In the West we tend to believe “you can't get something for nothing,” but in this program Watts explores the possibility that nothing may be the very basis of something — and uses the example of sounds emerging out of silence to explain what is discovered in Zen practice.
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Just when the summer is getting started after a long, cold spring in Los Angeles, the LAUSD has started classes up again only a month after Independence Day! What gives? Now there's no more summer and no time for our summer school. It's time for Class 3 on The True Nature of Existence with American Theravada scholar-monk Bhikkhu Bodhi.
Grab some sunscreen [or better yet, alkalinize the body so that it will not be susceptible to burning by acidic reaction to sunlight] — it’s National Bikini Day this July 5th. It’s the perfect opportunity to head to the beach. National Bikini Day celebrates the anniversary of the invention of the two-piece bathing suit. Owing to its risqué design, the bikini was slow to be adopted — but it gradually gained traction when film stars like Ava Gardner and Brigitte Bardot started to wear bikinis on public beaches and in their films. The garment was certainly one of the greatest inventions of all time and, due to the supposed "explosive" effect it had created, it was named after Bikini Atoll in the South Pacific where US warmongers and their suburban drones conducted nuclear testing in 1946. Get ready to celebrate this iconic summer look.
Ban the human body! What do you think this is, the Garden of Eden! God will smite you all!
(Superhero You) Re-Learning Math with Scott Flansburg: Remember hating math in school? The Human Calculator says it's because we were all taught the "wrong," least intuitive, and most complex ways of solving for answers. Why did they do this to us? They had their reasons. In reality, math is simple. Calculating (without a calculator) is simple. It can even be magical...when learned the "right" way, the better, more intuitive, easier way. Watch as he, the world's fastest human calculator, makes us fall in love with dreaded math in a whole new way.
The Human Calendar
Moon-based time is better. We had it from time immemorial because it works infinitely better than Catholic Empire time (Gregorian), which was the pope's calendar to accurately calculate Easter (Saturnalia) and the hell with everything else. There are 13 months (full moons) in a year, 7 days (a lunar phase) in every week, and four weeks in every moonth. This adds up to (4 x 7 = 28; 28 x 13 =) 364. What about the 365th? That's day zero. All counting begins with zero.
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