Dharma Wheel

Doesn't cultural appropriation require the conquer and subordination of that culture? Indigenous North Americans would be a good example. But how can you culturally appropriate China? The arrogance of that idea is humourous. Han doing Tibetan dance at Disneyland style events would count. But we neve...

Obama literally extrajudicially murdered American citizens abroad. This public theatre is a joke. So rules only apply when you want them to and are not universal. I didn't say it was lawful. I said I wasn't shedding any tears over it. You didn't explain the murder of Alwaki's 16 year old son BTW. W...

I see it very clearly also. You have 20 translators for every carpenter. Why is complicated. Buddhism does attract smart people. But also people with leisure who tend to be from a certain class.
"We aren't elitist. We are just better than other people."

I didn't have to kill for those empires nor am I under their thumb. I am paid remarkably well for my service but wish it had been under more honourable circumstances.

Killer clown John Wayne Gacy was much scarier than the charismatic Ted Bundy. Bundy was able to kill a few more though. So the respectable Bundy was the better serial killer right?

War criminals are war criminals in the same way serial killers are serial killers.

Obama literally extrajudicially murdered American citizens abroad. Oh, you mean that when Obama ordered that terrorist guy who advocated murdering fellow Americans from a perch in Yemen? Not shedding any tears over that one. Anyway, this is irrelevant to the impeachment. This public theatre is a jo...

Obama literally extrajudicially murdered American citizens abroad. This public theatre is a joke. If Dems used issues instead of distractions they could win easily, but that would take actual progressive policies their corporate owners would not allow. If they force out Bernie again Trump would like...

This is a losing strategy for the Dems. Goldman Sachs votes Democrat. They own the party. That is why they are losing. Trump is a symptom of how compromised the Dems have become. These meaningless theatrics lost last time. Why would they work now? Dems would rather lose to Trump than actually be mil...

I predict that when the IRS finally gets around to it, they are going to sue her for illegally using a 510c3 educational non-profit in order to evade taxes. She could go to jail. https://abalancedviewofbalancedview.wordpress.com/2018/02/27/the-secret-of-balanced-view-finances-anthony/ This guy expo...

McMindfulness is becoming the spirituality of late stage capitalism. They had some excellent shamatha and vipassana training in predeployment training for officers in the Canadian Forces. I was surprised how good it was. The goal was preventing PTSD.

It looks like old money thinking new money is uncouth. Obama committed the same crimes. He also arrogantly dismissed Trump publicly as a filthy peasant with money. The Trumpian perspective is the real elite is money. They seem to have a point and the properly educated and cultured whose hierarchies ...

Honestly I don't see much difference. I was in the army when Obama started "the surge" and started vaporizing civvies with drones and 2000lb bombs. I'm pretty sure the vaporized children don't see much nuance either. One set of elites thinks making it is having a Ted Talk and the other thinks it's o...

You do have to realize that first of all the american political standards are kinda messed up. Here in central Europe and especially countries that were communist, things are really different. Here universal healthcare and unions are the normal standard. Yup. The reason why coalminers are against c...

Shakyamuni refused military service and the duties of kingship and from there it just got worse. He forbade monks from touching money. Monks ranks were simply based on time since ordination, an idea later taken up by unions. All monks demanded state sponsorship in the form of alms and he loved sleep...

Kind of a fun story about how the big energy companies are the only ones who can save us. Paid for by the big energy companies of course. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/09/opinion/renewable-energy-oil-companies.html The public wants a green future, but not one that disrupts their lives or puts the...

Kind of a fun story about how the big energy companies are the only ones who can save us. Paid for by the big energy companies of course.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/09/opin ... anies.html

The spread of stories about arson are being pushed by paid AI. You can probably guess who is behind them. Pretty funny Nemo. The point is actually that when people set fires, purposefully and accidentally, as they did in Australia, Cali, and other fires, climate change takes a manageable fire and m...

Lighten up. I know ... but today it's a bit hard. Read this, and look at the photos, as though you're reading about the countryside you grew up in and you might see why. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-01-06/dead-animals-bushfire-biosecurity-emergency/11843428?fbclid=IwAR1Z5byiQrR40GGO8xYchC_rtTRM...

LOL. And even if your worst case scenario comes about, there is nothing that would suggest that anyone should do anything different. We still have to try and fix the dam, even if its likely to break, because there is no other choice. If its going to break, it will take everything with it. There won...