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Thursday, June 11, 2026

The 'Dark' Side of Theravada Buddhism

COMMENTARY
Wisdom Quarterly editors
What the Buddha Never Taught
The "dark" side of Theravada first came to light for us in reading Tim Ward's What the Buddha Never Taught. The problem then was the behavior of Buddhist "novices" (monks-in-training) in Thailand, which is a cultural custom to ordain before being considered ready for marriage in the wildly popular and largely Theravada Buddhist country.

Ward reports that as a samanera (white clad follower of eight or ten precepts), one Westerner had reported that a novice pleasured himself while staring over this sleeping person. We were shocked and mortified that such a thing could happen or be allowed to happen, but this is not the act of a male intending to be a monk until enlightenment or for the rest of his life. These hormonal boys are sent to the monastery for "temporary ordination" as young as 7 and may stay a few days or one rainy season (Rains Retreat). That's how it could happen.

Now, imagine the horror that men (20 and older) who take monastic vows live as wolves among the faithful givers of alms, taking advantage of the generosity of Buddhist supporters but having no aim of enlightenment or even keeping the monastic precepts recited in the patimokkha. That is a shame and a pity and directly the fault of a monastic sangha ("spiritual community") that does not enforce the rules or disciplinary procedures the historical Buddha laid down for the long life of the sangha and the Dhamma (the Teaching that leads to enlightenment in this very life).

The larger problem nowadays is even worse than that and is the real source of widespread corruption, homosexuality, crime, and hypocrisy in the sanghas of the Theravada countries. And that is that so few males want to enter the monastic life for genuine and sincere reasons that these societies have found workarounds: send in males who have no interest in practice but who need support and are willing to at least pretend to be well-behaved monks, teachers, and examples to the rest of society.

This problem has also appeared in Catholic countries all over the world, with overwhelming corruption, sinfulness, and public disaffection. It may be worse in Catholicism, which used to allow its priests to get married until the Vatican found it far more PROFITABLE to ban clergy marriages, which were directing donations to the children of clergy members as inheritance. When the practice of clergy marrying was BANNED, priests just broke the new rule the way they had always been breaking the rule against chastity (avowed celibacy), doing it in secret with child victims, fellow homosexuals, or visiting housewives. It has been more or less an open secret for centuries. So "secret" is it that corruption and homosexuality among cardinals and bishops -- who are priests with more responsibilities -- sets the example for younger "seminarians," which is what s*men-loaded cadets at the Catholic training schools call themselves and what they are called by other fellow gay-active trainees.

A wonderful book exposing the wholesale policy, not aberration, of these practices was published in Italian and has been translated into English. South Park mocked it in a wonderful episode about a good priest from the town going to Rome and finding out it's the norm. It's like that saying about police officers. "Nine out of ten officers make the other one look bad." In other words, the majority of hypocrites make the precious few sincere ones look bad. And the few good ones give cover and respectability to the many wolves in sheep's clothing. But this is not about Catholic corruption, or corruption among Jews, Evangelical Protestants, Western Hare Krishna devotees, or anybody else. This is about the dark and disgusting side of Theravada monastics.

A recent bust of many Sri Lankan novices and monks bringing potent cannabis into Sri Lanka through the international airport has not yet been resolves. Were they simply duped into acting as "mules" (carrying the pot in secret trap doors in their suitcases to benefit the donor who sent them on holiday to Thailand to pick up the massive shipment), or were they in on it and partaking of the intoxicant?

How can a common monk become a "saint"?
The solution is clear but not simple. The sangha as a united body needs to reinstitute the existing procedures on the books for expelling "defeated" monks and wayward "ascetics" for the good of the Buddha's dispensation (Śāsana) and the long life of the uncorrupted Dhamma (Dharma) in the world. It is not so important that one man falls due to greed, hatred/fear, or delusion and becomes a hypocrite, one taking advantage of a monastic career. What is important is that such hypocrites end up taking the whole sangha and eventually the whole Dhamma (Buddhist Teaching) in the world. The Monastic Disciplinary Rules exist in the Vinaya Pitaka, which is one of three massive collections of works on the three distinct divisions of the Pali canon (conventional sutras, monastic discipline, and the Doctrine in ultimate terms: Suttas, Vinaya, Abhidhamma).
  • There is still time to be upstanding.
    There comes a time... the Yellow-Necks, "monks" who do not live by the rules but who at least study and learn the Dhamma without much putting it into practice. Are we arrived at that time?
  • “In future times, Ānanda, there will be members of this clan who are ‘yellow-necks,’ immoral, of evil character. People will give gifts to those immoral persons for the sake of the Sangha. Even then, I say, an offering made to the Sangha is incalculable, immeasurable. And I say that in no way is a gift to a person individually ever more fruitful than an offering made to the Sangha [as a whole]” (Dakkhiṇāvibhaṅga Sutta, MN 142) dhammawheel.com
  • The disparaging term "yellow-necks" comes from, in the future, those defeated (parajika) "monks" wearing not full robes but a yellow, orange, red, or saffron scrap of a robe around their neck or wrist to signify their status as members of the sangha.
[FREE eBook] The Buddhist Monastic Code, Volumes I & II (Thanissaro/AudioBuddha)
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The monastic rules have also been translated into English by the American monk in the Thai Forest Tradition Thanissaro Bhikkhu, an abbot near San Diego, California (watmetta.org).

