Wisdom Quarterly: American Buddhist Journal

Friday, October 16, 2026

Life changes. Accept it? No, fight!

(Buddhism Podcast) Life never stays the same: Learning to ACCEPT change (impermanence) | Buddhist wisdom

Go gently into that good night?

Welsh poet Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

Poem by Dylan Thomas

Do not go gentle into that good night,

Old age should burn and rave at close of day;

Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,

Because their words had forked no lightning they

Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright

Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,

Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,

And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,

Do not go gentle into that good night.

I was born, but I don't want to die, ever.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight

Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,

Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,

Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.

Do not go gentle into that good night.

Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Source

Tara Brach (meditation, psychologist, author, teacher)

Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha

Radical Acceptance

Buddhist author and therapist Dr. Tara Brach, Ph.D. has 4.6 out of 5 stars (with 5,127 reviews).

In our current times of global crises and spiking collective anxiety, Buddhist therapist Tara Brach’s transformative practice of "radical acceptance" offers a pathway to inner freedom and a more compassionate world.

This classic work now features an insightful new introduction, an exclusive bonus chapter, and additional guided meditations.

“Radical Acceptance offers us an invitation to embrace ourselves with all our pain, fear, and anxieties, and to step lightly yet firmly on the path of understanding and compassion.”

—Thich Nhat Hanh

Why do things have to change and be unstable?

“Believing that something is wrong with us is a deep and tenacious suffering,” says Tara Brach at the start of this illuminating book. This suffering emerges in crippling self-judgments and conflicts in our relationships, in addictions and perfectionism, in loneliness and overwork—all the forces that keep our lives constricted and unfulfilled.

Radical Acceptance offers a path to freedom, including the day-to-day practical guidance developed over Dr. Brach’s 40 years of work with therapy clients and Buddhist students.

Man, the Buddha was right! Loss sucks: dukkha.

A longtime friend of Buddhist clinical psychologist Dr. Jack Kornfield, Dr. Brach's writes with great warmth and clarity. She brings her teachings alive through personal stories and case histories, fresh interpretations of Buddhist tales, and guided meditations.

Step by step, Dr. Brach shows readers how to stop being at war with themselves and how to begin to live fully every precious moment of our lives. More

Cristina Mariani: filthy female standup comic

No, to Hades with change! Fight till death!

Be a man. Fight change. Fight it till death!

Metal and men clash once more to the end/ Warriors above, with the power to kill, descend/ Militia of blood, troops of hate march to die/ Soldiers of Hell, veterans of death arise/ [CHORUS] Prepare for attack/ Your body will burn/ Endless war/ There's no return/ Prepare for attack/ Death will arrive/ Your orders are clear/ No way to hide/ Fight till death!// Senseless death of all mankind overtakes/ Armored assassins destroy, at will, your escape/ Children of sorrow are trampled into the grave/ There is no future, no f*cking world to be saved/ [CHORUS]// To reign in Hell [guitar solo: Jeff Hanneman]// Gods of steel unleash their destruction on man/ Reign of death, what is the final command?/ Scepters of hate are dropped upon this Earth/ Clouds of terror destroy all hope of rebirth/ [CHORUS]/ Death will arrive/ Your orders are clear/ No way to hide/ Fight till death...

VIDEO: I'm a Mexican Buddhist: Afghan Dharma
Buddhism Podcast; Tara Brach; Dylan Thomas; Slayer; Ashley Wells, Seth Auberon, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

No Kings🚨Bend; Temple; Fort Hood; Israel🔫

(DemocracyNow.org) Top US/World Headlines: Oct. 16, 2026

"NO KINGS" - What's next after October 17th mass action?

King Trump mocks ‘No Kings’ protests across the nation with AI videos as King of USA

No Kings in America since 1776
Election defense mass call to action following the Oct. 17th No Kings: Vote Early: mass day of activations, gather online with the No Kings movement on Wednesday Oct. 21 at 8:00 pm (ET)/5:00 pm (PT) to talk about the final push for voter turnout. What happens post-election? We're preparing for election enforcement, so we can start to plan now to be ready to protect the results of the election. More: nokings.org. (Has anyone reached out to Greg Palast at gregpalast.com?

Will midterms catch up with GOP?

Evening to celebrate 30 years of Democracy Now!

