First, in defense of these Buddhist monastics, it is important to note that they (most) were not "monks" (bhikkhus) but rather novices (trainees, samaneras) during a probationary period that can last years as they learn and put into practice the Buddhist Monastic Code (Vinaya and Patimokkha).
Second, of all the rules to break, drug dealing cannabis -- as horrific and condemnable as it is -- is not the worst thing they could have done. The four worst things they could have done are "defeat" (parijika) offenses: killing, stealing, sexual misconduct, lying about spiritual attainments. Or they might have committed one of the five heinous acts (anantarika-karma,deeds that bear bitter fruit in the very next life):
killing one's mother (matricide)
killing one's father (patricide)
killing an arhat (arahant, fully enlightened being)
Wounding a Tathāgata (a buddha, silent or teaching)
Creating a schism in the Monastic Community (Sangha).
We stayed behind in the monastery sweeping.
Third, there are no more excuses or consoling statements to be made. They each had about 5 kilograms or 11 U.S. pounds (110 kg or 242 lbs in total). This is no accident but sounds like a cynical abuse of the high esteem in which monastics are held to smuggle drugs, likely for sale and distribution rather than recreational or medicinal use. Novices (samaneras) have very strict rules to live by, beyond what is expected of all Theravada Buddhists.
Did the "businessman" sponsor put them up to it to gain financially, and will they say they knew nothing about it?
There are Five Precepts all Theravada lay Buddhists vow to maintain:
abstain from killing
abstain from stealing
abstain from sexual misconduct
abstain from lying
abstain from intoxicants that occasion heedlessness.
The very minimum precepts for monks-in-training (samaneras or "baby samanas") are the Eight Precepts or Ten Precepts, abstaining from harming, taking what is not given or handling "gold and silver" (money), sex (all erotic activity), lying, intoxicants, eating before dawn or after noon, using high and luxurious seats or beds, dancing, singing, self-beautification, viewing lowbrow entertainments and shows...
If one were to follow the major rules and the minor (etiquette) rules, it would never come to this unless, as we say, they were cynically used by the businessman drug kingpin as "mules" to unknowingly transport drugs into the very uptight and traditional island Buddhist country of Sri Lanka (Ceylon, Serendib) with a sizeable Tamil Hindu population and significant number of Muslims and Christians.
Skinhead white supremacist Hitler Youth from white suburban Orange County and LBC
How PENI, a prison punk rock gang, became "slaves" to the Neo-Nazi Aryan Brotherhood
(Hood Archives) True crime documentary. Oct. 27, 2025: In the 1980s, PENI ("Public Enemy Number One"), named after the British anarcho-punk band Rudimentary Peni, emerged from the Long Beach/Los Angeles hardcore punk scene.
By 2018, their co-founder was murdered on a prison yard—executed on orders from the Aryan Brotherhood (AB) leadership he once served.
This documentary examines how a white punk rock street gang became controlled by a notorious white supremacist prison organization through federal court testimony, law enforcement records, and witness accounts.
Peckerwood is a U.S. racial epithet used against white people, especially poor rural whites [2]. Originally an ethnic slur, the term has been reclaimed by a subculture related to prison gangs and outlaw motorcycle clubs [3,4,5,6]. The term was in use as an inversion of woodpecker in the Southern United States by the 1830s; it is also with the sense referring to white people documented from the 1850s [2]. African-American folklore in the 1920s contrasted the white "peckerwood" bird with the African-American blackbird [6,7]. The word became a common term in Jive. More
DISCLAIMER: This video is for educational purposes only. Content is based on public court records and news reports. There is no intention to glorify or encourage any criminal activity. All crimes discussed resulted in arrests and prosecution and, in many cases, imprisonment. Viewer discretion advised.
Crass Course: Skate Punk (The Punk Historian) May 24, 2021: Crash coarse on the history and evolution of the "skate punk" music genre from the early 1980s to the present. Plus a little of my personal thoughts and commentary.
Background music:
"1977" by D.D.F.
• D.D.F. – Means To An End... (2000) [Full C... (Track 10)
"Locals Only" by Agression
• Locals Only
"These Valley Streets" by Jughead's Revenge
• These Valley Streets (song starts at 0:42)
"Any More Lonely" by First Class
• Any More Lonely
"The Greatest Betrayal" by Much the Same
• The Greatest Betrayal
"Too Old to Die Young" by Straightline
• Straightline - Too Old To Die Young coarse on the history and evolution of the Skate punk genre from the early 80's to the present. Plus a little of my personal thoughts and commentary.
