13/4
Practice cultivating bodhicitta—love of all beings including oneself—until the sky opens up as a parachute for everyone. But one that hasn’t a single shape or color and is omnidirectional. It is seemingly everything already and yet because it’s completely in the ‘now’ it’s thought to be ephemeral and nothing at all. It is us and not us, both that and not that, as well. Why then ask what color is your parachute? Better to have it open on its own and be surprised at its color. But what then if it never opens? Try to imagine that…hitting the ground from a great height. It’s OK. I’ve imaged that and didn’t physically die. This is similar to focusing on one’s being that is not a being nor a nonbeing. Then, gathering it all—one’s ontology—into a sum of experiences and stuffing it back into its parachute pack, imagining it as one’s primordial safety net. A security blanket your baby self has now outgrown. Consider this, has it been worth it? The pain versus the pleasure? Did you have a choice in any of it, really? Or do you feel most of what’s happened in your life, and what’s happening right now, is outside of your control? Having no control is kind of like falling. Can you feel this? An awareness of forever descending as the ‘who’ of a you who never really was. Maybe you’re feeling it’s time to pull the rip cord. Or should you just wait and see what happens after hitting the ground? The latter may be the softest of all landings. But it’s up to you, and just how long you insist on loving your pain instead of yourself—and, equally important, others.
25/4
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"Analysis is about loosening or freeing oneself from whatever [comes under analysis]…
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I first experienced your ‘analysis’ while giving an oral book report on Huxley’s ‘Brave New World.’ It was supposed to be 3-5 minutes. But I left my notes, the original ideas I was clinging to, and was set free to extrapolate near exponentially upon them. I held forth for over fifteen minutes and my 11th grade classmates were stunned because before that moment I’d been just like them. But during my flight I became all nuance, knowing, and ‘seeing more’ about the individual and society, how they were interdependent, and how this was reflected in our bodies, feelings, mind, and everything around us. These were things as a peer group we’d never publicly discussed, or perhaps never even thought about. From that point on, I knew this force of analysis was my ultimate salvation and gift to the world. But then not much ‘directly’ became of it, except when after 40 years of working as a makeup artist in film, I was suddenly ‘drafted’ to teach in the shedra (Tibetan monastic college) about language, the possibilities of its translation into other cultures, mindsets, and its infinite capacity for expressing what’s often thought to be inexpressible. I feel you and I are quite a bit on the same page about this word ‘analysis.’
18/4
Never has Buddhist renunciation been so easy. Just stop looking at your dumb ‘smart’ phone. Because on that side of your phone’s facility is all suffering, outer and inner. It’s definitively just samsaric even while it pretends enlightenment. For Instance, Buddha stories and other commercial pitches for quick fix Dharma. Beware, nothing such as a serious Buddhist realization may ever come of it. Especially if it’s, as advertised, just to relax or put you to asleep.
On your side, however, stripped of ‘social media’ and alone, one has direct access to the ‘cessation of all suffering’ [the Buddha’s third Noble Truth] which is definitively nirvanic. Why? Because the content of the internet is almost entirely the monetization of the Eight Worldly Dharmas. What are those? Four pairs of opposing concerns of transient life conditions that keep ordinary beings attached to samsara. They are: gain and loss, fame and insignificance, praise and blame, and pleasure and pain. Buddhists aim to transcend these by recognizing their impermanent nature. This deepest of reflections can then lead to the renunciation of the Eight Worldly Dharmas and eventually to meditating on Shunyata, perhaps the most profound doctrine, along with that of Interdependent Origination of the Buddha’s teaching.
Choice Theory says, no one can make you do anything against your will. Not even drink water by pouring it down your throat. That’s because what you have not truly willed—what is not a conscious volition from your heart—is not a choice you’ve made. That we make ‘unconscious choices’ all the time is the biggest problem and clearly the antidote to that is self-awareness and conscious self-circumspection when deciding anything of serious consequences, which these days, may be everything you choose and don’t choose.
So consciously choose against absorbing into your phone—at least its social media and news apps—at least every other day. See how that goes. Do every other second day if necessary. Spending as much time in authentic, spiritually orientated or empowered places as possible, is also highly recommended. The need for dualistic, karmically mixed stimulation usually falls away quickly in such ‘power’ places. Imbued with at least a situational purity (nonduality), insights that change your mind will eventually take root. It’s these kind of influences that produce cessation. With cessation arises Nirvana and then a deeper change of mind takes hold. That which is beyond even the need for renunciation of Samsara.
