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Friday, May 22, 2026
Tuesday, December 16, 2025
Why do students listen to Dalai Lama?
I asked 89-year-old Dalai Lama for life advice and learned...
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Friday, October 31, 2025
Signs of progress in meditation (Rinpoche)
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Monday, September 29, 2025
Alan Watts: Zen breaks our illusion of control
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| Eastern wisdom sneaks its way into a Hollywood film, like Christ quoting Asian traditions |
Sunday, June 1, 2025
Eckhart Tolle: How to let go
Why our inner state matters more than our goals | Eckhart Tolle
How to stop pretending and start living | Eckhart Tolle
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Eckhart’s profound yet simple teachings have helped countless people around the globe experience a state of vibrantly alive inner peace in their daily lives. His teachings focus on the significance and power of Presence, the awakened state of consciousness, which transcends ego and discursive thinking. Eckhart sees this awakening as the essential next step in human evolution.
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Thursday, May 22, 2025
How to handle the cops (graphic video)
Role model drunk decides to run, oops, wrong car! - Dying to get out, man does impossible: Fly
Keep the phone camera rolling for your protection no matter how police lie and change subject.
WHY never to talk to police
Police are here to protect and serve (themselves) - There are corrupt police caught by FBI?
- LAWYER: The ONLY four things to say to cops
- Regent U (sage advice); Seth Auberon, Pfc. Sandoval, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Wednesday, January 22, 2025
(Inner) Peace Class weekly on Zoom
Friends, Peace Class meets every Wednesday night on Zoom and starts at 6:00 pm (Pacific Time). Join a Zoom meeting. Share link with friends. All are welcome at Peace Class. The most recent peace talk was delivered at last week's class:
Inner peace and World Peace
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| I was thinking, Where does peace begin? |
Inner peace is World Peace happening locally, radiating globally.
Inner peace is World Peace that one person has just grown in the garden of oneself.
Inner peace is World Peace. We call peace “World Peace” when enough people are experiencing individual peace and flowing it into the collective consciousness so that the peace experience becomes the common experience in society. But before profound peace is the most common experience, it's a notable if unusual individual experience. We call this “inner peace” because we are not yet in a world where profound peace permeates everyone's experience all the time. We can see the contrast between the inner peace we are feeling and the lack of peace that many others are feeling. For now, inner peace is still an unusual experience. It is not yet World Peace.
It is “still” this way because experienced peace will be the baseline experience for all beings eventually. But for those of us who were born in the Era of Belligerence, an experience of inner peace will most likely be something we must cultivate — something we move into and out of over the course of a day, week, or year.
When many (consider the 100th monkey theory) have brought forth their own peacefulness, collective peace will begin to manifest. First it will be experienced by small pockets of humanity. Then it will spread out into the surrounding areas.
Imagine being in a swimming pool and adding a drop of food coloring. The water will reflect that new color most strongly where the coloring was first placed, but eventually it will be incorporated more widely. It cannot help but spread. It will first make itself powerfully apparent locally.
Peace works this way.
One person in an experience of peace sends the flow of that peace into the collective consciousness, and it enters the collective at the precise point where that person is situated. One's peace begins a collective consciousness of peace, first locally then more widely. It can be felt most potently locally, where it is most concentrated.
World Peace begins as inner peace experienced by one person, two people interacting, or a group directly impacting one another. It eventually spreads into the collective, which is a term for all of their indirect contacts or all the people we impact without being aware of it.
World Peace is a result, not a cause; it comes last. Inner peace is a cause of World Peace and a result of it just as a stone cascading makes a sound that keeps reverberating every time it newly impacts a surface.
Eventually, experienced peace is the standard, the common experience. Then individuals are able to build on that standard, that foundation of peace. When there is standard peace, what will we see? Flowing creativity. Self-actualization. Self-exploration. New collaborations. New forms of art. New inventions — acts of genius. That's what's waiting for us when we arrive at World Peace.
