Showing posts with label southeast asia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label southeast asia. Show all posts

Friday, October 16, 2026

Growing Jewish Empire of Greater Israel


The coming empire of "Eretz Yisrael"
We'll give Israel whatever it wants for $$, drugs
"Greater Israel" (Hebrew ארץ ישראל השלמה, Romanized Eretz Yisrael HaShlema) is an expression with different political and biblical expressions over time.

This coming Zionist utopia is often used, in an irredentist fashion, to refer to an ahistoric but desired borders of a "State of Israel."
What was Zionist Epstein doing?
(TMZ) Even Jewish Harvey Levin outs Zionist spy Jeffrey Epstein


Jews: "When Mashiach comes, I'll move to Israel."
Territorial claims of Israeli nationalists and Zionist movements vary, depending on the time period and different groups of proponents such as Revisionist Zionist, Labor Zionist, and Religious Zionist groups [1].


If I approve of you, Trump will hire you.
There are two different primary uses of the term "Greater Israel" – one referring more narrowly to the area internationally recognized as part of the illegitimate apartheid ethno-"state" of Israel (that has neither a constitution nor a majority to yet implement, though it is working on it by means of anti-Jewish international terrorism to terrify Jews from around the world to move to the Middle East to build up the ethnostate) along with the stolen Golan Heights, West Bank, and Gaza Strip.

There's a second definition that refers to a much larger region stretching from the Nile River to the Euphrates [2], from the river to the sea... More

Sunday, August 23, 2026

Real life in 'sinful' Buddhist Cambodia


Near Burma, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam
(World Lens) Real life Cambodia : The world's most sinful Buddhist country: The real country most visitors miss | Travel documentary
This former U.S.-ruined Asian colony known as the Khmer Republic was illegally bombed by the U.S. in a massive genocidal campaign during the U.S. War on Vietnam in Operation Menu and Operation Freedom Deal. Neighboring Buddhist Laos was also bombed along with Vietnam as it suffered CIA subterfuge in Laos as The Company (the CIA) destabilized the impoverished the poor post-colonial nation with the Laotian Civil War.

Zionist CIA loves secret wars in Asia and world
Why the imperial Americans saw fit to follow on France's colonialism with a genocide during the U.S. War on Vietnam only the U.S. government and CIA know. Three innocent Buddhist countries had to be ethnically cleansed and horrifically abused to make the world safe for American disaster capitalism and the threat of equitable improvements in the name of socialism or the dreaded C-word communism.

Tuesday, July 21, 2026

Standup comedy: Two Kinds of Asians

(Anjelah Johnson) CLASSIC: Mexican Indian becomes a Vietnamese nail salon worker (full)
Asia isn't only China and Japan | Ali Wong
Why are Chinese parents the way they are?

"Positive racism"?

How Israeli Jews are colonizing the world

My hasbara is my looks as I continue to work for the IDF as a Zionist ambassador (Gal Gadot)

Monday, July 20, 2026

Wednesday, July 15, 2026

Death toll in Bangkok bar fire reaches 33


Bangkok is the L.A. of Asia
(DW) Deaths in a dev­ast­at­ing fire at a pub in Theravada Buddhist Thai­l­and's cap­ital Bangkok have risen to 30, reports said Tues­day, cit­ing updated fig­ures from city offi­cials.

A screen grab taken from a video released on July 12, shows people fleeing a fire at the Rong Beer Na Lat Phrao bar. Three more vic­tims suc­cumbed to their injur­ies, push­ing up the tally from the ini­tial 27 dead, local media reports said.

More than 70 people con­tinue to receive treat­ment in hos­pit­als, with 24 of them in crit­ical con­di­tion, offi­cials said.
  • Bangkok, July 15: The death toll from a dev­ast­at­ing Bangkok bar fire has risen to 33, author­it­ies said on Wed­nes­day, as Thai­l­and pledged a nation­wide over­haul of enter­tain­ment venue reg­u­la­tions (Asian Standard).

Mean­while, police are prob­ing pos­sible neg­li­gence, includ­ing obstruc­ted emer­gency exits as people scrambled to flee the flames. Most killed were found trapped in win­dow­less bath­rooms.

Bangkok blaze dead­li­est in 17 years
What will the new king of Thailand say?
An explos­ive fire ripped through Rong Beer Na Lat Phrao, a pub near the pop­u­lar Chatuchak Week­end Mar­ket in north­ern Bangkok late on Sunday night.