I tried. You can't please everybody all the time.
Ven. Thanissaro is a cantankerous old monk whom, we were told in Thailand, was driven out of Thailand and back to America due to monastic politics. It seems he served his ailing teacher, who might have left him, a farang ("foreigner"), in charge, but the local Thai monks waiting their turn to ascend in the monastery weren't going to stand for that. This may have made him bitter, but he has suffered from malaria for so long that it is difficult to discern the roots eating at this prodigious but hopelessly idiosyncratic translator of Thai and Pali. But his voice is nice, like a pilot for the big airlines, and people not in the know seem to like his warped take on things. We recommend Bhikkhu Bodhi for classic, well-rounded, and well-supported translations. Tan Jeff is nice enough to explain himself sometimes, but he is sorely lacking in providing the Pali term he is aberrantly translating into his own misleading glossary of terms. Please do better, sir, but thank you for all your work. We have known young men who tried to be monastics at Wat Metta who, finding the abbot insufferable, have left to better pastures, usually the idyllic Abhayagiri Buddhist Monastery.

Friday, October 24, 2025

The LA Dodgers lose in spite of Ohtani



Gambling on corrupt sports with cheaters?
Kevin O’Connor dives into the NBA's largest integrity crisis in decades, breaking down the complex details of the federal criminal indictments against NBA Head Coach Chauncey Billups, Guard Terry Rozier, and 34 other defendants.

This is the definitive explainer needed to understand the full scope of this sports corruption multi-million dollar criminal conspiracy.

What everyone needs to know

The Fix Is In (Brian Tuohy)
CASE A: Terry Rozier and the Game Manipulation Ring
  • Charges: Conspiracy to commit wire fraud.
  • The shocking evidence: How Rozier allegedly used confidential insider information and a fake injury to profit from player prop bets.
  • The Network: Details of the roles of former NBA player Damon Jones and the direct connection to the Jontay Porter lifetime ban.
Brian Tuohy warned us all
THE FIX IS IN: CORRUPTION: NIL, NFL, NBA, college football,

The Fix Is STILL In
CASE B: The Mafia Poker Ring (Chauncey Billups)
  • Charges: Money laundering and wire fraud conspiracy.
  • The Truth: Billups' role in a separate, high-stakes, rigged poker operation backed by La Cosa Nostra [Italian for "Our Thing"] (Mafia) organized crime families.
  • The Cheating: Revealing the sophisticated methods used to defraud victims, including "Face Cards" (prominent athletes) and cheating technology (rigged shuffling machines).
Crucial Note: Clarification on why Billups' charges are unrelated to his coaching games with the Portland Trail Blazers.
The Fallout: Discussion of the severe consequences—including indefinite NBA suspensions and federal felony charges that carry a maximum sentence of up to 20 years—and the damage to the entire league's reputation.

Wednesday, October 8, 2025

Native American giants found in Patagonia



Christian God forbids blood, raw meat
According to Antonio Pigafetta [7], one of the Ferdinand Magellan expedition's few survivors and its published chronicler, Magellan bestowed the name Patagão (or Patagón) on the GIANT inhabitants they encountered there.


The name "Patagonia" refers to the region, the land of giants with giant feet and footprints.

Modern Afghan cannibal cave giant (yakkha)
Although Pigafetta's account does not describe how this name came about, subsequent popular interpretations gave credence to a derivation meaning "land of the big feet."

However, this etymology is questionable. The term might be derived from an actual character name, "Patagón," a savage creature confronted by Primaleón of Greece, the hero in the homonymous Spanish chivalry novel (knight-errantry tale) by Francisco Vázquez [63].


No giants have ever existed.
This book, published in 1512, was the sequel of the romance Palmerín de Oliva; it was much in vogue at the time and a favorite reading of Magellan.

Magellan's perception of the natives, dressed in skins and eating raw meat, may have recalled the uncivilized Patagón in Vázquez's book.

European meets American giants
Novelist and travel writer Bruce Chatwin suggests etymological roots of both Patagon and Patagonia in his book, In Patagonia [64], noting a tenuous similarity between "Patagon" and the Greek word παταγος, which means "a roaring" or "gnashing of teeth."