We think of World Peace as the end of war. But in that state of generalized inner peace, war will not begin. Generalized peace will look like the absence of war to those who lived before during the Era of Belligerence. But for those who were born in the Age of Peace, it will look like flowing creativity, inventiveness, collaboration, artmaking, inspiration, and flowing ideas. It won't look like the end of war because war will sound so odd — such a strange thing for anyone to choose — that war will simply seem like a historical curiosity, the way we now think of outdated medical practices such as bloodletting. We look back at bloodletting and think, Why would one think becoming healthier is achieved by purposely losing blood? What a strange thing to do! What a strange way to treat one's body. Why would anyone ever do that? We look at bloodletting as a historical curiosity — as a marker of how things were at a peculiar moment in history, a time when humans were doing the best they could but were living in confusion that led to certain aberrations we now see clearly and would never choose today. That's how war will appear to us. We will look at it as a marker of a particularly strange time in human history.
From a peaceful mindset, we will not judge ourselves, or previous humans, for what they did not yet understand; we will have compassion for ourselves and for others. Knowing more, we will not again choose that which does not serve us.
War is a marker of a time in our development. It is an indicator of where we are in our evolution. The lower mind wants to know the answer to this question: Is war bad or good? The higher mind is so loving, so peaceful, that it does not judge. It simply says, War indicates that a society is very early in its development. We will know that we have evolved, we will know that we carry more peace, when we do not choose war — when we find that we, as individuals, simply would never choose to harm another person.
We will know that we have evolved when we look at the practice of harming another and find it puzzling. We will think, Why would anyone ever do that? It simply won't make sense. We will think, I'd never choose to hurt someone; I respect everyone here too much. I wouldn't chop down my own beloved house; I wouldn't throw away a cherished gift. And I wouldn't harm anyone, as everyone brings something valuable to the collective; everyone bears a gift, and therefore everyone is a gift.
We look at a loving world, a world where there are no skirmishes between individuals, a world where there is no violence, and we call what we see “World Peace” — and to us that means The End of All War. But it won't feel like the Age of No War, except to those who began their lives in the Era of Belligerence. It will feel like the Age of Inspiration, the Age of Creativity, the Age of Invention, the Age of Innovation. It will be the Age of Feeling Just Right, the Age of So Much to Get Out of Bed to Experience. It will be the Age of What Can I Build Next.
When we are in the Age of Peace, we will see it for what it is, not for what it isn't — not the contrast to what came before.
Only by living in peace will we truly understand its nature.
We do not call our time the Age of No Bloodletting. We don't notice what isn't there so much as we notice what is here. That's how we'll feel in the Age of Peace. We'll notice how good it feels to express ourselves, to be creative, to be full of innovative ideas. We'll notice how good our own kindness feels whether expressed towards ourselves or others. And the idea of not feeling these things will seem strange to us. We will think, What would possess anyone to treat another cruelly when expressing kindness feels so good and cruelty feels so terrible? Why would anyone choose to act in a way that feels terrible? What a strange way to live!
Those who feel called to build inner peace even as they are living in the Era of Belligerence are getting a preview of coming attractions. They're getting a taste of what will one day be the standard. But they're also seeding a world where one doesn't need to cultivate inner peace because it has become the standard. One only needs to choose what to focus into existence by way of one's already peaceful, already connected self. For that reason, the Age of Peace will also be the Age of Choice; all will have the freedom to concentrate on what they enjoy doing rather than spending their primary energy creating safety for themselves and making sure their basic needs are met.
Some of us in the Era of Belligerence already carry the perspective that will be common in the Age of Peace. Such people might look around at their society and think, How do I get out of here?
One “gets out of here” by building a future from where one is moving in the present.
