China's odd, modern, and mostly empty

(Real Life Nations) This is what life is really like in China today -- How do women actually live, and what are they hiding?

• Buddhism in China
• Religion in China: Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism
• Chinese Buddhism
• East Asian Buddhism
• Esoteric Vajrayana Buddhism
• Nezha: The protection deity
• East Asian Mādhyamaka

How China saved the world (last month)

(Max Fisher) China quietly saved the world last month

• Buddhism in China: the religion of more than a billion people, who blend it with Taoism, Confucianism (Three Teachings), and ancient shamanic Chinese folk religion

Tao of Not Trying: Alan Watts, Lao Tzu, B Wen

(After Skool) Taoism Founder Lao Tzu on Art of Not Trying

Care about what they all think, prisoner?

Wu wei (Chinese 無為, simplified Chinese 无为, Pinyin wúwéi) is a concept [popular in Zen Buddhism] from ancient Chinese philosophy that literally means "not-acting" or "non-doing," variously interpreted and translated as actionlessness, inaction, or effortless action [1, 2].

• Is it the "flow state" in Western psychology?

If I were Zen, would I thereby be a Taoist, too?

In Taoism, it denotes the nature of Tao, meaning that while the Tao (the way, path, or flow of nature) is the source of all existence and manifestation of all phenomena, its intrinsic formless essence is that it acts or moves in a silent, invisible, ineffable, often-unnoticed manner that may even seem motionless and effortless [3, 4, 5, 6, 7].

Accordingly, Taoists aspire to live their lives in alignment with such a harmonious state of free flowing and unforced activity.

In a political context, it also refers to an ideal form or principle of spontaneous and non-aggressive governance [8]. More

The Path of Least Resistance

(Benebell Wen) Ziran (The Taoist Path of Least Resistance)

Let nature reign and all will be well?

Ziran (Romanized tzu-jan) is a key concept in Taoism and East Asian Buddhism. It literally means "of its own" or "by itself" and therefore "naturally; natural; spontaneously; freely; in the course of events; of course; doubtlessly" [1, 2].

ETYMOLOGY: This Chinese word is a two-character compound of zì (自, "self," "oneself," "from," "since") and rán (然, "right," "correct," "so," "yes"), which is used as a -ran suffix marking adjectives or adverbs (roughly corresponding to English -ly).

What is the most intelligent response? Flow

According to the Shuo Wen lexicon, the character 自 zi means "nose" [one's nose, oneself when not interfered with by outside influences.] In Chinese culture, the nose (or zi) is a common metaphor for a person's own point of view [3]. More

Alan Watts, what's the Philosophy of the Tao?

Alan Watts – Philosophy of the Tao, Pt.1 | Flow, Balance, and the Course of Nature (full talk)

• Pantheon of Taoist Gods (Tao.org)

A decolonized intro to Taoism

(Benebell Wen) Taoism: A Decolonized Introduction

Succession? Dalai Lama turns 90 Sunday

I'll be back. I'll return. And it won't be like Saint Issa who said he would have second coming.

(DW) The 14th Dalai Lama affirms he will have a successor after his next death and rebirth

(Al Jazeera) How will the next (15th) Dalai Lama be chosen, who could it be? Will he return?

He may return as a "hot" female as he has said.

Who is the Dalai Lama? He turns 90 next Sunday, on July 6th, 2025. Only John Oliver (Last Week Tonight) has been able to get to the bottom of it. Why do Americans and most of the world (other than China) love him? He got to the bottom of that. The Dalai Lama is the alleged 14th reincarnation (rebirth) of a transformed Vedic Hindu deity named Avalokiteshvara (manifesting as the female deity Chenrezig, Guanyin, Kwannon, Kwan Yin). It's not that there have been 13 previous Dalai Lamas so much as the same one coming back, but not a Buddhist messiah figure. That messiah is Maitreya, the Buddha of the future.

Past life memories are not so unusual. We can remember

How will the next Dalai Lama be chosen – and who could it be?

(Al Jazeera English) July 2, 2025: The Dalai Lama has told followers that the role, that he embodies, will continue after his death. In a video message to a religious gathering in northern India he added that the search for a future Dalai Lama would be carried out in accordance with tradition. That's at odds with China's assertion it should choose the next Dalai Lama. Tibetan Buddhists believe the Dalai Lama is reincarnated into the body of a child. Al Jazeera’s Rob McBride reports on the succession process. Tibetan writer and activist Tenzin Tsundue says the Dalai Lama's statement cuts China out of the process to choose a successor.

