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Showing posts with label magic. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 28, 2026
Saturday, April 25, 2026
Gnostic: Demiurge's prison of 'reality'
- Gnosticism seems to be the Western version of the Vedic/Hindu concept of God (the One or the Supreme) at "divine play" (lila), coming under the illusion (maya) of separation. But all is one. Who is this Demiurge, this false God that created this simulation/illusory reality (duality) around us and the cycle of endless rebirth (samsara)?
Wednesday, March 11, 2026
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Friday, September 26, 2025
Levitation by kung fu, dance, running, TM?
The TM corporation under Maharishi Mahesh Yogi -- the Beatles', Beach Boys', and other celebrities' own guru -- used to sell "levitation" during meditation, which turned out to be a kind of flipper hopping by flapping the knees, a ridiculous compromise in the way we can bend reality and language to match. Even this wouldn't be "levitation" as we understand it even with the great hang time.
(Heshers) Levitation through meditation [using same trick TV's Batman used to climb buildings]
(AS) This "yogic flying" TM style "levitation" is more embarrassing than Heshers' sill trick above.
It only took us two views to see how he's doing it, and we guarantee anyone with the right camera set up can do this tonight, with less stress on his plastic drawers from the pushing.
Buddhism's Path of Purification on levitation
95. Uplifting happiness can be powerful enough to levitate the body and
make it spring up into the air. For this was what happened to the Elder
Mahá Tissa, residing at Punnavallika.
He went to the shrine terrace on the
evening of the full-moon day. Seeing the moonlight, he turned in the direction
of the Great Shrine [at Anurádhapura], thinking:
“At this very hour the four assemblies [Note 29] are worshipping at the Great Shrine!” By means of objects
formerly seen [there] he aroused uplifting happiness with the Enlightened
One [the Buddha] as object, and he rose into the air like a painted ball bounced off a
plastered floor and alighted on the terrace of the Great Shrine.
- [Note 29: Four assemblies (parisá) Buddhist monks, nuns, laymen, and laywomen.]
96. And this was what happened to the daughter of a clan in the village of
Vattakálaka near the Girikandaka Monastery when she sprang up into the air
owing to strong uplifting happiness with the Enlightened One as object.
As her
parents were about to go to the monastery in the evening, it seems, in order to
hear the Dhamma [144], they told her:
“My dear, you are expecting a child; you
cannot go out at an unsuitable time. We shall hear the Dhamma [the Buddha's Teachings] and gain merit
for you.” So they went out. And though she wanted to go, too, she could not very well
object to what they said. She stepped out of the house onto a balcony and stood
looking at the Ákásacetiya Shrine at Girikandaka lit by the moon.
She saw the
offering of lamps at the shrine and the four communities [assemblies] as they circumambulated
it to the right after making their offerings of flowers and perfumes. And she
heard the sound of the massed recital by the Community of Monastics. Then she
thought:
“How lucky they are to be able to go to the monastery and wander round
such a shrine terrace and listen to such sweet preaching of Dhamma!”
Seeing the
shrine as a mound of pearls and arousing uplifting happiness, she sprang up into
the air, and before her parents arrived she came down from the air into the shrine
terrace, where she paid homage and stood listening to the Dhamma.
97. When her parents arrived, they asked her: “What road did you come by, my dear?”
She answered, “I came through the air, not by the road.”
And when they told her, “My
dear, those whose cankers are destroyed [the enlightened] come through the air, but how did you
come?”
She replied, “As I was standing looking at the shrine in the moonlight a
strong sense of happiness arose in me with the Enlightened One as its object.
Then I knew no more whether I was standing or sitting, but only that I was
springing up into the air with the [mental] sign that I had grasped [apprehended], and I came to rest on
this shrine terrace.”
So uplifting happiness can be powerful enough to levitate the body and make it
spring up into the air.
98. But when pervading (rapturous) happiness arises, the whole body is
completely pervaded [like soap powder suffused with water], like a filled bladder, like a rock cavern invaded by a huge
inundation.
99. Now this fivefold happiness, when conceived and matured, perfects the twofold
tranquility, that is, bodily and mental tranquility. When tranquility is conceived
and matured, it perfects the twofold bliss, that is, bodily and mental bliss. When bliss
is conceived and matured, it perfects the threefold concentration, that is,
- momentary concentration [khanika samādhi],
- access [neighborhood] concentration, and
- absorption concentration [full jhana].
