Tuesday, October 13, 2026

Buddhist love at first sight: WHY? šŸ˜šŸ’˜



"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) šŸ” 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.


DISCOVER
  1. Seven signs that may make someone feel strangely familiar
  2. Why the strange old couple greeted the Buddha as if he were their long-lost son
  3. The reported recognition of the 14th Dalai Lama and the case of Swarnlata Mishra
  4. Why the Buddha said "a being who has not [already] been your mother is not easy to find"
  5. The Jātaka Birth Story about the couple who raised the Buddha for 1,500 births
  6. Why guided past-life regression is not the Buddhist method of recalling previous lives
  7. The Buddha’s overlooked second explanation for why two people feel drawn together

TIMESTAMPS
  • 00:00 The couple who called the Buddha “son”*
  • 02:09 When a stranger feels like family
  • 06:36 The ones who came back
  • 12:57 Can meditation show you?
  • 17:38 The second explanation
  • *(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)
šŸ“š SOURCES AND FURTHER READING (affiliate links)
Primary texts:
Modern cases and research:
  • Ian Stevenson, Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation
  • Morey Bernstein, The Search for Bridey Murphy
  • Scoboria et al. (2017), "A mega-analysis of memory reports from eight peer-reviewed false memory implantation studies," Memory
  • John F. Kihlstrom, “Hypnosis, Delayed Recall, and the Principles of Memory”

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Save the planet with Kat: NY Climate Week




What does "Art for Impact" mean?
I spent last week in New York City for Climate Week. Some of it was at the UN (United Nations), where was a participant and listened to people work through targets and timelines.

Some of it was on a stage at the Sheen Center, where I was asked a question I thought I already knew the answer to.

The panel was Art for Impact, and the question was simply, "What does that mean?"

The czar's former empire became a union
I found myself talking about the old Soviet Union (USSR), which tried to overtake Buddhist Afghanistan with its Bamiyan treasures. Because if we look back at the USSR, artists were forbidden.

Writers could not write certain songs or paint certain images. A poem could get one sent to Siberia to a gulag to freeze and be forgotten. None of that happened because anyone thinks art is decoration.

Climate Week NYC 2026 | September 20–27, New York City, USA

Beauty attracts attention. Art makes an impact.
It happened because people in power understood something about art that the rest of us have largely let ourselves forget. The people in power are not afraid of it because it is beautiful. They are afraid because it works.

I have been turning that over all week. Art is not a way of illustrating what we already know or believe. It is one of the few things that changes what a society comes to know, see, or believe without asking anyone's permission.

Every law that has ever protected a forest began as a feeling held by enough people at the same time. Art is how a feeling like that becomes shared, so that once enough of us are carrying and sharing it, it stops being an opinion; it becomes something everyone simply assumes and takes as obvious.

That is what I mean by "impact art." It is also what those rooms at the UN are quietly waiting for. Targets are written by people, and people keep them or abandon them depending on whether what is being protected feels worth the trouble by the time a deadline arrives.
The frameworks are real and necessary, and I'm glad they exist. What decides their fate is whether enough of us care when they come due. That part is not written into any of those documents. It is the part I think artists are for.

I've talked about fire for days, so I won't repeat myself. Only that on stage I realized I had spent the month painting the same thought. I learned it in Altadena, site of the massive Eaton Fire (2025).




Mural prayers preserved behind gold
Six months after that wildfire started by careless SCE (Southern California Edison), I was invited to paint a mural with the community. As we worked, people embedded their prayers on the wall, our wooden canvas, that I then preserved behind gold paint.

[That massive Eaton Fire mural now sits prominently inside the north wall of The Free Store inside The Collaboratory on Woodbury in Altadena.]

The Eaton Fire Collab, Altadena, LA, CA
One woman pointed to her friend across the mural in the making. She had lost her home to fire and had not smiled in six months. There she was with a brush in her hand saying, "I should paint more."
No target was written that day, but something changed anyway.

The UN panel also asked, "What is the hardest part?" On purpose I look at what is happening to the living world. And more than once it has taken my hope away. One night, I could find no light at all. All I could do was be grateful for one breath, that single breath, then the next.
The Buddha had a big heart for everyone.
I think that is the whole practice. We do not have to wait until something is nearly gone before we love it. The Earth's wildlife is still here. The soil. The people. The flora, the fauna. Gratitude is not a soft feeling; it is where protection begins.

This is why clean air and clean water (rivers and oceans), healthy soil and healthy trees (forest) have never sounded like a modest thing to receive or hand down. They are our entire human inheritance.

