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Artemas (official website) will be opening up Coachella tonight with the Number 1 song in the world, "I Like the Way You Kiss Me." Will the festival grounds be ready for Dark R&B? Probably with all that sxx, drgs, n R'n'r people travel to the desert for. It's not sold out, so there's still a chance to get there or listen to it live on KROQ.com(the dwindling alt rock station). Lola Young, SAINt JHN, Kneecap, The Beaches, Misfits, Charli XCX, maybe Travis "Satanic Stampede Show" Scott with Kardashian hangers on, and Prodigy minus their best member. Who else? This is the worst music line up ever, particularly Laby Gaga.
It can also be seen free of dust and walking, heat and sweaty influencer crowds, on YouTube. Tickets are unreasonably priced, but that's just the start. Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. This ain't no Woodstock '69. One has to get a pricey room, campsite, or other temporary habitation or risk ending up in jail. The authorities make a lot of money over these two weekends, and the courts make even more. The full moon will have something to do with that.
If it weren't for the large group (mass metta public) meditation, the whole thing might not be worth it. If we die, because dying is possible and seems a little heightened at a jamboree like this, what did America's Sleeping Prophet Edgar Cayce (edgarcayce.org) say awaits us? It's not a dark thought, if we only knew. We cling to our good times here, so it seems scary. But it isn't:
(Charlie Chang) This video is shot at Coachella (Weekend 1) interviewing a bunch of rich people staying at the Safari Campgrounds, the most exclusive experience offered by the festival. Strangers get asked a bunch of questions about what they do for a living to afford tickets, advice for others, and a bunch of juicy Qs about money, business, and philosophy of life. Tickets for the Safari Pass range from $9,000 for a tent all the way up to over $40,000 for a luxurious yurt, which is absolutely insane. (It's only a four-night stay!) My girlfriend and I paid $11,000 to get into the area to make this video. I've always wondered what type of people are able to afford renting something like this, so watch the entire video because there are a lot of cool people, not just the snobs and knob gobblers (like Kendra Sunderland getting interviewed by Sebastian on the Woody Show this morning) one might expect. Asking Coachella VIP's what they do for a living #Coachella #interview #Weekend1
Thoughts of sensuality (craving for pleasures of the five senses) oppress the person beset by them again and again, becoming an obsession and compulsion. What's worse, getting what one craves does NOT solve the problem: Wanting is still there or soon comes back. Getting was no solution at all. Repeatedly getting in fact leads to addiction, a worse compulsion that sees no way out of the quagmire. (Giggity).
When the goal of the mind-body is just pleasure and more of it, the trap begins to become clear. But what other goal might one set for oneself? Liberation from disappointment and all suffering (dukkha). That goal is nirvana, realized by enlightenment (bodhi). But how?
That is what a Buddha answers, having exposed the problem, he claimed there is a cause (craving accompanied by aversion, both rooted in delusion) to our disappointment/suffering. There's a final solution, too. The fourth ennobling (enlightening) truth is that there is a path, a middle way, to the solution.
That might be a better goal, something else to fixate on and strive for, relaxing into it until the illusion dissolves and ultimate-reality becomes clear. Until then, what's a person to do but take Jerri Blank's advice to herself, "Don't think about sex, don't think about sex, don't think about sex," which will be about as useful as saying, "Don't think about pink elephants."
Did you just think of pink elephants? Didn't we just say not to think of pink elephants. Why do we keep saying "pink elephants," which only makes us think of pink elephants... Don't think about sex. Oops! We just said...
(It doesn't work to try to not think about what you're thinking about; it does work to think about something else and keep thinking that other thing).
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(Buddha's Wisdom) March 30, 2025:
š WHAT IF WE FELL INTO OUR PHYSICAL BODIES?
