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Saturday, October 31, 2026

FREE Haunted House ('death meditation')

Sexy slut Halloween and Day of the Dead Catarina costumes welcome, but please keep it PG-13.
Catrina dressed as Santa Muerte ("Saint Death") for Day of the Dead (stayhappening.com)



Two haunted house meditations


How can I release the grip of lust right now?
We will conclude with two haunting meditations called "contemplation of the repulsive" and "mindfulness of death."

Paṭikkūla-manasikāra [1] in the historical Buddha's language (Pāli/Magadhi) is translated as "reflections on repulsiveness," "wise [attention to] reflection on the repulsive aspects of phenomena," "contemplating the foul."

It is a traditional Buddhist meditation internally reviewing the 31 parts of the body, which are contemplated in a variety of ways to gain liberating-insight into their true nature.

I'm grateful to be able to practice for liberation
In addition to developing sati ("mindfulness") and samādhi ("stillness," "whole brain coherence," "concentration"), this meditation is considered conducive to overcoming lust (craving), addictive obsession, and overbearing sensual desire.

Along with the "cemetery contemplations" monastics may practice -- such as the contemplation of the nine stages of decaying corpses -- this type of cultivation dispassion (letting go, freedom from obsession, non-clinging) is one of the two meditations on "the foul" or "unattractive" (Pāli asubha) [2].

Meditation on death? I can't go out. *Cough* I'm sick.

Translation
This sounds crazy. Surely, we should do the opposite, right? What if we lose all of our lust?
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The Pāli term paṭikkūla literally means "against" (paṭi) "the slope" or "incline" or "embankment" (kūla) and has been translated adjectivally as "averse, objectionable, contrary, disagreeable" and, as a noun, "foulness, loathsomeness, impurity" [3].

The human body can be so beautiful
Hate your body? Plastic surgeons are just a phone call away in LA!

The Pāli manasikāra ("wise attention") is derived from manasi (locative of mana, "mind," thus, loosely, to bear "in mind" or "in thought") and karoti ("to make" or "to bring into") and has been translated as "attention," "pondering," "contemplation," or "fixed thought" [4].

In contemporary translations, the compound term paṭikkūla-manasikāra is generally translated as "reflections on repulsiveness" or, adding contextual clarity to literal accuracy, "reflections on [or recollection of the] repulsiveness of the [nature of the] body" [5].

Alternate translations include "attention directed to repulsive" aspects of bodies [6] and direct "realization of the impurity of the body" [7].

Benefits

But I don't want to look at ugly stuff!
While it may sound "fun" to practice in a group around Obon, Halloween, Samhain, or the Day of the Dead, this type of Buddhist meditation is traditionally mentioned as a strong "antidote" to sensual passion [8].

This is also one of the "four protective meditations," along with Buddha-anussati ("recollection of the Buddha"), mettā (universal, illimitable "loving kindness," "friendliness," "agape," "benevolence") practice and "recollection or mindfulness of death" (maraṇa-sati) [9].

In individual sutras, this type of contemplation is identified as a contributor to many mundane and transcendental goals.

Who wants to see the truth?
For instance, in the Girimananda Sutta (AN 10.60), Ven. Ananda's recites this and other contemplations immediately cures an ailing Buddhist monastic [10].

In the Sampasadaniya Sutta (DN 28), Ven. Sariputta declares that meditating on (recollecting, contemplating, reviewing, examining, analyzing) these 31 body parts leads to "the attainment of vision in four ways" and briefly outlines how this method can be used as a springboard by which one "comes to know the unbroken stream of human consciousness that is not established either in this world or in the next" [11].

Sexy witch Halloween costume
In addition, in the Iddhipāda-samyutta's Vibhanga Sutta (SN 51.20), this meditation subject is used to develop the Four Bases of Power (iddhi-pāda) (one of the seven sets in the 37 Requisites of Enlightenment) by which one is able to achieve awakening, enlightenment, and complete liberation from all suffering [12].