CHAPTER IV
The Earth Kasina
100. But as to the other word: pleasing (sukhana) is bliss (sukha). Or alternatively:
it thoroughly... More: Path of Purification (Visuddhimagga)
- Dhr. Seven, Amber Larson, Pat Macpherson (eds.), The Path of Purification edit
Thursday, July 17, 2025
It's Magic, This World (Pasadena Library)
EXHIBIT: It's Magic, This World.
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| The Eaton Fire hit three foothill cities |
Art, Nature, and Sustainability is inspired by Southern California's landscapes. Katie Savoy finds magic painting Nature's hidden details, from flowers to mountain views. The art, including abstract explorations of texture and fluidity, is a constant journey of growth and therapy.
She's committed to sustainability, sourcing all materials secondhand and repurposing every piece. Her hope is to share this peace and calm with Los Angeles.
More info
- CALENDAR: Pasadena Public Library
- EXHIBIT: It's Magic, This World. Art, Nature, and Sustainability by Katie Savoy, through Sunday, August 31, 2025 - Pasadena Public Library
Stronger Together: A Collaborative Puzzle Mural
Individual pieces will become part of a larger mural that will be unveiled during our End of Summer Bash on Saturday, August 2nd at Jefferson Branch Library.
Designs can be about anything related to the library – a favorite book or favorite book character, or something that makes one think of the Pasadena community.]
How to Join:
Pick up a puzzle piece at any Pasadena Public Library location starting Saturday, June 14th. Return decorated puzzle piece by Saturday, July 26th to be added to the mural.
Questions? Ask Marie Plug at mplug@cityofpasadena.net. We can’t wait to see what contributors create. Let’s make something awesome together!
Library Location Allendale Branch Library, Hastings Branch Library, Hill Avenue Branch Library, Jefferson Branch Library, La Pintoresca Branch Library, Lamanda Park Branch Library, Linda Vista Branch Library, San Rafael Branch Library, Santa Catalina Branch Library, Villa Parke Community Center Branch Library
Audience Adults, Adults 50+, Children, Emerging Adults (18-24), Family (0-12), Infants and/or Toddlers, Preschool, Tweens
Event Type Arts & Culture, Celebrations, Community & Civic Affairs, Exhibits, Summer Reading.
Monday, July 7, 2025
Happy World Chocolate Day (7/7)
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| I must be a hybrid space alien-terrestrial human Earthling because I love sweet cacao paste. |
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| I'm a substitute love drug, so go easy. |
- Different types of chocolate and how to use them (so long as we do not get carried away and clingy)
- Mindfulness of Eating is one way to establish a healthy relationship with food
- American Dharma Teacher Ruth Denison's Dharma Talks from Dharma Seed and Dhammadena
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| Chocolate in its rawest form: fruit |
We at NT confess, this national day is not just another day we circle on our calendar. We also add this one to our to-do list for today so we don’t miss out. We know we really don’t need a special day on the calendar to indulge in one of our favorite guilty pleasures.
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| Mexico invented chocolate (Aztec Codex) |
Today, we are indulging unashamedly because chocolate [Theobroma cacao fruit seeds or nibs] and almonds are incredibly satisfying. This makes us wonder if the reason we crave chocolate with almonds and find the combination so satisfying is because our bodies know what is good for us [like the "gods" or theo knew, presumably because they were advanced alien life forms looking for high antioxidant foods].
[Dark] Chocolate and almonds both are separately documented to have heart health benefits. More
- MSN.com, July 7, 2025; National Today, July 8, 2025; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly
Monday, May 26, 2025
World's largest Buddhist university town
Explore world’s largest hidden monastic town to get a glimpse of Tibetan monastic life
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| Sichuan's Giant Leshan Buddha |
Few may have heard of it — as it’s not easy to get to — but once it is seen, viewers will understand why it’s so special.
Imagine a valley completely covered with thousands of tiny red cabins, all packed tightly together on the hillsides. These are the homes of Tibetan monks (lama) and nuns (ani) who come here from all over the Tibetan Plateau to study and practice Vajrayana Buddhism.