What if we weren't born into a body but fell into one? An ancient Buddhist text called the AggaƱƱa Sutta (DN 27) describes space beings of pure light who once floated about freely through space until they alighted on earth, devolved, and developed something we all struggle with today ā sensual craving or desire (tanha). That first craving for sensual pleasure began our descent into increasingly dense physical form, creating humans bound by the very cravings that landed us here and kept us stuck in the quagmire of craving, karma, and karmic results. DISCOVER:
How the Buddha taught that consciousness preceded physical form, not the other way around
The striking parallels between Buddhist cosmology and modern scientific theories
Why a human birth is considered extraordinarily rare as the Buddha taught
The unexpected connection between desire and the densification of our physical bodies
How understanding our origins can transform our approach to spiritual practice today
TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Were we once beings of light?
02:06 The Buddhist cosmological view
06:17 Scientific parallels with Buddhist origin stories
08:40 The mental evolution of humanity
12:41 Why human birth is so precious
16:33 The mystery element: Where do we go from here?
Thus have I heard. The Exalted One (the Buddha) was once staying near SÄvatthÄ«, in the East Park, inside the mansion of MigÄra's Mother. Now at that time VÄseį¹į¹ha and BhÄradvÄja were passing their probationary period among the wandering ascetics, wishing to become fully ordained Buddhist monks.
Then in the evening the Exalted One, having arisen from his meditations, came down, and was walking back and forth in the open air, in the shade of the mansion. When VÄseį¹į¹ha saw this, he told BhÄradvÄja, adding:
āLet's go, friend BhÄradvÄja, let's approach the Exalted One, because we might have the good fortune to hear from the Exalted One a talk on matters of Dhamma (Doctrine)."
āEven so, friend," BhÄradvÄja replied. So VÄseį¹į¹ha and BhÄradvÄja approached the Exalted One and, having saluted him, they walked behind him as he walked back and forth. Then the Exalted One said:
āVÄseį¹į¹ha, being Brahmin (brahmana) by birth and family lineage, have gone forth from a Brahmin family and home into the left-home life of a wandering ascetic (sramana), do the other Brahmins blame and revile you?
āVenerable sir, yes, indeed, Brahmins do blame and revile us with characteristic abuse, copious, not holding back."
āVÄseį¹į¹ha, with what words do they blame you?
āVenerable sir, Brahmins say: 'The Brahmin caste is the best.... Only Brahmins are genuine children of BrahmÄ, born of Brahma's mouth, offspring of BrahmÄ, created by BrahmÄ, heirs of BrahmÄ. As for you, you have renounced the best human rank and have gone over to that low class ā to shaven recluses, to the vulgar [nouveau-riche] rich, to those of dark skins, to those born of Brahma's feet. In these terms, venerable sir, do Brahmins blame and revile us with characteristic abuse, copious, not holding back....
"VÄseį¹į¹ha, surely those Brahmins have forgotten the past (ancient lore) when they say so? On the contrary, Brahmin females, wives of Brahmins, are known to be fertile, are seen to be pregnant with child, bringing forth and nursing children. Yet, it is these very [human] womb-born Brahmins who say such thingsā¦ 'Brahmins are genuine children of BrahmÄ, born from his mouth; his offspring, his creation, and his heirs'! By this they make a travesty of the nature of BrahmÄ. It is false what they say, and great is the demerit that they thereby earn." More (suttacentral.net)
Bodhi ("enlightenment"), what does it actually mean? with scholar-monk Bhikkhu Bodhi
Isn't the homelife harder than the left-home life?
(Daniel Aitken) Watch the full episode at dharmachats.com.
In this Dharma Chat, renowned American Theravada Buddhist scholar-monk and translator of the Pali canon Bhikkhu Bodhi (one of Wisdom Quarterly's root-teachers through his scholarship, BPS.lk editorship, and one-on-one communications, the New Jersey born/California-trained Jewish-Buddhist Dr. Jeffrey Block, Ph.D., Claremont, who still teaches us and leads us in meditation every Wednesday eveninglive from Chaung Yen Monastery in Carmel to our base in Los Angeles) sheds light on the meaning of his own monastic Buddhist name, "Bodhi." Join him as he unveils the multifaceted nature of the word bodhi(awakening to the ultimate truth and thereby realizing complete liberation as nirvana).