The Pali canon invariably includes this form of contemplation in its various lists of mindfulness meditation techniques [13].

Moreover, the 5th century Buddhist compendium known as The Path of [Mental] Purification (Visuddhi-magga) identifies this type of contemplation (along with anapanasati or "mindfulness of breathing") as one of the few body-directed meditations particularly suited to the development of "right stillness, "super-consciousness," or "right concentration" (samma-samādhi) (Vism. VIII, 43) [14]. More
Free walk through the Haunted House
Calmly looking at repulsiveness and death? Can we just go through the house and get scared?
Watch for dead lady in the dark on roadside holding sign
FINAL WEEKEND (Friday and Saturday) RSVP:
FIRST WEEKEND FREE TO RSVP:
Oct. 23, 24, 30, 31, 2026, 7:00 pm-10:00 pm (@catsandbatshaunt) - socalhauntlist.com
WARNING: Jump scares, terror, bloodcurdling screams, yells, creepiness. Enter at own risk.
The final chamber is the scariest because a lady dressed in Victorian Era clothes starts hitting on you and wants you to sit on a Ziggy Freudian psychotherapy couch -- but she's a... (Aaahhh!!!)


OUTDOOR GALLERY
These are the views outside the House
How scary is it?
Haunted House? It’s just Corporate America
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Friday, September 25, 2026

Demons, occult, and Aleister Crowley

(Etch) Aleister Crowley's infamous Boleskin house | #WITCHYAFhttps://youtu.be/Cy4O98LvVXI
(Pantheon Mythology) This is the Jewish God Moloch (ruler "King" Molech)
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Friday, June 19, 2026

$5 RAVE: Pasadena Summer Solstice (6/20)


Does Pasadena know how to throw a rave? It did in Project X "Pursuit of Happiness" (music video)
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On the Summer Solstice of Saturday, June 20, 2026, from 7:00 to 10:00 pm the LAist is holding a rave at Remainders Creative Reuse. Total price of entry? $5.00 (five USD and 49 cent service fee).

Break out the rave gear and join Remainders Creative Reuse and LAist.com for a night of wild dancing, crafting, and community.


It's on Washington Bl. west of Lake Ave.
DJ Tekfor will be on hand all night bumping the 90’s rave jams and all the other hits. And there will be not one, not two, but three crafting stations with instructors:
  1. Make Your Own Junk Journal with Sarena
  2. Circle Weaving with Courtney
  3. Paper Mâché Sculptures with Aspen

What must non-Southern Californians imagine?
Already have a project in progress? Bring it along! Or if still looking for a spark, we’ll have a pop-up crafting table ready for everyone.

Whether a raver knits, collages, beads, sketches, or basketweaves, this is the perfect excuse to make something while soaking up the ravey 90’s vibes! Come as you are. (Bonus points will be awarded for 1990s-inspired outfits).
So get ready for a night of dancing, crafting, and fun. All ages. Families welcome. BYON (bring your own Narcan lol).
Trip hop is still a rave fave
 
COMMENTS
  • Can I sew my own outfit for EDC '27?
    Is this serious?!?! How...for only FIVE bucks?!
  • It worked! It's SOLD OUT! You snooze, you lose.
  • We wouldn't put anything past Larry Mantle or Pasadena's KPCC 89.3 FM and its long-running battle to seem more relevant than Madeleine Brand and Santa Monica's KCRW 88.9 FM.
  • C'mon, everyone knows Larry is a [bleep]!
  • That doesn't mean he doesn't put on a good show, what he claims is "the largest conversation in Los Angeles." Maybe NPR reporter Josie Huang wants to outdo science journalist... [Science bowl: Can NoHo… | KCRW]
  • Who, Doualy Xaykaothao of NPR via KUNC?
  • No, remember there was that Asian science journalist at KPCC and like the LA and Pasadena Weekly? She used to go to all sorts of parties, festivals, events, write about it, be on the radio all the time. Then KPCC booted her, KCRW picked her up? She lived in a small house in NoHo, the value of which kept going up, trapping her in LA.
  • You mean Cary Harrison? He's over at KPFK (90.7 FM) on Friday morning, unless you mean Emily Kwong or these folks Honor Roll: Asian American Journalists Association? LMU?
  • Oh, you must mean radio turned sex star Sandra Tsing Loh!
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Thursday, June 11, 2026

