Tara? Rainbow light of Yeshe Tsogal, Tibet

(Buddha's Wisdom)

Rainbow light body? 

Vajrayogini

Yeshe Tsogyal (circa 757 or 777–817 CE) [1] is also known as "Victorious Ocean of Knowledge," "Knowledge Lake Empress" (Wylie ye shes mtsho rgyal, ཡེ་ཤེས་མཚོ་རྒྱལ) or by her Sanskrit name Jñānasāgarā "Knowledge Ocean," or by her clan name "Lady Kharchen" [2].

She attained enlightenment in her lifetime and is considered the Mother of Tibetan Buddhism. Yeshe Tsogyal is the highest woman in the Nyingma Vajrayana lineage.

Some sources say she, as princess of Kharchen, was either a co-wife or consort of Emperor Tri Songdetsen (Trisong Detsen) of Tibet [3] when she began studying Buddhism with Padmasambhava, who became her main karmamudrā consort.

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  Samantabhadri

  EMANATIONS: Yeshe Tsogyal is considered a manifestation of the Bodhisattva Tara. She is also considered an emanation of Prajnaparamita, Samantabhadrī, and Vajrayogini [16]. In the Life of Yeshe Tsogyel, Padmasambhava predicted that Yeshe Tsogyel would be reborn as Machig Labdrön; her consort Atsara Sale [2] would become Topabhadra, Machig’s husband; her assistant and another of Padmasambhava’s consorts, Tashi Khyidren, would be reborn as Machig’s only daughter, and so on. All of the important figures in Yeshe Tsogyel’s life were to be reborn in the life of Machig Labdron, including Padmasambhava himself, who would become Dampa Sangye [17].
• VIDEO: Gender? Tara, the most powerful Goddess?

Padmasambhava

Padmasambhava is a founder-figure of the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhism and is considered a second "buddha" of our era [4] [which at least one other tradition, sticking to the original texts, would say is impossible, given that the historical Buddha often pointed out how rare the arising of a buddha is and how few there have ever been, with only one in any epoch.]

She is known to have revealed terma ("hidden treasure") with Padmasambhava and was also the main scribe for these terma. Later, Yeshe Tsogyal hid many of Padmasambhava's terma on her own, under the instructions of Padmasambhava for future generations [2].

Emperor Trisong Detsen

Born a princess in the region of Kharchen, Tibet, in about 777 CE, she fled from arranged marriages until captured for Emperor Tri Songdetsen.

Yeshe Tsogyal lived for approximately 99 years and is a preeminent figure in the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism and a role model for contemporary spiritual practitioners.

Although often referred to as being Padamasambhava's main "consort," Yeshe Tsogyal was primarily a spiritual master and teacher in her own right.

Prajnaparamita with Devotees

Based on her spiritual accomplishments, the Nyingma and Karma Kagyu schools of Tibetan Buddhism recognize Yeshe Tsogyal as a female buddha.

The translators of Lady of the Lotus-Born, the namtar or spiritual biography that Yeshe Tsogyal left as a terma/hidden treasure, observe:

"As Dodrup Tenpai Nyima makes clear, beings able to reveal Termas must have at least the realization of the Perfection Stage practices. On the other hand, the one who originates the Treasures must have the supreme attainment of Buddhahood. Lady of the Lotus-Born is thus a testimony of Yeshe Tsogyal's enlightenment" [5]. More

Gender? Tara, the most powerful Goddess?

The lovely Tara enshrined in art

(Buddha's Wisdom) TARA: The most powerful Goddess in Buddhism — and why she refused to be reborn as a man

Tara (Sanskrit तारा, tārā, Standard Tibetan སྒྲོལ་མ, dölma), Ārya Tārā ("Noble Tara") is also known as Jetsün Dölma (Tibetan rje btsun sgrol ma, "Venerable Mother of Liberation"). She is an important female buddha in Vajrayana and Mahayana Buddhism.

