"Winds in the east, mist coming in, like something is brewing about to begin. Can't put my finger on what lies in store, but I feel what's to happen all happened before."
Have we met before? | Seven signs of a past-life connection
(Buddha's Wisdom) 🔍 WHY DO SOME STRANGERS INSTANTLY FEEL LIKE FAMILY?
What are the signs we have known someone in a past life? And what does Buddhism actually teach about these karmic connections?
This video examines seven experiences often linked to past-life (what non-Buddhist traditions call "reincarnation") relationships, from instant trust and unexplained recognition to recurring conflict and shared spiritual growth.
Through ancient Buddhist texts, traditional stories, disputed past-life cases, meditation teachings, and modern memory research, let's explore Buddhist rebirth without assuming that the oversimplification that a "permanent soul" (atta or atman) is traveling from one life to another. That is what is happening, conventionally speaking but, ultimately, it is a pernicious wrong view.
What are the OBSTACLES to progress in serenity, meditation, insight, and enlightenment? The Five Hindrances: affection (lust, attachment, passion, clinging), aversion, restlessness, fatigue, doubt.
*(NOTE: The Sāketa couple (Nakula-mata and Nakula-pita)'s first meeting and the rival wives come from commentarial literature written centuries after the Buddha, drawing on older oral tradition. This video presents them as the tradition tells them, not as verified history. (Nakula-pita and Nakula-mata Gahapati)
📚 SOURCES AND FURTHER READING (affiliate links)
Primary texts:
Bhikkhu Bodhi (trans.), The Connected Discourses of the Buddha (Saṃyutta Nikāya)
Bhikkhu Bodhi (trans.), The Numerical Discourses of the Buddha (Aṅguttara Nikāya)
Bhikkhu Ñāṇamoli and Bhikkhu Bodhi (trans.), The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha (Majjhima Nikāya)
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Unbelievable NEW Bigfoot footage confirms the myth is true!
(Wild Assault) Brave enough to venture into the woods alone? After watching this video, think twice about it. Let's explore some fascinating evidence, discussing sightings, sharing intriguing stories about the legendary cryptid creatures. From eerie inhuman howls in the night to mysterious footprints with dermal ridges and authenticated photographs, these true encounters will leave viewers believing in the existence of the elusive Sasquatch and Yeti tribes, though we call them all Bigfoot.
Their abode is their self-created palaces (vimanas), which are anywhere -- in the air, in the trees, and so on.
These are mostly ākasattha ("suspended in the air"), but some of them, like the abode of the Yakkha Alavaka, are bhumattha ("on earth," "on the ground") and are described as being fortified (SNA.i.222). Sometimes whole cities/settlements, such as Alakamandā, stand under the protection of or are inhabited by them.
In many respects Yakkhas resemble the Vedic Pisācas(Sanskrit Pishachas, "flesh eating demons" or ghouls), though they are of different origin.
Yakkhas are evidently remnants of an ancient demonology and have had incorporated in them old animistic beliefs as representing creatures of the wilds and the forests.
Some of this is based on ethnological features. (See Stede Gespenstergeschichten des Petavatthu v. 39 ff).
In later literature the Yakkhas were degraded to a state of "red eyed cannibal ogres." The female Yakkhas (Yakkhinīs) are, in these cases, more fearful and evil-minded than the males. (See Rudyard Kipling's poem "The Female of the Species").
They eat flesh and drink blood (J.iv.549; v.34) and kill human beings (D.ii.346; J.ii.15ff.) and devouring corpses (J.i.265). They are known to eat babies (J.v.21; vi.336) and are full of spite and vengeance (DhA.i.47; ii.35f.).
The story of the Buddhist monk Bhūta Thera is interesting because his elder brothers and sisters were devoured by a hostile Yakkha. The last child is named Bhūta to propitiate the Yakkha by making him the child's sponsor (godparent).
Ordinarily the attitude of the Yakkhas towards humans is one of benevolence. They are interested in the spiritual welfare of the human beings with whom they come in contact and somewhat resemble tutelary genies (djinn, jinn of Islamic lore). More
How is it possible that they are benevolent protectors of the forest AND bloodthirsty cannibals? Not all Yakkhas (Yetis, Sasquatches, Bigfoot) are alike, as Himalayan Buddhist lore informs us today:
Why should anyone waste time or bother to believe in these "legendary" creatures? Buddhist texts are very familiar with this class of not-quite-human (but very humanoid) creature known as Yakkhas (female Yakkhini, possibly the etymological root of the word Yeti). Older Indian (Brahminical, Vedic, Hindu, Jain) texts predating Buddhism often speak of Rakshasas.