NALANDA was a renowned Buddhist university or "great monastery" (maha vihara) in ancient and medieval Magadha (modern Bihar), eastern India, widely considered among the greatest centers of learning in the ancient world and often referred to as "the world's first residential university" [9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14], like Timbuktu in Africa and much older than Oxford, but destroyed by Muslim marauders. It was located near the city of Rajagriha (Rajgir), roughly 90 kms (56 miles) southeast of Pataliputra (Patna), operating for almost a thousand years from 427 CE until around 1400 CE [15][16] and playing a vital role in promoting the patronage of arts, culture, and academics. More
The ruins of Nalanda Buddhist University
This video is a look around Larung Gar, the heart of Seda (Sertar or Serthar) — the massive Buddhist academy that has been quietly growing since the 1980s.
SERTAR (Tibetan གསེར་ཐར་རྫོང།, Chinese 色达县) is a county in the northwest of Sichuan province, China, bordering Qinghai province to the north. It is one of the 18 counties under the administration of the Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, covering 9,340 square kms (3,606 square miles). Sêrtar means "Golden Freedom" [Golden Horse?] in Tibetan. It lies in the southeast of the Tibetan Plateau in the historical region of Kham. The vast majority of the population is Tibetan, followed by Han Chinese. Sêrtar comprises 17 towns and 66 villages and is the home of:%20largest,%20china,%20vajrayana,%20institute.jpg)
From here, we will save the world by magic - *LARUNG GAR - Larung Gar Buddhist Institute, the largest Tibetan Buddhist institute in the world, formally named the Serta Larung Five Sciences Buddhist Academy. The institute was founded by Lama Jigme Phuntsok in 1980, beginning with just a few monks. It now houses tens of thousands of monks and pilgrims from around the world [2], which constitute the vast majority of the Sêrtar population. Most monks spend 6 to 13 years completing their training. The institute, divided into two main segments and spread over just a few square kms, is located in a valley about 15 kms from the town of Sêrtar. A permit is occasionally required for non-Chinese nationals to enter the institute. Sêrtar is remotely located and requires more than half a day's driving if travelling from Chengdu via Maerkang. It is also possible to travel from Xining, the capital of Qinghai. Sêrtar is at an altitude of 4,100 meters (13,500 feet above sea level), so temperatures range between a maximum of 30 °C (86 °F) in summer and a minimum of −30 °C (−22 °F) in winter. More
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It is a place of devotion, discipline, and deep spiritual life, hidden away from the outside world.
Let’s go through the narrow paths between the red homes to see what daily life looks like here and try to get a sense of what it feels like to be in such a peaceful spiritual environment.
We’ll visit the main prayer halls, catch a glimpse of the study sessions, and have a chance to see some of the unique local traditions.
For those interested in Tibetan culture, Himalayan Vajrayana (Tantrayana, Mantrayana, Esoteric Bon-infused) Buddhism, or those who just love discovering places most travelers never get to see, this is it. This is going to be something very special.
Let’s explore Seda.
Questions on requirements for a tour of Tibet, please never hesitate to contact Jamyang Tour:
- Email jamyangtour@gmail.com
- Wechat ID: Jamyang-1234
- Website: tibettravel.org
- Facebook: tibetvista
- Jamyang, Tibet Travel ( Tibet Vista ), May 23, 2025; Amber Larson, CC Liu, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Thursday, April 24, 2025
Terrifying Amusement Parks (video)
Early amusement parks were terrifying
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| Tested on live subjects. Mostly harmless. |
- SOURCES: pastebin.com/revdKWN0
- Historidame, April 18, 2025; CC Liu, Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation) (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Friday, April 4, 2025
Let go. It's better. But HOW?
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| Punk Gwen: You're letting go of our clingy relationship? But what will you ever do without me? |
Our life is easier when we let go and let the Universe take control
In this video, discover the power of trusting the Universe, releasing control, and letting life naturally unfold [in accordance with the results of our past deeds, our karma]. Letting go isn't weakness — it's wisdom. Watch until the end to understand exactly how to allow the Universe to work for us.
🕒 TIMESTAMPS
- 0:00 - The secret of effortless living
- 2:14 - Why letting go is powerful (not passive)
- 4:35 - How resistance blocks our happiness
- 7:20 - Trusting the Universe (real-life examples)
- 10:10 - Signs the Universe is guiding us
- 12:45 - Breaking the [illusion of] control habit
- 15:30 - Our new way of living begins here
- 17:20 - Final thoughts and the next step
Letting go is all well and good but HOW?
