Monks end Peace Walk, return to TX by bus

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Time to return to Texas on a bus

Behind the scenes of Peace Walk

(WSLS 10) Behind the scenes: Inside the Buddhist monks' 15-week

Walk for Peace as it reached state of Virginia in the snow

Cartoon: Beavis 'n Butthead get old (sutra)

I didn't know we were going to get old.

Cartoon characters may age right in front of our eyes and eventually die, like The Simpson, Family Guy, and South Park, but we never will. That kind of mortality is only in animation and just for laughs. Can you imagine if radical impermanence applied to our lives? Why, our youth, beauty, and joys might evaporate right in front of our eyes, like good ol' Beavis and Butthead. Of course, the ancient sages of India warned of just such a thing in this story of the past by the Buddha:

• It may seem odd that the Supremely Enlightened Buddha would defer to the teachings of another teacher. But that is not what is actually happening. For we find out in the Jatakas that the Bodhisatta (the Buddha before enlightenment, in a past life) was the Sage Araka. He is recalling what as a good teacher he taught before he was a "supremely awakened" (samma sam) buddha.

The Buddha on Teachings of the Sage Araka

(Paramount Plus) Mike Judge's Beavis & Butt-Head meditate with their nice hippie high school teacher | Season 2's funniest moments | Paramount+

Things are radically impermanent.

"Once long ago, meditators, there was a teacher named Araka, a leader of a school who was free of lust for sensual pleasures. He had hundreds of students and he taught them dhamma [his Doctrine] in this way:

"'Next to nothing, students (Brahmins), is this human life — limited, a trifling, a mass of disappointment and distress. One should touch this [truth] like a sage, do what is skillful, and lead a purified life. For one who is reborn there is no freedom from death.

"'Just as a dewdrop on a blade of grass soon vanishes with the rising of the sun, in the same way, students, human life is like that dewdrop — limited, a trifling, a mass of disappointment and despair. One should touch this [truth] like a sage, do what is skillful, and lead a pure life. For one who is reborn there is no freedom from death.

"'Just as when the weather-devas send rain in large droplets that hit and form a water bubble that soon vanishes, in the same way, students, human life is like that water bubble — limited, a trifling, a mass of disappointment and despair. One should touch this [truth] like a sage, do what is skillful, and lead a pure life. For one who is born there is no freedom from death.

"'Just as a line drawn on water with a stick soon vanishes, in the same way, students, human life is like that line — limited, a trifling, a mass of disappointment and despair. One should touch this [truth] like a sage, do what is skillful, and lead a pure life. For one who is reborn there is no freedom from death.

Subject to aging, I should seek the ageless.

"'Just as a river flows down from the mountains, goes far in a swift current, and carries everything with it, so that there is not a second, not a moment, not an instant when it stands still, but instead it flows, and moves and rushes. In the same way, students, human life is like that river — limited, a trifling, a mass of disappointment and despair. One should touch this [truth] like a sage, do what is skillful, and lead a pure life. For one who is reborn there is no freedom from death.

"'Just as a strong person might form spit on the tip of the tongue then spit it out with little effort, in the same way, students, human life is like that spit — limited, a trifling, a mass of disappointment and despair. One should touch this [truth] like a sage, do what is skillful, and lead a pure life. For one who is reborn there is no freedom from death.

Huh huh huh, you look old. Here's a cane.

"'Just as a shred of flesh tossed onto an iron pan that has been heated all day soon vanishes, in the same way, students, human life is like that shred of flesh — limited, a trifling, a mass of disappointment and despair. One should touch this [truth] like a sage, do what is skillful, and lead a pure life. For one who is reborn there is no freedom from death.

"'Just as a doomed cow being led to a slaughterhouse stumbles with every step as it moves closer to slaughter and closer to death, in the same way, students, human life is like that doomed cow — limited, a trifling, a mass of disappointment and despair. One should touch this [truth] like a sage, do what is skillful, and lead a pure life. For one who is reborn there is no freedom from death.'

