(Buddha's Wisdom) Oct. 21, 2026: 🪷 Why BUDDHISM said females can become fully enlightened [but not supremely enlightened to become a] buddha?
Can a woman become a buddha? Buddhism gives two answers, and both sit in its own scriptures. In the old Pāli canon, the Buddha tells the monk Ānanda that a woman can reach full enlightenment (arahantship), full awakening, the end of suffering in this very life.
In the Bahudhātuka Sutta, a female cannot be a fully awakened buddha. This video follows females in Buddhism from the first nuns at Vesālī to the fully-ordained nuns (bhikkhunīs) walking Bangkok, Thailand's streets at dawn. We separate the question into four:
Can a woman wake up?
Can she be a buddha?
Can she wear the monastic robe?
Can she walk through the temple door?
Then we go to the sacred texts and to the scholars who compared their versions in Pāli and Chinese languages. Where the evidence is solid, we say so. Where it rests on legend or on passages scholars suspect were ADDED LATER, we say that, too.
[See the scholarship of Ayya Tathaloka for details about the "eight added rules" that are shown to NOT have been laid down by the Buddha, as evidence in the Bhikkhuni Vinaya makes clear.]
DISCOVER
Why [the Buddha's adoptive mother, sister of his biological mother] Mahā Pajāpatī Gotamī asked three times, and the "eight rules" (eight garudhammas) that came with the yes
The sermon that says a female cannot be a buddha, and the Chinese version where that passage is missing
What the "dragon girl," the Vimalakīrti goddess, and Tārā reveal about different Buddhist answers.
The Vimalakīrti goddess who turns Ven. Śāriputra (one of the Buddha's chief male disciples declared "foremost in wisdom" by the Buddha) into a woman, and the female buddhas of Tibet
Why Theravada Thailand still forbids monks to ordain females, and the [ten precept or maechi] nuns who walk alms round for requisites anyway
The famous chariot image this channel credited to a monk six times. It came from a nun named Vajirā.
Historic election: Citizens, both Jews and Palestinians ("Arabs"), turned out in high numbers to vote today, signaling a decisive move AGAINST Warlord Ben "Bibi" Netanyahu's government and an overwhelming desire to reclaim their ethnostate's future.
Public sentiment: Voters were driven by frustration, despair, and a tiny bit of hope, reacting to years of perceived government betrayals, threats, and societal deterioration.
Future prospects: Cooperation between Gadi Eisenkot's bloc and Arab representatives could form a minority government, aiming to restore rule of law, security, and Jewish-Arab partnership.
This is not over until we've recounted all the votes (in my favor). Just you wait and see.
(The Guardian) "Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria are ours [part of our new and growing Greater Israel Ashkenazi EMPIRE]: Why young Israeli Zionist Jews vote more far right | The View From
Is this because I got taken out by Iran's retaliation after I started that war? My bot is doing fine!
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You haven't seen the last of me. I'm not going to jail
(October 28th) Even before the exit poll results were published, it seemed that the citizens of Israel, Jews and Arabs, had decided to stage a mass demonstration, unseen for decades, to determine their fate.
Are you still operational, sir, with CIA help?
The term "fate" [kismet] is not a figure of speech. This election was not merely about settling the agonizing score with a malicious Zionist government that turned most of its citizens into its enemies.
It was not just the threat of a new War against Iran or the launching of even more offensives to save the withered skin of a treacherous, backstabbing leader who had gone off the rails and dragged the country with him.
For many Israeli citizens, the question was whether they could even continue to live in this so-called (constitution-less) country, a settler colonial project (of illegal, violent, Zionist occupiers) that had been pulled out from under their feet at a terrible cost over the past three years. More: MSN
NAZA is a 2026 British documentary film investigated and directed by Israeli Jews Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor.
Produced by The Guardian and JW Films, this documentary investigates the integration of artificial intelligence and automated surveillance in Jewish Zionist Israeli military targeting systems used by the Israeli Army (now using the euphemism IDF) during its ongoing genocide on Gaza, the West Bank, Palestine, and its wars on Iran, Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, Egypt, and its impending war on Turkey, in the making of its planned empire called "Greater [Big] Israel" or Eretz Yisrael HaShlema.
Israel, launch psyops, quick before people see it!
The title NAZA is derived from Nezek Agavi (Hebrew נזק אגבי), the Hebrew military euphemism for "collateral damage."
The documentary premiered in the main competition of the 83rd Venice International Film Festival on Sept. 10, 2026, where it won the Special Jury Prize, going on to secure theatrical distribution in over 50 territories.
It was theatrically released in the United Kingdom by Dogwoof on Oct. 16. A global streaming release on The Guardian's website is due to follow in late November.
Despite not having had a theatrical release in Zionist Israel, it has caused political controversy in Israel for what it reveals: accounts of the country's criminal actions in Gaza by the people committing the war crimes.
These shocking revelations of being exposed by whistleblower insiders prompted threats against the Jewish documentarians Abraham and Szor for telling the truth, including threats by the Israeli government to revoke their Israeli citizenship.
The IDF is trying to deny what its soldiers are admitting in the film and are working on hasbara (psyops or Israeli war propaganda) to counteract the potential influence of the film and are trying to silence and deny the claims presented by the Israeli military in the film.
Internationally, NAZA has been widely acclaimed by critics following its theatrical release. More
(uncivilized) The psychopathic story of Ben "Bibi" Netanyahu (aka CIA groomed "Ben Nitay," "Benjamin Mileikowsky" from Chicago, student at MIT in Boston, whose Polish Ashkenazi Jewish father, BenzionMileikowsky (like their Jewish relative in high places who heads Argentina, Pres. Javier Milei'), taught history as part of the Zionist Revisionist Movement at Cornell University, New York, sent to Israel to fight in IDF and take power and keep it at all costs to pull the strings for powerful movers and shakers keeping him in power.