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Trump: The problem is being dumb

(ABC News) Racist American teen kills parents in extremist plot to assassinate Trump: FBI

Time to ban bi TikTok? (Last Week Tonight)

TikTok Ban: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

(LastWeekTonight) Nov. 21, 2024: John Oliver discusses the looming TikTok ban in the U.S., what some potential motivations behind it could be and, most importantly, the fact that you ARE bisexual. Yeah, you. [Are you a fan of Ryan Seacrest? Gay, completely gay, and if a female, at least bi or LGBTQIA+.]

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Did Jewish-Buddhist rapper reinvent Hip-Hop?

I. Rony, Sheldon S., Ashley Wells (ed.), Wisdom Quarterly; Run DMC; Beastie Boys

His Holiness MCA with the 14th Dalai Lama, who was very happy American Adam cared.

White Folk Can't Jump

Mad respect to our Bodhisattva MCA

Man, why H*nkies gotta be stealin' everything da Black man makes? Now, hear me out! There was rock 'n' roll. That was Big Mama Thornton, nah. Hold up, wait-a-minute, not Big Mama. That was Sister Rosetta Tharpe's invention. She electrified her gheetar and rocked. She invented that. Brother Jimi Hendrix, he picked up where she left off. Then them British blokes picked up on the Blues and gave us the British Invasion. That's all it was, blues on electrified guitars. They'll tell'ya that. Jazz, don't even get me started on that shiznit. Blacks invented street dancing!

H*nkies just took that right up like street B-Ball. Everyone knows White Men Can't Jump. Now, check it. Da Bronx, da Seventies, who began to mix, lay the beat and rap over it like an MC? Who brought two turntables and a microphone to the block parties? One of the JuBu Beastie Boys? Maybe. Maybe not. Mad respect anyway, Man. RIP, Adam (MCA) Y.

Executed for too much dating in China (video)

Winston (SerpentZA), May 9, 2023; CC Liu, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Executed for sleeping around in China

How many guys is too many?

(Serpentza) Why did the Chinese government execute this sexy young woman? She had too many boyfriends. She wasn't cheating with them at the same time ("double dating" or adultery in the West, which formerly incurred the death sentence in Christian Europe society), but just dating and sleeping around like a freedom-loving adult.

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• VIDEO: I was a bodyguard for a Chinese celebrity rapist
• Sex trafficking is a giant US problem (Sound of Freedom)

Who is it I'm living to please?

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Dating Chinese people is tough. They cheat. It's about money and utility.

I'm U.S. born so I get to party!

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Daily Show w/Chelsea Handler: China's balloon

Biden murders a Chinese weather/spy balloon & Marjorie Taylor Greene hates her job

(The Daily Show) Feb. 6, 2023. Chelsea Handler tackles the latest news, including a Chinese spy balloon getting shot down in South Carolina, Marjorie Taylor Greene complaining about her job, George Santos being accused of sexually harassing and groping a male aide, and Mount Washington being reportedly colder than Mars. #DailyShow #Comedy

US military shoots down China's balloon (SNL)

"Saturday Night Live" kicked off by spoofing latest suspected threat to national security: a balloon

USA spies on its citizens with these devices.

The big white balloon, which the Biden administration says it believes the Chinese government was using for surveillance, became an internet celebrity when people began tracking its travels [high above] U.S. airspace.

China's Foreign Affairs Ministry said the balloon was for meteorological [weather] research and accidentally went adrift.

But its presence led Secretary of State Antony Blinken to postpone a trip to Beijing amid rising tensions between the two murderous and increasingly authoritarian nations.

The U.S. shot a missile and has downed a Chinese [weather] balloon off the coast of South Carolina [and it is now scrambling to prove it was for spying to get a propaganda win in the war of words between Beijing and DC]. More

NATIONAL SECURITY: The U.S. military says it has downed a Chinese "spy balloon" off the coast of South Carolina — a move that the Chinese government called an overreaction.

Meanwhile, in more important news from The Swamp:

Republican George "Sociopathic Liar" Santos is a drag queen!

