Tag: Buddhist Practice
Heads of MI5 and FBI warn of threat posed by China in first ever joint speech: Security chiefs say they are facing ‘game changing challenge’ from communist party which is ‘covertly applying pressure across the globe’
MI5 director Ken McCallum and FBI chief Christopher Wray in historic address
Heads of security agencies used joint speech to warn of China’s long-term risk
Ruling CCP pose a ‘game changing challenge’ to the established world order
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Notable because it’s a joint statement. Also notable is it’s from two agencies I do not trust about a third I do not trust either. I do not believe any of us below the very top know what is really going on. Recall that covid is almost certainly either a US bioweapon, a Chinese bioweapon or one concocted by both and release deliberately or not. That is one wobbling foundation upon which to divine the planetary drama playing out today. Covid allowed China to hide its defeat in its trade war with Trump. It also provided cover for our domestic cabal to steal the presidential election. Every factor you can think of cuts two, three, four ways minimum. That said, Chinese spying is ferocious and very widespread. What’s weird about that is they are spying on Western institutions that have already been infiltrated and taken over by someone else. Who wants world domination most? Even if you don’t want it, who wants to be dominated? No question, we have before us one of the greatest illustrations of the First Noble Truth ever manifested in the human realm. ABN
Donald Hoffman: Reality is an Illusion – How Evolution Hid the Truth | Lex Fridman Podcast #293
This is a good video for Buddhists to watch. See this for an explanation of amplituhedron. ABN
According to ancient Jewish law if a panel of the Sanhedrin (23 Jewish judges) unanimously find a defendant guilty of murder then they must acquit.
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According to ancient Jewish law if a panel of the Sanhedrin (23 Jewish judges) unanimously find a defendant guilty of murder then they must acquit.
The CDC ACIP voted 14-0 without discussion or having read the evidence.
The underlying assumption behind the "Sanhedrin rule" is that, in this situation, the Sanhedrin’s judgement may be systematically biased, and hence the judgements may be dependant, one on another, rather than each judgement produced independently.
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/acip/meetings/live-mtg-2021-08-30.html
Hence a 14-0 judgement should, logically, using Bayesian analysis, increase your belief that the CDC ACIP decision was systematically biased.
Too good to be true: when overwhelming evidence fails to convince | Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences (http://royalsocietypublishing.org)
Originally tweeted by Prof Martin Neil (@MartinNeil9) on September 4, 2021.
Christian moral bravery is extremely admirable. In USA, many, maybe most, of the doctors, nurses and other medical workers who resisted vaccines, resisted banning early treatment, and had the courage to speak out have been Christians
Teenagers resisting tyranny.
Originally tweeted by Boxer Rebellion 777 (@BRebellion777) on June 9, 2022.
Mania of words disconnected, mania of psyche disconnected, parody of authentic being
CALIFORNIA: AB 2098 has passed the Senate and is now before the full Assembly
All Buddhists can honestly say “this is against my religion.” ABN
Security Over Freedom, Technocracy Over Democracy: There Is a Concerted Effort to Make the WHO the Center of a One-World Government
What other religious philosophy describes what is happening in the world today better than Buddhism, especially the First Noble Truth and its primary cause—delusion? ABN
Unscientific vaccine and mask mandates, banning early treatments, mandating harmful hospital treatments, and so on are good examples of the kinds of attachment or clinging that the Buddha warned against. Delusion is the result of clinging, followed by a cascade of bad karma and compounding delusion. This large societal example can be applied even to very small details of a single individual’s personal psychology or belief, and even to just an instant of that. ABN
When people lose touch with fundamental moral sensibilities, this happens
Karma is the direction and composition of your mind-stream. What you think or do today affects your mind-stream in everything thereafter. False excuses only despoil your mind-stream further. Only you can correct your mistakes. Only you can vow to never repeat them. Karma is not punishment or reward conferred by higher beings. Karma is what you do and think and 100% your responsibility. Properly understood, karma is a deeply liberating concept. ABN
“The bad decisions we made during this pandemic rank among the worst man-made death causes in the history of the US”
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I for one do not believe these mistakes were entirely innocent. I can relate to doctors in fields not closely related to covid being unwilling or unable to speak up. And I can relate to bureaucrats and political functionaries being afraid to speak up. Same for low-level hospital administrators, academics, and scientists. But people at or near the top of the food chain who banned early treatments, mandated vaccines, restricted hospital treatments, denied religious and other exemptions, wrote garbage “news” stories about all of this, you behaved very badly.
The Buddhist way out of this terrible karma you have incurred is: 1) publicly admit your mistakes; 2) apologize for your mistakes; 3) make amends for your mistakes as you are able and as are proportionate to the harm caused; 4) vow never to do anything like that again. Take your lumps, suffer for having violated your own conscience. Then, when all of this has been completed and you have done your best and your vow is strong, put it behind you and dwell on it no more. For many for whom the above is necessary, this period of remorse and self-examination should last at least a year or more. ABN
These videos may contain valuable instruction or confirmation for some Buddhists and FIML practitioners
There are other articles with similar videos in today’s Daily Mail. I watched three of the vids at the link and found they confirm the First Noble Truth in ways we can relate to today. They also show the value of having a stable ethical practice like the Noble Eightfold Path.
FIML practice can be described as a modern pair-work take on Buddhist mindfulness and concentration. FIML provides an objective way to clearly see yourself in real life while also helping your partner to do the same.
This world is rife with delusion. Many people lose their lives to it. Others crack up very badly. I make no judgement of anyone. Contemplating our own mistakes and excesses as well as those of others can be a sort of Buddhist Contemplation of the First Noble Truth, the truth of suffering. ABN
Buryat Buddhists in the Russian army somewhere in Ukraine
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