Showing posts with label skillful means. Show all posts
Showing posts with label skillful means. Show all posts

Friday, August 14, 2026

Native wisdom via A.I. 'Wes Kingfisher'?


Heal, feed, and warm family and friends from the land itself
The Native American Way — 101 field-tested remedies, skills, and recipes passed down by Grandmother Ada from the hills of eastern Oklahoma.

The backyard pharmacy, the wild pantry, fire, shelter, clean water, and the winter table — the old ways written down plain, before the last of them are gone (now only $17).

AI "Wes Kingfisher" is a pen name, and "his" eBook was created with AI assistance. It is written in the "voice" of a Native American elder for educational purposes only. It is not medical advice — so consult a competent physician before using any herbal remedy, especially if pregnant, nursing, or taking an allopathic pharmaceutical.
Wild plants can have deadly lookalikes, so never forage, eat, or use any plant without confirming its identity with a local expert or an authoritative field guide.

Foraging and wilderness skills carry inherent risks. This book is no substitute for learning directly from the remaining Native communities and elders who have stewarded these traditions for 10,000 years and longer.
  • BOOK: Americans are paying top dollar for what grows free in our own yard! That bottle of pills started life as a tree down by the creek. The comfort our great-grandmothers made in the kitchen now comes with a barcode and a hefty markup. Nobody locked this knowledge away out of spite — but rather, the chain got broken, one elder at a time, one quiet library closing forever. Sound familiar? (weskingfisherbooks.com)
  • WARNING: By completing a purchase, purchaser consents to immediate delivery of digital content and waives the 14-day withdrawal right.
  • DISCLAIMER: Why would Wisdom Quarterly promote this book by an invented character?
It is because the writer-publisher ("Wes Kingfisher Books") is honest enough to say Wes Kingfisher a pen name and this eBook was written with A.I. assistance (at the bottom of the landing page in small print). And in the future, AI and eBooks may be the closest we ever get to any remaining "Native wisdom."

Real Native American wisdom from a guide
Christopher Nyerges is not Native American, but he teaches authentic tribal knowledge.

    The latest publication
  • Our advice? Seek out human sources. For hands on training, we recommend the real thing with author and nature guide (Wisdom Quarterly's own teacher) Christopher Nyerges (School of Self-Reliance, Los Angeles, California). He has over 21 plant and survival books in circulation. He is a prolific author, a hands-on trainer, local columnist, advisor, and offers classes on all sorts of modern and Native American survival skills.
  • Christopher Nyerges in the page of Wisdom Quarterly
Must-Know Go-To Survival Plants of North America

Thursday, August 13, 2026

Kiho, Rayna V, why do girls have to fight?


Kill or be killed? - Girl vs. Boys?



Monday, June 22, 2026

Tantric sex or exploitation by Tibetan gurus?

I knew and helped cover it up like a Vatican Pope in Rome, but I was 'Pope' of Potala Palace
I'm giving this boy an extra juicy special "transmission." Outsiders wouldn't understand!
He has little boys suck his tongue, but that's culturally allowed or secret tantra?

Friday, May 29, 2026

I will kill you: Viking vs. Bruce Lee, East/West


"I will kill you" the Western way
Gee whiz, did nobody love you as kids, Guys?
LYRICS
: "I Will Kill You": Bleed from my pain/ Revenge on treacherous snakes/ They will pay/ Slicing my flesh/ Sculptured wounds my catharsis/ I will stain/ Into the heart/ Needle injects gasoline/ Convulsions/ The one that they betrayed/ Has made them this way/ Plagued by the bastards/ I will kill you/ Killed by my rage/ Scream at my face/ The grisly scars went unavenged/ Until now/ Deep in the hole/ You are gagged and scream aloud/ But unheard/ Choke on your vomit/ You watch your hands cut off/ Then your legs/ The one that you betrayed/ Will kill you this way/ Scarred by the bastards/ I will kill you/ Killed by my rage/ I must kill you/ Into the throat/ The scalpel slices/ Warm blood sprays out/ The gushing entices/ Pull out your heart/ And let you watch/ Shove in your mouth/ Then stab your crotch/ I watch your agony/ I am released from years of pain/ Your death averted my becoming insane/ You are dead, I have killed you (Genius)
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Tibetan Buddhism: real meaning of 'refuge'

(Tsem Rinpoche) The real meaning of Buddhist "refuge"

The Buddhist Catechism (Amazon)
[The Pali/Sanskrit word sarana actually means "Going for GUIDANCE," NOT "going for refuge," which is a bad English translation. Early Buddhist reformer Col. Henry Steel Olcott tried to straighten out this misunderstanding more than a century ago in The Buddhist Catechism (sacred-texts.com).

But people still misunderstand and scholar mindlessly repeat the mistake without ever taking a closer look at the word and the potential confusion they are causing.

There is only one real "refuge" in the phenomenal universe, and the historical Buddha called that nirvana. Nirvana is the further shore, the real place of safety beyond rebirth. Everything in samsara is beset by disappointments and dangers on all sides.

Aside from nirvana, the Buddha, the Dharma, and the [Enlightened] Sangha are precious jewels we can resort to for GUIDANCE on the path, for encouragement, inspiration, and clarification.

We ourselves must make the effort. No one saves us but ourselves. No one can, and no one may. Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha merely POINT the way.]

Going for Guidance?

Saranam or "guidance," Col. Olcott explains: "This word has been hitherto very inappropriately and erroneously rendered 'refuge' by European Pali scholars and thoughtlessly so accepted by native Pali scholars," Wijesinha Mudaliyar writes to him to point out.

