Showing posts with label beatings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label beatings. Show all posts

Monday, November 24, 2025

Jake Paul to be beaten by heavyweight boxer


Netflix: Live bloodbath on Dec. 19th
(ESPN) YouTuber-turned-boxer "I beat Mike Tyson [who may or may not have been paid to take a fall]" Jake Paul will face former two-time unified heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua in a professional heavyweight boxing match on Dec. 19 at Kaseya Center in Miami, Florida, Most Valuable Promotions told ESPN on Monday.

The fight -- which will be streamed live on Netflix -- is scheduled for eight 3-minute rounds, and the fighters will wear 10-ounce gloves, the standard for heavyweight fights.

It's an about-face for Jake Paul, 27, who was originally slated to take on WBA lightweight champion Gervonta "Tank" Davis in an exhibition fight on Nov. 14, 2025. However, the bout was canceled after Davis was named in a civil lawsuit filed by an ex-girlfriend accusing the boxer of [testosterone poisoning,] aggravated battery, false imprisonment, kidnapping, and intentional infliction of emotional distress.

Taking a dive for the money?

Breaking news: Fake Jake to get Real in the ring!
Instead of an exhibition against a hard-hitting pro boxer who campaigned at 130 pounds, Paul will now face a two-time heavyweight champion and Olympic gold medalist in a sanctioned professional boxing match who has fought as high as 256 pounds, over 100 pounds heavier than Davis [and much taller].

Paul has campaigned primarily as a cruiserweight with a 200-pound weight limit, although he weighed 227.25 pounds for his heavyweight exhibition fight with Mike Tyson in 2024.

Anthony Joshua is so good he has a wax figure in London

Call me a con-man to my face! - We said 'artist'
"This isn't an AI simulation. This is Judgment Day," Jake Paul said in a statement, "a professional heavyweight fight against an elite world champion in his prime. When I beat Anthony Joshua, every doubt disappears, and no one can deny me the opportunity to fight for a world title. To all my haters, this is what you wanted. To the people of the United Kingdom, I am sorry. On Friday, Dec. 19, under the lights in Miami, live globally only on Netflix, the torch gets passed and Britain's Goliath gets put to sleep."

Paul (12-1, 7 KOs) is still a novice in the sport with no notable amateur experience and only 70 total rounds boxed as a pro since 2020. He'll take a massive step up from MMA fighters and journeyman boxers to face Joshua (28-4, 25 KOs), one of the hardest-hitting and most decorated heavyweights in the world with over 160 rounds boxed in his 12 years as a professional. More

Tuesday, October 21, 2025

Shocking book on Epstein, Trump, Maxwell

Sex trafficked child Virginia Roberts worked at Trump's Mar a Lago.

Silenced for speaking out
Virginia Roberts Giuffre
's bombshell tell-all book is rocking the Epstein/Maxwell world and Donald "John" Trump's role in molesting, raping, and trafficking American girls, while lying about it and hiding the Epstein Files and Client List. Trump has used his personal lawyer, whom he gave a prominent job in government, the role of holding out a carrot to convicted co-conspirator Ghislane Maxwell (Mossad asset or agent and professional blackmailer alongside Jeffrey Epstein) to state that Trump never did anything. She went further than that by stating the same old lies that got her convicted, claiming she never saw anyone doing anything illegal. Meanwhile, Epstein is hiding out on Pedophile Island, Little St. James in the U.S. Virgin Islands, where he was recently spotted and videotaped by a drone as he relaxed, chatted, and drove around on a golf cart as Trump administration, FBI (liars Director Ka$h Patel and disgusting traitor Dan Bongino), and jailhouse officials claim he committed "suicide" despite clear evidence to the contrary. When the CIA and Mossad are on your side, who can be against you? Certainly not a young lady living in Australia and making documented accusations against Epstein's good friends the British [Reptilian] royals Prince Andrew and Sarah Duchess of York.
  • (Tara Palmeri) Nobody's Girl by Virginia Roberts (Giuffre) bombshell book is shaking the Epstein/Maxwell World
Jeffrey "Convicted Sex Trafficker and Don Trump's best friend" Epstein alive and well 2025

That's clearly not Jeffrey Epstein. That's just a man who looks exactly like him on his island.
Trump to commute Diddy's sentence and pardon Ghislane Maxwell. Mel Gibson better be careful
Ghislane who? I'm not familiar with, oh, you mean Maxwell, asking for a pardon? I'dunno.
I was just an innocent girl working at Trump's Mar a Lago as a child. No one cared about me.

