

Slipknot's music video for "Vermillion" from the album, Vol. 3 (The Subliminal Verses) available from Roadrunner Records. Download album iTunes (smarturl.it/sk-volume3), slipknot1.com, iTunes (itunes.com/slipknot), facebook, twitter.com/slipknot, instagram, slipknot.tumblr.com.

  

(Rock Feed) Slipknot's most insane moments, August 5, 2018
 

Slipknot has had a number of epic moments over the years, starting with Fred Durst of failed "Limp Bizkit" fame, ICP... Rock Feed looks at some favorites.

LYRICS: She seems dressed in all the rings / Of past fatalities / So fragile yet so devious / She continues to see  / Climatic hands that press / Her temples and my chest / Enter the night that she came home / Forever Oh (She's the only one that makes me sad) / She is everything and more / The solemn hypnotic / My Dahlia bathed in possession / She is home to me / I get nervous, perverse, when I see her it's worse / But the stress is astounding / It's now or never she's coming home / Forever / Oh (She's the only one that makes me sad) / Hard to say what caught my attention / Fixed and crazy, aphid attraction / Carve my name in my face, to recognize / Such a pheromone cult to terrorize / I won't let this build up inside of me / I won't let this build up inside of me / I won't let this build up inside of me / I won't let this build up inside of me / (Yeah!) I'm a slave, and I am a master / No restraints and, unchecked collectors / I exist through my need, to self oblige / She is something in me, that I despise / I won't let this build up inside of me / I won't let this build up inside of me / I won't let this build up inside of me / I won't let this build up inside of me / I won't let this build up inside of me / I won't let this build up inside of me / I won't let this build up inside of me / I won't let this build up inside of me / SHE ISN'T REAL! / I CAN'T MAKE HER REAL! / SHE ISN'T REAL! / I CAN'T MAKE HER REAL! / (She isn't real, I can't make her real) / (She isn't real, I can't make her real)

Larry Sanders, Buddhist Garry Shandling (video)

Seth Auberon, Ashley Wells, Wisdom Quarterly; the Larry ("The Larry Sanders Show")

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Shandling’s stealth Buddhist mission of love
Justin Wm. Moyer (washingtonpost.com, March 25, 2016)

Garry Shandling has died at 66. Here are some of his most memorable roles and appearances, including his hit HBO series, "The Larry Sanders Show" (The Washington Post).

 

Almost 23 years before his death, Garry Shandling sat down with [near-death] David Letterman on the host’s second-to-last night on NBC for a late-night debriefing. The conversation could have been awkward, and definitely went beyond the latest celebrity chit-chat. After all, Shandling had just been offered $5 million to take over Letterman’s time slot, and turned it down. Now, the two men -- one leaving a job he no longer wanted, the other unwilling to take it on even for a large amount of money -- contemplated the chair as they left it behind.

 

“Did you ever seriously consider -- this all could now be yours,” Letterman said. Shandling looked around the studio skeptically.

 

Kill = jail?

“Well, I like the clock,” he allowed. Not one to disappoint, Letterman had the clock removed, and gave it to Shandling. “Frozen on the moment of my last appearance,” Shandling deadpanned.

• Garry Shandling, who parodied TV’s conventions in two hit comedy shows, dies at 66

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"Jackass" star becomes a Buddhist (video)

"Jackass" star Steve-O is a Buddhist
The newly, successfully sober but still crazy stuntman Steve-O practices Nichiren Buddhism. He mentioned his conversion without going into further detail in the introduction to a new interview in the Miami New Times. Tina Turner will be overjoyed:

The best nam myoho renge kyo ever (Larry King)

Rebel Buddha: On the Road to Freedom
Wisdom Quarterly
Maybe Steve-O has been reading this new book (Shambala, $21.95)? Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche is a Seattle-based Tibetan Buddhist monk who discusses how we can eliminate fear and unhappiness by awakening the "rebel buddha" within -- the "sharp, clear intelligence that resists the status quo," according to the publisher. The Vajrayana author is the founder of Nalanda West, a Fremont center dedicated to fostering American Buddhism. DailyOM review

• Miami New Times on Buddhism

The Shocking life of Devadatta

Women and Enlightenment

Great Mandala Study Group (gakkaionline.net)

Devadatta [swallowed by the earth] (Gohonzon #19, Devil King of the Sixth Heaven).