This man caught proof that Bigfoot is dimensional
The hundreds of Native American tribes in the U.S. (to say nothing of those in the rest of the Americas, north of Canada and south of Mexico) all have names for these very real creatures, who are known not to be limited to this dimension: They come in and out of our reality.
If they are not from "here" (our reality on this plane or planet, which is but a tiny part of the human plane or manussya loka), where are they from?
The texts seem to suggest they are from the "first heaven" or space plane above our world, known as the Realm of the Four Sky Kings (Catummaharajika deva loka), the quadrants in the sky (North, East, West, South) overseen by four regents who report to the next plane above that. So when Chewbacca or other prison planet detainees alight on this world, having come down on "a small moon" (UFO craft), it might be that they are being brought here from there. Of course, there being many types, they often enter through portals (stargates, anomalous wormholes, ancient passageways, or through superior technology than we are told about in Popular Mechanics and the mainstream press).
Moreover, Himalayan Vajrayana Buddhists throughout the Tibet and other parts of the Himalayas like Nepal and Bhutan know them to be real, defining them not as a singular creature ("the Abominable Snowman") but a tribe or class of monstrous creatures.
Their detailed descriptions divide them into three distinct types such that we should not classify all of them simply as "Bigfoot" or "Yeti" but specify, where possible, what type.
Tibetan lore describes three main varieties of Yetis. The first of these is the Nyalmo, which has black fur and is the largest and fiercest, standing around 15 feet tall.
The second is the Chuti, which stands about 8 feet tall and lives 8,000 and 10,000 feet (2,400-3,000 meters) above sea level.
The third is the Rang Shim Bombo, which has reddish-brown fur and stands 3 to 5 feet (0.91-1.52 m) tall [12].
Other terms used by Himalayan peoples do not translate exactly the same but refer to legendary and indigenous wildlife:
Michê (Tibetan མི་དྲེད་, Wylie mi dred, ZYPY Michê) translates as "man-bear" [8, 13].
Dzu-teh – dzu translates as "cattle" and the full meaning translates as "cattle bear," referring to the Himalayan brown bear [7, 10, 14, 15]
Migoi or Mi-go (Tibetan མི་རྒོད་, Wylie mi rgod, ZYPY Migö/Mirgö) translates as "wild man" [10, 15]
Bun Manchi – Nepali for "jungle man" that is used outside Sherpa communities where Yeti is the common name [16]
Mirka – another name for "wild-man," as local legend holds that "anyone who sees one dies or is killed," this being taken from a written statement by Frank Smythe's Sherpas in 1937 [17]
Kang Admi – "Snow Man" [15]
Jungli Admi – "Wild Man" [18]
Xueren (Chinese 雪人, Yerin) – "Snow Man" with a story from China about one who mated with a human woman to produce a giant boy of diminished faculties but great strength and hunger.
Other names and locations
In Russian folklore, the Chuchuna is an entity said to dwell in Siberia. It has been described as 6 to 7 feet tall and covered with dark hair.
According to the native accounts from the nomadic Yakut [Yakutia being the coldest place on earth where people live] and Tungus tribes, it is a well-built, Neanderthal-like man wearing pelts and bearing a white patch of fur on its forearms.
It is said to occasionally consume human flesh, unlike their close cousins, the Almastis (Almas). Some witnesses reported seeing a tail on the creature's corpse. It is described as being roughly 6 to 7 feet tall. (Lloyd Pye was sure the Almas are surviving Neanderthalhumans (who are able to successfully mate with humans, as happened in at least one historical case in the country of Georgia).
There are additional tales of large, reclusive, bipedal creatures worldwide, notably including both "Bigfoot" and the "Abominable Snowman." More
REALM OF THE FOUR KINGS
Buddhist cosmology describes a plane of existence known as the World of the Four Great Regents or Sky-Kings, the Cāturmahārājikakāyika चातुर्महाराजिक or Cātummahārājika चातुम्महाराजिक (Tibetan རྒྱལ་ཆེན་བཞི་, Wylie rgyal chen bzhi, Vietnamese Trời Tứ Thiên Vương, Chinese 四大天王, Japanese Shidaiōshu-ten, Burmese စတုမဟာရာဇ်, Thai จาตุมฺมหาราชิกา or จาตุรมหาราชิกกายิกา).
