Wisdom Quarterly: American Buddhist Journal

Wednesday, October 1, 2025

Vegan Jane Goodall, 91, dies, natural causes

Animals trust/love kind vegan

VEGAN Dr. Jane Goodall, UN Messenger of Peace and Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute, was a remarkable example of courage and conviction, working tirelessly throughout her life to raise awareness about threats to wildlife, promote conservation, and inspire a more harmonious, sustainable relationship between people, animals, and the natural world. She passed away in her sleep. in the latter part of her life, she expanded her focus as a vegan/vegetarian and became a global advocate for human rights, animal welfare, species and environmental protection, and many other crucial issues. Donate to her legacy

I was once a girl in England, dreaming of living with and saving the animals.

Wildlife lover Jane falls in love and marries wildlife photographer Hugo van Lawick, Africa.

Jane Hopecast podcast: Emma Lewisham

"I stopped by the end of 60-something like that," Jane said of eating meat. The legendary Dr. Goodall has lived a life full of compassion and advocating for animals, sharing her immense knowledge with generations of people eager to soak up her wisdom. Dr. Goodall's climate activism has been astoundingly inspiring for countless compassionate people seeking a better, safer, healthier world, and she has clearly lived a long life as an environmental leader and role model. More: Jane Goodall: Here's why I stopped eating meat in the 1960s

Jane's Vegan Cookbook

#EATMEATLESS: Good for Animals, Earth & All

Why did you become a vegan, Jane? - I read ANIMAL LIBERATION by Peter Singer
Jane Goodall and her life in the wild (Science Friday)

What are you looking at? - I want to be like you!

Dame Jane Morris Goodall (April 3, 1934–Oct. 1, 2025), was an English zoologist, primatologist and anthropologist [3].

She was considered the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees, having studied the social and family interactions of wild chimps for over 60 years. She was scheduled to speak in Pasadena today, Oct. 1, 2025, for the local chapter of her Roots & Shoots and later this week at UCLA's Royce Hall.

Vegan Jane Goodall

Dr. Jane Goodall explains Veganism (meatless, plant-based, ahimsa)

How she changed what we know about chimps

Miss Goodall and the Wild Chimpanzees: National Geographic's 1965 documentary follows the experiences of British zoologist Jane Goodall, who spent five years studying chimps in Tanzania's Gombe Stream Preserve and discusses her belief that thorough understanding of chimpanzee behavior will lead humans toward a clearer understanding of themselves. (ThisOldVideo2: This is the 1988 edited version posted Feb. 6, 2021).
Jane Goodall, primatologist and chimpanzee champion, dies at 91 (National Geographic)
Goodall’s original tale of chimpanzees still astonishes today

Dr. Leakey's legacy

Leakey's Angels (pinterest.com)

Another of Dr. Louis Leakey's legacies stems from his role in fostering field research of primates in their natural habitats, which he saw as key to understanding human evolution. He personally focused on three female researchers:

Jane Goodall,
Dian Fossey,
Birutė Galdikas.

He called them "The Trimates" [2][3]. Each went on to become an important scholar in the field of primatology. Leakey encouraged and supported many other doctoral (Ph.D.) candidates, most notably from Cambridge. As well, Leakey played a role in creating organizations for future research in Africa and for protecting wildlife. More

Death comes to us all. I wish I'd prepared more.

Goodall (born Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall and formerly known as Baroness Jane van Lawick-Goodall) first went to Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania, Africa, to observe its chimpanzees in 1960 [4].

As the founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and the Roots & Shoots program, Goodall has worked extensively on conservation and animal welfare issues.

You're like a funny chimp, Mr. Jim-Kim.