Pop Punk video:
• Crass Course: Old School Pop Punk
Background music:
"1977" by D.D.F.
• D.D.F. – Means To An End... (2000) [Full C... (Track 10)
"Locals Only" by Agression
• Locals Only
"These Valley Streets" by Jughead's Revenge
• These Valley Streets (song starts at 0:42)
"Any More Lonely" by First Class
• Any More Lonely
"The Greatest Betrayal" by Much the Same
• The Greatest Betrayal
"Too Old to Die Young" by Straightline
• Straightline - Too Old To Die Young
The Gathering of the Juggalos (also known as "The Gathering" or GOTJ) [1] is a decadent annual music festival put on by Psychopathic Records, featuring performances by the entire label roster as well as numerous well-known musical groups and underground artists.
It was founded by Jumpsteady, Insane Clown Posse (the two-man white rap group Joseph Bruce and Joseph Utsler), and their label in the Year 2000.
Is there ANYTHING redeeming about this insane festival of mayhem, madness, and what seems like a lot of meth? Yes: It's explained in the Epilogue
Described by Joseph Bruce as "Juggalo Woodstock" [2] (Juggalo being a nickname for fans of the ICP or Insane Clown Posse), the Gathering of the Juggalos spans five days and includes [lots of drug abuse] concerts, wrestling, games, contests, autograph sessions, karaoke, and seminars with artists.
Over its first eleven events (2000–2010), the festival drew a total attendance upward of 100,000 fans [3]. More
The funniest character on Friends, "Chandler" (played by addict Matthew Perry), passed off of the human plane into the afterlife prematurely due to his ongoing abuse of drugs, particularly Special K (ketamine). Doctors and the Ketamine Queen provided it. Now, a year after his offing, they are being charged with drugged dealing leading to a user's death. They were exploiting him for price, marking up $12 worth of ketamine to $2,000 and laughing at him for being dumb enough to pay it.
Five charged in 'wide-ranging criminal case' over Matthew Perry's death
(MSNBC) Aug. 15, 2024: Five people were charged in connection with the overdose death of actor Matthew Perry. NBC News' Steve Patterson has the latest on the news conference. Former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner joins Ana Cabrera to react. #MatthewPerry #BreakingNews #Celebrity
In this episode of The American Show, Homes sparks up a medical marijuana cigar in his bathroom.
What did the CIA do to us?
There's drug use and drug abuse. Native Americans were using plants and ordeals (such as the Vision Quest) to alter consciousness for millennia before invasion-migration Europeans decided to drop in for a long visit. Rather than follow custom and do things in a ceremonial fashion with the blessing of the community, rugged individualists decided to throw caution to the wind with predictable results. In the Amazon there was Ayahuasca, but there was no "drug abuse" until someone brought in distilled liquor, or "spiritous drinks" and rotgut, bottled brews for senseless consumption. Real plant helpers from the garden pharmacy heal addiction and other maladies. Drugs of abuse do not. There's medicine, and there are things to abuse called "medicines."
CIA: We rule this culture since Nazis arrived
Who, to alter consciousness, would dream of huffing (inhaling) industrial chemicals? Who for sweetness would swallow the toxic brain chemical aspartame? Why eat white sugar, robbed of all its minerals and nutrients, when brown (whole) is available? Welcome to America, where any agent will do, even Nazi-invented methamphetamine that hijacks the dopamine and limbic system and creates energetic zombies...what could go wrong. The hippies were much more selective and interested in natural highs and health, but mass culture was just looking for cheap thrills, easy slogans, and mass marketed fashions to look the part. Drugs, sex, and rock 'n roll replaced peace, love, and happiness. Now who, in this day and age, thinks the best experience is to be found in the bathroom medicine cabinet? Chase a dragon and it will turn and bite. Hegemony means we spread our habits to the world as the current imperial power. If we can't handle our drug use, how are other places to survive sipping the neural soup? Of course, there was that time the British got China addicted on poppy (opium).
(South Park) Drugs are bad, mkay. Mr. Mackay explains.
Happy 4/20. Family Guy on drugs, the [pen]ultimate compilation!
(Inferno🔥) April 20, 2024: There are so many funnier clips that were missed. Tech channel: @infernology. Content owned by Fox. No copyright infringement intended. WARNING: Family Guy is NOT family-friendly and is unsuitable for younger audiences. (Viewer discretion is advised.)