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  The Elevation of Mary Magdalene

  Our reading of Mahayana Buddhism, of which Vajrayana is a sub-school, suggests that the MOST powerful Buddhist goddess is actually Kwan Yin (Guanyin, a female manifestation of Avalokiteśvara) Bodhisattva. She is queen or in any case certainly the most powerful, for she looks on and hears the cries of the world with utmost compassion, a kind of Virg Yin Mary (not Jewish or Essene Miriam so much as the ultimate goddess in Gnostic Christianity, Mary Magdalene).
• If Theravada Buddhism made much of personifying qualities through transcendent goddesses (devis), our vote for the Ultimate Goddess right alongside Kwan Yin (Guanyin) would certainly be the glorious Prajnaparamita of Java, Gnostic Sophia, the personification of the Perfection of Wisdom. And we wouldn't stop there. Maha Pajapati Gotami, Yasodhara (aka Bimba Devi, Rahulamata, Bhaddha Kaccana, Sundari Kaccana, etc.), Khema Theri, Uppalavanna Theri, and Queen of [Tusita] Heaven Maya would serve as the raw basis for building up goddesses, venerable enlightened Buddhist women in history.

Prajnaparamita Java (side detail)

• [Earlier traditions hold to the view, one of five niyamas, that while females are of course equally capable of arahantship, full enlightenment, as well as many other accomplishments, literal buddhas only arise as males. Why this would be, or why any of the niyamas are true in and of themselves, is not explained. 5. dhamma-niyāma "the constraint of dhammas (things, phenomena)," namely, such events as the quaking of the 10,000 world-systems at the conception of a bodhisatta conception in his mother's womb and again at his birth (partition from that womb). At the end of the discussion Sumaṅgalavilāsinī passage, the Commentary states that dhamma-niyāma explains the term dhammatā in the text of the Mahāpadāna Sutta (DN ii.12) (Cf. S 12.20 for a discussion of the use of the word dhamma-niyamatā in the Pali canon sutras.
• It should always be borne in mind that no individual is an actual sex but fluid because one can be reborn as any of the three genders -- male, female, pandaka. How many genders are there? The answer could easily be more than three because pandaka can be variously defined as pervert, eunuch (pansexual as the word is understood in the East not as we use it in the West), hermaphrodite, bi, gay, asexual, intersex, transgender, transsexual, crossdresser, etc.)
• The Dalai Lama, who is Tibetan Vajrayana joked about this in one of his PR movies, declaring something like: "Of course a woman can become a buddha...she just has to be reborn as a man first" then laughing. People popularly regard him as the "Pope of Vajrayana Buddhism," though he is not; he's not even the pope of Tibetan Buddhism because the non-Gelug schools do not regard him as the pontiff but rather a useful political leader, a kind of temporal king who made it to the world stage with more than a little help from the CIA. This topic of gender should be questioned, debated, and explored as it seems awfully unfair and denigrating to femalehood, but might it be the case, as a Hindu priest once told our college Comparative Religion class that the reason a being, a gandhabba seeking rebirth in a human body, is reborn as a female rather than a male at any given rebirth is due to the level of attachment, affection, and clinging present in that relinking moment. If that is the case, we have all been and will all be females, so placing femininity one down from masculinity is a bad strategy that will turn around and bite us. Likewise, all females reborn as humans, as rare and difficult as it is to ever secure a human rebirth, will also experience what it's like to be a male. And we say with no confusion, it's not all it's cracked up to be.]

Humans love to carve ideal attributes in stone.

She may appear as a female bodhisattva (a "being bent on full or supreme enlightenment," the two not being the same thing, one being an arhat, the other a buddha) in Mahayana Buddhism [1].

In Vajrayana Buddhism, Green Tara is a female buddha who is a consort of the Cosmic Buddha Amoghasiddhi.

Tārā is also known as a savioress who hears the cries of beings in saṃsāra (the interminable round of rebirth and suffering) and saves them from worldly and spiritual danger [2].

In Vajrayana, she is considered to be a buddha, and the Tārā Tantra describes her as "a mother who gives birth to the buddhas of the three times [past, present, and future]" who is also "beyond saṃsāra and nirvāṇa" [3].

• Earlier tradition distinguishes nirvana as being nothing like samsara, and since all we have ever known is the latter, anything else could be considered nirvana. Some do not like this definition as it seems to define nirvana, which many feel is ineffable, indescribable, and incomparable even though the historical Buddha Siddhartha Gautama did indeed define and describe it.

Tārā is one of the most important female deities in Vajrayana (Esoteric Buddhism) and is found in apocryphal sources like the Mañjuśrīmūlakalpa and the Guhyasamāja Tantra [4].