She was on the board of the Rights for Nonhumans Project from 2022 until her death in 2025 [5][6]. In April 2002, she was named a United Nations Messenger of Peace. Goodall was an honorary member of the World Future Council. More

Jane Goodall live at Royce Hall (tickets-center.com)
SAVE TREES: Amigos de los Rios - Emerald Necklace
KTLA 5, Oct. 1, 2025; National Geographic via ThisOldVideo2; Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Jen B., Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Money, sex scandal at Shaolin Temple

China's head of Shaolin Temple arrested

(China Insider with David Zhang) July 28, 2025: Capitalism is good, just like America taught us. If it's good enough for Protestant Christian televangelists and One product from China Insider with David Zhang tagged products below in the commodification of sea creatures. Learn more (pre-sale, shipping at the end of September) and get a bonus pack of Taiwan Yushan High-Mountain Oolong Tea (150g).

Path to Nirvana; WQ reaches milestone

Here, Johnson poses at the opening green carpet for the 21st Zurich Film Festival on Sept. 25, 2025, in Zurich, Switzerland (Andreas Rentz, Getty Images for ZFF)

Dakota Johnson was a vision in blue at the Zurich Film Festival, and her jaw-dropping, see-through Gucci gown stole the spotlight. Johnson was on stage at the screening of her latest film, "Splitsville," at the 2025 Zurich Film Festival on Sept. 25, 2025, in Zurich, Switzerland. Artistic Director of the ZFF Christian Jungen awarded Johnson the Golden Eye Award during the screening. More:

Blue is the color, invisible to the ancients

Blue is the color. It represents a kind of cosmic intelligence or wisdom, to the extent any color (rate of vibration or frequency) can convey resonance or a mood. The seven main chakras (energy nexuses or "wheels") along the spine represent the aspirations of humans.

We go from the base (muladhara) with our coiled energy waiting to be expressed, where we ground ourselves, aspiring upwards to release (spiritual liberation) at the crown chakra. They are called wheels because they are turning, guiding kundalini energy upward.

Milestone

What the students wrote

What is the milestone? It is another tremendous mass of views. Without realizing it, Wisdom Quarterly: American Buddhist Journal crossed yet another big tick on the ticker. With each such bundle of hits or views, most of them taking place in just the past month, we are filled with gratitude for our enlightened teacher and his successful American student (to preserve her privacy, let's call her Kalyani, the noble friend), who are inspirations that we, too, can attain such things as are described in the Buddhist texts, particularly the Abhidhamma preserved and made practical in little known Burmese Theravada tradition of the great Pa Auk Sayadaw. (All forms of Buddhism may be beautiful and exotic, counterintuitive and koan-like, but how many produce enlightenment and liberation, bodhi and nirvana, in this very life?) However, in our worldly foolishness, we tend to intellectualize everything. And for that we have our root teacher, American JuBu Bhikkhu Bodhi (BAUS.org).

What is the Path to Enlightenment?

Dhr. Seven, Ashley Wells (ed.), Wisdom Quarterly

Seven energy-wheels or chakras of the body

The "path" (Pali magga, Sanskrit marga) may be summarized in many ways. Because Buddhism as recorded in ancient, memorized recitations (the oral tradition of proto-India before most people read and wrote), there are lists. So it's fun to play with them so long as one knows the map is not the terrain, only an indicator along the way. If only ONE thing were needed to awaken to enlightenment (bodhi), that

one thing would be insight (wisdom, direct knowing-and-seeing, panna, Sanskrit prajna).
If the list had two things: Serenity (jhanas) and Mindfulness (satipatthana) producing liberating wisdom.
Three things: Compassion, Tranquility, and Mindful Attention to the Four Foundations.
Four things: The Four Ennobling Truths. ("Noble" = Aryan = "Enlightening").
Five things: Finding a suitable teacher, giving ear, mental attention, applying oneself, and perseverance until success.
Six things: Sitting, calming, absorption (jhana), emerging, and immediately mindfully placing attention on phenomena (ultimate mentality and materiality, discerning cittas and kalapas), and reflecting.
Seven things: The Seven Factors of Enlightenment.
Eight things: The Ennobling Eightfold Path....
Thirty-seven things: (The Seven Requisites of Enlightenment or the bodhipakkhiyādhammā, all the key things, or dhamma, the historical Buddha taught pertaining to awakening that leads to knowing nirvana).

