Friday, October 23, 2026

UCLA Mindful celebrates 20 years (10/24)


"Mindfulness" is more than sitting still
UCLA Mindful (previously MARC, the Mindful Awareness Research Center at the University of California, Los Angeles) is celebrating 20 years of mindfulness at UCLA.
For 20 years, UCLA has been a home for mindfulness (Buddhist sati) education, research, and practice. New website: UCLA Mindful - Mindfulness Education Center | UCLA Health

Join us in celebrating this journey—from the founding of the Mindful Awareness Research Center (MARC) to the growth of UCLA Mindful and its reach across Los Angeles and around the world.

Join us on October 24, 2026, for a Day of Mindfulness featuring opportunities for practice, learning, and connection, followed by an evening 20th Anniversary Evening Reception to celebrate two decades of growth and impact and look ahead to the next 20 years.

There are two exciting celebration opportunities, the Day of Mindfulness and an Evening Reception.

  • Participate in a free Day of Mindfulness in-person or live-online. Full event details now available.
  • In-person and online Day of Mindfulness October 24, 10:00 am-5:00 pm (Pacific Time). All are invited to participate in a Day of Mindfulness, co-sponsored by and partially held in the UCLA Mathias Botanical Garden, on Oct. 24 from 10:00 AM–5:00 PM. This special anniversary celebration brings together longtime members of the UCLA Mindful community, educators, practitioners, students, and friends for a day of meaningful practice, reflection, connection, and learning.
  • The garden will host a variety of creative ways to practice mindfulness including movement, forest bathing, relational mindfulness, and much more.
  • All are welcome to join in continuing the milestone celebration at the UCLA Mathias Botanical Garden for the Evening Reception. Limited spots still available.
LIVE: online and in-person in the Main Hall
The online experience offers its own thoughtfully curated program, with access to the day's featured speakers and shared moments of practice and reflection from the main hall.

There will be guided meditations throughout the day. The main hall will be livestreamed all day, allowing the broader community to come together in celebration from wherever they are.

A highlight of the celebration will be a gathering of past and present leaders who have helped shape UCLA Mindful over the past two decades. Featured speakers will include:
  • Diana Winston, Current Director, UCLA Mindful
  • Sue Smalley, Founder and Founding Director of the Mindful Awareness Research Center (MARC)
  • Dan Siegel, Founding Co-Director of MARC
  • Marvin G. Belzer, Former Associate Director of MARC
Additional teachers include:
  • Dr. Allyson Pimentel, Mitra Manesh, Gloria Kamler, and Dr. Ali Mossaver-Rahmani
Only the in-person experience will invite participants into the UCLA campus and the Mathias Botanical Garden for a full day of embodied and relational practice, including breakout sessions, movement practices, and mindful garden experiences.

These sessions will take place in the main hall and throughout the garden and will offer opportunities to connect with the natural environment and with one another in ways that can only happen in person.

The in-person program will feature a rich variety of breakout sessions, with topics including:
  • Relational mindfulness
  • Movement and embodied practices
  • Mindful garden tours
  • Forest Bathing
  • Mindful Photography
  • and other opportunities to explore mindfulness through different perspectives and practices
Garden-based breakout sessions will not be recorded or livestreamed, allowing these intimate experiences to remain grounded in the garden and in the presence of those participating on site.

Together, we will reflect on the history of mindfulness at UCLA, celebrate the people and practices that have shaped the program, and look toward the future of mindfulness in our community and beyond.

Whether joining us on campus or from home, all are invited to be part of this milestone celebration. Join ss:
  • Saturday, October 24, 2026
  • 10:00 am–5:00 pm (PT
  • UCLA Campus: Matthias Botanical Garden
  • Online registration: The event is free to attend
  • Donations are warmly appreciated and help support the continued work of UCLA Mindful.
  • REGISTER NOW
  • Facilitator 10:00-11:15
Opening Gathering: Founders Roundtable Dr. Elizabeth Ko Moderator 11:30-12:15 Sitting Practice- "Sharing Joy" Allyson Pimentel 12:30-1:15 Sitting Practice- "Slow Time" Dr. Ali 1:15- 2:15 Lunch 2:15-2:45 Mid-Day Gathering- Practice & Connection Diana Winston 3:00-3:45 Sitting Practice- "Where Is Your Attention Right Now? From Noise to Choice" Mitra Manesh 4:00-5:00 End of Day Gathering- Visioning & Sound Bath with Michael Perricone Diana Winston More

Two ways to participate — one meaningful celebration
Los Angeles leads mindfulness movement
The Day of Mindfulness will be offered in a hybrid (in-person/online) format, with opportunities to participate both in person at UCLA and online from around the world.

While both formats are part of the same celebration, the experiences are intentionally designed to be different. See website for in-person and online experience details (uclahealth.org/uclamindful). Full session details now available.

