Save the Trees with Julia Butterfly Hill (7/8)

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Internationally recognized environmental activist Julia Butterfly Hill travels to Pasadena to headline a public fundraiser supporting community efforts to preserve 193 trees slated for destruction and removal by the PUSD (Pasadena Unified School District).

Her appearance comes as the school district's tree-removal plans have drawn widespread public condemnation, concern, legal action, peaceful protests and demonstrations, and extensive regional media coverage.

• Pasadena’s plan to cut down nearly 200 trees angers residents | LAist
• Pasadena plan to remove old trees sparks fury | KCRW
• PUSD tree removal plan sparks outcry over transparency and environmental impact
• Teen spends hours in school oak marked for removal, mother pleads for tree preservation | Pasadena Now
• Why we're killing our trees. Removal & Restoration | PUSD

Despite weeks of advocacy, the school district has not yet committed to permanently preserving any of the remaining trees slated for destruction and removal.

Trees at San Rafael Elementary School, including mature and protected trees, were removed during bird nesting season without city tree permits or on-site biological monitoring.

• Pasadena Presbyterian Church
• 585 E. Colorado Blvd.
• Pasadena, Los Angeles, CA 91101
• Wednesday, July 8, 2026, 6:30-8:30 pm
• RSVP or DONATE: bit.ly/PUSDtrees

• Meetup RSVP: Dharma Buddhist Meditation
• PasaDharma: Los Angeles Foothills
• Nature Center, San Fernando Valley

To save trees is to save our planet

Pasadena is honored to welcome Julia Butterfly Hill. She is traveling here to support efforts to preserve the trees of the Pasadena Unified School District.

She is an internationally-recognized environmental advocate best known for her historic 738-day treehouse sit to protect an ancient, giant California redwood, an act of peaceful civil disobedience that inspired people around the world. ​

Join us for an evening hosted by the youth working to protect the PUSD trees.

• Julia Butterfly Hill will speak
• Local youth will perform music
• Artwork and tee-shirts will be available
• We'll hold a raffle
• This is a fundraiser for the trees
• Circle of Life Foundation: circleoflife.org

​Student tickets: $5 (with valid student ID at door)

Adult tickets: $25–$1,000 (pay what you can) ​

• VIDEO: Lessons from Julia Butterfly Hill (2012)
• Tree Hugger Julia Butterfly Hill saved Luna (2023)

Support the cause of saving trees

J Butterfly Hill (Young Heroes)

If not attending in person, it is possible to support this effort by making a donation.

​All proceeds directly support the community effort to preserve the Pasadena Unified School District's trees from destruction to remediate grounds.

Join us in standing together to protect these remarkable trees before more are lost. ​

• Earth First
• Trees Foundation
• Amigos De Los Rios (Altadena)
• The Jane Goodall Institute
• Jane Goodall Sprouts Club

(ABC 20/20) The Story of Julia Butterfly Hill

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The Cabal News Network: Rense.com is dissatisfied with the reportage over at CNN. What used to be a Cable News Network has become a CABAL News Network. What's a cabal?

A "cabal" is a group of people who are united in some close design, usually to promote their private views or interests in an ideology, a state, or another community such as Neo-Nazi white supremacists, often by intrigue and usually without the knowledge of those who are outside their group.

The use of this term usually carries negative connotations of political purpose, conspiracy, and secrecy [1, 2]. It can also refer to a secret plot or a clique, or it may be used as a verb (to form a cabal or secretly conspire) [1, 3].

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We create the mainstream media, and we control it via governmental intel collaboration.

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Jewish mysticism is a cabal[lah]

ETYMOLOGY: The term cabal is derived from Kabbalah (a Jewish word that has numerous spelling variations), the Jewish mystical interpretation of Hebrew scriptures (קַבָּלָה).

In the Jewish language (not to be confused with Yiddish), it means "received doctrine" or "tradition" [4], while in European culture (Christian Cabala, Hermetic Qabalah) it became associated with occult doctrine or a secret [5].