This deva realm of "the Four Great Kings" is one plane up from our human plane world. Its height is described colloquially as the lower slopes of Mt. Sumeru (a kind of Mt. Olympus in ancient Indian cosmologies, the "world mountain" or axis mundi.
Some of its inhabitants live in the air (in vimanas, motherships, UFOs, platforms, and "heavenly palaces" of all descriptions) around the mountain. Earth is described as the base of this central mountain. Each quadrant in the sky has a ruler or regent who reports to Sakka, King of the Devas. These four great regents or kings are:
Virūḍhaka विरूढकः, king of the Southern Direction, ruler the kumbandas (dwarves);
Dhṛtarāṣṭra धृतराष्ट्रः, king of the Eastern Direction, ruler of the gandhabbas (the lowest rank of devas, servants of superior devas, entertainers, "heavenly musicians");
Virūpākṣa विरूपाक्षः, king of the Western Direction, ruler of the nagas (reptilians, dragons, serpents, reptoids, Draconians); and their leader
Vaiśravaṇa वैश्रवणः, also known as Kuvera, king of the Northern Direction, ruler of the yakkhas (Yetis, Sasquatches, Bigfoots, ogres, djinn, genies, ghouls).
Ultimately, all four are accountable to devaKing Sakka (Sakra, King of the Gods, Indra), ruler of the next plane up, which is known as the "World of the Thirty-Three" (Tavatimsa deva loka).
They are the martial regents who guard the four quarters of the Earth. The Garudas (Avians, Birdmen, Harpies) and the devas (sky navigating "shining ones") who guide the Sun and Moon are also considered part of this world, as are the retinues of these four kings, composed of Kumbhāṇḍas कुम्भाण्ड (dwarfs), Gandharvas गन्धर्व (fairies), Nāgas नाग (dragons) and Yakṣas यक्ष (goblins).
These devas also inhabit remote areas such as forests, hills, and abandoned caves. Though living in misery, they have the potential for enlightenment and can attain the path and fruits of the spiritual life just as humans can if they hear the Dharma. (This is why the Buddha is known as "the teacher of gods and men," which are the devas and humans).
How far away is this world? The height of this world is from sea-level up to 40 yojanas (1 yojanaroughly equaling 7 miles) above the Earth.
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Do Buddhists really believe in cryptids? There was a famous interaction between the Buddha and a "Bigfoot" called the Ogre (Yakkha, Yaksha,Rakshasa) Alavaka, which produced the Alavaka Sutra
These creatures are varieties of Yeti, different kinds of hominid primates. They are 100% real. (Some seem to be interdimensional with uncanny superhuman powers, which makes considering them "real" problematic).
Tibetan lore describes three main varieties of Yetis:
the Nyalmo, which has black fur and is the largest and fiercest, standing around 15 feet tall;
the Chuti, which stands around 8 feet tall and lives at an altitude of 8,000-10,000 feet (2,400 and 3,000 m) above sea level; and
the Rang Shim Bombo, which has reddish-brown fur and is only 3-5 feet (0.91 and 1.52 m) tall [12].
Other terms used by Himalayan peoples, many of them Vajrayana (Esoteric) Buddhists, do not translate exactly the same, but refer to legendary and indigenous wildlife:
Michê (Tibetan མི་དྲེད་, Wylie mi dred, ZYPY Michê), which translates as "man-bear" [8, 13].
Dzu-teh – dzu translates as "cattle" and the full meaning translates as "cattle bear," referring to the Himalayan brown bear [7][10][14][15].
Migoi or Mi-go (Tibetan མི་རྒོད་, Wylie mi rgod, ZYPY Migö/Mirgö) translates as "wild man" [10][15].
Bun Manchi – Nepali for "jungle man" that is used outside Sherpa communities where Yeti is the common name [16].
Mirka – another name for "wild-man."
Local legend holds that "anyone who sees one dies or is killed." The latter is taken from a written statement by Frank Smythe's Sherpas in 1937 [17].
In Russian folklore, the Chuchuna is an entity said to dwell in Siberia. It has been described as 6-7 feet tall and covered with dark hair.
According to the native accounts from the nomadic Buddhist Yakut and Tungus tribes, it is a well-built, Neanderthal-like man wearing pelts and bearing a white patch of fur on its forearms.
