Israel's IDF soldiers admit to war crimes

IDF Spokesman Johnathan Conricus smirks - It's not just soldiers but common Jewish Zionists, too

• IDF Zionist leadership orders its Jewish soldiers to do the UNTHINKABLE: war crimes of starving and shooting starving civilians
• Proof? IDF Jews confess: breakingthesilence.org.il

Is mindfulness just awareness?

7 Simple Mindfulness Exercises & Techniques for Daily Relaxation (Discover Happy Habits)

The difference between Awareness and Mindfulness with Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

Why bother? Who needs mindfulness?

(Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche) Find yourself wondering about the differences between awareness and mindfulness? In this teaching, Mingyur Rinpoche explains this question from the traditional Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhist perspective by exploring the difference between object-oriented and subject-oriented forms of meditation as ways to connect with [bare] awareness.

Meditate by Letting the Mind Be as It Is – Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

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  Mindfulness in Plain English

  [EDITOR'S NOTE: Mindfulness is wakeful, vigilant, presence of mind in this moment as a watcher rather than as a participant. It is not being sucked in or getting entangled but merely observing, bare awareness, not evaluating, judging, resisting, preferring, averting, but just dispassionately aware, detached but fully awake to what is, whatever it is even as it is constantly changing. Rather than attempting to fix, improve, change, or involve ourselves, we just watch and see what happens as it happens. This, Wisdom Quarterly suggests, is the principal difference between mindfulness and awareness. Mindfulness is "bare awareness," a kind of looking on (watching) that is free of discursive thinking, drifting off, or having distractions pull us away and scatter our attention. It is undivided, keenly interested attention that does not grasp, cling, or prefer but is open to whatever is in this moment, the "eternal now." See: "Mindfulness" defined (Ven. Analayo), Establishing Mindfulness Sutra (podcast), Confronting Racism with Mindfulness, and Youth Sutra, The Buddha's Mindfulness Diet Plan]

#4: Mind stays stationary at point under the nose

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• Transforming the Mind with Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
• Mindfulness in Plain English: 20th Anniversary Edition (Bhante G or Bhante Gunaratana)
• Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, April 21, 2022; Dhr. Seven (ed.), Wisdom Quarterly

Mindful? Who's watching the watcher?

Who’s watching the "watcher"? Buddhism’s Answer to the endless watcher

What is the perfection?

(Buddhism Podcast) June 26, 2025: Buddhism Explained. [Who’s watching? There is watching; the question assumes a watcher, a habit of our customary way of thinking built into the language with nouns that do verbs. But if watching is only an impersonal process, then what?]

What if [that which or] the one who watches our thoughts is just another thought? This video gently follows a deep question in Buddhism: Who observes the observer?

• Understanding the perfection of wisdom: it is all impersonal, empty (shunyata), not-self (anatta).

Step by step, we walk through the layers of awareness, the habit of searching, and the quiet freedom beyond identity.

Through the Buddha’s teachings, the Dharma, we see how presence needs no owner. We don’t have to become anyone — we’ve never been apart from this presence. It has always been here.

• 00:00 - The strange question that changes everything
• 04:20 - The mirror that reflects itself
• 09:21 - Meditation — where the question becomes real
• 14:38 - The peace beyond the search
• 18:44 - The unshaped presence

#Buddhism #TheBuddhaTeachings #TheObserver. The channel's purpose and commitment: This channel is "committed to sharing the beauty and wisdom of Buddhist teachings with the purpose of education and inspiration. All our content is created with deep respect for the Buddha’s teachings [the Dhamma], aiming to promote understanding, mindfulness, and compassion in everyday life. [The channel's] goal is to present the values and practices of Buddhism in a way that is accessible and beneficial to everyone, regardless of their background or beliefs. We do not seek to influence or alter anyone’s faith but simply to offer insights into the timeless wisdom of Buddhism as a source of guidance and positivity. This channel is a space for learning, reflection, and connection, guided by the principles of respect, kindness, and truth. If you have any feedback or concerns, we welcome open and respectful dialogue. Thank you for supporting our mission to share the meaningful messages of Buddhism with the world."

• Buddhism Podcast, YouTube, June 26, 2025; Amber Larson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Jewish ANTI-Zionist Congress, 2025

Jewish Anti-Zionist Congress in Vienna 2025 impressions

Top 100 most famous [secular] Jewish personalities | Religion of Famous People

(Palästina Solidarität Österreich - PSÖ) June 20, 2025: The world watches in horror the unfolding Jewish-Zionist genocide against the Palestinian people committed by [Christian] Zionism in partnership with the West.

