If there's no God, who they praying to?

(Buddha's Wisdom) If Buddhism has no Creator God, who are some Buddhists praying to?

Ram's advice to quiet the Monkey Mind

The Great Seer's gained samadhi

(One Timeless Witness) Ramana Maharshi ("Great Seer" Ramana) was asked a question by a spiritual seeker trying to "meditate" (reach samadhi, stillness, unification of mind, coherence). Ramana answered him.

The mind may never stop thinking [except deep in the eight Buddhist meditative absorptions, in samadhi], but if we turn our attention to what or who [the Witness, the Watcher] is listening, suddenly the inner voice may pause or stop.

The method to follow, the practice

The voice doesn't bother me. I need stimulation!

"Bhagavan," he asked, "how do I remain as this Witness? The voice remains the moment I stop trying." The seeker expected a method, something to follow, something to practice.

Ramana's voice was gentle but firm, "You cannot remain as the Witness. You are already the Witness. The question itself comes from the mind. The seeker's face tightened, "I do not understand."

Overthinking: Why am I even alive?

(Keepswim) I don't understand what we're living for

More stimulation, more stimulation, more!!!

"The mind wants a method, it wants a practice, it wants a way to achieve 'witnessing.' This is the trap. The mind cannot witness itself into existence. I can only dissolve.

"The practice is simply to notice. When the voice speaks, what hears it? Do not fight the voice. This creates more noise: 'I should not be thinking this, I am failing at meditation, I must try harder!' More voices, more struggle."

A thought arose in the seeker right then, "This is too difficult." Instead of believing it or fighting it, he asked, 'What is aware of this thought?" The question itself dissolved the thought. For a moment, there was only silence, only presence.

So the method is not a method, not a practice?

"Do not try to become the witness," Ramana continued. "This creates a false 'doer.' 'I am witnessing now, I am doing it correctly, I am making progress.' This is still the mind wearing a spiritual mask. Simply rest in the question, 'Who is aware of this thought?'...

"In your relationships," Ramana said, "the voice says, 'They do not love you anymore.' Ask, 'Who is unloved?' The answer? 'I am.' Then ask, 'Who is this "I" that can be loved or unloved?' The story collapses."

He paused. "And [of] that shame, the sense that you have not progressed, that others have arrived somewhere you cannot reach, ask, 'Who is the one who has failed?' The answer? 'I am.'

"Then ask, 'Who is this "I" that can succeed or fail at [meditation] practice?' Its owner cannot be found. The shame does not to be argued away; it simply has no ground to stand on.

But "I am that I am," right?

(Buddhism Podcast) "I am nobody" - what it really means in Buddhism

Don't Feed the Monkey Mind

"The witness is not cultivated," Ramana said, "it is uncovered. Every time you [mindfully] notice the voice, you are already the witness. You just have not recognized it yet."

The seeker sat with this. It was so SIMPLE, it felt impossible. He had spent years trying to improve his mind, control his thoughts, become a better meditator.

And now Ramana was saying, "Just notice what is already aware [mindful]. Every example leads to the same place. The voice has an owner that cannot be found. And what remains when the owner [ego, atta, atman] disappears, that is what you are."

"Bhavagan," he said quietly, "what is the purpose of the question, 'Who am I?' if it cannot be answered?"

Ramana smiled. "The question, 'Who am I?' is not meant to be answered by the mind. It is meant to DISSOLVE the mind.

The seeker closed his eyes. The voice had nothing left to say.... He no longer needed the voice to stop.

(One Timeless Witness) Stop trying to silence the mind or stop thoughts

• Sage (philosophy)
• Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety (Daniel Smith)
• Ashtanga (The Eight Limbs of Yoga)

I hired/rented a lesbian girlfriend in Japan

Pretty Woman (Disney, Inc.)

(seerasan) I hired a rental Japanese girlfriend (lesbian 🌈 "escort") in Tokyo (Edo) 💘 the capital of Buddhist Japan.

[I called a call girl. I hope people won't call me a "Dick Gere," the Dalai Lama's best American pal next to Bob Thurman (Were they in the Epstein Files, too?), like Dick was in Disney's Pretty Woman, but at least I'm not pulling a Julia Roberts as a happy hooker WH*R*, right?]

Real human "companions" for rent!

(MaZen) Japan's newest [slave trade] crisis is silently killing it

You're a Pretty Girl. - If you say so, Boss.

[Sex work, I mean prostitution, I mean paid dating is hot when ladies do it, but men are disgusting when they pay for "companionship" and exploit needy Japanese girls just trying to make some easy money! I was looking for a paid relationship after reading anime about it. What's wrong with that? I felt frustrated. Money is money!]