Most of what holds them is still standing. The people living alongside forests have protected them for generations without ever needing instructions, only support.

There's one more thing before I go. Artful Impact is back, opening the new season with Robert J. Dellinger on why climate science needs storytellers, which turns out to be the same question I was asked on stage. But Artful Impact approaches it from the other side.

Life Force Trees | 165 Trees Per Person
Here is what I would love from you, readers. Tell me about a piece of art that changed something in you and what you did afterward. This second part is what I am collecting. Post it below in the comments.

With love,


P.S. If this message makes you want to put your hands into something right now, see 165 Trees: ourlifeforce.org.

Speaking: Invite Ekaterina Sky to speak on the environment and artful impact
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Nobel Peace Prize awarded and Trump is...

(Saturday Night Live) SNL's Weekend Update: Trump doesn't win Nobel Peace Prize, Hegseth's new U.S. Department of War Nazi logo

(Keith Edwards) Trump's adult diaper smells like @$$. Bald, makeup Don leaks, stinks like sh*t. 
Sec'y of War adds Nazi eagle to DOW logo
Who could ever accuse Fox News alcoholic and Sec'y of War Pete Hegseth of Neo-Nazi racism?
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Tamil [South Indian] South African wins Nobel Peace Prize
2026 Peace Prize Laureate N. Pillay
Navanetham Pillay (Tamil ą®Øą®µą®Øீą®¤ą®®் ą®Ŗிą®³்ą®³ை, nĆ©e Naidoo, Sept. 23, 1941) is a South African jurist who served as the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights from 2008 to 2014.

She is of Tamil origin and was the first non-white female judge of the High Court of South Africa.

She has also served as a judge of the International Criminal Court and president of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. She was awarded the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts to promote peace and international law.

Cartoon time: South Park
South Park attacks Trump in "Billionaire Weenietown" (S29 E2, 2026)

Trump upset about losing yet again: Will he bomb Norway?
Night in the Ruts on the USS Lincoln, or is it Right in the Nuts, Secretary of War Hegseth?

Trump melts down with long post after losing.
Pillay was born and raised in Durban, where she later attended the University of Natal, receiving her BA in 1963 and her Bachelor of Laws in 1965. After university, Pillay pursued a career as an attorney, joining the legal defense against apartheid.

In 1967, Pillay started her own law firm and became the first woman to do so in her home province of Natal.

In 1981, Pillay attended Harvard U and earned her Master of Law.

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
In 1988, she completed her thesis and graduated from Harvard Law School with a Doctorate of Juridical Science.

Pillay was nominated and confirmed to the High Court of South Africa by the Judicial Service Commission under supervision of the bar association in 1995.

In 1995, President Nelson Mandela [or a Mandela Effect replacement stand in] and Justice Minister Dullah Omar nominated Dr. Pillay to the UN Security Council for a judgeship on the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR).

The Roast of Colin Jost

Sec'y of War Hegseth addresses troops ⚔️
Can you believe the left-wing Nobel Prize committee gave the peace prize to a peace activist?
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What good did Navi Pillay ever do?
Hot young new White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia was not chosen for her beauty.
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Trump chose me to lie for him, not to be hot
In 2013, Pillay criticized the nominally Buddhist Sri Lankan government for being an authoritarian state [53].

She alleged egregious human rights violations and atrocities committed by that nationalist (Sinhalese) government against Hindu Tamil minority civilians at the end of Asia's longest-running civil war, namely, the Sri Lankan Civil War. This led to that the government and its supporters to retaliate by saying her own Tamil descent was the only reason for her criticism, a claim she strongly denies [54].
Fake lawyer Zacharia face plants

There's a new "Nazi Barbie" in town?
Genocide in Sri Lanka then a giant tsunami
During the 2014 war on Gaza, Pillay stated that both the heavily-armed ethnostate of Israel and the tiny ragtag resistance HAMAS (largely funded by Jewish Zionist Israeli PM Bibi Netanyahu [aka Ben Nitay from MIT, aka
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International No Bra Day (10/13) šŸ˜±

(Saturday Night Live) Weekend Update: National No Bra Day; the price of the American Dream rises to $5 million; oldest men in the country

Do I really need any underwear?
No Bra Day is an annual observance on October 13th when women are encouraged to go braless as a means to encourage breast cancer awareness.

No Bra Day was initially observed on July 9, 2011, but within three years it had moved to the 13th day of the National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, which is October.