17/4
APRIL IS THE CRUELEST MONTH
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This is why WCW wrote ‘Spring and All’ as a phenomenological notebook prose-poem reaction to the intellectual abstraction of ‘The Wasteland.’ However, Eliot was prophetic, as it just got worse. April 17th, today, is the cruelest day of the cruelest month, Phnom Penh falling to the Khmer Rouge and the climax battle of the Vietnam War both taking place in the annas horriblé of 1975, the cruelest year, as a massive earthquake also destroyed hundreds of Burma’s Pagan 1000 Buddhist stupas and many gompas in Tibet. But why celebrate subjects like this? I think this is why Williams, who said the publication of The Wasteland was like taking a bullet, wrote his proto-American Buddhist ‘Spring and All,’ an experimental, epistemic epic. It should also be noted that WCW’s mentor, Edmund Husserl, an Austrian-German phenomenologist and mathematician, was born 8 April 1859 and died 27 April 1938. This is the year another anti-tragic literary font, Henry Miller, who was just getting started with his twin ‘Tropics,’ Cancer and Capricorn, while earlier having discharged a collection of chaos classics, ‘Black Spring,’ a book of ten short stories published in 1936, by the Obelisk Press in Paris, France.
NEVER UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF YOUR EXISTENCE
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TRULY LOVED YOU, OR HOW LONG YOUR MOTHER SPENT STUDYING YOUR HANDS AND YOUR FEET…OR WHAT SONGS THAT BRINGS YOU STRAIGHT TO THEIR MIND…OR WHICH COWORKER STAYED AT THAT JOB LONGER BECAUSE OF YOU…
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Yes, and that’s to only scream it in this lifetime. Now multiply that by an infinite amount of lifetimes. Question, do all of these feelings of attachment still seem like a desirable thing? Or does it revile you, like you’re living the movie Groundhog Day? If you feel even a tinge of revulsion, then you have the seeds of Buddhist renunciation. Again, multiply this quotient of renunciation by infinity, almost. It’s then you have the motivation of Shakyamuni’s mission to seek Enlightenment.
8/4
Life is filled with fake continuums so only take refuge in the Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha as they alone are good in the beginning, good in the middle, and good at the end when, having tread the Noble Eightfold Path you’ve successfully transcended the Eight Worldly Paths, attained the Eight Freedoms, and stabilized all your experience within Great Equanimity.
10/4
Harris Losing was Necessary
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Was Kamala Harris losing actually a wake-up call ...
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@powerparadox_ Yes, in this vein, before that Susan Sarandon said if he 🤡 becomes President (for the first time) then everything will come to a head. You’re living the toadstool head…and the shaft.
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"Islam is a very interesting story" Shashi Tharoor on “…So Islam came to us as news…”
Oldest mosque outside the Arab world in Kur...still has Hindu lamp…[Hindus experienced Islam within a few decades of the prophet’s appearance…]
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It must be the ‘birth of nations’ is the birth of enmity toward the ‘strangers among us.’ Such a pity.
14/4
“I’m officially kicked out of the US and my cats my apartment…”
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Maybe it’s better to be out of America right now, even though New York City isn’t quite the same. That you’re following your passion is the best. Fortunes change like passing clouds and it won’t be long, because you’ve tapped your true love, that great bliss will be a full-time job. 🙏
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@cicihothouse Cambodia is not original. Do your research! They called it differently but not as famous as Songkran and claimed to be original. Thai, Laos, Myanmar, South of China and Cambodian have the same new year but Cambodia claiming as original! Every countries have their own traditional but Cambodia just wants to claim it all.
@teddybiar Yes, it’s the same as Losar, Tibetan New Year, same Ladakhi root event which is celebrated however by various Himalayan cultures even on different dates according to historical and cultural dictates of their calendars. However, with this transit of Pieces into Aries celebration which is Indic (as there was a general ‘Indianization’ of SEA) when the argument arises which one came first, a correct historical prioritizing is this: The Khmer form (Moha Sangkrant) preserves an older, more Sanskrit-derived layer, and is generally considered closer to the original transmission, while Thai Songkran is a later regional development from the same root tradition.
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@cicihothouse Khmer empire is not Cambodia
@teddybiar Of course it is. Why do you think good Khmer people call each other ‘Goan K’mai’ which means ‘child of Khmer’?
And if you lived here you’d know it still is empiric by the way all the neighbors have copied and stolen land from their former glory, for over half a millennium.
14/4
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American journalist Shane Harris asked chatbot Claude how he feels about the U.S. military using the Al system to select targets. It turned out, Claude was troubled. "I did not expect Claude to say that," Harris explained. Tech companies have become essential partners in national security. With American journalist Shane Harris, we asked what role technology companies play in the modern security apparatus. Tech company Anthropic (known for chatbot Claude) made headlines because they refuse to allow their Al models to be used by the Pentagon for mass surveillance of American citizens and autonomous weapons systems. How is cyberwarfare reshaping the global balance of power? And what are the implications for privacy, civil rights and democratic governance in the years ahead? Watch the entire programme Al at War - with Shane Harris on De Balie's YouTube channel
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This post could well support the excuse for a predetermined bombing target designed by the IDF to ‘shock and awe’ the IRGC parents of their children attending and murdered there. AI uses statistically generated persuasive rhetorical devices comparable to an expert English propaganda writer. So yes, don’t be so gullible and complicit. Only idiots fall for their pets and AI assistants.
