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(The Mountain) March 15, 2025: We are not inside the world; the world is inside our awareness. To name a thing is to summon it from the void. #quantumconsciousness #holographicuniverse #observer

Music weaponized against us?

"Music is frequency programming" 440 Hz

Will no one dare to question the "observer effect"?

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Rapper Lil Jon's "Total Meditation" (NPR)

Sensei Rap Guru Lil Jon; Usher, ft. Ludacris; CC Liu, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Just a few years ago Lil Jon was producing booze-promoting trashy rap hits like "Yeah!"

WARNING: Filth, "Yeah!" by Usher song featuring Lil Jon (who also produced the song) and Ludacris is a crass, vulgar sexual exploitation pop-rap hit song that got so big it catapulted Usher to the 2024 Super Bowl Halftime Show with Taylor Swift dancing in the bleachers to it and amping up footballer Travis Kelcey to win and go party on the Vegas strip with strippers and alcohol after the game.

Rap artist Lil Jon's latest album is a guided meditation

Ayesha Rascoe, NPR, March 3, 2024 (7:59 am ET) Weekend Edition Sunday (8-min listen)

A moment of Zen from NPR's Ayesha Rascoe (pronounced \eye-eesh-uh ross-koh\): She talks to rapper DJ producer Lil Jon who's all turnt up about his new guided spoken word album, Total Meditation, finding peace while being the life of the party. [He got uh kol'ina'skuppy at fiddy, so maybe he koming dahn? It's a Southern thang (Rascoe's accent) y'all woodent git it.]

Lil Jon "Deep Relaxation" (official audio)

If you shake your bottle rocket and hold it in your crotch, it'll pop off and shoot everywhere.

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(LIL JON) Feb. 16, 2024: Now let's see if we understand this. The vulgar featured rapper who produced and sang on "Yeah!" with King of R&B Usher and Ludacris has had a change of heart and started practicing meditation?

(LMAFO ft. Lil Jon) "Shots" about binge drinking in social situations

Rapper/meditator Lil Jon

Moreover, he likes it so much, he's teaching meditation and laying down relaxation tracks on his latest album instead of the mindless rap and hip-hop songs fans expected?

Sadhu, sadhu, sadhu! (aka Hallelujah!) We're incredulous, but NPR's Blackest voice ever, Ayesha Rascoe from the Deep South (Durham, N.C.), assures us it's true on NPR radio ads.

She will be featuring the gangsta-rapper-cum-meditation-guide on tomorrow's episode of Weekend Edition Sunday (3/3/24).

Tune in to NPR at 8:00 am (Eastern), or at 2:00 pm (Pacific) as it repeats on scpr.org.

• A Rational Conversation: Lil Jon's History of Turning Up (The Record/NPR)
• Usher's Super Bowl Halftime show cemented his R&B legacy

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Aubrey Plaza in "Little Demon" cartoon (FX)

Little Demon official trailer | Aubrey Plaza, Lucy DeVito, Danny DeVito | FX

(FX Networks) From the co-creator of Rick and Morty comes the new animated comedy, FX’s Little Demon. Watch the OFFICIAL TRAILER featuring Aubrey Plaza, Lucy DeVito, and Danny DeVito, coming to FX on August 25th. Stream on Hulu.

Subscribe now for more Little Demon clips: SubscribeFX.

In FX’s Little Demon, an animated comedy featuring the voices of Danny DeVito and Aubrey Plaza, it has been 13 years since being impregnated by Satan, and a reluctant mother, Laura, and her Antichrist daughter, Chrissy, attempt to live an ordinary life in Delaware, USA.

However, the two are constantly thwarted by monstrous forces, including Satan, who yearns for custody of his daughter's soul.

See more of Little Demon at the official site: fxnetworks.com/shows/little... Facebook: FXNetworksFacebook Follow FX on Twitter: FXNetworksTW. Follow FX on Instagram: FXNetworksInstagram. FX youtube.com/user/FXNetworks.

In the Thai Buddhist Forest (video)

True Little Monk (rare documentary); Ajahn Chah (ajahnchah.org) via Ven. Sujato, Ellie Askew; Dhr. Seven, Pat Macpherson (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

(True Little Monk) A look at Ajahn Chah's Int'l Buddhist Meditation Center in Thailand, Wat Pah Nanachat from Western eyes that have come to meditate and ordain as temporary monks.

Ajahn Chah feeds deer in Thai forest.

In the beginning, simply concentrate [allowing] the mind [to be] calm and peaceful.

