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Back to Bihar, India: Enlightenment Grove

HIDDEN GEM IN BIHAR, INDIA! 🇮🇳 Magical Bodh Gaya

(Let's Meet Abroad) March 31, 2024: Join us in Bodh Gaya (aka Buddha Gaya), a hidden gem in Bihar, India.🌟🇮🇳 We explore the Mahabodhi ("Great Enlightenment") Temple, walk around the Japanese Great Buddha, and enjoy delicious vegetarian and vegan Tibetan food.

• Budh (or bodh) is the root of Buddha ("Enlightened One") and bodhi ("enlightenment, awakening"), and gaya is grove, so this place is Enlightenment Grove or the Place of Awakening.

Bodh Gaya is really worth a visit during any trip to India. We highly recommend hiring an e-rickshaw to get around to all the famous sights. #bihar #india #bodhgaya

First time exploring Bihar: MY FIRST TIME IN BIHAR! 🇮🇳 Exploring...

• 00:00 Bodh Gaya in Bihar, India: Center of the Buddhist World
• 00:35 Marasa Sarovar Premiere, Bodhgaya
• 01:43 Vegetarian Tibet Om Cafe, Bodh Gaya
• 04:45 Mahabodhi Temple, Bodh Gaya
• 07:17 Great Buddha (80 foot) statue, Bodh Gaya
• 08:58 Exploring Bodh Gaya in Bihar
• 10:40 Tibet Om Cafe, Bodh Gaya again
• 12:25 Bihar road trip

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Then, the allegory goes, the wandering ascetic, having eaten and regained his bodily health thanks to the lady Sujata and her maid, wandered on in search of enlightenment. He realized that he had blamed the body for the faults of the mind/heart, punishing it needlessly.

He determined to try another approach, abandoning austerities and self-mortification. What, he wondered, if he were to allow himself the supersensual pleasure of meditative absorption (jhana). Such bliss is blameless. He wondered if this might be the way to awakening.

An inner-knowing came over him that it was. He went to the river to bathe, using his alms bowl to predict if he would succeed. Then he found another tree, having left behind Sujata's banyan.

He entered a wondrous grove and found a marvelous fig tree (Ficus religiosa) under which to sit. There he enjoyed the bliss (piti) of letting go, simply mindful of his in-and-out breathing until it became soft then still, as he entered into single-pointed focus and samadhi, purifying heart/mind.

He remembered past lives and continued to ponder the question that had prompted his spiritual quest: Why do we suffer? He followed the chain of causation (Dependent Origination), realizing that the root of present disappointment and pain (dukkha) was in the past, affecting the present and setting the future.

He broke through the 12-links to understand that, "With this, that comes to be, and without it, it ceases." He understood those factors that had led to everything and saw a means of escape from this round (samsara, simulation) of countless rebirth.

He went back and back through past lives (reappearances, relinkings, rearisings), further exploring all that had happened, with great gratitude for the tree that sheltered him.

Our journey to India

A few years after in San Francisco

Like the video above, we were two Americans traveling through the whirlpool of humanity that is India, she a blond, I blending in. But our Tevas gave us away. Everyone knew we were foreigners and were surprised to find out we were Americans. There were people from all over the world here and extraordinary temples in a little town that represented the whole world. My favorite was not the great Mahabodhi Temple at the center, nor the Sri Lankan vihara, not the Thai wat, nor the Japanese zendo and massive Butso Buddha. It was the wooden Bhutanese shrine room, with woodcut devas on the wall. It was dark and like being in a tiki wood treasure house. What was this? We never knew Bodhgaya, near the Patna Airport, was this jewel. Everyone else it. It was the off-season, but Tibetan monastics were everywhere doing 108,000 prostrations on smooth planks of wood to increase their devotion. Hindus were in control of the walled area around the Bodhi tree, wearing orange and panhandling, exploiting the devotional feelings of pilgrims on entering. We sat next to the stone "throne" slab under which Siddhartha is alleged to have sat. Could it be that very gilded stone? One could imagine this was the exact spot, although there is room for doubt. A monk in Los Angeles I know very well got his Ph.D. in Asia on the archeology of the exact site and the Mahabodhi tower/pagoda cetiya. They were discovered by a British scholar and rebuilt on the site from fragments all around the area. The site had been leveled by Muslim crusaders passing through, cutting down the tree so many honored, thinking that people were praying to it in violation of their religious views. Yet, here it was. We could hardly take in the vicinity and its international air, as we focused on the area around the tree. A sanctuary is more precious for the busy-ness all around.

• TEXT: Wisdom Quarterly

Re-wilding buffalo prevents wildfires

How bison could be the natural solution to wildfire management

Who would return to tending the land after processed foods, booze, and casino money?