It is said to occasionally consume human flesh (cannibalism because it is understood to be a kind of human, not an animal), unlike their close cousins, the Almas, Almasty, or Almastis. More: Yeti
Sasquatch clears campground + Bigfoot encounters from the Northern Cascades of Washington
(Salish Sasquatch) Nov. 29, 2024: We travel to Concrete, Washington, to speak with a man named James and his wife, Sandy. They share an encounter where a Sasquatch (Yakkha) entered a campground and cleared it out. James also shares his other encounters, including g a fantastic recall of Sasquatch stalking.
(Flash of Beauty: Paranormal Bigfoot)
New Bigfoot videos you haven’t seen! *EXCLUSIVE FOOTAGE*
(Maximum Fear) Dec. 3, 2024: This is new exclusive Bigfoot videos and footage that hasn't been seen! Today we take a look at new Sasquatch (Yakkha, Yeti, Rakshasa, Yowie, Sasquatch, Bigfoot) footage and sightings coming from India, Russia, Canada, Michigan (USA), and many other places, which is very convincing evidence of humanoid bipedal primates alongside humans around the world.
From HD Sasquatch trail cam videos to Bigfoot hunting clips, there is more new material to examine. This compilation showcases the best and clearest cryptid sightings and most convincing Sasquatch (wild men, bear men, monkey men) encounters.
So grab an "I Found Bigfoot" mug and allow fear to be maximized as we recap the Top 10 best Bigfoot ogre clips of all time. Caught on Camera 2024 2nd Channel: @MoreMaximumFear NEW BIGFOOT Maximum Fear Merchandise: maximumfear.myspreadshop.com
Celebrated annually on the last Wednesday in March, "Manatee Appreciation Day" is more than just a tribute – it’s a global call to protect the gentle giants [related to elephants] of the sea.
Manatees have no natural predators [other than motorboaters swinging brutal propeller blades], which contributes to their serene demeanor. However, this does not mean they are without threats.
Human activities pose significant risks to manatee populations. Despite these challenges, manatees have shown remarkable resilience, with conservation efforts playing a crucial role in protecting them.
A childlike heart will yet believe even as adults scoff at ancient lore.
I know what I saw! (Cristobal Columbus)
MERMAIDS (mythical half-female, half-fish creatures) have existed in seafaring lore at least since the time of the ancient Greeks. Typically depicted as having a woman’s head and torso, a fishtail instead of legs, and holding a mirror and comb, mermaids live in the ocean and, according to some legends, can take on a human shape and marry mortal men [as in the selkie lore of Ireland, Manx, Scotland, Faroe Islands, Iceland, the British Isles]. Mermaids are closely linked to sirens, another folkloric figure, part-woman, part-bird, who live on islands and sing seductive songs to lure sailors [like Homer's Odysseus and his crew] to their deaths. Mermaid sightings by sailors, when they weren’t made up, were most likely manatees, dugongs, or Steller’s sea cows (which became extinct by the 1760s due to cruel human over-hunting). Manatees are slow-moving aquatic mammals with human-like eyes, bulbous faces... (HISTORY*)
SUTRA: In a very strange Buddhist sutra, Great Moggallana, the male disciple declared by the Buddha as "foremost in psychic powers" mentions that at the bottom of the sea, there are indeed mermaids who dance seductively. A reference to shapeshifting space aliens living in bases below the ocean? There is worldwide awareness that at some point in the past, there really were vicious creatures who swam the seas, just as reports of harpies and others were reported by many cultures. Let's examine what one of the Buddha's four chief disciples said of these mysterious creatures from MN 50:
Alas, no further mention of the sea-nymph mermaid selkies is made in this sutra, Is it reasonable to think the great monk was simply repeating Indian or Scythian lore? He was addressing Mara, to warn him what was to happen for bad karma of the sort this mara was accumulating. Modern people don't believe in Mara, despite the Mara Samyutta, and all those references to him by the Buddha. There's a thick translation of The Connected Discourses by American Theravada scholar-monk Bhikkhu Bodhi that includes it. So if Mara, a kind of Tempter -- Lucifer, Cupid, Eros, Devil -- figure in Buddhism could be real, are mermaids so hard to believe in, existing underwater by inhabiting vimanas ("mansions" that areUSOs) so hard to swallow?
Human activities have not been kind to manatees. Boating, pollution, and habitat destruction stand out as the three greatest threats.
