- #SystemUpdate500 with Glenn Greenwald: Genius domestic terrorist Ted Kaczynski's warning about Big Tech, centers of power, and more. TK has been dubbed the "Anti-Left Leftist"
- Glenn Greenwald (formerly of the now co-opted The Intercept), who became famous due to his relation to Edward Snowden and his revelations, as well as Chelsea/Bradley Manning (Free BM!) and the largely forgotten heroine Reality Winner
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Tuesday, August 19, 2025
Glenn Greenwald: TK's warning on Big Tech
Sunday, April 8, 2018
How to talk to our teens about sex (TED video)
TED Radio Hour, 4/6/18; Ashley Wells, Crystal Quintero, Sheldon S. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
How Should We Talk to Our Kids About Sex? ( Part 3 of the TED Radio Hour episode "Turning Kids into Grown-Ups."
How Should We Talk to Our Kids About Sex? ( Part 3 of the TED Radio Hour episode "Turning Kids into Grown-Ups."
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| That's it? What's it for? - I don't know, son. |
"Dad, what's a clitoris?" "Achkk, ask your mother!" "Are you kidding? She's not going to tell me anything. I doubt she knows, and if she does, she sure's not comfortable enough to share it with me." "Then go to the library!" "Wait, what am I thinking? I have a dumb phone and Wikipedia and YouTube videos! Thanks, dad!" "Hold on, son. I'd like to know myself. Let's look it up together. But whatever you do, don't tell your sister. She must never know!" "Okey-dokey."
About Peggy Orenstein's TED Talk
Author Peggy Orenstein warns us: If parents don't educate kids about sex -- the mainstream media will. She says that leads to risky behavior and keeps young females from expecting equality in sexual relationships. VIDEO (transcript - download)
Who is Peggy Orenstein?
For the past 25 years Peggy Orenstein has written extensively on a wide range of issues affecting girls and women. From princess culture to the adolescent confidence gap to sex, she reveals uncomfortable truths about the role of girls and women in our culture -- and its consequences. Orenstein is the author of Girls And Sex, Schoolgirls, Cinderella Ate My Daughter, and most recently, Don't Call Me Princess. She is also a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine.
Tuesday, May 3, 2016
VICTORY: Bernie wins! Cruz quits! (video)
Pat Macpherson, Seth Auberon, CC Liu, Wisdom Quarterly; MoxNews.com (V1, V2) UPDATE
(BS16) Then the Reverend Sen. Ted Cruz (Cross) beats his wife
Trump? Bernie? Ted Cruz loses (cartoon)
Pat Macpherson, Pfc. Sandoval, CC Liu, Seth Auberon, Wisdom Quarterly; TYT; NPR; TMW; Soren
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| "The Incredible Trump" (Tom Tomorrow/ThisModernWorld.com) |
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| Ted Cruz "Cruzin' Under the Radar" (Jen Sorensen/jensorensen.com) |
Ted Cruz channels the spirit of the lovable/odious weasel "Mr. Haney" (Pat Buttram on "Green Acres" on TV Land). Still don't see it? Just look:
(C-Span 2) Ted Tea Party Cruz as Mr. Haney during the filibuster that won him the contempt of John Boehner, who called him "Lucifer in the flesh" and "the most miserable son of a b*tch I've ever met in my life."
- VIDEO: How Trump will destroy Hillary (Roger Stone)
- AUDIO: Trump has two black fans (Mark Thompson)
- VIDEO: "Man" walks through wall, caught on CCTV
- VIDEO: Colorism: Li'l Kim turns white on Instagram
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| Searcy Hayes is Ted Cruz (DM) |
Future porn star Searcy Hayes may not have known who Ted Cruz was, but he sure knows who she is and now wishes he didn't. She has been his doppelganger all this time. And now she's ready to cash in as pornographers entice her to bare it all.
One can imagine that Cruz entered the race to help Donald Trump win by being such a reprehensible opponent, a bag of wind, a hypocritical Evangelical Christian, a serial cheater, a slightly Cuban, all-Canadian man who has never won an election.
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| Troublemaker vs. Establishment robot |
He apparently stepped into the role of Senator through a technical breach created by the Koch-funded Tea Party. He is the luckiest man in the world, or he would be if only the GOP and Republicans at large would back him. How Hillary Clinton must laugh wishing she could face him in the general election instead of the man who can beat her, Trump.
Why we vote Sanders!
Why we vote Sanders!
