Robert Monroe of the monroeinstitute.org described invisible emotional energy and called it "loosh." This world of ours has been converted into a Loosh Farm by the Archons, and their symptoms brings us back in a cyclical fashion described by the Dharmic religions as samsara, the Wheel of Life and Death that binds us to suffering, constantly seeking pleasure now here then there, coming to death again and again. But rebirth is a process impelled by our craving, aversion, and ignorance (aka "greed, hatred, and delusion," lobha, dosa, and moha).
(NBC News) Oct. 5, 2025: Rescue efforts were underway on Sunday on Tibet’s eastern slope of Mount Everest, where nearly 1,000 [rich] people [spending at least $84,000 in 1922 prices for the attempt to summit and gain bragging rights] were trapped by a blizzard, according to Chinese state media reports. NBC News’ Camila Bernal has the latest.
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Heavy snowfall, wind, rain has trapped hikers on the slopes of Mount Everest
(DW News) Oct. 6, 2025: DW (Deutsche World) is a German public broadcast service. One trekker has died. Rescuers have guided hundreds of other trekkers trapped on Everest to safety. Unusually heavy snowfall and rainfall have battered the Himalayas. According to Chinese state media, the hikers have reached the small township of Qudang, Tingri County, and rescuers have made contact with the remaining 200 trekkers. Kenton Cool, a British mountaineer, talks about the situation and rescue efforts.
Edgar Cayce (A.R.E. or Association for Research and Enlightenment) conducted trance-channel readings that revealed a great deal more than he the man could have known. The council or collective that came through brought forth much understanding.
Our suffering is not necessarily accidental. While bad, offensive, and sometimes insufferable, there is something that could be learned if we would view it that way.
The Aggregates that experience are dukkha.
What is "suffering"? The Buddha often spoke of it long before Cayce, so it might be good to ask him, as this is a very misunderstood term. The ancient term is dukkha, "disappointment," "unsatisfactoriness," the range of the unpleasant between annoyance and agony. The Buddha defined suffering this way:
"Rebirth is suffering, aging is suffering, death is suffering; sorrow, lamentation, pain, grief, and despair are suffering; contact with what is disliked is suffering; separation from what is liked is suffering; not getting what one wants is suffering. In short, the Five Aggregates clung to as self are suffering [unsatisfactory, disappointing, unable to fulfill, associated with pain]" (SN 56.11).
Hey, why talk about it? Why doesn't the B shut up already? Yeah, yeah, yeah, we suffer. Got it. That's clear enough. We're doing everything we can to AVOID it. So the less we talk about it, the better we'll feel. Duh! Become a hedonist. And shut yer yapper, O Great One.
Sadly, this view has been prevalent since before the time of the Buddha, so when the Buddha, the Awakened One, bothered to mention this ugly word, dukkha ("suffering"), were people or devas happy to hear it? No way. That's the last thing they wanted to hear about.
Pain is inevitable, but suffering's optional.
This is where the misunderstanding begins, and it could end here if hearers would just put away their aversion and LISTEN. A doctor comes in with the results of your scan and examination. Want to hear what's wrong? No way, just get right to the cure! Let's only talk about perfect health. What's it going to take? It's going to take all that? Forget it. I'll keep my illness. Why, I never... It's only when we see how bad and big the problem is that we adopt the right view about it and are open to the cure.
The Buddha would have had a much nicer time to only speak positively and in an "airy fairy" sort of way, doling out magic, bliss, sprinkles, blessings, smiles, good cheer, good news, and the energy of a modern motivational speaker. He could have just told everyone who came to him in pain, confused, or ignorant, "That's right, you're doing great, attaboy, right on, keep it up!" They would have been so happy to hear it. But because he understood and was willing to show us the awful truth, he came to be called the Master Physician. He never met a kind of pain he couldn't cure. The first step? Recognition. Second step? Cause or diagnosis. Third step? Assessment or prognosis. Fourth step? (This is the best one!) The cure, solution, course of treatment, the way to fix what's broken as described in the first step.
"Suffering"?
