Five Ur Mantras of SGS:
- I’m Happy With What I Have
- I’m Not Coming to a Now—Not Going to a Then
- I Love All Beings—Both Near and Far
- I Purify Because I’m Already Pure & Medicate Because I’m Still Healing
- I Don’t Own Anything—Only Everything
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Iran: understanding the Islamic takeover of a country that is not an Arab country. The people of Iran have been occupied for 47 years. This why they are protesting and trying to liberate themselves.
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Our heart goes out to you. Israeli leveraged politicians in service to our own elitists are slowly doing a similar transformation in America. Changing the names of our beloved institutions and putting our dictator’s name on them. Rounding up our neighbors of color. Public executions in the streets by slave catchers. Banning books. Rewriting our history. Transferring all the wealth from the middle and lower classes to the top five per cent and oligarchs. Ruining our all our relationships and once ‘Beacon on the Hill’ reputation with the foreign community. Leading the decimation of the United Nations, ICJ, and all other international courts of justice. Systematically destroying our economy through insane tariffs, knee capping childcare and other social safety nets, selling out the interests of entire industries like agriculture, higher education, and tourism, the federal defunding of all liberal initiatives, and so forth. Yes, we are behind you, right behind you. “Mr President” is gaslighting you. In the end he won’t do anything positive for you. He’ll just to take even more advantage of you. My advice: please look somewhere else. Perhaps the EU where the leaders aren’t in tow to your number one enemy. Again, our hearts are with you. But our own tyrants, in the end, won’t be.
In these difficult and trying times I seek out the wisdom of our ancestors
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Don't cede or give up your spiritual sovereignty or emotional sovereignty. Please do take care.
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This is somewhat similar to Buddhist mindfulness, as guarding the mind becomes primary after taking refuge in the Buddha as one’s infallible guide, the Dharma as one’s omniscient guidance, and the Sangha as one’s all supporting companions on the path to freedom.
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You know how American sci-fi and horror were often psychologically revealing and prophetic. Like They Came from Outer Space was about the ‘red scare’ and Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman predicted anti-feminism. I’m thinking the Walking Dead is prescient about what’s going to happen in this country soon. That George Romero claustrophobic and gnashing desperation to get out of the house may suggest one needs to flee the country now because of what this post suggests: a Ken Burns ICE as zombies nightmare. If you’re not a warrior, I strongly suggest having an America exit scenario 🛫
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Most misunderstandings aren't about how you said it - they're about whether the other person is willing to hear it.
Some people don't listen to understand.
They listen to protect their ego, escape accountability, or avoid discomfort.
So no matter how gentle, clear, or patient you are, the message never lands.
That's not a failure of communication.
That's emotional unreadiness.
You can't make someone receive a truth they're not prepared to hold.
And realizing that isn't bitterness - it's freedom.
Stop shrinking your voice
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The problem, at least from a Buddhist perspective, is that almost everyone is bewildered and confused because they keep reacting to everything from a delusive, ‘I, me, mine’ perspective. Everything anyone says, unless the listener has bound some anti-self-centered ‘emptiness’ meditation to their awareness, filters and distorts what is said so as not to have their predispositions challenged or undermined. Right-mongering, owning others, and self-aggrandizement is the order of the day among those who have no self-circumspection, virtue training, or loving kindness and patience in dealing with others. The answer is to embrace some complete path or wisdom tradition and practice everyday until you only want to give to others—being truly helpful—and nothing else.
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Neutral karma, indeterminate in nature, is the same as wasting time. But in consideration of our life to be precious because it affords the opportunity to become fully enlightened—once we are engaged with the right method—then wasting time, after that certain engagement with the Dharma, would seem to be negative karma.
