(Kim Iversen) Pres. Trump (spared from going to prison by beating Biden/Harris in the last election) and FBI Director and crony Kash Patel say Epstein case is CLOSED, nothing to see here, even though by the latest count the files mention Trump more than 4,000 times with more than 3,000,000 or files to go, which will likely never be revealed because they are even worse than what we have seen so far. The excuse is that the other 3 million files are "duplicates" [without the names of the perpetrators redacted?]
Jimmy Kimmel Live: Trump wants to control voting, ICE backs off Minnesota, and Epstein Files redacted (blacked out) to protect rich, powerful, pro-Israel creeps
(Secrets and Mysteries) The CIA, LSD, the Grateful Dead, and the man who changed the 1960s: The Owsley Stanley Story
In a language spoken by the Buddha (Pali), "peace" (passaddhi) is a noun (Sanskrit prasrabhi, Tibetan ཤིན་ཏུ་སྦྱང་བ་, shin tu sbyang ba) variously translated as "serenity," "calmness," "tranquility," "repose" [1]. The verb is passambhati ([rest], calm, quiet) [2].
In Buddhism, peace refers to tranquility of body, speech, and mind (thoughts and consciousness) on the path to enlightenment. As part of the seven mental factors to be cultivated, peace is preceded by rapture (pīti,bliss, joy, supersensual pleasure) and precedes stillness (samādhi, focus, concentration). More
What can one person do to foster world peace? How does one person's state of mind [heart] affect the state of the world? How can the ideal of nonviolence be manifested in daily life?
Buddhists have been exploring questions like these for 25 centuries, and they are still timely today. Inner Peace, World Peace is the first work in any Western language to examine the Buddhist approach to nonviolence.
Warriors for Peace? Buddhist Peace Walk
Well-known Buddhist scholars, a noted authority on nonviolent struggle, a prominent Thai Theravada Buddhist activist, and other leaders in their fields collaborate to show the contemporary relevance of the Buddhist tradition.
It is also a record of what life is like as our spiritual nature begins to live more fully within the body. Each of Kahn’s poems begins with earnest inquiry and ends with an ecstatic moment of communion with the part of the self that is connected to all things. Holy Doors: Poems by Mandy Kahn
GOBBLER'S KNOB, Pennsylvania, Feb. 2, 2026 - Punxsutawney Phil had a bad day, somehow seeing his shadow on a cold and cloudy day, in a strange European pagan, heathen, possibly Wiccan animal abuse ritual (which used to culminate in the slaughter and devouring of a groundhog) on Groundhog Day. Fortunately, kinder minds prevailed and the prognosticating rodent is no longer murdered for witchcraft like a biblically suggested scapegoat victim a twin would-be victim is released into the woods to die of mass (collective) sin.
Israel put Epstein up to child rape
ring to blackmail powerful pedos?
Accused Alan Dershowitz: I'll sue anyone who names me or my Israeli clients
TONIGHT: Wednesday, 7:00–8:00 pm (EDT) with
Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi
Dharma Students,
please join us Wednesday nights at 7:00 pm (Eastern) for a meditation session over Zoom by clicking HERE.
Wednesday evening meditation program continues as usual. If there were any need to cancel, Bhante Bodhi would announce it.
There will be meditation on [Chinese Lunar] New Year's Eve at the usual time: 7:00-8:00 pm (ET).
Each Wednesday evening, from 7:00 to 8:00 pm, Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi leads a meditation session over Zoom.
The session consists of a 15-minute vandana (chanting verses of homage), followed by a 45-minute guided meditation. All are welcome to join.
The texts recited are available. See class page on website for text of chants.
BAUS (The Buddhist Association of the United States, 美國佛教會)
2020 Route 301
Carmel, NY 10512
contact@baus.org
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BAUS is having an important New Year event (NEW YEAR, NEW MIND) at Chuang Yen Monastery in Carmel, Upstate New York. This is the home of our beloved venerable Theravada Buddhist scholar-monk teacher Bhikkhu Bodhi. It will be held on Sunday, Feb. 8, 2026.
CYM has completed the first semester of the course Ancient Path, Modern Mind: Chinese Buddhism in a Changing World with Ven. You Min.
The Temple is pleased to announce that the second semester will begin in 2026, with the opportunity to explore three core themes under the guidance of Ven. You Min:
Alan Watts+Eckhart Tolle: What lies beyond the mind
(After Skool) Alan Watts (Jan. 6, 1915–Nov. 16, 1973) was a well-known British philosopher, writer, and speaker and California via Japan, best known for his interpretation of Eastern philosophy for Western audiences.
He left us more than 25 books and an audio library of about 400 talks, all of which are still in great demand.
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Eckhart Tolle is a Western spiritual teacher and bestselling author. A German-born resident of Canada best known as the author of The Power of Now and A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose, in 2008, The New York Times called him, "the most popular spiritual author in the United States." Oprah might have had a little more than something to do with that.
There is only one now. When?
In 2011, Tolle (pronounced /toll-lay/ and never /toll/ or /toll-lee/) was listed by Watkins Review as the most spiritually influential person in the world.
A good friend of the Dalai Lama, Tolle nevertheless does not identify with any specific religion but has been influenced by a wide range of spiritual works. Eckhart Tolle's audio comes from his podcast with Russell Brand.
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Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, 90, is the first spiritual leader to WIN a Grammy for spoken word performance. Hollywood has honored the CIA asset and spiritual leader (former temporal leader or "pope-king" of Tibet, now China). The Dalai Lama released a spoken wordMeditations album with musical accompaniment.
Jackie and Shadow returned to "the birds and the bees," making love, making a nest, and making more eggs to produce the miracle of more garudas (avian eagle beings also called suparnas).
Looking at the newly fortified nest after last year's marathon viewing show, one of the eggs was confirmed to have cracked on Friday (Friends of Big Bear Valley/YouTube).
My eggs are no good. Let's fly away.
TOPLINE:Big Bear’s famous bald eagle nest has taken a bad turn — both of Jackie and Shadow’s eggs have been attacked by ravens (ravenous crows).
WHAT HAPPENED? Via livestream, a raven could be seen in the nest poking a large hole into, and potentially devour, one of the beings inside one of the eagle eggs as if it were a raw omelet, sunny side over and done.
WHY DOES IT MATTER? Jackie and Shadow have a large fanbase.
“Our hearts are with Jackie and Shadow always, and we wrap our arms around them,” Jenny Voisard, the organization’s media and website manager, wrote in a Facebook update.
“Our hearts are also with YOU, Eagle Fam; we know how you are feeling now."
Jackie and Shadow, perhaps sensing their eggs were not viable (maybe due to human DDT), flew away for a long time, too long. Ravens came in and ate the carrion (formerly living animals); there may have been no bird murder, just bird cannibalism.
Those Ravens
Eddie Al Poet
Once upon a frigid old tree, while I floundered, weak and weary, Over two quaint and curious misbegotten ovals— While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a yacking, As of someone gently tapping, tapping at my nest's door. "'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my nest's door— Only this and nothing more." Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak Cali winter; And each separate dying feather wrought its ghost upon the floor. Eagerly I wished the morrow;—vainly I had sought to borrow From my crook surcease of sorrow—sorrow for those lost before— For the rare and radiant eggs whom the angels brought before— Nameless here and for evermore. And the silken, sad, uncertain rustling of each bruised beak end Thrilled me—filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before; So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I sat repeating, "'Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my nest's door— Some late visitor entreating entrance at my nest's door;— This it is and nothing more." More
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