Always 2 wars, never 1 (Peace Class)

Friends, this is the talk I gave last week presented here edited by Wisdom Quarterly:
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The War of Opinions

Should I write DC a strongly-worded letter?
When we are belligerent and violent, there are always two wars happening simultaneously, the War of Bombs and the War of Opinions.
 
The War of Bombs requires the War of Opinions as its fuel. If we end the War of Opinions, we simultaneously end the War of Bombs.
 
Is this what John Lennon and Yoko Ono meant?
We are all responsible for the War of Opinions, so we can end it at any time. The way we end the War of Opinions is by thinking then saying this: "Whatever opinion you hold, I have compassion for you, and whatever opinion I hold, I have compassion for myself."
 
If we choose these mental positions, we will never have to agree with each other to see the end of belligerence, violence, war, disputes, arguments, and doing harm.

First we disagree then we go to war
(Maron in the Garage) I can no longer talk to my Trump voter friends
 
Talking is easy; doing is a little harder.
The true cause of violence is not disagreement; it is how we think about each other and feel about each other when we disagree with each other.
 
Violence can only happen if it is acceptable for us to withhold compassion from those with whom we disagree. This is the cause of war.
 
Our differences of opinion do not cause violence. What causes violence is that we are willing to withhold compassion from others, any others, because of their opinions.

Jewish Pres. Bernie wants war
 
As soon as we become unwilling to withhold compassion from anyone, we will see the end of violence, immediately, at that exact moment.
 
When our compassion ends nowhere, there will be peace on earth.
 
Opinions (holding views)
It's you, Bibi. - No, Donny, you're the War Prez
We are taught to use the opinions of others to justify withholding compassion from them.
There is only one reason to withhold compassion from anyone: to actively build more violence on this planet. That's what our withheld compassion does.
 
If we are trying to accomplish something other than that by withholding compassion, then we are using the wrong tool. If we want to build peace, the tool that will build it is compassion-for-all.

 
These times
Peace Class meets Wednesdays on Zoom at 6:00 pm (PT) Zoom ID: 821 5047 2713. 

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It's a dog's life these days.
The trouble with these times [is that they aren't a-changin' enough] is that many are trying to build peace by withholding compassion from those who disagree with them. That action builds war. So they are trying to build peace with that which only builds war.
 
That is like saying, "I'd like to build a house to sleep in, a good strong dwelling, so I'm going to build it out of water." [What do we think we are, fish, mermaids, aquatic plants?]


Man builds Water House, uses wood
 
Now if we could just nail into sheet water.
Water is useful for many things, but we can't cut it into blocks and build shelters with it. [What if we freeze it first? Igloo ice, sure, but this is water we're talking about, not permafrost ice in the arctic.]
 
Our misunderstandings are so basic to our belief system that we do not see that we are trying to build a house with something we cannot build a house with. That's how elemental our misunderstandings are. But that's also how powerful our opportunities are.
 
All we need to do is say, "Now that I can see that I've been trying to build a house with blocks of water, let me try again, but with blocks of wood, and see what happens." Voila: a beautiful, solid house.

A house made of water would not be nearly so nice or durable...or livable at all.
 
Not by hatred but by...this is an eternal law.
And so it is with peace. We can say, "Let me try using compassion-for-all to build peace, and see if that works any better than withholding compassion." And it will work every time. That is an eternal and universal law.

One can't build walls with wet fluid water; one can't build true and lasting peace with hatred of the people who disagree with us.
 
I had a water house once, called the Sea
Our hatred builds something: It builds more of the Era of Belligerence.

It does not build peace in the world. It also does not build peace for us personally — in our day-to-day experience, our family and circle of friends, our workplace and our minds/hearts.
 
