Dharma Wheel

Lets be honest though. 90% of these ding dongs are liars. Breatharians are generally full of shit con artists. They are breaking fundamental laws of physics. CO2 contains carbon, you breath out about 35 grams of carbon an hour at rest. Humans lose about an entire kilo per day of water and carbon in ...

How is I’ve a leftist libertarian? Sounds like a contradiction in terms. “One gratifying aspect of our rise to some prominence is that, for the first time in my memory, we, ‘our side,’ had captured a crucial word from the enemy . . . ‘Libertarians’ . . . had long been simply a polite word for left-...

One question that has occurred to me several times is that, despite calling ourselves human, what possible clues are there to confirm what realm this is? I think that by doing this, I could better understand the hungry ghost realm, simply because this description of a permanent dissatisfaction was ...

When I recounted my story to my teacher he was quiet for a long time. Then he agreed that yes it was so very hard to communicate with beings trapped in hell. That many high lamas spend decades developing the ability. He said appearing as someone the person knows or is strongly connected to helps. Fo...

Refuge is not the essential point. I think it is karma. Most of us are going to hell. Maybe not you guys but normal folks like me. For us karma and Bodhicitta are the most important things to learn. If a regular person can develop Bodhicitta for a moment and they have a decent teacher they can get o...

Being a Delog is not uncommon and often happens to quite ordinary people. I ended up in the hell where you are measured by threads and then the threads go through you. At which point they are pulled tighter and tighter until you are cut to pieces over and over. Luckily I remembered my teacher and de...

The big question is who is doing the punishing? Are there a class of evil beings who delight in tormenting evil humans, Gods and even animals? That sounds very silly. A ghost story to tell novices around the fire. But if your true nature is the actual Buddha imagine his distress at doing an evil dee...

I think that the thing really at stake in all of this is: what is the relationship now, between the Republican Party and (genuine, philosophical-political) conservatism? Trump is probably more devastating to the cause of true conservatism than he is to many progressive causes, because his is so wil...

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Someone who supports your practice is rare. The right partner can extend your life, ease life's suffering and be a wonderful companion on the journey. The wrong one can imprison you and hold you back from your true potential.

Why are Americans pretending this is anything other than a popularity contest? The rule simply states if you get a two thirds vote you can remove a President for conduct unbecoming. You have nowhere near two thirds so this is just grandstanding for the base. So it's a total waste of time when actual...

As of Dec 1st facial recognition is a prerequisite to using he internet. No PRC card no internet. This will kick out the last of the expats and end an anonymous internet.

https://www.activistpost.com/2019/10/ch ... ernet.html

Turns out they are bulldozing Yarchen Gar now too. Reeducation camps for everyone. https://freetibet.org/news-media/na/china-has-destroyed-large-areas-one-tibets-biggest-buddhist-sites-satellite-images?utm_source=Free+Tibet+email+updates&utm_campaign=4d8bfda879-OCTOBER_NEWSLETTER_2019&utm_medium=ema...

With the 70th anniversary just passed I don't think China's socialism report card is that great. What scores would you give them using the 12 core values they officially espouse? https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Chinese_core_socialist_values.jpg/800px-Chinese_core_socialist_...

I give China till December to pull back from the brink. After that when all the loans turn over in January with dwindling dollar reserves China becomes incredibly unstable. They will have to sell foreign assets for dollars. 5-10 trillion of those 55 trillion in Chinese loans are dead if they get cal...

Communist tactics for public consumption vs long term strategy: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/10/media_pretends_china_isnt_communist.html Nicholas, don't make me tap the sign. https://serving.photos.photobox.com/826638376b2eef45cc871322d617c17ca22c503fd1f605fc608bf70580e0e9925c6a47e...

Communism is one of Nicholas's bug bears, WeiHan, and he is not amenable to a rational argument when it comes to this subject. I guess we can all agree that China is authoritarian and the state retains a lot of control over the economy, both of these being a feature of Communist governments (but no...

I have seen no criticism of Ms Thunberg on these pages at all...none. I am puzzled by the suggestion that there is any.. It was there. https://serving.photos.photobox.com/2768336806e50e48d7f3e0d41d9378138f08494c093041599b37f8a4d74e3a1601089cd4.jpg https://serving.photos.photobox.com/78557656db6de95...

The real issue here, I'm afraid, is that the pundits disagree, leaving us to decide if a rational response to the likes of Greta and her cause should be praise or pity, and if so, whether the two should be conflated or separate. https://lowenthal.house.gov/uploadedphotos/highresolution/24524dad-8af...

Does the discussion of climate change include aspects about pollution and its harmful effects to all living beings? ,.. plus all the observable flood damages (I even observed firsthand of the flood up to bridge base level at my local beach/park which lasted for all the spring months which only rece...

...The burden of proof is mostly on you [tatpurusa] here, you are the one making the assertion that anthropogenic climate change is some sort of hoax. ... Exactly. "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof" (Sagan said it, I think, but I can't be bothered checking since it's true whoever sa...