USA Today; Editors, Wisdom Quarterly

Hegseth and Trump declare war: 'FAFO'

'Hitleresque': Retired Major General Hertling links Trump speech to Nazi propaganda

Warlords Trump and Hegseth said all that? Wow

(MSNBC) Sept. 30, 2025: ~~King~~ Pres. Trump spoke today before the nation’s military, touting his decisions to deploy his National Guard to major U.S. cities. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth also delivered a series of strange and embarrassing remarks [such as saying "FAFO," which is a belligerent threat and vulgar acronym that means "F around and find out"], sparking fresh calls for his immediate resignation. Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling (Ret.) and Maj. Gen. William Enyart (Ret.) join The Weeknight to respond. #PeteHegseth #Hitler #Trump #NoMoreKings

(Really American) Lying cheater Trump and the Ugly Americans

Jews, Israel under Bibi in big trouble

(Kim Iversen) Netanyahu lies in English, reveals his mind in Hebrew. And he's already underming

(Late Night with Seth Meyers) Trump 'very confident' on Gaza deal

Short Attn Span Theater: Islam, Muslims

Pornographers put this headscarf on me for their profit, and I said it would get me killed.

I'm not an Arab Muslim and never was. I played one in movies. I'm Lebanese, ex-Catholic

Muslims follow the Abrahamic religion called Islam ("Surrender") and sometimes the mystic and poetic form known as Sufism

Pervert assaults Future-Pres. AOC (video)

Right wing pervert assaults AOC on Capitol steps

My Latin beauty shouldn't have any...

(The Young Turks) While walking up the Capitol steps to work recently, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) was accosted and sexually harassed as she tried to get to her office. Ana Kasparian and cohost Cenk Uygur discuss the incident on TYT.

AOC states: "Here is a video he [the pervert] posted of the incident. I was actually walking over to deck him [with my fist] because if no one will protect us then I’ll do it myself, but I needed to catch a vote more than a case today." (See uncensored video: AOC/X).

Is this "sexual harassment"? (Should Bernie be getting so handsy?)

Now allowed in Hegseth's Army

Sexual harassment is a type of harassment based on the biological sex or cultural gender of a target.

It can involve offensive sexist or sexual behavior, verbal or physical actions, up to bribery, coercion, and assault [without physical contact].

Harassment may be explicit or implicit, with some examples including

making unwanted sexual remarks,
actions that insult and degrade by gender,
showing pornography,
demanding or requesting sexual favors,
offensive sexual advances, and
any other unwelcome physical, verbal, or non-verbal (sometimes provocative) conduct based on sex [1].

Sexual harassment includes a range of actions from verbal transgressions to sexual abuse or assault [2]. Harassment can occur in many different social settings such as the workplace, the home, school, or religious institutions. Harassers or victims can be of any gender [3]. More

Move to White House or Senate?

Elect me to fight oligarchy with VP Bernie!

(Axios) Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and her team are positioning her to run for the White House or the U.S. Senate in 2028, according to people familiar with her operation. Why it matters: Ocasio-Cortez's 2028 decision could shake up the presidential race or the Senate's leadership. A fellow New Yorker, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, 74, is up for re-election in 2028. More

People are sharing their honest thoughts on AOC's potential 2028 presidential run, and they're not holding back

Please, Donald, don't do this to me, to my CA

CNN recently broke down a poll for early choices for a democratic presidential nominee in 2028, which found that AOC is currently polling at 12% behind California Gov. Gavin Newsom, which is 10% more than what Sen. Bernie Sanders was polling in comparison to Sec'y of State Hillary Clinton in 2014. More

TYT claims to be "the largest online progressive news show in the world." It's no TJDS. LIVE weekdays 6-8 pm ET. Membership protects TYT's independence from corporate ownership and allows [Cenk] to provide free live shows that speak truth to power for people around the world.