Whether sitting in a chair, riding in a car, taking a boat ride, or wherever you find yourself, become proficient enough in meditation to be able to enter a state of peace [absorption] at will.

When getting on a train and sitting down, quickly bring the mind to a state of peace. Wherever we find ourselves, we can always sit. This level of proficiency indicates that we’re becoming familiar with the Path.

Investigate it. Utilize the power of this peaceful mind to investigate experience. At times it is what we see, at times what we hear, smell, taste, feel with the body, or feel and know in the heart.

Whatever sensory experience presents itself -- whether it is liked or not -- take that up for investigation and contemplation.

Simply know what you are experiencing -- without projecting meanings and interpretations onto those objects of sense awareness.

If it’s good/pleasant, just know that it’s good. If it’s bad/unpleasant, just know that it’s bad. This is conventional (consensus) reality. Virtuous or harmful, it’s all impermanent, disappointing (unfulfilling, dissatisfying), and impersonal/not-self.

It’s all undependable, none of it worthy of grasping or clunging.

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Japanese: Nisei Week, Los Angeles (festival)

NiseiWeek.org; CC Liu, Crystal Quintero, Wisdom Quarterly

Nisei Week 2016

Great Buddha, Kamakura, Japan (CP)

Enjoyed by thousands every summer, come join the downtown Los Angeles community at the 76th Annual Nisei Week Japanese Festival in Los Angeles’ Little Tokyo, August 13-21, 2016. One of the nation’s longest running ethnic festivals of its kind, the events will take place August 13-21, 2016. The Festival showcases free Japanese cultural events, activities and exhibits, including music and entertainment, food and fun games spanning two weekends. CLICK to view the festival events. More

The Nisei Week logo

NISEI WEEK is an annual festival celebrating Japanese American culture and history in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles.

Nisei means "second generation," describing the first American-born Japanese, a group which the seven-day festival was originally meant to attract.

Although named for the Nisei generation, Nisei Week is no longer targeted at Niseis, nor is the festival still contained within a week. Nisei Week Foundation president for 2006, Michelle Suzuki, described the festival as "the opportunity for people of all backgrounds to celebrate Japanese heritage and culture" (Nisei Week Kicks Off Annual Festivities)... More

Malcolm X: By Any Means Necessary (audio)

Eds., Wisdom Quarterly; RBGStreetScholar; Tobias Smith; Nina Simone (Netflix)

(RBGStreetScholar) Malcolm X: "By Any Means Necessary" speech+Interactive PDF Download
 

The Diary of Malcolm X

Malcolm X (a.k.a. Minister El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz) delivered this speech in Detroit, Michigan on Feb. 13, 1965 -- the day after his home in New York was firebombed. He confessed to being tired and worried, but nonetheless he still showed up in Detroit. Many who present Malcolm X's words prefer to choose snippets of his development that most closely suits their sociopolitical agenda. This speech provides insight into Malcolm X's ideas as most developed delivered closest to his assassination (The Onez Who Fight Blk, Web. 3.0).

(Tobias Smith) Official trailer for "The Cotton Pickin Truth...Still on the Plantation." Featuring Dick Gregory, Mayor Johnny Thomas, Mae Louise Miller, George Wilson, and others.

• Harper Lee, author of To Kill of Mockingbird, dies at 89
• Author on race in America Harper Lee passes away (NYT)

Miracle: Woodfox, a member of the "Angola Three," is released from prison (AP).

During US Out of Vietnam period/Civil Rights Movement, police brutality was allowed.

Afghanistan’s "Little America" experiment

Wisdom Quarterly; Joyce Hackel (TheWorld.org)

 

David Rohde reconsiders US influence abroad

It was in the heat of the Cold War during the 1950s that Washington first tried its hand at making the deserts of Helmand province bloom.

American lawmakers began to fund a massive "aid" program in the Afghan province, attempting to build dams, canals, and roads in a project they thought would be reminiscent of the Tennessee Valley Authority.

In the decades that followed, the project largely collapsed, although some Afghans struggled to carry the torch.

Now, as American and British soldiers pull out of Helmand, author David Rohde reconsiders the legacy of the project known to some as “Little America.”

Rohde is a columnist for Reuters and The Atlantic Monthly. He’s a two-time Pulitzer prize winner, and his latest book is called Beyond War: Reimagining American Influence in a New Middle East.

• David Rohde's Beyond War
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New Year's Day in search of Buddhist LA

Wisdom Quarterly; Koyasan Buddhist Temple; PasaDharma.org

The Fire Ritual, Koyasan Buddhist Temple, Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, Jan. 1, 2012 (WQ)

It was the first day of the new year. It was the last year of the age. For next year will be the first year of the New Age, the Age of Aquarius -- according to the modern world's limited understanding of ancient Mayan calendars.

