(Johnathan Bi) He studied every religion, and this one came the closest to being right, Rice U Prof. Jeff Kripal:
(Official Rice University website of Jeffrey J. Kripal) It consists of eight parts: (1) a brief professional bio, (2) an essay introducing the inspiration and purpose of this website, (3) a discussion of his body of written work to date, (4) a description of GEM, the graduate program in which he does most of his teaching and thinking now, (5) a discussion of his work and role at the Esalen Institute's Center for Theory and Research, (6) a synopsis of his two present film projects, (7) a set of frequently asked questions (FAQ), and (8) some quick links to media sites expressing or engaging his work: kripal.rice.edu
It is posted here for use by any interested readers, journalists, filmmakers, fans, cranks, haters, naysayers, colleagues, students, researchers, authors, and other artists.
The impossible has happened. The Dark Side has come one step closer to losing the epic war in heaven between good and evil, between the Force (may it be with you) and the Dark Side (may you be spared).
The voice of Darth Vader, James Earl Jones, Luke Skywalker's dad (though in one video on the Mandela Effect, where Jones speaks of not believing the script as he read it and said "LUKE, I'M YOUR FATHER" not "NO, I'M YOUR FATHER"), has ceased to be and is no more.
And he will never be again but has already reappeared (been reborn) as someone else. Well, he is neither the same as who he was nor altogether someone else by the strange operation of radical impermanence (anicca).
The radical form of impermanence the Buddha was pointing out was not the one visible to us all if we just pay attention. He was speaking at a much subtler level we are not yet capable of discerning. But with mental purification by stillness and mindfulness (calm and insight) we may yet see it.
It's not just that things will someday die. It's that all things at all times, at every sub-moment as they arise, turn, and pass away, are passing away. The very "constituents of being" (the Five Aggregates clung to as self) are turning, falling away, and hurtling towards destruction. What is there worth clinging to?
So it is with the being we identify as the great actor James Earl Jones. He appeared as the voice of the character Darth Vader (a scary echo of Dark Invader?)
The wisdom of George Lucas' Star Wars
He was 93 and leaves behind minions of grieving sci-fi fans, many of them Buddhists who have not yet realized the irony that even characters are passionately clung to. How much more the clingers who do the clinging? They themselves cling to notions of themselves.
Everything can wait. Only seeking our spiritual liberation cannot wait. When Jones met Yama, the King of the Dead, he was asked a series of questions, according to the Buddha. We will all be asked these benign questions from kind Yama. Did we never think that as others were dying that we might die? Seeing the signs of old age, sickness, and death in others, did we never think that these messengers were talking to us, too?
James Earl Jones, an actor whose thundering Old Testament voice and commanding presence established him as one of his generation’s most indelible performers, whether in Shakespearean tragedies, the Star Wars franchise or a Disney animated classic, died today, September 9, 2024, at his home in Pawling, New York. He was 93.
His agent, Barry McPherson, confirmed the death but did not cite a cause. Jones’ personification of barrel-chested authority in Hollywood and on Broadway, augmented by his 6-foot-2 frame, was in jarring contrast with his stammer and extreme timidity in childhood.
How to commemorate him?
While being raised on a farm in Mississippi then Michigan, he spent eight years virtually mute to hide his stammer.
He discovered his love of performing in high school, when a teacher in an effort to draw him out, called on him to recite a few lines of poetry the young student had composed.
How did Buddha know about the Truth? (Buddhism and science)
Amitabha: Cosmic Buddha of Limitless Light
(Pure Land Buddhism) Recent scientific discoveries, particularly in the field of quantum physics, reveal that what the Buddha taught 2,600 years ago was right. This video talks about how the Buddha knew about the Truth and what scientists can learn from Buddhism.
What is the very devotional Pure Land School of Mahayana Buddhism that is so devoted, not to the historical Buddha (Shakyamuni, Siddhartha Gautama) but to the "Cosmic Buddha" (one of various such beings) Amitabha?