Key Indic Vajrayana texts that focus on Tārā include the Tantra Which Is the Source for All the Functions of Tārā, Mother of All the Tathagatas (Sanskrit Sarva-tathāgata-mātṛtārā-viśva-karma-bhavanāma-tantra) and Tārā's Fundamental Ritual Text (Tārāmūlakalpa) [5, 3].

Both Green and White Tārā remain popular meditation deities or yidams in Tibetan Buddhism, and Tara is also revered in Newar Buddhism.

Tārā is considered to take on many forms or emanations, while Green Tara emanates 21 Tārās, each with different attributes—colors, implements, and activities such as pacifying (śānti), increasing (pauṣṭika), enthralling (vaśīkaraṇa), and wrathful (abhicāra) [2].

Green Tara (or "blue-green," Sanskrit Samayatara or śyāmatārā) remains the most important form of the deity in Tibetan Buddhism [6, 7].

A practice text entitled Praises to the 21 Taras is a well known text on Tara in Tibetan Buddhism within Tibet, recited by children and adults, and is the textual source for the 21 forms of Green Tārā.

The main Tārā mantra is the same for Buddhists and Hindus: oṃ tāre tuttāre ture svāhā. It is uttered by Tibetans and Buddhists who follow Tibetan culture as oṃ tāre tu tāre ture soha. The literal translation would be "Oṃ O Tārā, I pray O Tārā, O Swift One, So Be It!" More

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• Gnosticism seems to be the Western version of the Vedic/Hindu concept of God (the One or the Supreme) at "divine play" (lila), coming under the illusion (maya) of separation. But all is one. Who is this Demiurge, this false God that created this simulation/illusory reality (duality) around us and the cycle of endless rebirth (samsara)?

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Levitation by kung fu, dance, running, TM?

The TM corporation under Maharishi Mahesh Yogi -- the Beatles', Beach Boys', and other celebrities' own guru -- used to sell "levitation" during meditation, which turned out to be a kind of flipper hopping by flapping the knees, a ridiculous compromise in the way we can bend reality and language to match. Even this wouldn't be "levitation" as we understand it even with the great hang time.

(Heshers) Levitation through meditation [using same trick TV's Batman used to climb buildings]

(AS) This "yogic flying" TM style "levitation" is more embarrassing than Heshers' sill trick above.

It only took us two views to see how he's doing it, and we guarantee anyone with the right camera set up can do this tonight, with less stress on his plastic drawers from the pushing.

Buddhism's Path of Purification on levitation

95. Uplifting happiness can be powerful enough to levitate the body and make it spring up into the air. For this was what happened to the Elder Mahá Tissa, residing at Punnavallika.

He went to the shrine terrace on the evening of the full-moon day. Seeing the moonlight, he turned in the direction of the Great Shrine [at Anurádhapura], thinking:

“At this very hour the four assemblies [Note 29] are worshipping at the Great Shrine!” By means of objects formerly seen [there] he aroused uplifting happiness with the Enlightened One [the Buddha] as object, and he rose into the air like a painted ball bounced off a plastered floor and alighted on the terrace of the Great Shrine.

• [Note 29: Four assemblies (parisá) Buddhist monks, nuns, laymen, and laywomen.]

96. And this was what happened to the daughter of a clan in the village of Vattakálaka near the Girikandaka Monastery when she sprang up into the air owing to strong uplifting happiness with the Enlightened One as object.

As her parents were about to go to the monastery in the evening, it seems, in order to hear the Dhamma [144], they told her:

“My dear, you are expecting a child; you cannot go out at an unsuitable time. We shall hear the Dhamma [the Buddha's Teachings] and gain merit for you.” So they went out. And though she wanted to go, too, she could not very well object to what they said. She stepped out of the house onto a balcony and stood looking at the Ákásacetiya Shrine at Girikandaka lit by the moon.

She saw the offering of lamps at the shrine and the four communities [assemblies] as they circumambulated it to the right after making their offerings of flowers and perfumes. And she heard the sound of the massed recital by the Community of Monastics. Then she thought:

“How lucky they are to be able to go to the monastery and wander round such a shrine terrace and listen to such sweet preaching of Dhamma!”

Seeing the shrine as a mound of pearls and arousing uplifting happiness, she sprang up into the air, and before her parents arrived she came down from the air into the shrine terrace, where she paid homage and stood listening to the Dhamma.