Old Cornholio (new Beavis & Butt-Head)

"Now at that time, meditators, the average human life span was 60,000 years, with females marriageable at 500. And at that time there were [only] six afflictions: [touch of] cold, heat, hunger, thirst, [and the need for] defecation and urination. Yet even though humans were so long-lived, long-lasting, with so few afflictions, the Sage Araka taught dhamma to his disciples in this way:

"'Next to nothing, students, is human life — limited, a trifling, a mass of disappointment and despair. One should touch this [truth] like a sage, do what is skillful, and lead a pure life. For one who is reborn there is no freedom from death.'

"At present, meditators, one speaking rightly might say, 'Next to nothing is human life — limited, a trifling, a mass of disappointment and despair. One should touch this [truth] like a sage, do what is skillful, and lead a pure life. For one who is reborn there is no freedom from death.'

• 

  How many moons would we have seen? 36,500?

  At present, meditators, one who lives a long time is 100 years old or a little more. Living 100 years, one lives for 300 seasons: 100 seasons of cold, 100 seasons of heat, 100 seasons of rain.
• Living for 300 seasons, one lives for 1,200 months: 400 months of cold, 400 months of heat, 400 months of rain.
• Living for 1,200 months, one lives for 2,400 fortnights: 800 fortnights of cold, 800 fortnights of heat, 800 fortnights of rain.
• Living for 2,400 fortnights, one lives for 36,000 days: 12,000 days of cold, 12,000 days of heat, 12,000 days of rain.
• Living for 36,000 days, one eats 72,000 meals: 24,000 meals in the cold, 24,000 meals in the heat, 24,000 meals in the rain — counting the taking of mother's milk and obstacles to eating.
• Obstacles to eating? There are these: when one does not eat due to anger, when one does not eat due to distress, when one does not eat due to illness, when one does not eat due to an observance [Uposatha] day, when one does not eat due to poverty.

Turn, turn, turn, how the season turn.

"Meditators, reckoning the life of a human being who lives for 100 years, there is the lifespan, the seasons, the years, the months, the fortnights, the nights, the days, the meals, the obstacles to eating.

"Whatever a teacher would do in seeking the welfare of disciples, out of sympathy for them, have I done for you.

"Over there, there are the roots of trees; over there, empty dwellings. Practice meditative absorptions (the jhanas), meditators. Be not heedless, such that you might fall into regret later. This is our message."

• The Three Basic Facts of Existence: I. Impermanence (Anicca)
• Visiting Old Stuart | Beavis and Butt-Head
• (Comedy Central UK) More moronic Beavis and Butthead moments | Beavis and Butthead
• Mike Judge, Beavis & Butt-Head (MTV via Paramount+); Dhr. Seven (ed.), Arakenanusasani Sutta (AN 7.70, PTS: A iv 136) based on Ven. Thanissaro (trans), Wisdom Quarterly

Bhikkhu Bodhi greets Peace Walk monks

(CBS News) Ven. Pannakara recounts 15-week pilgrimage for peace

• The Walk for Peace with Aloka the Dog

Who is Bhikkhu Bodhi?

Social and Communal Harmony

Born Jeffrey Block (Dec. 10, 1944), now known as Bhikkhu Bodhi [a], is an American Theravada Buddhist scholar-monk, a major inspiration for Wisdom Quarterly: American Buddhist Journal, educated in California, ordained in Sri Lanka, and now teaching in New York and New Jersey.

• Long ago at BPS, Bhikkhu Bodhi authorized our Dharma editor to promote his mail order Buddhist course called The Buddha's Teaching: As It Is, a ten-cassette set he recorded in the basement of the Washington Buddhist Vihara with glossary and notes. To reach a wider audience, we took it online with millions of views, our dhamma-dana.

He is a prolific Pali canon translator, author, and Buddhist commentator, long ago appointed the second president of BPS.lk (the Buddhist Publication Society) [2]. He is the current president of BAUS.org (the Buddhist Association of America), and the founder of the Buddhist charity Buddhist Global Relief [3].

(Buddhism Simplified) What if we don't want to believe in rebirth?

 

Early life

Whaddya mean ya wanna leave Jud'ism to JuBu?

Block was born in Brooklyn, NY, in 1944 to Jewish parents. He grew up in Borough Park, where he attended elementary school P.S. 160 [4] and graduated from New Utrecht High School [5]. He then worked as a door-to-door salesman selling paintbrushes [6].

