Namaster Jam for the Environment

Buddha Quote That Explains Trump

Buddha taught that the object of our senses are a trap; the Venerable Phra Bodhinyanathera taught that animals are caught in the hunters trap by their desires, and that if we are attached to our senses we are just like the fish caught on a hook.

 A man comes walking along a road.  He is very thirsty from his journey and is craving for a drink of water.  He stops at a place beside the road and asks for a drink.  The owner of the water says, “You can drink this water if you like; the color is good, the smell is good, the taste is good, but if you drink it you will become ill.  I must tell you this beforehand, it’ll make you sick enough to die.”  The thirsty man does not listen.   He votes for Trump anyway. 


~~ Buddha Bop

17th century Korean novel and Trumps impeachment

So I'm reading "The Cloud Dream of Nine."  It a 17th-century Korean novel set in Tang Dynasty China. What really got me is the passage on Law and Honor.  In reading it, I thought of why we must impeach Donald Trump.  

Here's the passage:

  The Primary Laws are the foundation stone on which 
your Imperial Majesty's Government rests.... If once we lose
its right relation all prosperity for the State ends,
confusion and disorder must follow. If we fail to exercise
care inregard to this fundamental matter, the house 
affected by it will not long endure. Matters of State 
prosperity rest here also. Therefore the Sages, and 
the specially enlightened ones, thought carefully of
 this in the governing of a country, and regarded the 
correct observance of the Primal Laws as the most
 important thing of all...the laws that rule society 
will be hopelessly damaged ; that in high places truth
 will be forfeited, and that in low places violence and  
wrong-doing may result....

Sounds like today doesn't it.  "Confusion and Disorder" from a Dishonorable Government.  No doubt it is going to happen.  If we hold Trump accountable for his dirty deeds, he and his supporters have said there will be a civil war.  If we don't impeach him the rest of us will revolt!  The only problem, this is no dream folks. 

Trump's Visit to the 2019 World Series for the Hearing Impaired.

So, I guess you've heard that president Trump was invited to the fifth game of the World Series but wasn't allowed to throw in the first pitch.  Want to know why?  

They were afraid he would steal home base, along with all the other bases, dug out, jumbotron, and everything else he could get away with.  

The 1% escape plan

So, if you are like me you have to wonder why the top 1% of wealth owners don’t care about the destruction of the earth they are profiting from.  I mean, they work so hard to leave their children a shit-load of money so they continue the life of privilege they deserve, so why don’t they want to leave them a earth that isn’t a dust-bowl from Climate Change?

The answer is simple.  They have an escape plan.  That’s right, it their glutton minds, they believe they can hop on a raft boat and float away to another planet — they probably are already cultivating — and live happily ever after there, and leave us here to fend for ourselves as they have wanted all along since Henry Ford wrote the book on the value of the working class and people of color:  cogs in a wheel, expendable once they can’t work the assembly line of profit for them. 

I’ve written about this Secret escape plan before  (See Modern Day Noah’s Ark.)
In today’s news, the two-year shack-down cruise was successful.    So don’t expect them to change their Climate Denying Plans anytime soon:  Here are the details:

The U.S. Air Force's X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle Mission 5 is seen after landing at NASA's Kennedy Space Center Shuttle Landing Facility in Florida on Sunday.

U.S. Air Force via Reuters

After a record-breaking 780 days circling the Earth, the U.S. Air Force's mysterious X-37B unmanned space plane dropped out of orbit and landed safely on the same runway that the space shuttle once used.

It was the fifth acknowledged mission for the vehicle, built by Boeing at the aerospace company's Phantom Works.

"Today marks an incredibly exciting day for the 45th Space Wing," Brig. Gen. Doug Schiess, 45th Space Wing commander, said in a statement. "Our team has been preparing for this event, and I am extremely proud to see their hard work and dedication culminate in today's safe and successful landing of the X-37B."

As in previous missions, many of the details about the vehicle's activities in the past two years are being kept under wraps. One experiment was to "test experimental electronics and oscillating heat pipe technologies in the long-duration space environment," according to the Air Force statement.
Randy Walden, the director of the Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office, said the latest X-37B mission "successfully hosted Air Force Research Laboratory experiments, among others, as well as providing a ride for small satellites."