I was a child, hired by Trump, taken by Epstein, and forced into sex trafficking by Maxwell.
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Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice

I named names; they killed me.
This shocking brand-new exposé by Virginia Roberts Giuffre has 4.0 out of 5 stars with two ratings. It is #14 on the Amazon Charts this week.

This unforgettable memoir is by the late Virginia Roberts Giuffre, the molested and trafficked girl who became the woman who dared to take on [Mossad/CIA assets] Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.

Israel Prime Minister Ehud Barak raped me
She reports she was raped, beaten, bloodied by child molester Israeli PM Ehud Barak

Prince Andrew swears that's not his left hand.
The world knows Trump's child laborer Virginia Roberts Giuffre as Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s most outspoken victim: the female whose decision to speak out helped send both serial child sex abusers to prison, whose photograph with Prince Andrew catalyzed his fall from grace.

We went through so many girls together. So?
But her story has never been told in full, in her own words—until now. In April 2025, she was [assassinated and that murder made to look as if she] took her own life.

She left behind this memoir written in the years preceding her mysterious death and stated unequivocally that she wanted it published.

Partners-in-crime: We molest and blackmail.
Nobody’s Girl is the riveting and powerful story of an ordinary American girl who would grow up to be exploited by Donald J. Trump at Mar a Lago and then by his best friend and convicted child molester Jeffrey Epstein, the owner of "Pedophile Island" and the "Lolita Express" where she would confront extraordinary adversity.

Here, she offers an unsparing and definitive account of her time being sex trafficked by Epstein and Maxwell, who raped, abused, and sold her and other children to numerous prominent men [such as Pres. Trump].

I love Agent Ghislane, and I will protect her.
She also details the molestation she suffered as a child, as well as her daring escape from Epstein and Maxwell’s grasp at 19.

Maxwells: Jewish Israeli spies
She remade her life from scratch and summoned the courage to not only hold her sexual abusers to account but also advocate for other child sex victims.

The pages of Nobody’s Girl preserve her voice—and her legacy—forever. Nobody’s Girl is an astonishing affirmation of her unshakable will—first, to claw her way out of victimhood then to shine light on wrongdoing and fight for a safer, fairer world.

Equal parts intimate and fierce, it is a remarkable narrative of fortitude in the face of sexual depravity in our patriarchy and the despair it brings. More

*Epstein trafficked children to Jewish Israeli officials

Accused pedo Israeli PM Barak
While scheduling the meeting with Palantir billionaire Peter Thiel, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak also tried to arrange to meet Russian Pres. Vlad Putin's ally Viktor Vekselberg early in June 2014 [36]. An email sent in April 2015 shows that PM Barak asked Jeffrey Epstein for his opinion on Vekselberg-backed Fifth Dimension, a startup which later shut down after being sanctioned in 2018 by the U.S. for election meddling [36].

I love killing for our Israel's IDF (Benny Gantz)
This startup's leadership also included former IDF Chief-of-Staff Benny Gantz and former Deputy Mossad Director Ram Ben-Barak [38]. Epstein child sex victim Virginia Roberts Giuffre claimed that she had been sexually assaulted by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak after being child sex trafficked to him by serial child molester [and Mossad asset] Epstein.

We Zionist Jewish men love kids.
The claim came to light in a 2020 court filing by accused child molester and attorney for Israel Alan Dershowitz (pictured at right).

Both Zionist-Jewish American attorney Alan Dershowitz and Israeli PM Ehud Barak denied the validity of her claims [39]. [She would have been just a child when, I mean if, we molested her! Who's going to believe a child?] More

Sunday, October 5, 2025

Girl fights get violent w/ Dakota Ditch'


No joke, she knocks 'em out harder than men: Dakota Ditcheva
(VoteSport) Despite her pretty looks, Dakota Ditcheva, 27, displays an unprecedented knockout rate in the cage. The spotlight belongs to the long-legged PFL champion, who studied Muay Thai in Buddhist Thailand, might soon outshine any MMA (mixed martial arts) star. 11,805,895 views.