- Nominate Bernie or vote Trump in general election
- California Democrat Party readies for Sanders/Clinton
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| Candidates we can get behind (Jensorensen/jensorensen.com) |
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So long, Comedian-in-Chief
The Best Worst President We Ever Had
After 8 years of clumsy stumbling and endearing stuttering, Barry has finally found his grove and is ready for stand up at all the talks he'll be paid to deliver when he leaves the White House with his trans spouse Michael. Obamanos all the way to the bank, change we shouldn't have believed in. NPR
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| "Women's card"? Donald's deck of Trump Cards: Sexist, Bully, Fool, Bigot, Jerk (Bennett) |
Friday, June 26, 2015
"Ted 2" and black-white Rachel Dolezal (video)
Wisdom Quarterly; Universal Pictures
Who can be what?
Seth MacFarlane ("Family Guy," "American Dad," "Ted") returns as writer, director, and voice star of "Ted 2," Universal and Media Rights Capital’s follow-up to the highest-grossing original R-rated comedy of all time. Joined once again by co-star Mark Wahlberg and fellow "Ted" writers Alec Sulkin and Wellesley Wild, MacFarlane's Ted struggles for civil and human rights when Dylann Storm[trooper] Roof, Rachel Dolezal, and killer cops are in the news.
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| Racism is alive and well in 26 states. In Los Angeles' neighbor to the south, Orange County, the KKK recruits. People want to investigate Obama's amnesty plan (kfiam640.com) |
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| Racism harms everyone...but not equally. Victims get it worse than the privileged. |
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| Racist flag, symbol of slavery and traitorous rebellion to keep human beings? |
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| Demonstrating to bring attention to racism of Oklahoma Univ fraternity (AP) |
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| Bias works against her in daily life (CM) |
Wisdom Quarterly (EDITORIAL)
The problem is we decide what "what" is, and who are we to say? Is Ted human? Is Rachel Dolezal black? We think she is, but that is a very unpopular opinion. Can "black" have two meanings, or is it only what the Deciders say it is?
Recently a 70-year-old woman found out that she's "white." She was adopted as a child, and her parents never told her she was adopted. She was raised as a light skinned black woman.
But in 2013 her mother told her she was adopted, and she looked into her genealogy. In the process she discovered her white relatives. When she visited them, they thought her travails were finally over now that she was reunited with her real roots -- wait a minute, she said, I'm staying "black."
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| Obama gives great eulogy to quell racism. |
What does that mean? It means there are two distinct meanings of the word black in our American culture. One is what we imagine is the biology of being black, which is actually just the phenotype suggestive of a distinct genotype. Then there's the social construct Dolezal keeps reminding us about.
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| I'm not one. I kill them for fun and profit. |
Did you know that in the Dominican Republic, the racist country next to Haiti (which is currently denationalizing and evicting all the darker skinned Haitians it can), you are white if you are black but at least 1/16th black.
In the racist U.S. it doesn't matter what you look like. According to an archaic law, you are black if you are 1/16th black or have even one drop of "black" blood.
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| US has an ugly racist history. |
Dolezal grew up with black siblings, at least one of which her white brother raped (allegedly, and that case is currently working its way through the legal system, which is very friendly to white perpetrators and very antagonistic to nonwhite victims). And what is Dolezal's crime, volunteering to promote civil rights? Marrying a black man? Having a biracial child with that man?
Identifying with a culture different from the one we assigned or currently attempt to assign her to? Her "job" with the NAACP of Spokane was a volunteer position; she was not putting anyone out of work. Her identity is not new but something she has identified with for years, and her appearance reflects that.
- AUDIO: What does comedian Jimmy Dore have to say about it? (June 19th episode)
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| I'm a racist with black friends. I killed (AP). |
Yes, she sued her university as a white person. Her identity is fluid, as it also is for biracial people Could she be biologically "white" and culturally "black"? The university was discriminating against her for being white, she argued, which calls into question how successful her "black" identity was. Actually, she did not claim to be black but rather biracial, even then. And a half-white person wasn't qualified for the teaching position she wanted?
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| Confederate Army and KKK racism |
We all know people who looking one way or coming from a certain biological family nevertheless adopt another culture and are taken as members of that out-group. Young whites who love rap, gang affiliation, looking tough, dressing in a hip hop manner get a special name for being white while acting "black." If a white woman marries a Muslim man and converts to Islam, does she cease to be "white"? Or is she "just confused"? Who would give up privilege for something else?