Bhikkhu Bodhi, if the Buddha means "the Enlightened One," what does buddha mean?
Expectations impede attainment of enlightenment
Enlightened (bodhi-fied persons) are not called buddhas because that term is reserved for two very rare and special types of awakened individuals, the private (nonteaching self-awakened) and public (supremely self-awakened teaching) buddhas. Other "noble ones" are noble disciples (enlightened students), whose experience of enlightenment is the same as the buddhas with the difference that buddhas have other additional knowledges and powers like the dasa-balas or "Ten Powers of a Tathagata") which distinguish a supreme (samma-sam-bodhi) teacher from his successful students who have awakened to the same ultimate truths by pursuing the path he has pointed out. It may sound like a technical difference between these three kinds of individuals, "Enlightened Ones," as it were but it is key to comprehending how extraordinarily rare a supreme-enlightened-teaching buddha is, how rare and extraordinary pacceka-buddhas (nonteaching buddhas with the same knowledge but not the capacity to teach), and how relatively less rare (but still extraordinarily rare) disciple-arahants ("enlightened beings") are.
What does "Buddha" mean? An article by Bhikkhu Bodhi may change some minds
(Doug's Dharma) Let's take a look at a recent article by American scholar-monk and Pali canon translator Bhikkhu Bodhi on the meaning of Buddha and his related realization.
Some contemporary scholars have argued that bodhi ("enlightenment") should be translated as "awakening" and the historical Buddha should therefore be understood to mean "the Awakened One."
Bhikkhu Bodhi prefers a different option, and we'll see why.
00:00 Intro to the dispute
05:17 1. English definitions of the terms
07:48 2. Looking at PÄli language usage
08:56 3. Early metaphors and similes
14:08 A hidden irony or contradiction [by analogy bodhi is spoken of as enlightenment or awakening, whereas
NOTE: A recent article by Western Buddhist monk Bhikkhu AnÄlayo calls Bhikkhu Bodhi's translation of this term into question. Doug Smith has done a follow up video discussing that response here:
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Basharās shocking revelations on "God," multiple Big Bangs, multiverse, and "creation"
(Path of Knowledge) March 26, 2025: What if everything we thought we knew about God, the Big Bang, and the nature of reality were completely wrong?
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It is likely much older than this division of the Hindu trinity. It shows an advanced yoga pose, a lotus position with heels touching and facing upwards.
Sadly, no one has yet rigged artificial intelligence to crack the code and decipher the ancient Indus Valley Civilization language of this area and/or what was spoken in Harappa (since it seems to not have been an early/archaic form of Vedic Sanskrit as one might guess).
April 2025 Full Pink Moon: When to see the micromoon this weekend
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April 10, 2025: The Full Pink Moon rises on Saturday, April 12th, 2025, as a rare "micromoon" and Paschal Moon, which matters a great deal to the world's Christians and Astrotheological "Pagans" who celebrate the great rebirth/resurrection now called "Easter." Was it once the worship Esther (Eostre, which gives us the sexual word estrus)? Hereās when to watch it and why it matters for Easter celebrators.
Full moon observance
Moon over Buddhist Burma, Shwedagon Pagoda
Buddhists the world over celebrate the "sabbath" or "lunar observance" (uposatha) according to the four phases of the moon, the planet's cyclical timekeeper. Of these four phases, the full moon phase is of particular importance. Many who may only observe the Eight Precepts and intensive Buddhist practice once a month will choose this phase for their observance. It is a great way to make regular skillful (wholesome, good, profitable) karma. This will be great merit for the future because "karma is everywhere we're going to be." What is the uposatha observance and how does one fulfill it? That is a good question to ask Theravada monastics in the area. They are all over the United States now. May we suggest Western scholar-monk and Pali-to-English translator Bhikkhu Bodhi at the Buddhist Association of the United States (baus.org/en) in Carmel, Upstate New York? It is also New Year's Day on Monday (Moon-day) in Theravada Buddhist Sri Lanka and Buddhist Bangladesh (which still has two thriving albeit tiny Theravada Buddhist communities surviving in Chittagong and the Hill Tracks).