  • Dakota Ditcheva, Vote Sport, 12/26/24; Pfc. Sandoval, CC Liu, Seth Auberon, Sheldon S. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Israel tortured Greta, forced her to kiss...


Israel tortures Westerner? Human rights abuses? It wouldn't be the first time

Freedom flotilla journalist challenges Israel's Gaza siege
How dare Greta embarrass the warmongers!
(The Grayzone) Oct. 5, 2025: The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal interviews Thomas Becker, a human rights attorney and freelance journalist, who is currently aboard the Conscience ship that's part of the Sumud Freedom Flotilla. Becker discusses the strategy behind the flotilla, and what he and other crew members expect as they approach the Israeli siege lines near the shores of Gaza, and news that other flotilla activists are currently being abused in Israeli jails.

The Grayzone: Find more reporting at thegrayzone.comSupport original journalism at Patreon: grayzone#TheGrayzone. (The Grayzone) Freedom flotilla attorney-journalist challenges Israel's Gaza siege and talks about it with Max Blumenthal
World erupts in outrage and anger at Israel's US-backed war crimes
(Times Now World) AI explains Greta Thunberg and Mandela
Dragged by the hair, beaten, forced to take picture with Israeli flag: glee of Zionist IDF torturers
So IDF may torture me, but I remain full of metta
Reports are coming out that the IDF, Israel's state-sponsored terrorists, illegally interfered with the Global Sumud Flotilla in international water, kidnapping participants, detaining and torturing them, forcing Greta Thunberg to kiss an Israeli flag, which may as well be blood-soaked for the ongoing Nakba ("Catastrophe") and genocide it represents. Who will enforce international law to rein in criminal Israel?

Wednesday, May 14, 2025

Diddy done it, says Cassie Ventura (trial)


Diddy trial: Cassie Ventura said 'Freak Offs' make her feel 'disgusting' | Banfield
That guy's not even my type! Justin Bieber is!
(NewsNation) May 14, 2025: NewsNation's Caitlyn Becker reports from New York City where [ex-girlfriend] Cassie Ventura delivered bombshell testimony in Sean P[enis] “Diddy” Combs’ federal sex trafficking and racketeering trial — testimony so graphic and intense that even veteran attorney Lisa Bloom, who represents a government witness in the case, said she was stunned.

Diddy paid me for gay sex with him and Cassie then I shot Trump at hotel

Yeah, Boi, that happened to me, too! - Justin B.
Ventura, [eight months pregnant and] due to give birth soon, described being forced into prolonged, drug-fueled “freak-offs” [sexual performances] with male escorts while Diddy watched — events she said became [the singer's] only “job.”

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Tuesday, March 4, 2025

Gladiator School at LA Juvenile Hall

10 Things I Hate About Private Prisons | American Civil Liberties Union of Texas

Surveillance video shows guards arranged ‘gladiator fights’ between minor inmates
(KTLA 5) March 3, 2025: Thirty Los Angeles County detention services officers are facing criminal charges for facilitating “gladiator fights” between youths at an LA County juvenile hall, allegedly because maybe our eyes are lying to us from all the hours of surveillance video catching them doing it.

Children as young as 12 abused by officers, who laugh and encourage them to hurt each other for their entertainment during 69 violent fights involving 143 child-convicts who are then told not to report it or seek medical attention for their injuries. Ironically, los pardrinos is Spanish for "the godparents," which male and female officers seem to have taken to mean Mafia members. \

KTLA's Sandra Mitchell reports live on Mar. 3, 2025. Details: ktla.com/news/local-news/30-l...

Tuesday, July 30, 2024

Disgusting police activity: beating, murder


(KCAL News) July 29, 2024: Video shows [abusive] LAPD officer punching handcuffed Black man [abusing him under color of authority] in South Los Angeles. The unnamed officer from the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) has been removed from field duty after punching a helpless man being detained with another armed officer on video [and is being considered for felony charges unless those who decide whether or not to charge him, his colleagues in the LAPD, find an excuse for the punch, show him the video, provide him no cost legal advice, coach him on what to say, take his statement only after consideration, reconsideration, and multiple opinions to form an airtight rationalization and justification that will stand up in any possible subsequent investigation or attempted civil litigation]. The video shows him punching the Black man he handcuffed after a simple traffic stop he allowed to escalate in his impatience and mistreatment of an uncharged citizen who is presumed innocent even if charged. He has not been suspended, fired, relieved of duty, or given anything worse than a cush assignment behind a desk indoors in an air conditioned office.