I can take it because I'm a bodhisattva. Ouch!!!
No single English word captures the range, depth, and subtlety of the ancient Pali and Sanskrit term dukkha. Many translations try ("disappointment," "suffering," "unsatisfactoriness," "stress," etc.) Each captures part of the meaning in a given context. There is value in realizing more than one term is needed because the thrust of Buddhist practice is broadening and deepening the understanding of a term so important to the Buddha that he often claimed to only teach two things -- what is dukkha and what is the elimination of dukkha. Until its roots are finally exposed and eradicated, we will not understand why he focused almost as much on the problem as its solution. When landing on the single best English translation, think again. No matter how we translate dukkha, it's always subtler, deeper, and less satisfactory than that.
Did Jesus (Saint Issa, Yeshua, Jehoshua) travel to India, Persia, and Tibet to continue his spiritual education outside of Bethlehem and the Nazarenes (vegan/vegetarians) and Essenes? Did he in fact, as Cayce reported during trance channeled readings, have past lives (rebirths) to develop the qualities he would need to become a Christ figure ("Messiah," Maitreya figure) in his most recent human life like some kind of Buddhist bodhisattva?
(The Borderless Office) June 10, 2025: American men living in Pattaya Thailand (Buddhist Southeast Asia): Here's why it beats life in the United States. Whatever happens, falling in love and being suckered out of a fortune is common:
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April 30, 2025: 🔍 THE BUDDHA'S SHOCKING ANSWER TO LIFE'S BIGGEST QUESTION: Why do anything at all if life is filled with pain, loss, separation, and disappointment (dukkha)?
The Buddha said, “Life is suffering [disappointing, unsatisfactory],” — but he didn’t stop there. That was just laying out the problem we face. Living (existing) includes unbearable pain and horrifying misery.
Why was the Buddha always smiling?
["Life is what happens when you're making plans."]
Ikigai (生き甲斐, literally "a reason for being") is a Japanese concept that refers to what an individual defines to be the meaning of his or her life. More
Beneath that harsh (and potentially enlightening) truth lies one of the most liberating insights in all of human history.
TIMESTAMPS
00:00 LIFE'S MOST DISTURBING QUESTION
01:25 THE HAPPINESS TRAP
04:03 THE IMPOSSIBLE GAME
06:43 THE BUDDHA'S SECRET WEAPON
09:34 THE MEANING MISTAKE
12:32 LIVING WITHOUT A POINT
15:02 THE ULTIMATE PLOT TWIST
This video unpacks a forgotten teaching that turns suffering into meaning as it reveals the radical Buddhist answer to life’s most haunting question.
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Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind (Shunryu Suzuki)
The happiness trap that keeps most people stuck in a cycle of dissatisfaction
How the Buddha's First Noble (Ennobling = Enlightening) Truth is profoundly misunderstood in Western culture
The revolutionary approach to meaning that flips conventional wisdom upside down
Why the very search for purpose might be preventing us from finding it
Three practical Buddhist practices we can start today to transform our experience
[There are FOUR enlightening truths, not one: There's suffering; there's a reason for it; there and END to suffering; and there's a reason why it ends! Ah, so there's hope and happiness!]
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"Blonde Poison," Jewish collaborator hunted 1,000s of Jews and turned them in to Nazis
(World History) Beautiful Jewess Stella Goldschlag was born on July 10, 1922, in Berlin, then part of the Weimar Republic, which was the name given to the democratic German government from 1918 to 1933.
On January 30, 1933, Mr. Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany by President Paul von Hindenburg.
Shortly after, the Nazi regime began implementing a radical anti-Jewish agenda, and in April of the same year, the "Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service" was passed, dismissing Jewish professionals from government jobs.
This sweeping policy marked the beginning of widespread discrimination, which affected countless Jewish families, including the poor Goldschlags.
The Second World War (WW II) started on Sept. 1, 1939, when Christian Germany invaded Catholic Poland.
Early in the war, Jew Stella Goldschlag enrolled in an art school, where she studied fashion drawing and posed nude as a model for about two years.