It is our duty [as Jews and Christian people of conscience] to take action, as this is done in our name. We must join our Palestinian brothers and sisters in their darkest hour, and work for freeing and decolonizing Palestine!

To achieve this just aim, we must have progressive organizations and individuals across the world with us, working against Zionist Apartheid, ethnic cleansing and genocide as the last devastating evidence of colonialism which must be terminated.

• juedisch-antizionistisch....
• juedisch-antizionistisch.at/

Jews and people of Jewish descent everywhere -- those whom the criminal Zionist state claims to speak for -- are uniting to declare their unwavering opposition to Zionism.

Since the First Zionist Congress over a century ago, [fringe] Zionism claimed to speak on behalf of all Jews, while permanently attempting to silence our opposition to its constant crimes.

Jewish tradition, history, and culture are totally opposed to genocide. The impressive history of Jewish resistance to Zionism is as long as [that of] Zionism: it included [dissenting] religious communities as well as secular movements of Jewish descent, and the vehement Jewish opposition to the creation of the Zionist state in Palestine itself.

• IDF Veterans try to explain: breakingthesilence.org.il

Zionism is a crime against Judaism and the indigenous people of Palestine [whether racistly calling them "Arabs" or rightly calling them Palestinians], and we are committed to putting an end to it.

Over the years, it became clear that Zionism, instead of protecting Jews, placed them in great danger by committing atrocities in their name.

Zionism is based on racial supremacy, adopting the very racist assumptions which are inherent to antisemitism -- describing Jews as belonging to some special chosen race -- a notion which is fundamentally racist and which has no relation to Judaism.

The Zionist settler-colonial entity [the imperial project calling itself "Israel"] denies Palestinians their most basic rights [even their right to be viewed as a people, a distinct group with its own customs].

Zionism operates through colonialism, apartheid, ethnic-cleansing, and genocide in Palestine even before 1948 [and the Nakba or "Catastrophe" of displacement, theft, terror, and mass murder].

Ilan Pappé: Israel has a legal right to exist?

Ilan Pappé: Does Israel have the right to exist or not?

Fourteen million Palestinians worldwide are its direct victims. [A world of Jews everywhere are its indirect victims.]

To Israel we firmly declare “Not in Our Name!”

We are devoted to terminating Zionism, and we are devoted to the decolonization of Palestine under Palestinian leadership!

Above all, Zionism is a crime against humanity. Dedicated to the oath of the survivors of Mauthausen Concentration Camp, handed down to us as testimony of resistance against Nazi fascism, we follow their universal legacy and reiterate their message:

“The permanence in the camp, lasting years, has reinforced in our minds the knowledge of the value of brotherhood among the people of all nations. True to these ideals, we make a solemn oath to continue to fight, firm and united, against imperialism and against the instigation of hatred between peoples.”

Together we will join forces at the first Jewish Anti-Zionist Congress and united we will join the Palestinians in liberating Palestine and building a democratic, just, and equal society for all!

People of all backgrounds were invited. Joining forces with Palestinians and allies in the struggle against Zionism.

Do Jews, Muslims, Christians have same God? - All Palestinian children are Hamas. Kill 'em all!

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• Pink Floyd's Roger Waters message anti-Zionist solidarity

CIA-groomed Bibi Netanyahu: 'Ben Nitay'

(New York Post) Clashes erupt at massive NYC protest against US support for Israel

Polish IDF war criminal Ben M.

(Andrew Kaczynski, posted in 2013) 29-year-old Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu (born Benny Mileikowsky, groomed in Chicago, here using the pseudonym "Ben Nitay") on a local Boston show debating Israel-Palestine.

• Who is Bibi's father? Cornell University Professor Benzion Netanyahu was a Polish-born American-Israeli encyclopedist, historian, and medievalist. He served as a professor of history at Cornell, scholar of Judaic history, and was also an activist in the Revisionist Zionism movement, who lobbied in the United States to... More
• Grandfather? Polish Jew Nathan Mileikowsky

We school, groom, direct, and fund dictators.

Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu (born October 21, 1949) is an American educated (MIT) and raised Jewish Zionist Israeli politician [groomed by the CIA to become a militant leader of Zionism's settler colonial project] and diplomat who has served as the longest serving [repeatedly reinstalled in spite of his ongoing corruption trial paused by his ongoing wars on Gaza, Palestine, Lebanon, Egypt, and now Iran] prime minister of Israel since 2022, having previously held the office from 1996 to 1999 and from 2009 to 2021. Netanyahu is the longest-serving prime minister in Israel's history, having served a total of over 17 years. More

Right to exist as racist apartheid state?