Despite legal protections against hunting, manatees continue to be poached for their meat and hides. Furthermore, their natural habitats, crucial for their survival, are being decimated by human development and intrusion.
Boat strikes are particularly alarming, leading to tragic injuries or even death for these gentle creatures. This dire situation underlines the urgency of increasing awareness so that manatees will continue to exist in the future.
Getting to know sea cows
Secret places, Mexico's cenotes, near Belize
Manatees, also known as the cows of the sea[even though their closest relatives are elephants], are a marvel of marine life, characterized by their gentle nature and slow-moving grace [which caused people like Christopher Columbus to report mermaid sighting, possibly with the intention to violate them as he was planning for the gentle Indigenous humans he met].
These large, aquatic mammals belong to the order Sirenia [which is interesting because the Spanish word for "mermaid" issirena], which also includes three species of dugongs.
One of the most captivating aspects of manatees is their all-veganherbivorous diet, as they feed on a wide variety of submerged, floating, and emergent plants in fresh and saltwater environments. More
(Associated Press) June 20, 2023
(21 June 2023) A seemingly curious alliance of Druids, pagans, neopagans, hippies, local residents, tourists, and costumed witches and wizards are gathering around a [restored] prehistoric stone circle on a plain in Southern England to express their devotion to the sun (Surya, Sol) and to have some communal fun (Tian Macleod Ji).
Certified Bates Method Teacher Nathan Oxenfeld guides us through a simple daily vision improvement routine. All of the practices shown in this video are meant to be performed without wearing any glasses or contacts.
Give Up Your Glasses for Good (Oxenfeld)
Most of the practices mentioned have their own instructional videos: Search for "Bates Method 101" on YouTube, or visit integraleyesight.com/batesmethod101.
This is a complete road trip compilation from Santa Monica, California, to New York City over eight days from June to September, 2017 -- all recorded in time-lapse at 4 frames per second (nearly 100,000 frames in all).
Of the 3,253 miles (5,235 kms) driven, only 3 miles of this trip is missing, mostly in Colorado near Poncha Springs. Nearly all of this drive was done by day, but there are about 10 minutes done in the dark in Arizona (1:00:00 to 1:10:00). The weather was good for the most part, except between Pennsylvania and the Bronx, before clearing up in Manhattan.
This trip also includes driving through the solar eclipse of August 21 in Nebraska (~3:30:00), as well as driving over the old Tappan Zee Bridge in upstate New York, which permanently closed a month later with the opening of the new Mario M. Cuomo Bridge adjacent to it.
The states passed through are
California (0:00:35-0:40:54)
Arizona (0:40:54-1:40:26)
New Mexico (1:40:26-1:41:09)
Colorado (1:41:09-3:07:17)
Nebraska (3:07:17-3:51:05)
Iowa (3:51:05-4:24:17)
Illinois (4:24:17-4:50:42)
Indiana (4:50:42-5:10:51)
Ohio (5:10:51-5:39:13)
West Virginia (5:39:13-5:40:48 & 5:47:09-5:51:52)
Pennsylvania (5:40:48-5:47:09 & 6:04:43-6:32:49)
Maryland (5:51:52-6:04:43)
New York (6:32:49-6:50:03)
The highest elevation of the drive was 11,539 feet (3,517 meters) at 2:28:10. The highest elevation anywhere on the U.S. interstate system is 11,158 ft. (3,401 ms) at 2:33:41. Both of these elevations are two of the three continental divide crossings; the other, at 2:04:38 (10,856 ft./3,309 ms), is the first.
The hottest temperature of this trip was 110 F (43 C) in Needles, California (at 0:40:16), and the coldest temperature of this trip was 53 F (11 C) in Tusayan, Arizona (1:10:04) -- about 230 miles (370 kms) apart.
Here is the compilation of New York to California:
PhDs "Astounded" by Sasquatch videos and Proof of Bigfoot
(Sylvanic.com) Dr. Jeff Meldrum and Dr. John Bindernagel are taken out into "Sasquatch Country" by Bigfoot Researcher Todd Standing. Both are immensely impressed with his work. They are "firmly convinced." Standing has filmed "Portraits of the Sasquatch Face."
(BFRO.net) Salt of the Earth testimony: a logger saw a Sasquatch first hand. This testimony is narrated by BFRO's android story teller, Micah. "Distant Tension" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 creativecommons.org.
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