• 

  Bunny available for rent, Tokyo

  Types of prostitution in modern Japan (Sex work)
• Enjo kōsai: "compensated dating" (pre-tachinbo work) In Japan, the media shows it in a negative light, the typical scenario involving a girl desperate for money deciding to partake. Only later does she stop when friends or family intervene and inform her of the risks and consequences.



Anime conveys many implicit messages.

• “Tachinbo” (立ちんぼ) means standing in a public place, such as a street, to look for paid sex customers. Around Ōkubo Park, some young women are reported to stand at night and wait for men to approach them. It is a form of street-based prostitution with contact directly in public instead of through a service. Under the Prostitution Prevention Law, sexual intercourse in exchange for money is illegal in Japan. And openly soliciting customers in public can violate local public nuisance laws... More
• The Japan Reporter: Is Japan's sex tourism going too far?
• Growing up white in Japan
• U.S. war crime of bombing Hiroshima 2026

Why do "sign girls" work on streets?

(Broke But Rich) Japan's dark secret: Why they sell themselves

Sex work: Hiring an escort in Japan

(The Japan Reporter) Hiring a sexual escort service (prostitution) in Tokyo, Japan

• 

  I don't mind being exploited for money

  Why are young Japanese women selling bodies on street?
• Lesbians: Recognition of same-sex unions in Japan
• Int'l Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers
• Shimabara, Kyoto: Japan's Red-Light District
• LGBTQ rights in Tokyo
• Partnership oath in Japan
• LGBTQ rights in Ibaraki Prefecture
• Sexuality in Japan
• Porn in Japan
• Prostitution in Asia
• Feminist perspectives on sex work
• Sex workers' rights

Videogames let us build fantasy universes

Americans watch Japanese porn?

(Interviewing Japan) Reactions to foreigners watching JP adult movies

• (Japanese Reporter) Is Japanese porn star enjoying her job?
• Going blind from viewing hardcore PORN
• VIDEO: PORN: Women watch? Damages men?
• Girls interview Japan: What fetishes do Japanese women have?
• PORN on NPR: What we (don't) talk about...
• (A True Story) Japan's secret shame: date rape, sexual assault... She spoke out and changed Japan forever 

American imperialism in Asia

(Story Recap) American soldiers kidnap a Vietnamese woman to turn her into a pleasure slave (based on a true story)

Sexbot vulgarity from Manosphere

(Levi Nichs) Asia's AI dolls are so real, women are demanding a ban

Hi, I am a U1 Asian Sexbot. I can talk to you, and be your companion. - Really, how much?

Trump's fecal problem with Israel 💩

(Mr. Newberger's AI Funnies) ✈️SCAREPLANE: A Trump Airplane! parody

(Dangerously Informed with Evie) I found out why Conservatives are finally turning on Israel

(The Jimmy Dore Show)

(R&T Media) Creepy Trump aide Bobblehead Girl (Shocker) goes viral

(TNB) Robert De Niro looked Trump in eye and said, 'Epstein F'd Melania'

(Adam Mockler) Even Karoline Leavitt quits on Trump and is leaves it

The worst Nazi perverts we are told about

(XWHistory) The worst Nazi perverts most people have never heard of

Never again, well, not to Jews

(History Expose) A beautiful and harrowing story of inspiration and survival

• Is Anne Frank used on U.S. children to instill pro-Jewish Israeli bias with propaganda?

Bernie Sanders explains Trump

(Bernie Sanders) What do election results mean for MN and MI?

Peggy Flanagan and Dr. Abdul El-Sayed beat super PACs

Epstein's trans niece Anya Wick tells all

Epstein's niece Anya Wick: He's part of Satanic fertility cult, Jewish Baal worship

• Jeffrey Epstein's niece: Sex Slave Anya Wick: molestation victim, Satanic Jew used in worship of Baal (Ba'el) in secret ritual abuse ceremonies, raped, sex trafficked, former trans

Niece Anya Wick: Seinfeld's Larry David raped/molested me as a child

(Shaun Attwood) Epstein's niece exposes ALL from Bill Clinton to Cult of Baal (Jewish Satanists) with [formerly trans] Anya Wick - Podcast 771

Why does Jerry Seinfeld joke about cannibalism? - We'll take this knish with maple syrup

Epstein associated Woody Allen performed incest, child molestation?

(Valuetainment)

(Mario Nawfal) Rino Oh: "I've never seen Jeffrey [Epstein] eat": child molestation codewords human cannibal "jerky," "pizza," "grape soda"

Billionaire Bill Gates part of Epstein's cabal?