97. When her parents arrived, they asked her: “What road did you come by, my dear?” She answered, “I came through the air, not by the road.”

And when they told her, “My dear, those whose cankers are destroyed [the enlightened] come through the air, but how did you come?”

She replied, “As I was standing looking at the shrine in the moonlight a strong sense of happiness arose in me with the Enlightened One as its object. Then I knew no more whether I was standing or sitting, but only that I was springing up into the air with the [mental] sign that I had grasped [apprehended], and I came to rest on this shrine terrace.”

So uplifting happiness can be powerful enough to levitate the body and make it spring up into the air.

98. But when pervading (rapturous) happiness arises, the whole body is completely pervaded [like soap powder suffused with water], like a filled bladder, like a rock cavern invaded by a huge inundation.

99. Now this fivefold happiness, when conceived and matured, perfects the twofold tranquility, that is, bodily and mental tranquility. When tranquility is conceived and matured, it perfects the twofold bliss, that is, bodily and mental bliss. When bliss is conceived and matured, it perfects the threefold concentration, that is,

1. momentary concentration [khanika samādhi],
2. access [neighborhood] concentration, and
3. absorption concentration [full jhana].

Of these, what is intended by happiness in this context is pervading happiness, which is the root of absorption and comes by growth into association with absorption [145].

CHAPTER IV

The Earth Kasina

100. But as to the other word: pleasing (sukhana) is bliss (sukha). Or alternatively: it thoroughly... More: Path of Purification (Visuddhimagga)

• Dhr. Seven, Amber Larson, Pat Macpherson (eds.), The Path of Purification edit

It's Magic, This World (Pasadena Library)

EXHIBIT: It's Magic, This World.

The Eaton Fire hit three foothill cities

Art, Nature, and Sustainability by Katie Savoy is an installation that continues through Sunday, August 31, 2025, at the Hastings Branch Library.

Art, Nature, and Sustainability is inspired by Southern California's landscapes. Katie Savoy finds magic painting Nature's hidden details, from flowers to mountain views. The art, including abstract explorations of texture and fluidity, is a constant journey of growth and therapy.

She's committed to sustainability, sourcing all materials secondhand and repurposing every piece. Her hope is to share this peace and calm with Los Angeles. More info

• CALENDAR: Pasadena Public Library
• EXHIBIT: It's Magic, This World. Art, Nature, and Sustainability by Katie Savoy, through Sunday, August 31, 2025 - Pasadena Public Library

Stronger Together: A Collaborative Puzzle Mural

Ongoing through Saturday, July 26, 2025: A colorful abstract with pencils and paintbrushes and the word ART. Each of us is a “piece” of what makes the library special! Help create a puzzle mural by decorating your own puzzle piece during this year’s Summer Reading.

Individual pieces will become part of a larger mural that will be unveiled during our End of Summer Bash on Saturday, August 2nd at Jefferson Branch Library. Designs can be about anything related to the library – a favorite book or favorite book character, or something that makes one think of the Pasadena community.]

How to Join: Pick up a puzzle piece at any Pasadena Public Library location starting Saturday, June 14th. Return decorated puzzle piece by Saturday, July 26th to be added to the mural.

Questions? Ask Marie Plug at mplug@cityofpasadena.net. We can’t wait to see what contributors create. Let’s make something awesome together!

• Stronger Together: A Collaborative Puzzle Mural, Ongoing through Saturday, July 26, 2025 - Pasadena Public Library

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Happy World Chocolate Day (7/7)

I must be a hybrid space alien-terrestrial human Earthling because I love sweet cacao paste.

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I'm a substitute love drug, so go easy.

Today is World Chocolate Day. But there's always tomorrow, which allows for the addition of almonds. What joy!

• Different types of chocolate and how to use them (so long as we do not get carried away and clingy)
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Chocolate in its rawest form: fruit

We look forward to National Chocolate with Almonds Day when it pops up on our calendar every July 8 (NATIONAL CHOCOLATE WITH ALMONDS DAY, July 8, 2025) and we celebrate one of the world’s most popular confections.

• It's also World Allergy Day (July 8): the world's most common allergies and their symptoms

We at NT confess, this national day is not just another day we circle on our calendar. We also add this one to our to-do list for today so we don’t miss out. We know we really don’t need a special day on the calendar to indulge in one of our favorite guilty pleasures.