Amy Goodman will appear in-person at a screening of the new documentary about her life, her journalism, and the news program she co-founded 30 years ago, Democracy Now! She will participate in a Q&A following the film, joined by one of the film’s Oscar-nominated directors, Tia Lessin. Hosted by the USC School of Cinematic Arts’ Outside the Box [Office] series.

BLOODY HEADLINES

White teenage school shooter murders three children and one teacher in Bend The community of Bend, Oregon, is in mourning following a school shooting at the Silver Rail School: 2026 Silver Rail Elementary School shooting. Police say three children, ages 5, 8, and 11, and a teacher were fatally shot by a white 16-year-old resident of the town who used a long rifle shotgun to blast his way through the school’s locked doors. A 7-year-old student was also critically injured along with a teacher. The suspected shooter was reportedly fatally shot to death by a father of a student at the school described as "an armed member of the community" who pursued the boy into the school.
White teen shooter kills three children and teacher at Oregon elementary school (France 24)
French teen charged in school shooting cites REVENGE for being bullied

Student gunman kills 7 people in home, school shooting outside Bangkok, Thailand

Oops, collateral damage! No war crime here.
Pentagon to withhold internal report on US mass murder bombing of Iranian school children until after the midterms to help Republicans win races Bloomberg reports that top Pentagon officials have expressed their intention to hold off on releasing an internal report into their attack on an elementary school in southern Iran until after the U.S. midterm elections at the earliest. The U.S. military killed at least 156 people — 120 innocent children, 26 noncombatant teachers, and ten terrified parents.

Illegal Jewish 'settlers' attack Jews

(The Young Turks) Vicious Israelis attack US journalist as IDF watches

Jewish American victim: photojournalist Heidi Levine

More gunships will Make Israel Great Again
US approves sale of helicopter gunships for Israel's genocide and war crime attacks on helpless Gaza [for more efficient ethnic cleansing] Israeli strikes on Gaza killed four Palestinians and left nine others hospitalized Thursday, say Palestinian health officials. Gaza City resident Mahmoud al-Naqla says he narrowly escaped with his life after militant IDF Israelis gave him less than 10 minutes to evacuate his home before bombing his entire neighborhood.

We have many ways to spy. Right, Bari Weiss?
Zionist cybercrimes: Israeli firm used targeted ads to infect AJ devices with zero-click spyware: Al Jazeera reports that an Israeli advertising tech firm infect devices with malicious spyware designed to collect a wide range of sensitive data on journalists at the network. AJ condemned the cyberattack as an “assault on press freedom.” These findings were corroborated by the Citizen Lab, which found in an investigation that the Israeli ad company Discover-Tech used personalized advertisements to deliver spyware from Candiru, an Israeli spyware company, that was blacklisted by the U.S. government in 2021 over its malicious software. It’s the first-ever public confirmation of zero-click mercenary spyware delivered via targeted ads. See Israeli spying in the United States

Chicago suburb police foil alleged shooting plot targeting Hindu temple in Aurora: White teen and fast-food cashier couldn't wait to kill Indian people

Hateful US teen inspired by Hitler?
White neo-Nazi supremacist teenager alleged to have attempted mass shooting at Illinois Hindu Temple, but rifle jammed In suburban Chicago, a self-described "neo-Nazi teenager" has been arrested for allegedly planning to carry out a mass shooting at the largest Hindu temple in Aurora, Illinois. Police say 19-year Alexandros Paporakis visited the holy site on Sunday, but his AR-15 rifle jammed. Authorities were alerted by one of the teenager’s co-workers at Taco Bell. At his mother’s house, police found a rifle, hundreds of rounds of ammunition, tactical gear, and a "manifesto" in which the teenager described himself as a “sociopathic white supremacist Neo Nazi filled with hatred, fantasizing about mass murder nearly every day.” He has been charged with making a terrorist threat and illegal gun possession and faces a stern warning from a judge to behave from now on and leave these sorts of shooting to local authorities and officers.
India asks USA for thorough probe after white teen’s arrest over temple plot

