28/8 The most compassionate thing one’s Guru can do is kick you and your ego to the curb as soon as possible. It’s then genuine initiative to gain both compassion and wisdom, for oneself and others, takes root.
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This experiment demonstrates how herd mentality works in a group of people.
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Today I got to know how religion works without asking any questions.
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On both the mundane and profound levels, Amy isn’t paying attention. On the former, she doesn’t get what’s conventionally going on. On the latter, more deeply knowing level, an informed response would to have either left on her own accord, or stayed and conformed—no shame. But instead, knowing almost nothing, she was removed. This is how erasure happens. Many comments reflect a naive sense of this world’s freedom, that one is somehow ‘independent.’ Nothing, conventionally speaking, is independent or has its own ‘self’ nature. Not even all the ‘Amys’ out there are really independent. But at best elitist. Or often simply arrogant. Many Buddhist writings support and logically prove this. The one that comes immediately to mind is Trungpa’s, Myth of Freedom. Even Rousseau, an idealist—one of the four extreme positions—unlike many Western intellectuals, understood this. Especially, when he said, “Men are born free, but everywhere in chains.” True freedom hinges on having the right method to achieve it. What Marat professed from his bathtub during the French Revolution, later became a literal blood bath after being championed by many unwitting ‘independents.’
29/8
Hi... Thanks for update.
I’m teaching in Rajpur, above Dehradun, in the lower foothills of the Himalayas, just west of the Nepal border and east of Pakistani, equidistant. The Sakya College and Monastery was initiated by Khenpo Apey, HH Sakya Gongma Trichen, and our good friend Sonam, the Tibetan translator, along with Prof. Leo Pruden, in 1972. It’s the oldest Tibetan college, shedra, of its kind in India. It’s kind of an honor to be here. Something I dreamed about, off and on, for decades.
Interesting you’re studying Marxism. In college, we had this Czech professor named Ivan Svitak who fled Prague when the Russian tanks rolled in, 1968. He taught ‘Marxist Philosophic Thought’ and it’s one of my all time favorite classes at Chico. Unfortunately, it took place during Helen’s illness, so the information from it is mixed and incomplete.
Concerning the French Revolution, it’s interesting to note that Pol Pot (Khmer Rouge brother #1), couldn’t understand Marxist dialectics, but instead leaned heavily on his knowledge and passion for the French Revolution. Eventually, he and the upper core of his cadres began taking pride in their ‘red badges of courage’ which then became a high degree of blood lust and paranoia. They began to study Stalin at that point. In the end, Pol Pot (Saloth Sar), discarding doctrinal rules, attempted to leap forward past the Socialism stage to full Communism. This, within an agrarian, preindustrial country with illiterate farmers instead of an educated proletariate. As we know, a monstrous nightmare ensued.
And…as you’ve probably read, now there’s skirmishes at Cambodia’s north and northwestern border. Thailand has once again incurred upon Cambodian territory. That’s the truth of it. Interesting historical dialectic going on there. It’s also kind of a family feud, being exploited by young Thais politicos who might be imagining they’re doing Cambodia a favor by destabilizing strongman Hung Seng’s power. This while their own government is in disarray. Everyone at home is praying for peace and that it doesn’t become anything like what happened to Ukraine.
Anyway, I’ll be returning to Cambodia around the 20th of October. Dany has been improving our building.
Good to hear from you. Enjoy Paris.
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2/9
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I have a beautiful rooftop apartment, 2 bed, 3 bath, w/pool to rent out on Taphul Road in Siemreap (‘Siam Defeated’) Krong. It’s just $400. It has maybe the largest deck in the city centre. Great restaurants like, My Little Cafe (shoutout to Reachs Mae) are all around. The best Fame Cafe is below in a storefront of our building and the heavenly Tara Spa is just a few doors down. Before you judge, my K’mai partner and I also built a ten unit apartment building for K’mai families, like my partner’s, seven years ago because we recognized a need for better housing. At that time, Siemreap was just a dusty red dirt road town. Now it’s gorgeous. Those apartments rent for just fifty and sixty dollars a month, they’re fantastic, and K’mai owned. We are our own NGO. Peace in our time.
3/9
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Linguistically, which is also to say ‘culturally speaking,’ the Thai-K’mai conflict is also a ‘cultural war.’ Remember: Khmer script (Cambodia) was developed from South Indian Pallava (~4th–6th c. CE), and Thai script (13th c. CE) was derived from Old Khmer. Conclusion: if Australian people are supporting Cambodia, then they should stop persecuting their Indian immigrants! Australia is after all a country of immigrants imposing their will over aboriginals. Same as America did over native Americans. Same as Isreal is now doing over Palestinian, with the erasure entering the completion stage. So Thai, stop with your open ass thievery. Ozzie’s, man-up on your roots. And good on everyone who’s trying to stop the genocidal Zionists!
the clock is ticking.
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If Trump Loses Modi, America Loses the loses the Century. I’ll give Trump the benefit of the…I must be missing something.
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You certainly are missing something by living in America and supporting cruel crony capitalists. Spend a year or two outside that moral hellhole and you’ll see the whole world differently. Incredible India seriously doesn’t need the US. I’ve been coming here, and staying, on and off for the last forty-five years. I don’t think in that time India ever needed the US. So apparently the deal has changed and childish Trump cards aren’t allowed. US is out of the game until it grows up and plays by the new adult rules.
4/9
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Just a glimpse of the incredible footage we captured on 9/2. This is what democracy looks like, and that is exactly what these Americans are fighting to preserve.
