This F'n Guy: KA$H Patel (video)

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The Lazy Way to Enlightenment

Zen Master Bankei's Unborn Zen

The lazy way to enlightenment: [Zen Master] Bankei's Unborn Zen

(Asangoham) "The Unborn is not something difficult to attain; it is not something distant. It is not something we have to search for; it is not something we have to discover. It is something we already have, right here, right now" - Bankei Yōtaku.

Bankei Yōtaku (Rinzai school Zen)

Zen Buddhism is a major school of Mahayana Buddhism that originated in China (where it is called Chan, short for channa, which is the Chinese attempt to say jhana, which is the Pali pronunciation of Sanskrit dhyana) and later spread to Japan.

The Japanese term "Zen" comes from the Sanskrit word dhyana, which refers to a state of deep meditation and awareness. (It is disputed what the difference between dharana and dhyana is in Yoga's Eightfold Path, as both are sometimes called "meditation" in English).

Zen emphasizes the experience of direct, intuitive realization of the nature of reality and the attainment of spiritual enlightenment (kensho, satori).

(Starseed TV) The Zen philosophy that predicted modern science

All beings have essential Buddha-nature.

There are two names considered most important to the development of Zen are, Dogen and Hakuin. Dogen Kigen (1200-1253) was the founder of Soto Zen. He became obsessed with a question as a young man, and it motivated his search for Truth.

Simply put, the answer Dogen came to was: Practice itself is an expression of enlightenment. Because of this conclusion, one of the main practices of Soto Zen became Shikantaza, which means "just sitting."

In Shikantaza (as meditation), one merely sits. There is no practice of concentration, breath counting, and so on. One merely sits. As Dogen said, “You cannot get it wrong.”

Soto Zen is known as a gradual enlightenment school, meaning that over time one eventually realizes one's own inherent Buddha-nature.

Hakuin Ekaku (1686-1769) was the founder of the Rinzai (not Soto) school of Zen Buddhism.

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Voiceover: Andrea Giordani. Script: Matt Mackane. Edit: Medo. Score: Epidemic music x Original Music. #zen #buddhism #bankei #spirituality

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• Asangoham; CC Liu, Seth Auberon, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
  

Science: Not white, what are Irish?

Typical Black girl: Irish redhead (Suburban Men)

When Science called the Irish "Inferior"

My scientific measurements show his skull is
Blackoid regressive. Look at his forehead

(NYTN) March 7, 2025: Race is a social construct. Here's proof. Irish American history goes deeper than St Patrick's Day parades. The Irish weren’t always seen as "white," particularly not in England or America. In the 19th century, they were depicted as inferior and often compared to apes in racial hierarchies. This forgotten history later shaped their place in America — as social rejects. Here’s what really happened.

Sources: H. W. H. “The Races of Britain.” Science, vol. 7, no. 155, 1886, pp. 84–86. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/1762109. Accessed 28 Feb. 2025. L.P. Curtis, Anglo-Saxons and Celts: A Study of Anti-Irish Prejudice in Victorian England (1968) Nancy Stepan, The Idea of Race in Science: Great Britain, 1800-1960 Coates, James, Ph.D., F.A.S, and Mcmanus-Young Collection. Phrenology Made Easy. New York: F.M. Lupton, 1894. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/93131464/.

(Danielle Romero) How Irish Americans became White: finding roots

(Danielle Romero/NYTN) Who were the Black Irish?

• Danielle Romero (NYTN); Dhr. Seven, Pat Macpherson (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

I'm too lazy: standup comedian Jim Gaffigan

 

Jim Gaffigan: “I’m Too Lazy” (full special stand up)

(Comedy Central) Premiered Dec. 2, 2022. #JimGaffigan #StandUp In this classic Comedy Central Presents special, standup comedian Jim Gaffigan talks about being from Indiana (Midwest), his own laziness, manatees (sea cows), and more.

