Peace Walk in freezing cold: Global warming?

Thousands wait hours to see Buddhist monks' Peace Walk thru Petersburg: 'You can see the love'

(Walk for Peace) Ajahn never sleeps lying down in as a dhutanga practice

(HopeTrails) Stray dog was never adopted but on 106-day Walk for Peace

Freezing snowstorms could be climate chaos.

Is "global warming" real? Who dares to say that it is not? The mainstream media shoves that message down our throat whether we like it or not. University researchers are enticed to find those results and punished when they find anything else. And no one seems to be counting the artificial manipulation of the weather with chemtrails, H.A.A.R.P., and other secret means. Humans are warming it, but it is a concerted effort to warm it and say in an alarmist way that that warming is galloping out of control now. We ignore our eyes. We ourselves do not review the data. When the meteorologist who founded the Weather Channel (weather.com) looked at the data, he did NOT find much of a rise. And he asked his colleagues about. There has been about a 1 degree rise in our lifetimes. Where are all the other headlines coming from and why? They will make us believe and demand that they intervene. We will not only give up our rights, we will demand they be taken away. There may be a mini ice age on the way, but we'll never hear about that above the din of alarmism and artificial youth movements kickstarted to promote an agenda. Natural global warming being brought on by consumer activity? Unlikely. Being brought on by corporate officials and their masters? Obviously.

(AmeriScope) Love travels quietly across the country and into Virginia

(WNEP) Update: Record cold in Florida, nearly 20 inches of snow in North Carolina

Stray dog karma

(Kindness Nest) Aloka – The Peace Dog: Stray Who Walked for Peace and Changed Hearts

Peace Walk: Don't cry at funerals. Practice

(W4P Moments) WOW: It is useless, so don't come to see us. Lead Theravada Buddhist monk (Abbot Ven. Pannakara) warns crowd to stop visiting just to look without practicing peace

• (Walk for Peace 2026) I got the lover I wanted and still suffered (double and triple the amount): clinging (upadana) then heartbreak (duḥkha)

(Walk for Peace 2026) Don't cry at funerals; do this instead to help them pass and cross over

• Practice: Setting up Four Foundations of Mindfulness
• What is sati? The Four Establishments of Mindfulness
• Meet my "lover" and show me yours: Many U.S. lovers

(Walk for Peace 2026) I'm a Christian, you're a Buddhist: What he (Ven. Pannakara) said next made us cry

Why does bad happen to the good?

(Walk for Peace) Why do bad things happen to good people?

(Ed and Pete) It's Day 93 of the Buddhist monks and Aloka the dog's 120-day Walk for Peace

• Theravada Buddhist response to death and dying: Transfer of merit to the "grateful dead," which gives them skillful karma to benefit them in the afterlife
• Buddhist monks and dog Aloka Walk for Peace (2025-2026)

(US Current Affairs) Walk for Peace with kindness, best regards from road

(Walk for Peace) A monk's journey: from ordinary life to Walk for Peace

• Walk for Peace | Faith, Blind Faith, or Confidence? What do you believe… and how do you know it’s true?
• (Bon-influenced) Vajrayana Buddhist response to dying: The Tibetan Book of the Dead or Bardo Thodol (to help them liberate in the liminal state)
• Give Now to Save the Wild: stop a road in Alaska
• VIDEO: Are Christian folks triggered by the monks?
• VIDEO: COLD: Walk for Peace (Buddha's Wisdom)

The Tibetan Book of the Dead

(History) The Tibetan Book of the Dead: The Book of Liberation [in the Bardo]

(WFMY News 2) Buddhist monks lead Pali meditation chant in High Point

Will you practice wise reflection?

COLD: Walk for Peace (Buddha's Wisdom)

(WRAL) Walk for Peace in NC: Raliegh residents brave cold to see monks

Why millions crying watching Aloka and 19 monks | Truth moves America

As protests [against Dictator Trump] turn violent, Buddhist monks walk together for peace

120 DAYS. 2,300 MILES. ONE MEAL. BUDDHIST MONKS' WALK FOR PEACE changing AMERICA

(Buddha's Wisdom) Jan. 22, 2026: 🙏 THEY WALK PEACEFULLY WHILE THE WORLD KEEPS FIGHTING.

In October 2025, twenty Theravada Buddhist monks began the Walk for Peace, a 120-day barefoot pilgrimage from Fort Worth, Texas to Washington, DC.