One builds the Age of Peace by building inner peace. One builds peace for oneself in whatever increments one can and is grateful for whatever slivers of peace one can experience. One lingers in appreciation of peace whenever it arrives. One revels in the feeling of peace and thinks about what one loves about peace and speaks of the joys of peace and does what brings one more peace. That's how one builds the Age of Peace before it is here. This is how one gifts the Age of Peace to everyone.
Where do I begin?
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If only Buddhism had anything to contribute to a discussion about peace
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| How can we cultivate inner peace? |
The associated verb is passambhati (to calm down, to quieten) [2]. In Buddhism, passaddhi refers to tranquility of body, speech, and mind (thoughts, consciousness on the path to enlightenment).
As part of the cultivatable mental factors, passaddhi is preceded by "rapture" or "joy" or "bliss" (pΔ«ti) and precedes profound stillness (samΔdhi).
Passaddhi is identified as a wholesome factor in the following canonical contexts:
- kΔya-passaddhi is one of the "beautiful mental factors" in TheravΔda Buddhist Abhidhamma ("the Doctrine or Dhamma in Ultimate Terms") tradition
- citta-passaddhi is one of the beautiful mental factors in TheravΔda Abhidhamma tradition
- one of the Seven Factors of Enlightenment (sambojjhangas)
- meditative absorptions (jhanani)
- transcendental Dependent Origination (lokuttara-paticcasamuppada)
- Inner peace (passaddhi) is a vital element in Buddhism's Seven Factors of Enlightenment, just as happiness is
- Peace and Sustenance | Dictionary of Buddhism | Nichiren Buddhism Library
- Mandy Kahn (mandykahn.com), Philosophical Research Society, Hollywood, California, Jan. 22, 2025; edited by Dhr. Seven, Wisdom Quarterly with added Wiki edit
Friday, January 10, 2025
How to fully live now (Alan Watts)
How to be fully alive now - Alan Watts
WARNING: This is NOT a test run. This is your real life. Live.
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Saturday, October 19, 2024
How to build a house: 'Dangers' (sutra)
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| With instructions, I can practice DIY at home ? - Yes, you can do it with these instructions. |
90 days to build a wooden house: One woman's admirable build from start to finish
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We built this small house for elderly parents. By design the house is simple and consists of light blocks called autoclaved aerated concrete. The total area of the house is 640 square feet, and the exterior dimensions are 18 by 22 feet.
We built it without loans on a small budget of $17,000. This price included the purchase of the land for $2,000. The total budget did not include the cost of labor because we did all the work ourselves.
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A sutra for householders: "Dangers"
Ven. Sujato (trans.), "Dangers" (AN 10.92) or (Numbered Discourses 10.92) 10. "With UpΔli"), suttacentral.org; edited, expanded, and explained by Dhr. Seven, Wisdom Quarterly
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Then the householder AnΔthapiαΉαΈika [Sudatta, the generous multimillionaire donor to the needy who was already a stream enterer] went to the Buddha, bowed, and sat respectfully to one side. The Buddha said:
“Householder, when a noble [Arya = enlightened] disciple has quelled five dangers and threats, has the four factors of stream entry, and has clearly seen and comprehended the noble system with wisdom, that person may, if one wishes, declare of oneself: ‘I’ve made an end of rebirth in hells, the animal realm, and the ghost realm.
“‘I’ve made an end of [all rebirth in] places of loss, unfortunate destinations, subhuman worlds. I am a stream-enterer! I’m no longer liable to be reborn in the downfall and am bound for full awakening.’
The dangers
“What are the five dangers and threats such a person has quelled?
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| One can live at home practicing the Path. |
- Anyone who kills living creatures creates dangers and threats both in this present life and in lives to come and experiences mental pain and sadness. Anyone who refrains from killing living creatures creates no dangers and threats either in the present life or in lives to come and doesn’t experience mental pain and sadness. So that danger and threat is quelled for anyone who refrains from killing living creatures.
