They're really rich, so...it's imperative we help them financially.

Emptyset - Avichi YouTube video by serialdepth

Sometimes what's required is brutal electronica named after the lowest hell realm.

Al-Qasar - Kişisel İsa (Personal Jesus) ft. Sibel (Official Music Video) YouTube video by Al-Qasar

Can't hate this Arabic take on Depeche Mode. This will ease hostilities way better than billion of dollars of bombs.

The flagstone octagon is now complete around the Padmasambhava Stupa in Crestone, Colorado.

I loved Braxton almost more than anyone.

Reminded me of a club called Khyber Pass -- where was that? Philly, maybe?

Demographics, Destiny, and Dharma: An Interview with Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche - Buddhistdoor Global Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche offers a bold and broad response to recent Pew research about Buddhism's demographic decline

Exceptionally thought-provoking.

You never know who you'll find lounging by your iris in the morning.

“Relinquish interest in any of the classes of beings,
Determine the body to be illusory,
Realize the aggregates to be like echoes,
And come to possess bodhicitta."

On the editing screen, two verses of praise for the Buddha that sum up the whole path:

“You can perceive those who develop faith in the victors,
Go forth and uphold the teachings of the Victor,
Determine all phenomena to be empty,
Deconstruct all signs in their entirety,

"given everything that's going on right now". As if, in other times, such posts would just be hurled right down the pipe.

Could rename it the YeDL.

The implication being that, in J.D.'s view, "matters of morality" don't apply to our public life.

Me, I'm firmly Team Leo.

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"But corporations, on the other hand, are the source of all your flying unicorns that you can ride through rainbow candy clouds."

The threshold for amazement is exceedingly low.

"It's not going to replace my life savings..." meaning she had to spend her life savings on a medical emergency, "even with insurance", and is now trying to tell us she's grateful for the crumbs of DoorDash tips.

I was waiting for someone to say it.

A praise of the Buddha:

“In your supreme wisdom, you understand each and every being.
For the beings whose minds cling to gloomy mistaken views
And fail to recognize that their confusion is like a mirage,
You feel unequaled compassion and lead them to realization."

Mmm, it would have to had died to be "revived."

*Sigh*. How about "President Trump's mental health called into question after he shared..."?

And she stares at the walls.

Beautiful, but is the second part accurate? Only asking because it's an incomplete sentence. One might expect:

The radiant nature of the mind,
That virtue is the essence of the Tathāgata.

The sutras can be pretty blunt at times:

“Just like a snake shedding its old skin
He gave up everything like snot in the dirt."

On the editing screen:

“Under the influence of sleep or death,
People cannot recognize their own minds.
Under the influence of his great pride,
The king fails to recognize virtue."

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“Do not look for the Buddha elsewhere.”
The real work is to change our own mind
#RealBuddhaQuotes with Venerable Thubten Chodron

This May, join Venerable Thubten Chodron and the monastic community at Sravasti Abbey — or online — for the resounding of The Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines

Battle of the Gentle Bands (Portlandia) YouTube video by slackerVK

You might win!

May his offspring mature into open rebellion.

Oddly, I came across it in a note also about the ocean:

Here the word for ocean, rin chen ’jung gnas (Skt. ratnākara), literally means “source of jewels,” which is a kenning for “ocean.”