Renewed call for police reform after violent [implicitly biased] cop shoots woman who called 911 in the face in her home
Killer Kussin' Kop: "I'll f*cking shoot you right in your f*cking face." *BAM!*
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(CBS News) July 27, 2024: This morning, there are renewed calls for police reform after a deputy shot and killed an Illinois woman who called 911 about a possible intruder in her home. The deputy, who has since been fired, has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder charges. And new scrutiny has unveiled his checkered past.
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  • KCAL News July 29, 2024; CBS News, July 27, 2024; Pfc. Sandoval, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Wednesday, March 13, 2024

Enraged Buddhism: getting angry (Q&A)

Dhr. Seven, Mr. Like, Ananda (Dharma Budd Meditation), Pfc. Sandoval, Wisdom Quarterly
Sign language: "F.U., I'm walkin here, I'm walkin here!" - You call yourself a "monk," sir?
Who wants a holy water blessing? I'll beat the bad karma out of ya! Leave, demons, leave them!

I nodded off in Zen, better beat me, too, Guru!
  1. Q: Like, do Buddhist monks have emotions, like, do they get angry?
  2. WQ:  What do you mean?
  3. Q: Like, do they get angry?
  4. WQ: What, like, humans?
  5. Q: Yeah, like, or like regular non-monks.
  6. WQ: People? Are you asking if monks are people?
  7. Q: No, I'm asking, do they, like, have emotions?
  8. WQ: What do you mean?
  9. Q: Like, do they get angry?
  10. WQ: But isn't anger an emotion?
  11. Q: Yeah, like, exactly, right?
  12. WQ: So you mean you're asking if monks are humans, who have emotions, and one of those emotions is anger, so do Buddhist monks, who being human and therefore not beyond emotions, one of which is anger, will they experience that emotion?
  13. Q: Exactly.
  14. WQ: No.
  15. Q: No???!!! But, like, you just said they're human with normal emotions like any other humans.
  16. WQ: Yeah, sure, they have human emotions, and anger is a human emotion, but they don't have anger.
  17. Q: Like, how, how could they not have anger?
  18. WQ: Exactly, right? I mean, they must, if they're human. They're human, right?
  19. Q: Yeah, like, aren't they?
  20. WQ: They look human but I don't think they could have anger.
  21. Q: Like, how not?
  22. WQ: Exactly. You're right. I mean, but they're monks. I always see them so well behaved, well, not always.
  23. Q: Aha, like, so you have seen them angry?
  24. WQ: What the human ones?
  25. Q: Yeah, like, aren't they all human?
  26. WQ: I thought so, but then someone asked me if they get angry, so now I'm not so sure.
  27. Q: Like, wouldn't they, if they're all human?
  28. WQ: Yeah, I'm just yanking your chain. I've seen some angry. I've seen some so self-possessed as to be unflappable and they won't show it. Almost all of them are very well behaved. It's very odd to see one who isn't disciplined enough to behave. Except in Thailand, the temporary ordination novices look just like monks. People wouldn't know that's not a monk and so might think it is. But they're usually very well behaved, too, because they're just temporary and will soon revert to household life.
  29. Q: So, like, they get angry?
  30. Rev. Dr. MLK, Jr. and Thay/Thich Nhat Hanh
    WQ: I guess that depends on what we mean by "get angry" because for you and me, if we get angry, everybody's going to know it. We're going to yell, cry, sulk, act out with exasperation, sarcasm, or less than 100% loving kindness. There's Engaged Buddhism, which is good, following the social justice work of Thich Nhat Hanh and MLK Jr. during the secret U.S. War on Buddhist Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. And there's Enraged Buddhism, where some monks think it's okay to hurt people who hurt you -- rather than turning the other cheek, amping up the sympathy and special counter-emotions called The Four Supreme Abidings, which are positive emotions that counter our common base behavior of anger, callousness, envy/jealously, and favoritism.
  31. Q: Like, what could counter those?
  32. WQ: Anger is countered with loving-kindness (boundless-friendliness), callousness with compassion, envy with joy in the joy of others (mudita), and bias with equanimity or seeing everyone as the same in receiving these positive emotions and intentions from us, not more because we like them or less because we don't (which is called upekkha or "looking on at all with a sense of balance and ease, a fairness and impartiality).