It came into English via the French cabale from the medieval Latin cabbala and was known early in the 17th century through usages linked to Charles II and Oliver Cromwell.

By the middle of the 17th century, it had developed further to mean some intrigue entered into by a small group and also referred to the group of people so involved, that is, a semi-secret political clique [6].

Butt smoke enema?

Accoutrements of insertion

(Wiki) The tobacco smoke enema, an insufflation of tobacco smoke into the rectum by hose and pipe, was a medical treatment employed by European physicians for a range of ailments.

The West recognized tobacco as a medicine soon after it was first imported from the "New World," and tobacco smoke was used by Western medical practitioners as a tool against cold and drowsiness.

Butt applying it by enema was a technique allegedly learned from the North American Indigenous peoples [1]. The procedure was used to treat gut pain and in attempts to resuscitate victims of near drowning.

Liquid tobacco enemas were often given to ease the symptoms of a hernia. During the early 19th century, the practice became obsolete due to poor efficacy and risk of nicotine poisoning. More

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You can't badmouth the chosen people!

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The Gosford glyphs (Australian Geographic)

(Wiki) The Gosford Glyphs, also known as Kariong Hieroglyphs, are a group of approximately 300 Egyptian-style hieroglyphs located in Kariong, Brisbane, Australia. They are found in an area known for its Aboriginal petroglyphs, between Gosford and Woy Woy, New South Wales, within the Brisbane Water National Park. Academics and authorities have tried to dismiss them as a hoax after their discovery in the 1970s, but there is no proof other than disbelief. These authorities are still attempting to prove the false belief that they were carved by ancient Egyptians about 4,500 years ago [1]. So far they have been unable to do so. But to think the ancient Egyptians made it not only to the Grand Canyon in the Southwest USA. More

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• Eds., Wisdom Quarterly assembled July 28, 2024

The way out: Ennobling Eightfold Path

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(Buddha's Wisdom) July 5, 2026: 🔍 THE ENTIRE BUDDHIST PATH HIDES INSIDE ONE SMALL WORD.  The Noble Eightfold Path is Buddhism's way out (vimutti, moksha) of suffering (dukkha), yet almost everyone reads it as if were eight rules to obey, like a report card. It was never that!

This video rebuilds the Eightfold Path to Enlightenment from the ground up, showing why it isn't eight steps at all, why we're already walking a version of it right now, and how one mistranslated English word quietly changed how the whole teaching is understood.

📿DISCOVER

• Why sammā (usually translated "right") actually means aligned, whole, and in harmony, not "right answer versus wrong answer"
• The wrong Eightfold Path the Buddha described in the Great Forty, the shadow path most people are walking right now without knowing it
• How the eight factors collapse into just three trainings: wisdom, ethics, and meditation (stillness, samadhi, concentration)
• The ancient riddle of the tangle that became the skeleton of Buddhaghosa's Path of Purification (Visuddhimagga)
• Why the path is the Fourth Noble Truth, the cure written at the foot of the diagnosis, and how it ends by erasing itself
• How the Eightfold Path connects to Dependent Origination and the tangle of suffering

⚡ Ever felt the Eightfold Path was a scorecard being failed? This is the video that reframes it completely. Subscribe to Buddha's Wisdom.

Seeing what's actually happening now

Seven signs: I'm now closer to Nirvana

(Buddha's Wisdom) We're closer to Nirvana than we think: 7 signs the Buddha described in Theravada Buddhism's Pali canon.

COMMENTARY

Explained by Wisdom Quarterly: American Buddhist Journal

The historical Buddha Gautama blissfully reclines into final nirvana (wiki)

 

But what is "nirvana" and why would anyone want it?

It is "the end of all suffering" or dukkha. It is the extinguishing of all greed, hatred, and delusion (craving, aversion, and ignorance) that keep the illusion and suffering going. It is the cooling of these fires (raging flames, smoldering coals, and blinding smoke). It is the highest bliss, the dissolution of all formations, the end of samsara, the incessant "continued wandering on" of rebirth and death.