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| Racist comics (ferris.edu) |
Of course, many of us are mad -- and certainly not everyone at WQ is united in this opinion that she is black -- because she can "pass." But lots of people can pass. Are we mad at them? If Dolezal were found to be secretly "black" or biracial while a member of the KKK, a neo-Nazi group, or the Republican party, would we all be as outraged? "How dare she pass herself off as white! It should be a crime! She's enjoying "white privilege" she doesn't deserve!" Is that what we would say? No, it's absurd. Yet, we're saying it in reverse.
"Integrity matters," the placards say, promoted by a few angry women outraged that a white person is trying to help the movement or appropriate the culture like so many white rappers successfully do? She was using her identity for great good, not personal gain. But minds are made up. See David Horsey comic of Dolezal.
Why make a big deal about Dolezal when the world needs so many MORE white allies? Disagree? Comment.
Friday, February 13, 2015
"Fifty Shades of Grey" (U.S. SEX mania video)
Ashley Wells, CC Liu, Crystal Quintero, Seth Auberon, Wisdom Quarterly; Sally Herships
Happy Valentine's Day, readers! "Fifty Shades of Grey" is about to launch and is estimated to make $70 million in its opening weekend stateside. How will it fare around the world as Ms. E.L. James (Erika Mitchell) brings bondage, discipline, sadomascohism (BDSM), and sex toys to the largest audience ever for these practices.
For a movie about a salacious, secretive, and to some, potentially shameful subject such as S&M, it sure feels like "Fifty Shades of Grey" is well out of the closet -- or really, the dungeon.
Even the film's sequels are already being planned. Fandango, the online ticket company, says it’s setting a record, pre-selling more tickets than any other R-rated movie has.
And while it would seem the risque nature of this film could make selling spin-off merchandise a little more difficult than most, there is a lot of it for sale. It seems like there are as many variations of merchandise for the new film as there are Pantone color chips -- and don't worry, for the graphic designer fan of the soon-to-be-released film, there's something for you too. However, the question remains: Who's buying?
If you were planning to crack open a bottle of "Fifty Shades of Grey"-branded White Silk or Red Satin on opening night, Paul Katz, a manager at L&P Wines and Liquors in Brooklyn, says perhaps you should reconsider. The wine has hardly been a best-seller, he says, with the bottles on store shelves mostly gathering dust.
"If you like the label you can get it," Katz says, "You’re taking on your own risk."
He hasn't read the book, and his wife was responsible for the store's purchase, he says. And when he calls to check if she had read the book -- turns out she’d read all three -- he found himself planning to make another purchase, again to please his wife.
“Do you want to go to the movie -- to see it?” Katz says into his cellphone.
Another ticket sold. But there’s going to a movie, in the privacy of a darkened theater, and then there’s buying tie-in merchandise.
“I’m trying to be discrete,” says Kristi Faulkner, a co-founder and president of the martketing consultancy Womenkind, of the "Fifty Shades" merchandise. “But Target is selling them -- who knew? Who could believe that?”
Attention, Target shoppers
Indeed, Target is selling "Fifty Shades of Grey" adult devices – the kind with batteries. However, as Faulker points out, there’s a dichotomy between the book and its wider brand.
“So many people read these books digitally, privately, and yet these products are being sold in the most public way,” she says. “Are you going to throw your 'Fifty Shades of Grey' electronic device into your cart with your laundry detergent and your diet soda and your baby food and your pampers? Is that really going to happen?”
While the answer may be unclear, Faulkner says all this "Fifty Shades" merchandise is doing something. She calls it "permission marketing." After all, a "Fifty Shades of Grey" T-shirt could make a taboo subject like S&M a little more approachable.
Sometimes a gift is really a gift for the giver. “Men are notorious for buying lingerie and things for themselves,” she says. “It’s an opportunity for guys -- guys who didn’t read the book but want to benefit from the ideas, so to speak,” Faulkner says.
Which may be what purchasers of the Vermont Teddy Bear Company’s "Fifty Shades of Grey" bear have in mind. Innocently fuzzy, at first glance the bear looks like any typical teddy until you spot his tiny mask and handcuffs.
While only 20 percent of Fifty Shades readers were male, 54 percent of the bear’s buyers are men, says Bill Shouldice, president and CEO of the Vermont Teddy Bear Company.
But Jenn Drexler, a senior vice president with Insight Strategy Group, wants to make it clear that Mr. Bear, and most of the "Fifty Shades" merchandise work mainly as gag gifts.