• "Mr. Ben Nitay" was Pole born Benny Mileikowsky
• Benzion Netanyahu family history & historical records (MyHeritage)

Ireland stands up to Mileikowsky's Israel

Is Russia the Evil Empire? No. Look!

Russian beauties on pinterest.com

(Kayse Melone) From Evangelical Christian patriot to Anti-Empire Atheist: Isn't US the EE?

Modern Russia has extraordinary structures | Liden & Denz Russia

Life in Russia: SHOCKING MYTHS about the country will leave viewers speechless

(Wild to Travel) Why would any American be shocked that Russia is a beautiful and modern non-communist country? It's because we've been lied to in the West for so long that there is no setting us straight. And we don't travel out of our country enough to know anything directly for ourselves. Go out into the world! Stop being duped by PR propaganda from both sides. That's why Wisdom Quarterly has special correspondents like Eli from Russia and AgentNesty:

• Buddhism in Russia

I prefer beloved modern Russia to Central Asia

From Evangelical Patriot to Anti-Empire Atheist

(Kayse Melone) June 26, 2025: We had a great question asked on a chat on one of my recent livestreams. What does it mean to love yourself as an American when you no longer believe in what [North] America stands for? As someone who grew up in evangelical Christian nationalism in the heart of red-state America, I’ve had to unpack the myths I was raised on, face the guilt and shame of living in the belly of the beast, and begin the long process of internal deconstruction and healing. We talk about American exceptionalism, the spiritual cost of capitalism, and why letting go of nationalism might be the most patriotic thing we can do.

#exchristian #exvangelical #unitedstates #deconstructingchristianity #atheist. Remember to join the live show at 7:00 am CT every Sunday-Wednesday on YouTube or Twitch. Connect with Kayse. Website: kaysemelone.com

• Evil Empire (album by Rage Against the Machine); Kayse Melone, June 26, 2025; Wild to Travel) June 19, 2025; Eli from Russia, Pfc. Sandoval, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Trinity? Let's go back in time to see

What if a Trinitarian could go back in time to talk to the original Christians about the 'trinity'?

• What in the world is the "trinity"?
• Biblical redactions, contradictions, disagreements, removals, insertions, different accounts to perfect word of the God

Nazis and Zionists were connected

(History Hustle by Dutch History Teacher Stefan) Bizarre relations between the Nazis and Zionists

NY candidate Zohran Mamdani mania!

(ABC News Australia) Could Assemblyman Mamdani beat corrupt (Trump-pardoned) Eric Adams?

NYC mayoral candidate Mamdani wants you to have more money in your pocket | The Nation

Maybe we should rape, kill 'Arabs' in Gaza?

Save our Jewish-Zionist soldiers! All they did was rape Palestinians: Israel's weapon of war

(BBC News) Israeli forces [purposely] kill 23 Palestinians waiting for food, Gaza officials say

(The Young Turks) Ana Kasparian examines IDF war crimes

• Ordinary Jewish Zionist Israelis WANT to kill babies and openly say so: Asian countries ban Israeli tourists

Palestinians on their experiences of sexual violence at hands of Israeli soldiers

(Midde East Eye) Paloma Faith gives impassioned speech at London’s pro-Palestine rally

Raping Palestinians: Israel's weapon of war

(MEMO) During the summer of 2024, horrifying details began to emerge of Jewish-Zionist Israeli occupation forces in Palestine raping Palestinians they had detained.

While revelations from Sde Teiman Prison (detention camp) stirred debates both in Israel and abroad, the use of rape and sexual violence against Palestinians can be traced back to 1948, the year of the Nakba.

Tel Aviv has been using sexual violence like sodomy to torture, coerce, intimidate, and break Palestinians for generations.

MEMO looks into the systematic use of rape by Israel against Palestinians.

From 1948 to Gaza 2025: Zaha Hassan on the ongoing Nakba

• As people of conscience, feed starving (give.muslimi.com)
• Humaniti – Let's change the world together
• MEMO, Dec. 29, 2024; Shauna Schwartz, Ashley Wells, Pfc. Sandoval (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

20 Indigenous/Native American sayings

You can lead a horse to water, but keep it clean.

Is timeless wisdom (prajna) limited to the historical Buddha? There are, in fact, many sources of profound insight and knowledge, much of it coming from this occupied land of the settler colonial project we call the USA. The Indigenous inhabitants kept harmony and balance for more than 10,000 years, and we would do well to learn their lessons of sustainability and preservation. Many Buddhist sayings are collected in the Dhammapada.