What the George Santos drag queen denial reveals about the Republican party

(MSNBC) Jan. 20, 2023. “While his apparent lie about performing in drag is literally the least consequential of his many lies, it makes sense he feels he has to fight that one,” says Chris Hayes on Rep. George Santos. “Because drag has become this strange, disgusting, bigoted obsession on the right.” #georgesantos #msnbc #republicans

The three-part cure for Covid-19 (video)

America's Frontline Doctors (bitchute.com); Pfc. Sandoval, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

The alternative to Google Corporation's YouTube

An ad hominem (against or "to the person") argument ignores the information and attacks the source or some aspect of the source instead. Dr. Stella Immanuel, MD is a practicing physician in Houston, Texas, who has successfully treated over 350 coronavirus (SARS-2, COVID-19) patients with commonplace drugs (she names them) and the supplemental mineral zinc. She's also some kind of Christian evangelist, witchdoctor, pastor, and superstitious Cameroonian that believes what her culture taught her. Science and epidemiology in the field are not good enough for her critics until the gatekeepers show some double-blind studies to prove what they want proven and ignore what they want ignored. This disease is going to be a big money-maker, the biggest.

"Masks do not prevent Covid," she says. But these commonplace malaria drugs do. Yet they're suppressed, banned, tested at toxic levels, proving that there are forces out there attempting to profit from this epidemic/pandemic scare. Dr. Tony Fauci (NIH), Bill Gates (WHO), and others will make millions, and Big Pharma will make billions from government contracts for harmful vaccines that do not provide immunity but are nonetheless "better than nothing."

Who gets VAXXED out of fear perhaps deserves the medical consequences one is not allowed to sue the pharmaceutical companies for injuries due to their multinational-corporation legal immunity. They are the smart profiteers. Consumers are the guinea pigs having their health compromised by allopathic toxins and iatrogenic treatments that "cure" nothing.

• Full Breitbart video at True Pundit
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• America's Frontline Doctors website

The Other F Word: Father (punk rock doc)

A. B. Nevins; Seth Auberon, Pfc. Sandoval, Sheldon S. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly Wiki edit

One kind of F leads to the other F word.

The Other F Word is an American documentary film that explores the world of punk rock musicians who become FATHERS.

They transition from freewheeling rockers to parents while trying to maintain the contrast between their anti-authoritarian lifestyle and the responsibilities of fatherhood, the title's other "F word."

Interviewing over 20 musicians from across the spectrum of the punk rock genre, including

• Mark Hoppus of Blink 182
• Jim Lindberg of Pennywise
• Fat Mike of NOFX
  
• Jack Grisham of T.S.O.L.

F: the worst job you'll ever love.

The documentary also includes other emblematic subculture figures such as professional skateboarder Tony Hawk, in a chronicle of the struggles and rewards that accompany raising their children.

It was directed by independent filmmaker Andrea Blaugrund Nevins and released in the U.S. by Oscilloscope Laboratories in 2011. More

"F*ck Authority"

LYRICS: Someday you gotta find another way/ You better right your mind and live by what you say/Today is just another day/ Unless you set your sights and try to find a way//CHORUS: I say F authority/ Silent majority/ Raised by the system/ Now it's time to rise against them/ We're sick of your treason/ Sick of your lies/ F no, we won't listen/ We're gonna open your eyes// Frustration, domination/ Feel the rage of a new generation/ We're living, we're dying/ And we're never ever gonna stop, stop trying/ Stop trying, stop trying, stop trying/ You know the time is right to take control/ We got to take offense against the status quo/ No way, not gonna stand for it today/ Fight for your rights, it's time we had our say!// CHORUS// ...Feel the rage of a new generation/ We're living, we're dying/ We're sick and tired of relentless lying/ Destroy, enjoy, your F'n world is our new toy/ Dominate, eliminate/ You're gonna feel the wrath, wrath of hate// CHORUS

"Abolish Government/Silent Majority"

This pair of T.S.O.L. songs included in GTA V.

Abolish government/ It's nothing to me/ Forget about God/ He's not here to see/ We live by a system/ A perfect mold/ People perfect people/ Who are poor and old/ Lives were spent on the ladder of success/ Working for nothing in this/ In this worthless mess/ President's a name/ President's a label/ Highest man on the government table// CHORUS: America/ Land of the free/ Free to the power of the people in uniform!

People are so blind you just can't see/ Send your son to bootcamp/ Send him off to war/ If he comes back he'll be dead and nothing more/ Struggle for a land, for a country, for a freedom/ All those mindless people looking for someone to lead them/ Wake up to the same old shit/ Live your life to suit their fit/ Some people they don't like your hair/ Policemen they just don't care/ Snipers that want to be/ Rifle sights are aimed at me/ Wake up silent majority!/ The government they don't want to hear/ You folks can't feel that fear/ You can walk the streets today/ You can walk in your own way/ People think that I'm crazy/ These people just can't see/ Wake up silent majority!/ Live your life/ Day by day/ Doing everything/ That they say/ Silent majority/ Promote freedom/ Let it be heard/ Don't forget that it's only a word/ Silent majority/ When you gonna wake up?