Mexico invented chocolate (Aztec Codex)

But doesn’t having a day on the calendar to celebrate such a heavenly confection help negate the guilty part of a guilty pleasure? We think so.

Today, we are indulging unashamedly because chocolate [Theobroma cacao fruit seeds or nibs] and almonds are incredibly satisfying. This makes us wonder if the reason we crave chocolate with almonds and find the combination so satisfying is because our bodies know what is good for us [like the "gods" or theo knew, presumably because they were advanced alien life forms looking for high antioxidant foods].

[Dark] Chocolate and almonds both are separately documented to have heart health benefits. More

• MSN.com, July 7, 2025; National Today, July 8, 2025; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

World's largest Buddhist university town

Explore world’s largest hidden monastic town to get a glimpse of Tibetan monastic life

Sichuan's Giant Leshan Buddha

Tibet Travel (Tibet Vista) May 23, 2025: Today, we visit somewhere truly incredible — a place that feels like it is from another world. Deep in the mountains of western Sichuan, China, is a vegetarian Tibetan Buddhist university called Larung Gar* in the world’s largest and nearly hidden monastic college town.

Few may have heard of it — as it’s not easy to get to — but once it is seen, viewers will understand why it’s so special.

Imagine a valley completely covered with thousands of tiny red cabins, all packed tightly together on the hillsides. These are the homes of Tibetan monks (lama) and nuns (ani) who come here from all over the Tibetan Plateau to study and practice Vajrayana Buddhism.

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  The ruins of Nalanda Buddhist University

  NALANDA was a renowned Buddhist university or "great monastery" (maha vihara) in ancient and medieval Magadha (modern Bihar), eastern India, widely considered among the greatest centers of learning in the ancient world and often referred to as "the world's first residential university" [9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14], like Timbuktu in Africa and much older than Oxford, but destroyed by Muslim marauders. It was located near the city of Rajagriha (Rajgir), roughly 90 kms (56 miles) southeast of Pataliputra (Patna), operating for almost a thousand years from 427 CE until around 1400 CE [15][16] and playing a vital role in promoting the patronage of arts, culture, and academics. More

This video is a look around Larung Gar, the heart of Seda (Sertar or Serthar) — the massive Buddhist academy that has been quietly growing since the 1980s.

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  From here, we will save the world by magic

  SERTAR (Tibetan གསེར་ཐར་རྫོང།, Chinese 色达县) is a county in the northwest of Sichuan province, China, bordering Qinghai province to the north. It is one of the 18 counties under the administration of the Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, covering 9,340 square kms (3,606 square miles). Sêrtar means "Golden Freedom" [Golden Horse?] in Tibetan. It lies in the southeast of the Tibetan Plateau in the historical region of Kham. The vast majority of the population is Tibetan, followed by Han Chinese. Sêrtar comprises 17 towns and 66 villages and is the home of:
• *LARUNG GAR - Larung Gar Buddhist Institute, the largest Tibetan Buddhist institute in the world, formally named the Serta Larung Five Sciences Buddhist Academy. The institute was founded by Lama Jigme Phuntsok in 1980, beginning with just a few monks. It now houses tens of thousands of monks and pilgrims from around the world [2], which constitute the vast majority of the Sêrtar population. Most monks spend 6 to 13 years completing their training. The institute, divided into two main segments and spread over just a few square kms, is located in a valley about 15 kms from the town of Sêrtar. A permit is occasionally required for non-Chinese nationals to enter the institute. Sêrtar is remotely located and requires more than half a day's driving if travelling from Chengdu via Maerkang. It is also possible to travel from Xining, the capital of Qinghai. Sêrtar is at an altitude of 4,100 meters (13,500 feet above sea level), so temperatures range between a maximum of 30 °C (86 °F) in summer and a minimum of −30 °C (−22 °F) in winter. More

It is a place of devotion, discipline, and deep spiritual life, hidden away from the outside world. Let’s go through the narrow paths between the red homes to see what daily life looks like here and try to get a sense of what it feels like to be in such a peaceful spiritual environment.

We’ll visit the main prayer halls, catch a glimpse of the study sessions, and have a chance to see some of the unique local traditions.