Foot­age cir­cu­lat­ing on social media showed a power­ful inferno jet­ting out of the bar's door­way as people ran to escape. It took fire­fight­ers about half an hour to tame the fire.

The blaze is one of the dead­li­est in Thai­l­and since 2009, when a New Year's Day fire at a nightclub killed 67 people.

On Tues­day, more mourn­ers laid down flowers and hand­writ­ten notes at the site of the incid­ent as rem­nants from the bar -- includ­ing melted musical instru­ments and sooty chairs -- lay on the side­walk.
  • Ed.  Zac Crel­lin, Deutsche Welle (English ed.), July 15, 2026; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

Friday, July 3, 2026

Theravada: 'What the Buddha Taught'


  • Theravada: "Teaching" (vada) of the [Enlightened] "Elders" (theras). How old were these elders? They were of all ages because it has to do with seniority (how many rains retreats as a monastic). They were the first disciples of the historical Buddha, the theris (nuns) and theras (monks).
  • Buddhist canons: Tipitaka ("Three Baskets")
  • Pali canon: Pali language collection of texts
  • Theravada Abhidhamma ("Higher Doctrine")
British Buddhist monk explains

What the Buddha Taught
What the Buddha Taught
This comprehensive, compact, lucid, and very faithful account of the Buddha’s Teachings (Dhamma) persistently enjoys great popularity in colleges, universities, and theological schools both in America and abroad.

“An exposition of Buddhism conceived in a resolutely modern spirit.”—from the Foreword.

“For years,” says the Journal of the Buddhist Society, “the newcomer to Buddhism has lacked a simple and reliable introduction to the complexities of the subject. Dr. Rahula’s What the Buddha Taught fills the need as only could be done by one having a firm grasp of the vast material to be sifted. It is a model of what a book should be that is addressed first of all to ‘the educated and intelligent reader.’ Authoritative and clear, logical and sober, this study is as comprehensive as it is masterly.”

A classic introductory book to Buddhism, What the Buddha Taught, contains a selection of illustrative texts from the original Pali canon texts, including the suttas (discourses, sutras) and the Dhammapada ("Imprint of the Dhamma," specially translated by the author), 16 illustrations, and a bibliography, glossary, and index. More
  • What the Buddha Taught: Revised and Expanded Edition with Texts from Suttas and Dhammapada by Walpola Rahula (author) and Paul Demieville (foreword)

Thursday, June 11, 2026

The 'Dark' Side of Theravada Buddhism

COMMENTARY
Wisdom Quarterly editors
What the Buddha Never Taught
The "dark" side of Theravada first came to light for us in reading Tim Ward's What the Buddha Never Taught. The problem then was the behavior of Buddhist "novices" (monks-in-training) in Thailand, which is a cultural custom to ordain before being considered ready for marriage in the wildly popular and largely Theravada Buddhist country.

Ward reports that as a samanera (white clad follower of eight or ten precepts), one Westerner had reported that a novice pleasured himself while staring over this sleeping person. We were shocked and mortified that such a thing could happen or be allowed to happen, but this is not the act of a male intending to be a monk until enlightenment or for the rest of his life. These hormonal boys are sent to the monastery for "temporary ordination" as young as 7 and may stay a few days or one rainy season (Rains Retreat). That's how it could happen.

Now, imagine the horror that men (20 and older) who take monastic vows live as wolves among the faithful givers of alms, taking advantage of the generosity of Buddhist supporters but having no aim of enlightenment or even keeping the monastic precepts recited in the patimokkha. That is a shame and a pity and directly the fault of a monastic sangha ("spiritual community") that does not enforce the rules or disciplinary procedures the historical Buddha laid down for the long life of the sangha and the Dhamma (the Teaching that leads to enlightenment in this very life).

The larger problem nowadays is even worse than that and is the real source of widespread corruption, homosexuality, crime, and hypocrisy in the sanghas of the Theravada countries. And that is that so few males want to enter the monastic life for genuine and sincere reasons that these societies have found workarounds: send in males who have no interest in practice but who need support and are willing to at least pretend to be well-behaved monks, teachers, and examples to the rest of society.