In 1966, he obtained a B.A. in philosophy from Brooklyn College, where he first encountered Buddhism in books at the bookstore [6]. In 1972, he obtained a doctoral degree (PhD) in philosophy from Claremont Graduate University [7, 8] in Southern California before deciding to move to Asia to ordain as a monk. More

• (ABC 7 News - WJLA) LIVE: Buddhist monks conclude 2,300-mile 'Walk for Peace' at the Lincoln Memorial (during Black History Month) in Washington, DC

Trump appears 1 million times: Epstein Files

Bibi, they're calling me the Pedo President. - So what, Don? You proudly raped those children.

• (OFF TOPIC SHOW) Don't think about Israel. Americans rage: Epstein cover up, demand Trump accountability
• "Coalie" is a real figure invented by Republicans to destroy the environment for capitalism
• Bibi Netanyahu trades barbs with Former Israeli PM Ehud Barak over Epstein sex trafficking scandal - Israel election 2021 (Haaretz)

Bibi in DC for sixth time to plan war on Iran

(The Young Turks) House hearing gets spicy, Pam Bondi crashes

out when pressed on her cover up of Epstein Files for Trump

What is true nature of reality?

(Chase Hughes) The ancients decoded "reality"

Bhikkhu Bodhi: True Nature of Existence

The True Nature of Existence | Bhikkhu Bodhi (1981)

We hid worst stuff. Release Pedo Files?

• Brazilian 9 year old has just arrived?

Peace Walk ends: Buddhist monks reach DC

Aloka: So we turn around and start to walk back now? There are so many people I want to see.

(DWS News) Full speech: Leader of Buddhist monks and friend of Aloka the Peace Dog's Peace Walk at American University shares life-changing mindfulness teachings | AK1E

• American University, Washington, D.C.
• What is "mindfulness" in Buddhism?
• Who is Aloka the Dog on Peace Walk?

• 

  Mala (prayer rosary): 108 beads (Rosary)

  Q: Why did it take exactly 108 days? A: The number 108 (a full mala or rosary) is considered sacred by the Dharmic religions, such as Buddhism, Hinduism, and Jainism. According to Sri Lankan Theravada scholar-monk Bhante G (abbot of the Bhāvanā Society in West Virginia), 108 is reached by multiplying the senses of smell, touch, taste, hearing, sight, and consciousness by whether they are painful, pleasant, or neutral, then again by whether they are internally generated or externally occurring, and again by whether they are in the past, present, or future. Finally, we get 108 feelings: (6×3×2×3 = 108). So the number 108 represents all the possible sensory states one could experience. More

TODAY'S LIVESTREAM

Day 108: Peace Walk, Washington Nat'l Cathedral

“Walk for Peace” ends at American U; monks call for unity and compassion

(The National Desk) Buddhist monks end 2,300-mile Walk for Peace in DC

Livestream: Day 108 Peace Walk arrives at Washington National Cathedral

(DWS News) FULL MARCH: Buddhist monks arrive in DC, speeches, 2,300-mile walk with Aloka the Peace Dog, meet students at American University | AC1E

(WUSA9) Buddhist monks draw massive crowds in Alexandria, during cross-country Peace Trek

(FOX 5 Washington DC) Hundreds brave cold to greet Buddhist monks in Alexandria (Virginia)

Before dawn in rural Virginia, Buddhist monks’ Walk for Peace draws crowds seeking hope

• Buddhist music: chanting as a spiritual practice
• What are they saying? Pali canon's sutras + blessings

(Reuters) LIVE: Buddhist monks on 2,300-mile peace walk now reach Arlington, Virginia. They arrive and enter to cheers at Minute 47:37

(ABC 7 News - WJLA) Venerable monks touch hearts, Walk for Peace in Virginia, en route to DC

(FOX 5 Washington DC) Buddhist monk reflects on Walk for Peace in sit-down with FOX 5

Venerable Buddhist monks touch hearts during Walk for Peace in Virginia en route to DC

(ABC 7 News - WJLA) Feb. 6, 2026: “If you’re not at peace, where are we?" said Caroline County resident Sue Iszczenko while she and her daughter Kayla waited for the venerable Buddhist monks to walk past them on their route from Texas to Washington, D.C., promoting inner and world peace.