Identifying one’s karmic patterns holds an insight not only into how to change one’s behavior but also an insight into how everything is actually happening all at once and with an infinite strings of alternate results. For example, eleven years ago I was living in Minneapolis while working on a location movie there. Back then I wa still drinking and was arrested by the police for driving under the influence, something I personally deplored, but none the less it happened. Now, with all the protesting in Minnesota against ICE thugs I’m remembering be in Minneapolis in great detail and making judgments on line about events unfolding there, all from Cambodia. At the time of being there I’d just visited Cambodia, fell in with it and a family here, and knew I’d be returning soon. In fact before being arrested I’d been drinking beer with a couple who’d also just returned and we discussed at length how dissatisfied we were with America. Now of course, with 🤡, it’s becoming a very dangerous place. For people like my new friends and me it’s beyond unsatisfactory, it’s impossible. It’s over. I don’t know if they’ve patted but I did soon after. My experience of everything just discussed above forms a karmic-cluster the events of which when recalled created a timeless space. Within that mind-space is a unity of all time and space because of associated causes and conditions arising together and presenting itself as mutually interconnected and therefore entirely dependent upon each other. Had I not ever been to Cambodia I may have never been to Minneapolis, changing my experience of the current protests there. In other words, karma seen through the circular or spiral lens of associative causes and conditions collapse time and space, destroying the three times, and makes one see how all actions are intricately and inexorably linked.
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Precious Relics of
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More than 17,000 Buddhists, from diverse communities across Perth, gathered to receive the blessings of the sacred relics of the Buddha, own by France (Union Buddhist of France) in the presence of His Eminence Kalu Rinpoche.
A rare and deeply spiritual moment, filled with devotion, unity, and transmission.
* Tomorrow, the relics will continue their journey along Australia's East Coast, carrying a message of peace, compassion, and wisdom.
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Fantastic, but nobody ‘owns’ the dharma. This truth is taken from four or five different sutras and displayed along the Mahabodhi outer kora. The question becomes as well whether anybody owns these relics. I say this in all kindness as a recipient of bardo teaching from the past Kalu Rinpoche, NYC, 1977-8. Best of luck with your touring of them.
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This first selection of teachings…inspires a reflection on the example of the Buddha and his life, and what it means to embark on a spiritual path. It also explores some of the fundamental topics of his teachings that are relevant for the entire Buddhist path, no matter whether we just discovered Buddhism or are already old hands.
You can watch the full teaching by searching for « Choosing to look within » in our Teachings Library
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It seems to me indeterminate action—neutral karma—can arise the purest experience of renunciation because it’s not in reaction to a strong emotion such as regret, but rather despair at not knowing how not to suffer and be happy. It’s then we need to seek Buddhist refuge, or renew it, remembering the ‘outreach’ of the Triple Gem and express ourselves accordingly to generate good karma in the place of neutrality. Sakya Pandita taught that the Buddha’s Dharma and social dharma, or laws of the land, parallel each other. So if we were to translate this into social good, it would mean speaking out in the face of injustice. This is engaged Buddhism and if one has Bodhisattva vows one must honor them through positive action or risk breaking them. So in our practice, as in our social responsibilities, we can’t just do nothing. This is the evil of neutrality. Of just being a bystander. So nges ’byung (ངེས་འབྱུང་) here would mean ‘irreversible emergence or resolved turning away’ while still remaining fully engaged in samsara without confusion, bewilderment, or suffering and instead reminding us about the happiness of which you speak.
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I just put several startling observations and news reports together. Couple of times now I’ve seen Trump say to press that he doesn’t think he’s going to heaven. The last time he said it was in regard to children getting tear-gassed along with their parents while driving home in Minneapolis. His answer or apology, which he never has one, was to say he doesn’t think they’ll let him into heaven. The weird part is he emoted this sheepish, innocent aura as he said it, like he was confessing. Something else he’d never do—because of course he thinks he’s always innocent. So in the rarest of moments, while flying on Air Force One, we got to witness his admission of guilt. Earlier, I watched Viola Davis give the most profound acceptance speech for an award from a church group, I’d ever heard. She said hell is the moment at death where the person you could’ve been stands beside the person you became. Trump, in his dementia, is starting to rehash the past. In a moral sense he’s already died, and perhaps not to himself but to us, he’s revealing that hell Viola Davis spoke of. Lastly, some content creators are saying perhaps they’ve found where all the bodies are buried, saying all they need is a warrant, a helicopter to land in a remote part of the Florida swamps, and cadaver dogs. Yes, it’s property owned by Trump, bought for a dollar with yearly taxes paid up, and our intrepid reporters believe this is where 🤡 and others did the evilest of deeds. Is this then why he believes, and gets that ‘I’ve been a baaad boy’ look, saying he doesn’t think they’ll let him in heaven?