In her free time, she sang in a Jewish jazz band, and she briefly found happiness in the fall of 1941, when she married the band’s leader, Manfred Kübler.
Mistakes were made. We were young!
However, like all Jews, Stella Goldschlag could not escape the rising tide of Nazi anti-Semitism. By Sept. 1941, she was required to wear the Jewish "Star of David," and that same year, she was forced to work in the war industry, which temporarily spared her from deportation to a concentration prison camp, modeled on the American Indian reservation system by the USA.
Initially, Stella was assigned to the Siemens factory producing electric engines, but she was later transferred to an ammunition plant.
On Feb. 27, 1943, during a large-scale operation known as Fabrikaktion (German "Factory Action"). Stella and her mother were caught in a roundup of Jews at their factory.
The Gestapo were the forbears of the CIA
Acting quickly, they hid in a makeshift shelter and later slipped out through a back door to evade the Gestapo guards. Their escape was possible largely due to their blonde hair, which played into the Nazis’ false belief that Ashkenazi Jews were not as blonde as other Germans.
Unfortunately, Stella’s husband, Manfred, was arrested, deported to Auschwitz, and was never heard from again. After the Fabrikaktion Stella and her parents went into hiding.
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The Irish drill scene won't be stopped | Gangsta Rap International - Ireland
(Noisey) "Drill" is exploding all over the UK, but until recently, nobody knew about the burgeoning scene over in Ireland. The so-called Godfather of the scene, INK, is based in Dublin and proudly spits in his native accent. More and more, the young Irish MCs coming through are affecting a London accent. Chuckie goes to meet the key players, to see the potential, and investigate whether or not there is an identity issue at play. Watch more Gangsta Rap International:
Irish hip-hop, also known as Irish rap, is a term for any hip-hop music produced and performed by a person who was born or grew up in Ireland. This genre is made up of a variety of subgenres such as Irish grime/drill, Irish language (Gaelic) rap, alternative rap, and Irish trap. Each of these may infuse influences from both Irish culture and another culture.
Irish hip-hop originated in the early 1990s [1], being influenced by the 1970s movement for hip-hop in New York, USA. The original Irish hip-hop was politically driven due to the tension of The Troubles (resisting British domination) in the early 1990s, and mixed music styles of both traditional music and Rudeboy Dancehall [2].
Irish rap genres, such as drill and grime, are mainly influenced by UK rap, while alt-rap and Irish hip-hop have a greater influence from the U.S. Irish rap is mainly listened to people in Ireland and to a lesser extent people in the UK [3]. More
Noisey, Dec. 10, 2019; true story Kneecap (2024 trailer); Eds., Wisdom Quarterly Wiki edit
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These clothes feel so restrictive!
Hollywood star Sydney Sweeney has called out at what she calls “fake” pronouncements on female empowerment in the entertainment industry.
Sweeney made the comments in an interview with Vanity Fair published Wednesday, responding to widely reported comments made by Hollywood producer Carol Baum earlier this year, who said Sweeney is “not pretty” and “can’t act.”
At the time, Sweeney’s team released a statement calling the comments “shameful.”
Now, the actress and producer has fired back herself and linked the disparaging remarks to what she says is a wider problem in the industry.
“It’s very disheartening to see women tear other women down, especially when women who are successful in other avenues of their industry see younger talent working really hard — hoping to achieve whatever dreams that they may have — and then trying to bash and discredit any work that they’ve done,” Sweeney said.
Award shows are never wracking.
“This entire industry, all people say is ‘women empowering other women.’ None of it’s happening. All of it is fake and a front for all the other sh*t that they say behind everyone’s back.”
“I mean, there’s so many studies and different opinions on the reasoning behind it,” she continued.
“I’ve read that our entire lives. We were raised — and it’s a generational problem — to believe only one woman can be at the top. There’s one woman who can get the man. There’s one woman who can be, I don’t know, anything,” said Sweeney.
Sweeney, whose roles in “Euphoria” and “The White Lotus” earned her two Emmy nominations, is currently working on a biopic about famed boxerChristy Martin... More
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