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].
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.
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].
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
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COASTAL FLOODING - SECRET TO FLOW STATE MEDITATING
Good thing I figured out how to stand up on this slippery board when it was easy and level.
Settle down, Pretty Woman. Hold still. Relax. Ease into it and pay undistracted attention.
I'm not afraid of no high tides. Whatever!
(Watchers.news) Warnings remain in effect for the San Diego and Orange County coasts through October 29, 2026, as high tides and elevated water levels threaten roads and low-lying properties.
The National Weather Service (NWS) also has Coastal Flood Advisories for other shoreline areas, including Los Angeles-area beaches, San Francisco Bay, San Luis Obispo, Monterey Bay, and Humboldt Bay.
Coastal flood alerts remain in effect across the Los Angeles, Oxnard, San Diego, and San Francisco forecast areas through Thursday, October 29th.
Water looks pretty skanky and poopy today, Bro
The National Weather Service (NWS) has a Coastal Flood Warning for San Diego and Orange counties and Coastal Flood Advisories farther north, with high tides and elevated coastal water levels forecast to flood vulnerable low-lying locations and contribute to shoreline erosion, loss of precious sand, and road closures. More
What is a "Buddhist sport"? To be sure such activities exist. One thinks of yoga postures and stretch-series, skateboarding, public speaking, performing, standing on a stage freestyle-rapping trying not to shake or let anyone see you sweat, getting into THE ZONE. That zone is what modern psychology calls the flow state and what the rest of the world has long called "Zen."
Zen has a literal meaning -- jhana, dhyana, chan... But most Zen practitioners do not know much about it, being nowhere close to satori or kensho, just sitting in their shikantaza, imagining they're making progress to no goal.
"Zen" used to mean "meditation" but in the sense of meditative absorption rather than contemplative practices in the fourfold setting up of mindfulness (sati).
Any sporting activity that allows one to be mindful -- that is, not discursively thinking like that oppressive inner voice slave-driving us most of the time, but rather inner silence, focus, attention excluding all distractions -- could be "Buddhafied," made more natural (less consciously effortful, less of a struggle, more of an allowing, more of an accepting of what is).
What's the secret? Please tell us the secret!!!
How to become a great surfer. Step 1: Practice balancing on surfboard when it's still and easy.
How can you tolerate all that heat, sir?
What is the secret? The secret is obvious, so obvious most of us would rather have a "better" secret for instant enlightenment and no effort at all.
Those secrets follow and unfold from the first and most obvious secret: practice. In the mystical East, India and the Indosphere in particular, this sort of "practice" is called sādhanā by adepts.
It is regular rather than irregular, persistent rather than on-and-off, daily rather than just on the weekends, continuous rather than broken... Imagine getting into a very warm tub. How is that done, assuming there's a "best" or "right" way?
How does the old joke go? Musician lost in Manhattan asks a taxi driver, "How do you get to Carnegie Hall?" The driver smiles and snaps, "ANSWER"?
The best way to get in untested waters?
One jumps in, scalding the skin, splashing most of the tub water onto the floor, screaming, flailing, biting down on the tongue, squinting, scrunching, holding one's junk? No, obviously not. That's no way to do it. What are we, children?
Be as an actual child, behaving naturally, with sensitivity, responding to the immediate environment, testing, starting slowly and gently.
One slides in smoothly, hardly disturbing the surface, easing into it until it's tolerable and relaxing, letting go, unclutching, untightening, undoing -- allowing. The water washes over one, soothing and softening the muscles, with a smile on the mug. This is the way to the first kind of Buddhist meditation called serenity (samatha).
It's easy at first then it's impossible. Why impossible? The Buddha pointed out Five Hindrances, obstacles that ruin everything. Introducing them, he teaches how to overcome.
Oh, I get it, just relax and allow the soothing.
It's natural, so if we "allow" it rather than "trying" to do it, "struggling," "muscling," "over-efforting," "pushing," "shoving," or tormenting ourselves, poof there it is suddenly, like magic. Now, how to hold it? Hold it as a gentle child would hold a butterfly that doesn't fly away, most delicately, gingerly, tenderly, not staring at it or wanting anything from it, just radically accepting it and ALLOWING.
Ooh, I can do it right here, right NOW.
The second kind of Buddhist meditation (vipassana bhavana or "cultivating liberating-insight") takes a skilled teacher, which are not easy to find. The purpose here is to directly know-and-see things as they really are. What things? Just two, matter and mind, physics and psychology, the world and self, or as the great living Meditation Master Pa Auk Sayadaw puts it, ultimate materiality and ultimate mentality. How?
With a foundation in serenity (stillness, samma-samadhi, concentration, the eight absorptions), attention is turned from the breath (or nimitta) to setting up the Four Foundations of Mindfulness. But in the meantime, just to get to the flow state, the surfing, the rapping, the accepting, allowing, the peace to be experienced here and now, exhale, let go, smile.
In a flow state? Now, how to freestyle rap?
I'm the king of this shiznit, the linguist, all scientifical, like an English major of da streets!
Freestyle rap, simply known as freestyle, is a style of hip-hop music where an artist normally improvises unwritten verses, with or without instrumental beats (or beatboxing). The lyrics are recited with no particular subject or structure [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] until it becomes a challenge, slam, or competition. It is similar to other improvisational music, such as jazz [6], where a lead instrumentalist acts as an improviser with a supporting band providing a beat. Freestyling was originally verse that is free of style, written rhymes that do not follow a specific subject matter or predetermined cadence. A newer style with improvisation grew popular starting in the early 1990s. It is now mainly associated with hip hop and takes a calm, cool, and collected (unstressed) demeanor to do well. More
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