🔸Official website for daily Nianfo (Buddhānusmṛti or "Recollection of the Buddha") and free Dharma resources): pure-land-buddhism.com. 🙏 Namo Amitabha Buddha! Namo Amituofo! 🙏
Pure-land-Buddhism.com (Pure Land Buddhism, YouTube, Sept. 7, 2020; CC Liu, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
(Science Friday) Last month, the first psychedelic therapy treatment came before the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) for a vote. It entailed using MDMA, also known as ecstasy, E, or molly, to treat PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder).
MDMA therapy has looked promising as a treatment for PTSD and other mental health conditions in some studies.
[It was thought by many in MAPS or the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies) to be a slam dunk for the first approval before moving on to passing magic mushrooms, DMT, and other scientifically-validated entheogens.]
But the FDA scientific advisory panel that evaluated this treatment voted overwhelminglyagainst approving it.
[For one thing, how would Big Pharma make so much money on endless "treatments" if someone comes up with an actual "cure" for a serious ailment?]
Many of the arguments against approval had less to do with MDMA itself than with the methodology of the clinical trials done by Lykos Therapeutics, formerly the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS).
McNamee, who joined the trial for treatment of PTSD, is also a licensed psychotherapist and researcher of trauma and psychotherapy at McGill University in Montreal.
She joins Science Friday guest host Rachel Feltman alongside Dr. Eiko Fried, a methodologist and psychologist at Leiden University in the Netherlands, to discuss the decision.
If anyone is struggling with PTSD or other mental health conditions, call 988 for the suicide and crisis lifeline.
I'd rather be happy than right any day! - And are you? - No, that's where it all falls down of course
Did Alvie Einstein really say Buddhism is the best religion for modern needs? It is said he did.
How to put the genie back?
Is the theory of relativity true? Probably not, but the Suburban Lawns seem to think so, and that's all that really matters. If it helped some scientists do some scientificky things and work out some assumptions with numbers, all the better. No one can deny Albert gets credit for E=MC2, part of his equation for making mountains out of molehills. Why if it were not for him, how could we have built nuclear bombs to drop on Zen Buddhists in Japan, at Nagasaki and Hiroshima, and threaten the world ever since? Sure, he regretted it, but that's pure research for ya, never thinking of consequences. At least he had a social conscience and sense of humor. The US Department of War has to take most of the responsibility.
Einstein quotes we should know before we get old
(Wisdom) Albert Einstein was a German-born Jew, and possibly an aspiring Buddhist, theoretical physicist, widely acknowledged to be one of the greatest and most influential physicists of all time.
What's the secret, Al? - Be yourself.
Einstein is best known for developing the theory of relativity, which he revealed on June 30, 1905, but he also made important contributions to the development of the theory of quantum mechanics. This video contains Albert Einstein quotes.
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Today on NPR (scpr.org and other stations like kcrw.org in Los Angeles), a scientific report on hope from Belfast's Northern Ireland Science Festival.
The annual Northern Ireland Science Festival features a wide range of interactive workshops, talks, and exciting hands-on activities.
From biochemistry to physics, ecology to geology, discover how we, the universe, and everything in between behaves as NI Science Festival returns with an interstellar programme of over 180 events across 50+ venues from Feb. 15-25, 2024!
Northern Ireland Science Festival features a wide range of interactive workshops, inspirational talks, and exciting hands-on activities. The packed programme includes daytime shows and workshops for children and young people, while the evenings come alive with an inspiring programme to entertain the adults.
Sponsored by the Belfast City Council, the Department for Employment and Learning, Queen's University, and Ulster University, NI Science Festival events take place across Belfast and beyond.
With events hosted throughout the city in venues such as W5, the Black Box, and the Ulster Museum, the breath of activity is sure to captivate, educate, and inspire all.
The attribute of light science still can't explain: Double-slit experiment
(Astrum) Light knows (or in any case behaves as if it knows) when it's being measured, changing in response to the subjective expectations and intentions of observers, which suggests this "reality" is a simulation rather than a reliable (objective) base. The Double-slit experiment and quantum light paradox changed everything. Things are not what they seem because observing, intention, and assumptions change them.