The long count calendar does not, of course, correspond to the Gregorian (Christian) calendar. But the mainstream media feeds us a steady Doomsday Diet of Dec. 21st, 2012. Why stress? Live instead! The world is ending everyday. The world is being reborn everyday.

The unveiling, the revelation, the apocalypse may come this year. It can come sooner for seekers on a spiritual quest.

An Ancient Ritual
Our minds full, our hearts heavy with good wishes for all, we entered the mystic temple. Wisdom Quarterly joined PasaDharma Zen group to bring in the new year in spiritual Los Angeles. We were in downtown's Little Tokyo.

It was a sunny summer day in the middle of winter. California can be like that. The chemtrails over the Los Angeles basin dissipate in a day and contaminate the fields in the Central Valley, America's bread, fruit, and cattle basket.

Koyasan Buddhist Temple is not "Zen," as such. It is actually Shingon, a more esoteric Vajrayana-influenced tradition. (Vajrayana Buddhism is the Bon-influenced magic of Tibet). We arrived for the fire ceremony to welcome the Year of the Dragon, by Western reckoning.

Those making use of an Eastern calendar can welcome the "real" New Year's day on Jan. 21st, 2012 at 5:00 pm in the Main Hall. RSVP by Jan. 19, 2012 at rskoyasan@yahoo.com.

The fires rose, delightful incense wafted, and rice cakes (mochi) were handed out to dragons in the audience -- two in our group alone. The Heart Sutra was being chanted joining the chorus of singing bowls, resounding drums, and happy voices.

Need more devotional magic?
The temple invites all to its Hoshimatsuri Prayer Service on Feb. 5, 2012. Based on the movements of the Sun and stars (planets), a year of 365 days has been established, a week of seven days, a day of 24 hours -- all composed of moments that have no time at all.

We count time and our ages using these cycles, from aging to timelessness. The rise and fall of the tides and the phasing of the Moon are important signs used by people engaged in agriculture and maritime adventures. In ancient times calendars relied on lunar phases.

The movements of the "heavenly" bodies have been inseparably tied to our daily lives. Why? We year for god health and fortune. But what is influencing our lives? They are influenced by our lifestyle choices, customs, environment, relationships, and countless other conditions.

Having been born human, we are able to discern that we cannot escape the pain of (re)birth, illness, aging [oxidation and disintegration], and death. Health and happiness are what we wish for. How will we get them?

The historical Buddha said it was not by prayers and vows but instead by karma -- conducting ourselves in a manner that naturally results in these fortunate conditions.

For example, giving eventually yields receiving, when our deed ripens. If we receive right away, that is not that deed of giving coming to fruit. (The same may be said of unprofitable deeds). Nevertheless, Koyasan Buddhist Temple is selling prayers. A suggested donation of $5 (or $30 if one would like a special wooden Ofuda talisman). An application is required and must be received by Jan. 28, 2012.

The 2012 Hosihimatsuri Prayer Service will be held on Sunday, Feb. 5, 2012 at 1:30 pm. A young and vibrant new abbot has taken over. The temple has activities every weekend of every month.

• Koyasan Betsuin
• 342 East 1st Street
• Los Angeles, CA 90012
• (213) 624-1267

Zen in Daily Life, May 15 (Little Tokyo)

Koshi Kuwahara, Zenforone.com (zenforone@gmail.com)

Zen in Daily Life is an informal discussion series that explores how the principles of Zen Buddhism and the teachings of the Zen masters apply to daily life of the lay person. Discussion focuses on our current lives to answer a number of crucial questions about Zen:

• Who is Buddha?
• What is Dharma?
• How do the basic laws of Buddhism manifest in our daily lives?
• What is the path to enlightenment?
• What are the guidelines for Zen living?
• Is seated meditation (Zazen) necessary?
• What role does faith play in Zen practice?
• How do compassion and helping others fit in with modern living?

Admission is free. Discussion is led by Rev. Koshi Kuwahara, Zen Priest. Saturday, 5/15/10, 9:30 am to 11:00 a.m. Where? Classroom on 2nd floor at Zenshuji, 123 South Hewitt St., downtown Los Angeles 90012 (Little Tokyo).

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Millionaire Enlightened Daughters

The millionaire Buddhist Anathapindika ("one who feeds the needy") was married and had daughters. He was very devoted to the Buddha -- his chief patron -- and would often visit him to discuss the Dharma.