Users on social media are encouraged to post using the hashtag #nobraday to promote awareness of breast cancer symptoms and to encourage gender equality.
I'm just doing my part.
Some users on social media sites also encourage women to post pictures of themselves not wearing a bra.

Some women embrace No Bra Day as a political statement, whereas others prefer the comfort of discarding what they view as a restrictive, uncomfortable garment.

The observance has spread worldwide. The event was spun off a medical event in Toronto, Canada, that encourages breast cancer survivors to consider reconstructive surgery.

I'm the new Parton. I should be spokesperson
First held on October 19th, 2011, the medical event was named BRA (Breast Reconstruction Awareness) Day. It was adapted by an anonymous individual who conceived of No Bra Day as a way to encourage women to enjoy being braless and to become knowledgeable about breast cancer symptoms.

The day is controversial as some see it as sexualizing and exploiting women's bodies while at the same time belittling a serious disease. More

Free the nipple campaign
Free the Nipple: for equal rights
Free the nipple is a topfreedom campaign created in 2012 during pre-production of a 2014 film of the same name [1, 2]. The campaign highlights the general convention of allowing males to appear topless in public while considering it sexual, suggestive, or indecent for females to do the same and asserts that this difference is discriminatory, contravening women's rights. The campaign argues that it should be legally and culturally acceptable for women to bare their nipples (a mammalian feature everyone has) in public [3]. More

Hollywood destroying world with vapid stars?
Huh? What was the question? Could you repeat it, I don't understand. Where's my PR agent?
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Recruited to join Yale's Jewish secret society


Bring a scary girlfriend when you attend


We can rule the world from Yale like Pres. Bush
Shabtai Society is a global secret Jewish society of Yale University students, alumni, and current and former faculty.  Shabtai [a] (formerly known as Eliezer and Chai Society) is a global Jewish leadership society based at Yale University [1]. Like other secretive, independent student societies (like Skull and Bones) at Yale, Shabtai is not officially affiliated with the university. Shabtai's exclusive membership boasts a diverse group of Yale students, alumni, plus current and former faculty. Time magazine has referred to Shabtai as Yale's "modish club du jour" and as the campus' "secret society of a different stripe" [2]. More

Shush, this is supposed to be kept hush!
Benny Netanyahu was born Benjamin Mileikowsky from Chicago, groomed along with his brother by the CIA, educated at MIT in Cambridge near Boston, sent out on his first public missions as "Ben Nitay," was killed in an Iranian retaliatory strike when serving as dictator of the Israeli ethnostate and apartheid Bantustan during its many recent wars, genocidal campaigns (and the denialism that predictably follows), and international war crimes under the playful Yiddish moniker "Bibi," resurrected by means of advanced (militarized) AI, imperfectly worn silicone skin suits (from CIA, Mossad, and/or Shin Bet disguise departments), and other more secretive spy technology.
I do my hasbara for my imperial IDF duty.
Former Israeli PM Ben-Gurion was David GrĆ¼n, Sharon was Ariel Scheinerman, and the list goes on, even including Hollywood darling Gal Gadot (IDF propaganda asset or hasbara as it is known in the future Empire of Eretz Yisrael HaShlema, and Miss Israel 2004), whose actual name is Greenstein /green-stein/ as in the color of Frankenstein).

Real names of Israeli officials have long been obscured by the Hebraization policy that created the Israeli identity. In this video, we uncover the original surnames of leaders like Benjamin Netanyahu, David Ben-Gurion, Ariel Sharon, and more, revealing how "real names of Israeli officials" were transformed under Zionist directives.

European Jews, we're the smartest of all peoples
In 1948–1949 alone, over 17,000 European (Ashkenazi Jewish) settlers changed their surnames to Hebrew equivalents.

Zionist Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion even established a committee for Hebrew names and mandated all senior Israeli officers to adopt Hebrew surnames by 1955. But this was only part of a larger project.

Modern Hebrew’s revival, spearheaded by Eliezer Ben-Yehuda in the late 19th century, revived an ancient mishmash of vocabulary, borrowed from Arabic, German, and French, and resurrected this dead language into a sort of Franken-Hebrew a new living language.

Hebraization also extended to places: over 2,700 geographic locations, including villages, rivers, and archeological sites, were renamed to erase Palestinian and the Jews' Canaanite heritage. More
In trouble with the law? We can fix it
Child molester and Israeli official caught in child sex trafficking sting operation in Las Vegas, USA. Allowed to fly back to Israel never to return for any court appearances.
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