āloka-saññā: "perception of light." The recurring Pali canon passage reads: "Here the meditator contemplates the perception of light, fixes mind on the perception of the day, as at daytime so by night, and as at nighttime so by day. In this way, with a mind clear and unclouded, one develops a stage of mind that is full of brightness."
This perception is one of the methods for overcoming drowsiness recommended by the Buddha to his chief male disciple foremost in psychic powers, Mahā Moggallāna (A.VII. 58).
According to DN 33, this method is conducive to the development of "knowledge and vision." (See "purification," visuddhi). And it is said to be helpful for the attainment of the psychic "divine eye." (See abhiññā). Light can also be a subject of meditation as a kasina.
This would explain why this publication is called Wisdom Quarterly, rather than Faith Weekly or Belief Daily or Hope Momentarily. The worst thing of all things is ignorance; therefore, the best thing of all things is enlightenment (bodhi).*
Just some thoughts on light. Loka means "world," and the prefix a- means "not," so is it possible that the word "light" (aloka) means "not-world," not all of this around us -- but the immaterial, unworldly, ethereal, sublime, supersensual?
There are Three Spheres (and 31 Planes) of Existence, and the light in each would seem to be qualitatively different. There is the lowest, where our human plane exists as well as some sensual heavens and miserable subhuman worlds, called the Sensual Sphere (kama loka).
Above us is the Fine Material Sphere (rupa loka), which is brighter, more subtle, with glorious streaming light of many kinds and apparently more or brighter colors than we perceive in this sphere.
Above that is the Immaterial Sphere (arupa loka), composed of heavens that are so refined as to not be based on matter at all, just mind. Or light may permeate all of these spheres or "worlds" just the same.
Angkor Wat is a yantra, a model of cakkavala.
For example, on the occasion of the birth of a supremely awakened one (a samma-sam-buddha), it is said a magnificent light spreads throughout the universe (or every part of the multiverse) and lights it up.
At that time unfortunate beings reborn in what are called the "interstitial hells" (a sort of 32nd plane of existence as it is not listed among the narakas, nirayas, or avici, the most tormented hell/purgatory of all) see that they are not alone, but others are also there normally steeped in complete darkness.
These places are very interesting for what they say about Buddhist cosmology: The world-systems (cakkavalas), solar systems, galaxies, or individual universes are like bubbles next to one another. As they are not cubes, which would occupy all of space between themselves, there is that portion of unoccupied space outside the bubbles. Light does not reach these places, except on the extraordinarily rare occasion of a supremely awakened one's birth.
That the ancient Gandharans, proto-Indians, Indus Valley Civilization scientists and seers (rishis) -- who were in contact with otherworldly extraterrestrials (called devas and brahmas) who constantly visit and live on this planet -- would know the shape of our world-system, solar system, galaxy, cosmos, universe, or multiverse is startling.
But the ancient Vedas ("Knowledge Books") of the Brahmins and the teachings (dharmas) of the wandering ascetics like the Buddha ("Sage of the Scythians") and buddhas before him were far ahead of their time.
*The greatest of all non-things is NIRVANA (nibbana), which is the highest, the ultimate, the deathless (amata), "unconditioned element," a compact rather than a composite, since it stands alone, not relying on causes or conditions for its existence. This makes it utterly unlike anything else we meet with or can conceive of -- though we can directly experience it in this very life, because it is complete error to conceive of it as nothingness. It is NOT nothingness and not a "thing," given that the definition of a "thing" (dhamma, ordinary "phenomena") is that which relies on constituent parts for its composite -- and its unsatisfactory, impermanent, and impersonal -- existence. Nirvana alone exists without supports or components.
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"I'm not a prude," insists Sadhguru at a "Youth and Truth" mass conference in India, pandering to an audience of mostly pro-LGBTQIA... young people.
India has been subject to the same propaganda the West has as LGBT+ plans go worldwide. Is it a natural (grassroots) groundswell or an imposed agenda by the powers-that-be?
Pope, how are Catholics to believe and act?
Hey, look at me. I'm cool. Just ask Tom Bray.