Together, we will reflect on the history of mindfulness at UCLA, celebrate the people and practices that have shaped the program, and look toward the future of mindfulness in our community and beyond.
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LISA drops 'Tarantino' (music video)


LISA "Tarantino" (official music video)


LISA: Lalisa Manobal (Thai ลลิษา มโนบาล, born Pranpriya Manobal, March 27, 1997), known mononymously as LISA (Thai ลิซ่า, Korean 리사) is a Thai rapper, singer, dancer, and actress.
Thailand raises another star
LISA rose to prominence as a member of the South Korean K-POP all-girl group BLACKPINK, which debuted under YG Entertainment in August 2016 and became one of the best-selling girl groups of all time. More

LYRICS: "Tarantino"
Yeah, yuh/ Got my nails really long like the barrel of my gun/ And my lipstick all over your face/ I'm a boss, I'm a don when I'm driving to the sun/ It's a movie, baby, come and press play (press play)

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood?
Tarantino, Tarantino, got my feet hanging out the camino/ Tarantino, Tarantino, got my feet hanging out the camino/ I got Kill Bill demeanor, mustard all on my sneakers/ Pulling up to the motel, baby, turn up the speakers/ Catch me causing a scene here right outside the convenience/ Hold my gold chain, baby, you can stay for the teaser/ Death proof, baby, I do all my own stunts

I'm famous now! Bout time I get my own song.
F-U baby like a razor on my tongue/ Black suit fast food take me out to lunch/ At the drive-thru Thai funk shaking out the trunk/ Got my nails really long like the barrel of my gun/ And my lipstick all over your face/ I'm a boss, I'm a don when I'm driving to the sun/  It's a movie, baby, come and press play (press play)

Fame is a double-edged sword
Tarantino, Tarantino, got my feet hanging out the camino/ Tarantino, Tarantino, got my feet hanging out the camino/ Catch me in a cabana/ Wearing just a bandana/ Sipping juice silver tooth/ Shining like a katana/ Imma chop-chop, non-stop/ Bomb drop chopper/ Looking out the window/ At these window shoppers/ Death proof, baby, I do all my own stunts

F-U, baby, like a razor on my tongue/ Black suit fast food take me out to lunch/ At the drive-thru Thai funk shaking out the trunk/ Got my nails really long like the barrel of my gun/ And my lipstick all over your face/ I'm a boss, I'm a don when I'm driving to the sun/ It's a movie, baby, come and press play (press play)

Tarantino, Tarantino, got my feet hanging out the camino/ Tarantino, Tarantino, got my feet hanging out the camino/ Tarantino, Tarantino/ Tarantino, Tarantino, Hollywood in your hands and you know how it ends/ So come on, turn me on, cause it ain't gonna last for long,/ I'm a movie, baby, come and press play (press play)
Like Rose, I don't need BLACKPINK
@lalalalisa_m Director: James Mackel @jamesmackel Creative Direction: James Mackel & Connor Tingley Production Company: Object & Animal @objectandanimal Executive Producer: Alex Brinkman @alexbrinkman Head of Production: Lauren Skillen @loskillen Producer: Klaudia Podsiadlo @klaudiclouds Post Producer: Gina Crow @huxley_anne_ LLOUD, Head of Global Business: Alice Kang @heyalic_e LLOUD, Business Advisor: Joojong Joe @jatafly LLOUD, Creative Director: Emily Jang @emjanggg LLOUD, Management: Chase Johnson @chasejohnsonn 

LLOUD, Management: Wonjae Park @wonjae_97827 LLOUD, Marketing Manager: Jiahn Bae @jeeaanbae RCA, Producer: Niki Roberton @nikiroberton RCA, Producer: Shoshana Reist @ssshoreist RCA, Producer: John Fleckenstein BTS Photographer / Videographer: Kenji Chong @kenjikchong Stunt Double: Lauren Mary Kim @laurenmarykim Stunts: Efka Kvaraceijus @efkastunts1 Stunts: Freddy Bouciegues @freddy_b_ Stunts: Andrew Franklin @andrewjfranklin Dancer: Maddy Barnett @maddy__barnett Dancer: Christa Albert @christaalbert Dancer: Shiori Muryama @seeee26 Dancer: Nathan Cherry @nathan.cherry Dancer: Cedric Reboya @cedricreboya Director of Photography: Nico Aguilar @nicolasnicolby

