This story is easy to do because the men at Wisdom Quarterly are dog people, who love dogs and fish and only recently warmed up to the wonder of cats. Who would have guessed that a dog can be a monk's best friend?
According to the monks, Aloka began following them during their walk and despite facing hardships – including being hit by a car and falling seriously ill during the journey – it (he) repeatedly rejoined the peace procession.
Aloka's prominence grew when it joined a larger American initiative called the "Walk for Peace." This event began on October 26, 2025, when a group of approximately 19 Theravada Buddhist monks from the Huong Dao Vipassana Bhavana Center in Fort Worth, Texas, set out on a roughly 2,300‑mile walk from Texas to Washington, D.C.
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Aloka has walked alongside the Buddhist monks, sometimes on foot and other times riding in a support vehicle when needed [3].
It has a distinctive heart‑shaped marking on its forehead and has amassed a large following on social media platforms [5]. More
Map of the monks' spiritual journey (yatra) from Fort Worth, TX, to Washington, DC
(The Week) Meet Aloka, the dog who is accompanying 19 American Theravada Buddhist monks from Southeast Asia on a 37,000 km peace walk to spread peace and kindness throughout the USA
As a literal mark of skillful karma performed in the past, one is reborn (due to some heavier unskillful karma) in the Animal Realm below the human plane of existence but with beauty and marks on the fur, skin, or feathers. Behold the perfectly formed white heart on Aloka's third eye/forehead.
Aloka literally means "light" and is sometimes used as a synonym for "white"
Although pandas, a kind of creature like the tiny sun bear but subsisting almost exclusively on nutritious bamboo shoots (as served in good Chinese restaurants), are best known for their opposition to sexual harassment, it wasn't always that way. They were an utter myth, like Sasquatch, until someone trudged out into the woods, killed a specimen, and conclusively proved they really exist in more than just the locals' lore.
Now, numerous Sasquatch have been gunned down, and it didn't "prove" anything because the U.S. government already knows without a doubt that these hominids exist in every state but are keeping the secret anyway, even if some USFS material says otherwise. Unlike the charismatic megafauna of U.S. forests, these creatures, which come in many varieties around the world, can be dangerous, monstrous, all too human, and best kept under wraps since they are entering and exiting this dimension by various means (portals, prison planet ships, and their own preternatural super abilities).
China loves mythological figures who are bigger than life: Cosmic Buddhas like Amitabha and Vairocana, Indian missionary Bodhidharma, Goddess Kwan Yin, Ksitigarbha in Hell, Yeren (Wild Man in the woods), and big pandas.
Every year on March 16th, we celebrate the fluffiest, bamboo-munching bears that are a source of national pride for China.
There are two subspecies of panda, the Giant, black-and-white panda, and the golden ‘Qinling panda’ – a much smaller, brown subspecies of panda, discovered in 1985 in the mountain ranges of the southern Shaanxi Province in China.
In the wilderness, giant pandas live only in the remote, mountainous regions of China [like some kind of hiding Smallfoot no one used to seriously believe in].
As of 2019, due to rapidly growing population numbers, the status of pandas was upgraded from “endangered” species to “vulnerable” species.
Still, it is reported that there are fewer than 2,000 pandas left in the wild, due to habitat loss, farming, fur hunting, and other factors [like trying to teach them kung fu and getting them killed by Hollywood in the process, with drug and alcohol abuse for the ones who find fame ;,)].
Pandas only live about 15 to 20 years in the wild, but those in captivity may live even longer. Panda bears play an important part in the ecosystem of China’s bamboo forests, by spreading seeds, and therefore, growing new vegetation, which serves humans, animals, and humanimals (like the Yeren), and animals.
That’s why it is important to protect the panda and its environment, aside from their intrinsic right to live and exist on the animal plane, which is shared with humans and the human plane in Buddhism.
One factor contributing to their endangered status is the low birth rate for pandas. Considering that female pandas are only fertile two or three days of the year, it makes sense that reproduction in the wild is more difficult for this species.
There are about 27 zoos worldwide that imprison or indefinitely detain protect giant pandas and foster artificial environments to encourage reproduction.
The most important factor for preserving wild pandas is to protect their environment, especially bamboo forests, their main source of nutrition. More
National Today, March 16, 2025; South Park (Comedy Central); CC Liu, Crystal Q., Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Driving the news: Calm is hosting a live stream from the San Diego Zoo on Instagram so we can take a break from political doomscrolling to watch capybaras, meerkats, penguins, and other beautiful wildlife.
It starts at noon PT until polls close across the country.
Those humans are so full of fleas, ticks, and bugs because they won't clean each other.
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Between the lines: Calm also has free "Election Season Support" content with breathing exercises, meditations and other mindfulness tools.
🐅 The intrigue: While he won't be featured on the livestream, a new tiger cub is out to play at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park.
Baby Barong, which means "king of spirits," stepped out of his den for the first time last week.
Watch him here or visit him in person at the park this weekend. More
(Intrigued Mind) It turns out that ancient humans weren’t just having sex with each other. They were also having sex with other now-extinct human sub-species like Neanderthals and Denisovans. With the power of modern genome sequencing, scientists have been piecing together what parts of our DNA might be the result of interspecies affairs. #AncientHumans #Neanderthals #Denisovans #Pre-HistoricalAffairs
(Weird History) Neanderthals (an extinct human species) remain one of the great mysteries of human evolution. They are modern human's closest relatives, but their habits elude us. We are learning more about our hominid cousins every day, and there is still so much we do not know, including the mystery of Neanderthal mating habits, as there is not a lot of evidence to describe what Neanderthal sex would have been like. Thankfully, there are new advances in genetic paleontology shining a light on this elusive subject, and the discoveries surrounding ancient human mating rituals continue to develop.
