Celebrations of Mexico's independence across the Bay Area
(NBC Bay Area) Sept. 15, 2023: Mexico begins to celebrate its independence Friday (culminating on Sept. 16th), and that means much of the San Francisco Bay Area will join in the festivities kicking off the U.S. National Hispanic Heritage Month. Kris Sanchez reports.
Mexican Independence Day crowds force overnight Chicago street closures
Gran ambiente en el Zócalo de la CDMX previo al grito de independencia | México en Tiempo Real
(adn40Mx) Premiered 9/15/23 during preliminary celebrations in the grand plaza in the country's capital, Mexico City.
La gente comienza a llegar a la plancha del Zócalo de la Ciudad de México, autoridades realizan rondines para garantizar la seguridad de los asistentes. Acompaña a Sarahi Uribe en México en tiempo real donde salimos a las calles, caminamos junto a usted y contamos su historia. Denuncias Ciudadanas al: 55 16 34 53 95
[TRANSLATION: "People begin to arrive at the Zócalo plaza in Mexico City, as authorities carry out patrols to guarantee the safety of attendees. Join Sarahi Uribe in Mexico live in real time where we take to the streets, walk alongside viewers and tell the story. Send citizen complaints to: 55 16 34 53 95."]
Sexist Mexico now more progressive than northern neighbor USA: female president, pro-choice law, ET revelations
Alien bodies displayed in Mexico | Maussan shares details of UFO findings | N18V
(CNN-News18) Sept. 16, 2023: For Jaime Maussan, who lives and works in the USA, a Mexican journalist and longtime UFO reporter, they are one of the most important discoveries in the history of humankind.
But for many scientists these two tiny, mummified bodies [who look a lot like Hollywood's "ET"] with elongated heads and three fingered hands, images of which were beamed around the world this week when they were presented to Mexico's Congress, are an already-debunked -- perhaps criminal -- stunt [never mind that X-rays and MRI scans show they are biological entities, one with eggs inside].
#mexico #alien #alienbody #englishnews #cnnnews18 #news18
Host Maggie LePique (@maggielepique) began special programming on Dec. 7th with this fine song by the amazing Linda Ronstadt most listeners might only remember from her English language hits. But she's Latinx from Tucson, Arizona. The song is a heartbreaking tale of love, clinging, and suffering, interesting Buddhist themes of what happens when we won't let go. We live in an illusion, deluded about what's real. Will we wake up? Not without a struggle and not without intense pain -- such as the loss of a loved one -- to prompt us to search for the real, for emancipation, for an end to all suffering, which is called nirvana. Does Ronstadt know that? She dated Gov. Jerry Brown, of the Dead Kennedys fame, so she might. Many Catholics develop a great interest in the teachings of the Buddha, either from the point of view of Mahayana universalism or Theravada monasticism, which is quite like the Carmelites and Saint Teresa.
This is Hispanic Heritage Month (Sept. 15-Oct. 15). So here comes the 24th annual Pasadena Latina/o Heritage Parade and Festival, which will be held on Saturday, Oct. 1st, from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm.
Artist Frida Kahlo is a German-Mexican icon.
This year’s parade and festival theme “De Colores/An Array of Colors” recognizes the rich diversity in the Latinxculture and promises to enrich the community by bringing together family and friends, warmth and culture, as well as values and tradition.
We had this famous Mexican Velvet Painting in our living room growing up.
We are what we eat: culture
More than 2,000 participants and spectators are expected to attend the parade and festival. The parade begins at Los Robles Ave. and Prescott St., heads south on Los Robles and ends at Villa Parke Community Center, 363 E. Villa Street.
Immediately following the parade, a festival featuring live entertainment by local groups and headliner La Sonora Dinamita with Vilma Diaz, educational booths, free activities for children, and food available for purchase. The Grand Marshal will be Liliana Pérez. More: Pasadena’s Latin Heritage Fest
Gina Marie hated National Women's Month, arguing we shouldn't need it. But we do. We do need it. There's too much sexism still. There's too much racism, too. Even now. Even after Pres. B.S. Obama succeeded in changing nothing but not being made to look bad by the powers that be. His presidency was a great success, at least a PR (public relations) success. He may have been gay, smoked crack, had homosexual affairs, but no one but radical Republicans seem to know any of that, as most of it was kept out of the mainstream media. The firsthand witness was even, um, eliminated. Barry Soetoro was groomed for the job, and he did a lot of tangible harm (remember the NDAA and all the things he got through that no Republican, conservative, or white male candidate like Dick Cheney/Don John Trump could have dreamed of getting past the American public?) But he did intangible good, making it look like we're a post-racist nation. We are more racist than before. Are we post-sexist? Not even close. So we are ready to argue that we need or can use National Women's Month, Hispanic Heritage Month, Black History Month, and more. We shouldn't need it. But we need something. Gina Marie had a great point. Let's stop giving lip service to these causes and get with the reparations to all the oppressed. Let's raise everyone to equality, equal opportunity, equal educational advantage, and more. And until we're there, we need reminders of all the contributions to our Great Salad Bowl (not Melting Pot) experiment.