(South Park) Recreational use of Semaglutide as Ozempic and Wegovy
"Don't smoke drugs, kids" said a younger Jimmy Kimmel once when he was playing a blackface Carl Malone on the "Kevin & Bean Show" on KROQ FM. This was years before he had his own show that so eclipsed morning sports on alt rock radio that we never hear about those days. Viewers of Family Guy might say the same thing after watching this episode on fairy dust. It has grown all out of proportion in our memory as one of the funniest things the writer room at Family Guy Central ever came up with. Is it "pixie dust" or speed? Let's find out.
(Time Unveiled) Jan 1, 2024: RICHMOND This is a remake of a speech by Adolf Hitler before WW II. It has been reconstructed in English as a historical document.
To contribute to this work, consider joining on Patreon: timeunveiledtime unveiled (edit) For those who keep asking what tools were used to make this video, here are some links:
(WQ) In the West there can only be one opinion, which has been summarized by the punk rock band The Vandals. And it runs thus: "Hitler bad, Vandals good."
However heinous we are told the Fuhrer was (and continued to be many years after he presumably died of suicide alongside his very pleasant gal pal and relative Eva Braun, it is important to understand what he said, believed, and did. This is not settled history.
Just as the Nazis were full of propaganda so, too, is our U.S. government, which invited Nazis, sheltered them from prosecution, assimilated them, used them to create weapons of mass destruction to rule the world and create NAZA NASA to rule it from space, took their place on the world stage which they had been granted by extraterrestrial powers.
Adolf had a soft side and a strong PR firm
Following in the footsteps of civil rights won for us by the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union), we have a right to hear, question, and investigate the Nazis, Hitler as a Western historical figure, Operation Paperclip and Operation Mockingbird, the activities of eminent mad scientists who previously served the Fuhrer and then exchanged for an upper middle-class lifestyle in the States.
Rizz and style and nice hair?
Powerful Nazis fled to Neu Schwabenland (New Schwaben Land or New Swabia, Antarctica), Argentina, Chile, and elsewhere in South America. This has been looked into by researchers such as Steve Quayle, Tim Kennedy, and others who have published their findings.
On International Pot Day, 4/20, (April 20th), which also serves as the celebration weekend ahead of Earth Day 2024, it is of particular historical interest to listen to the German leader in his own words, which is now possible by AI-assisted tricks such as on-the-fly translation into English of Hitler's own voice and what he was saying to become a Trump-style populist, rabble-rousing, and stirring the otherwise sane and industrial people of Germany to a furor.
If this content is too disturbing to stomach, please look away or send complaints to Wisdom Quarterly, c/o Ashley Wells, and insert them in the comments section for editorial consideration.
Tim Kennedy, Joe Rogan Experience; Time Unveiled, 1/1/24; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly
(JRE Clips) Joe Rogan is shocked that German leader Adolf Hitler survived WW II and escaped to South America. The U.S. government spent millions trying to track him down, as Tim Kennedy's History Channel program Hunting Hitler on what is more than a conspiracy theory. It is verifiable fact that tens of thousands of powerful NAZI officers and officials made it to South America to live on. See Colonia Dignidad (Villa Barbaria or "Bavarian Village" in Chile?) on a torture camp where Dr. Josef Mengele worked under Argentina's Peron. May 17, 2018: Tim Kennedy tells Rogan what he's learned doing his show Hunting Hitler.
David A. Taylor, Tricycle Magazine, Winter 2007; Crystal Q., CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Tough Love Maverick Buddhist monk Khru Ba gives a novice Buddhist monk Thai kickboxing lessons in Northern Thailand, from Buddha's Lost Children.
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Monk on a Mission
Saving the Orphans of Northern Thailand (full doc)
Buddha's Lost Children: full documentary
(Dhamma Source) June 26, 2023: Buddha's Lost Children is a feature-length documentary film about a Thai Theravada Buddhist monk named Phra Khru Bah Neua Chai Kosittowho -- armed only with his Buddhist faith and skills and master Thai kickboxer skills -- wages an inspirational battle to help save orphaned children, fight drug (meth) abuse, and preserve a vanishing way of life. Director: Mark Verkerk. Learn more and support here: buddhaslostchildren.com
Buddha’s Lost Children is a Dutch film about Theravada Buddhist Thailand, directed by Mark Verkerk, EMS Films, 2006.