Neither Pali etymology nor Buddhist philosophy justifies the translation. "Refuge," in the sense of a fleeing back or a place of shelter, is quite foreign to true Buddhism, which insists on every person working out one's own emancipation [liberation, salvation, enlightenment].

The root SαΉ› in Sanskrit (sara in Pali) means to move, to go, so that saranam would denote a moving, or one or that which goes before or with another—a Guide or Helper.

I construe the passage thus: Gacchāmi, "I go," Buddham, "to the Buddha," SÒranam, "as my Guide."

The translation of the Ti-saraαΉ‡a as the "Three Refuges" has given rise to much misapprehension and has been made by anti-Buddhists a fertile pretext for taunting Buddhists with the absurdity of taking refuge in non-entities and believing in unrealities.

The term "refuge" is more applicable to NirvaαΉ‡a, of which saranam is a synonym.

The [Abbot] Sumangala also calls my attention to the fact that the Pali root sara has the secondary meaning of killing, or that which destroys.

Buddham saranam gacchami [Dhammam saranam gacchami, Sangham saranam gacchami] might thus be rendered "I go to the Buddha, the Doctrine, and the [Noble] Order as the destroyers of my fears—the first by his teaching, the second by its axiomatic truth, the third by their various [enlightened] examples and precepts." Source

Wednesday, May 6, 2026

Save oneself or everyone else?

Save oneself or save everyone else? Buddhism's most dangerous question
(Buddha's Wisdom) May 6, 2026: ⚡ FOR 2,000 YEARS BUDDHISM HAS BEEN FIGHTING ITSELF...AND NO SIDE HAS WON YET. Is personal enlightenment (arahantship) selfish?

The Bodhisattva Ideal (BPS)
Buddhism's two greatest paths ideals, that of the Arhat and that of the Bodhisattva, have been locked in the most consequential debate in Buddhist history since the first century CE.

What began as a philosophical disagreement between Mahāyāna and [Hinayana schools until they were all destroyed and] Theravāda Buddhism [arose]. It became something far more dangerous: a 2,000-year argument about what "liberation" (vimutti, moksha) actually means, who it's for, and whether saving oneself first is an act of wisdom or an act of cowardice.

TIMESTAMPS
  • 00:00 The [apocryphal] trial of Śāriputra [where Ven. Sariputra, male disciple "foremost in wisdom," comparable to Ven. Khema, female disciple "foremost in wisdom" used as a stick figure to represent first the Hinayana ("Lesser Vehicle"), a pejorative epithet, and later the Theravada ("Teaching of the Elder Enlightened Disciples of the Historical Buddha") to attack them with Brahminical and Hindu residues on what the Buddha Taught]
  • 02:01 The debate we've been building to
  • 04:19 The prosecution — Mahāyāna's real case
  • 08:10 The defense — the sentence that stops everything
  • 13:19 The trap — who is taking this infinite vow?
  • 18:26 The real wound — self-view in spiritual clothing
  • 24:01 The dissolution — each path guards the other
  • 29:19 The same mountain
πŸ” DISCOVER
  • Why the [apocryphal Mahayana invented discourse] VimalakΔ«rti SΕ«tra placed the arhat (Pali arahant) ideal on trial
  • How the Lotus SΕ«tra reframed personal liberation through the One Vehicle (Ekayana) teaching
  • Why Theravāda’s strongest defense begins with one simple fact: the Buddha called himself an was called an arahant
  • How the Diamond SΕ«tra complicates the bodhisattva vow through no-self (anatta) and emptiness (shunyata)
  • Why Vajrayāna Buddhism refuses to take sides in this debate...and what that refusal reveals about both paths simultaneously
πŸ“š SOURCES AND FURTHER READING: (with affiliate links)
  • Primary [Mahayana] Buddhist texts: VimalakΔ«rti SΕ«tra (VimalakΔ«rtinirdeΕ›a SΕ«tra) — Robert Thurman translation recommended https://amzn.to/3QTtGSD
  • Diamond SΕ«tra (Vajracchedikā Prajñāpāramitā SΕ«tra) — Red Pine translation recommended https://amzn.to/3OP9Mro
  • Lotus SΕ«tra (SaddharmapuṇḍarΔ«ka SΕ«tra) — Burton Watson translation recommended https://amzn.to/4d2JFqh
  • Primary [Theravada] texts: Majjhima Nikāya (Collection of "Middle Length Discourses" from the Pali canon) — Ariyapariyesanā Sutta (MN 26) — Bhikkhu Bodhi translation https://amzn.to/4dcS2y9
  • Pāli canon — Nikāya (collection of) discourses on the brahma-vihārās ("Four Divine Abidings" of loving-kindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity or dispassionate looking on) 
Scholarly and Modern Resources
  • Paul Williams — Mahāyāna Buddhism: The Doctrinal Foundations https://amzn.to/4evxKCq
  • Bhikkhu Bodhi (translator) — The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha https://amzn.to/3OMwqkd
  • Γ‰tienne Lamotte — The Teaching of VimalakΔ«rti
  • Peter Harvey — An Introduction to Buddhist Ethics https://amzn.to/42e1RH9
  • Nāgārjuna — MΕ«lamadhyamakakārikā (Jay Garfield translation recommended) https://amzn.to/4w8J0Lr
  • Rupert Gethin, The Foundations of Buddhism https://amzn.to/4d5IG7h
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