  33. The miracle is not his bad choice but that he remains calm. He neither clings nor identifies, likes nor dislikes. It's only feeling, pain, body, like Bahiya of the Barkcloth. In jhana, one is safe. If enlightened, one is free of all suffering. Was Aaron Bushnell?
  34. Q: Like, can anyone really do that?
  35. WQ: Yeah, anyone can. Imagine if we had been practicing that since childhood. Do you think we'd have any good mental karma stored up?
  36. Q: Like, yeah.
  37. WQ: And we might even say nice things, pleasant things, friendly and inoffensive things, for good verbal karma?
  38. Q: Yeah, like, of course.
  39. WQ: Then might we even think good things about people and the living beings we meet for the generating of good mental karma?
  40. Q: Yeah, sure, like, if we're saying nice things and doing nice things, we're probably thinking nice things.
  41. WQ: ALL of us?
  42. Q: Well, like , anyone who practices.
  43. WQ: So you're saying the ones who practice?
  44. Q: Like...well,  yeah!
  45. WQ: But isn't it enough to be human?
  46. Q: No, humans, like have emotions, like anger, and like if they don't practice, they're going to think, say, and do harmful and offensive things sometimes.
  47. WQ: Like get angry?
  48. Q: Like, yeah.
  49. WQ: But isn't it enough to become a Buddhist monk?
  50. Q: I don't know, like, don't you have to practice?
  51. WQ: Yeah.
  52. Practice for self-control, not to control others.
    Q: So, like, I don't think it would be enough to be human or be a monk...but I think, like, it would be enough to practice.
  53. WQ: But wouldn't I still get angry?
  54. Q: Like, well, you might, but then it wouldn't get out of hand, or you could reel it in really fast if you slipped and it did.
  55. WQ: That sounds human, and doable, even for us non-monks. What was your question?
  56. Q: Like, do monks get angry?
  57. WQ: Human ones?
  58. Q: *Laughing* Yeah, human ones, like, that's the only kind, right?
  59. WQ: Right.
  60. Q: So, like, yeah, right?
  61. WQ: Naw, I don't think so. I mean they may act like it, but on the inside, after all that practice, it probably doesn't come up that much.
  62. Q: But they're still human, so like it'll probably come up a little?
  63. WQ: Well, yeah, I guess, a little, but with so much practice, they can probably reign it in really quickly or notice it arise and avert an outburst. That's probably why they can behave so well so much of the time.
  64. Q: Hey, like, I might want to be a monk.
  65. WQ: If you do, will you get angry?
  66. Q: Like, I don't know. I hope not. That's why I might want to try it, like, at least a temporary monk that you said.
  67. WQ: Yeah, good idea, then you can practice so much that even if you disrobe and return to the household life, you'll probably be a lot nicer.
  68. Q: Yeah, like, right?
  69. WQ: And if you practice so well that anger hardly comes up, your meditation will grow so great you may have a breakthrough so that it never comes up again.
  70. Q: Is that possible?
  71. WQ: Oh, yes. Fully enlightened beings, arhats, don't get angry, though they may have the habit, the residual, the custom of being annoyed, or the symptoms of aversion. But on the inside, it doesn't overtake them anymore. It can't. They can, however, act like it does. The Buddha says some things sometimes in some sutras that sure sound like he's upset or annoyed or finds some people wearisome and vexing, like his brother-in-law Devadatta or the monks of Kosambi who used to like to argue and debate rather than practicing and realizing. The Buddha would distinguish them from great examples of monks such as Ven. Kimbila, his fellow monks (Anuruddha and Nandiya), Ananda, and his ten principal disciples. Two Buddhist nuns, Ven. Khema and Ven. Uppalavanna, were always restrained and able to abide in the Four Supreme Abodes, even if they got sick or were attacked.
  72. Q: Like, attacked-attacked?
  73. There is no "punishment" for karma, just nature.
    WQ: One time this guy was praising how not-angry and wise Ven. Sariputta was, the male monastic declared foremost in wisdom, to this other guy who didn't believe him. So the other guy rolled his eyes and told his friend that the reason he didn't get angry was because his friend never saw Ven. Sariputta meet with a bad (anger-inspiring) situation. So to help his friend, he said he'd show him Ven. Sariputta's anger. The friend was surprised. Ven. Sariputta was a good monk, always practicing, a great disciple, a chief disciple, and a special assistant to the Buddha, teaching other monks and bringing them to the first stage of enlightenment before passing them on to the other chief male monastic, Ven. Maha Moggallana, who would continue to teach them and bring them to full enlightenment. (One has to think the same set up was happening with the female monastics, first taught by Ven. Khema, a great disciple, a chief disciple, the female disciple declared foremost in wisdom by the Buddha, then passed on to Ven. Uppalavanna, who brought nuns to full enlightenment just as Ven. Maha Moggallana did for monks). This is almost certainly why the Buddha had four chief monastic disciples helping him train and enlighten tens of thousands of people he met and countless devas most could not see but some could).
