I'm a Mexican Buddhist: Heartbreak! (video)

PRI's The World (PRX); Sunny Ozuna; Hope Sandoval; ST; Mexican Buddhist, Wisdom Quarterly

What is pain and suffering in the Wheel of Life and Death (samsara) in a bhavachakra?

(PRX, PRI's The World, 3/10/09) Buddhism in Mexico: The World's Lorne Matalon reports on the growth of Buddhism in traditionally Aztec and conquered Colonial Catholic Mexico (Mesoamerica).

(AnabellyLoves) "It's Okay" explained: There's bittersweet irony in Sunny's voice. He's so hurt that he has to disguise it with laughter. He's crazy hurt. He didn't trust easily. But he finally gave his heart to someone, gave her the benefit of the doubt, believed in her goodness. And she betrayed him anyway. Because of Chicano power, he might be OK someday. And maybe she won't be doing so well.

Give my heart away, get kicked in the cockles.

It's sad to be sad, but what is there to do? Samsara (lit., the "continued wandering on," the cyclical way of endless rebirth in many realms according to our karma, "our just desserts," the Wheel of Suffering and Rebirth) is that way, an empty village replete with dukkha.

What is dukkha, and why did the Buddha talk about it so much? Who knows loss, who knows disappointment, who knows lack of fulfillment? All "things" (composite agglomerations like "the self or ego," all dependently arisen things) are unsatisfactory.

They are off center, out of kilter, irregular, and ultimately displeasing. We can hardly control them at all, and what little we can does not produce the satisfaction we hoped for and set out for. That's pain in the heart.

Latinx Hope Sandoval really knows how to milk it or has a heroin issue.

¿Por que mi corazon me duele tanto?

Everything is hurtling toward destruction; that's anicca, the fact that all things are in constant flux. But we can live with disappointment and the loss of everything. We'll chase new things, and new things come along.

What we can't live with is everything being impersonal, altogether everything. I don't know, for me, I never realize this except in the failing of romantic relationships, where so much is at stake -- ego, sex and other sensual pleasures, deeper meaning, who I am in the reflection of another. What an Effort to Waste:

Latinx guitarist Joe Baiza really lays it on for L.A. punks Saccharine Trust

• LYRICS: "Drunk on the blood/ Stuck to the rug/ He vomits nostalgia/ Casualties watch him seethe/ With careful curiosity/ Raw dialogue/ Effort to Waste/ He gives his sermon/ Words are pointless/ To the sober conscience/ Who breathes the same air// CHORUS: All is mind as mind is all/ Flesh is stone as stone is flesh/ Pain is real as real is pain/ As real as now// Sad awakening/ He finds a window/ God, it's mourning!/ All thoughts pierce/ Memories are scarce/ The cuts have dried out/ The terror of/ The nights he lost/ Still hangs his head low/ Drunk on a rug/ Stuck to the blood/ He vomits nostalgia!/ I waited so long for something to seem real/ I had so many questions/ I answered all my questions/ When I seen your face turn/ And I knew what was real/ And I knew what was LOST/ And I knew what was real/ Pain is real..."

Espera. Is there an alternative to crying?

It all raises the question, Do Latinx people have emotions that are too strong? Compared to whom, I guess. Did you hear about the Norwegian man who loved his wife so much he almost told her? Or the Japanese man whose Japanese-American kids said they loved him, and he asked them what kind of drugs they were on." Or [insert your own trope here]?

Meditation flash mob in Mexico City

"The Perfect Life" - Mexico City meditation flash mob

(New Kadampa Tradition, March 1st, 2016) Fun, bright, and colorful, Mexico City's NKT-IKBU Tibetan Buddhist cult community bring an unlikely calm to a busy Sunday afternoon among the Hispanic/White-Latinx people (Mestizo Indigenous) of the second largest city behind Los Angeles. Music by Moby.  Find a local NKT Center and pay to learn about Westernized Tibetan Buddhism that opposes the Dalai Lama at kadampa.org/map.