It hardly seems to be coming from people in general so much as people in charge. It isn't the trans kid and allies shoving it down everyone's throat so much as the principal of the school and the administrators. Who or what is motivating them, a sudden spark of compassion or a mandate, laws, and orders from above sent to them in no uncertain terms? It seems to be the latter, "isn't it"? We want flowers, Sadhguru. How can we get them -- by thinking about them?
Pedophilia pride? MAPs="minor attracted persons"
Are trans men to be included in women's spaces?
Can any guru shed light on this matter?
(Sadhguru Talks) June 23, 2020. ["Pandering," did someone say "pandering"? Does Sadhguru operate with a profit motive? Ya think?] Sadhguru wants everyone to register for the Inner Engineering Online program. How about a 50% discount? isha.co/IEO-YT "FREE for COVID Warriors." Donate to Beat The Virus (ishaoutreach.org/BeatTheVirus).
Guru Piers Morgan presents nominal liberal view
[Hey, Kids, why not download the groovy new Sadhguru App 📲 onelink.to/sadhguru__app and be the first hipster at the ashram, math, or madras to do so? Be cool, buy merch.]
White guy mansplains Islam's view: "Zero percent of
the UK Muslims think homosexuality is acceptable."
You're so cool, Mr. Sadhguru. All the kids say so.
Self-proclaimed yogi, mystic, and visionary, Sadhguru is an alleged "spiritual master" with a difference. [He's cool, and all the cool kids know it. *Irony*]
He describes himself (or has hired a PR firm to describe him as), "An arresting blend of profundity and pragmatism, his life and work serves as a reminder that yoga is a contemporary science, vitally relevant to our times."
Maybe Madame Blavatsky's Krishnamurti has something substantive to say
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Can Taoism (Daoism) reveal "The Standard"?
COMMENTS
(@padmam895, 2022) I felt very good hearing this, but I have to say this there is a reason for campaigning for the LGBT+ community people. It is to make others who are ashamed or scared of themselves to show that they are not alone and should love themselves just the way they are. ❤
"It's not correct there's such a thing as biological sex."
Jordan Peterson won't be forced to change his language.
What is "the Buddhist view"?
(Khenpo Sodargye's Team) Question 3: Buddhist view on homosexuality, Jan. 7, 2019. The elder lama gives his view on the Buddhist Perspective in the Era of Materialism—Q&A. Humans have very many tendencies in terms of what they are attracted to, not just genders but in terms of age and looks. Can we be inclusive and accepting of deviant sexual practices? What is "deviant" anyway? Society gets used to anything we throw at it.
(After Skool) Jan. 17, 2023. Dr. Rupert Sheldrake, Ph.D., is a biologist and author best known for his hypothesis of morphic resonance.
Do science and Eastern religions mesh?
At Cambridge University he worked in developmental biology as a fellow of Clare College. He was principal plant physiologist at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics in Hyderabad, India.
From 2005 to 2010 he was director of the Perrott-Warrick Fund project for research on (parapsychology) unexplained human and animal abilities, funded by Trinity College, Cambridge. Dr. Sheldrake has written many books:
A New Science of Life (1981)
The Presence of the Past (1988)
The Rebirth of Nature (1991)
Seven Experiments That Could Change the World (1994)
Dogs That Know When Their Owners are Coming Home (1999)
The Sense of Being Stared At (2003)
The Science Delusion (Science Set Free) (2012)
Science and Spiritual Practices (2017)
Ways of Going Beyond and Why They Work (2019)
Banned for questioning science?
Banned by gatekeepers for telling it like it is.
Dr. Sheldrake gave a talk entitled "The Science Delusion" at TEDx Whitechapel on Jan. 12, 2013.
The theme that night was "Visions for Transition: Challenging existing paradigms and redefining values (for a more beautiful world)."
Not good at math yet I'm its poster boy
In response to protests from two materialists in the US, the talk was taken out of circulation by TED, relegated to a corner of their website and stamped with a warning label.
More about Dr. Sheldrake and his research: sheldrake.org
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