“It’s one of those flip things where you can’t believe you live in a world where this can happen -- so it’s so awesome,” she says of the bear.
And, FYI, the Vermont Teddy Bear company says so far this is its best-selling Valentine’s Day bear, but what may be good for the licensee may not always be good for the licensor.
“You have to wonder when does licensing crossover into value for the brand,” Drexler says. “When it goes into gag gifts?”
While the "Fifty Shades" brand is paid a royalty based on the sales of the bears, Drexler notes that if people aren't putting the teddy bear on their beds, or their baby in a onesie that says “9 Months ago mommy read 50 Shades of Grey” -- it won’t do much for the "Fifty Shades" brand.
“They’ll get wallet share, but I don’t think they’re going to get heart,” she says.
When consumers love a brand, Drexler says, they’ll go as far as to have it tattooed -- think Harley or Jack Daniels -- but “I don’t know if anyone is doing a 'Fifty Shades' tattoo any time soon.”
The problem with this particular brand is it’s one women like to keep private.
“There’s a reason women weren’t getting together and talking -- like 'I’ve always wanted to be tied up.' Like, that’s not replacing Oprah’s book club anytime soon,” Drexler says.
What title to read was up for discussion at a recent Brooklyn book club meeting. All the women in attendance are moms and while most were okay with the "Fifty Shades of Grey" baby clothes, host Megan Schade was not.
“I realize because it betrays my own Victorianism,” she says. “In the sense that, how else does baby get here than by two people having sex? And that’s what this shirt is referring to.”
The wine, while deemed a flop, was also approved as a potential gag gift. “It tastes like a wine cooler,” says Elizabeth Nelson, another book clubber. “Very inoffensive. It’s probably what people who like the book, like to drink.”
“I don't think this 'wine' was made for drinking,” Schade says, “It was made as a gift. It's a giving wine.”
But the bear seemed to stir up the most discomfort. “Poor Mrs. Bear," Schade says. “Not okay,” says club member Renata Segura. "Is this for a child or a grownup?” “I see a crazy cat lady having that teddy bear,” Nelson says.
But once some basic facts were established -- that the bear is a stuffed toy intended for adult play only, and that it costs $89.99 -- Seguara decided she wanted the bear, but only if she didn't have to foot the bill.
“If somebody gives it to me for free, not my husband buying it for me with my money, with our money,” she says. “Maybe from somebody else, but not from my bank account.” More
Erotic literature for KIDS: "Peterotica"
WARNING: Not suitable for kids under 18! Peter Griffin writes erotic literature, Peter-erotica, as read by "Golden Girl" Betty White ("Family Guy," Season 4, Episode 24, see FULL).
(Beyond the Trailer/Rated R) Sick, sad fantasy world: The sex is not the problem. The problem is the capitalist-prostitute, domestic abuse angle. That's some imagination, E.L. James! Why write about intimacy when you can write about feeling safe due to a man's money?
(CollegeHumor) We have a preview of the super sexy script as read by Gilbert Gottfried.
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| Making porn mainstream (13som) |
Mara, the "Tempter" figure in Buddhism -- akin to Judeo-Christianity's infernal Satan and Islam's demonic tricksters the djinn (genies) -- does not work by hatred and anger, but by lust and delusion.
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| Trashiest pulp fiction romance novels to ever succeed precisely because they're so pulpy. |
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Even the film's sequels are already being planned. Fandango, the online ticket company, says it’s setting a record, pre-selling more tickets than any other R-rated movie has.
And while it would seem the risque nature of this film could make selling spin-off merchandise a little more difficult than most, there is a lot of it for sale. It seems like there are as many variations of merchandise for the new film as there are Pantone color chips -- and don't worry, for the graphic designer fan of the soon-to-be-released film, there's something for you too. However, the question remains: Who's buying?
The author meets another satisfied customer. (See "Peterotica" below).
"If you like the label you can get it," Katz says, "You’re taking on your own risk."
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| Stars Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson attend screening in NY (Mike Coppola/Getty Images). |
He hasn't read the book, and his wife was responsible for the store's purchase, he says. And when he calls to check if she had read the book -- turns out she’d read all three -- he found himself planning to make another purchase, again to please his wife.
“Do you want to go to the movie -- to see it?” Katz says into his cellphone.
Another ticket sold. But there’s going to a movie, in the privacy of a darkened theater, and then there’s buying tie-in merchandise.