Ana Kasparian, July 14, 2022; Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Crystal Quintero, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Trump sells TikTok to Israel: IDF donor

Max Blumenthal exposes Jewish Zionist [IDF Operative] Larry Ellison on TJDS

(Kim Iversen) IDF (Israel militant largely Ashkenazi European Jewish military force) will benefit from Tik Tok now thanks to Trump. Was it a mistake, oversight, or strategic, threatening China until a deal most favored for surveillance and homeland spying could be brokered?

Sec'y of State gladhands Larry Ellison, 2020
Larry Ellison (born Aug. 17, 1944) is a pro-Israel IDF (Israel's genocidal state-sponsored militant arm) donor, Zionist Jewish American businessman, and entrepreneur who co-founded the software company Oracle Corporation. He is a major investor in Trump's Tik Tok deal, taking the company from China and selling it to Israel (via Ellison, who is possibly a dual citizen or an American with allegiance to the foreign state of Israel). Ellison was Oracle's chief executive officer from 1977 to 2014 and is now its chief technology officer and executive chairman. He is a centibillionaire and the second richest person in the world as of Sept. 2025 [2][3]. On Sept. 10, 2025, Ellison was briefly the wealthiest person in the world, with an estimated net worth of $393 billion [4][5][6][7][8]. Ellison is also known for his ownership of 98 percent of Lānaʻi, the sixth-largest island in the Hawaiian Islands [9]. More

Jimmy Dore (TJDS); Kim Iversen; Jon Stewart (The Daily Show); Eds., Wisdom Quarterly Wiki edit

(The Daily Show) The future of antisemitism

Inside Afghanistan in 2025 (video)

Inside Afghanistan in 2025 (the world's most dangerous country)

(Matt and Julia) Summer, 2025: AFGHANISTAN, Central Asia. Afghanistan, a country we have all heard of for all the wrong reasons.

For the first time in over 40 years, formerly Buddhist Afghanistan is at peace (particularly in holy Bamiyan). However, under Taliban rule, it remains highly controversial, with human rights, especially of women, being eroded every day.

We decided to solo travel to Taliban-controlled Afghanistan in 2025 to try understand what life is really like inside a country we all hear so much about on the news but often understand so little of. #Afghanistan

(Matt and Julia) An American and other Westerners in Central Asia

Afghanistan is a nation with a rich culture, history, and heritage. It is a proud country that has defeated every empire that passed through its land, from the Brits (English) to the Soviets (Russians), to the Yanks (Americans) [and soon the Chinese]. But what is life really like right now?

Join us as we travel solo overland from Pakistan, towards Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, and try to understand more about this flawed and often misunderstood sovereign state. Welcome to Afghanistan and daily life under Taliban control.

Crossing Badlands of rural Afghanistan (hostile) - Westerner drops into Kabul with camera

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Matt and Julia, June 20, 2025; Amber Larson, Dhr. Seven, Pfc. Sandoval (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Kirk killing solved, 6 mass shootings in 24 hrs

No one saw this professional assassin but the camera.

Jeff Rense has solved the Charlie Kirk shooting, pointing out the assassin in action before, during, and after the deadly bullet pierced Kirk's neck, causing him to lose so much blood that he died on route to the hospital in an SUV because no ambulance was available, with the killer probably sitting at his side making sure he died and had no chance of survival. The proof is in the footage below. The more one watches it, the clearer what one is seeing becomes. So it will soon be banned.

(Paramount Tactical) Dangerous Liberty Ep. 150: Charlie Kirk, finding the truth [the government has to ignore to keep their narrative alive] with guests Dr. Shiflett and Marcus Allen

Trump sends troops to Portland and mass shootings trigger Left-Right blame game

Trump MAGA right wing white man shoots up and burns Michigan Christian church

Behold, Kirk's assassin (at center right)

(The Daily Show) Sept. 29, 2025: After a string of mass shootings across the USA, America swaps out “thoughts and prayers” for a Left vs. Right blame game, Republicans hypocritically criticize the Democrats’ “violent rhetoric” -- taking no responsibility for the Right’s love of guns, hunting down unarmed animals, and acting as biblical boosters for Israel’s genocide -- and Trump escalates a nonexistent problem by deploying troops to Portland. #DailyShow #Portland #Trump #JonStewart

Who shot Charlie Kirk, right wing Israeli Zionist operative or LGBTQIA+ Mormon?