(In his chronicle, Pigafetta describes the Patagonians as "roaring like bulls"). More

There are really giants on earth?

Siberian Asian Clovis DNA: not first
(Discovery FutureClovis culture Anzick-1 DNA found and analyzed. The Clovis were not the first Americans, not the first arrivals on the continent (the Americas). There have been older finds such as Monte Verde, Chile and the older White Sands footprints in New Mexico

Tuesday, September 16, 2025

Luigi Mangione not to be charged



Man accused of killing healthcare CEO will NOT face state terrorism-related murder charges, but other charges will stand

People's hero or future model?
Handsome accused killer Luigi Mangione scored a major legal victory today (Tuesday, 9/16/25) as a judge dismissed the two top state charges against him, first-degree murder and second-degree murder, both of which prosecutors had argued were "terrorism" crimes.

Mangione still faces an additional second-degree murder charge, as well as a federal murder charge, in the killing [execution, assassination] of United HealthCare executive Brian Thompson last December.

I'm super smart, so I'll shoot this thief...
The overseer of Mangione’s state criminal case, Judge Gregory Carro, said “the evidence put forth was legally insufficient” for the two terrorism-related charges, in a written decision that was posted during a 15-minute proceeding in Manhattan court on Tuesday.

I got away by bike; my brows brought me down
“Counts one and two, charging [the] defendant with murder in the first degree (in furtherance of an act of terrorism) and murder in the second degree as a crime of terrorism, are dismissed as legally insufficient,” Judge Carro wrote. “The people presented legally sufficient evidence of all other counts, including murder in the second degree (intentional).” More
COMMENTARY: "Deny, Defend, Depose"
Luigi Mangione, "the hero of the people"
Kill our TVs before they kill us with PR?
"He's so good looking, he could get away with murder," people say. Deny Defend Depose, the profit-driven insurance companies insist. Are the killers getting more handsome, or is it just me? Sweet, super smart shooters, why? Bonnie and Clyde were popular American figures, Jewish mafiosos who brought down Italian ones by selling them out to the Feds and destroying some families by working with the American government...and we as a population are cheering for more missiles to Ukraine, Gaza, Israel, Palestine, Yemen, Iran, Venezuela...like we just can't keep our missiles in the Pentagon's pants.

Race may play a role in these murder cases, because today the Menendez Brothers, stars of a documentary that almost got them released from prison, lost their bid to retry the case. Now their only hope for release is California Gov. Newsom. (What's in it for him since he intends to run for president and doesn't want to be accused of being "soft on crime"?) And in three years, they can go back to the prison board to petition for release.

Monday, September 1, 2025

Genocidal Columbus was a Jew? DNA


Was Christopher Columbus a secret Jew?
Lots of my men were Jews (Marranos, Conversos) willing to kill, enslave, and pay their debts.
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Super Zionist Jew 
(The Jewish Heritage Project) Sept. 8, 2019: Earl Tucker explains how it may be that Christopher Columbus (Chris Cohen Colón) was actually a secret Jew. The 1492 expulsion from Spain took place during the time of the Jewish Tisha B'Av. This is an amazing talk using the reliable methods of the modern social sciences, statistics, and a curious number (29 variables) of "coincidences"!
  • Cristóbal Colón is his Spanish language (Latin, Italian) name for the Italian Jewish (Converso) explorer Christopher Columbus (1451–1506)
Stolen symbol bathed in blood
The great car manufacturer Henry Ford, a famous antisemite, wrote The International Jew. But Columbus' own hand suggests how Jewish he was: "On the day the Jews were expelled from Spain, I set out for the New World" (quoted from the journal of his trip to "America"). The new DNA evidence shows his Jewish ancestry, likely forced to convert to Catholicism, a Marrano, a Crypto-Jew, not a real convert.

DNA: Columbus is one of us!

Origin theories of Cohen/Columbus
In 2006, Dr. Frank C. Arnett, MD, and historian Charles Merrill, published a paper in The American Journal of the Medical Sciences proposing that Christopher Columbus had an illness and in the same scientific, peer-reviewed paper, historian Merrill made the case that Columbus was the son of Catalans and his mother possibly a member of a prominent converso (converted Jew) family [213]. More

"PIGS" (Marranos) were Conversos, Crypto-Jews

Prominent Jews do so much for the Deep State
Those Jews targeted and forced by the Spanish Crown had no choice but to convert to Catholicism/Christianity. They had to either leave the Kingdom of Spain, while the Crown seized their property and money and gave them no support to leave, or be murdered either for not showing complete loyalty to Christianity or for leaving Spain and coming back showing that they were traitors to the Spanish Crown [3][4]. More