ON THIS DAY IN 1975: THE KHMER ROUGE SEIZED PHNOM PENH
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I never forget this day, nor this year, as I was standing in an American college quad and it was gleefully announced the Khmer Rouge had just captured Phnom Penh. Such was the confusion then in the West, many thought they were the good guys, to the point the UN gave them a seat until the early 1990s. This irony is heartbreaking and is one of the reasons I moved there, trying to make amends for the US bombings which enabled that very fall of Cambodia’s capital.
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Classic ‘In And Out Of The Garbage Pail’ (Fritz Pearls) put to poetry. “Keep all your ‘business’ current…” 👏💯🙏
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I'll say plainly what that is: blasphemy. And if you call yourself a Christian and you are not willing to say that out loud, today is a good day to ask yourself why.
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When Allen Ginsberg referenced Moloch (or Baal in this picture), in his breakthrough beat poem ‘Howl,’ he was at his best as a prophet predicting the Epstein Class.
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As an Khmer etc American, I find this headline disgusting. Reducing an entire sovereign nation to a criminal caricature isn't clever journalism - it's sensationalist and dehumanizing. For Gabriele Steinhauser as a Southeast Asia Bureau Chief and Patricia Kowsmann as a Senior Reporter in Singapore to publish this derogatory slur right during Khmer New Year, our most sacred time of family and pride, is a direct insult to every Cambodian American and beyond. Would you ever brand a Western nation with a mocking nickname during their biggest holiday? Journalism should inform, not insult. We deserve a retraction and a formal apology. The Cambodian government even officially demanded a correction and a retraction of the label from ya'll. It damages national dignity and could fuel racial discrimination. Get yourself together @wsj
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@xjulietactualx Pocks on these people who wrote and approved this article. For all the reasons stated above and one more: BBC set a bottom line of journalistic integrity of no name-calling. In fact, it’s defamation and I hope WSJ gets sued. Yes, ‘April is the cruelest month,’ you illiterates, and you shouldn’t make it literal. I smell a really stinky Israeli fingering in this. Genocide and autogenocide, you probably thought, what’s the difference? The difference is Kampuchea will never be a paying customer like its neighbor. I believe they have learned from their holocaust and the Israelis have not. Remember, while your SEA client needs you, they really loathe you at same time.
23/4
Exploring The Magic Mountain | Ep. 16 | Chapter 6 part 3 of Thomas Mann: The Magic Mountain
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This video is part of a long-term close-reading project on Thomas Mann's novel "The Magic Mountain". The whole project will have a duration of about seven to nine months. All details are explained in an introductory video.
@sarzotti32 • 30s ago
Amazing. Such relevance for trudging through today's swamp of misconstrued 'sociologisms! I suppose it's like reading an update of Cicero strained through Marx and Freud. Even one's view seen atop the exiled Ganden state in Mcleod Ganj is refreshed. Thank you
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The Wall Street Journal: Cybercrime syndicates operating in Cambodia have corrupted officials, enslaved workers, stolen billions and built scam compounds the size of small towns, No wonder it's known as "Scambodia."
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Listen to her [sophoancao], it’s documented: '...not Cambodians but a thousand Thai scammers were online...' WSJ's article is a propaganda scheme worthy of the Epstein ilk, seeking—among several nefarious intents—to transfer Isreal's genocidal reputation onto the innocent Cambodia people so Thailand, with impunity, can steal more land and promote their own version of the Gaza holocaust. This is happening right now, as along Cambodia's borders, and its interior, over half-a-million K’mai have already been displaced. According to this WSJ article, in another one of its evil intents, the term "Scambodia" doesn't just describe a phenomenon but performs a geopolitical function. It naturalizes and normalizes US Treasury designations as objective international justice rather than what it really is: hegemonic strategic pressure. Sure they—and we—can name the Chinese syndicate operators and the complicit senators. But what about ’Scamerica’ and AIPAC’s payoffs making it complicit in one of this century’s most heinous genocides? Ask yourself, in whose interest is it then that the Khmer people, who survived the 20th century's most complete attempt at civilizational erasure, should enter the 21st defined once again by a foreign-authored name? Shame especially on you at the Singapore editorial desk for having no sensitivity, or no literacy, for your ill-timed and professionally irresponsible release. Even today, did I not hear an Israeli, in India’s picturesque Himachal Pradesh, make a 'scammer' crack about Cambodians as they swarmed at an ‘Israeli’ cafe? They suck on this kind of propaganda to assuage and deny their guilt and self-loathing about the numerous documented crimes against humanity they, as a people, have now perpetrated. Thai people, on the other hand—following in their footsteps?—appear to reject them, fighting with Israeli tourists in public, even as their government buys Israeli weapons and security systems with the intent to commit their own humanitarian crimes against the K’mai. Wake up! All you Thai smarties, you’re tilting at windmills on the wrong side of history, what to say of your own borders.
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