Zen and the power to disappear (enso)

(DHARMA) The power of disappearing: What a Zen circle (enso) teaches us about silence

Eaton Fire film: 'All the Walls Came Down'

• Laemmle.com; AP.org; LARCRO.org; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

Surf's up in Southern California (WSL)

🔴 WATCH LIVE: Lexus US Open of Surfing presented by Pacifico 2025: Longboard Day 2
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The Lexus US Open of Surfing presented by Pacifico is where the next generation earns their spotlight and where future World Champions are forged. Every heat in Huntington counts. With thousands packing the sand and more looking on from the iconic Huntington Beach pier, it's one of the most electric vibes on the Challenger Series and World Longboard Tours, and the energy jumps off the screen. Watching live = the next best thing to being there.

Watch all the latest surfing action of the world's best surfers in the world's best waves. Heats on demand, event highlights and exclusive interviews, right here on the WSL's YouTube channel. For more visit: worldsurfleague.com

Is mindfulness just awareness?

7 Simple Mindfulness Exercises & Techniques for Daily Relaxation (Discover Happy Habits)

The difference between Awareness and Mindfulness with Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

Why bother? Who needs mindfulness?

(Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche) Find yourself wondering about the differences between awareness and mindfulness? In this teaching, Mingyur Rinpoche explains this question from the traditional Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhist perspective by exploring the difference between object-oriented and subject-oriented forms of meditation as ways to connect with [bare] awareness.

Meditate by Letting the Mind Be as It Is – Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

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  Mindfulness in Plain English

  [EDITOR'S NOTE: Mindfulness is wakeful, vigilant, presence of mind in this moment as a watcher rather than as a participant. It is not being sucked in or getting entangled but merely observing, bare awareness, not evaluating, judging, resisting, preferring, averting, but just dispassionately aware, detached but fully awake to what is, whatever it is even as it is constantly changing. Rather than attempting to fix, improve, change, or involve ourselves, we just watch and see what happens as it happens. This, Wisdom Quarterly suggests, is the principal difference between mindfulness and awareness. Mindfulness is "bare awareness," a kind of looking on (watching) that is free of discursive thinking, drifting off, or having distractions pull us away and scatter our attention. It is undivided, keenly interested attention that does not grasp, cling, or prefer but is open to whatever is in this moment, the "eternal now." See: "Mindfulness" defined (Ven. Analayo), Establishing Mindfulness Sutra (podcast), Confronting Racism with Mindfulness, and Youth Sutra, The Buddha's Mindfulness Diet Plan]

#4: Mind stays stationary at point under the nose

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• Transforming the Mind with Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
• Mindfulness in Plain English: 20th Anniversary Edition (Bhante G or Bhante Gunaratana)
• Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, April 21, 2022; Dhr. Seven (ed.), Wisdom Quarterly

Let go. It's better. But HOW?

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

(Solace Fox) Ever notice that when we stop trying to control every detail, life actually becomes easier? Most people resist letting go, but surrendering to the Universe can unlock surprising peace, clarity, synchronicity, and effortless living.

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.

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• 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

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Letting go is all well and good but HOW?

Mindfulness means dispassionate observation for clarity rather than involvement, bias, fear.

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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?

Vipassana involves systematic mindfulness

There is a way: mindfulness. What is mindfulness? It is bare awareness, vigilance, watchfulness of what is really there, without evaluation, without embellishment, without distortion, without making stories or relating to what we are seeing.

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."

1st step: mindfulness of body: in-and-out breathing

So letting go is possible, but it will never happen by itself. The mind/heart in its present condition distorts and perverts everything until things seem permanent, capable of fulfilling/satisfying us, and personal. When we see them for what they really are (impermanent, disappointing, and impersonal), the heart lets go as when a feather fall into a fire and curls bac. The Truth will set us free...if we ever bother to clean the lens of the mind to see things, even for a moment, as they truly are. Otherwise, we're just believing and disbelieving and never really making any progress.

• Discourse on in-and-out breathing: Ānāpānasati Sutta
• Solace Fox, March 9, 2025; Dhr. Seven, Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Wisdom Quarterly

Baseball begins, LA (Buddhist Bhutan)

Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani hits first home run of the season to win big – NBC Los Angeles

America brings us hegemony I mean baseball.