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Paramount+ is here: Stream favorite shows now. Try it FREE at bit.ly/3qyOeOf. Original air date: July 12, 2000. ABOUT: Comedy Central Presents are half-hour specials showcasing some of the best up-and-coming comedians of the moment. The show was a pivotal stepping stone for many of today’s stand up stars, including Dave Chappelle, Patton Oswalt, Amy Schumer, Jim Gaffigan, Kevin Hart, Zach Galifianakis, Dane Cook, Bill Burr, Wanda Sykes, and Maria Bamford.

Pleasure, end laziness, dopamine detox (video)

Dr. Andy Huberman, Tom Bilyeu, 9/23/21; Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Dopamine detox: Take back control of life and stop laziness! | Dr. Andrew Huberman

(Tom Bilyeu) As for dopamine, people have been obsessing and hearing about this neurochemical and its role in human behavior for years. We may think of it as the "feel-good happy hormone," or we may associate it with addiction, love, lust, and sex.

The Practical Neuroscience of Buddha's Brain

As our lives convert over to a totally digital experience that is with us everywhere we are in the form of a cell phone, dopamine detox has even started gaining in popularity.

Dr. Andrew Huberman from the Huberman Lab is here again to unpack some of the more surprising discoveries and uses of dopamine. He compares dopamine to a biological "currency" that plays a role in human desire for more and more (Buddhist craving and clinging, not being able to let go even in the face of suffering/disappointment).

Dopamine is the catalyst pushing humanity forward exploring things like cryptocurrency and pushing our limitations and what is possible, but is all of that for the sake of pleasure and feeling good?

Dr. Huberman breaks down the balance of pain and pleasure, arousal and relaxation, and gives us the insight we need to start regulating our body’s dopamine release.

If we thought dopamine was all about feeling good, Dr. Huberman is about to reveal why it’s more about what motivates us in the pursuit of something greater.

• Brain activity and [blissful] meditation
• Neuroplasticity [bending the brain]
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Show notes

• 0:00 | Introduction Dr. Andrew Huberman
• 0:56 | Dopamine as biological currency
• 6:51 | Releasing dopamine
• 10:38 | Hormonal signaling
• 14:34 | Can we spike dopamine?
• 21:00 | Value the pursuit and the dips
• 25:40 | Balance of pain and pleasure
• 31:23 | Self-regulation of dopamine
• 38:28 | Dopamine and time perception
• 44:31 | Dopamine and overindulging
• 49:05 | Action based denial
• 52:42 | Using rules and dopamine
• 58:27 | Ways to get motivated

"I was gonna...but then I got high."

(Afroman song "Because I Got High")

Quotes

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“When I say dopamine is the universal currency of everything, what I mean is, it's driving the motivation to develop new currencies.” [3:08]

“Celebrating the win more than the pursuit, it actually sets you up for failure in the future.” [16:00]

“If you can start to register that craving, and that friction and that desire, that almost kind of low level of agitation, sometimes high level of agitation...that's dopamine” [17:54].

“Your capacity to tap into dopamine as a motivator, not just seeking dopamine rewards, that is infinite.” [19:34]

“It's the craving that makes me feel alive. So it's the state of wanting that is in and of itself, the pleasurable act.” [22:37]

“It doesn't matter if it's Bitcoin or Ethereum, it doesn't matter if it's putting rockets on other planets, it doesn't matter if it's building the first automobile, it's the same currency.” [25:27]

And so we go back to this example of the person who's not motivated and can't get off the couch and doesn't want to do anything. Well, this is the problem. Remember the rat experiment? They are effectively the rat with no dopamine..." [27:47]

“Dopamine itself is not the reward. It's the buildup to the reward, and the reward has more of a kind of opioid bliss like property.” [29:51]

“The more pain you experience, the more dopamine you can achieve. If you get back on the avenue of pursuit.” [30:58]

“I would say addiction is a progressive narrowing of the things that bring you pleasure, and I don't like to comment too much on enlightenment...but a good life is a progressive expansion of the things that bring you pleasure, and even better is a good life is a progressive expansion of the things that bring you pleasure and includes pleasure through motivation and hard work.” [32:55]

“If you think about most of the growth in life comes from these rigidly externally imposed schedules and we hate them. But they are where we learn restraint.” [52:42]

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