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Buddhism explained with an Irish accent

Well, don't that beat all? Tuatha Dé Danann, I tink that's brilliant, always been partial to Booda.

(Cognito) Irish brogue/Gaelic accented "BUDDHISM EXPLAINED"

What's the Irish version of Buddhism?

We are the Tuatha Dé Danann

Buddhism is the THIRD largest religion in the world when we restored the 1 billion Buddhists in China the communist regime refuses to count since communism is officially atheist and insists party member comply.

Nearly all Chinese Buddhists follow three blended traditions (Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism) and now have to mix those with a communist version of capitalism). The country's regime is trying to supplant religion with this new capitalist-friendly communism and a nanny state with mass surveillance, bringing the actual total number of Buddhists to more than 1.5 billion. That makes Buddhism the third largest missionary (universalist) "world religion."

Good thing we in US are not spied on

(The Young Turks) What the FLOCK (AI-driven camera system)?

Catholicism is the biggest religion in the world. Combining its total with Protestantism and Eastern Orthodoxy, and many strange sects and post schismatic traditions, Christianity has the most nominal adherents.

Islam is said to be growing but is already the second biggest world religion, having gone from place to place by the sword, just as Christianity used to do with imperial crusades, ethnic cleansings, and forced conversions.

Buddhism is the original missionary tradition, but neither then nor now is it out to convert anybody away from their faith. Exposing them to the Teachings of the Awakened One capable of curing suffering and making people better at adhering to their beliefs and practices, it has been most welcome.

Why? Just as in the Buddha's time, the Buddha's Dharma ("Doctrine") is not actually a "religion." But the West treats all daily activities and beliefs as "religious" systems when, since the time Sumer, Greater Egypt, and the very advanced Indus Valley Civilization held sway, what we now call "religion" was just the collective daily habits and somewhat superstitious customs of whole societies that made little to no distinction between ordinary life and spirituality.

Buddhism in Celtic Britain and Ireland before Christianity?

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Buddhism in Celtic areas?

Transcultural Buddhism: Celtic Buddhism in pre-Christian Britain

The first Western Buddhist convert to become a monk was Irish

British forces arrival in Mandalay, Burma, in 1885: U Dhammaloka (wiki)

Irish Burmese Theravada Buddhist monk Ven. Dhammaloka in 1902, age approximately 50

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The Irish Buddhist: Forgotten Monk

His name was Venerable (U) Dhammaloka (born Laurence Carroll in the 1850s) from Boostertown, Dublin County, Ireland.

He reportedly gave at least five names for himself, including Laurence O'Rourke and William Colvin [2]. On occasion he used the nom de plume "Captain Daylight."

It is accepted that he was Irish, almost certainly born in Dublin in the 1850s, and emigrated to the United States, possibly via Liverpool. More

Celtic Buddhism, a new lineage

celticbuddhism.org

Welcome to CelticBuddhism.org, a site of benefit and inspiration to those who enter and proceed on the path of Dharma.

The lineage of Celtic Buddhism was suggested in the 1970s during a conversation between the renowned [and abusive, scandal-ridden, Shambhala] Tibetan lama Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche and his student John Perks. The actual development is the result of the mixing of their minds.

What would an Irish Buddhist do?

The lineage was formally incorporated as a non-profit in 1989, when it took on official status. After meeting for years in rented rooms, Venerable Seonaidh Perks established the Anadaire Celtic Buddhist Center on 11 acres in Saxtons River, Vermont, where the sangha ("spiritual community") erected a stone circle that has aided in increasing and focusing energies for transformation.

Sangha members are encouraged to establish a daily meditation practice. Practices range from a host of traditional Tibetan [Vajrayana] Buddhist practices to the more contemporary practices of the Celtic Fire visualization and working with the mandala of the Celtic cross. We also encourage integrating everyday practices in art, music, healing through various modalities -- including animals, and in the world of business.

As a group, some members have gone on yearly retreats to Maine (USA) or to further connect with latent Celtic energies to Ireland and Scotland. One member has delved into thangka painting to explore the emerging Celtic Buddhist mandala.

In March 2010, we celebrated the ordination of Sister Griffin as abbess of Glen Ard Abbey, a newly formed Celtic Buddhist monastery. More: celticbuddhism.org

• Dhr. Seven, Pat Macpherson, Amber Larson (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Sports: first World Cup rooting for England

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(Thogden) The moment England's soccer team knocks Mexico out of the 2026 World Cup

(StuntPegg) My first time watching and cheering for my nation at a World Cup game

United States loses to Belgium

(FOX Sports) USA vs. Belgium Highlights 🌎🏆 2026 FIFA World Cup™ | Round of 16

England beats Mexico (two nations mourn)

(NBCLA) "So heartbreaking": Mexico fans in Los Angeles react to loss against England

Expert Trump jinxes everything he touches

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The Daily Show celebrates 250 years of America, and Maybe 250 more?

