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Tuesday, December 24, 2024

Bigfoot moves in and out of this reality

It seems clear that Krampus ("Claw"), Satan's Claws, are a class of Yeti/demon/yakshas
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.


If they're so real, where are they?
G. P. Malalasekera, Dictionary of Pali Proper Names edited by Dhr. Seven, Wisdom Quarterly
Genie in Islam: Ogre, Ghoul, Yeti, Yakkha
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 Neanderthal humans (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:
  1. Virūḍhaka विरूढकः, king of the Southern Direction, ruler the kumbandas (dwarves);
  2. Dhṛtarāṣṭra धृतराष्ट्रः, king of the Eastern Direction, ruler of the gandhabbas (the lowest rank of devas, servants of superior devas, entertainers, "heavenly musicians");
  3. Virūpākṣa विरूपाक्षः, king of the Western Direction, ruler of the nagas (reptilians, dragons, serpents, reptoids, Draconians); and their leader
  4. 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 deva King 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 yojana roughly equaling 7 miles) above the Earth.
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  • Wild Assault, Dec. 23, 2024; Maximum Fear, Dec. 16, 2024; Dhr. Seven, Pfc. Sandoval, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly partial Wiki edit

Thursday, September 26, 2024

Life in Los Angeles circa 1880 (video)


Woman born in 1878 talks about her childhood in Los Angeles in the 1880s
How could Belle Buford remember so far back?
(Life in the 1800s) Mrs. Belle Buford Thom Collins was born in 1878 in Los Angeles (which she pronounces, as many whites used to, "Loss An'gless"), California. She speaks about her childhood in the Los Angeles of the 1880s. Her father, LA Mayor Cameron Erskine Thom (1825-1915), who served L.A. between 1882 and 1884. Mrs. Collins' niece, Rowena, speaks in the beginning of the recording.
Her neighbors (in her mind), all named Poncho
  • 0:00 Introduction
  • 1:35 Rowena (Belle's niece) speaking
  • 2:25 Belle Buford Thom Collins speaking
Stevie Emerson BBQ grilling Los Angeles today

This audio has been remastered for clarity. It was recorded on Nov. 26, 1964. The original tape contained several gaps, so some points begin mid-sentence. All photographs are of early Los Angeles, from the 1870s to the late 1890s. Source: The Huntington Library californiarevealed.org/island...

LA now has all kinds, but whites still want to rule

New history channel "The History Zone" contains historical videos from all time periods. @thehistoryzone272. Music channel is Life in the Music: @lifeinthemusic9399.
  • Part 2: Woman Born in 1878 Talks About Her Childhood...
Euro legacy of racism? Implicit bias: LA Times reckons with its record on race and racism


(Los Angeles Times) Sept. 27, 2020: The big LA newspaper is taking an unflinching look at its history, as institutions across America reflect on racial inequality and the legacy of past harm lingering today.

Whites do not know much about it because they were not the ones who had to suffer it so much as being the ones whom the system privileged and gave advantages to. Now we see widespread gentrification as the climax of a slow genocide of Natives is reached. There are three groups that are prominent in this:
  • the white European settler colonialists,
  • the residual brown Mexicans from this being Mexico for so many centuries, and
  • the red Indigenous (Indian, Native Americans, First Nations) peoples who have been here the longest.
The picture is complicated by the fact that the Spanish (from Europe's Iberian Peninsula with its strong ties to imperial Rome and the priestly and banking arm of the military known today as the Holy Roman Catholic Church) blended European and Indian blood to such an extent that nearly all Mexicans living here now are a blend of two peoples.

Racist Glendale, an LA Sundown Town, is where
as teenagers my white girlfriend and I hung out.

(The Casta system survives only now it deal metes out privileges and punishments in a less than overt ways, whereas in the past it was enforced by laws on the books).

There's no dividing us now even in a white-majority hegemon that screams, "We're a minority now like everyone else!" We are not because what happened was a statistical trick of the count. Suddenly, whites got put on one side of the scale and everybody else (the Hispanics, Latinos, Chicanos, Blacks, Asians, Middle Easterners, and sundry other groups, such as the very exclusive Ashkenazi crypto-Jews who with others pass and blend and largely go unnoticed, from all over the country and planet) got put on the other side. 

And whaddyaknow?! Suddenly whites were in the minority. But they never have been. Each group is a group, and white continues to be the biggest group. Anyone can see that just walking around Los Angeles or going to the beach. One sure see a lot of diversity, but mainly what one sees are whites, white privilege, white fragility, whites screaming "reverse racism!" while filming The Daily Wire video shorts on the UCLA quad and campus environs.