This eye-opening AI documentary explores a great mystery in religious history -- the 18 missing years of Jesus Christ's life that remain unaccounted for in traditional biblical texts.
While the canonical gospels are silent about Jesus from ages 12 to 30, which is 60 of his life, ancient Buddhist manuscripts preserved in a Tibetan Buddhist lamasery (Hemisgompa or monastery), now in the Himalayas of India in Ladakh.
Ethiopia's remote monasteries record additional details.
Discover how the world's oldest continuously Christian nation preserved texts that were excluded from the Western church's Bible, including detailed accounts of Jesus's journeys across Asia and the Middle East during his formative years.
The Ethiopian Bible, which contains 88 books rather than the standard 66, provides astonishing details about Jesus's education and spiritual development that were systematically removed from Western Christian traditions during its councils [and the making of "Caesar's Messiah," as reported by Joseph Atwood].
Take this AI-enhanced journey to investigate compelling evidence from ancient Ethiopian manuscripts, alongside corroborating discoveries from the Tibetan/Indian/Chinese Himalayas and Egypt, which reveal Jesus's extensive travels and studies with Eastern spiritual traditions before beginning his short ministry.
What was so revolutionary about these missing years that powerful religious authorities purposely worked to erase them from history?
Watch to decode ancient texts, examine linguistic connections, and analyze archeological evidence that suggests Jesus synthesized wisdom from multiple spiritual traditions (Jainism, Brahmanism/Vedic Hinduism, Buddhism, Egyptian mystery schools, and early Ethiopian spirituality) to create his revolutionary teachings.
This carefully researched presentation challenges conventional understanding while offering a more complete picture of history's most influential (and to some extent make believe) spiritual figure.
00:00 - Intro: The 18 Lost Years of Jesus - History's Greatest Mystery
00:45 - The Mystery Unveiled: The 18 Lost Years of Jesus Christ
02:46 - The Himalayan Connection: Ancient Scrolls Reveal Jesus's Eastern Journey
05:40 - The Ethiopian Revelation: Jesus Found in an Ethiopian Bible
09:03 - The Indian Chronicles: How the Lost Years of Jesus Shaped His Teachings
13:28 - The Egyptian Mystery: Ancient Bible Traditions Jesus Encountered
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Amazonās quantum breakthrough that everyone missed
(Sabine Hossenfelder) While Microsoftās Majorana quantum computing chip might have grabbed all the headlines earlier this year, Amazon appears to have quietly made some big progress in the quantum computing race. Their new Ocelot chip uses cat qubits to support a scalable architecture that reduces errors by up to 90%. What does that mean? Letās take a look.
Smithsonian cover-up in the Grand Canyon? Ancient Egyptian city found
(The InBetween) The Grand Canyon's Egyptian Secret: A Smithsonian cover-up?
In 1909, explorer G.E. Kincaid, while boating down the Colorado River, made a shocking discovery in the Grand Canyon: a vast cave system filled with Buddhist and Egyptian-style artifacts and hieroglyphs.
But as news spread, the Smithsonian's dismissal raised suspicions. Why did they mount a large expedition led by Prof. S.A. Jordan to follow up? What really happened to Kincaid's original findings?
Why is the alleged site nearly impossible to access today? What's behind the government's apparent secrecy? And could there be a connection to Hopi legends of an underground civilization?
Join us as we unravel one of America's most intriguing archeological mysteries and explore where these ancient people might be today.
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