(Bizarre Beasts) Bagheera kiplingi, a type of Mexican jumping spider from a world of 45,000 known species of spiders, has a most un-spider like adaptation: a vegetarian taste for plants.
Huge thanks goes out to the Missoula Butterfly House & Insectarium for allowing the filming of their fantastic spiders. Find out all about them (missoulabutterflyhouse.org). Sources...
(Alex O'Connor) Views: 436,078. Posted June 27, 2023. This clip is taken from O'Connor's debate with Jonathan McLatchie in May of 2022, which may be viewed in full here: DEBATE: Theism versus Atheism
I will kill you, Alex, kill you dead; then you'll see
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Scientists have captured footage of a fish swimming more than 8 km (26,000+ feet) underwater, setting a new record for the deepest fish ever recorded.
The animal, an unknown snailfish species belonging to the genus Pseudoliparis, was filmed at a depth of 8,336 metres (27,350 feet) in the Izu-Ogasawara Trench, south-east of Japan.
The footage was captured from an autonomous deep ocean vessel as part of a two-month expedition that began last year.
A few days after the snailfish was filmed, scientists caught two other snailfish, of the species Pseudoliparis belyaevi, in the Japan trench from a depth of 8,022 metres (26,319 feet). More
(MAD LAB) Imagine walking somewhere when suddenly there's an animal that needs help. Would you just walk by? If not then this video is for you! Today we’re showing the most incredible examples of kindness (metta in Buddhism) when animals had to ask humans of all people for help -- and people answered the call! (That karuna, compassion, or kindness in action). This will help restore everyone's faith in humanity. (Watching gives us mudita, happiness in the joy of others. Now if we could just calm down and be equanimous about it because that would be the Four Divine Abidings).
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VIDEO: Christopher Stevens reviews the weekend's TV: The only way to get closer to a wolf...is to be eaten by one. Sir David Attenborough's Frozen Planet II reveals new behavior and animal secrets that naturalists might never uncover by watching through binoculars in the wild. The photography is spectacular, sophisticated, and is vivid and spectacular.
Sir David Attenborough describes nature rather than watch Ray Mears on one of his Boy Scout nature treks.
It’s nonsense to suggest that the spectacular ultra-high-definition video sequences in Frozen Planet II (BBC1) are just pretty pictures. The photography is so vivid, and the filming techniques are so sophisticated, that every segment reveals new behavior — animal secrets that naturalists might never uncover by watching through binoculars in the wild, the Ray Mears way.
Motivational speaker Daniel Ally, January 13, 2021; punks Wasted Youth; Ed., Wisdom Quarterly
7 signs people are completely fake with you
(Daniel Ally) Dealing with fake people is one of the hardest things to do, especially when they act friendly. In this video, Daniel Ally shows seven clear signs that one is dealing with a fake person. What are those signs? [In my case, I was dealing with a deceptive people pleaser who cultivated the look of an angel to conceal her actual intentions, which were selfish, brutal, and all about winning an imaginary battle of coming out ahead.]
1. They forget key details in their story 2. They make fake plans
3. They show no effort to fulfill their promises
4. They're selfish
5. They gossip about you
6. They always lie
7. They betray you
WY (Wasted Youth) patch in the mosh pit
[No one should say that there's nothing to karma, Our intentional actions catch up with us. She couldn't keep going on like this without being hoisted by her own petard, tripped up in her own snare, getting found out. She people-pleased herself right into the arms of another prince, a liar and performative mate, who just happens to be a gross ten-year-long needle-abusing heroin addict. Guess who's next?
Already the drinking and pot abuse is going full tilt, popping prescriptions. Now there's just the needle to fall in love with. Rats and snakes, would a codependent enter the jaws of the snake willingly? Not with eyes wide open. But half closed, a rat might. Not me. Codependence can be cured. She lost me, and she continued to carry on with everyone else, until there was just one too sticky to break free from, a corrosive alcoholic junkie on his way to making her a junkie. But in the meantime, she felt good by all his attention. R.I.P.
One is reminded of that song Seth A. likes to sing, by LA's Wasted Youth: "We Were On Heroin." So here's a toast to their incurable addiction, fashioned by lifestyle, glued by fentanyl and poppyflower sap. Yum, too good to resist. Today a guru said, "Cut the ties. She made her own choice. Don't interfere. It's their artha, their dharma," that is, what they came into this life to do, to throw it all away. Sad that, but what can one do other than step aside and not get dragged down by their self-destruction?]
LYRICS: "We Were On Heroin"
I need it, must have it
Kill and steal, fight to get it
I need it, must have it
Holes in my arms mean nothing
I need it, must have it
I'll lose everything I own
Just to buy it, just to have it
I don't care if I die
Gotta have it to survive
My arm's decaying day by day
My veins are collapsing, doctors say
I need it, must have it
Shoot it up in my arm
I need it, must have it
I won't sleep day or night
Till I get it, till I shoot it
Take the money from my mom
Just to buy it, just to have it
Who cares about this world?
Everything seems so blurred
I don't care if I die
I don't care if I die
I need it, must have it
I need it, must have it
I need it, must have it
I need it, heroin
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