Production Designer: Hensel Martinez @malvivi3nte Choreographer: Sienna LaLau @sienna.lalau Casting: Chandler Kennedy @chandlerkennedy Stylist: Georgia Pendlebury @georgia.pendlebury Hair: Iggy Rosales @hairbyiggy Makeup: Choi Yuri @yullvely_ Makeup Assistant: Yu Gayeon @apdarisal Post Producer: Jake Williams, Dylan Scott & Zara Saraon @zarasaraon Edit & Finishing: Parallax Parallax Executive Producer: Rebecca Rose Perkins Managing Director/Executive Producer: Raná Martin @ranam22 Editor: Luke Lynch, Robin Feldman @lofi_park, Grason Caldwell @grrrason Assistant Editor: Sophie Becker @sophiecolettebecker, Tristan Jackson Color House: Company 3 @company_3 Colorist: Bryan Smaller @bryansmaller Color Producer: Cameron Higaravathn Associate Color Producer: Kent Bueno Sound Studio: Concret Form @concret.form Sound Design & Mix: Kai Scheer @whykaisofly VFX: Corduroy @corduroy.fx

Maybe fame is getting to be too much
VFX: Local Formations @localformations Beauty work by Hush Beauty @hush_vfx Beauty EP: Supervisor Daniel Saldivar, VES Beauty Producer: Olivia Uhler Hush Coordinator: Ivonne Moreno 1st AC: Joseph “JAS” Soria @josepharthursoria 2nd AC: Jordan "Jones" Oglesby @jordan_oglesby Gaffer: Tony Varoula Key Grip: Joe Dianda RCA Brand Partnerships: Jen Tanner + Layla Mustafa @laylamufasa PlayStation: Sabrina Chuang PlayStation: Carrie Surtees Wardrobe Assistants: Monica Garate @monigarate, Karen Gonzales @kg0nz, Hennah Koskinen @hennakristiina, Madeline Cox, Anastasia Larae @anastasialarae Hair Assistants: Kennedy Meyers Makeup Artists: Devan Underwood @devan.underwood Makeup Assistants: Heorhii Matskhevyc, Anaid Cross, Mur Anderson, Quincy Larsen Manicurists: Juan Alvear @byjuanalvear , Thalia Tapia Production Manager: Sina Pars @beingsinapars #LISA #pressplay #Tarantino
  • LISA (lisa.lnk.to/shop); CC Liu, Crystal Q., Sheldon S. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
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Thursday, October 22, 2026

How Buddhism shaped Bruce Lee


What philosophy did Bruce Lee teach?

Intercept the fist to disarm the opponent
Jeet Kune Do (Chinese 截拳道, Jyutping, lit. "Stop Fist Way" or the "Way of the Intercepting Fist," abbreviated JKD) is Bruce Lee's hybrid martial art, which was conceived of, practiced, and taught by Lee.

It centers on the principle of counterattacking an opponent in order to impede that opponent's offense [12, 13].

As an eclectic martial art, it relies on a fighting style heavily influenced by Wing Chun, tai chi, taekwondo, boxing, fencing, and jujutsu [14, 15].

Dead far too young
Asian stardom threatened USA?
How did Bruce Lee die? Only one doctor knows for sure: Dr. Joel Wallach (youngevity.net), who says it was severe nutritional deficiencies due to fad dieting.

One thing that can be said for sure is that Lee was not following the age-old dietary habits of Buddhist Shaolin Temple martial artists, Zen practitioners in Japan, or even well-established Asian customs, any of which could have kept him healthy and still with us.

There's something to be said about a "curse" and foul play since his son, Brandon Lee, also died under mysterious Hollywood circumstances.

Hah, Bruce Lee, you're not so tough!

China's "Three Teachings"
Jeet Kune Do, which Lee intended to have practical life applications without the traditional routines and metaphysics of conventional martial arts, incorporates a set of principles to help practitioners make quick decisions and improve their mental and physical health [13, 16].

Lee based JKD on his experiences in unarmed fighting and self-defense, as well as on his eclectic, Zen Buddhist, Confucianist, and Taoist philosophies... More

In a conversation with the abbot of Shaolin Temple, the abbot asks what Lee thinks about when he faces an opponent. "There is no opponent," Lee answers, "because the word 'I' does not exist." That line echoes one of the Buddha's central teachings [anatta, the impersonal nature of all existence and phenomena]. The fixed idea of "me" that "we" [the aggregates] cling to so tightly falls apart the moment you look for it closely [systematically through satipatthana].

Bruce Lee: White men can't fight, Chuck Norris

Did Buddhism shape Bruce Lee’s martial arts philosophy?
Enter the Dragon (Bruce Lee)
Buddha's Wisdom(Buddha's Wisdom) 🥋 Was Bruce Lee a secret American Buddhist [partial to China's Three blended spiritual Teachings]?

The man behind the saying, “Be water, my friend” reportedly said he had no religion at all, like most Americans. Yet ZEN, Taoism, [Confucianism] and the Buddha’s teachings (or Dharma) run through his life, his films, and his own blended philosophy he called Jeet Kune Do.

And one famous “Bruce Lee quote” actually traces back to Chinese Zen Buddhist Master Linji (Linji Yixuan), who passed away in the year 866.