Hi, I'm Aloka the Peace Dog

In a time defined by [Trump] turmoil, with a nation fractured, hundreds came from far and wide, gathering roadside in rural Caroline County to witness 20 Buddhist monks [and a dog named Aloka] journey a portion of 2,300 arduous miles – from Texas to D.C. – advocating for harmony in a world gone haywire. More: wjla.com/news/local/venerable...

So sweet — when Buddhist monks walking for peace make everyone smile

(AmeriScope) Feb. 5, 2026: Some moments don’t need to be explained. We see them — and we smile spontaneously. This video captures one of those moments. It is so sweet in its simplicity that Americans naturally slow down and feel lighter, even if for just a moment.

(True Way of Buddha) Poor woman asked me, "Will I die poor?"

Ven. Abbot Pannakara | Walk for Peace Monks and Aloka

 

Nothing here is planned. Nothing is performed. The sweetness comes from small, human interactions — the kind that happen when kind people are present and open. A smile appears unexpectedly. Gestures are genuine. Someone pauses, not because they have to but because they want to.

These moments change the world little by little because inner peace expresses as world peace. They change the moment. As part of the Walk for Peace, scenes like this appear along the road — not loud or dramatic, just quietly heartwarming. People notice without trying. They react without thinking. And suddenly, the space is warmer.

(USA-Buddha's Teaching.) Day 104: resume after lunch for next destination

Aloka the Peace Dog is the big star walking

This movement isn’t about distance, destination, or purpose. It’s about feeling. It’s about how sweetness shows up when no one is trying to impress or persuade.

• What is the way to such "sweetness"? The Buddha taught four sublime meditations called the Four Supreme Abidings:

1. loving-kindness (metta)
2. compassion (compassion)
3. joy in the joy of others (mudita)
4. unbiased looking on (upekkha)

It happens when people are simply themselves. In a world that often feels rushed and heavy, moments like this land differently. They do not demand attention. They invite a smile. Sometimes that’s enough. This is a reminder that kindness doesn’t always look serious. Sometimes, it just looks sweet.

What was the last small moment that made you smile without expecting it? #PeaceWalk #AlokaDog #Texas #WashingtonDC #SweetMoments #EverydayJoy #LittleThingsMatter #FeelGoodVideo #WarmMoments #LifeAsItIs

• Dhr. Seven, Amber Larson, Sayalay Aloka (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Jeff Epstein's niece: Sex Slave Anya Wick

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

• Related to child abuser Walt Disney (bloodline)
• Jewish Satanists: Cult of Baal
• Justin Bieber: Usher, P Diddy...
• Bill Cosby, R Kelly, Pusha T...

Top 100 names inside Epstein Files contain many mega-rich Tech Bros like Peter Thiel, Elon...

• 

  I'm Elon Musk's trans son Vivian

  Gender confused trauma-based transsexuality? Elon Musk was on Pedo Island and his son rejected him and became his trans daughter Vivian Wilson
• What is sex slavery?
• Psychedelics used to perpetuate myth of "Reptilian" shapeshifters (as David Icke talks about openly)

Other child victims speak up

(Good Morning Britain) 'He told me what he was into' - Epstein survivor
Rina Oh shares her story: Illicit sex acts with kids in foreign countries

• Virginia Thomas Giuffre accuses Rina Oh of sex trafficking children with Epstein, though she says she was more a victim
• British Royalty
• The Kardashians and Kanye West
• Harvey Weinstein
• Molested by Seinfeld's Larry David, after being sex trafficked to him by her mother
• Jewish Larry David's co-star is Curb Your Enthusiasm is Cheryl Hines, wife of fellow Epstein Files name RFK Jr.
• (American anthropologist Michael Harmon, studying the Jivaro tribe in the Amazon, finally consented to taking ayahuasca to understand what the shamans were telling him. He heard "the sound of rushing water" and spoke to Reptilians, who said they were the true gods of this world, presumably hiding and living underground now)

USA: Why we protect our Pedo predators

(The Daily Show with John Stewart) Trump defends racist Obama meme and MAGA rages over Bad Bunny's Super Bowl Halftime Show

• Maybe we do because UK does? Emails reveal plan for Epstein to own majority stake in Sarah Ferguson brand after his child sex offense conviction
• Epstein affair may be 'the end of the [British] monarchy,' says US congressman | Sky News

Princess Sarah (wife of Prince Andrew): Marry me, Epstein! Traffic my royal daughters, let me come to your parties!