As the lights go down, the sound of a stream is heard. The first images show a bare-chested man cross-legged on a tall stone spur in the forest, limbering up his arms and neck in what looks like a cross between meditation and martial arts.
His face is calm, but his body wears a wild constellation of tattoos: calligraphy wriggles down his arms, and a winged horse flies across his chest.
The man is a Thai Theravada Buddhist monk. In the next moment, he’s egging on two boys who are kick boxing. “That’s it!” he cries.
“Kick into his neck.”
The documentary Buddha’s Lost Children tells the story of the maverick Buddhist monk and former pro kickboxer Khru Ba and his mission to save forgotten souls at the edge of Thai society — drug-infested communities in the mountainous region of northern Thailand along the Burmese border, near Laos, known as [the drug dealing haven] the Golden Triangle.
“Look at the things they do,” Khru Ba says of the addicted. “Who’ll forgive them? The law of the land doesn’t forgive them, nor does the law of karma....
Only a crazy fool of a monk like me is willing to forgive them.”
The hill-tribe ethnic groups of that region — including the Akha, Karen, Yao, and Lisu — have for much of their history been at the mercy of larger forces: drug barons, corrupt Thai officials, disease, and poverty.
They have always lived at the margins: They dress differently from mainstream Thais, speak in different tongues, and hold animist (rather than Buddhist) beliefs. They don’t fit in.
At Khru Ba’s Golden Horse Monastery, he takes their orphaned and abandoned children under his wing and gives them lessons in, among other things, Buddhist Dharma and Thai kickboxing.
“Thai boxing means having a free heart and body; it means not being enslaved to desire or to drugs,” he tells his novices. “Do you understand?”
The boys shout, “Yes!” The young Buddhist novices ride into a village on horseback, saffron robes flapping in their wake, like a gang in a spaghetti Western.
The ritual of receiving alms food from villagers looks almost like a holdup. Khru Ba shouts out his version of karma: Be good, good things come to you, but “if you’re not good, the [animist] spirits will break your neck.”
Mark Verkerk, the Dutch filmmaker who spent three years making the film, says it is about more than an itinerant monk.
“It was important that the film communicate something universal,” Verkerk said by email, “something people could relate to from other cultures — and there’s nothing more universal than raising kids.”
Khru Ba left his own wife and two children after a close friend’s death and a vivid dream that commanded him to open a Buddhist monastery in the mountains of the far north, where one in five youths who turn up for national service are addicted to cheap Western methamphetamines.
Like a spiritual 007, Khru Ba has special permission from the Supreme Patriarch in Bangkok to use whatever methods he deems necessary to address the problems at the kingdom’s edge.
“He’s the only monk to have found a way to operate in this border region,” says Verkerk.
The film, with cinematography that combines sweeping landscapes and intimate views of the region’s culture, has taken honors at various festivals in Europe and North America, and in August (2007) it had its American theatrical pre-release in Santa Fe, New Mexico. It is now available on DVD.
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That's stupid. Bears don't do blow, but crazy goats will eat anything, even meth
Why would an animal scream just like humans? They're not Bigfoot, which according to Native American lore, is a human tribe of cannibals -- though not all of them are cannibals, just the rambunctious and troubled adolescents. The elders try to control them, but they can't and these newly sexually aroused creatures go mad, break the rules, and get seen by humans. But that's another story. Goats are insane, goats are mad, goats are reborn like we all are but seem to remember those past births as humans and now, finding themselves penned up on ranches and farms waiting for slaughter, they scream. They must be trying to call out, as they used to be able to do when they were gifted with voice as most humans are. Not all animals remember. Not all humans have forgotten (their past lives). Not all sasquatches are bad. Your Daily Laugh brings us meme-worthy ungulates in "Funny Goats Screaming like Humans [on meth]." See more at ydl.dk. Now that we know that goats can sing, we have to ask, Is Taylor Swift the G.O.A.T.?
What if lazy Yogi Bear did blow without Boo-Boo around to calm him?
The monk, including the abbot, were sent to rehab after failing drug test (Hugh Sitton/Getty). What's more misguided than becoming addicted (craving/clinging) to delusion-inducing drugs?
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Buddhist temple has no monks after they all test positive for METH
The Buddha would blush.
It follows a string of criminal scandals involving Theravada Buddhist monks in Thailand, where authorities are reporting record-breaking quantities of synthetic drugs.