Buddhist 'Walk for Peace': Doctor of anthropology shares insights

Jesus was Buddhist monk

Walking in noble silence, carrying nothing but robes and alms bowls, depending entirely on strangers for food and shelter, these Theravāda monks (bhikkhus) are practicing a 2,600-year-old tradition on modern American highways.

As of January 2026, they're passing through the Carolinas, approaching their destination at the U.S. Capitol on February 13th, 2026.

This is not a protest, not a march, but an ancient Buddhist practice brought into the modern world.

DISCOVER

• Why Buddhist monks are walking 2,300 miles in silence while the world keeps fighting
• How this pilgrimage traces back to the historical Buddha’s original way of life
• The ancient sane ascetic practices (dhutaṅgas) these monks follow (one meal per day, sleeping outdoors, walking barefoot)
• How Aloka, their rescue dog, became a viral symbol when he needed surgery in Charlotte, NC
• The deeper meaning of dāna (sharing, non-clinging, letting go, generosity) in a divided society
• Why this walk matters now as U.S. war, political tension, and global unrest escalate

TIMESTAMPS

• 00:00 Two Symbols of Peace
• 01:49 The Monastery That Moves
• 08:37 The Teacher Who Never Stopped Moving
• 12:23 Walking Through Fire
• 16:13 Two Symbols
• 19:30 What Peace Becomes

FOLLOW, SUPPORT WALK FOR PEACE 🌍

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• Live tracker: walkforpeace.short.gy/live-map
• Updates and info (official blog): dhammacetiya.com

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Solo female travel: Russia, India, Sri Lanka

(Eli from Russia) How journey on Russia's Trans-Siberian Railway (USSR) changed my life

• Original "Israel" in Russia: Jewish Autonomous Oblast
• USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics): Soviet Union

• (Isha Branderhorst) What I learned from living in holy Rishikesh, India, for yoga and meditation practice in the Himalayas as a solo female traveler.

Is Sri Lanka the new Thailand?

• Isha Branderhorst; Eli from Russia; Amber Larson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Update: Buddhist monks' Walk for Peace

(AmeriScope) A silent walk for peace made America stop and watch

(AP Archive) Buddhist monks+dog captivate Americans in walk for peace

(US Current Affairs) Why America is watching this 2,300 mile Walk for Peace: Texas to DC

(US Current Affairs) This silent Walk for Peace and rescue dog Aloka lead America to pause

(AmeriScope) Buddhist monks: nothing to sell, nothing to win, just a walk across America

• EXTENDED COVERAGE: Buddhist monks' Peace Walk across the USA: Meet Aloka the Peace Dog
• Wisdom Quarterly: American Buddhist Journal: Buddhist monks' Peace Walk across USA

Monks' Peace Walk: Meet Aloka the Dog

(WFMY News TV) Where will the monks be on MLK Day, Jan. 19, 2026? In Greensboro, NC

(WFMY News 2) Day 86: Ven. Pannakara full speech in High Point, NC

(FOX 8 WGHP) Buddhist monks' Walk for Peace with Aloka the Dog crosses into High Point

(WFMY News 2) Monks walk peacefully to Greensboro on East MLK Jr. Dr. at I-7 on MLK Day

(AmeriScope) 2,300-mile Peace Walk through state capitals across USA is touching a nerve

Aloka's 2,300-mile route goes through ten states and their capitals all the way to DC.

(US Current Affairs) Buddhist monks walk 2,300 miles for peace - America stops to watch

(WACH FOX) Buddhist monks reach South Carolina on their U.S. "Walk for Peace" to DC

(WBTV News - Charlotte) Hundreds of Americans travel to Pineville to see Buddhist monks on their Walk for Peace

• (Snehashis Priya Barua) Aloka find his way back: a heartwarming reunion

(WBTV News - Charlotte) Buddhist monks' Peace Walk through the Carolinas: Sitting down with the Venerable Bhikkhu Pannakara

This story is easy to do because the men at Wisdom Quarterly are dog people, who love dogs and fish and only recently warmed up to the wonder of cats. Who would have guessed that a dog can be a monk's best friend?

I need good human companions on this path.

Aloka is a very special male Buddhist rescue dog of Indian origin, who has become widely known as "Aloka the Peace Dog" in 2025–2026. Why? It is due to [the karma of] accompanying a group of Theravada Buddhist monks (bhikkhus) from Chùa Hương Đạo Temple on a Walk for Peace across the United States [1].