Jeffrey alive, in Israel with intel

Millions of Epstein Files withheld

(Democracy Now!) Protecting pedophile predators: Carole Cadwalladr on

Jeffrey Epstein, Elite's "veil of secrecy," Ghislaine Maxwell pleads the 5th

Bad Bunny's HIDDEN Halftime message

Trump, Lindsay Graham, and party watch Bad Bunny's Super Bowl, not Kid Rock's TPUSA

The Dhammapada

Why did Bad "Benito" Bunny quote the Buddha at the Grammys and the Super Bowl? It's a good message. In the Dhammapada the Buddha:

"Hatred is never appeased by hatred in the world. By love (non-hatred) alone is hatred appeased. This is a timeless truth." (Dhp 1.5)

It's a way of saying that the ONLY thing more powerful than seething hatred (dosa) is cooling love (metta).

• Three poisons: greed, HATRED, delusion
• The Roots of Good and Evil (múla)

When the Buddha says, "This is a timeless truth," also translated as "eternal law," he is saying that it is nothing new to say so. Everyone knows or has known it; it has been taught before and will be taught again; it is not a truth that belongs to anyone.

Leaders are super friends, but not followers?

Surely, other doctrines and teachers teach and have taught this -- Jesus, Mohammed, Krishna, Medicine Women, tribal chieftains, and others. An atheist sitting in silence might even come to realize it.

Fire isn't really fought with fire, unless one doesn't mind more burning. Water wouldn't get rid of water without leaving extra water around. Sure, "like cures like" in homeopathy (and in Louis Pasture's discovery), but how does it do it?

No, you dummies, not water! "Fight fire with fire!" Drop more flames on top of these flames!

.

Fire! Burn, burn, burn! Burn it all down!

It does it by provoking a powerful opposite response. Firefighters know that we can burn grass off to stop a raging forest fire, thus depriving it of fuel to continue. That seems like fire fighting fire, but it's actually cleverness fighting it. And it is soon extinguished with what, more fire? No, with non-fire. Calming cool replaces raging heat.

In homeopathy, the very thing that is troubling one, like an allergen, can be intensified (by what looks like dilution but is actually rarefication and sublimation) by provoking the body to realize what it is up against and using its natural abilities to counteract it.

Another summary of the show

(Ms. Premiere Ledger) Celebrities reacts to Bad Bunny Halftime Show

Q: What's the best way to do away with and be rid of an enemy? Hmmm. Think. A: Make that person a friend. That would end it right there.

Wouldn't it be so great to get along with the Spanish-speaking Americans we invade, colonize, and then discriminate against? Maybe one day Puerto Ricans could be "Americans." (Oh, they are? Well, there you go. Success!)

(The Young Turks) Turkish Ana Kasparian, the blond anti-Armenian

We must investigate, prosecute, arrest, deport and excommunicate BB!

Riots, Satan, PenisGate at Winter Olympics

(Times of India) Total mayhem in Italy: Massive riots in Milan against Winter Olympics, Trump's [IDF-infused] ICE deployment

2026 Olympics ceremony sparks outrage: anger over "Satanic symbols" | First Sports with Rupha Ramani

Is that a scary pentagram or a nice Wicca one?

(Firstpost) Feb. 9, 2026: The 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy were meant to begin with celebration and spectacle, but the opening ceremony has instead triggered a storm of controversy.

Social media users accused organizers of displaying Satanic symbolism after a pentagram-like visual appeared during the show.

This comes just two years after the Paris 2024 opening ceremony faced backlash for its religious parody.

PenisGate: bigger is better

Nordic Aryan fantasy will show that Jess Owens

Are Olympic ceremonies drifting into unnecessary controversies? [Did Hitler ruin The Games for everyone in 1936 by having Nazi Germany host them, adding a great deal of pomp and circumstance with industrialized symbolism and grandeur worthy of ancient Rome and Greece?] And are these spectacles overshadowing the spirit of sport?

Rupha Ramani breaks down the outrage, the history of opening ceremony controversies, and explores if the opening ceremonies are setting the wrong tone for the event to follow.

F these fascist, capitalist, Greco-Nazi games!

• The Paris Olympics countdown were also greeted by riots in France and Ukraine War (WSJ)

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