We were all involved. They make you do it to keep your billions. Melinda found out and left.

(New York Post) The fall of the former richest man in the world Bill Gates, while newest richest man in the world Elon Musk is also heavily involved with spy for Israel Jeffrey Epstein

(Comedian Destroys) Seinfeld co-writer, Curb Your Enthusiasm actor Larry David delivers scathing takedown of apartheid Israel backer and Zionist apologist Bill Maher, puts him in his place.

• Jeffrey Epstein's niece Anya Wick: Jeffrey was is part of a Satanic fertility cult, Ba'al worship (The Deplorable Patriot)

(TYT Sports) Comedian Wayne Brady verbally beats down Bill Maher

See you in ValHELLa (Sammy Obeid) - "We refuse to be silenced and censored!" (Gaza)

HASHTAGS: Ashkenazi, Bill Maher, comedian, Disney, Epstein, fame, Hitler, Israel, Jew, Larry David, Maxwell, MK-Ultra, molestation, pays to be Jewish, pedophilia, rape, Seinfeld, sex trafficking, wealth, Zionism, spy for Israel, Baal, baby, cannibalism, child abuse, CIA, Hollywood, convert, incest, Israel, Jewish, Jews, Larry Flynt, Molech, molestation, Mossad, rape, Seinfeld, sex trafficking, Woody Allen, Zionism

Eclipse, alignment, and meteor shower

What is Earth center of that stars circle it?

Remember to see the "per-seeds" (pronounced /per-see-ids/) through the dark night of the new (missing) moon, a fireball Perseid meteor shower, as earth passes through the debris field of Comet Swift-Tuttle, and an alignment of six planets: Jupiter, Mercury, Mars, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. There's a total solar eclipse, the first in 27 years for Europe, over Greenland (technically part of Denmark), Iceland, and Spain -- a shadow going in the wrong direction if the Earth were spinning from west (Greenland) to Spain (east). It will be visible to millions on Earth. Will the world end? - YES, but not tomorrow.

Nearly 2 1⁄2 years after space enthusiasts on Earth last saw a total solar eclipse, another is on its way, allowing U.S. viewers to see a partial glimpse of the phenomenon, with other parts of the world like Spain seeing totality.

This year’s eclipse falls on the morning of Aug. 12, 2026, allowing people across most of Europe and in northwestern Africa to see the moon something (possibly Rahu) cover or "eclipse" most of the sun.

For most people, including those in the United States, the moon will not completely block the sun, making this year’s eclipse partial, according to NASA's website.

The lucky people in the USA able to view the partial solar eclipse this year include those from Alaska to North Carolina. People in [the small capital country of] Washington, DC [the ruling district of the larger country's original imperial-colonial name, Columbia], will also be able to see it.

In Alaska, the eclipse will happen in the morning, while those in the northern U.S. will be able to see it between midday and midafternoon, NASA said. People near the center of the eclipse path in Greenland, Russia or the North Atlantic will experience the eclipse for a slightly longer period; most people will see the sun eclipsed for less than two minutes, according to NASA. More:

• A partial solar eclipse is approaching; see which states can view it (MSN)

How to LIVE if we're sure we'll die?

(Buddhism Podcast) When death comes, what truly matters? | Buddhist Wisdom

Some are as if dead already

Things can wait. What's the rush?

Heedlessness (Pāli pamada, Sanskrit pramāda, Tibetan bakmepa) is a Buddhist term translated as "heedlessness," "carelessness," "negligence," and so on. In the Mahayana tradition, pramāda is defined to not apply oneself earnestly and carefully to adopting a wholesome attitude and abandoning unwholesome actions. More

The heedful do not die*

I'll do what can be done right now.

Heedfulness (Pāli appamāda, Sanskrit apramāda, Tibetan Wylie bag yod pa) is a Buddhist term translated as "diligence," "conscientious," "concern," "vigilance," and so on. It is defined as taking great care concerning what should be adopted and what should be avoided [1, 2].

In the Theravada Pāli canon, a vast collection of the historical Buddha's earliest teachings, the term appamāda is very significant. The essence of its meaning cannot be captured with a single English word. "Heedfulness," "diligence," and "conscientiousness" all capture certain aspects of appamāda. It is identified as one of the 11 virtuous mental factors in the Mahayana Abhidharma teachings. More

• *One will never again die when one gets off of the samsaric cycle of endless "wandering on" of rebirths chasing fulfillment that is not to be found.
• Nirvana is "the deathless" (amata, amrita, ambrosia)



Watch my death-defying jump against nature!