India should reclaim Buddhism to build power

The Dhammapada is the best known and most widely esteemed text in the Pali language collection, the sacred scriptures of Theravada Buddhism. The work is included in the Minor Collection of the Sutra Basket, but its popularity has raised it far above the place it occupies in the texts to the ranks of a world religious classic. Composed in the ancient Pali language spoken by the Buddha, this slim anthology of verses constitutes a perfect compendium of the Buddha's teaching, comprising between its covers all the essential principles elaborated at length in the 40-odd volumes of the Pali canon. According to the Theravada Buddhist tradition, each verse in the Dhammapada was originally spoken by the Buddha in response to a particular event or episode. Accounts of these, along with an explanation of the verses, are preserved in the classic commentary to the work, compiled by the great Buddhaghosa in the fifth century C.E. on the basis or material going back to much more ancient times. The contents of the verses, however, transcend the limited and particular circumstances of their origin, reaching out through the ages to various types of people in all the diverse situations of life

• The Dhammapada: The Buddha's Path of Wisdom

1. "We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children."

This saying or proverb emphasizes the importance of stewardship for [seven] future generations. It calls us to consider the legacy we leave behind [when we leave off using this planet and its resources].

Living with this mindset encourages sustainable practices and a deep respect for nature. Reflecting on this, one might find inspiration to make conscious choices that protect the environment. It’s a reminder that our actions today will shape the world of tomorrow, urging us to be mindful custodians of our planet.

Family says Indigenous woman was beaten to death on Navajo Nation

(Indigenous police have no right to arrest non-Navajos who commit crimes)

2. “All things are connected. Whatever befalls the Earth, befalls the children of the Earth.”

This proverb or traditional saying highlights the interconnectedness of all life on Earth. It teaches that every action has a ripple effect, influencing the broader ecosystem.

Understanding this connection fosters empathy and mindfulness, urging us to live in harmony with nature. It reminds us that our well-being is tied to the health of the planet.

Embracing this wisdom can guide us to make decisions that support ecological balance, promoting a sustainable future for ourselves and [seven] future generations.

3. “Walk lightly in the spring, and you will not disturb the summer.” More

• VIDEO: Unearthed Wonders: Exploring the Lost Cities of Ancient History in US, Cambodia, and elsewhere

• Ella Brown; Montezuma Local News (video); Xochitl, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Who will win next war Trump starts?

The real winners of every war with Abby Martin

(AJ+) June 24, 2025: They lost the war -- but made billions. This documentary uncovers how U.S. "defense" contractors turned global conflict, from Afghanistan to Gaza, into a profit [war] machine. Investigative journalist Abby Martin, host of @empirefiles, helps break down this story.

Male gaze? Israel gaze. Endless biased PR agents

Desperation mounts in Gaza as Israelis kill Palestinians seeking food aid

How Jewish colonizers steal Palestinian food

(Mondoweiss) How Israel weaponizes food to erase Palestinian identity

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Free Summer Shakespeare in the Park, LA

THE 2025 GRIFFITH PARK FREE SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL

Indie Shakes Spring Campaign 2025

The fest includes Love’s Labour’s Lost by William Shakespeare [or Edward DeVere or the klatch of writers that were borrowed and stolen from to make the Bard's canon] runs June 25 to July 27 (with no performance on July 4th due to fireworks, traffic, and picnics) with performances on Wednesdays through Sundays @ 7:00 pm.

Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe runs from August 6 to August 31, Wednesdays through Sundays @ 7:00 pm.

Pack your picnic, shake out your blanket, and call your friends, LA’s biggest theater event of the summer begins Wednesday, June 25th!

SYNOPSIS

Love’s Labour’s Lost: Four gentlemen commit to a celibate life of disciplined study, but the last thing they expect is a quartet of aristocratic ladies to sweep them off their feet. Shakespeare’s intoxicating wit meets Bridgerton’s spicy society drama in this lush, bawdy, and bittersweet romantic comedy.

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Doctor Faustus: A mysterious scholar sets his sights on mastering the dark arts and strikes a deal with the devil to make the magic happen. Marlowe’s playful, seductive fever dream becomes a satirical, soul-stirring thrill ride where unchecked ego meets ultimate consequence. After all, when you play with fire…there’s hell to pay.

Alongside these extraordinary productions, ISCLA (the Independent Shakespeare Company Los Angeles) have special events all summer long, including workshops, theme nights, and community engagement activations.

Stay up to date by joining the mailing list, and hit the button for more details. See you at the park! Independent Shakespeare Co.

• IndieShakes.org (ISCLA.org) is back!
• Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly