(Unknown Variables) America poured billions of gallons of filtered (desalinated) seawater into a dead desert -- and what happened next was unbelievable. Israel has been desalinating salt water for a long time, as have other countries. Why doesn't the USA do it? It's more about politics and economics of selling freshwater than any technological obstacle to abundance and prosperity.
Showing posts with label greed. Show all posts
Showing posts with label greed. Show all posts
Friday, August 21, 2026
Sunday, May 17, 2026
Buddhism and Dalai Lama on meat eating
Can Buddhists eat meat?
- What have we said time and again? Buddhists can do whatever they want. However, killing (or violating any of the other precepts) is not keeping in line with what the Buddha taught.
- "Pig's Delight" (sukaramaddava): truffles, but in the case of the final meal offering, inadvertently poisonous/toxic mushrooms picked in error thinking them truffles, which pigs love
- Rule: A Buddhist monastic is not allowed to eat three kinds of "meat" (slaughtered flesh) -- that of a living being that is seen, heard, or suspected of having been killed for one's sake
Did the Buddha pass away from eating meat or mushrooms or by choice?
The precise contents of the Buddha's final meal are not clear, due to variant scriptural traditions and ambiguity over the translation of certain significant terms like sukara-maddava.
The Theravada tradition generally believes that the Buddha was offered "pig's delight" (sukaramaddava) which could be slaughtered pork or some kind of mushroom/food pigs delight in that was offered by the blacksmith Cunda, while the Mahayana tradition believes that the Buddha consumed a truffle or other mushroom [mistaken to be edible].
These differing translations may reflect the different traditional views on Buddhist vegetarianism and the precepts for monastics (monks and nuns) [265] as well as laypersons.
Modern scholars disagree on this topic, arguing both for pig's delight, pig's flesh, or some kind of plant or mushroom that pigs delight in eating [z].
Whatever the case, none of the sources that mention the last meal attribute the Buddha's sickness to the meal itself [266]. But it is widely thought that he suffered severe illness from being unable to safely digest to toxic food, which he directed Cunda to dig a hole and bury rather than offering to any other monastic present at the meal.
As per the "Great Final Nirvana Discourse" (Mahaparinibbana Sutta), after the meal with Cunda the blacksmith, the Buddha and his monastic companions continued to walk until he was too weak to continue.
They stopped at Kushinagar (near modern Gorakphur, India), where Ānanda was directed by the Buddha to prepare a resting place of folded robes between two sala trees in a delightful grove [267, 268].
After announcing to the Monastic Sangha (spiritual community) that he would soon be passing away, reclining into final nirvana, the Buddha personally ordained one last novice into the Monastic Order. His name was Subhadda [267].
He then repeated his final exhortations to the Sangha, which was that when he was no longer present to guide them, the Dhamma and Vinaya (Doctrine and Discipline, Teaching and Training) was to be their guide.
Then he asked if anyone had any doubts about the Teachings, but nobody did [269]. The Buddha waited, satisfied that anyone who would have like to speak or ask any final question had the opportunity to do so.
His final words are reported to have been: "All formations (saṅkhāras, fabrications) are hurtling towards destruction. Strive for the goal with diligence (appamāda)." In Pali this is, "vayadhammā saṅkhārā appamādena sampādethā" [270, 271].
He then entered the eight jhanas as his final meditation forward and then reversing, as verified by a psychic monk near him, reaching what is known as parinirvana ("final nirvana"). He did not "die," for if he had, he would be reborn as all ordinary being are reborn in accordance with their karma.
Rather than being reborn, "the Five Aggregates of physical and mental phenomena clung to as self that constitute a being cease to occur" [272] just as a fire, having exhausted its substrate of fuel goes out. But what is it that really goes out, a being? No, what goes out completely is ignorance.
The Mahaparinibbana Sutta reports that as his final act, the Buddha performed a final meditation of entering the first four material meditative absorptions (jhanas) consecutively, then the four immaterial absorptions, and finally a meditative dwelling known as "the extinction of feeling and perception" (nirodha-samāpatti), which should not be thought of as a permanent "extinction" since many Buddhist meditation practitioners are able to reach this attainment even now throughout life. It is said that only noble ones (those who have attained the stages of enlightenment) are able to reach it and can do so as often as they like as many times as they like. If it were a permanent extinction, no one would be able to do it a second, third, or thousandth time.
Before returning to the fourth absorption (jhana) right at the moment of passing into final nirvana without remainder [273, 268].
Having traveled and taught, the Buddha took his last meal, a sincere offering from a blacksmith named Cunda. But having eaten it, he fell violently ill. Not wishing that Cunda have remorse or misgivings about his offering, the Buddha instructed his personal attendant Ānanda to tell Cunda something.
The meal offering eaten at his place had nothing to do with his passing. Moreover, such an offering was an extraordinary source of merit because it was provided as a last meal for a buddha [262] tantamount to an offering of food to a bodhisatta before his attainment of supreme awakening (buddhahood, arahantship, great-enlightenment).
Bhikkhu Mettanando and Oskar von Hinüber argue that the Buddha passed away due to mesenteric infarction, a symptom of old age, rather than mushroom food poisoning [263, 264]. More
Tuesday, April 28, 2026
Buddhist novices busted smuggling weed
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| Dried flower bud of "kush," potent cannabis |
(DW News) Buddhist monks arrested in Sri Lanka for smuggling an s-load of cannabis weed (potent "kush") that would have likely addicted many Sri Lankan youths had they not been caught and stopped at the border, the international airport (BIA) in Colombo.
- (10 News Late) 22 Buddhist monks (novice trainee monastics who have not been fully ordained) arrested at airport in giant drug bust, returning from Bangkok, Thailand (that experimented with legalizing cannabis for recreational use but discovered it was a mistake)
- (NewsX) Buddhist
monksnovices shock the Theravada Buddhist nation with cannabis smuggling scandal - (WhyItsTrendingDaily) 22 Buddhist
monkstrainees just got caught with 242 pounds of potent weed at the airport
First, in defense of these Buddhist monastics, it is important to note that they (most) were not "monks" (bhikkhus) but rather novices (trainees, samaneras) during a probationary period that can last years as they learn and put into practice the Buddhist Monastic Code (Vinaya and Patimokkha).
Second, of all the rules to break, drug dealing cannabis -- as horrific and condemnable as it is -- is not the worst thing they could have done. The four worst things they could have done are "defeat" (parijika) offenses: killing, stealing, sexual misconduct, lying about spiritual attainments. Or they might have committed one of the five heinous acts (anantarika-karma, deeds that bear bitter fruit in the very next life):
- killing one's mother (matricide)
- killing one's father (patricide)
- killing an arhat (arahant, fully enlightened being)
- Wounding a Tathāgata (a buddha, silent or teaching)
- Creating a schism in the Monastic Community (Sangha).
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| We stayed behind in the monastery sweeping. |
Did the "businessman" sponsor put them up to it to gain financially, and will they say they knew nothing about it?
There are Five Precepts all Theravada lay Buddhists vow to maintain:
- abstain from killing
- abstain from stealing
- abstain from sexual misconduct
- abstain from lying
- abstain from intoxicants that occasion heedlessness.
The very minimum precepts for monks-in-training (samaneras or "baby samanas") are the Eight Precepts or Ten Precepts, abstaining from harming, taking what is not given or handling "gold and silver" (money), sex (all erotic activity), lying, intoxicants, eating before dawn or after noon, using high and luxurious seats or beds, dancing, singing, self-beautification, viewing lowbrow entertainments and shows...
If one were to follow the major rules and the minor (etiquette) rules, it would never come to this unless, as we say, they were cynically used by the businessman drug kingpin as "mules" to unknowingly transport drugs into the very uptight and traditional island Buddhist country of Sri Lanka (Ceylon, Serendib) with a sizeable Tamil Hindu population and significant number of Muslims and Christians.
Monday, January 19, 2026
Eckhart Tolle: Why we suffer: Life is here to...
The real purpose of life | Eckhart Tolle
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- Eckhart Tolle, YouTube, Jan. 14, 2026; Kaliyani, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Monday, December 1, 2025
Tuesday, September 23, 2025
We DON'T need no free speech!!!
(The Daily Show) The Rapture arrives today, Sept. 23, 2025. Trump cures autism with RFK Jr.
Comic live at The U.N.
LYRICS: "We Don't Need Freedom"
We don't need freedom
We don't want freedom
We don't need freedom
Freedom is what ruined your brain
With creativity drugs and pain
Freedom is what let you run wild
Explain freedom to your fatherless child
We don't need freedom
Do we now?
Freedom preaches disobedience
Idiot rebellion, false allegiance
Pride, waste, lust, and greed
We're free to obey all of these
Stroke mid-speech, Fascist vs. Antifa
(IHIP News) Pres. Trump (aka Cankles McTacot*ts) Brain hemorrhage?
Comfortably that's how we'll be
Enough for you, plenty for me
We won't need actors and rock stars
All we'll want is farmers and soldiers
We don't need freedom
We don't want freedom
We don't need freedom
We don't need, do we?
Monday, September 15, 2025
South Park: Jeff Bezos' Amazon.com
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| I'm not a UFO alien freak, right? Hahaha |
Jeffrey Preston Bezos (né Jorgensen, born Jan. 12, 1964) is an American businessman best known as the founder, executive chairman, and former president and CEO of Amazon.com, the world's largest e-commerce and cloud computing company.
According to Forbes, as of May 2025, Bezos's estimated net worth exceeded $220 billion, making him the third richest person in the world [3]. He was the wealthiest person from 2017 to 2021, according to Forbes and the Bloomberg Billionaires Index [4][5]. More
Tuesday, September 2, 2025
The Buddha: The Fire Sermon
The Fire Sermon: "All is burning"
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| The Fire Sermon (Buddhistdoor.net) |
In this discourse, the Buddha teaches that achieving liberation (vimutti, moksha) from all suffering (pain, disappointment, rebirth, and unsatisfactorinesss) through letting go everything (ALL) mind and the five senses obsessively CLING to as personal, as sources of pleasure, and/or as enduring.
This sutra is also found in the Buddhist Monastic Code (Vinaya) at Vin I 35 [5].
English speakers might be familiar with the name of this discourse due to T. S. Eliot's titling the third section of his celebrated poem "The Waste Land" as The Fire Sermon. In a footnote, Eliot states that this Buddhist discourse "corresponds in importance to the Sermon on the Mount" in Christianity [6].
Background
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| Let us cut off our jatas and follow this sage! |
He delivered it to 1,000 newly converted wandering ascetics (samanas) who formerly practiced a sacred fire ritual (Pali aggihutta, Sanskrit agnihotra) [7].
The 5th-century CE post-canonical Pali commentary called the Sāratthappakāsini (the Spk.), attributed to the Theravada scholar-monk Buddhaghosa, draws a direct connection between the ascetics' prior practices and this discourse's main rhetorical device:
Having led the 1,000 ascetics to Gayā's Head, the Buddha reflected, "What kind of Dhamma talk would be suitable for them?"
He then realized, "In the past they worshipped fire morning and evening. I will teach them that the 12 sense bases (āyatana) are burning and blazing. In this way they will be able to attain full enlightenment" [8]. More
- The Fire Sermon: The Third Sermon of the Buddha (Buddhistdoor Global)
- Buddha's Wisdom; Dhr. Seven and Amber Larson (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly Wiki edit
Monday, September 1, 2025
Genocidal Columbus was a Jew? DNA
Was Christopher Columbus a secret Jew?
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| Lots of my men were Jews (Marranos, Conversos) willing to kill, enslave, and pay their debts. |
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| Super Zionist Jew |
- Cristóbal Colón is his Spanish language (Latin, Italian) name for the Italian Jewish (Converso) explorer Christopher Columbus (1451–1506)
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| Stolen symbol bathed in blood |
DNA: Columbus is one of us!
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| Origin theories of Cohen/Columbus |
"PIGS" (Marranos) were Conversos, Crypto-Jews
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| Prominent Jews do so much for the Deep State |
- Sephardic Jews
- Columbus was a Sephardic Jew from Western Europe, DNA study finds (France 24)
- VIDEO: Christopher Columbus hid being a Sephardic Jew
- How can we glorify and sullied reputation as a mass murderer, rapist, settler colonial slave driver, and altogether cruel and greedy European supremacist, pseudohistorical revisionist David Hatcher Childress? The secret identity of Christopher Columbus: A Celtic-Jewish Spanish pirate? (Ancient Origins)
- Why couldn't he change his ways and be a peace-loving JuBu?
- Marrano (rich Crypto-Jewish supporters)
- Sheldon S., Shauna Schwartz, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Tuesday, July 29, 2025
New: Nirvana's Kurt Cobain killed?
Kurt Cobain mystery finally solved. It isn't good
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| "Investigate Courtney Love, yeah yeah yeah" |
This video dives deeply into the final days of the Nirvana frontman, exploring what really happened behind closed doors and why so many still struggle to accept the official narrative. Think you know the full story of Kurt Cobain? Prepare to see it in a shocking new light.