Hegseth justice by firing squad public display
King Trump cancels Sec'y of War Pete Hegseth’s plans to live-stream firing squad execution of man in wheelchair ~~dead~~ live at Fort Hood The reigning monarch has called off his Dept. of War leader Hegseth’s plan to livestream a state-sanctioned execution murder of Nidal Hasan, the former U.S. Army major who is said to have killed 13 people at Fort Hood in Texas in 2009. Major Hasan is scheduled to be shot to death on Dec. 3, 2026. In a statement, Trump said livestreaming such executions “might have been a strong deterrent for the world,” but he acknowledged many people would rather not watch Major Hasan being slaughtered by the state. Last week, the U.N. Human Rights Office warned that livestreaming such executions amounts to a "public execution" that violates the international prohibition on torture.
“Abolish and replace ICE”: Rep. Analilia Mejía blasts ICE for secretly using NJ warehouse | Democracy Now!
Amy Goodman (democracynow.org, Oct. 16, 2026); Pfc. Sandoval, Shauna Schwartz, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Jewish author: REAL history of Zionism ✡️

(The Young Turks) Jewish author EXPOSES the real history of [Ashkenazi Jewish] Zionism

Zionist Collaboration with the Nazis

Zionists who hate Jews (anti-Semites)
51 Documents is a book by the American Jew, Trotskyist, and anti-Zionist scholar Lenni Brenner [1].

It presents 51 documents that show that Zionist Jewish leaders collaborated with fascism particularly in Dictator Hitler's Nazi Germany, according to author.

Their motive was to build up a Jewish presence in Palestine (the British Empire's occupied "Mandatory Palestine").

The book continues themes explored in Brenner's earlier and highly controversial work Zionism in the Age of the Dictators.

Zionist Collaboration with Nazis

The book is split into five sections:

Zionism and anti-Semitism before Hitler
The World Zionist Organization and Nazism Before the Holocaust
Zionist Revisionism, Fascism, and Nazism Before the Holocaust
The World Zionist Organization During the Holocaust
The Stern Gang and the Nazis [2]. More

The truth hurts: Jewish hypocrisy

Zionism in the Age of the Dictators

The [Jewish] Zionist Federation of Germany sought Hitler's patronage (active support) in 1933:

"Zionism hopes to be able to win the collaboration even of a government fundamentally hostile to Jews...Boycott propaganda...currently being carried on against Germany...is in essence un-Zionist."

Zionism became the only other legal political movement in the Nazi's Third Reich. That same year, the World Zionist Organization (WZO) made the Ha'avara (Transfer) Agreement, undermining the boycott against Nazi Germany.

German Jewish emigrants to Palestine had to buy Nazi goods that the WZO sold in the Middle East.

In 1937 the Haganah (later the Israeli Army) sent an agent to Berlin, Germany, offering a deal: They would provide spy intelligence if the Nazis further eased the monetary regulations for emigrants to Palestine.

What was Zionist Epstein doing?

(TMZ)

The Zionist-Revisionist movement (today Israel's ruling Likud Party) set up a detachment at Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini's naval academy. He personally reviewed them in 1936. They wanted him to replace Britain as Zionism's patron.

In 1941, the Fighters for the Freedom of Israel (later Likudniks) told the Nazis that they wanted a "Jewish state on a national and totalitarian basis, bound by a treaty with the German Reich," and offered "to actively take part in the war [WW II] on Germany's side."

This is the sordid history documented in Jewish scholar Lenni Brenner's Zionism in the Age of the Dictators. Updated edition features a new afterword by the author. More

Growing Jewish Empire of Greater Israel

(uncivilized) How arrogant, elitist Zionist Israeli Jews are colonizing the world

The coming empire of "Eretz Yisrael"

We'll give Israel whatever it wants for $$, drugs

"Greater Israel" (Hebrew ארץ ישראל השלמה, Romanized Eretz Yisrael HaShlema) is an expression with different political and biblical expressions over time.

This coming Zionist utopia is often used, in an irredentist fashion, to refer to an ahistoric but desired borders of a "State of Israel."

We are better than everyone else: Ashkenazi Jewish IQ
Israeli IDF confessions: breakingthesilence.org.il
Religious Jews against Israel: nkusa.org

Jews: "When Mashiach comes, I'll move to Israel."

Territorial claims of Israeli nationalists and Zionist movements vary, depending on the time period and different groups of proponents such as Revisionist Zionist, Labor Zionist, and Religious Zionist groups [1].

(Revolutionary Change) Former IDF soldier: We will pay for Israel's crimes against humanity and Palestine, Gaza, West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Iran...Turkey

If I approve of you, Trump will hire you.

There are two different primary uses of the term "Greater Israel" – one referring more narrowly to the area internationally recognized as part of the illegitimate apartheid ethno-"state" of Israel (that has neither a constitution nor a majority to yet implement, though it is working on it by means of anti-Jewish international terrorism to terrify Jews from around the world to move to the Middle East to build up the ethnostate) along with the stolen Golan Heights, West Bank, and Gaza Strip.