“I’m trying to be discrete,” says Kristi Faulkner, a co-founder and president of the martketing consultancy Womenkind, of the "Fifty Shades" merchandise. “But Target is selling them -- who knew? Who could believe that?”
Attention, Target shoppers
“So many people read these books digitally, privately, and yet these products are being sold in the most public way,” she says. “Are you going to throw your 'Fifty Shades of Grey' electronic device into your cart with your laundry detergent and your diet soda and your baby food and your pampers? Is that really going to happen?”
While the answer may be unclear, Faulkner says all this "Fifty Shades" merchandise is doing something. She calls it "permission marketing." After all, a "Fifty Shades of Grey" T-shirt could make a taboo subject like S&M a little more approachable.
What if "Sex in the City" were a box office success and racist, too?
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| I got cuffs and a mask, b-tch, let's do this! |
While only 20 percent of Fifty Shades readers were male, 54 percent of the bear’s buyers are men, says Bill Shouldice, president and CEO of the Vermont Teddy Bear Company.
But Jenn Drexler, a senior vice president with Insight Strategy Group, wants to make it clear that Mr. Bear, and most of the "Fifty Shades" merchandise work mainly as gag gifts.
“It’s one of those flip things where you can’t believe you live in a world where this can happen -- so it’s so awesome,” she says of the bear.
(TED 2) Hey, girls, if you want a sexy bear... (Seth MacFarlane)
And, FYI, the Vermont Teddy Bear company says so far this is its best-selling Valentine’s Day bear, but what may be good for the licensee may not always be good for the licensor.
“You have to wonder when does licensing crossover into value for the brand,” Drexler says. “When it goes into gag gifts?”
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| Baby's onesie for sale (inktastic.com) |
“They’ll get wallet share, but I don’t think they’re going to get heart,” she says.
When consumers love a brand, Drexler says, they’ll go as far as to have it tattooed -- think Harley or Jack Daniels -- but “I don’t know if anyone is doing a 'Fifty Shades' tattoo any time soon.”
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| Author E.L. James (Erika Mitchell) |
“There’s a reason women weren’t getting together and talking -- like 'I’ve always wanted to be tied up.' Like, that’s not replacing Oprah’s book club anytime soon,” Drexler says.
What title to read was up for discussion at a recent Brooklyn book club meeting. All the women in attendance are moms and while most were okay with the "Fifty Shades of Grey" baby clothes, host Megan Schade was not.
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| Girls' Day In: book club members Elizabeth Nelson, Renata Segura, Megan Schade, and Jen Hanssen check out the "Fifty Shades of Grey" teddy bear (Sally Herships/marketplace.org). |
“I realize because it betrays my own Victorianism,” she says. “In the sense that, how else does baby get here than by two people having sex? And that’s what this shirt is referring to.”
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| Drink, f*ck, buy...What must Mara look like? |
“I don't think this 'wine' was made for drinking,” Schade says, “It was made as a gift. It's a giving wine.”
But the bear seemed to stir up the most discomfort. “Poor Mrs. Bear," Schade says. “Not okay,” says club member Renata Segura. "Is this for a child or a grownup?” “I see a crazy cat lady having that teddy bear,” Nelson says.
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| Cupid: Watch "TED 2" |
“If somebody gives it to me for free, not my husband buying it for me with my money, with our money,” she says. “Maybe from somebody else, but not from my bank account.” More
Erotic literature for KIDS: "Peterotica"
WARNING: Not suitable for kids under 18! Peter Griffin writes erotic literature, Peter-erotica, as read by "Golden Girl" Betty White ("Family Guy," Season 4, Episode 24, see FULL).
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Zen, Sex, and the Slow Orgasm (video)
Wisdom Quarterly, NicoleDaedone.com (OneTaste.us), TEDxTalks
Funny people taking pictures while traveling on a bus and nothing more (wahoha.com)
Funny people taking pictures while traveling on a bus and nothing more (wahoha.com)Wisdom Quarterly recently met the remarkable Nicole Daedone -- author, public speaker, and educator who focuses on the intersection between Buddhism, orgasm, intimacy, and life.
She is the founder of OneTaste, a cutting-edge company bringing a new definition of "orgasm" to women. The practice at the heart of her work is called OM (Orgasmic Meditation). OM uniquely combines the tradition of extended-orgasm with her own interest in:
She is the founder of OneTaste, a cutting-edge company bringing a new definition of "orgasm" to women. The practice at the heart of her work is called OM (Orgasmic Meditation). OM uniquely combines the tradition of extended-orgasm with her own interest in:
- Zen Buddhism
- mystical Judaism
- semantics
Helping to foster a new conversation about orgasm -- one that is real, relevant, and intelligent -- Daedone has inspired thousands of students to make OM a part of their everyday lives.