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| Mindfulness means dispassionate observation for clarity rather than involvement, bias, fear. |
It is good to let go, and we may all know it on some level. But how to do it, that is the question. The Buddha advocated the supreme importance of renunciation (nekkhamma), internal letting go. We do not all need to become monastics, hermits, or recluses, but we all need to unclutch, get a little distance and perspective, and stop being so clingy. Easier said than done. How to do?
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| Vipassana involves systematic mindfulness |
Real mindfulness is only possible with calm and serenity, as happens as the natural result of the meditative absorptions. When we can pay that much mindful attention, things reveal themselves. They are nothing to cling to, nothing to be attached to. We can "let go" all we want with our brains/minds, but that will never do. The heart has to let go. When we see things as they really are, there is no need to make an effort to let go. The letting go happens naturally. "Clear seeing" is called vipassana in Buddhism, usually translated as "insight meditation" (satipatthana). It is a systematic practice of emerging from the absorption, temporarily purified, and attending to four things one after the other: body, feelings, mind, and mind-objects. They++ are all explained in the Maha Satipatthana Sutta or the "Fourfold Setting Up of Mindfulness Discourse."
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| 1st step: mindfulness of body: in-and-out breathing |
- Discourse on in-and-out breathing: Ānāpānasati Sutta
- Solace Fox, March 9, 2025; Dhr. Seven, Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Wisdom Quarterly
Monday, March 3, 2025
Control reality? Get what you want?
🕒 TIMESTAMPS
- 00:00 - The illusion of reality
- 02:15 - How our mind shapes everything
- 05:42 - What happens when we look closer?
- 09:10 - The secret behind perception
- 12:35 - Is everything we see just a social construct?
- 15:20 - Unlocking the simplicity of it all
- 17:45 - Final thoughts
Why do we not get what we want? It is because wanting has no resolution. With wanting arises not having. The solution, then, is not wanting. But how can we not want? (And isn't not-wanting a kind of wanting?) The way to not want is simple: LOOK long enough to see things as they really are. This leads to revulsion, and the mind/heart lets go (renunciation or "inner letting go").
Of course. we don't do this because sensual pleasures are our only respite, our only chance at any kind of "escape" from dukkha (disappointment, unsatisfactoriness, the woe of never getting what we really want). What do we really want? Fulfillment, which is not available through endless wandering on life after life through samsara, chasing satisfaction first here then there and anywhere we imagine it might be hiding.
Even without wishing, if we calmed-and-intensified (which is what happens on the path of purification by stillness and insight or shamatha and vipassana) by the mind through the meditative absorptions and learned to look at four things (body, feelings, mind, and mind-objects), the heart/mind would let go. That is the ultimate solution. That is what the Buddha advocated as actual escape. One will not hear this terse explanation from the AI generator or Tan Geoff, but the answer is implicit amidst the misleading text and talk.
Not getting what you want? The Buddha’s solution
These writings, though read by Ven. Thanissaro himself on his website and made freely available at WatMetta.org, are fed to an AI voice that mispronounces Pali terms and names. (This particular talk is about Ajaan Fuang Jotiko). The reading sounds confident but translates Pali terms in an extreme and idiosyncratic way. Instead of being of benefit, they are sure to mislead.
Then to give a pretense of depth, AI is used to generate and add unrelated images. Just to get views and seem important? They sound smarmy for a reason: that is Tan Geoff's personality. Revolting to some (like us), soothing to others.
These opinions are offered free at accesstoinsight.org and Tan Geoff's dhammatalks.org. Sadly, AI or "Ego" has little understanding, so every summary of a lifted talk is misleading. Why do we often fail to get what we want? No reason is given. This video talks about connection between suffering and conviction. This video is a rip off of this talk:
The Buddha teaches that the pain of not getting what we want can spur us to put an end to the vicious circle of "wanting, not getting, pain, wanting more." Unfulfilled desires are therefore not only negative — they can spark a determination to follow a path that leads to liberation from suffering.
Or we could just keep wanting and wanting and never finding fulfillment in all the ordinary things we wished for (because the sensual world told us we'd be happy through sensuality). This is why millionaires take drugs and are miserable. They have come to know that getting what one wants does not work to end the desperate craving that keeps us working like slaves to get them. Word to the wise: let go. Or keep going, and in that Zen spirit of which Alan Watts speaks, "a fool who persists in his folly will become wise."