What builds peace for us, in our personal experience, is to say this: "I disagree with that point of view yet still have compassion for the person who holds it."
 
That builds the kind of deep peace that makes it easier for us to do everything we have to do throughout the day. It makes it easier to be a parent, easier to be a friend, easier to be a whatever.

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A war brings these forces to our attention, but they are always at play, in smaller ways, within our lives. Disagreements break out in the home and the workplace. And we always make more peace for ourselves when we feel and think this:
 
"I disagree with the way my boss (spouse, child, friend, whoever) sees this situation. Still, I hold deep compassion for this person."

The War of Bombs
Pentagon lies, manipulates U.S. press

That'll teach 'em to disagree with us, eh, John?
The War of Bombs requires the War of Opinions to exist. Without our War of Opinions, their War of Bombs will very quickly lose steam and peter out.
 
A fire requires fuel -- such as wood and oxygen, plus certain conditions, like heat and the absence of rain.
 
War is a Racket. Just ask Fatty Fatpants
Similarly, the fire of war requires certain conditions to ignite and burn and grow.

Remove the War of Opinions and, no matter how many lit matches are thrown onto the fire of war, it will not ignite.
 
Compassion-for-all is like soaking fuel used in the fire of war. No matter how many flames are dropped on wet wood, it won't catch on fire. Our compassion-for-all ends this war and every war.
 
I serve my king with no question, Sir. - Good boy
When our compassion ends nowhere, there will be peace on earth. When our compassion goes everywhere, there is no ready fuel for war.
 
What will happen when we start to pair compassion-for-all with whatever opinion (view) we hold?

 
Could we eat our way to peace, Will Tuttle?
What will happen is that we will spend more time in our Peace Mind, which is the higher portion of our consciousness. And when we do this, we'll see new solutions—solutions that already exist, except that we cannot see them yet because they can only be seen from the more loving portion of consciousness.
 
When we have compassion for others, we free them from our hatred, vitriol, animosity, belligerence, so they visit their Peace Minds more often, too.
 

Republican gals love soldiers who kill for God.
And when we are all in our Peace Minds, new solutions will be so easy to see that we almost won't be able to comprehend how we ever stayed at war or disagreeing for so long.
 
Solutions to our problems already exist. Whether we can see them yet depends on our perspective. Where are we placing conscious attention in our own consciousness? Is it our Peace Mind?
 
It's not that this conflict, or any conflict, is based on an unsolvable problem. It's that we cannot yet see a solution that will resolve this issue from our current perspective.
 
Move our perspective, and the preexisting solution becomes apparent.
 
What's the one thing we can do to serve the world? We can learn to transition our own perspective upwards so we can see more solutions and bring more innovations to humanity.
 
What's another thing we can do? We can pair compassion with everything we think and feel. Compassion can be added to any thought, like this:
 
"I greatly disagree with what that leader has done, and I have compassion for everyone who lives in that country, even for the leader herself," or "I think that's a terrible thing to do, and I have compassion for the person who has done it." Just add one in.

I love you, Yoko. - STFU, John. (Peace❤️Truth)
No consensus of opinion needs to be reached to end the War of Opinions. We can end war without a single opinion ever changing.
 
We end it by adding our compassion-for-everyone to any opinion we have.
 
That ends the war, because now it's not a War of Opinions that we're seated within—it's simply a landscape of opinions that are allowed to exist.
 
It's not a War of Opinions when there is compassion-for-all present. Now it's a community of unique human individuals who compassionately respect each other. We came here to be unique.
 
We did not come here to create a consensus of opinion. We came here to be in a vibrant (lively and diverse) community of original thinkers, coexisting, more than tolerating but appreciating differences.

Peace Class, free, Wednesdays on Zoom
We came here to learn how to do that in peace.
 
What makes that possible is this phrase: Regardless of how we see things, we have compassion for one another. That choice-of-thought builds the kind of peace we came here to build.

In peace, Mandy
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