  74. Q: Like, what happened to that monk, like, did he get angry?
  75. He doesn't get angry? We'll see.
  76. WQ: Oh, the friend stood in the bushes by the path where Ven. Sariputta passed every morning on his way for alms. We he passed, the man stepped out behind him and punched him in the back of the head as hard as he could then was amazed when he heard Ven. Sariputta look up -- without turning around to see who hit him -- and exclaim, "I wonder what that was" as he continued on his way. The man, startled, started to burn up with remorse, in disbelief that this monk really didn't get angry or want to know who or what hit him or why, and didn't want retaliation, revenge, or even to criticize or condemn. He begged the monk's forgiveness, and Ven. Sariputta freely gave it. But the humans who saw him do it were not going to let it go. They moved in to apprehend him to drag him off to the king to request a death sentence for such a [blank] who would hit an innocent monk who wasn't hurting anyone. The man said he felt bad, and had apologized, and his apology had been accepted, and that he didn't want to be reported to the king and punished, certainly not beheaded. It was just an experiment. But the people were furious and were not going to let this matter go, they were not going to drop it, and they were forcibly going to drag him before the king that very day and see to it that the king imposed the higher punishment of death as the mob grabbed him. Ven. Sariputta had to intervene on the man's behalf to save him from the mob, allaying their anger and telling them everything was all right and that the man who hit him was fine with no need for anyone to do anything. The man was astonished. The monk he just punched as hard as he could was doing everything he could to calm the mob that would surely have him destroyed, because no doubt the king would sentence him to death over the mob's testimony.
  77. Q: Wow, like, did that really happen?
  78. WQ: It is written so I assume so. The question is, Do you think enlightened Ven. Sariputta got angry?
  79. Q: Not, like, if he didn't look back. Anybody would have immediately swerved around to look back and see what was happening just to save their lives. Do you think he did?
  80. WQ: I don't think so, even though he was human and had human emotions. Now he had superhuman positive responses to override human habits of reacting because the Buddha had taught him and the others The Parable of the Saw, a short sutra on how to respond if someone is hurting you.
  81. Q: How, like, run?
  82. WQ: That's a good idea. But, you know, if you run and get away from the immediate danger, you won't have outrun the feeling, the emotions, the anger over what happened to you, how unfair it was, how the person got away with it...
  83. Q: Yeah, like, there's that. What about that?
  84. Let's cut this one from limb to limb.
    WQ: The Parable of the Saw starts with a question. If someone hurt you, would you get upset -- angry, vengeful, want to strike back, want to force them to stop or not be able to do the same thing to someone else? It might cause you a lot of grief thinking like that, "He hurt me, he wronged me!" With thoughts like that, you're going to be upset and feel a lot of aversion for a long time. That's why it's a good remedy to bring The Parable of the Saw to mind again and again. Forgive (practice khanti, forbearance, tolerance) over and over, every time the feeling comes up. It's not nearly enough to forgive once and think that it's all gone. There's lots of residual, and new feelings of nonforgiveness are bound to arise many, many times. Unless we forgive and forgive again, our reaction to that one act will ruin is over and over again.
  85. Q: Like, what's the parable?