The best way to align with, feel sympathy or empathy for Hispanic (Latin) Americans, particularly our beloved Mexican American population, is to eat the original way. Mexican food is the most popular type of food across the nation, not just in the Southwest and California, the Golden State. Why? It's the best food for this climate, with lots of ingredients that grow all around here -- beans, squash, corn, chilies, tomatoes, cilantro, spices, herbs. One can believe that Native Americans -- the Indios or Indigenous Indian tribes that mixed with European invaders and interlopers, occupiers and [semi-unconscious] beneficiaries of white privilege, not to mention the rapists, government residential school molesters, church officials, and others who blended the races with and without consent -- were vegetarian and came to eat more and more meat under the influence of war, disease, occupation, and stress, following the role models that invaded and treated this land like Europe II.
What will we put in our compassionate vegan Buddha Bowl this month? Yum! Salsa, etc.
Beth Upton is coming to the end of her brief time in the UK and heading to Spain. She is happy to let everyone know that she will be taking a well-deserved break offline for a personal retreat from August 15th-22nd and will be back online from the 23rd onwards.
As well as looking forward to time offline, she is excited to get to Spain to continue working on the new community home. They are currently fundraising for Sanditthika Meditation Community (Join the community – Beth Upton), and she is delighted to announce that they are already nearly two-thirds of the way to reaching their target of 30,000 euros!
Thanks to all who have already offered generous support to this Dharma project. They will be busy this summer using donations to work on the legal and administrative side of the project, in preparation for their second round of fundraising, such that we can move forward with buying the land as soon as possible.
For those who have not yet done so, please consider making a donation. If unable to offer financial support, then support the cause by spreading the word far and wide.
Guru Viking, ginger interviews (audible.com)
In other news, she wants to let everyone know that she recently recorded a podcast with Guru Viking. It is always a pleasure to be interviewed by him, as one can count on him to raise some interesting topics.
In this podcast they touch on topics such as community, finding a natural balance in practice, and her sex life.
Tuesday August 9th will be the next group interview. These online sessions offer the chance not only to ask questions about one's own meditation, but also to listen and learn from the questions of others.
These group sessions are open to everyone and are also a good option if one is having difficulty booking a one-on-one Zoom appointment with her. Book a place at the group interviews up to a month in advance.
On Friday August 12th, 8:00-10:00 pm UK time, she will be hosting the next full moon gathering. These gatherings are a great opportunity to come together to deepen our connections to the Dharma and to each other.
This month's gathering will be on the topic of anger and its role in our Dharma practice. Everyone is welcome! Book a place at the gathering.
Although she is taking a week offline in August, there will still be plenty of availability later in the month.
Book a regular one-on-one Zoom appointment with her up to two weeks in advance.
As ever, all of Beth Upton's work is given on a donation basis. For information about some ways in which she and her work can be supported, take a look at bethupton.com.
Mexican "4th of July" is NOT Cinco de Mayo; it's El Grito! ❤️
Conmemoramos el 210 Aniversario del Grito de Independencia con el reconocimiento a las y los héroes de la patria y una especial dedicatoria a la esperanza en el porvenir.
Guardamos un minuto de silencio en honor a las víctimas de la epidemia del COVID-19. Este homenaje estuvo acompañado del encendido de la Llama de la Esperanza en el Zócalo de la Ciudad de México, la cual hace referencia a nuestro pueblo que se mantiene en pie ante la crisis sanitaria mundial causada por el virus SARS-CoV-2.
Mantenemos nuestra fe en la fraternidad universal, la soberanía, la igualdad, la democracia, la justicia, la libertad, la grandeza cultural de México, su heroico pueblo y las comunidades indígenas. Más
Vipassana means "insight" in the exclusively Buddhist language Pali. It is a form of meditation and associated attention practices that produce intuitive direct-knowledge of reality. It is the path of purification, the path to freedom the Buddha taught on top of extraordinary serenity (samadhi, the ecstatic meditative absorptions). Serenity is calm concentration that temporarily purifies the mind/heart, whereas insight meditation produces knowledge, wisdom, and enlightenment, which are permanent liberation and freedom from all suffering.
