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Satyakāma Jābāla (सत्यकाम जाबाल)

The Brahmin Vacchagotta demanded the Buddha answer yes or no. The Buddha was silent.

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What does a Hindu sage see?

In the Vedas, Satyakāma Jābāli is a Vedic sage, who first appears in the fourth prapāṭhaka (chapter) of the ancient Vedic text, the Chāndogya Upanishad [1].

As a boy, in order to become brahmachārī (celibate Brahmin student), Satyakāma enquires about his father and his family from his mother Jabālā. His mother tells him that she went about many places in her youth attending to different people devoted to their service and did not know his lineage.

Therefore, she tells him that in this world, all that she has is him and vice versa, so he is called Satyakāma Jābāla.

Eager for knowledge, he goes to the sage Haridrumata Gautama, requesting the sage's permission to live in his school for to be a Brahmacharya. The teacher asks, "My dear child, what family do you come from?"

Satyakāma replies that he is of uncertain lineage because his mother does not know who his father is. He tells the sage that as to his lineage, his mother named him Satyakāma Jābāla.

Seeing his innocence and his strong wish to learn, the sage declares that the boy's honesty is the mark of a "Brahmin (brāhmaṇa), a true seeker of the knowledge of Brahman" and accepts him as a student in his school [2, 3].

• The Buddha redefined the label "Brahmin" from a biological lineage -- as the Brahmins taught of their own descent from God's mouth -- to a meritocracy, stating that one is not a Brahmin (high caste) from birth because of one's parents but because of one's own actions (karma, "deeds").
• In Buddhism anatta (no-self) means "selflessness"
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Will Satyakama Jabala know how to help us?

The sage sends Satyakāma to tend to 400 sickly cows and to come back when they multiply into 1,000 [3].

The symbolic legend or allegory then presents Satyakāma's conversation with a bull, a fire, a swan (Haṃsa, हंस), and a diver bird (Madgu, मद्गु), which respectively symbolize Vāyu, Agni, Āditya, and Prāṇa [1].

Satyakāma thereby learns from these creatures that the form of Brahman is in all of the cardinal directions (north, south, east, west), world-bodies (earth, atmosphere, sky, ocean), sources of light (fire, sun, moon, lightning), and in humans (breath, eye, ear, and mind) [2].

Aummmm, the cosmic sound of the universe

Satyakāma returns to his teacher with 1,000 cows and humbly learns the rest: the nature of Brahman (the ultimate, metaphysical reality behind all of the illusions of maya).

Satyakāma graduates and becomes a celebrated sage, according to the Hindu tradition.

A Vedic school is named after him, as is the influential ancient text Jābāla Upanishad – a treatise on Sannyāsa (a Hindu sannyasin or renunciate's life) [4].

Upakosala Kamalayana was a student of Satyakama Jabala, whose story is also presented in the Chhāndogya Upanishad [5]. In the end, Satyakāma Jābāla's teacher the Sage Gautama gives him the name Patan. More

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LYRICS: "I Will Kill You": Bleed from my pain/ Revenge on treacherous snakes/ They will pay/ Slicing my flesh/ Sculptured wounds my catharsis/ I will stain/ Into the heart/ Needle injects gasoline/ Convulsions/ The one that they betrayed/ Has made them this way/ Plagued by the bastards/ I will kill you/ Killed by my rage/ Scream at my face/ The grisly scars went unavenged/ Until now/ Deep in the hole/ You are gagged and scream aloud/ But unheard/ Choke on your vomit/ You watch your hands cut off/ Then your legs/ The one that you betrayed/ Will kill you this way/ Scarred by the bastards/ I will kill you/ Killed by my rage/ I must kill you/ Into the throat/ The scalpel slices/ Warm blood sprays out/ The gushing entices/ Pull out your heart/ And let you watch/ Shove in your mouth/ Then stab your crotch/ I watch your agony/ I am released from years of pain/ Your death averted my becoming insane/ You are dead, I have killed you (Genius)

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How Elvis Presley 'destroyed' his enemy

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Q: What is the best way to destroy an enemy? A: Make that person a friend.

• Most of us imagine that an "enemy" is someone we hate when, in fact, it more applies to anyone who hates us. Though they hate and attack, we need not give tit for tat. We can be like the sandalwood tree, which sprinkles perfume even on the axe that lays it low: Positive Response: How to Meet Evil with Good

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The act of metta ("lovingkindness") is what is best translated as "friendliness." Imagine the whole universe and every being in it as a friend on whom kindness is bestowed. There is no adversary. There are only friends and supporters. The Buddha said this is how some Gods (brahmas) abide, steeped in thoughts/feelings of boundless lovingkindness (agape, universal friendliness, unbounded love, and compassionate connection).

Who was the great entertainer Elvis Presley, the King of Rock 'n Roll, to commit such a public act of love and compassion? Would Johnny Cash, who had a great deal of love and acceptance of the most marginalized members of our society, approve? "Folsom Prison Blues" suggests he would.