(FOX One) Fifa World Cup Round of 32: France vs. Sweden

The giants of Tartarian army erased

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First female 'Pope' for Church of England

Anglican leader: the Archbishop of Canterbury

A historic shift: Sarah Mullally becomes first female head of the Church of England

Don't spoil this for us, Sinead!

Right Honorable Dame Sarah Mullally has‌ broken barriers, ascending to the position of [the 106th] archbishop of Canterbury. This momentous ⁢appointment, announced on October 3rd, marks a pivotal turning point for the Church of England ⁣and​ the wider Anglican Communion.

Don't think of me as a woman!

She is the 106th individual to hold this esteemed⁣ role and, significantly, she is the first ‍woman to lead the⁣ church established nearly 500 years ago.

The Church of England’s origins trace back to 1534, when King Charles VIII sought to circumvent the ⁤[Roman Catholic] Pope’s refusal to annul‌ his marriage to Catherine of Aragon [who due to him would not bear him a male heir].

• We say "Pope," but the official Church says she's the "ceremonial head" or primus inter pares, "first among equals.

This act fundamentally reshaped the religious landscape ⁣of England ⁤and now, centuries​ later, ‌it’s experiencing another profound transformation.

Rome still rules the world with its pope.

[Pope] Mullally, 63, was a leading⁤ contender to succeed Justin Welby, who stepped down in November 2024. Her reputation as⁤ a highly capable administrator undoubtedly played a key role in her ⁣selection. 

• Sarah Mullally confirmed as first female archbishop of Canterbury
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The Selection Process: An Intentional Path

What Brits need is more pomp 'n circumstance.

The Crown Nominations Commission, responsible for filling the Church of England’s most senior positions, chose Mullally. This commission⁤ comprises prominent bishops‍ and archbishops, and⁣ its process differs significantly‌ from the papal​ conclaves⁣ of the [Roman] Catholic Church. Here’s ‍a breakdown of how the selection unfolds:

• Extensive⁣ Consultation: The Commission engages in months of thorough discussions and evaluations.
• Rigorous review: Candidates are assessed on ⁤their theological understanding, leadership skills, and administrative experience.
• Governmental Approval: Ultimately, the⁣ chosen nominee ‌requires validation from both the [UK] Prime Minister [Keir Starmer] and the King of England [Charles III], reflecting ⁣the Church of England’s‌ status as the state religion.

I’ve found that this deliberate, multi-layered process underscores the gravity of the Archbishop of Canterbury's

position and the importance of selecting a ⁣leader equipped to navigate the challenges and opportunities facing the church today. More

"Sarah Mullally: First Female Bishop of England Faces Abuse Scandal Challenge"

Sinead O'Connor rips into the Pope on live TV (SNL)

• Business Editor Olivia Bennett, world-today-journal.com, Oct. 3, 2025; Ashley Wells, Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Wisdom Quarterly

Ireland's prehistoric site, Europe's largest?

We've more and older archeology than England?

It seems that ancient Irish tales of "hollow hills" (underground caverns in mountains, as in Grieg's "In the Hall of the Mountain King" where ogres and supernatural beings dwell) are true. There are hillforts throughout the Emerald Isle. And the largest ever found in Northern Europe has just been uncovered, and it's massive.

Ireland discovery: the largest site ever

What, our pre-Christian roots go way back?

A vast prehistoric settlement hidden in the hills of County Wicklow is forcing archaeologists to rethink how people lived in Ireland more than 2,700 years ago.

What began as a closer look at a single hillfort has revealed a sprawling complex of ramparts, houses, and enclosures that specialists now say may be the largest clustered village ever identified in Ireland and Britain.

The scale of the discovery, and the suggestion that it could be the biggest prehistoric site of its kind in Northern Europe, is already reshaping debates about when urban-style living first emerged on the Atlantic edge of the continent.

We Irish Paddies stand with Palestinians!

The Wicklow hill that turned into a mega‑site

Baltinglass hillfort archeological site (monumentalireland.ie)

The story starts with a familiar landmark in the Irish landscape, a hillfort in Baltinglass that locals have long known as a dramatic feature above the County Wicklow countryside.

Archaeologists had catalogued it as one of several prominent fortified sites in the region, but new survey work has shown that the hilltop is only the core of a much larger complex.