There's a second definition that refers to a much larger region stretching from the Nile River to the Euphrates [2], from the river to the sea... More

Finally, we'll have flying cars, Elon Musk?

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Is Elon Musk a delusional conman?

(Sam Harris) Is trillionaire Elon Musk a con-man or deluded narcissist?

Satan, the greatest lover of God (Sufism)

(Let's Talk Religion) Was Satan (the "Adversary") the greatest lover of God? | Iblis in Sufism

Iblis: (Arabic إِبْلِيسْ, Romanized Iblīs) [1], also known as Shaitan, is the leader of the devils (shayāṭīn) in Islam. According to the Quran (Koran), Iblis was thrown out of heaven after refusing to prostrate before Adam (human). In Sufi cosmology, Iblis embodies the cosmic veil supposedly separating the immanent aspect of God's love from the transcendent aspect of God's wrath. He is often compared to the Christian concept of Satan, both cast out of heaven.

Islamic mysticism: Sufism

Satan as the Devil in the Codex Gigas (fol 290r)

According to some adherents of Sufi mysticism, Iblis refused to bow to Adam (the created human) because he was fully devoted to God alone and refused to bow to anyone else [215, 189].

For this reason, Sufi masters regard Satan and Muhammad as the two most perfect monotheists [215].

Sufis reject the concept of dualism [215, 216] and instead believe in the unity of all existence [216].

In the same way that Muhammad was the instrument of God's mercy [215], Sufis regard Satan as the instrument of God's wrath [215].

For the Muslim Sufi scholar Ahmad Ghazali, Iblis was the paragon of lovers in self-sacrifice for refusing to bow down to Adam out of pure devotion to God [217].

Ahmad Ghazali's student Sheikh Adi ibn Musafir was among the Sunni Muslim mystics who defended Iblis and asserted that evil was also God's creation.

Sheikh Adi argued that if evil existed without the will of God, then God would be powerless and powerlessness can't be attributed to God [218].

Some Sufis assert that since Iblis was destined by God to become a devil, God will also restore him to his former angelic nature.

Attar compares Iblis's damnation to the biblical Benjamin: both were accused unjustly, but their punishment had a greater meaning. In the end, Iblis will be released from hell [219].

However, not all Muslim Sufi mystics are in agreement with a positive depiction of Iblis.

Rumi's viewpoint on Iblis is much more in tune with Islamic orthodoxy. Rumi views Iblis as the manifestation of the great sins of haughtiness and envy. He states: "[Cunning] intelligence is from Iblis, and love from Adam" [220]. More

Sex slaves in my secret sex dungeon 💃

(The Untold by Tony) Man built dungeon under apartment and filled it with kidnapped women

The what's what of psych
Stockholm Syndrome: this disputed disorder in pop psychology is characterized by the tendency of hostages (captives) to develop a psychological bond with their captors [1, 2].

It is named after an attempted bank robbery in Stockholm, Sweden, that took place in 1973. Despite its prominence in popular culture, Stockholm Syndrome has not yet been included in the official DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders).

Sexual misconduct in Buddhism (Five Precepts)

The DSM is the authoritative guide that decides (by vote) what insurance companies will and will not cover as legitimate mental disorders. It is used by clinicians and others for the diagnosis of psychiatric conditions used in the United States.

Psychologists generally consider evidence for this condition to be dubious or nonexistent [3]. Many famous examples of Stockholm Syndrome are either partly or entirely fabricated, including many details of the 1973 bank robbery that gave this syndrome its name [4]. More

Stockholm Syndrome?

The female Bruce Lee? Kickboxer Kimura

One day, will robots be built in Mona's image?

(K-1 Worldwide) Mona Kimura vs. Marine Nicol | full fight | K-1 World Max 2026 Women's Flyweight.

Mona Kimura (Japanese 木村萌那, Kimura Mona, born April 12, 2001) is a Japanese kickboxer and former amateur boxer who is currently signed to K-1. She represented Japan at 2022 IBA Women's World Boxing Championships... More

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

Bruce Lee beats up all the students of the Japanese martial arts school at once | Fist of Fury

What method 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].

China's Three Teachings
JKD, which Lee intended to have practical applications in life without the traditional routines and metaphysics of conventional martial arts, also 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

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