Hegemony means cultural influence. The USA may have too much of it. Buddhists in Bhutan, the last Himalayan Buddhist kingdom, play baseball in front of the giant Buddha Dordenma statue in the capital Thimphu, and MLB couldn't be happier.

Buddhist Bhutan obsessed with Western sports

The Cup (Bhutanese film about Buddhist monks' obsession with football for Western audiences)

The Cup (Bhutanese film)

The Cup (Tibetan ཕོར་པ། or Phörpa) is a Tibetan-language film written and directed by Khyentse Norbu in his feature directorial debut. It's about two young football-crazed Tibetan refugee novice Buddhist monks who desperately try to get a television for their remote Himalayan Buddhist monastery so they can watch the 1998 FIFA World Cup final. Though not nominated, The Cup was Bhutan's first-ever submission for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Film.

In the Buddhist mountains of the world's most remote country, baseball takes hold

Baseball in Thimphu, Bhutan (Major League Baseball/Matthew DeSantis @matthewrdesantis)

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King Pop Warner Bhutanese Little League?

(MLB) High up in the Himalayas between Tibet and [Buddhist] India sits the small Buddhist country [former kingdom] of Bhutan.

Sometimes known as the world's last Shangri-La, this nation of snowy alpine peaks and untouched mountain streams has fewer than 700,000 people who call it home. Yet, what is perhaps the most remote country in the world is on its way to being a baseballing nation, growing from a few dozen kids playing on a concrete slab after school to more than 6,000 children who are fast becoming baseball fanatics despite few having ever seen a Major League game.

• Sports obsession, addiction, gambling? • Buddhist-based healing at Recovery Dharma (JewBu-based recovery)

Bhutan Baseball and Softball Association (X)

"Everything from the friendship I grew with my father to my brothers to everyone in my town growing up, it was all based around baseball," Matthew DeSantis, the co-founder and chairman of the Bhutan Baseball and Softball Association told me during a recent visit to New York.

Why are American so rich and pretty? Maybe

it's our karma (deeds) of giving (dana)

Angelic Shohei Ohtani used to get the US girls

"From a community perspective in Bhutan, it was a way for me to both be involved stronger, and also to give something back that I thought the kids would love and connect over," Matt went on to say.

• Shohei Ohtani dates, marries, reveals he and wife Mamiko Tanaka pregnant

Ohtanis are expecting a baby girl (People)

Soft-spoken and thoughtful, the American was dressed in a warm brown gho -- a robe cloth that is part of the national dress, the traditional Bhutanese garb, on the day we met.

Though his trip to capitalist New York brought him close to where he grew up in nearby Wilton, Connecticut, one got the feeling that Buddhist Bhutan is where he always belonged.

Asian fans celebrate AAPI Dodgers representation thanks to Shohei Ohtani

Paro Taktsang, Tiger's Nest Monastery, Bhutan

Oddly enough, baseball wasn’t how DeSantis first discovered the small Himalayan country, but rather its young leader, Prince Dasho Jigyel Ugyen Wangchuck, whom he met on the school basketball team while attending Choate Rosemary Hall in Wallingford.

(Bhutan is now a parliamentary democracy, but the royal family still holds its titles -- similar to the monarchy in England).

After DeSantis’ first three weeks in Bhutan, where he trekked through the dense and pristine southern rainforest and stayed in roadless villages, he decided to move there for good.

Tibetans reborn white in America

Reborn in America, 1973, after being killed by Chinese in Tibet in 1960.

Tibet was once a Himalayan empire made up of 25% Buddhist monastics:

Rebirth of tulkus (Tibetan monastic incarnations) in America.

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  Fresh to US from Bhutan: DragonHerbs.com

  American Ron Teeguarden married a Bhutanese woman to access pure herbs for his tonic concoctions, which he used to sell from a tea shop in Santa Monica, California: Dragon Herbs
• Bhutan used to be one of the hardest countries in the world to visit, due to severe limits on visas (and a necessary commitment to spend hundreds of US dollars a day when visiting) to keep it pristine and to limit hegemony and decadent outside influences. It's stilly pricey: MyBhutan

Asian American Pacific Islander Dodger fans proud of AAPI representation

Rich Ron married Bhutanese beauty for access

It was while founding the tech company and luxury travel operator MyBhutan, which helped visitors explore the region, that DeSantis met Karma Dorji.