[NOTE: This article deals with how one Buddhist group has come to terms with Devadatta's alarming and unbelievable behavior as a Judas-figure in Buddhism. Soka Gakkai, a Japanese movement, has turned a negative character into a representative of our shadow side. Devadatta is dealt with not as a satanic figure so much as a transformative and redemptive one. This is done alongside the young, semi-human Dragon King's Daughter, a yin symbol of feminine enlightenment. Thus, the approach and information are more magical and archetypal than literal].

Devadatta’s life is so very low that even the earth cannot hold him. In the picture above, his foot begins to sink into the earth [as soon as he climbs off his death cot. He suddenly grew very ill after repeatedly betraying the Buddha and had to be carried around on a cot due to the severity of his symptoms. Realizing that he was going to die, he wanted to get to the Buddha to apologize.]

He represents:

• the "evil" [greedy, hateful, deluded, and fearful] nature in all of us
• the inseparability of past present and future
• opposition as fuel to Buddhist practice

He is on the Gohonzon because, in this form of Buddhism [Soka Gakkai], instead of burying our negative internal nature, we embrace our own internal fears and delusions as a part of life.

We work constantly on enlightening this part of our life. We realize that when we call forth Buddhahood from our lives -- through chanting Nam Myoho-Renge-Kyo -- these fears and delusions dissipate like dew in the morning sun.

Dragon King’s Daughter (Gohonzon #22, Eight Great Dragon Kings)

Of all Shakyamuni’s teachings, only in the Lotus Sutra do women attain enlightenment.

[Of course, in the Theravada tradition -- the oldest authentic teachings of the historical Buddha -- women, both nuns and laywomen, frequently attain enlightenment. The Therigatha is a collection of their accounts of becoming enlightened. Furthermore, although almost forgotten, the Buddha had two chief female disciples, one foremost in "wisdom," the other in "supernatural powers," Khema and Uppalavanna respectively. His stepmother, Maha Pajapati Gotami, is responsible for founding the bhikkhuni Sangha, or "Order of Buddhist Nuns," based on the argument that women are equally able to attain enlightenment in this very life.]

Shakyamuni challenges our misconception that time is needed to attain enlightenment. He also challenges us to realize that enlightened life exists not just in old learned men, but in the very young as well. That’s why there is no distinction among believers. The Dragon [Naga] King’s Daughter is:

• not fully human [but half naga, or hybrid reptilian]
• female
• she attained enlightenment in an instant

Two different pictures of the Dragon King's Daughter [above and right]. In one, she is offering a jewel to the Buddha.

Enlightenment is a state of life that is even difficult for Buddhas to fully comprehend. Yet, this state of life is available to us at every moment. The Dragon King’s Daughter represents attaining that enlightenment at this moment and then perceiving our life from this state. We use this wisdom available to us to constantly move our lives in a positive and happy direction.

Devadatta and the Dragon King’s Daughter Together
(From "Persecution by Sword and Staff")

"The fifth scroll contains the heart of the Lotus Sutra, for it reveals that the dragon king’s daughter attained Buddhahood in her present form. Devadatta represents the spiritual aspect of enlightenment, and the dragon king’s daughter, the physical aspect. The principle of attaining Buddhahood in one’s present form can be found nowhere else in the Buddha’s entire lifetime of teachings."

The key point is that no matter what your spiritual state of life and no matter what your physical condition, the joy and wisdom of Buddhahood is always available to you at this moment.

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Tina Turner chants (Amy Winehouse listens)

Larry King interviews Tina Turner about her Buddhist affiliations and the meaning of Nichiren Buddhism. The best rendition of the mantra (nam myoho renge kyo) and first prayer to be found anywhere occurs between 2:40 and 3:56.