Let's follow Bruce Lee from a rowing boat in Hong Kong Harbor, where he punched the sea, to the Oakland, California (next to Berkeley) fight that made him rebuild his art, the back injury that put him in bed for months.

Let's culminate with the Hollywood movie set for Enter the Dragon, where Bruce Lee refused to show up until his Buddhist-Taoist-Confucian philosophy scenes were put back in.

Along the way, we separate what the record shows from what the legend claims.

💡 DISCOVER
  • Why Lee punched the sea—and why “Be water” begins with a Taoist image
  • How a disputed 1964 fight made him question his fighting style.
  • The Buddha’s Parable of the Raft, and how Lee rebuilt his fighting style
  • Why Lee insisted on philosophy in Enter the Dragon and the Buddhist image in one of its most famous scenes
  • The Buddha's Noble Eightfold Path hidden in Bruce Lee's sickbed notebooks
Fat Happy Budai (Hotei) pointing at the moon
  • What, the hand, the hand that points?
    Buddhist roots of “Don’t think, feel” and the finger pointing at the moon (as in the Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra)
  • Zen master whose words ended up under Lee’s name
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  • Matt, Buddha's Wisdom, AI. Oct. 17, 2026; Dhr. Seven, Pat Macpherson, Pfc. Sandoval, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly Wiki edit
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Real flying cars like we were promised

(TechQubix) America's new $4,000 flying car could leave China behind unless they make it better
Ancient reptilian technology for humans is here again with fashionable "purse" in flying pod
Jetson ONE: Police got a flying car in Florida
(Best Futuristic Gadgets) Five most incredible flying cars coming in 2027 #JetsonONE #police

BB is watching with Jetson tech
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Did Elon Musk beat China and GTA VI?

(SUV Authority) Elon Musk just ended China with America's first flying Tesla (with extra sucky suction from vacuum fans underneath for extra grip on the road during turning)

But can it land like I can?

Behind the scenes at Musk's big show

Flying over the California coast in a Jetson
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Guns 'n kids in settler colonial US, Israel

Did you just call me trash? - No, I said white. - And? - And I mentioned your lovely trailer.
America’s firearm culture
Some whites sold us guns, and some shot us.
Unique experiences in our heritage have decisively influenced American culture.

As Europeans encountering Native Americans and wiping them out to make room for our settler occupier colonial project, our enslavement of Natives and Blacks, the civil war, and our ascent as the world’s first hyper-superpower. (Move over, England and Rome).

We played with guns as kids, and now we play with them for real aimed at Palestinians.
We are a Christian nation of gun lovers ready to shoot the Darkies. With Jews.
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We can't wait to buy more guns!
However, even this militarized history is not enough to explain why Americans suffer from the worst gun violence in the industrialized world.

Other settler colonial projects have as many guns per capita (such as our neighbor to the north) with only a fraction of the gun crime.

As of 2014, for every 100 Americans there are a staggering 90 privately owned guns. It's worse now.

The mass proliferation of firearms exercises a tyrannical hold over the American imagination.

It is both a cause and an effect of the many social problems afflicting the nation. With the country in political and ideological gridlock (and add to the mix the vested interests and lobbies with too much business to lose like the NRA or National Rifle Association), how can there be any resolution to the mass proliferation of firearms and US gun crimes?

Look, I'm just like Jewish Jesus but in a flag bikini!

While wars of self-defense and geopolitical deceit are a reality of samsara, it is basically impossible for Buddhism to defend the arms trade in any form.
  • Guns loom large in our national imagination.
    Dealing in weapons, people, poisons, animal flesh, or alcohol are the five kinds of trade the Buddha specifically warned against, labeling them "wrong livelihood," yet this is how so much ill-gotten gain is accrued by people who could care less about accruing terrible unskillful karma.
Look, everybody, look! I'm an "American" like in the movies! Bam bam, bam bam!

My mom got me this jacket, my stepdad this Uzi.
The proliferation of weapons is antithetical to religions that promote peace. When examined from a critical historical perspective, the frontier mentality and the right's Second Amendment’s narrative of maintaining a civilian militia bearing arms turns out to be an oversimplified framing of American history.

I can't believe they give us guns and tell us to kill Natives. We're teens raised on propaganda.
We join for camaraderie and to become desensitized to the dirty desert rats' suffering.
Our settler colonial project is almost complete. Now destroy West Bank, purge Jerusalem!
To be, uh, masculine in Israel and get girls, must be killer with gun exterminating vermin.
Kids, kill for the Fatherland, a Jewish state we can steal. The Bible says they're Amalek.
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Yet it is upheld as the nation's founding myth. The capabilities and symbolism of guns, from plastic pistols (Glocks) to semi-automatic AR-style rifles to modified fully automatic military guns, continue to exert such an irresistible allure that the more deaths that occur from shootings, the higher gun sales rise. More
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