- "If a fool persists in his folly, he becomes wise" - What does that mean? : r/NoStupidQuestions
- The Fool Who Persists in His Folly Will Become Wise | by Adam Aushaf | Mind Cafe | Medium
- One thing this might mean, as a teacher who encourages students in more and more austerities and a hard path that builds their egos, is that by doing the impossible (foolishness), one will realize this is not the way to liberation (a wise realization). So what is? The Middle Way that avoids extremes
Monday, February 17, 2025
Glitch in Matrix: Upside down plane crash
Clearly the "real" world is not real, not flawless and flowing but glitching and sharing features with tapes, loops, reels, video, audio, warped and resetting like a computer program, a simulation of a real thing or dimension. When it's caught on film for all to see, able to be reviewed, then who can doubt it? Sure, there's chance, coincidence, eerie confluence, but that does not explain all of these glitches.
- CRJ 900 carrying 80 passengers crashed at Toronto's Lester B Pearson Airport. About 17 were injured, but there were no fatalities. The commercial plane somehow ended up on its back, missing a wing, which leads us to ask three things: Why? How? And where's Pete Buttigieg? Oh, wait, new Pres. Trump made someone else secretary of transportation, after which these transport anomalies started.
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Glitches in the Matrix (complete edition)
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Tuesday, February 4, 2025
Where is the Western Pure Land?
Self-power versus other-power
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| Amitabha: Infinite Light (Alamy) |
"Amida Manifesting in the Dharma-body of Expedient Means," Japanese painting, at The Met.
"Self-power" (Chinese zìlì 自力, Japanese jiriki) and "other-power" (Chinese tālì 他力, Japanese tariki) are key terms used to explain and define Pure Land practice in East Asian Buddhism [179].
- Main article: Other-power
It was Shandao who first argued that Amitabha's power helped take people to the Pure Land after death (previous authors having held that Amitabha created the Pure Land and it was up to an individual's own effort to make it there).
This other-power relationship was compared to how a lowly man who is accompanied by a king can enter previously inaccessible places [180].
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| Did Christianity just steal this idea of tariki in whole, or is it a natural devolution of religion? |
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| Whose power, my own or a magic Cosmic Buddha? |
Thus, in Chinese Pure Land, rebirth in the Pure Land arises from a cooperation of the practitioner and the Buddha [179].
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| 方便法身尊影: Amida's Dharma- body of Expedient Means (The Met) |
According to this view, the more that one practiced nianfo, the stronger and more enduring this bond with Amitabha became [182].
However, Chinese Pure Land masters also argued that one certainly cannot rely on self-power alone, which they denigrated as a futile effort [183]. More
Saturday, February 1, 2025
How to manifest a lot more LUCK
Liquid Luck: The Good Fortune Handbook
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Manifestation expert Dr. Gallenberger has distilled decades of wisdom about creating dreams into a quick and effective meditation called "Liquid Luck."
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| Doctor, I want to meet lucky men to reward them. Hun, men don't need gold diggers just supporters. |
With Liquid Luck's secrets released on CD, delightful tales came flooding in describing instant success. People reported receiving
- money from unexpected sources,
- winning lotto and raffle tickets,
- selling houses in an hour,
- having businesses take off,
- solving intractable problems easily,
- receiving brilliant ideas for inventions,
- and many more wonderful stories of manifestation.
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| May money fall from the sky this year. |
He covers why happiness, gratitude, compassion, praise, love, and feeling abundant are essential and how these qualities can be increased in practical ways.
Dr. Gallenberger reveals how to transcend the limiting beliefs and emotions that usually keep us confined to old patterns.
Monroe Institute Hemi-Sync binaural beats are the secret to overcoming limitations for enhanced flow with a great visualization: "The Abundance Waterfall" for deep appreciation and relaxation.
His knowledge and the stories tell us that we can indeed be miracle workers in our own lives.
Liquid Luck is an essential handbook that will be consulted repeatedly, offering a clear path toward our dreams lit with humor and heart.
- Joe Gallenberger, ©2014 Rainbow Ridge Books (P)2020 Beacon Audiobooks (amazon.com); YouAreCreators2; CC Liu, Dhr. Seven, Sheldon S. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
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