• Animals in Buddhism
• Karma (the deeds we do) in Buddhism
• Buddhist concept of friendship
• Photo: Sam Dixon | Facebook

(WCNC) 'Life-changing speech': Chris Mulcahy shares experience visiting

monks on 'Walk for Peace' (mindfulness versus our 'lover' smartphones)

(WBTV News - Charlotte) Buddhists walking thousands of miles for peace

(WSPA 7 News) Day 73: Monks cross from Georgia into South Carolina

It is believed to be a Pariah dog originally living as a stray when it encountered a group of Vietnamese American Buddhist monks in 2022 [2], participating in a peace pilgrimage across India.

Excellent medical care for best friend Aloka

According to the monks, Aloka began following them during their walk and despite facing hardships – including being hit by a car and falling seriously ill during the journey – it (he) repeatedly rejoined the peace procession.

• PHOTOS: Aloka the Peace Dog recovering from surgery after being injured during peace walk with Buddhist monks
• Aloka the dog had leg surgery. Will he [be able to] rejoin [the Buddhist] monks on Walk for Peace?

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The monks then adopted the dog, named it Aloka (guiding light), and brought it back to the United States [3, 4].

Can we make peace? (insightla.org)

Aloka's prominence grew when it joined a larger American initiative called the "Walk for Peace." This event began on October 26, 2025, when a group of approximately 19 Theravada Buddhist monks from the Huong Dao Vipassana Bhavana Center in Fort Worth, Texas, set out on a roughly 2,300‑mile walk from Texas to Washington, D.C.

You love dogs? - I love ALL living beings.

Aloka has walked alongside the Buddhist monks, sometimes on foot and other times riding in a support vehicle when needed [3].

It has a distinctive heart‑shaped marking on its forehead and has amassed a large following on social media platforms [5]. More

Map of the monks' spiritual journey (yatra) from Fort Worth, TX, to Washington, DC

• Aloka the Peace Dog joins Buddhist monks' Walk of Peace, becomes viral star (People magazine)
• What happened to Aloka the peace dog? What we know following surgery
• Aloka the Peace Dog recovering from surgery after being injured during a peace walk with Buddhist monks

• (The Week) Meet Aloka, the dog who is accompanying 19 American Theravada Buddhist monks from Southeast Asia on a 37,000 km peace walk to spread peace and kindness throughout the USA
• As a literal mark of skillful karma performed in the past, one is reborn (due to some heavier unskillful karma) in the Animal Realm below the human plane of existence but with beauty and marks on the fur, skin, or feathers. Behold the perfectly formed white heart on Aloka's third eye/forehead.
• Aloka literally means "light" and is sometimes used as a synonym for "white"
• Aloka the Peace Dog recovering from surgery after being injured during a peace walk with Buddhist monks
• Huong Dao Vipassana Bhavana Center | Fort Worth TX | Facebook
• Huong Dao Temple (92 photos) 4713 E Rosedale St, Fort Worth
• Instagram
• The Week (India); Seth Auberon, Dhr. Seven, Pat Macpherson, Pfc. Sandoval, Sheldon S. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly Wiki edit

Monks' Buddhist Peace Walk amputation

(Fox 26 Houston)

• Buddhist monks' Peace Walk across USA to DC

Trekking: Hiking to Padma's Valley

Hiking into Padmasambhava's hidden valley: A pilgrimage with Geshe Tenzin Zopa

Padmasambhava looms large in the Himalayas

(Enter The Mandala) In April 2025, we visited the construction of the World Peace Stupa in Tsum Valley, Nepal. This was the first time we made the journey by foot rather than by helicopter. We were led by Tibetan Buddhist monk Geshe Tenzin Zopa, retracing the route he had walked many times as a child. We hope that through this video viewers can join us in experiencing the blessings of this sacred land. Music at end is "Snow Flower" by Tenzin Choegyal.

• Peace Pagoda(s)

Trek, hike, climb, and focus on the breath.

The Tsum Valley Trek goes to the remotest Himalayan region in Nepal which was once restricted as visitors were kept out. The Tsum Valley lies at the far northern side of Gorkha District in Nepal.

The valley gets its fame from being a sacred place blessed by Padmasambhava (Guru Rimpoche), misunderstood to be one of the "incarnations" of Lord Buddha [as if a buddha were ever reborn, having by definition already overcome ALL rebirth, suffering, and cyclical "becoming" in samsara, more likely a bodhisattva striving to become Maitreya Buddha].