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US celebrates National Bikini Day July 5th

Long silk [aka silkworms boiled alive] "Buddha" Kimono (Bikini Beach Australia)

DANGER: Bikinis are a magnetic distraction to men, who are mysteriously drawn in by them.

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Clumsy man goes overboard for a red bikini.

Since July 5, 1946, females have been hitting the beaches and pool sides scantily clad in "bikinis" (floss and patches).

National Bikini Day marks the anniversary of the invention of the revealing two-piece bathing suit.

Named after the Bikini Atoll, where the United States military annihilated indigenous land by conducting atomic and nuclear bomb tests, the two-piece bathing suit made its debut in Paris in 1946.

Evidence of bikini from 1,000,000 BC

[This was possibly to distract US soldiers with pin up girls while they traveled the world, met new people, and killed them; after all, up until then the Marilyn Monroe and Jane Mansfield posters had too much on].

French designer Jaques Heim wanted to name revealing bits of fabric "atom" [as in atomic bombs falling on Bikini Atoll?], but designer Louis Réard named his piece, revealed on this day (July 5th) in 1946, with the name "bikini" and the word stuck.

By World War II [because war and carnage have an odd way of wearing away at a nation's morals], sunbathers cast aside the chaste one-piece bathing costumes for simple two-piece bathing suits.

Settle down, Censors. This woman is 64, old enough to make a Beatles' song.

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• Happy National Bikini Day for the 77th year of the bikini

Is that Atom Atoll, Mom? - No, it's Bikini Atoll, Honey. - I'd like to wear one. - Me, too.

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Should I come out, Claudia? - Why, Bil?

However, nothing prepared the United States for the revealing bikini when it hit the beaches on July 5, 1946.

[It wasn't even the Fifties yet, and eyes were bulging out of boy's and men's heads. Then the hippies in the Sixties went from two-piece down to no-piece in their efforts to help the USA wage peace.]

The skimpy strips of fabric were seen as less than a women's unmentionables [britches, panties, undergarments, lingerie].

We prefer modern Jain nuns

While Europe [which is cool with toplessness and has always had nude beaches] enthusiastically donned the bikini after a long and arduous world war, American's sense of [Puritanical] "decency" kept them from accepting the bikini until the 1960s.

[Hippies saved the day again because tooth floss bottoms and eye patch tops were seen as an improvement over pure nudity. Ah, hypocrisy, we're all for violence on TV but T&A? No way! Sex on the silver screen? Maybe, but only with an R, NC-17, X, or XXX rating, but carnage, slasher flicks, gore, sadistic violence? Sure, it's good for the kids. It makes them better soldiers, drinkers, and gun owners when they grow up.]

What about men's wear?

Men get to wear these nifty safety helmets.

• Hooray for #NationalBikiniDay every July 5
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Commentary

The model above is stripping off this inappropriate "Buddha kimono" from Buddha Beach.

Well, that's not so bad.

Please avoid Buddha Bikinis, as they are very offensive to the spiritual lives of more than a billion Buddhists in the world today. There are more than a billion uncounted Buddhism in communist China alone, so the true number of Buddhists worldwide is unknown but could be two billion.

And also please avoid places that call themselves Buddha Bar because it is an oxymoron given that the Buddha spelled out Five Precepts, things to abstain from doing:

Okay, now we're offended.

1. killing
2. stealing
3. sexual misconduct
4. lying
5. alcohol.

And while, no doubt, some Buddhists drink, it is not in keeping with the rudiments of the religion or the advice of the Enlightened One.

And while we're on the topic of things best avoided, the American habit of standing in front of a Buddha statue to take a picture is in bad form and very offensive to the locals, all the more so if you sit on his lap, put your arms around him, or heaven forbid kiss him.

Tibetan goddess in very revealing outfit

We in the West know what you mean and would love to go dry hump Dionysus in Greece or play grab@$$ with Aphrodite or get super friendly with Bacchus, but the Mediterranean Antiquities Department (MAD) would get really mad if we did. They won't even let tourists graffiti the Colosseum or deface ancient petroglyphs or take home souvenirs of ancient archeological digs like Gobekkli and Karahan Tepe. Go figure.] 

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European crimes on Pro-Palestine protesters

Sheldon S., Ashley Wells, Pfc. Sandoval (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

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MIRACLES the Buddha performed

G.P. Malalasekera, Dictionary of Pali Proper Names (Pali Text Society) via Palikanon.com; edited and illustrated by Dhr. Seven, Crystal Quintero, and Ashley Wells, Wisdom Quarterly

The Buddha created a walkway in space then walked to the World of the Thirty-Three.

  

The Buddha was against performing miracles, perceiving some inherent danger in them. He lauded something more miraculous -- teaching the path to enlightenment. He regularly used some of those powers to aid in teaching without making a grand display. Yet there was a time, seven years after his enlightenment, when he did make a grand display that lasted more than two weeks.