How was the free 10-day retreat?
(Hard Is Easy) I'm not a woo woo person, but 10 days of complete silence in an insight (vipassana) meditation retreat was a life-altering experience for me.
In this video I tell the full story from how I got myself to sit still for about 120 hours to brain science and psychology of the mind to, of course, the things that were super weird or seemed like it at first.
The goal is not to make anyone try vipassana nor is it the opposite. It took me about four years to finally get myself to try it. And despite my mind-opening experiences, vipassana is a very personal journey. It is probably not for everyone.
I tried many types of meditation before. Unfortunately, most of them were surrounded by spiritual woobee doobee [hogwash, nonsense]. And I got no real benefits from them apart from relaxation.
The vipassana technique (taught by U Ba Khin and his student S. N. Goenka) gave me a glimpse into my deep brain and deeply programmed behavioral patterns.
The group makes it bearable. Everyone's in.
Being more mindful of our crazy minds is the road to a happier life. Many great people use this mindfulness practice.
Colin O'Brady is an endurance athlete who crossed the landmass of Antarctica alone and unsupported. Yuval Noah Harari is a famous historian who wrote Sapiens. Both claim that they could not have achieved what they did without the help of vipassana meditation.
Here's another fun fact: The Buddha was NOT teaching Buddhism. [He taught the efficacy of karma and in his day was known as a Karmavadin, a "Teacher of Karma." He said he taught the Dharma, the liberating Truth, the path to direct realization so that no one thereafter needs a teacher to know what's true.
In fact, the Buddha or "Enlightened One," the former Prince Siddhartha Gautama, was more of a body-and-mind scientist, who did many experiments on himself to rediscover the path when there was no one in the world who knew it. Today, people know it. Find one of those teachers.
What the Buddha always said was, "Don't believe me, Experience everything for yourself and draw your own conclusions." The buddhas merely point the way. Be happy.
Farber is also the board chair. And as the first Latina president in the Tournament's history, she's part of a continuing effort to increase diversity at the venerable volunteer organization.
Farber also asked that the B-2 pilot who flies over the 2020 festivities be a woman (wish granted: Lt. Col. Nicola Polidor).
She also chose this year's theme, "The Power of Hope (El Poder de la Esperanza)." She told us the choice was inspired by her and her husband's immigrant experiences (he's from the Dominican Republic), and fueled by a desire to see a divided country come together in the new year.
MAKING HISTORY
The pantheon of past presidents includes just two other women (who served in 2005-06 and 2012-13). Farber is the first Latina and native Spanish-speaker to work her way up to the post. More
"Out, sinners!" - "We're sorry. Tell God we didn't mean to get an education!" (The Onion)
Tod@s Caen("Everybody Falls"), Spanish language from Mexico, with English subtitles. Rate PG.
Adan (Spanish for "Adam," the first man, played by Omar Chaparro) is a charming seducer who believes he knows how to make any woman swoon. He prepares to teach his friends the art of conquering women, using his array of bullet-proof rules of seduction.
Mia ("Mine," a kind of Eva/Eve or first woman, a seductress played by Martha Higareda) has learned THE RULES OF DATING the hard way -- lots of random sex and dating. Now she wants to share the rules with other women to spare them a lot of heartache and suffering.
She is an ambitious TV producer in Mexico who dreams of having her own show about female empowerment: Todos Caen ("Everybody Falls"). She has the ultimate strategic guide to female dating and is ready to teach it to the world: Men are hunters who like to be led on even if everyone thinks they just want sex.
Hey, Adan, nos vamos a ligar?
Mia's guide teaches women how to hook men -- to have them eating from the palm of the hand in no time. She's so confident that she takes a bet that she can make Adan fall. What will happen when player meets player?
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All The [OLD] Rules
When they cross paths at a nightclub Mia has gone to with her friends because she knows it's Adan's hunting grounds, the game is on! It's an all-out battle of the sexes.
But as they test their seduction strategies on one another, both find that sometimes the more you play hard-to-get, the harder you may end up falling yourself. Unless you're tricky (no, even if you're tricky).
What would the Buddha do? In the Rhinoceros Sutra (from the Buddhist sutra collection called the Sutta Nipata, literally "Discourses Falling Down," published as "Woven Cadences") -- translated long ago in England by E. M. Hare (in the Pali Text Society's Sacred Books of the Buddhists Series) -- we find some ancient Buddhist advice:
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