What once looked like a single enclosure now appears to sit within a dense cluster of prehistoric houses and additional earthworks that extend across the slopes and surrounding ridges. More

• Cassian Holt, Morning Overview via MSN (msn.com/AA1Ts3), Jan. 2, 2026; Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Stained Glass Ceiling broken by woman

After 105 males, Sarah Mullally named as new Archbishop of Canterbury | BBC News

Dame Sarah Mullally named as new Archbishop of Canterbury | BBC News

(BBC News) Oct. 3, 2025: Dame Sarah Mullally is set to become the first female Archbishop of Canterbury in the Church of England's history. A former NHS chief nurse, the 63-year-old became a priest in 2006 and was appointed as the first female Bishop of London in 2018 -- the third most senior member of clergy in the Church of England.

The Anglican Communion is active in 160 countries, Church of England

(The Independent) Live: First ever female Archbishop of Canterbury Mullally

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(Bad Religion) Neighbors..."The Voice of God is Government"

It is the first time in nearly 500 years of history that the Church nominated a woman to lead it. The Church had been without someone in the top job for almost a year, after Justin Welby resigned over his failure to report a prolific child abuser.

Subscribe: http://bit.ly/1rbfUog. For more news, analysis, and features visit: bbc.com/news.    #Religion #ArchbishopOfCanterbury #BBCNews #Religion #ArchbishopOfCanterbury #BBCNews

When black metal goes Black (Overthrust)

Overthrust is an African four-piece death metal band from Ghanzi, Botswana. More

It's good, guys, but a little faster like this maybe

• Coolea, An Ignorant Guide to Death Metal; Ali White on Botswana's Overthrust (Earth House); Seth Auberon, Pfc. Sandoval (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Kneecap: LIVE at Glastonbury 2025

• The Gig Nerd! live at Glastonbury, Saturday, June 28, 2025, 4:00 pm; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

Winter Solstice: The Sun is Reborn

Maybe visiting Newgrange in Ireland or Adam's Calendar in Africa would be better.

The Irish Winter Solstice: A Journey through Time and Spirituality

Happy Solstice wishes

It's interesting that the most recent full moon was the most northerly Luna (Soma, Chandra) ever gets and that at this time it seems to pause in the sky, beckoning us to pause and reflect. Winter is like that, a time for rest and wise reflection. The light is reborn and continues to increase throughout the year. Urth (Bhumi, Tierra, Earth) has rhythms that though the Church has tried to obscure them are still there to notice and sync up with. The Moon is a clock and a calendar, the Sun a guide. There is rhythm to the seasons and an orderliness to Nature. If we ever pause to notice, we may see that things are okay. We have been made to worry by thinking and fretting, projecting into the future, but when we reflect on the now, everything is instantly okay. This is the meaning of mindfulness, to bring ourselves fully into the present. Things unfold. They work themselves out. We have our duties. And why would we be anywhere when we can be here now?

Ceremony takes place at Stonehenge to mark winter solstice 2024: Watch live

(Sky News) Streamed live. Happy first day of winter. Thousands of people are celebrating the winter solstice, one of the rare occasions visitors can touch the great stones, at Stonehenge. It means from tomorrow (Dec. 22), days will start to get a little longer again. #Stonehenge #Winter #Sunrise

☀️ Is the winter solstice still important today?

The Irish Winter Solstice: A Journey through Time and Spirituality

(𝕴𝖗𝖎𝖘𝖍 𝕻𝖆𝖌𝖆𝖓 𝕮𝖔𝖗𝕶) Premiered Dec. 7, 2024: BLARNEY ROAD The Winter Solstice, marking the shortest day and longest night of the year, has held profound significance for the people of Ireland for millennia. This pivotal moment in the solar calendar was a time of great anticipation and reverence for early societies who lived in harmony with the natural world. In Ireland, this relationship with the solstice is perhaps most vividly preserved in the ancient monuments built to honor it, such as Newgrange in the Boyne Valley. These structures, with their precise alignments to the sun, reveal the extraordinary astronomical knowledge and spiritual depth of Ireland’s early inhabitants. For these ancient communities, the solstice symbolized the cyclical nature of life, marking the transition from darkness to light and the promise of renewal in the year ahead. Over time, this observance evolved, with Bronze Age and Iron Age societies incorporating the event into their spiritual and agricultural practices, while stone circles like Drombeg in County Cork and Dromnagorteen at the Cork/Kerry border continued to highlight the connection between humanity and the cosmos. The Winter Solstice is not just an ancient relic of the past; it is a living tradition that has woven itself into the fabric of Irish culture, spirituality, and identity, remaining an awe-inspiring moment of cosmic alignment and human reflection.

