- Instagram: Saint Belmont, Illinois Post-Death Reactivation Hospital? (AI hoax or real occurrence?)
- The Belmont Report: Ethical Principles and Guidelines for the Protection of Human Subjects of Research: Appendix Volume II
- Eds., Wisdom Quarterly
Tuesday, May 20, 2025
Short Attn Span Theater: Freaks
Sunday, March 23, 2025
Let us repeat God's name (Gnostic)
- YHWH (Yahweh, Jehovah, YHVH) is, in Kabbala, the Tetragrammaton, which is four characters (yodh, he, waw, he) representing the Four Elements (the dhÄtus or maha-bhuta in Buddhism). If "spirit" (sh or shin) is inserted in the middle, the name becomes Yeheshua (Yahoshua, Yeshua, Yesus, Iesus, Issa, Yahoo, etc.)
- MahÄ-bhÅ«ta: The four "primary elements" (or ultimate characteristics of matter), is another name for the Four Eements (dhÄtu) underlying all materiality.
- Caesar's Messiah: The Roman Conspiracy to Invent Jesus
Sunday, September 3, 2023
Trans, pronouns, lesbian rapists, South Park
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| Male-lesbian charged with rapes in female prison |
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| I'll sue those fellow women of mine! |
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| What about me? I'm non-binary. Can I play? |
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Monday, April 22, 2019
Wisdom of the Thai Forest: Mind and Body
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| I'm so beautiful! But not for long. |
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| We're going to live forever; we can afford to. |
Tuesday, February 26, 2019
Ajahn Chah: Oil and Water
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| Oil and water separation at its best: Looking for faster and more efficient separation of produced water from crude oil (wartsila.com) |
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| Oil+water=lava lamp (rookieparenting.com) |
Friday, January 20, 2012
The (New) Lord's Prayer; Mary's Heart Sutra
The Buddhist Goddess Kwan Yin, Bodhisattva of Compassion who hears the cries of the world, is sometimes conceived of as a female buddha, Wat Plai Laem, Koh Samui Island, southern Thailand (Joachim Leppala/Flickr.com)Divine Source
Who art in consciousness
Hallowed be thy name-and-form
Empire come where will is One
On Earth as it is in space
Thank you for granting our daily wishes
And for overlooking our awkward trespasses
Lead us unto liberation, and point the way
To avoid all that is unskillful
Aum
Virgin MaryÄm [Note 1], blessed bodhisattva [lord] full of grace,
Was cultivating the perfection of wisdom
When she perceived that all Five Heaps are impersonal.
She thereby overcame all suffering [and exclaimed]:
"O, Wise One, form does not differ from the impersonal [the empty],
The impersonal does not differ from form.
Whatever is form, that is impersonal,
Whatever impersonal, that is form.
The same is true of feelings,
Perceptions, mental formations, and consciousness."
"Herein, all phenomena bear the universal mark of the impersonal.
They are neither produced nor stopped,
Neither defiled nor immaculate,
Neither deficient nor complete [but are beyond all duality].
"Therefore, O Wise One, in the impersonal
There is neither form, nor feeling, nor perception,
nor formation, nor consciousness;
"No eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, mind [sense apparatuses];
No forms, sounds, smells, tastes, tangibles,
nor objects of mind [sense impressions];
No sight-organ element [sensitive material in the eye],
and so forth, until we come to:
No mind-consciousness element [heart base];
"There is no ignorance, no extinction of ignorance,
and so forth, until we come to:
There is no decay and death, no extinction of decay and death.
There is no suffering, no origination, no stopping, no path.
There is no cognition, no attainment, and no lack of attainment.
"Therefore, O Wise One, it is because of one's non-attaining
That a bodhisattva, through having cultivated the perfection
of wisdom [prajna-paramitta],
Dwells without conceiving.
In the absence of conceiving, one is free of trembling,
Having overcome all that can upset
and in the end attains to nirvana [2].
"All who appear as fully awakened teachers
in the past, present, and future
Fully awake to the utmost, supreme and perfect illumination,
Because they have cultivated the perfection of wisdom.
"Therefore one should recognize the perfectionof wisdom as the great blessing,
The blessing of great knowledge, the utmost blessing,
the unequalled blessing,
Allayer of all suffering, in truth -- for what could go wrong?
"The perfection of wisdom has brought it about:
"This completes the heart [pithy essence] of perfect wisdom."
