Showing posts with label buddhist view of heaven. Show all posts
Showing posts with label buddhist view of heaven. Show all posts

Saturday, November 1, 2025

Journey into the Heart (Thich Nhat Hanh)


Thich Nhat Hanh – A Journey into the Heart of Buddhism | SLICE WHO
(SLICE Who?) Oct. 27, 2025: In this rare and intimate interview, Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh (Thai) shares his vision of Buddhism as a living practice of freedom. Speaking softly yet profoundly, he explains how meditation, awareness, and compassion can transform suffering into peace.

Documentary: Interview Thich Nhat Hanh. Production: Productions Campagne Premiere. ABOUT:  Curious about everything, an expert in nothing? Accessible anytime, anywhere, SLICE is a weekly dose of short documentaries. A slice of history, science, ecology, or architecture, to discover amusing anecdotes, inventions, unusual stories, bizarre, entertaining, and instructive. Be smart, have a SLICE! Follow 👇 Facebook: slicedocsfr. Instagram: slicedocs. #documentary #freedocumentary #world #travel #doc #celebrities #history #figures #biography #news #buddhism #zenmaster #liberty #peace

Friday, May 10, 2024

'No way' strange videos. Heralding trumpets?


Biblical goings on? Why are "trumpets" being heard coming from the heavens (skies)? Some say they're coming from underground. What are the extraterrestrials (angels?) up to now, or are the sounds emanating from something more sinister (demons, DUMBs - deep underground military bases)? Why are they being heard and being recorded more now than before?

"No way" videos that are shaking the Internet
(THAT IS IMPOSSIBLE) Feb. 4, 2024: A mysterious phenomenon is caught on camera in different places, but no one knows what it is or where it's coming from. Could it be "the hum" or the Oakville Blobs?

To make things even stranger and creepier, mysterious monster-like footprints are showing up in people's backyards band they seem to disappear out of nowhere. Bigfoot? Skinwalkers? Let's find out. From creepy jelly like blobs falling from the sky to unexplained glitches in the matrix, this video analyzes the creepiest unexplained videos shaking the internet.

Welcome to the Impossible channel where James LaFleur analyzes the creepiest and the most mind-blowing videos for entertainment.

Thursday, October 13, 2022

Rebirth: Dr. Eben Alexander's afterlife (video)


Goosebumps: Dr. Eben Alexander on the afterlife
Proof of Heaven: Journey into the Afterlife
(T&H - Inspiration & Motivation) April 4, 2022. Neurosurgeon Dr. Alexander, MD, provides powerful and profound stories on death, the afterlife, and the near-death experience. Featuring Dr. Eben Alexander, author of Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife.

“My experience showed me that the death of the body and the brain are not the end of consciousness, that human experience continues beyond the grave.” ― Dr. Eben Alexander

Dr. Eben Alexander (ebenalexander.com, TwitterWikipediaAmazon).

Interviewed by Pastor Randy Phillips. Produced and edited by T&H Inspiration (Mindset App: link.mindsetapp.com/THMotivationInstagram, Facebook, PodcastYouTube). #Afterlife #Goosebumps #T&HInspiration

ABOUT: T&H Inspiration is on a mission to share inspiring wisdom. The goal is to have one pause, think, and reflect. Many of these videos revolve around the extraordinary teachings of Alan Watts produced with permission from the Alan Watts Electronic University. T&H also films and releases original interviews with iconic people who have experienced successes, while also persevering through life's highs and lows. T&H looks forward to sharing more of these perspectives and insights. Its hope with these videos is to push thinking. As Alan Watts said, “No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: He is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.”

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Flying over the Earth (video)

Time-lapse from the Int'l Space Station as it orbits the planet at night (

It begins over the Pacific Ocean and continues over North and South America before entering daylight near Antarctica. Visible cities, countries, and landmarks include (in order):

Vancouver Island, Victoria, Vancouver, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Phoenix, cities in Texas, New Mexico, and Mexico including Mexico City and the Gulf of Mexico and the Yucatan Peninsula, El Salvador, lightning over the Pacific Ocean, Guatemala, Panama, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Lake Titicaca, and the Amazon.

"The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart" - fake Buddha quote

Also visible is the Earth's ionosphere (thin yellow line), a satellite (at 55 seconds), and galactic stars. Smooth version, 25 FPS version, raw data was downloaded from The Gateway To Astronaut Photography of Earth. Virtualdub was used to create the final movie. More beautiful images of the universe at infinity-imagined.tumblr.com. How big is the universe?

Saturday, May 21, 2011

"OM" - Flying Over the Himalayas (film)


("OM" )

"Worldly fools search for exotic masters, not realizing that their own mind is the master" (Bodhidharma).

"I haven't got any Buddhism. I live by letting things happen" (Dogen).

"If you wish to find the Buddha, first you must look into your own mind; outside of the mind, there is no Buddha" (Hakuin).

"Our Buddha-nature is there from the very beginning. It is like the sun emerging from behind clouds. It is like a mirror that reflects perfectly when it is wiped clean... and returned to its original clarity" (Ho-Shan).

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Int'l Space Station: the view from space

A glimpse from the International Space Station (ISS) looking at the Earth all terrestrial beings share. From space it's hard to tell there is chronic low-level conflict in Asia, the Middle East, and Africa thanks to the military-industrial complex that profits from exploiting the sentiments and resources of ethnic groups and the greed, aversion, delusion, and fear of individuals. Time on Earth is passing as this year compacted into 40 seconds reveals:

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Heaven in an Hour

It is possible to reach a "heavenly" state, literally a celestial world, in an hour of meditation. There are, of course, the Brahma Viharas. However, these peaceful states are like heaven (i.e., the Brahma lokas). It is possible to literally ascend -- even bodily -- to deva and brahma worlds. Serenity meditation is the key.

Therefore, there is no need for "faith" (blind allegiance) in the existence of these other worlds. By personal experience one comes to develop a deep reservoir of conviction that they really exist. The only "faith" (in Buddhist terms, saddha) one needs is just enough to investigate, to inquire, to implement the practice that leads to this experience.

These worlds are not as most religions explain them. They are in no way perfect, nor is the morality there completely skillful, nor is it bliss 24/7. It would be more accurate to understand the lower deva worlds as the ancient Greeks understood them, and the brahma worlds to some extent as the ancient Hindus explained them. Most significantly, though life on these planes is extremely long by human standards, it in no way approaches immortality, infinity, or in most cases even the lapse of a single great eon (maha-kalpa).
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While there is no need to believe in anything one cannot see, literally seeing is possible. Whether the correct effort is made to do so depends on oneself. Ultimately, "no one can save another." Others can help, but no one can do it for someone else. Others can even pull one out of a woeful state (a hell). But ultimate liberation depends on a yin yang of two things -- the balance of effort and allowing. The Dharma only points the way.
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PHOTOS
1. an earthly spa (AP)
2. up to heaven (slog.thestranger.com)
3. new heaven new earth (andrewcorbett.com)