Trump: "Respect my authority!" (cartoon)

South Park; CNN; MSNBC; Seth Auberon, Pfc. Sandoval (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly Wiki edit

Trump falsely claims he has "total" authority

Could I be president? - Yah, shure, vhy not?

(CNN, April 13, 2020) Before dimming the lights and playing a "propaganda campaign style video," a Trumff of the Will, President Trump tweeted that he has the power to reopen states amid the coronavirus pandemic, even though this responsibility is delegated to state governments. When asked about this claim, President Trump falsely claimed that the president has "total power." You will respect his authority.

The German Trumpet

Trump is a German and German-American family, descended from Johann Philipp Trump (1667-1707) from Kallstadt in the Holy Roman Empire.

I could have joined the Nazi Youth in NY.

While the surname is found throughout Germany, it has been recorded variously as Drumb, Tromb, Tromp, Trum, Trumpff, and Dromb since the 17th century.

Mouthpieces pretend to challenge the Powers That Be, who write their checks

(Bounty) "Donny: The Quicker F-ck-r Upper"

The Trump family's ancestral home is Germany, just as the Hitler family came from neighboring Austria. "Trump" is derived from either the word for "drum" or for "trumpet."

Gwenda Blair suggests the family may be descended from an itinerant lawyer, Hanns Drumpf, who settled in Kallstadt in 1608 and whose descendants changed their name from Drumpf to Trump. More

China's US coronavirus, 5G, and AI

Cyrus Parsa (C2C, March 16, 2020); Pfc. Sandoval, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

I can't put it down. It's artificial intelligence.

Cyrus A. Parsa, founder and CEO of The AI Organization and The Social Programming Institute, warns of artificial intelligence (AI) threats China's use of the coronavirus.

As users and consumers we have biometric information taken from us by addictive devices like smartphones and computers. Data are culled and used to imperceptibly reprogram our thoughts, Parsa claims, by connecting to our nervous systems.

AI, Trump, China, Weapons, Robots, 5G

"You'll be programmed by the AI system itself," he declares, through biases built into social media content. This effect will be amplified with 5G networks (already deployed in China to weaken immune systems in Wuhan and launch this infection) to the point where people's immune systems and ability to think freely are severely compromised.

Parsa has filed a massive lawsuit against tech giants that charges "complicity in cultural genocide in the US for introduction of cybernetics and bioengineering" and physical genocide in China for surveillance techniques used to hunt and imprison dissidents and non-conformists.

Police state reaction to epidemic in China

China plans to use "Big Tech" to extract the biometrics and family data of its person 1.2 billion person population to feed into a quantum computer. This, he cautions, will create the "first superintelligence."

Raped via Social Programming

Parsa also expresses concern over misuses of robotics and drones, such as cybernetic and bionic insects designed for surveillance and as weapons.

AI, Trump, China & The Weaponization of Robotics with 5G

Raped via Bio-Digital Social Programming

Artificial Intelligence Dangers to Humanity

• GMO Battlefront:  livehealthybewell.com

using your smartphone and data

Coronavirus: Fear over Comedy? (video)

John Oliver (HBO, March 1st, 2020); Seth Auberon, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly


Coronavirus: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

Others say to poor Corona, "Stay over there!"

(Last Week Tonight) As the novel coronavirus "Covid-19" spreads to the U.S., John Oliver discusses what’s being done to fight the illness, what’s gone wrong, and how to stay safe (but no mention of the bioweaponization of it in Wuhan (a Chinese university town with many of the world's best genetic manipulation labs); leave that to Edge of Wonder to explore).

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Comedy: Authoritarians (video)

John Oliver (HBO/LastWeekTonight, 11/18/018); Sheldon S., Seth Auberon, Wisdom Quarterly

"Just Another Week in Hell," This Modern World (Tom Tomorrow/Daily Kos)

John Oliver discusses the growing number of authoritarian leaders around the world, their common characteristics, and whether or not one of them is currently our president. (Here's looking at you, Don Trump). Connect with Last Week Tonight online for news about jokes and jokes about news: Last Week Tonight, Facebook, Twitter, hbo.com/lastweektonight.