• Nirvana is the "deathless" (amata, amrita, ambrosia)
• Nirvana is the "unconditioned element" (asankhata dhatu)
• Nirvana is the highest peace, the true refuge (sarana)
• Nirvana is the freedom (vimutti) from all afflictions
• Nirvana is the liberation (moksha) by wisdom
• Nirvana is the summum bonum of Early Buddhism and therefore of the back-to-basics Theravada school

But what is it, this thing with no equal?

In Theravada Abhidhamma texts such as the Vibhanga, where Sanskrit nirvana is called nibbana in Pali, the "unconditioned element" is defined this way:

"What is the unconditioned element (asankhata dhatu)? It is the cessation of passion, the cessation of hatred [aversion], and the cessation of delusion" [Note 12].

The Dhammasangani likewise describes it as that reality which is a sphere of experience unproduced by any cause or condition, according to L.S. Cousins [111].

The Dhammasangani also describes it in numerous other ways, such as the "immeasurable," "superior to everything," as "not past, present, or future" [the Ancient Greek anionic, the "not aeons," the "timeless," the "eternal now"], as "neither arisen nor not-arisen" and as "neither within nor without" [111].

• In Buddhism, Jainism, and Hinduism, "aeon" is used as a translation of the term kalpa and sometimes maha-kalpa or "great aeon" (Sanskrit महाकल्प). A maha kalpa, which cannot be pinned down to an exact numerical figure, is often said to be 1,334,240,000 years or the life cycle of the world (cakkavāḷa).
• Christianity's idea of "eternal life" comes from a Greek form of aión (αἰών) and the word for life, zōḗ (ζωή) [6], which has been translated to mean [timeless] immortality in the majority of texts, but is argued by some [7, 8, 9] to mean life in the next aeon, the Kingdom of God, or Heaven, instead.
• According to some proponents of Christian universalism, the Greek New Testament scriptures use the word aión (αἰών) to mean "a long period" (or age-long) and the word aiṓnion (αἰώνιον) to mean "during a long period" (or similarly, age-during); thus, there was a time before the aeons, and the aeonian period is finite. After each person's mortal life ends, one is judged worthy or not worthy of aeonian life...
• Another universalist reading, prevalent among Neoplatonists due to its similarity to views expressed in Plato's Timaeus [10], is that the "aeon" does not refer to a time, finite or infinite, but instead a Greek parallel of a Judaic view of distinct natures of time, between the χρόνος (chronos) of the present "age," or עולם הזה ('olam ha-zeh) and the αιώνιος (aionios) of the "age to come," or הָעוֹלָם הַבָּא ('olam ha-ba). More: aeon

Cousins also notes that "suggestively, however, it may be reckoned as nama (name) rather than rupa [form]. This does seem to suggest some element of underlying idealism of the kind which emerges later in the vijñanavada" (the "teaching of consciousness") [111].

Furthermore, for Theravada Buddhism, nibbana is uniquely the ONLY unconditioned element or phenomenon. Theravada argues that nibbana is unitary, that it cannot be divided.

Unlike other Buddhist schools, Theravada does not agree that there are any other unconditioned elements or phenomena, nor that there are different types of nirvana (such as the apratistha or "non-abiding nirvana" invented by Mahayana) [112, 111].

As noted by Thiện Châu, the Theravadans and the Pudgalavadans "remained strictly faithful to the letter of the [Buddha's original] sutras" and thus held that nirvana is the only unconditioned dhamma (phenomenon), while other schools posited various asankhata dhammas, such as the Sarvastivadan view that space (akasha) is unconditioned) [112].

Medieval Theravada exegesis

The fifth century Theravada scholar-monk and exegete Buddhaghosa says in The Path of Purification (Visuddhimagga): "It is called nibbana (extinction) because it has gone away from (nikkhanta), has escaped from (nissata), is dissociated from craving, which has acquired in common usage the name ‘fastening (vana)’ because, by ensuring successive becoming, craving serves as a joining together, a binding together, a lacing together, of the four kinds of generation, five destinies, seven stations of consciousness, and nine abodes of being" [Note 13]. More

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