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👏👏👏Marat meets the Walking Dead in a Barth (sic) tub full of American blood. 😢😢😢 Be careful everyone, in the decadents’ mirror, these degenerate times, life imitates the worst of art. American Sci-Fi and Thrillers have always presaged the future. But if not U, who’s turned? If not now, wind? Justice must be served. 🤡 🤡 🤡 I’m writing in AOC and Jolly Ginger on the ballot as soon as possible. Oh wait, I don’t live there anymore. (And who really does?) But carry on 🫡 🫡 🫡 anyway and bless y’all. 🔥🔥🔥
5/9
…there is no answer, per se. Just the continuum of suffering and its parallel cessation. Practicing Buddha’s Eightfold Noble Path, then, is more the question of: ‘If not now, when?’
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Huh? The Tibetan cause in general, like an understanding of karma and its suffering, has never been anything close to a joke. So why do you pretend you’re like schizophrenic? That’s no joke either. My mother was schizophrenic, and as all beings have been our mother at one time or another throughout a beginning-less time, I’m moved to advise you: Please, check your mind and train it properly. An authentic Buddhist teacher, not your fantasy life and delusions, can straighten you out. 🙏☸️🌈
Comment: America’s moral bankruptcy started with its founding fathers. Slave holders, whore mongers, and half-baked idealist/deist philosophers trying to escape legitimate debts they owed their beneficiary, the English crown. Now compare those guys, like Jefferson, Ben Franklin, and John Handcock, to the seventh century king of Tibet, Srongtsen Gonpo who systematically imported Buddhist teachings from India. Or better, the great King Ashoka who, after a brutal war with the Kalinga kingdom, embraced Buddhism and spent the rest of his reign promoting peace, compassion, the creation of monumental art, the construction of roads and wells, and the propagation of Buddhist teachings through countless rock and pillar inscriptions. He outlawed the killing of animals for food, creating an empire of truly peace loving vegetarians, laying the foundation of today’s veg/non-veg option in most Indian menus. 😂🙏😎🌈
6/9
The first time you give someone something…
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That’s why if you practice the spiritually necessary act of generosity you must keep moving. There’s an infinite amount of worthy recipients throughout an endless time. And by aiming to give them all something they appreciate, an ultimate love is accomplished—from the very beginning one aspires to do so. Try it. It’s a highly contagious habit that spreads love and peace.
8/9
“what you can see is a depiction of an ex girlfriend of my dad's”
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In 1978 or ‘79 I applied for this project, in its incipient stage, as it was the time of the minimalist art, ‘sex, lies, and video tapes,’ and so forth. Just using a chisel and a mallet all day totally captured my imagination. But I was rejected and instead ended up working as a makeup artist on numerous great movies. The last one of which was with Pesci on ‘The Irishman.’ Another great cathedral-like art project. Decades earlier I even worked with the sizzling Laura San Giacomo from the indie film cited above. So interesting to me to see what I missed. Who wld’a thought ass-licking would’ve been part of that collective oeuvre? It’s like quoting carved figures from the erotic Kajuraho temples where next door (in the only square Yogini Temple) authentic ‘circle feast’ tantric sex was born. Sorry to hear about your dad’s passing. I would’ve been proud to have worked with him.
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@arjunsharma0522 The killing of four and wounding of nine unarmed college students by the Ohio National Guard on May 4, 1970, during an anti-war protest at Kent State University eventually helped stop the Vietnam War and get rid of Nixon. This is much worse. ‘A change gonna come/ Oh yes it will’ Hang in there Z’s😎🌈
10/9
@bharatsharma247 ‘Engaged Buddhism’ ala Thich Naht Hahn anti-VN war tactics can possible inspire engaged Indic religionists. Do protect your religious heritage at any cost as the rest is a flash in the pan. This some of us actually see. That Materialism is both nihilism and eternalism. Just Extremes. A false vision. For fatalists, Mahadev/Kaulki will do the rest, perhaps soon, anyway. India is actually very incredible. To all wanting to do harm, really wake up this time. Not just ‘woke’ up, in a ‘color revolution.’
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You missed it. Look closer. There’s three visible, and one more suggested, to be seen on the other side of the column’s circular base. No wonder William Blake, England’s transcendent Romantic era Poet-prophet-artist hated perspective. Praising Giotto instead. And the meaning of the four squished rabbits? Derision of the four levels of allegory, Blake himself championed and mastered in his Four Zoas, and other epic poems he uniquely illustrated. The above, it could be said, is secular rubbish, fit only for the un-anointed.
While in Nepal my favorite driver, Jitu, taught me a lot about their politics. I’d forgotten it until learning today how the students got manipulated by Prachandra the Maoist (Chinese Communist) probably to break Rabi and other cadre out of jail. While also bringing down the corrupt government for good measure. And about how their military chief of staff is the same chief of staff in India’s military. Now the whole country is under martial law. From my point of view, this all happened a day after I got hired to go there. And the day I left Cambodia to come teach here in India, Thailand invaded. All this means nothing about me of course, but the illusory world in general. Right now greed has reached a tipping point, and soon there might be a coordinated global revolution to redistribute wealth from top to and bottom. It’s happened before in the American, French, and Bolshevik revolutions, as well as the Indo-Chine I, II, and Vietnam wars. And now it’s happening again in Bangladesh, Indonesia, Nepal, and perhaps even in France and America. Danger lies ahead for many years.
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