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Who's Bad Bunny? Introduction by Cardi B, and J Balvin "I Like It" (official music video)

(Lingopie) Why the Super Bowl needs bitchin' Bad Bunny (much more than he needs them)

(Country Cast) NFL panic: Kid Rock’s massive halftime surprise revealed

The Simpsons: Homer listens to big football game instead of paying attention in church

Excited over Sunday's Big Game 2023 (video)

Hope for Paws; Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Puppy Bowl 2023: Hope for Paws!

(Hope for Paws - Official Rescue Channel) Feb. 11, 2023. It's that time of year ago when we all ask in unison, "Who let the dogs out?"! 😞 Are the "dogs" the rambunctious men acting like idiots over sports, or the unattractive females at the clurb, or the puppies in this year's bowl? It's time to get to rescuing our canine companions, the former wolves who helped along our evolution, keeping us safe from the beasts of the wild for table scraps. #HopeForPaws #PuppyBowl 2023. Go help at the local shelter, protest junk dogfood by big manufacturers using grains, stale oils, and loads of chemical preservatives, shortening the miserable lives of canines everywhere. Or a small donation may help many puppies directly to HopeForPaws.org. It's easy enough to find other deserving rescue outfits. Look for them. #puppies

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Puppy Bowl 2023: The Fourth Quarter

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John Wick stars in "Little Buddha" (film)

Keanu Reeves as the Buddha in Little Buddha; Jen, Crystal Q., Wisdom Quarterly
Little Buddha is a classic of North American Buddhism, as Bhutanese lamas find a American kid who is a tulku, a reborn lama. Based on true events.

 

"John Wick" (Keanu Reeves) is a psycho killer glorified in American cinema. Poor Keanu, what a dummy, he used to make thought-provoking films (Little Buddha, The Matrix). 

John Wick is an American neo-noir action thriller film series directed by Chad Stahelski and written by Derek Kolstad. It stars Keanu Reeves and others. It is an installment in the John Wick film series.

This revenge story focuses on Wick searching for the men who broke into his home, stole his vintage car, and killed his puppy [all to co-opt audiences into rooting for killing], which serves as a memento of his recently deceased wife. It is a kill fest, an orgy of violence, which parents feed their kids with a low enough rating so they never hear or -- gawd forbid -- see sex on screen.

• https://www.scpr.org/programs/filmweek/2018/07/20/63380/mpaa-says-eighth-grade-is-too-much-for-eighth-grad/

PHOTOS: Happiness is a wet puppy (jhana)

Amber Larson, Wisdom Quarterly; photog Seth Casteel (littlefriendsphoto.com)

These dogs will make your day! 10 Awesome "Underwater Puppies"

Pringles and Pickme wonder why this is happening, but it's natural to swim (Seth Casteel).

In a future life, Reason would like to morph and be reborn as a seal (Seth Casteel).

 

What is jhanic Buddhist "bliss"?

G.P. Malalasekera (PPN); Dhr. Seven (ed.), Wisdom Quarterly

Novice loves puppy (tuhoc)

Pīti: rapture, enthusiasm (joy, happiness), or keen interest. It is one of the mental factors, the concomitants (cetasika), and belongs to the aggregate of mental formations (sankhāra-khandha) in Buddhist psychology.

Because, in sutra texts, it is often linked in a compound word with "gladness" (pāmojja) and "happiness" (sukha), some Western translations have mistaken it to be a synonym of these two terms. 

However, pīti is not a feeling (emotion) or a tactile sensation, so it does not belong to the feeling-aggregate group (vedanā-khandha).

I want my own baby lama! - Me, too!

It may, instead, be described psychologically as "joyful interest" [in the object of absorption, attention, concentration]. As such it may be associated with either wholesome, unwholesome, or neutral states of consciousness.

 

A high degree of rapture (sense of uplift, effervescence) is characteristic of certain stages in meditative concentration, in insight practice (vipassanā) as well as in the first two meditative absorptions (jhānas).

In the latter case it appears as one of the "factors of absorption" (jhānanga, see jhāna) and is strongest in the second absorption.

Five degrees of intensity of meditative rapture are described in the Path of Purification (Vis.M. IV. 94ff).

It is one of the Seven Factors of Enlightenment (bojjhanga).

(Ayya Khema) The first meditative absorption (jhana) is blissful.

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I like to swim because I'm a hot dog, and it seems to be fun for Seth (Seth Casteel).

Reinterpreting the Bible: Adam and Eve (video)

Wisdom Quarterly; Robot Chicken (adultswim.com); J. Goldstein (thisamericanlife.org)

WARNING: Rated PG-13 for graphic language and pixelated nudity! 

There's a reason God endorsed a knowledge-is-bad policy in the Garden of Eden according to the "The Curious Case of The Box," a 2011 episode of Robot Chicken on Adult Swim. Would Eve, Adam, and the Snake have been better off remaining in the Friends' Zone?

 

Reinterpreting the Bible and the tale of Adam and Eve (Elhrich Gregor on Vimeo.com)

This animated reading is a re-interpretation of the Biblical tale of "Adam and Eve" written by Jonathan Goldstein, author of the book I'll Seize The Day Tomorrow and host of the CBC radio show WireTap: Here Goldstein rethinks what actually must have happened and reads a story from his Ladies and Gentleman, the Bible about the first people to ever have to start from scratch, a Sumerian (later converted to Jewish then Christian) couple named Ada[y] and Eve.

  

PUPPY LOVE (15 mins) - Molly FitzSimons tells the story of her father starting over. After 25 years in the same zip code, as an executive in the same company, he moved to Los Angeles and tried to start over in a new life with a new venture: a cable channel [thepuppychannel.com], with no people, no talking, no plots, but lots and lots of puppies. It's now available on the Web.

• MAKING MONEY THE OLD-FASHIONED WAY - What's it like to start from scratch every day of your life? Mary Beth Kirchner documents one day in the life of a Jewish hustler in Las Vegas named Joe, who wakes up every morning broke, hustles as much as $10,000 during the day, then loses most of it by the time he goes to bed. (Partially funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting's Radio Fund).
  
• The Amazing Joe Frank (Ira Glass)
• I remember sitting in one of NPR's old first-floor studios on M Street in Washington, listening to Joe Frank as he recorded a monologue, feeling all caught up in everything he was saying, wondering what would happen next in the story, transported in a way I'd never felt before listening to the radio. I wondered how he did it. I wanted to do it myself.
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Corgi the Cute Puppy (oxytocin fix)

The Heart Puppy

New "heart puppy" born
The dog whose heart-shaped patch made him a Web star gets a little brother. See them together

When first Heart Puppy was born
Pro football players learn Yoga (ESPN)

Particle collider: Black hole or crucial scientific machine?

Strong earthquake shakes Tokyo area, no damage reported

What causes birthmarks? Karma? Torture?

Birthmarks explained
There are many old wives' tales about birthmarks, but scientists now think they know the truth. » Old mystery (Divine Caroline)

• Karma as cause of some birthmarks (Pravda)
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Rice on the hot seat
Condoleezza Rice comes under fire in unusual places for Bush administration terror policies. Look at her while she's beautiful as her torture policies may have long term effects that even a child will point out. » Her reaction

• See 4th grader quiz Rice
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If karma is responsible for subsequent unattractive markings on the skin, one can only imagine how this puppy came to be so adorable. Karma, after all, works to one's great gain and fortune as well as to one's detriment.

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