- A different take on the Heart Sutra (BuddhaNet.net)
- Great Mahayana sutras (www4.BayArea.net)
- Mariology: the study of Mary
1. Avalokiteshvara, "the lord who hears the cries of the world," came to be called Kwan Yin, who also takes the form of the Virg Yin, popularly known in the West and in Islam as Mother Mary. Originally an Indian male, the figure metamorphosed in the popular imagination into a Chinese female and then a goddess (devi). So it is not a stretch to reconcile them: They embody and represent the same thing in the marriage of wisdom and compassion.
2. An alternative phrasing might run: "There is no wisdom, and there is no attaining whatsoever. Because there is nothing to be attained, the bodhisattva pursuing the perfection of wisdom has no obstruction of mind. Because there is no obstruction, one has no fear, and one passes far beyond confused imagining and ultimately experiences nirvana.
Friday, May 8, 2009
Where there is Passion (Samy XII.64)
Atthi Raga Sutta (Samyutta Nikaya XII.64)
Thus have I heard. The Buddha was dwelling at Savatthi...
"There are these four nutriments for the establishing of beings who have taken birth or for the support of those in search of a place to be born. What are the four?
- physical food, gross or refined is first;
- contact is the second,
- consciousness the third, and
- intellectual intention the fourth.
These are the four nutriments for the establishing of beings or for the support of those in search of a place to be born."Where there is passion, delight, and craving for the nutriment of physical food, consciousness lands there and grows. Where consciousness lands and grows, name-and-form alights. Where name-and-form alights, there is the growth of mental-fabrications. Where there is the growth of mental-fabrications, there is the production of renewed becoming in the future.
Where there is the production of renewed becoming in the future, there is future birth, aging, and death, together, I tell you, with sorrow, affliction, and despair.
"Where there is passion, delight, and craving for the nutriment of contact...
"Where there is passion, delight, and craving for the nutriment of consciousness...
"Where there is passion, delight, and craving for the nutriment of intellectual intention, consciousness lands there and grows. Where consciousness lands and grows, name-and-form alights. Where name-and-form alights, there is the growth of mental-fabrications.
"Where there is the growth of mental-fabrications, there is the production of renewed becoming in the future. Where there is the production of renewed becoming in the future, there is future birth, aging, and death, together, I tell you, with sorrow, affliction, and despair.
"Just as -- when there is dye, lac, yellow pigment, indigo, or crimson -- a dyer or painter would paint a picture of a woman or a man, complete in all its parts, on a well polished panel or wall, or on a piece of cloth. In the same way, where there is passion, delight, and craving for the nutriment of physical food... contact... consciousness... intellectual intention, consciousness lands there and grows."Where consciousness lands and grows, name-and-form alights. Where name-and-form alights, there is the growth of mental-fabrications. Where there is the growth of mental-fabrications, there is the production of renewed becoming in the future. Where there is the production of renewed becoming in the future, there is future birth, aging, and death, together, I tell you, with sorrow, affliction, and despair.
"But where there is no passion for the nutriment of physical food, where there is no delight, no craving, then consciousness does not land there or grow.
"Where consciousness does not land or grow, name-and-form does not alight. Where name-and-form does not alight, there is no growth of mental-fabrications. Where there is no growth of mental-fabrications, there is no production of renewed becoming in the future. Where there is no production of renewed becoming in the future, there is no future birth, aging, and death. That, I tell you, has no sorrow, affliction, or despair.
"Where there is no passion for the nutriment of contact...Where there is no passion for the nutriment of consciousness...Where there is no passion for the nutriment of intellectual intention...
"Where there is no growth of mental-fabrications, there is no production of renewed becoming in the future. Where there is no production of renewed becoming in the future, there is no future birth, aging, and death. That, I tell you, has no sorrow, affliction, or despair.
"Just as if there were a roofed house or a roofed hall having windows on the north, the south, or the east. When the sun rises, and a ray has entered by way of the window, where does it land?""On the western wall, sir."
"And if there is no western wall, where does it land?"
"On the ground, sir."
"And if there is no ground, where does it land?"
"On the water, sir."
"And if there is no water, where does it land?"
"It does not land, sir."
"In the same way, where there is no passion for the nutriment of physical food... contact... consciousness... intellectual intention, where there is no delight, no craving, then consciousness does not land there or grow. Where consciousness does not land or grow, name-and-form does not alight.
"Where name-and-form does not alight, there is no growth of mental-fabrications. Where there is no growth of mental-fabrications, there is no production of renewed becoming in the future.
"Where there is no production of renewed becoming in the future, there is no future birth, aging, and death. That, I tell you, has no sorrow, affliction, or despair."