Related this, mental environments and having awareness of them may be a sign one’s ego is finally dissolving. In the grossest of consciousnesses it may even manifest as something like hysteria, panic, and paranoia. Normally, or I should say conventionally, the ego mediates changing mental environments, similar to waking dreamscapes, involving us in the constant distraction of self concern. But with the gradual or sudden dissolution of that mental apparatus, we experience instead discrete chapters at first, stretches of time our self-concern is focused and characterized by a ‘main event’ or concern. Like a project at work that needs to be finished. When it is, then we move onto something else, perhaps a problem at home. As the ego is progressively dissolved, signaled by accompanying physical experiences of lightness and bliss, the duration of those episodes starts collapsing until one primarily experiences just moving from one mental environment to the next. At this point, if one is practicing Mantrayana, then it’s mantras, which etymologically suggest ‘mind protection,’ that takes the place of the disappearing ego, its destructive thoughts, menacing considerations, along with the disorientating disassociation of being and consciousness. It’s said mantras are what the Buddhas think. So at this point one begins to think like a Buddha, and it’s the ‘path of seeing’ like one which follows.
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NOBODY EVER ACTUALLY ANSWERS.
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We completely lost RN!
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Conventional—I, me, mine—existence is suffering. It’s not a bug, it’s the main feature of our ignorance continuum. Once you realize this, then nothing is the same. The truth revealing this was pronounced over 2500 years ago. But inside us it’s always been there. Perhaps this young sage [above] can motivate us to rediscover at least this one Noble Truth so we can do something with our lives other than that which he rails against.
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Not enough people know that ICE was formed post-9/11 to help America deal with their made up "existential threat" from the "Muslim terrorists". See, I'm old enough to remember the hyper-islamaphobia after 9/11. If immigration enforcement was handled without ICE for all those years and created by the same President who passed the Patriot Act. Then we def don't need them AND they were destined to be the white supremacist army. So, I need Congress to stop being scared to say ABOLISH ICE.
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I watched Tower Two crumple into itself from across the East River in a Long Island City sound stage where we were shooting with Richard Dreyfus, an astute Civil War and American history buff. Now thinking back, with the passing of the Patriot Act and the disappearing of Habeas Corpus for due processing foreign terrorists, it was the initiatory step in the crumpling of the Constitution and the Orange 🤡 simply tossing it into the bin.
Many of us are incensed and aggrieved at the current miscarriages of justice, like Trump Inc.’s countless emolument clause crimes and DHS’s crimes against humanity, like summary executions of legal observers in Minnesota. But equally incensed are those on the other side of decency and liberalism who observe many of us stubbornly not just blindly obeying authority. The big difference between us and them however, is not always just about liberality, as they have somewhere along the way been ‘broken’ into a mindless submission which also accounts for a seeming lack of intelligence. It’s even been argued, quite recently, in a they-five year study, that a lot of ‘cognition’ is simply too difficult for them. This is the conservative vs the liberal minded. They former are trained, like pets, either by stupid, cruel, and immoral parents, or equally wrong institutions through systematic conditioning. Perhaps even similarly to how animals are broken and trained by sheer brutality. Like chain whipping a lion or putting a ‘cutting bit’ into a horse’s mouth. So one might think, just as we should have compassion for a dumb animal who’s been trained to obey any kind of master or authority figure, we should be compassionate toward people who’ve been similarly broken and trained. Not so. We should be strict with them through lawful punishment, as they must be, once and for all, trained by the civil laws of man with whom their lawlessness runs afoul. This, of course, includes the natural laws as set out in all major religions, such a as those of the mosaic code. So that killing is killing, stealing is stealing, etc.. and cannot be contravened no matter how deprived and cleaver the ‘legal counsel.’Not even the likes of Trump’s crooked mentor, mafia lawyer Roy Cohen.
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Mixing and matching from traditions, got y'all confused…now decides that he is going to be a renunciate… ‘Read the Bhagavad Gita, not The Yoga Sutras of Patañjali.’