Tantra is the yoga of intimacy: tantrika embraces a bodhisattva (BuddhismMagazine.com)
Interview with a TEDdy Bear Hugger
Seth Auberon (edited by Amber Dorrian), April 3, 2012
Nicole Daedone: Gratitude is at the root of my practice.
Wisdom Quarterly: The Buddha talked so much about the four "Divine Abidings" -- friendliness, compassion, empathic joy, and unbiased detachment -- that depend on and support "gratitude" (kataññu). But gratitude is not usually singled out as a heart practice itself.
ND: It is central to the practice.
WQ: Yes, kataññu refers to the sense of thanks or debt we owe to others. We might bring it to mind more easily by conceiving of its opposite, which is the sense that "You owe me."
ND: Yes! That is a good way of putting it.
WQ: Does the universe owe me?
ND: Does it?
WQ: If we think it does, we suffer. If instead we are suffused with a sense of how much we would owe it, if it were charging us, we are turned inside out: filled with appreciation, humble, thankful, or grateful. How did you arrive at this wonderful practice?
ND: A lot of self-examination, reflection, and taking inventory led me to it.
WQ: We arrived at it via meditation.
ND: That had a great deal to do with it for me. Even before I stumbled into meditation, I was practicing and in search of fulfillment. Suffering can open the heart quite a bit to others.
WQ: Suffering would have killed us if at some point we didn't OPEN, acknowledge, accept, embrace, welcome it, and let things go.
ND: Exactly! It is a visceral experience. I was feeling others' feelings.
WQ: It's terrible to be stuck in one's head!
ND: It sounds like you found the secret.
WQ: If only it weren't so easy to lose. How did you do it?
(healthynews.com)
ND: By feeling, and feeling has nothing to do with the head. It is a heart practice.
WQ: Buddhism is full of heart-cultivating practices as, to name just two examples, Sharon Salzberg and Pema Chodron deal with in popular titles.
ND: The thing is, gratitude is really an outcome, not a process. One may lead to the other, but they should not be confused one with the other. When I distinguish them I'm well on my way to outcomes. I only need to ask myself, "What is the process?"
WQ: Speaking of sex, orgasm is really an outcome, not a process. If someone says, "Orgasm!" we can't. But we can engage in a process, and that may lead to it. But we can't "do" the outcome.
ND: That is an amazing synchronicity! That is what I specialize in. That is exactly it, a great example.
WQ: You specialize in sex?
ND: In orgasm.
WQ: Wow, the outcome, the opening. What is the process?
ND: One very helpful process is found in my OneTaste video.
The Basics of Orgasmic Meditation
The next sex is orgasm. It’s what sex always wanted to be. Find it through meditation -- OM (Orgasmic Meditation). This video shows how. Imagine a kind of experience that gives vitality, that soothes the hunger inside, the secret code to the female orgasm, the first step to feeling the deep connection we're all looking for. Watch as we demonstrate the technique that is helping thousands of people.
WQ: The one taste of the sea is salty, just as the one taste of the Dharma is truth. Is true intimacy the process that leads to OM?
ND: There are other basic processes. They can prepare us by sorting out our emotions. One is the "Fear Inventory."
WQ: We'll have to have you back very soon to talk about it.
ND: I would love that! I just moved to Santa Monica from San Francisco. I'm still settling in.
WQ: In the meantime, roll the TED tape!
(RepertoireProductions.com) Nicole Daedone, TEDxTalks
Raised in Los Gatos, Daedone graduated from nearby San Francisco State University with a degree in semantics and gender communication. She went on to found the popular avant garde art gallery 111 Minna Gallery in SoMa before moving on to OneTaste.
She is the author of Slow Sex: The Art and Craft of the Female Orgasm (Grand Central/Hachette, 2011) and has appeared on ABC's Nightline.
Seth Auberon (edited by Amber Dorrian), April 3, 2012
Nicole Daedone: Gratitude is at the root of my practice.Wisdom Quarterly: The Buddha talked so much about the four "Divine Abidings" -- friendliness, compassion, empathic joy, and unbiased detachment -- that depend on and support "gratitude" (kataññu). But gratitude is not usually singled out as a heart practice itself.
ND: It is central to the practice.