- Anyone who steals…
- Anyone who engages in sexual misconduct…
- Anyone who lies [engages in wrong speech, which is more than lying]…
- Anyone who consumes beer, wine, liquor, and intoxicants [that occasion heedlessness] creates dangers and threats both in the present life and in lives to come and experiences mental pain and sadness. Anyone who refrains from consuming beer, wine, liquor, and intoxicants creates no dangers and threats either in the present life or in lives to come and avoids experiencing mental pain and sadness. So that danger and threat is quelled for anyone who refrains from consuming beer, wine, liquor, and intoxicants.
The Four Factors of Stream-Entry.
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| Why leave household life to practice? No distractions. |
“A noble disciple has experiential confidence [proven conviction, confirmed faith] in the Teacher (the Buddha): ‘This Blessed One is indeed perfected, a supremely enlightened teacher, accomplished in knowledge and conduct, full of integrity, a knower of worlds, a supreme guide for those wishing to train, a teacher of devas and human beings, awakened, blessed.’
“One has experiential confidence in the Teaching (Dharma): ‘The teaching is well explained by the Buddha — apparent here and now in the present life, immediately effective, inviting investigation, relevant, so that sensible people can know it for themselves.’
“One has experiential confidence in the Taught (the Noble SaαΉ
gha, the successfully taught): ‘The SaαΉ
gha of the Buddha’s disciples [the spiritual community of accomplished practitioners, people at the first level of awakening called stream-entry up to full enlightenment or arhatship, which is a category of beings in no way limited to ordained monastics] is practicing the way that is skillful, direct, systematic, and beneficial.
“This community consists of the four pairs, the eight individuals. This is the SaαΉ
gha of the Buddha’s disciples that is worthy of offerings (gifts) dedicated to the devas, worthy of hospitality, worthy of religious donations, worthy of greetings with joined palms (anjali mudra), and serves as the supreme field of merit for the world.’
“And a noble disciple’s virtue and ethical conduct is loved by the noble ones, unbroken, impeccable, spotless, and unmarred, liberating, praised by the wise (sensible people), unmistaken, and leading to absorption (meditative immersion).
“These are the Four Factors of Stream-Entry that one has.
The Enlightening System
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| "There's a systematic way to let go and be free," asked Imogen. The Buddha is full of surprises. |
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“And what is the noble [enlightening] system that one has clearly seen and comprehended with wisdom? A noble disciple reflects:
“‘When this exists, that is; due to the arising of this, that arises. When this does not exist, that is not; due to the cessation of this, that ceases. [This is called knowledge of how all things arise: they are "dependently originated," and here is an explanation of how suffering (dukkha, disappointment, ill, woe) comes to be and how to end it completely.] That is:
- Ignorance is a condition for karmas.
- Karmas (actions) are a condition for consciousness.
- Consciousness is a condition for name and form.
- Name and form are conditions for the six sense fields.
- The six sense fields are conditions for contact.
- Contact is a condition for feeling [sensation].
- Feeling is a condition for craving [lust, thirst, craving].
- Craving is a condition for grasping.
- Grasping is a condition for continued becoming.
- Continued becoming is a condition for rebirth.
- Rebirth is a condition for old age and death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, sadness, and distress to come into being.
- That is how this entire mass of suffering originates.
[What is Dependent Origination?]
- “When ignorance fades away and ceases without remainder, karmas cease.
- When karmas cease, [the impersonal process of] consciousness ceases.
- When consciousness ceases, name and form cease.
- When name and form cease, the six sense fields cease.
- When the six sense fields cease, contact ceases.
- When contact ceases, feeling ceases.
- When feeling ceases, craving ceases.
- When craving ceases, grasping ceases.
- When grasping ceases, continued rebirth ceases.
- When continued becoming ceases, rebirth ceases.
- When rebirth ceases, old age and death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, sadness, and distress cease.
- That is how this entire mass of suffering ceases.’