Stop killing and eating us. We can work together.

As wildfires increasingly ravage large swathes of land across the globe, scientists and conservationists are turning to an unexpected ally: the European bison.

Recent studies and conservation efforts in Spain suggest that these majestic creatures could play a crucial role in managing the overgrown vegetation that fuels wildfires.

White men shoot bison for genocide of Indians

Bison have long been recognized as ecosystem engineers, capable of significantly altering their habitats. Their feeding habits and physical strength allow them to clear dense undergrowth, creating firebreaks naturally.

These firebreaks can help contain fires and prevent them from spreading uncontrollably. More: How bison could be the natural solution to wildfire management

• Rewilding 170 buffalo (bison) in Europe could reduce carbon dioxide of 43,000 gas-powered cars
• Nine Native American Queens of Hollywood
• Xochitl, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

US storm coming. Feb spring, no winter?

Weather Channel/MSN; Pfc. Sandoval, Seth Auberon, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Snow expected to fall on Rust Belt, all across Ohio Valley, Great Lakes (Fox)

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Why is weather cold in winter? Wrong. HAARP

(The Weather Channel) Meteorologists predict the weather. The latest surge of record temperatures into next week will be a fitting end to one of the warmest winters in the Midwest and Northeast.

• VIDEO: 50 million Americans at risk for severe weather
• VIDEO: Pair of very different storms headed to SoCal
• Two smaller storms for California, bringing low level snow
• US Midwest winter found: it's been relocated to Mongolia, where two million livestock animals and those with fur have frozen to death (It's a dzud)

VIDEO: Soaking rain pushes from the Midwest into the Northeast (msn.com)

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This week has already seen cities reach some of their "temperature firsts" of the year, including the first 60s in Bismarck, North Dakota; 70s in Springfield, Illinois; and 80s in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

T​here's more of that to come.

The Weather Channel (weather.com) keeps up with latest conditions throughout the country.

• Wisdom Quarterly COMMENTARY: One more rainstorm coming for California and more for the rest of the US
• (​CURRENT MAPS: Temperatures | Tree Pollen | Grass Pollen)
• VIDEO: February ending with a BANG of severe storms
• Forecaster: Double storm system to deliver multiple feet of snow across the West
• Mudslides in Malibu cause massive traffic on Pacific Coast Highway in coastal Los Angeles
• Is it spring already? Soaring temperatures to shatter hundreds of records from Southwest to Northeast

The Fire Next Time: forest fires from overgrowth

The forecast: With the exception of a cold front dropping through the Great Lakes then through the East Saturday, warmer-than-usual temperatures will dominate much of the rest of the country through this weekend, particularly in the nation's midsection.

T​hen, even warmer air will flow into the Plains and East next week ahead of a stronger cold front.

(MAPS: 10-Day U.S. Forecast Highs and Lows)

VIDEO: Time-lapse of a powerful bomb cyclone storm forming (msn.com)

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Strange weather controlled by machine (DARPA)

Where records may fall: Through the weekend, a few daily record highs may be set in parts of the Plains and Midwest. B​ut Monday and Tuesday, dozens of records are in jeopardy from Texas to North Dakota, the Great Lakes and Ohio Valley.

Among those, Dallas-Fort Worth could flirt with 90 degrees, a threshold the airport location has only reached three times in February since 1974. St. Louis could reach 80 degrees for only the ninth time in February dating to 1874. And Chicago could hit 70 degrees for only the sixth time in February since 1873. More:

• Spring in February: Record highs through Wednesday to cap one of the warmest winters in Plains, Midwest

• MEANWHILE, UNDER THE SEA: 'Mind-blowing' deep sea expedition uncovers more than 100 never-before-seen species and huge underwater mountain off coast of Chile
• NAGAS IN THE NEWS: Gigantic new snake species discovered in Amazon rainforest
• MEANWHILE, HIGH UP IN SPACE: Astronomers discover rare 6-planet solar-system moving in perfect harmony (where we can all move after we ruin this world)
• Hotel guest goes viral after giving a tour of the wild 'one-of-a-kind' psychedelic room the front desk offered her at check-in

It's always sunny in Southern California

Chad, looks like rain's a'comin. - I'll tell Barb.

Sunday night into Monday, possibly extending through Tuesday, California expects another unusual rainstorm, flooding, high surf, and relatively bitter cold with temps possibly dipping into the 50s, which locals may not have coats or shoes to protect themselves against. But maybe the usual shorts and flipflops will be able to handle it or central air and a poncho will have to do (lol).

• Torrential storms and a rising ocean are eating away at California, making it an island all over again, at least the Lower (Baja) part, most of which is still in Mexico because we only stole the Upper (Alta) part