WQ: Yes, kataññu refers to the sense of thanks or debt we owe to others. We might bring it to mind more easily by conceiving of its opposite, which is the sense that "You owe me."
ND: Yes! That is a good way of putting it.
WQ: Does the universe owe me?
ND: Does it?
WQ: If we think it does, we suffer. If instead we are suffused with a sense of how much we would owe it, if it were charging us, we are turned inside out: filled with appreciation, humble, thankful, or grateful. How did you arrive at this wonderful practice?
ND: A lot of self-examination, reflection, and taking inventory led me to it.
WQ: We arrived at it via meditation.
ND: That had a great deal to do with it for me. Even before I stumbled into meditation, I was practicing and in search of fulfillment. Suffering can open the heart quite a bit to others.
WQ: Suffering would have killed us if at some point we didn't OPEN, acknowledge, accept, embrace, welcome it, and let things go.
ND: Exactly! It is a visceral experience. I was feeling others' feelings.
WQ: It's terrible to be stuck in one's head!
ND: It sounds like you found the secret.
WQ: If only it weren't so easy to lose. How did you do it?
(healthynews.com)ND: By feeling, and feeling has nothing to do with the head. It is a heart practice.WQ: Buddhism is full of heart-cultivating practices as, to name just two examples, Sharon Salzberg and Pema Chodron deal with in popular titles.
ND: The thing is, gratitude is really an outcome, not a process. One may lead to the other, but they should not be confused one with the other. When I distinguish them I'm well on my way to outcomes. I only need to ask myself, "What is the process?"
WQ: Speaking of sex, orgasm is really an outcome, not a process. If someone says, "Orgasm!" we can't. But we can engage in a process, and that may lead to it. But we can't "do" the outcome.
ND: That is an amazing synchronicity! That is what I specialize in. That is exactly it, a great example.
WQ: You specialize in sex?
ND: In orgasm.
WQ: Wow, the outcome, the opening. What is the process?
ND: One very helpful process is found in my OneTaste video.
The Basics of Orgasmic Meditation
The next sex is orgasm. It’s what sex always wanted to be. Find it through meditation -- OM (Orgasmic Meditation). This video shows how. Imagine a kind of experience that gives vitality, that soothes the hunger inside, the secret code to the female orgasm, the first step to feeling the deep connection we're all looking for. Watch as we demonstrate the technique that is helping thousands of people.
WQ: The one taste of the sea is salty, just as the one taste of the Dharma is truth. Is true intimacy the process that leads to OM?
ND: There are other basic processes. They can prepare us by sorting out our emotions. One is the "Fear Inventory."
WQ: We'll have to have you back very soon to talk about it.
ND: I would love that! I just moved to Santa Monica from San Francisco. I'm still settling in.
WQ: In the meantime, roll the TED tape!
(RepertoireProductions.com) Nicole Daedone, TEDxTalks
Raised in Los Gatos, Daedone graduated from nearby San Francisco State University with a degree in semantics and gender communication. She went on to found the popular avant garde art gallery 111 Minna Gallery in SoMa before moving on to OneTaste.
She is the author of Slow Sex: The Art and Craft of the Female Orgasm (Grand Central/Hachette, 2011) and has appeared on ABC's Nightline.
Her work has been featured in the New York Times, New York Post, San Francisco Chronicle, and 7x7 Magazine, among others, and her writing has appeared in the Buddhist oriented Tricycle Magazine.
In his Number 1 New York Times Bestseller The 4-Hour Body, Timothy Ferriss calls the OM practice "required education for every man on the planet."
- AUDIO: Slow Sex Podcast (goodcleanlove.com)
- Is OneTaste a "cult" or a cure?
- Love Becomes Her
- Tricycle Bicycle: Ride-to-Work Week
- Letters, Spring 2010 Hodel, Rio de Janeiro - Inner Bicycle, I found Nicole Daedone’s article “Love Becomes Her” (Winter 2009) emotionally...
Friday, March 2, 2012
BIL Conference 2012 (March 3-4)
BIL is an ad-hoc conference for people changing the world in big ways. It's a place for the passionate to come together to energize, brainstorm, and take action. Most have heard of TED or watched the talks online. But does everyone know about BIL, the quirky, populist, unconference taking place nearby? Open to the public and fully participant-powered, BIL features a wild mix of technologists, scientists, artists, hackers, and those with a passion for community awareness (including Jon Wiener from KPFK.org). It takes place March 3-4 on the historic Queen Mary, docked in Long Beach. Info.