WATCH: rense.com/general98/video-2.mp4

Here it is again: Watch the brown shirt man apparently shoot Charlie Kirk with a modern high tech palm pistol and then vault the barrier. Pay attention and note that he runs right to Kirk on the ground.... (altnews.net via rense.com) VIDEO: rense.com/general98/video-2.mp4

SOLVED: How Charlie Kirk was assassinated - shooter on camera

Jeff Rense (rense.com)

Assassin's armament, covert palm pistol

The importance of this [right side view] video truly cannot be overstated. Without it, virtually no one would have been able to see the murder being committed by an obviously top drawer, cold-blooded, smiling, extremely well-trained [older white male and therefore in a sense invisible and unnoticed] professional assassin [who then jumps the barrier and runs towards blood-gushing Kirk, something no normal person would do if the shot had come from behind and confusion and chaos just erupted].

Modernized more deadly version of the pistol

The murder weapon is tragically ingenious and keep in mind was only produced in the 1890s. The weapon used on assassinate Charlie Kirk just as he spoke those words is likely an updated, upgraded, new high-tech version of an original, very small, Chicago “palm pistol” with a round magazine and tiny 1.5-inch barrel...that sticks out between the middle two fingers of the shooter's hand.

The weapon is so small that it can’t be easily seen in a human hand, making it perfect for close-up operations from 0-15 feet. See video at the 0:05 point and look right down the barrel of the assassin’s gun at work.

The current ammunition might be a very high velocity .22 short or a custom round, even smaller in size than a .22 short. For more damage, perhaps the original very short .32 caliber is still in use by hired killers.

This is a highly concealable specialty gun of which there were only about 10,000 ever made over 130 years ago. The original idea was to mass produce them for grandma to keep in her purse when she was out and about. More

Conspiracy: predictive programming

(Kim Iversen) Snake Eyes to Kirk: Is life copying this Hollywood script?

Shoot’em up in Trump’s America

(The Young Turks with Cen Uyghur) Was the church shooter on right?

COMMENTARY

Right wing Christians say kill the fake Christians? Trump MAGA vet shoots up Mich. church

Welcome to America: The Dead Kennedys
Problems with this theory: No smoke and not much recoil. The line of fire seems off for slump of body falling to Kirk's left. The loud sound (crack of the firearm) sounds more like a rifle coming from behind than a tiny pistol coming from up front. Which way does a shot body fall? Usually, it is the opposite side of the one he was shot, continuing the momentum of the force produced by the mass of the metal bullet. Will ballistics and forensics experts be looking into it? Maybe on their own time but not officially, as there was no autopsy performed or allowed, even though it is required by Utah law, because who needs pesky facts debunking the official narrative that an LGBT Mormon on a distant roof sent a magic bullet with no exit wound from more than a hundred yards away?

Jon Stewart, The Daily Show, Sept. 29, 2025; Jeff Rense (altnews.net, rense.com); Pfc. Sandoval, Seth Auberon, Ashley Wells, Sheldon S. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly COMMENTARY

Happy birthday! Yosemite is 135 today

Yogi Bear welcomes kids to park

Yosemite is a U.S. national park in Northern California established on Oct. 1, 1890 (135 years ago), receiving 3,897,070 visitors (2023) [4] and 4,000,000+ in 2024.

It is bordered on the southeast by Sierra National Forest and on the northwest by Stanislaus National Forest. The park is managed by the National Park Service and covers 1,187 square miles (3,070 kms) in four counties – centered in…

The word "Yosemite" (derived from the Miwok natives' Yohhe'meti, "They are killers") historically referred to the name that the Miwok American Indians gave to the Ahwahneechee, the resident indigenous… More

Trump shuts down gov't, declares war on US