Dorji, now the president of the Bhutan baseball association, "had a strong passion to bring sports to the kids and make it accessible and free."

Shohei Ohtani dating Cal Berkeley's K Dung?

They had no grand design on establishing a baseball association, though: The two simply loved baseball. DeSantis learned the game back in America, while Dorji fell in love while attending the World Children's Baseball Fair in Japan. They wanted to offer it to the children who lived nearby the military barracks in Thimphu. More: mlb.com

Los Angeles environmentalist to protest Dodgers

Dodgers vs. Detroit Tigers opening day game at Dodger Stadium (Sierra Club Angeles | IG)

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Sierra LA World Water Day

The Sierra Club's next protest [against Phillips 66 petroleum polluting corporation and sponsor affiliated with the team] will be at the Dodgers' first home game, today, Thursday, March 27th, 2025, at 3:00 pm.

We meet for the pre-game outside Dodger Stadium on the south-east corner of Stadium Way and Vin Scully Avenue. Recommended parking: Lot 13 south of entrance on Stadium Way. All environmentalists are welcome. Wear Dodgers logos and fan gear if available. More

Protesting the Dodgers at a game

LA demonstrators are at Dodger Stadium to protest against Phillips 66

• Dodgers: End your sponsorship deal with criminally indicted oil giant Phillips 66 NOW! | MoveOn
• Dodgers fans against fossil fuels gains a new champion
• Sierra Club Angeles protest at Dodger Stadium for first home game Thursday, March 27th, 2025 meet pre-game at 3
• California Senate leader urges Dodgers to drop oil and gas advertisers (Los Angeles Times)
• Bhutan's Gross National Happiness over GDP
• Baseball on front of the Buddha : r/Buddhism
• 2025 Los Angeles Dodgers - Opening Day Video; Michael Clair (@michaelsclair), mlb.com, Aug. 3, 2023; Amber Larson, Dhr. Seven, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Mormon Wives/10 Commandments (TV)

Ex-Mormon reacts to The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives

(Alyssa Grenfell) Sept. 12, 2024: Everyone said these women “aren’t that Mormon.” I jumped into the show and realized just how thoroughly Mormonism is dominating these women’s lives. Who was the favorite person on the show? It's the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS) not Mormonism.

• [COMMENT: If Amish Mafia was fun, this show will seem like a blast, peering into the lives of sugar addicts going bonkers by taking prescribed drugs and excitotoxins killing off their neurons.]

Ex-Mormon reacts to standup comics George Carlin's 10 Commandments

(HailHeidi) Aug. 14, 2024: Thanks so much for watching this reaction and hearing me share my thoughts as a recovering Mormon. (Sound like comedian Carlin is a recovering Catholic). This bit made me laugh because it is thought-provoking. Thanks for the recommendation!

• Original video credit: George Carlin - 10 Commandments

Socials: Twitch: hailheidi. Instagram: hailheidigaming. Discord: discord. Twitter: hailheidigaming. TikTok: hailheidi. #comedy #georgecarlin #reaction #funny #exmormon #standup

To watch up next: • Why Are There So Many Mormon Influence...A few resources I mention in the video: *Watch the Secret Lives of Mormon Wives on Hulu: https://shorturl.at/fueYW *Link to all my notes about the show: / reaction-to-111800221 *BOZE vs. the WORLD reaction and recap of original MomTok Drama: • ex-christian curiously watches mormon... *Jordan and McKay reaction and recap of original MomTok Drama: • Mormon Swinging? Ex-Mormons Take You ... *WHO'S WHO of MOMTOK master post: / whos_who_of_momtok_master_post *Mormon church’s response to Hulu show: https://www.deseret.com/faith/2024/2/... *Mormon church’s video about temple ceremony clothing and garments: • “Mormon Underwear” is the Temple Garm... *Survey responses about wearing garments: https://www.lds-women-and-garments.co... *Whitney discusses RSV clip on the show: https://www.tiktok.com/@secretliveson... *Mayci’s video addressing whether or not she is “Mormon”: https://www.tiktok.com/@maycineeley/v... *Taylor Franke Paul arrested article: https://nypost.com/2023/09/06/soft-sw... *My YouTube video about being trained to be a TradWife: • Brainwashed Mormon Mommies? *The many rules of Mormonism: https://www.mormonsspeak.com/2019/09/... Other resources that may interest you: *Why I left the Mormon Church: https://www.mormontruths.com/why-i-le... *My Mormon endowment explained video: ( • Secret Mormon Temple Ceremony Explain... ) *Mormon garments explained video: ( • Mormon Garments Explained ) *Every rule I followed as a Mormon: ( • Every Rule I Followed as a Mormon (Co... ) *My Mormon mission was a waste: ( • Mormon Missions Explained (Why I Regr... ) *Complete story of my Mormon wedding: ( • Mormon Temple Weddings Explained (Sor... ) where to find me - Patreon (ad free & bonus content): https://shorturl.at/8bpnw TikTok: / alyssadgrenfell Instagram: / alyssadgrenfell Blog: https://www.mormontruths.com Email me: alyssadgrenfell@gmail.com support my channel - Venmo: https://venmo.com/u/Alyssa-Grenfell