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| I can go home and know-and-see this DIY? - Not DIY |
“When a noble disciple has quelled five dangers and threats, has the Four Factors of Stream-Entry, and has clearly seen and comprehended the noble cycle with wisdom [Dependent Origination], one may, if one wishes, declare of oneself:
“‘I’ve made an end of [any possibility of] rebirth in hells, the animal realm, and the ghost realm. I’ve made an end of rebirth in all places of loss, unfortunate destinations, subhuman worlds. I am a stream-enterer. I’m no longer liable to be reborn in the downfall and am bound for full awakening.’” Source: suttacentral.net
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Thursday, July 20, 2023
Fix a dysregulated nervous system ASAP
What it FEELS like when our nervous system is dysregulated
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Too angry? Dr. Peter Attia explains way to stop it to podcaster Huberman
Wednesday, June 7, 2023
Beauty without surgery: Mew Method
What I've Learned, 2/6/19; Amber Larson, Crystal Q., CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Attractive face or not? It depends on TONGUE posture
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| I used to be so beautiful |
Clarification on the title: Of course, no one means to suggest that attractiveness depends only on tongue posture. Nutrition in utero (during the mother's pregnancy), postpartum nutrition, and health through the formative years surely play very big roles in how the face develops.
In fact, Weston Price's book
Nutrition and Physical Degeneration suggests that fat soluble vitamins are very important for fertility and the proper development of the young; grains and sugar ("modern foods") are very detrimental to their development, particularly their oral health.
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| I'm hot. There's nothing wrong with my face. |
Oral posture is simply another piece of the puzzle.
SUTURE FUSION: The phrases "These sutures are not completely fused together" and "Sutures are not completely closed" would have been better. It is understood that after birth, the sutures of the skull "fuse" together by age 2 or so. One study found that complete closure of certain sutures does not occur until as late as 70-years-old. Another found that “The human frontozygomatic suture undergoes synostosis during the eighth decade of life but does not completely fuse by the age of 95 years" based on 61 human cadavers aged 20 to 95.
This topic with a focus on facial development's affect on respiration and sleep apnea is discussed in Dr. Felix Liao's Six Foot Tiger, Three Foot Cage.
Another great book not mentioned in the video is Jaws: The Story of a Hidden Epidemic.
PDF of the transcript with links to sources: patreon.com/posts/24534404
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How to Mew: instructions
If interested in this topic and how to properly "mew" (practice good oral posture and other habits that encourage good facial development), check out the Orthotropics channel: bit.ly/2DciWp0.
Sunday, January 29, 2023
How to survive anywhere: learn FIRE (2/18)
Chris Nyerges (Meetup), School of Self-Reliance; Xochitl, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Learn how to make fire by several primitive methods. Learn the four principles by which fire is generated:
- mechanical (friction)
- solar
- chemical
- electrical.
Practice several of these, and learn the best techniques for mastery.
Use solar reflectors and magnifying glasses, common batteries, flint stone and steel, the bow, the hand drill, the piston, flammable magnesium, and others.
Learn by doing. The goal is to create a hot ember and “nurture” it into a flame. Learn which woods are best for burning and cooking and how to process woods.
A short nature walk will be included to see which plants are best for fire-making kits.
This class applies to the School of Self-Reliance's Bushcraft Certificate.
- Where? Location 2. (Details sent with registration)
- When? Saturday, February 18th, 10:00 am
- Copies of SOS books are available at all classes
- More details: schoolofself-reliance.com/event
Thursday, November 17, 2022
What can 1 photographer do to change world?
Annie Hall; Yahoo YouTube; Ashley Wells, Sheldon S., Crystal Quintero (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Student photographer captures BeyoncΓ©’s eye
I regret I didn't learn these tips sooner
Chapters
- 00:00 Intro
- 00:23 Create a welcoming space
- 02:34 Photograph your friends
- 04:00 Cut down on the gear
- 05:34 Go with the flow
- 07:15 Why does that photo work?
- 08:20 Learn to love light
- 11:14 Revisit old images
- 12:09 Seek out inspiration
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