Banks didn't tell citizens about their secret practice

We are only saying that any mention of Los Angeles cannot leave out its legacy of racism, privilege, criminal police (LAPD) and Sheriff Department abuses, real estate abuses (that redlined different racial groups into different parts of the county and city by design with the aid of bank loan officers). What we have today is the result of decisions made in the past. The legacy of Spain's racism in Mexico, the Southwest, and in particular Alta California has a lot to do with it.

But new European arrivals were only too happy to continue those self-privileging policies and maintain the system by greed, aversion to others (xenophobia), and willful ignorance and delusion that we're a colorblind society that has moved beyond race and shouldn't even mention race because to mention it is racist. It is not racist. Racism is racist, and letting it fester is doing nothing about it. The first thing that needs to be done about it to bring about any kind of equality or equity is shining a light on it and remembering history.
  • Life in the 1800s, May 26, 2023: Frank Black, "Los Angeles" (1993) via Beavis & Butthead (MTV); Latin American Los Angelenos Crystal Quintero, the Mexican Buddhist, Pfc. Sandoval, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Tuesday, July 25, 2023

Why the rich love pretending to be poor


Why rich people love pretending to be poor
(Horses) March 21, 2023. Don't be fooled. Ed Sheeran is a phony as are others, even Marie Antoinette.

Music: Beyond Words - Many Moons Ago La Vuelta a Lerida - Vendla It Goes On - Peace Reels Torn Apart - Infinity Ripple Synesthesia (scaled down version) - Peter Sandberg Photography: Lisa Fotios, Skylar Kang, Inga Seliverstova, ph.galtri, yaroslava bondareva Art: Midjourney AI engine.

Friday, July 31, 2009

Buddhism Wins "Best Religion" Award?

A Buddhist news story has been popping up all over the internet lately. Only problem is, it's probably not true. The Shambhala Sun looks into it. No one can find "ICARUS" or even the "Tribune de Geneve." But since monks sent the story into WQ, we thought readers might nevertheless like to see it.


"Tribune de Geneve" (7/15/09)

The Geneva-based International Coalition for the Advancement of Religion and Spirituality(ICARUS) has bestowed "The Best Religion In the World" award this year on the Buddhist Community. This special award was voted on by an international round table of more than 200 religious leaders from every part of the spiritual spectrum.

It was fascinating to note that many religious leaders voted for Buddhism rather than their own religion although Buddhists actually make up a tiny minority of ICARUS membership.

Here are the comments of four voting members:

  • Director of Research for ICARUS, Jonna Hult, said: "It wasn't a surprise to me that Buddhism won Best Religion in the World, because we could find literally not one single instance of a war fought in the name of Buddhism -- in contrast to every other religion that seems to keep a gun in the closet just in case God makes a mistake. We were hard pressed to even find a Buddhist that had ever been in an army. These people practice what they preach to an extent we simply could not document with any other spiritual tradition."
  • A Catholic priest, Father Ted O'Shaughnessy, said from Belfast: "As much as I love the Catholic Church, it has always bothered me to no end that we preach love in our scripture yet then claim to know God's will when it comes to killing other humans. For that reason, I did have to cast my vote for the Buddhists."
  • A Muslim cleric, Tal Bin Wassad, agreed from Pakistan via his translator: "While I am a devout Muslim, I can see how much anger and bloodshed is channeled into religious expression rather than dealt with on a personal level. The Buddhists have that figured out." Bin Wassad, the ICARUS voting member for Pakistan 's Muslim community, continued: "In fact, some of my best friends are Buddhist."
  • And a Jewish rabbi, Shmuel Wasserstein, said from Jerusalem: "Of course, I love Judaism, and I think it's the greatest religion in the world. But to be honest, I've been practicing Vipassana meditation every day before minyan (daily Jewish prayer) since 1993. So I get it."

However, there was one snag. ICARUS could not find anyone to give the award to. All the Buddhists they called kept saying they didn't want the award.

When asked why the Burmese Buddhist community refused the award, Buddhist monk Bhante Ghurata Hanta said from Burma: "We are grateful for the acknowledgement, but we give this award to all humanity, for Buddha-nature [the capacity to become awakened] lies within each of us."

Groehlichen went on to say: "We're going to keep calling around until we find a Buddhist who will accept it. We'll let you know when we do."