Livestream: Watch Burning of The Man

Orgy? Dust? Rain? The Burning Man Journal (with the Buddha's Fire Sermon)

How do we get to Burning Man? Driving directions, gas stops on the way to the playa (MSN)

I was just leaving…no trace | Burning Man

Every year, tens of thousands of counterculture “Burners” make the journey to Nevada’s Black Rock Desert for the weeklong Burning Man festival.

But for those who haven't made the trip themselves or haven't heard of the event until now, here’s a quick rundown for what to know about Burning Man.

• For Burners at heart who can’t be on the playa right now, BM is pleased to offer this livestream straight from Burning Man Central until the big fiery closer: LIVE WEBCAST

• But what's it really like? Burning Man 2024 in photos: dust storms, art installations, and the creative community on vibrant display (Yahoo/MSN)
• OFFICIAL BURNING MAN LINKS:
• BURNING MAN PHOTO GALLERY
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• V.E.S.T. (Virtual Event Support Team) 
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• What Is Burning Man?
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"The Man" stands alone in the Black Rock Desert. After watching over Black Rock City during the Burning Man event, pyrotechnicians ignite and burn The Man (Trevor Hughes/USA TODAY 2023).

How to watch: 2024 Burning Man livestream

Hey, maybe this year we should burn "Traylor" (Taylor Swift and Travis Kelcey) in effigy?

I totally want to go. shake it off, get naked, dance to a sick beat, but it's Travis, he's too scared.

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What if Swift attended?

Burning Man began Aug. 24, 2024, but no one has to go there to get a glimpse of the playa ("beach"). A live webcast is broadcasting the annual festival 24 hours a day through the finale on Monday, Sept. 2, 2024.

For most of the time, the camera is pointed at the wooden effigy at the center of Burning Man. The link can be found on Burning Man's website at burningman.org/live-webcast. More:

• Burning Man 2024: Livestream and ticket info, when to watch burning of The Man
• Orgy? The Burning Man Journal (and Fire Sutra)
• The Angry Channel (video); Staff, Reno-Gazette-Journal via msn.com, 8/29/24; Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Jen Bradford, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

The drive home in 14 lanes may take 9 hours

Paris Olympics opening ceremony (live)

LIVE: Opening day for 2024 Olympic Games in France | REUTERS

(Reuters) Started streaming after midnight (Pacific Time) Friday: [Lady Gaga is swimming in the fecal sewer that is the river Seine? That or singing or a mix of the two in light rain as beloved Celine Dion stands by stiffly, looking like G-Joe on the debate stage.]

Lady Gaga goes gay to entertain masses in a kind of Moulin Rouge revue

France aims to wow the world on today with an extravagant Summer Olympics 2024 opening ceremony through the heart of its capital, Paris, which will officially be kicking off a Games fraught with security risks at a time of heightened geopolitical tensions.

(NBC Bay Area) Countdown to 2024 Paris Olympics opening ceremony

(Cover your right ears, Parisians! There could be shrapnel!) Follow Reuters' live coverage from Paris as the 2024 Olympic Games commence (reut.rs/4dijf0U). #Paris2024 #Olympics #ParisOlympics #ParisGames #Paris #France #sports #Live #Reuters #News Reuters