This problem has also appeared in Catholic countries all over the world, with overwhelming corruption, sinfulness, and public disaffection. It may be worse in Catholicism, which used to allow its priests to get married until the Vatican found it far more PROFITABLE to ban clergy marriages, which were directing donations to the children of clergy members as inheritance. When the practice of clergy marrying was BANNED, priests just broke the new rule the way they had always been breaking the rule against chastity (avowed celibacy), doing it in secret with child victims, fellow homosexuals, or visiting housewives. It has been more or less an open secret for centuries. So "secret" is it that corruption and homosexuality among cardinals and bishops -- who are priests with more responsibilities -- sets the example for younger "seminarians," which is what s*men-loaded cadets at the Catholic training schools call themselves and what they are called by other fellow gay-active trainees.

A wonderful book exposing the wholesale policy, not aberration, of these practices was published in Italian and has been translated into English. South Park mocked it in a wonderful episode about a good priest from the town going to Rome and finding out it's the norm. It's like that saying about police officers. "Nine out of ten officers make the other one look bad." In other words, the majority of hypocrites make the precious few sincere ones look bad. And the few good ones give cover and respectability to the many wolves in sheep's clothing. But this is not about Catholic corruption, or corruption among Jews, Evangelical Protestants, Western Hare Krishna devotees, or anybody else. This is about the dark and disgusting side of Theravada monastics.

A recent bust of many Sri Lankan novices and monks bringing potent cannabis into Sri Lanka through the international airport has not yet been resolves. Were they simply duped into acting as "mules" (carrying the pot in secret trap doors in their suitcases to benefit the donor who sent them on holiday to Thailand to pick up the massive shipment), or were they in on it and partaking of the intoxicant?

How can a common monk become a "saint"?
The solution is clear but not simple. The sangha as a united body needs to reinstitute the existing procedures on the books for expelling "defeated" monks and wayward "ascetics" for the good of the Buddha's dispensation (Śāsana) and the long life of the uncorrupted Dhamma (Dharma) in the world. It is not so important that one man falls due to greed, hatred/fear, or delusion and becomes a hypocrite, one taking advantage of a monastic career. What is important is that such hypocrites end up taking the whole sangha and eventually the whole Dhamma (Buddhist Teaching) in the world. The Monastic Disciplinary Rules exist in the Vinaya Pitaka, which is one of three massive collections of works on the three distinct divisions of the Pali canon (conventional sutras, monastic discipline, and the Doctrine in ultimate terms: Suttas, Vinaya, Abhidhamma).
  • There is still time to be upstanding.
    There comes a time... the Yellow-Necks, "monks" who do not live by the rules but who at least study and learn the Dhamma without much putting it into practice. Are we arrived at that time?
  • “In future times, Ānanda, there will be members of this clan who are ‘yellow-necks,’ immoral, of evil character. People will give gifts to those immoral persons for the sake of the Sangha. Even then, I say, an offering made to the Sangha is incalculable, immeasurable. And I say that in no way is a gift to a person individually ever more fruitful than an offering made to the Sangha [as a whole]” (Dakkhiṇāvibhaṅga Sutta, MN 142) dhammawheel.com
  • The disparaging term "yellow-necks" comes from, in the future, those defeated (parajika) "monks" wearing not full robes but a yellow, orange, red, or saffron scrap of a robe around their neck or wrist to signify their status as members of the sangha.
[FREE eBook] The Buddhist Monastic Code, Volumes I & II (Thanissaro/AudioBuddha)
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The monastic rules have also been translated into English by the American monk in the Thai Forest Tradition Thanissaro Bhikkhu, an abbot near San Diego, California (watmetta.org).

I tried. You can't please everybody all the time.
Ven. Thanissaro is a cantankerous old monk whom, we were told in Thailand, was driven out of Thailand and back to America due to monastic politics. It seems he served his ailing teacher, who might have left him, a farang ("foreigner"), in charge, but the local Thai monks waiting their turn to ascend in the monastery weren't going to stand for that. This may have made him bitter, but he has suffered from malaria for so long that it is difficult to discern the roots eating at this prodigious but hopelessly idiosyncratic translator of Thai and Pali. But his voice is nice, like a pilot for the big airlines, and people not in the know seem to like his warped take on things. We recommend Bhikkhu Bodhi for classic, well-rounded, and well-supported translations. Tan Jeff is nice enough to explain himself sometimes, but he is sorely lacking in providing the Pali term he is aberrantly translating into his own misleading glossary of terms. Please do better, sir, but thank you for all your work. We have known young men who tried to be monastics at Wat Metta who, finding the abbot insufferable, have left to better pastures, usually the idyllic Abhayagiri Buddhist Monastery.