Oldest forest in the world found in UK

Not long ago, Cairo NY was oldest

A groundbreaking chance discovery in southwest England in the Hangman Sandstone Formation revealed the world's oldest fossilized forest. Dating back 390 million years, these ancient trees help grow our knowledge of early ecosystems and how we believe forests developed during the Middle Devonian period.

• This just in! 22-million-year-old forest and new species discovered on remote island in Panama And there's a tree in Chile, Alerce Milenario or "Gran Abuelo," the oldest alive, or is it? List of oldest trees in this world

With trees similar to tiny palms and evidence of extinct arthropods, this fossil overshadows previous assumptions about the growing pains of our world's forests. More: 390-million-year-old fossilized forest unearthed in England's backyard – Earth's oldest ever!

• Animals Around The Globe via MSN, 9/4/24; Kelly Ani, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Stonehenge altar stone from Scotland

Nick Pearce analyzes Neolithic standing stones in Orkney

Remarkable new scientific research at Stonehenge has revealed an extraordinary new mystery. Mineralogical tests on the massive six-tonne stone at the heart of the monument show that this central rock, known as the altar stone, was brought to Stonehenge from the far north of Scotland.

• [The greatest disappointment when visiting Stonehenge is that there is a sign along the walkway from the car park to the stones that explains that the stones were adjusted for millennia. So it is not as if some group, human or extraterrestrial, knew what it was meant to be and do (as a calendar) and did it. It has been adjusted all along, perhaps never more than about 50 years ago when cranes and modern equipment were brought in to lift fallen stones and place them just so. What we have today is what was recently created from stones that had laid around in a fallen state for who knows how long. The use of cranes was not a secret when it was happening, but it sure seems to be one now. Most people have no idea of the modern interference.]

The altar stone is arguably the most ritually important stone in Stonehenge, because it is the rock that marks the intersection of the prehistoric temple’s two most important celestial alignments – the winter solstice sunrise to summer solstice sunset alignment, and the summer solstice sunrise to winter solstice sunset alignment.

It’s already known that some of the monument’s smaller stones were brought to the site from southwest Wales, around 120 miles away. But moving a rock from northern mainland Scotland or Orkney would have involved a journey of well over 500 miles.

The discovery has huge implications and is likely to transform archaeologists’ perceptions around key aspects of life in prehistoric Britain.

Up to now, most scholars have assumed that British Neolithic society was exclusively local or regional (based on tribal, clan or similar identities), but the newly discovered Stonehenge-Scotland link, when combined with the Welsh origin of some of the Stonehenge stones, suggests that there might also have been a pan-British aspect to how Neolithic Britons lived.

• PHOTO: Aberystwyth University geologist Nick Pearce analyzes Neolithic standing stones in Orkney (Prof. Richard Bevins, Aberystwyth University)

Protest the environment with cornstarch.

The newly revealed Scottish link implies that 4,500 years ago, there was already at least some political and religious cooperation across Britain. That’s because the Neolithic people who transported the six-tonne rock from northern Scotland or Orkney to southern England must have known that Stonehenge existed, that it was being expanded, and precisely what shape and size of giant rock was required.

That suggests geopolitical cooperation, or even some religious commonality. More: Mystery of Stonehenge deepens after ‘jaw-dropping’ discovery

• Human remains of over 177 individuals dating back 8,000 years unearthed from Florida bog
• David Keys, The Independent, Aug. 15, 2024; Pat Macpherson, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Elections: UK vs. US (Last Week Tonight)

(Family Guy) WARNING: What it's really like to live in the USA, only Seth MacFarlane will say.

UK Elections: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

(LastWeekTonight) June 27, 2024: John Oliver discusses the UK elections, who’s running, why people are so upset with the Tories (British PM Rishi Sunak and the Conservatives), and the happiest surgeon in all of Lithuania.

Catching up with fiery AOC

Australian conservatives for Trump attack American AOC, pro-Gaza speaker

at a Democratic rally in the Bronx in another edition of "Lefties Losing It"

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• John Oliver, Last Week Tonight (HBO); Ms. Panahi, Sky News Australia; Scared Ketchup; Seth Auberon, Pfc. Sandoval (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Secret mystery sites were hidden (video)

Can this be right? Who would believe it?

(Paul Cook) Premiered June 8, 2024: 🐅 Easy, Tigers.🐅 🧐😎 Now, let us see a place that does not fit any narrative. Is it a Flinstones' world? [Does anyone fall for the Mandela Effect respelling of the cartoon's name?] 😎🤠Just as in mysterious Malta, one comes across some megalithic sites with scratch marks, blocked up passages, and other golden nuggets like geopolymer everywhere in these buried Old World complexes. ☮️ There is lots to learn in this video. 

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