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Or, read the 6th Chan Lineage Holder Hui Neng on the topic of ‘hiding.’ Arjuna, like all beings deluded by an ‘I, me, mine’ ego appropriated ‘reality,’ are afraid their world really doesn’t revolve around them—the first sign of ‘self’ awareness—so they seek to reify it any way possible. Like billionaires creating their own city state on an island off Honduras. But “no man is an island.” We are inseparable from each other, dependent upon each other, and must accept our mutuality. This while not hiding from the tasks of our particular karmic profile while we gradually become aware of the ‘appearance’ that profile portrays. Sure, stay in your own caste, your own lane, and don’t deny things that won’t immediately change. But believe they will, by binding emptiness awareness through your Shivasana, or whatever yogic practices that loosen ego’s grip, make you kinder, and pacify anger.
Jensen Huang on the smartest person he's ever met:
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The best definition of someone who is smart is someone who sits at that intersection of being…and not being…period. They are like Shakya Muni and Arya Nagarjuna. Sages like these are known to be Omniscient. They are the ones who truly “see around corners” and know what suffering happens next. They do nothing to add to the misery of the current materialistic, Epstein Islands, nightmare promoting the ultimate dissatisfaction and inhumanity. Follow in their footsteps. Not the tech-bros’.
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“Without an enemy, tolerance remains an idea. With one, it becomes practice.”
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👏👏👏Our oldest friends are our biggest bother but also our best teachers, especially when they point out our true faults most directly.❤️❤️❤️
The Philosopher Who Ended His Own Cult
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The Philosopher Who Dismantled The Cult That Was Created Around Him
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Only the truly arrogant deny the kindness of most teachers, spiritual or otherwise. I grew up in Ojai where K lectured, guru-like, every year in Libby park. Later I eventually found teachers who didn’t teach out of their hat (“existentialism through a spiritual lens”) but from a carefully preserved, living tradition of awareness and realized transformation, making them, for example, much less opinionated than either K or you. (Watch the K vs Trungpa ‘discussion’ cf. meditation on YouTube.) Right now I see arrogance comes in all kinds of garbs. Yes, and even those fancy shoes K loved to wear so much. So go ahead, for the time being, and keep tossing MF bombs at your projection of spiritual phonies. But later, I’m confident, patience, kindness and humility, which is wisdom, awaits you.
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😮 In the ‘open’ 1970s, I took a ‘peaceful deities’ bardo wang from your predecessor Kalu Rinpoche (1905–1989) who was a revered Tibetan Buddhist master, known as a mountain yogi who spent fifteen years in solitary retreat. A renowned meditation master, scholar, he was one of the first Tibetan teachers to bring the teachings of the Karma Kagyu and Shangpa Kagyu lineages to the West. Please, now we all need the wrathful deities. so it’s time to ‘bone up.’
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1. A massive analysis of 26,000 people shattered the "5 AM Club" myth by proving that late sleepers scored significantly higher on intelligence and reasoning tests than early risers. Researchers explained that what society labels as "lazy behavior" is actually a sign of a more advanced'chronotype" capable of sustaining peak cognitive load for longer durations. While the morning larks are burning out by afternoon, your brain is just entering its prime processing window. Anthropologists identify this as the "Sentinel Theory," suggesting that your inability to sleep at night is a genetic superpower inherited from ancestors who guarded the tribe. While the majority slept, the most alert and intelligent members had to stay awake to detect threats and analyze complex patterns in the dark. Your late-night energy burst isn't insomnia, it is an ancient biological software designed for survival and strategic thinking.
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If you’ve been a meditator-yogi for half a century, what is said here only seems half right. This is because it’s the ‘stupid dreaming’ that makes everyone dull and unconscious. The stupidest dreams happen during daylight. You don’t want to be sleeping then. On the other hand, early to bed, or ‘retiring,’ in the evening is OK as long as you don’t use it for sleeping. Late night studies, reflections, and meditations are premium then. So continue them throughout the night as much as possible. Day break is the best time to bind Emptiness awareness to your higher and more subtle consciousness. But don’t go to sleep again after daybreak. Very stupid dreams occur when you do. Wake up with or before the sun, even if you go to sleep late. Remember that stupid dreaming creates increasingly more dullness and unconsciousness. If you’re young, or work long hours, and this seems too difficult right now, be patient. Practice conscious, clear sleeping and dreaming to the extent you can and remember it gradually becomes easier and easier. Especially in later life. What you gain then is an abundance of mental clarity and bodily bliss.
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