 

When the Buddha set down a monastic (vinaya) rule forbidding the exercise of supernatural powers by Buddhist monastics -- following a miracle performed by the monk Pindola Bhāradvāja -- ascetics from other schools went around saying that from then on they would not perform miracles except with the Buddha.

 

King Bimbisāra, a noble disciple who ruled Rajagaha (Rajgir), reported this matter to the Buddha, who at once accepted the challenge.

He explained that the training rule was laid down for disciples and did not apply to their enlightened teacher.

Thereafter he went to Sāvatthi, the place where all buddhas perform the miracle of the "double appearances” (yamaka pātihāriya).

Artist's rendition of flames and water emanating simultaneously (what-buddha-said.net).

 

In response to a request by King Pasenadi of Savatthi, the Buddha said he would perform the miracle at the foot of the Ganda-amba (Ganda's mango or amba) tree on the full moon day of the month of Asālha [July]. This was the seventh year after his enlightenment (DA.i.57).
 

Mango tree miraculously sprouts from seed.

The ascetics of other traditions therefore uprooted all of the mango trees for a league (3 miles) in all directions. Nevertheless, on the promised day, the Buddha went to the king's garden, accepted a mango offered to him by Ganda, and caused a marvelous tree to sprout from its seed.

The people, discovering what the other ascetics had done, attacked them, and they had to flee in every direction. During their flight Pūrana Kassapa committed suicide.

The Buddha creating a miraculous walkway in the sky (Mig_T_One/flickr.com)

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Devas and humans extended for 100+ miles.

The multitude [of devas and humans] who had assembled to witness the miracle extended for a distance of 36 leagues. The Buddha then miraculously created a jeweled walk [bridge] in the air by the side of the Gandamba tree.

When the Buddha's disciples knew what he had in mind, several of them offered to perform miracles so as to refute the insinuations of the other ascetics that they could not.

Among such disciples were Gharanī, Culla Anātthapindika, Cīrā, Cunda, the chief female disciple foremost in magic powers Uppalavannā Theri and the male disciple foremost in magic powers Maha Moggallāna Thero.

 

Thunder and lightning from the world of the weather akasha-devas (zastavki.com)

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Earliest human representation of the Buddha

The Buddha declined their offers and related the Kanhausabha and Nandivisāla Jātakas (rebirth tales).

Then, standing on the jeweled walk, he proceeded to perform the Twin Miracle (yamaka-pātihāriya), so called because it consists of the appearance of phenomena of opposite character in pairs: for example, producing flames from the upper part of his body and a stream of water from the lower then alternating the two.

Flames and streams of water proceeded alternately from the right and left sides of his body (DA.l.57); DhA.iii.214f. explains how this is done:

From every pore of his body an aura of six-colored rays shot forth upwards to the realm of Brahmā and downwards to the edge of the world-system (cakkavāla).

Levitation (dreamtime.com)

The miracle lasted for a long time, and as the Buddha walked up and down the jeweled terrace he taught the multitude from time to time.

It is said that he performed miracles and delivered sutras (delivered "sermons," as it were) for 16 days, according to the various psychological dispositions of those present in the assembly to watch.

• [Buddhas have the miraculous power of knowing peoples' minds, dispositions, and capacities and are therefore able to teach just the right thing for their rapid progress toward insight.]

At the conclusion of the miracle, the Buddha -- following the example of his predecessors (buddhas of the past) -- made his way in three strides to the space plane known as the "World of the Thirty-Three" (Tāvatimsa).

The Buddha in the World of the Thirty-Three, teaching his mother the Abdhidharma.

 

He went there to teach the Abhidharma to his biological mother Queen Maya who, having passed away when he was only a week old, had been reborn in that world as a devaputta, figuratively a "son of god" but actually meaning "one reborn among the devas."
 

The Twin Miracle is described in the Sumangala Vilāsinī (DA.i.57) and in great detail in the Dhammapadatthakathā (DhA.iii.204); see also J.iv.263ff. The DhA. version appears to be entirely different from the Jātaka version. The latter is very brief and lacks many details, especially regarding Pindola's miracle and the preaching of the Abhidharma in the World of the Thirty-Three.

The account given in the Divyāvadāna (Dvy., 143-66) is again different; the miracle was repeatedly performed by the Buddha (see, e.g., Candanamālā), and it is often referred to, for example, at J.i.77, 88, 193; Ps.i.125; SNA.i.36; AA.i.71; MA.ii.962; Mil. 349; Vsm.390; PvA.137; Dāthāvamsa i.50.

The Twin Miracle at Sravasti (btrts.org.sg)

The miracle was also performed by the Buddha's relics; see, for example, Mhv.xvii.52f.; Sp.i.88, 92.

 

It is said (Mil.349) that 200 million beings (most of them devas) penetrated to an understanding of the Dharma at the conclusion of the miracle.

It is noteworthy that due to its complexity and difficulty, the Twin Miracle can only be performed by a buddha (Mil.106).