Padmasambhava (Hemis Gompa)

Buddhists revere this place as sacred, and most living in this region follow the Tibetan form of Vajrayana Buddhism infused with remnants of Bon shamanism. The valley lies in the lap of Ganesh Himal and offers the best view of surrounding areas with a good contrast to glistening peaks in the background. Other peaks like Singi Himal and Himal Chuli may also be observed up close during this trek.

• Tsum Valley Trek | Aiming Adventure (Pvt.) Ltd.
• Enter The Mandala, July 16, 2025; CC Liu, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Cleaning the Himalayas: Green Odyssey (film)

Amber Larson, Wisdom Quarterly; PadYatraFilm.com; Valerie (FilmIsNow); KPFK.org

A chronicle of a spiritual journey and eco-compassion trek across the Himalayas to a glacial region devastated by global warming. U.N. honoree Gyalwang Drukpa leads the journey to trigger a green revolution. Opens Nov. 11/15, Laemmle's Music Hall 3 in Beverly Hills.

"Pad Yatra: A Green Odyssey" (trailer) directed by Wendy J.N. Lee, produced by Michelle Yeoh, narrated by Daryl Hannah. Premeires at the Awareness Fest 2013, Los Angeles
 
Pad Yatra: A Green Odyssey takes an environmentally-friendly adventure with 700 people trekking across the Himalayas with a call to save the planet's "third pole," a glacial region devastated by the climate chaos associated with global warming. Battling the most treacherous terrain on the planet, these trekkers spread their message of ecological compassion through a human's most basic means -- by walking on foot, cleaning from village to village, showing by example. Surviving harrowing injuries, illness, and starvation, they emerge with nearly half a ton of plastic litter strapped to their backs, triggering a historic "green revolution" across the rooftop of the world in Buddhist India's Himalayas.

• Clean up of dead bodies and rubbish on Mt. Everest

Sex Sutra puts iPad in "awkward position"

Cult of Mac.com [with commentary and images by Wisdom Quarterly]

A freak but moist flower
tangles my lungs, knits into my heart,
crawls up my throat
and sucks like octopi on my tongue.
- "The Love Plant," US poet Anne Sexton

A small publishing company called Peter Pauper Press announced an iPad version of a print book called The Little Black Book of Kama Sutra. [Kama refers to "sexual pleasure," not karma, and a sutra is any discourse on a single "thread" or theme].

• Lust, Lust, and even more on Lust

The book is part of a continuing series of “Little Black Books” and “Little Pink Books.” Other titles include The Little Black Book of [how to break the fifth Buddhist precept] and The Little Pink Book of Etiquette.

The Kama Sutra book is very much in line with a growing trend of publishing books as interactive apps instead of as e-books. The only trouble is that the book is sexual in nature [there goes the third precept*] and illustrated with photographs [of alluring positions that will make one wish one had practiced more yoga].

The publisher isn’t even going to try to get it past Apple censors [why is Apple, Inc. going the way of Google? It's because prescribed morality is good for business. And what's good for business will be shoved down consumers' throats]. But instead [the publisher] intends to distribute independently rather than through the iTunes App Store.

The Kama Sutra puts Apple in an awkward position.

The content is really an Indian religious text [on sex and sensual enjoyment because India did not always have the hang ups about sex we and it now do] that predates the fall of the Roman Empire.

For Apple to simply ban such works (note that Apple has not banned, and reportedly will not be given the opportunity to ban, the book) is to risk a thriving black market in content that many may prefer to Apple’s own store or worse, a reputation for having an inferior set of content maps to Google’s Android platform. More>>

[It all comes back to business and labeling users "consumers" until we believe that's all we are and are meant to be. We'll we've got a message for Apple: Love the computers. But, hey Jobs, relax on taking over the world by dominating every infotainment platform that arises, because the tentacles of two rapacious Bill Gates octopusses (octopi) are going to strangle us all. But that's what American-style Capitalism is all about. So on second thought, yeah, ban books, limit iPhones to AT&T, and conquer the e-book experience. It's the "American" way.]

• iPhone's emissions worsen TMJ and teeth grinding
• Try Holistic Dentistry (because your dentist won't)
• *Diary of a Bad Buddhist: "Bad" Buddhist vs. Third Precept
• Bad Buddhist vs. 1st Precept, vs. 2nd Precept, vs. Breathing