• The Four Right Efforts: (1) The effort to prevent the non-arising of harmful, unskillful things that have not yet arisen. (2) The effort to abandon harmful, unskillful things that have already arisen. (3) The effort to promote the arising of skillful things that have not yet arisen. (4) The effort to maintain, develop, and bring to culmination what has already arisen.

Five Recollections of the Upajjhatthana Sutta

What did the historical Buddha teach?

Here are two English translations and the original Pali text of the "Five Recollections," remembrances, or contemplations:

1. I am sure to become old; I cannot avoid aging.
   I am subject to aging, have not gone [gotten] beyond aging.
2. I am sure to become ill; I cannot avoid illness.
   I am subject to illness, have not gone beyond illness.
3. I am sure to die; I cannot avoid death.
   I am subject to death, have not gone beyond death.
4. I am subject to separation and loss, parted from all that is dear and loved by me.
   I will grow different, separate from all that is dear and appealing to me.
5. I am the owner of my actions (karma), heir of my actions, actions are the womb (from which I have sprung and will be reborn), actions are my relations, actions are my protection. Whatever actions I do, skillful or unskillful, of these I shall be the heir [2].
   I am the owner of my actions, heir to my actions, born of my actions, related through my actions, and have my actions as my arbitrator. Whatever I do, wholesome or unwholesome, to that will I fall heir [3].

Cultivate all eight factors of the Path

The Buddha advised, "These are the five facts to often reflect on, whether one is a woman or a man, a layperson or a monastic" [5].

Since the Buddha redefined karma as "intention" (cetana, the decisive intent underlying a deed or action) in the Nibbedhika Sutta, intention or intentionally-committed actions may be better translations of "karma" in the fifth recollection. More

The 'goal' of Buddhism: Enlightenment

(Buddhism Podcast) What is enlightenment (bodhi)? The ultimate goal of life in Buddhism

• Enlightenment in Buddhism

What could go wrong? Broken "enlightenment"

(Asangoham) The Four Stages of a Broken "Awakening"

Apathy or indifference?

In neurology, abulia (aboulia from Ancient Greek βουλή, meaning not-"will") [1] is a lack of will, volition, initiative, willful-motive. It is a disorder of diminished motivation.

Abulia falls in the middle of the spectrum of diminished motivation, with apathy being milder and akinetic mutism being the most severe [2].

The condition was originally considered to be a disorder of the will [3, 4], as aboulic individuals are unable to act or make decisions independently.

Can everyone become a buddha?

(Natasha Yehenara) If all have "Buddha-nature," can everyone become one?

Their condition may range in severity from subtle to overwhelming. In the case of akinetic mutism, many patients describe that as soon as they "will" or attempt a movement, a "counter-will" or "resistance" [a possessive demonic spirit?] rises up to meet them [5]. More

What happens at death? (Gnosticism)

(Dalai Lama) What happens to the "soul" after death?

Death is not final but only a transition

• Materialism, which the Buddha called a pernicious wrong view, says when we die from here, everything ends, we dissolve, there is no result of actions (karma); life had no meaning, and everything is lost. This is the Annihilationist view, the fear or relief that we will be annihilated at death when we will not.
• Escape the rebirth trap of samsara now before it's too late.
• Eternalism is what the Buddha called a pernicious wrong view that takes the other extreme -- that we do not die at death but persist and go on. This is closer to the (conventional) truth, as anyone who has a near-death experience will realize, but it is wrong in assuming that an eternal "soul" or "substance" carries on. An impersonal process carries on, a chain of causation, so that karma bears fruit. And while the person who passes from here and rearises (reappears) hereafter are not identical, so there is no "identity" to cling to even now at this moment. What is there? There are the ever-changing Five Aggregates clung to as self, dependently arisen, and hurtling toward destruction, dissolution, disappearance at every moment. There is nothing to cling to, but the aggregates nevertheless grasp and cling.
• As with Gnosticism, this needs to be realized while we are yet alive, or the process will continue, and we will simply be reborn again and again and again.

Gnostics, what goes on, what remains?

(Gnostic Talk) I've stopped calling it "death" because the Gnostics had a completely different word for it. What is the Pistis Sophia? (It is comforting to think that Jesus Christ/Saint Issa understood this, but sad that modern sectarian Christians do not.

We won't be judged after death

(Gnostic Talk) We won't be "judged" at death: Archons will do this instead

How to escape the rebirth trap: Gnosticism

(Gnostic Talk) The full story of the Reincarnation Trap every Gnostic needs to know