For those interested in Tibetan culture, Himalayan Vajrayana (Tantrayana, Mantrayana, Esoteric Bon-infused) Buddhism, or those who just love discovering places most travelers never get to see, this is it. This is going to be something very special. Let’s explore Seda.

Questions on requirements for a tour of Tibet, please never hesitate to contact Jamyang Tour:

• Email jamyangtour@gmail.com
• Wechat ID: Jamyang-1234
• Website: tibettravel.org
• Facebook: tibetvista
• Jamyang, Tibet Travel ( Tibet Vista ), May 23, 2025; Amber Larson, CC Liu, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Terrifying Amusement Parks (video)

Early amusement parks were terrifying

Tested on live subjects. Mostly harmless.

(Historidame) Creepy clowns, weird Sideshow attractions, a midway, and rides that were actively dangerous -- early amusement parks were terrifying, and I want to visit them so badly. So join me today, dear viewers, as we take a trip into the past and explore the golden age of amusement parks.

• SOURCES: pastebin.com/revdKWN0

Music: Merry Go - Silent Film Light by Kevin MacLeod, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. creativecommons.org/licenses... Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-... Artist: http://incompetech.com/ Breaktime - Silent Film Light by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-... Artist: http://incompetech.com/ Fig Leaf Times Two by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-... Artist: http://incompetech.com/ RollerCoaster Tycoon 1 & 2 - Slavonic Dance - Merry-Go-Round #60fps #amusementpark #rollercoaster #coneyisland #history

• Historidame, April 18, 2025; CC Liu, Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation) (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Let go. It's better. But HOW?

Punk Gwen: You're letting go of our clingy relationship? But what will you ever do without me?

Our life is easier when we let go and let the Universe take control

(Solace Fox) Ever notice that when we stop trying to control every detail, life actually becomes easier? Most people resist letting go, but surrendering to the Universe can unlock surprising peace, clarity, synchronicity, and effortless living.

In this video, discover the power of trusting the Universe, releasing control, and letting life naturally unfold [in accordance with the results of our past deeds, our karma]. Letting go isn't weakness — it's wisdom. Watch until the end to understand exactly how to allow the Universe to work for us.

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• 0:00 - The secret of effortless living
• 2:14 - Why letting go is powerful (not passive)
• 4:35 - How resistance blocks our happiness
• 7:20 - Trusting the Universe (real-life examples)
• 10:10 - Signs the Universe is guiding us
• 12:45 - Breaking the [illusion of] control habit
• 15:30 - Our new way of living begins here
• 17:20 - Final thoughts and the next step

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Letting go is all well and good but HOW?

Mindfulness means dispassionate observation for clarity rather than involvement, bias, fear.

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It is good to let go, and we may all know it on some level. But how to do it, that is the question. The Buddha advocated the supreme importance of renunciation (nekkhamma), internal letting go. We do not all need to become monastics, hermits, or recluses, but we all need to unclutch, get a little distance and perspective, and stop being so clingy. Easier said than done. How to do?

Vipassana involves systematic mindfulness

There is a way: mindfulness. What is mindfulness? It is bare awareness, vigilance, watchfulness of what is really there, without evaluation, without embellishment, without distortion, without making stories or relating to what we are seeing.

Real mindfulness is only possible with calm and serenity, as happens as the natural result of the meditative absorptions. When we can pay that much mindful attention, things reveal themselves. They are nothing to cling to, nothing to be attached to. We can "let go" all we want with our brains/minds, but that will never do. The heart has to let go. When we see things as they really are, there is no need to make an effort to let go. The letting go happens naturally. "Clear seeing" is called vipassana in Buddhism, usually translated as "insight meditation" (satipatthana). It is a systematic practice of emerging from the absorption, temporarily purified, and attending to four things one after the other: body, feelings, mind, and mind-objects. They++ are all explained in the Maha Satipatthana Sutta or the "Fourfold Setting Up of Mindfulness Discourse."

1st step: mindfulness of body: in-and-out breathing

So letting go is possible, but it will never happen by itself. The mind/heart in its present condition distorts and perverts everything until things seem permanent, capable of fulfilling/satisfying us, and personal. When we see them for what they really are (impermanent, disappointing, and impersonal), the heart lets go as when a feather fall into a fire and curls bac. The Truth will set us free...if we ever bother to clean the lens of the mind to see things, even for a moment, as they truly are. Otherwise, we're just believing and disbelieving and never really making any progress.

