Tag: Buddhist

Fire Boat Festival (Lai Heua Fai), marking the End of Buddhist Lent on October 7, 2025. Coinciding with the full moon of the 11th lunar month

Laos: Rainy Season Retreat Comes to an End for Buddhist Monks! (13.11.2025)

Beyond the spiritual rituals, the festival grounds came alive with vibrant activity as local vendors showcased a wide array of goods, ranging from traditional foods and drinks to handmade crafts, clothing, and household items. The lively marketplace added a festive touch, transforming the event into not just a religious celebration, but also a vibrant community gathering.

Well-organized and secure, the event provided a safe and joyful environment for all attendees. It stood as a testament to Laos’ rich cultural heritage, while also promoting environmental consciousness and community unity.

As the glowing boats drifted peacefully down the Mekong and candlelight danced in the night breeze, the Fire Boat Festival once again proved to be a captivating blend of faith, folklore, and festivity—a timeless tradition that continues to illuminate the hearts of those who take part, year after year.

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Do Not Be Distracted By the Bourgeois Distraction!

BMA-UK: The State of Play in the Capitalist West! (16.9.2025)

The mind must remain reflective and decisively piercing in its insightful functionality. The mind must not be taken with the smoke and mirrors which the establishment is feeding the masses as a form of deliberate distraction. Capitalism, and those who advocate and support it, are always the problem. Just as long as predatory capitalism exists – capitalist oppression will continue to exist. Successive UK governments (they are ALL bourgeois) have systematically deprived the British people of the Socialism the incumbent Labour Party introduced in between 1945-1951. Migrants are NOT the real problem – even if the successive governments have weaponised it deliberately to generate widespread working-class conflict and derision.

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Ms. Naly Sisoulith praised the Lao Women’s Union for its active role in empowering women

Laos Buddhist-Socialist Republic – Leaders’ Spouses Celebrate 70th Anniversary of Lao Women’s Union! (19.7.2025)

In her remarks, Ms. Naly Sisoulith praised the Lao Women’s Union for its active role in empowering women, promoting gender equality, and supporting the Party and government’s socio-economic development efforts. 

She also paid tribute to past and present members of the LWU for their dedication to advancing the rights and well-being of women across the country.

Established in 1955, the Lao Women’s Union has grown into a vital mass organization with branches nationwide, playing a central role in mobilizing women to participate in political, economic, and cultural activities.

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Mark Collett Welcomes a New PA Member!

UK: The Spectre of Gay Nazis is Haunting Europe – On Why the Far-Right Demands “Vetting” of Its Membership! (16.6.2025)

Adolf Hitler has been exposed as being “bisexual” – having sex with his SS Guards. Many of his upper echelon were also hidden homosexuals often being married with children as a form of camouflage. Nazi German soldiers were taught that “raping” sub-human people was permitted and a legitimate part of war as their victims were not protected by the anti-rape laws that guarded genuine humans. The Nazis tolerated bisexuality but persecuted gays who rejected fascism, did not practice rape, and were not interested in children. Unfortunately for the far-right, as racism is linked directly to sexual deviancy, if their vetting actually worked – there would be nobody in their groups – and the movement would be dead. As a consequence, the far-right only attracts sexual perverts hell-bent on world domination due to the contradictory patterns of thought that dominate their inner mind. This is a partly genetic deviancy – but one that can be encouraged or removed from manifesting on the physical plane via appropriate conditioning.

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Haytor Neidan Self-Cultivation!

Ch’an Dao Blog Article – Neidan As We Get Older! (18.4.2025)

I suspect the ancient Greeks encountered Buddhist monasticism when visiting India (such as Pythagoras), learned the Buddhist method of “looking within”, and then adjusted the technique as a means to “prove” the efficacy of their particular philosophical perspectives (the work of Plotinus may be taken as an example of this endeavour). Later, via the Greeks, a community of Jews (in Qumran) started sitting in meditation to personally attain a “glimpse of Yahweh” – a practice that eventually spread to the reformed Jewish sect of “Christianity” – whose adherents started to meditate whilst sat in the caves found in the Egyptian Desert (this type of Christianity spread to Britain – hundreds of years prior to Catholicism – becoming “Celtic Christianity”).

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16th (Wax) Wedding Anniversary 2009-2025!

UK: Adrian & Gee 16th Wedding Anniversary! (9.4.2025)

That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wand’ring bark,
8Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken.
Love’s not Time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle’s compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
12But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
 If this be error, and upon me proved,

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