  86. WQ: Imagine someone comes up to you, grabs you, and starts cutting you limb from limb with a two-handled saw. If you were, toward that person doing it, to vent or give rise to thoughts of anger or revenge, you would not be following the Buddha's teaching on metta, "boundless friendliness." Even toward that person doing that at that time, you should cultivate thoughts of loving-kindness/
  87. Q: Like, will that save you?!
  88. WQ: It depends what we mean by "save."
  89. Q: C'mon, man, quit yanking me. Like, will you live doing that?
  90. WQ: You might not. I guess you were right. You should run. But if they catch you, stay friendly and kind. Cultivate sympathy, love, agape, concern, and interest in their welfare. Then, in that sense, what harm can they do you? They can't ruin you. Even though they take this body, cause this pain, commit this great injustice, you will not be disturbed if you have been following the Buddha's advice.
  91. Q: Like, but that takes practice.
  92. WQ: Practice.
  93. Q: Like, but how much practice?
  94. WQ: I don't know, but we should wait until it happens, right? When someone grabs you, holds you down, pulls out the saw, punches you in the back of the head by surprise, THAT'S when you should start practicing for the day someone might insult you.
  95. Q: Huh? Like, are you serious?
  96. WQ: No. It won't work then. What's the chance that never having practiced patience, forbearance, tolerance, boundless friendliness, and forgiveness you're going to be able to start when you're being accosted, assaulted, or threatened?
  97. Q: Like, not much.
  98. What, I get to choose between the two of you?
    WQ: Not much is right. None at all probably. So the time to practice is NOW. There's only now. There's ALWAYS only now. There is no other time. The past doesn't exist. The future doesn't exist. Look at your watch. What time is it? NOW. That's the only time it ever is. And if it ever happens those axe-, I mean saw-murderers come for you, you're ready. Now, it's not likely they will ever come. BUT, what do you think, if we practiced that way, that even for the sake of being sawed into pieces, we wouldn't allow ourselves to get angry or vent or give rise even to thoughts of revenge, what would happen if someone verbally assaulted us, insulted us, said something offensive? Could we bear it?
  99. Q: Hah, like, compared to being cut up, what are mere words?
  100. WQ: Right. Maybe the Buddha was onto something with this crazy teaching in this parable.
  101. Q: I think, like, he meant it.
  102. WQ: Yes, of course, but what's more likely to happen, that someone punches us or holds us down and saws us to pieces?
  103. Q: Like punches us.
  104. WQ: Not like punches us. Actually punches us. Even that's not likely to happen. But you know what is? Insults, verbal and mental. Someone's staring at us, giving us a hard look, the Evil Eye, smirking, puffing his chest...think you could handle that?
  105. Q: Of course, like, he didn't even do anything. He didn't even say anything. He's just thinking or using sign language or telepathy. Who cares about that?
  106. WQ: Well, you know, that's how it happens most of the time. And sometimes words get used. "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words?" Thoughts? It'll be easy not to get mad IF?
  107. Q: If, like, it just stays at thoughts?
  108. WQ: No, even if it escalates to full on weaponized violence IF we practice.
  109. Q: Oh yeah, like, I forgot. If we practice.
  110. WQ:  When's that?
  111. Q: Like, later on?
  112. WQ: When?
  113. Q: Like in a little while?
  114. When I practice, anger doesn't arise to begin with.
    WQ: Oh, I was thinking now because "later on" and "in a little while" do not exist right now. They might exist or come into existence at some time. We only have control of ourselves right NOW. And if we do it now, we're likely to have control of ourselves at other times. Yeah?
  115. Q: Like, yeah. No, not like, for sure. Yeah.
  116. WQ: I like that. There's a short booklet about it called Positive Response: How to Meet Evil with Good by Acharya Buddharakkhita.
SELF-IMMOLATION: Though Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc made a decision to protest the imperial US War on Vietnam, and it was a bad choice, yet he remained calm and unperturbed during this act of ritual suicide. Why? The US is the greatest purveyor of war in the world, as MLK told us. HOW? Because he does not identify with the pain, nor cling to this body nor to any feelings, pleasant or unpleasant, nor to any idea of "self," he can endure without complaint. He seems deep in meditative absorption (jhana), guaranteeing a good rebirth outcome if he is not yet liberated, in which case he is already free of all rebirth and suffering.