• Discourse on in-and-out breathing: Ānāpānasati Sutta
• Solace Fox, March 9, 2025; Dhr. Seven, Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Wisdom Quarterly

Control reality? Get what you want?

Give this 18 minutes, and you can control your own REALITY

(Solace Fox) March 2, 2025: Everything we know feels solid — real. But what if reality isn’t as complex as it seems? What if everything is so simple once we look at it from the right angle? This video dives into the hidden truths of perception, consciousness, and the true nature of reality. Get ready to challenge everything you thought was real.

🕒 TIMESTAMPS

• 00:00 - The illusion of reality
• 02:15 - How our mind shapes everything
• 05:42 - What happens when we look closer?
• 09:10 - The secret behind perception
• 12:35 - Is everything we see just a social construct?
• 15:20 - Unlocking the simplicity of it all
• 17:45 - Final thoughts

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Why do we not get what we want? It is because wanting has no resolution. With wanting arises not having. The solution, then, is not wanting. But how can we not want? (And isn't not-wanting a kind of wanting?) The way to not want is simple: LOOK long enough to see things as they really are. This leads to revulsion, and the mind/heart lets go (renunciation or "inner letting go").

Of course. we don't do this because sensual pleasures are our only respite, our only chance at any kind of "escape" from dukkha (disappointment, unsatisfactoriness, the woe of never getting what we really want). What do we really want? Fulfillment, which is not available through endless wandering on life after life through samsara, chasing satisfaction first here then there and anywhere we imagine it might be hiding.

Even without wishing, if we calmed-and-intensified (which is what happens on the path of purification by stillness and insight or shamatha and vipassana) by the mind through the meditative absorptions and learned to look at four things (body, feelings, mind, and mind-objects), the heart/mind would let go. That is the ultimate solution. That is what the Buddha advocated as actual escape. One will not hear this terse explanation from the AI generator or Tan Geoff, but the answer is implicit amidst the misleading text and talk.

Not getting what you want? The Buddha’s solution

Ego Podcast (Buddhism) March 2, 2025: Sadly, while "Ego Podcast" seems smart and thought out, it is just an uncredited reading of American Ven. Thanissaro's poorly worded opinions. It's a scam unless Tan Geoff is behind it, but if he were, why would he use AI instead of his own melodious voice?

These writings, though read by Ven. Thanissaro himself on his website and made freely available at WatMetta.org, are fed to an AI voice that mispronounces Pali terms and names. (This particular talk is about Ajaan Fuang Jotiko). The reading sounds confident but translates Pali terms in an extreme and idiosyncratic way. Instead of being of benefit, they are sure to mislead.

Then to give a pretense of depth, AI is used to generate and add unrelated images. Just to get views and seem important? They sound smarmy for a reason: that is Tan Geoff's personality. Revolting to some (like us), soothing to others.

These opinions are offered free at accesstoinsight.org and Tan Geoff's dhammatalks.org. Sadly, AI or "Ego" has little understanding, so every summary of a lifted talk is misleading. Why do we often fail to get what we want? No reason is given. This video talks about connection between suffering and conviction. This video is a rip off of this talk:

• Not Getting What You Want | dhammatalks.org

The Buddha teaches that the pain of not getting what we want can spur us to put an end to the vicious circle of "wanting, not getting, pain, wanting more." Unfulfilled desires are therefore not only negative — they can spark a determination to follow a path that leads to liberation from suffering.

Or we could just keep wanting and wanting and never finding fulfillment in all the ordinary things we wished for (because the sensual world told us we'd be happy through sensuality). This is why millionaires take drugs and are miserable. They have come to know that getting what one wants does not work to end the desperate craving that keeps us working like slaves to get them. Word to the wise: let go. Or keep going, and in that Zen spirit of which Alan Watts speaks, "a fool who persists in his folly will become wise."

• "If a fool persists in his folly, he becomes wise" - What does that mean? : r/NoStupidQuestions
• The Fool Who Persists in His Folly Will Become Wise | by Adam Aushaf | Mind Cafe | Medium
• One thing this might mean, as a teacher who encourages students in more and more austerities and a hard path that builds their egos, is that by doing the impossible (foolishness), one will realize this is not the way to liberation (a wise realization). So what is? The Middle Way that avoids extremes