Friday, May 1, 2026

Burning monk fights fire with fire: Vietnam War

 
We'll kill that g**k for imperial US corporations
(Buddha's Wisdom) May 1, 2026: 🔥 The photo the world has never forgotten during the imperial U.S. War on peaceful Buddhist Vietnam: The Burning Monk, Ven. Thich Quang Duc, became one of the most haunting images of the Vietnam War era.
On June 11, 1963, he sat down in a Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City) intersection and didn't move. But behind the famous photograph is a deeper Buddhist story about:
  • persecution,
  • nonviolent protest,
  • meditative stillness (samadhi), and
  • the monk whose final act shook the Catholic Ngo Dinh Diem regime and forced the world to look at Vietnam differently.
We had to kill Buddhists to rule by force!
It was the visible shape of a lifetime of Pure Land Buddhist practice, pressed all the way to the edge. This is the untold story behind the most powerful photograph of the 20th century and what Buddhism actually teaches about the mind that met that morning.

🔍 DISCOVER:
  • The real story behind Thich Quang Duc, the Burning Monk
  • How Buddhist persecution in South Vietnam led to the 1963 Buddhist crisis
  • How one photograph traveled from Saigon to Washington DC and changed global opinion...
  • and why U.S. President John F. Kennedy stopped mid-sentence when he saw it at breakfast
  • The heart relic that didn't burn...and what Vietnamese Buddhist tradition says it means
  • How Rage Against the Machine, Czech copycat Jan Palach [like many Tibetan lamas under communist Chinese oppression], and Dependent Origination connect one Saigon intersection to six decades of history
  • What Buddhism teaches about compassion, courage, and meeting suffering without hatred 🙏
Fight war [the state] not [its] wars
If this story moves viewers — subscribe. This channel exists to tell the stories Buddhism rarely gets credit for: historically grounded, honestly told [with a moving AI voice that only rarely mispronounces words], without the self-help packaging. New videos every week.

⚠️ CONTENT ADVISORY! This video discusses the dying [by suicide] of Thích Quảng Đức (June 11, 1963) as a historical and Buddhist educational subject. While no graphic footage is shown, the topic involves dying, political persecution, and religious violence. Viewer discretion is advised.

Who sells weapons to the world? War profiteers
This video is produced with deep respect for Thích Quảng Đức, the Vietnamese Buddhist community, and the historical record.
📚 SOURCES AND FURTHER READING (affiliate links)
Primary Sources: — Thích Quảng Đức's final letter, June 10, 1963 (translated versions available via Vietnam Buddhist archives) — Malcolm Browne, Muddy Boots and Red Socks (1993) — firsthand account of June 11 1963 https://amzn.to/4980Unr — David Halberstam, The Making of a Quagmire (1965) — eyewitness testimony https://amzn.to/4cLJNKE Buddhist Texts: — The Dhammapada (especially Chapter 1 — the Yamaka Vagga) — Sukhāvatīvyūha Sūtra — foundational Pure Land text on Amitābha's vow — Larger and Smaller Pure Land Sutras — the practice of nianfo/nembutsu 

HISTORICAL AND SCHOLARLY
— Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnam: Lotus in a Sea of Fire (1967) — written in direct response to the Buddhist crisis https://amzn.to/4cWRegz — Edward Miller, Misalliance: Ngo Dinh Diem, the United States, and the Fate of South Vietnam (2013) https://amzn.to/4eEY2ST — Neil Sheehan, A Bright Shining Lie (1988) — broader Vietnam War context https://amzn.to/424gBs3 — Mark Moyar, Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954–1965 https://amzn.to/42EAx4T On the Relic: — Vietnamese Buddhist Federation records on the heart relic preservation and enshrinement (2025) Historical records on Xa Loi Pagoda, the Hue Vesak crisis, and Buddhist protests in South Vietnam Reporting and archival material on the Diem regime, Madame Nhu, and U.S. reactions to the Buddhist crisis Malcolm Browne’s Associated Press photographs and reporting from Saigon, 1963 This video references and discusses Malcolm Browne's 1963 Associated Press photographs, archival news footage, and other historical materials related to the events of June 11, 1963 in Saigon, South Vietnam.

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