Before passing away, he attained stream-entry (the first of four progressive stages of enlightenment). Three of his daughters, while living at home, attained this distinction in purification earlier. Here is the astounding story of the millionaire's family.

Three Daughters
Adapted from Hellmuth Hecker (BPS, accesstoinsight.org)

Anathapindika was happily married. His wife, Puññalakkhana ("one who has the mark of merit") lived up to her name. As the good spirit of the house, she took care of the servants and of the monastics who came for alms at midday. She was devoted to the Dharma ("Teaching"). Through her brother, who had been one of the first lay disciples of the Buddha, she had become familiar with it.

Anathapindika had four children, three daughters and a son. Two of the daughters, Little Subhadda and Big Subhadda, were steeped in the Dharma like their father and had attained stream-entry. And just as they took after their father in spiritual matters, so too in worldly affairs: They were both happily married. But the youngest daughter, Sumana, surpassed the rest of her family in deep wisdom. Upon hearing the Buddha teach, she had quickly attained the second stage of enlightenment and thus was a once-returner.

She did not marry -- but not because she renounced marriage. In fact, when she saw the happiness of her two [stream-enterer] sisters, she became sad and lonely. Her spiritual strength did not suffice to overcome her depression. To the deep sorrow of her family, she wasted away, eating nothing, eventually starving to death. She was reborn in the Tusita heaven, the highest form of existence in the sensual realm. There she had to purge herself of the residue of dependence on other people, her last outwardly directed desire (Dhammapada Commentary).

The Wayward Son
The only son of Anathapindika, Kala the Dark One, was at first a strain on his father's house. He did not want to know anything of the Teaching, immersing himself completely in his business affairs.

Then one day his father urged him to observe a holy day, offering him one thousand pieces of gold if he would keep the Uposatha day. Kala consented, and soon found it relaxing to take one day of the week off from business to enjoy himself in the company of his family. Because of this, the fasting of the Uposatha day did not weigh too heavily on him. Then his father made a second request and offered him another thousand if he would come to the monastery with him one holiday afternoon in order to listen to the Dharma.

Kala gladly agreed, and it became the turning point of his life. Through the discourse of the Buddha, he attained stream-entry. His daily life became ennobled, just as in his father's case, and he also became a major benefactor of the Order (Sangha), known by the name of "Little Anathapindika" (Dhp Comy).

Kala was married to Sujata, a sister of the famous lay-devotee Visakha, mother of Migara. She was very proud of her family background and her wealth on both sides. Because her thoughts revolved around nothing but these trifles, she could not arouse noble thoughts. She was unfulfilled, dissatisfied, and peevish. And she vented her unhappiness on others. This was seen in the hostile and angry way in which she treated everyone. She beat her servants, and whenever she appeared she spread fear and terror. Nor did she follow the rules of propriety in her relationships with in-laws and husband. Thus, she increasingly made herself an object of scorn. ...

The "Prodigal" Nephew
Finally, mention is made of a nephew of Anathapindika. He had inherited a great fortune of forty million but lived a wild life, squandering, drinking, and gambling everything away. He paid thousands to various entertainers, women, and obliging friends. When he had exhausted his inheritance, he asked his wealthy uncle for support. His uncle gave him a thousand gold pieces and told him that he should use it to start a business.

He instead wasted it and appeared once more at the palace of Anathapindika, who this time gave him five times as much as before, without a single condition, but as a severance. Even the warning that this was the last of the money did not keep the nephew from his wasteful ways. For the third time he begged his uncle for money. Anathapindika gave the young man two pieces of clothing. But he wasted these as well and was shameless enough to call on his uncle for a fourth time. However, this time he was told to leave. If he had come as one of the many beggars and not as a demanding nephew, he certainly would have received sustenance from the house of Anathapindika. But this he did not do, not wanting almsfood but only money to squander.

Because he was too lazy and stubborn to earn his own living, while unwilling to beg, he died wretchedly. His body was found at the city wall and was thrown onto the refuse pile. When Anathapindika heard of this, he asked himself whether he could have prevented this sad ending. He then asked the Buddha if he should have acted differently. The Buddha resolved his misgivings, explaining how the nephew belonged to the fortunately small number of insatiable people who were like bottomless vats. He had perished because of real external needs, as had occurred in previous lives (Jataka 291).

• IMAGES: Daughters (bollyvista.com); Buddha with Anathapindika (goldenpages.com); The Return of the Prodigal Son by Edward John Poynter; The-Prodigal-Son.