Category: Buddhism

Exploring the philosophy (and practice) of Early and Later Buddhism.

14th Dalai Lama Grasps PRC By the Balls - Where All Life Begins!

China: Dishonest 14th Dalai Lama Starts Jockeying for Capitalist Reincarnation! (3.7.2025)

The reincarnation should follow the process that consists of searches within the Chinese territory, the drawing of lots from a golden urn, and approval by the central government, Mao Ning, a spokeswoman for the ministry, told a daily news conference. The Chinese government implements a policy of freedom of religious belief, and issued Regulations on Religious Affairs and Measures on the Management of the Reincarnation of Living Buddhas to protect the tradition of reincarnation of living Buddhas in accordance with the law, Mao said.

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The Buddha's Enlightenment is Secular!

The Buddha & Secular Enlightenment! (3.7.2025)

If this was the case, why did the Buddha reject Brahmanism? Why did the Buddha bite the hand that fed him? Well, he practiced all the available meditative paths, mastered them all, and realised none of them expressed the ultimate truth. He carried-on training in meditation as the Upanishads advised – and saw through all the conditioning of his mind, body, and environment. He gave up caste privilege and all work for money. He knew that this would lead to starvation, homelessness, and nakedness. He resolved these issues by dressing himself in rags found in the charnel grounds (the clothing of dead who were to poor to be cremated), he acquired the skull-cap of a dead person and used it as a begging bowl as he walked from village to village quietly requesting waste-food on a daily basis, and he sat under the foot of a tree when he meditated. The Buddha left society and lived on the forested outskirts of Hindu society. Of course, the Buddha still physically lived in India, and interfaced with Hindu society, but he did this under a completely new contract of understanding.

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Reincarnation within Tibetan Buddhism!

China: Historical Protocol Decided Regarding Reincarnation of Living Buddha! (2.7.2025)

It was not until 1780, when the sixth Panchen travelled to Chengde to offer birthday greetings to the Qianlong Emperor and reported on the matter, that the emperor accepted the appeals from the Panchen and other Tibetan Buddhist leaders to officially recognize Jampel Gyatso as the eighth Dalai Lama. In 1781, when the Qianlong Emperor formally conferred the title of the eighth Dalai Lama, he simultaneously affirmed Kelsang Gyatso as the seventh Dalai Lama and Tsangyang Gyatso as the sixth. This marked a direct clarification and ordering of the Dalai Lama reincarnation lineage from the perspective of the central government, highlighting the central government’s authority in managing the issue of the Dalai Lama’s reincarnation.

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The Mind is a Sliver of the Material Brain!

And a Mind Does Not Understand it is a Mind…(30.6.2025)

Again, another paradox. The brain-mind is the reality it confronts. The brain-mind is the division of reality it must generate to understand itself. Out of this evolves science. Science is the endless division that sustains itself and continues forever and without end. Knowledge emerges that is unstoppable once properly mastered. Science returns full-circle – or at least it seem to return full-circle. Material reality cannot resolve its own division. Herein lies yet another paradox. Material reality is a total reality that cannot be altered from its intrinsic reality. What is “inside” of matter? If religion is understood to be a mistake of human perception – then the answer to this question must be another type of science – not a theological (and childish) delusion. At the moment there is Quantum Theory. Here, science has sliced itself into a different type of sliver. It may be that Qiantum Theory will be discredited in some way – or researched into a pointless oblivion. It may be that Quantum Theory will look inside material reality and discover something “new” – but will it? Can it?

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Grifting Anarchists Wander Around a Lorry...

How Ukrainian “Anarchists” Support Neo-Nazism and Misrepresent Asian Philosophy! (27.6.2025)

Post after post talked with a self-righteous certainty about how the pursuers of this path were obviously “morally” superior. Then, all of a sudden, Ukrainian (Neo-Nazi) soldiers were featured as “exemplars” of this form of Anarchy – together with regular reports of “how many Russians they had killed”! This demonstrates how Indian religion is completely misrepresented in the West – “Ahimsa” [non-violence] requires a complete uprooting of all hatred from within the human mind and body. Saving a chicken whilst killing Russians sound suspiciously like Hitler’s Animal Rights ideas. Whilst millions of humans were fed through Hitler’s Death Factories during WWII – he passed strict laws protecting the rights of animals! These Anarchists in Ukraine are just like their unelected government – and firm supporters of Neo-Nazism. One of the most recent posts (written in English) states that Anarchists all over the US and Europe fully support Neo-Nazism in Ukraine – and criticise Trump for calling for an end of the war in Donbass! You couldn’t make it – but I suppose trusting Anarchists in any situation is a ridiculous expectation.

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"We Will Win Because We Are Right and You Are Wrong!"

On How Marx Exposed “Inverted” Bourgeois Religious Thinking – and Proved Hitler Wrong – the Jews Did Not Invent Communism! (24.6.2025)

In fact, there is one sublime and pristine observational comment made by Karl Marx which kills all theistic religion dead in the water – never to be re-born again. This is a very different situation than simply deciding to be an atheist or non-theist, etc. Anyone can place their mind anywhere on an arbitrary scale that measures “belief” and “disbelief”. Hitler, for instance, had so many contradictory beliefs that it is obvious his thought processes were all over the place and lacked a proper anchoring in existential logic and reason. He ordered 800,000 ethnic Germans to be publicly executed (many beheaded with an axe) for disagreeing with his flaky thinking. As Hitler possessed “no original thought” – he was unable to produce any truly “original thinking”. Hitler simply spent his time recycling old hatreds in new ways, believed scarecrows were ancient fertility gods, declared June 21st New Year’s Day, and made sure his maniacal soldiers received a steady supply of performance enhancing amphetamines – drugs that enabled the wounded to keep fighting and the usually placid to be full of rage and anger.

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