teacher – SANGHA KOMMUNE (SSR)

UK: Enriched “Shen” – Sometimes Termed “Elixir” in Daoist Texts! (8.9.2026)

08/09/2026 Adrian (釋大道)

I did manage to write a biographical article about Zhao Ming Wang and get it published in the West – but I have always been battling the anti-China ideology permeating from the US – even from amongst some ethnic Chinese people living abroad. Then there are the “fake” Daoist lineages in the West that are inherently linked to the capitalist system – where they think their “income” equals “authenticity”. Those “who know” in and around the Chinese community simply laugh at this pseudo-Daoism. It is the same with Chinese martial arts (gongfu) – where affluent (fake) teachers link their income to being a genuine lineage. So be it. I have lived in and around the Chinese community for decades – and such a cultural setting has become my (personal) and academic speciality. Practicing the Dao requires full breathing, loosening the belt, and sitting quietly. This has to done properly and all the lessons need to be learned.

A protest against AI outside OpenAI headquarters in San Francisco, California, on 11 July. Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images

US: Trump Vows to “Break Wynd” Over AI Row! (17.8.2026)

17/08/2026 Adrian (釋大道)

She said that when she was found guilty, she was “hit with a wave of grief” because she realised her peers “just didn’t get” the danger she believes is posed by the race to superintelligence. But she was beginning to feel “vindicated” as more prominent figures like Sanders were speaking out. She is now braced for the prison experience of an orange jump suit, “horrible food, dirt [and] you can’t sleep”. She has been previously jailed for short periods related to her decades of political activism over causes including Nicaragua, nuclear disarmament, western Sahara and Palestine.

Her message to the chief executives of OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta, which also reported a security incident with its model, was “regain your humanity”. Kaufmyn said her target audience was ordinary people “and the message being: stop the progress of this technology. Let’s get a global ban on the race to superintelligence.”

Prof Stuart Russell, a leading AI academic at the University of California at Berkeley and president of the International Association for Safe and Ethical AI, gave evidence in Kaufmyn’s defence. He claimed OpenAI’s activities “pose an unacceptable risk”, alleging it had deployed AI systems with inadequate safeguards. He said that further development of these systems “must be conditioned on rigorous guarantees of safety, which are currently unavailable”.

The Great Lecture Hall in the Sky: Michael Parenti (1933–2026)

27/01/2026 Adrian (釋大道)

The Great Lecture Hall in the Sky: Michael Parenti (1933–2026) Michael Parenti died today at 92, peacefully, surrounded by family. The Great Lecture Hall in

Scotland: The Cautionary Tale of Jessica Jack-Rabbit! (21.11.2025)

21/11/2025 Adrian (釋大道)

A former physics teacher struck off after students saw her sexually explicit OnlyFans profile has been fined more than £25,000 for failing to pay a huge tax bill.

Kirsty Buchan, who said she used the site as her teacher salary was insufficient, was cited on a list of people and businesses who had defaulted on payments to HMRC.

The tax authority said Ms Buchan had failed to pay £38,902.37 in tax between 6 April, 2022 and 5 April, 2023.

Ms Buchan said she was challenging the final amount owed and would clear any outstanding tax after that dispute was settled.

The 34-year-old, from Coatbridge in North Lanarkshire, had posted pictures of herself on the adult content site under the name “Jessica Jackrabbit”.

She described herself as a “good teacher gone bad” but resigned from her post at Bannerman High School in Glasgow in 2022 after it emerged pupils could see the paid-for page.

The proclamation ceremony at Carfax Tower in Oxford took place three days after the late Queen's death

Oxford: Police Break UK Law Via “Freedom of Speech” Arrest! (11.3.2025)

11/03/2025 Adrian (釋大道)

The UKs Absolute Monarchy was abolished in 1649 – as the axe fell on the neck of King Charles I – executed for “Treason”. Political power changed hands – moving from the aristocracy to the bourgeoisie – with each democratically elected government controlling the country through Parliament. A Constitutional Monarchy was eventually implemented by the bourgeoisie which sought to control the illiterate masses (most of whom had fought for Cromwell against the King) by making them believe the monarchy had been brought back and was looking for revenge (this illusion was partly upheld by the post-Restoration British State carrying-out a witch-hunt against all those who had signed the Death Warrant of King Charles I – murdering around two-hundred former politicians and military-men). This deception worked for hundreds of years until literacy and educational standards improved and the workers realised it was all a lie. Parliament has been in-charge of British society since 1649 – but has “employed” (as “Civil Servants”) a privileged “White” family to “act” as – or “Mimmick” – the behaviour of a Royal Family.

Observer: Oxfod University – Vulgar “Americanisation” and Excesses of “Predatory Capitalism” Must Stop! (10.3.2025)

10/03/2025 Adrian (釋大道)

“I have lost my work, been ostracised by colleagues and had no settlement from the university, no apology, no admission that the judgment has any effect on anyone else – although of course it does,” she said.

She added: “Universities tend to always ask for NDAs in these employment cases, but I will be resisting that because I do not see why a settlement should be dependent on my silence.” The Observer revealed last year that two-thirds of core tutorial teaching at Oxford is done by academics on what the University and College Union calls “Deliveroo-style” hourly-paid roles or precarious fixed-term contracts.

Jolly said she initially thought that the “sham contracts” she and Abrams had were unusual. “But we talked to young academics and realised no one could get a mortgage and people were stuck in this totally insecure situation for years.” It was an “open secret” the two women decided they had an obligation to expose.

After their court victory, Law for Change, the charitable litigation fund which supported the pair, said the case would secure better contract rights for lecturers at Oxford, but also help others working on “exploitative contracts” right across academia.

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