A small Buddhist abbey’s entire coterie of monks was defrocked, dismissed, and sent to rehab this week after every single one of them tested positive for methamphetamine.
All four of them, including the abbot, failed.
The monks were subsequently sent to a health clinic to undergo drug rehabilitation, local official Boonlert Thintapthai told the AFP, leaving the temple without "holy" men and raising concerns among local worshippers that they wouldn’t be able to conduct “merit-making” — that is, donating food (dana) to monks as a good deed.
[There are other forms of good deeds (dana, sila, bhavana) besides practicing generosity (dana) and giving to the Sangha, but Thais are addicted to this form of good karma and are more prosperous than neighboring Theravada countries as a result.]
Mr. Boonlert said more monks would be assigned to the temple to allow people to carry out their religious duties.
It’s not clear why police targeted this particular temple, nor these particular monks, to test for drug use — but the action comes amid a broader national campaign to tackle the trafficking of illicit substances.
Thailand (which is part of the Golden Triangle, a place notorious for drug trafficking), like many other nations across Southeast Asia, has in the past two years seen a major uptick in the volume of meth passing through the country.
Much of that can be traced back to the Golden Triangle — a notorious fountainhead for the synthetic drug trade, where the borders of Thailand, Laos, and Burma (renamed Myanmar by the dictators) meet — and, more specifically, the conflict-riven hills of Burma’s Shan state.
In the wake of the Burmese military coup, which in February 2021 saw the Burmese military overthrow the civilian government and plunge the nation into chaos yet again, record-breaking quantities of both crystal methamphetamine and meth pills, otherwise known as “yaba,” have continued to pour out of the Triangle and flood the region.
Production and trafficking of illegal synthetic substances hit record levels in 2021, with authorities collectively seizing nearly 172 tons of methamphetamine and more than 1 billion yaba tablets.
This is not an isolated case of Thai monks behaving badly either. In recent years, the sacred institution of Thai Theravada Buddhism has been tarnished by a series of high-profile arrests and scandals relating to corruption, murder, and drug trafficking among its monastics.
Good Western monk Ajahn Chah in Australia
[EDITORIAL NOTE: A distinction needs to be made between the larger, lazier institutional school called the Maha Nikaya, which accounts for 90% of Thai monks, and the Dhammayut or Thai Forest Tradition of wandering ascetics (practicing the dhutangas or 13 Sane Ascetic Practices), who practice more in accordance with the historical Buddha's instructions, resulting in famous monks of great attainment -- even though some criticize this school as make believe, invented by a royal who wanted to temporarily ordain but found most temples too corrupt and lazy to be worth his time. He therefore set up a purer school that continues down to this day, made famous by many meditation masters emerging as a result of the back-to-basics approach to the Dharma. Thai Forest Tradition monks left the corrupt cities and temples for the solitude and silence of forests, which are in very short supply due to deforestation, but it resulted in the famous Ajahn Mun and other Isan (northeast Thailand) monks plus the great arhat Ajahn Jumnien and Ajahn Buddhadasa from the south of the country. Ajahn Chah, who was Maha Nikaya along with his famous awakened Western students, tried to erase the distinction between the two schools to be more inclusive, uniting the Sangha.]
In March, Luang Pu Tuanchai, a monk who rose to fame in 2020 after claiming to have omniscient powers [visions and miraculous powers, a claim which if false would instantly make him not a monk, as it is a defeat-violation of monastic rules to knowingly make false claims of attainments if the rules were enforced as they used to be in times past], was charged withdrunk driving and drug possession — and subsequently disrobed (defrocked, thrown out of the monastic Sangha) — after police found him carrying dozens of methamphetamine pills.
Earlier in January, another monk was similarly disrobed after being caught consuming methamphetamine pills and selling them to local youths.
Such controversies have eroded public faith in Thailand’s Buddhist monks, with experts telling VICE World News in March that the nation’s Buddhist monastic order was in need of reform to weed out bad actors and restore the religion’s image of purity and righteousness.
“The ultimate goal of [Theravada] Buddhism is for the people to get enlightened [awakened],” said Somboon Chungprampree, a social activist and executive secretary of the International Network of Engaged Buddhists.
“[But] most of the society is learning that not all those who are wearing saffron [robes] can be a holy or respectable person.”
Buddhism is the official religion of Thailand, followed by about 93 percent of the population. The country is home to more than 300,000 monks [and possibly many more temporarily ordained samaneras or "novices"]. Source (vice.com)
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