Friday, February 17, 2012
Joan Halifax comes to Los Angeles (video)
Wisdom Quarterly; Against the Stream; Blog.TED.com
Against the Stream
(TEDtalksDirector) Buddhist teacher Joan Halifax works with people at the last stage of life (in a hospice and on death row). She shares what she has learned about compassion in the face of death and dying and a deep insight into the nature of empathy (Blog.TED.com).
Against the Stream
Saturday: Matthew Brensilver, Intro to Meditation, Santa Monica, 1:00-4:00 pm
Saturday: An evening with Roshi Joan Halifax, Altars in the Street, Santa Monica (Los Angeles), 7:30-9:00 pm
Sunday: Daylong with Roshi Joan Halifax on Engaged Buddhism in Santa Monica, 9:30-4:00 pm
Monday: Feb. 20 marks the 4-year anniversary of Against the Stream! (To support: tax deductible donations).
Sunday, September 25, 2011
Pay attention to Palestinian Peace ("Budrus")
David Hudson (Mubi.com)
(TEDtalksDirector) TED.com In 2003 the Palestinian village of Budrus mounted a 10-month-long nonviolent protest to stop a barrier being built across their olive tree groves. Did you hear about it? Didn't think so. Brazilian filmmaker Julia Bacha asks why we only pay attention to the violence the Israelis want focused on -- and not to the nonviolent leaders who may one day bring peace.
Conversations this International Day of Peace will this year undoubtedly be focused on Palestinians' bid for UN membership, the latest development in the decades-old Israel-Palestine conflict. Brazilian filmmaker Julia Bacha (BUDRUS) has spent years in the Middle East and, as she notes at the top of her recent TED Talk, one of the most common questions she's asked is, "Where are the Palestinian Ghandis?" More
- AUDIO: Listen to "The Crucible" (Salem witch trials)
- PHOTOS: Angkor Wat, Cambodia's Theravada Buddhism
Saturday, July 16, 2011
Breaking the Spell of Religion (audio)
Exploration with Dr. Michio Kaku (Saturday, July 16, KPFK.org)
Breaking the Spell (skeptic.com)
Can science explain religion as a natural phenomenon -- or set of phenomena useful to human beings in spite of the absence of a "God" as conceived of in human cultures?
Dr. Dennett, an atheist and liberal, takes a serious look at the possibility that religions may serve an important and beneficial evolutionary purpose. He is interviewed by theoretical physicist, cofounder of string field theory, and peace activist Dr. Kaku, City College of New York (CUNY). This is followed by a discussion with Steven Pinker, author of The Blank Slate: the Modern Denial of Human Nature.
In The Blank Slate, one of the world's leading experts on language and the mind explores the idea of human nature and its moral, emotional, and political colorings.
With characteristic wit, lucidity, and insight, Steven Pinker argues that the dogma that the mind has no innate traits -- a doctrine held by many intellectuals during the past century -- denies our common humanity.
It also denies our individual preferences, replaces objective analyses of social problems with feel-good slogans, and distorts our understanding of politics, violence, parenting, and the arts.
Injecting calm and rationality into debates that are notorious for ax-grinding and mud-slinging, Pinker shows the importance of an honest acknowledgment of human nature based on science and common sense.
Breaking the Spell (skeptic.com)Can science explain religion as a natural phenomenon -- or set of phenomena useful to human beings in spite of the absence of a "God" as conceived of in human cultures?Dr. Dennett, an atheist and liberal, takes a serious look at the possibility that religions may serve an important and beneficial evolutionary purpose. He is interviewed by theoretical physicist, cofounder of string field theory, and peace activist Dr. Kaku, City College of New York (CUNY). This is followed by a discussion with Steven Pinker, author of The Blank Slate: the Modern Denial of Human Nature.
In The Blank Slate, one of the world's leading experts on language and the mind explores the idea of human nature and its moral, emotional, and political colorings.With characteristic wit, lucidity, and insight, Steven Pinker argues that the dogma that the mind has no innate traits -- a doctrine held by many intellectuals during the past century -- denies our common humanity.
It also denies our individual preferences, replaces objective analyses of social problems with feel-good slogans, and distorts our understanding of politics, violence, parenting, and the arts.
Injecting calm and rationality into debates that are notorious for ax-grinding and mud-slinging, Pinker shows the importance of an honest acknowledgment of human nature based on science and common sense.
Skeptic Society's Michael Shermer speaks on "strange beliefs" at TED
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