Friday, July 25, 2025
Buddhist Thailand and Cambodia at war
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| Have Israel and the CIA's crimes in Gaza made war the norm? |
Thailand Cambodia War Timeline Explained?
- Thai means "free" as it was never formally colonized by Western powers, though Japan intruded during WW II to cross The Bridge on the River Kwai (The Bridge over the River Kwai)
Tensions simmered for decades, especially around ancient Buddhist temples that dot the border. Among these, Prasat Ta Muen Thom and the areas near Preah Vihear became focal points for competing national claims, bearing not just strategic significance but also the weight of cultural pride.
(DW) Could US and China become involved in neighborly dispute?
- What's the real motive beyond the manufactured pretext? Gas or oil reserves, greed of a corrupt Thai government, greed for tourist destinations? This is not a religious dispute but an economic one, according to one Thai American Wisdom Quarterly spoke with. It is reminiscent of Israel's greed for Gaza's underground resources, preferring to let people believe it is all about ideology, national security, and a biblical dispute rather than what it really is, genocide for economic advantage.
As the year 2025 began, a sense of unease hovered along the frontier. On May 28, the fragile calm shattered. Gunfire erupted at the Emerald Triangle, where Thai and Cambodian soldiers exchanged shots.
The clash caused the lives of one Cambodian soldier, and the Blame Game began immediately, with each nation accusing the other of provocation. By June 7, the rhetoric gave way to visible preparations for confrontation.
Thailand bolstered its border positions, simultaneously leveling accusations of provocations against Cambodian forces and civilians. Throughout June and July, the border region grew ever more volatile. Spasms of minor clashes flared up, border crossings shut down, and the movement of civilians became increasingly restricted.
Military alerts were raised on both sides. The crucial turning point arrived on July 24, 2025. Before dawn, Thai troops reported the presence of Cambodian drones buzzing near Prasat Ta Muen Thom.
A patrol of six armed Cambodian soldiers soon appeared at the perimeter of a Thai base, setting nerves on edge.
Around 6:30 am, shots rang out once again. The chaos of combat bred confusion and recrimination: Cambodia accused Thailand of launching an unprovoked assault, while Thailand claimed Cambodian soldiers had fired first near the temple.
The conflict escalated with frightening speed. By 9:40 Thailand reported a salvo of B M-21 rockets arcing from Cambodian positions toward Prasat Don Tuan, their impact threatening nearby civilian neighborhoods.
Barely ten minutes later, the violence spilled to the vicinity of Ta Kwai Temple, where further clashes erupted. At 10:58 am, the smoldering border ignited fully F-16 fighter jets from the Royal Thai Air Force thundered overhead, bombing Cambodian military positions at Chong An Ma.
Thai officials declared that key Cambodian command posts had been destroyed. As the day wore on, the fighting sprawled along several kilometers of the contested boundary. Artillery thundered, rockets exploded, and both armies unleashed heavy weaponry, transforming the frontier into a battleground.
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Wednesday, July 16, 2025
What is the purpose of living?
I won $10,000,000 and have never been happier. Oh, wait, I would have burned it if I'd known
Life is short. What’s the purpose of living? | Buddhist Wisdom
- 00:00 - The question beneath all questions — Why ask at all?
- 04:03 - The Endless Cycle — chasing happiness, fleeing from sorrow
- 08:07 - The ripple of our actions — Why death isn’t an escape
- 14:40 - The Middle Path — walking through life, not around it
- 18:14 - The point is presence — Living the answer in this moment
Wednesday, May 7, 2025
Could Trump possibly become Pope?
New hit musical: Antichrist
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| Pres. Trump generated this image of himself as pope with AI, posted it, then lied about it (JKL). |
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| Conclave did not pick Trump today: black smoke |
"As a general rule, I'm fine with people telling jokes [you know, as long as they're not about me, my wife, or my beloved boss, in which case we may have to censor it due to national and my job security]"
- Vice President JD Vance
Trump on upholding constitution: "I don't know" | The Daily Show
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- Mr. Newberger's AI Funnies, May 4, 2025; Jesus Christ Superstar via Moveclips; Jimmy Kimmel Live, April 5, 2025; Jon Stewart, The Daily Show, April 5, 2025; Ashley Wells, Sheldon S., Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
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