(Read complete article here.)

 

 

Good News Divine Intervention

Mother pushing stroller across busy street.

You might not have read this because, well, it's good news... sort of. 

The title:  "Car Crash Prevents Horrible Accident."

Apparently, this mother and child were pushing a stroller across a street when...

When This Happens:

Wow, there is definitely some kind of divine intervention happening here.  

Read about it here!

~~ Eso Terry 

Video Footage of Republicans Crashing Impeachment

 It’s getting crazier everyday.  We all know Donald Trump is a bad, bad, person: he’s an unethical, greedy, womanizing, narcissist -- by his own admission -- who is taking American down with him one lie at a time.  So the Democrats have to impeach him.  There’s no doubt.  Everyone not drinking the e-i-e-i-o kook-aide know this.  



  
The Republican's can't defend him any longer, and so what are they doing?  They are attaching the impeachment process.  Apparently, Bill's Clinton's blow job was impeachable, but Donald Trumps sell-out to the Russians isn't.  Yesterday, the Republican’s crashed a deposition where both Democrats and Republicans were asking asking fact-finding questions.  Of course you’ll never see the video footage of anywhere else but here.  Enjoy!
~~ le vidéo bohème

Republicans Crash Impeachment Deposition

It's namaste it's namaste

I wrote a song this morning called Namaste Namaste. It goes like this:


Namaste is here today
Namaste is here to stay

No matter what you do or say

It's Namaste It's Namaste

Try to hide your eye away

I see you do it everyday day

Still you can't look away

At the hate that comes your way

Namaste it's Namaste

Icebergs are melting fast

As we repeat the past

There once were dinosaurs

Now they're die-no-mores

Look out your window

It's winter time and there's no snow

Look in you mirror

See the boogieman outside your door

Namaste is here today
Namaste is here to stay

No matter what you do or say

It's Namaste it's Namaste

(kick ass guitar strum solo)

The god in me see's the things you do

The god in me see's the god in you

The god in me see's the things you do

The god in me see's the god in you

(repeat and fade).

copyright October 19, 2019  by T VanDerHeyden

Mars is Earth in a few years under Greedy Capitalism... there, I said it.

I've tried to tell you over and over that there are no accidents, the world is where it is because of the war between good and evil.  And, of course, evil wins.  And so if all your Christians leaders are supporting war, well, they are evil.  

Case in point:  climate change is happening right before our eyes and what are our greedy leaders doing?  Are they saying, "Oh shit, we were wrong, it's happening!  I need to do something about it!"  No, they are doing what they have done over and over and over dating back to our existence on Mars.  That's right, back when they climate-changed that planet for profit too.  

In a recent article in Syfy, scientist Gibert Levin says there was life on Mars and he saw the evidence when we sent a prob there forty-years ago.  Wait, did you say... FORTY!  

Yes, I said, FORTY, like in bible... Forty Days and Forty Nights... Forty years in the wilderness...  and, God destroyed every living thing on the earth with rain for forty days....

Forty years ago the first LR (Land Robber... I mean, Land Rover)  beamed back its results from Mars, they were surprisingly positive (something most people have either forgotten or just have no idea about). The further the Viking team got into the experiment, the more positive results they received from the two spacecraft that were situated 4,000 miles apart. There were four positives in all that were supported by five different control variables.  I.E:  we knew immediate there had been life on Mars!

So what happened to Mars?

CLIMATE CHANGE!

I was there in a previous life. We all were.  I talked to a woman the other day at my Buddhist bookstore at the Soka Gakkai center where I practice; she was helping me find the right Buddhist Altar for my home and as we were talking she said, "I believe we've chanting together in the past, I don't know where, I don't know when...." 

That has stuck with me every since.   I now believe one of our chanting incarnations was on Mars, where we chanted for the same things we are chanting for today:  peace on earth, disabling nuclear bombs, and  protecting the environment.   All of which seems to be a losing battle, again.  But if everyone reading this post today, will pause for minute and say:  I'll protect the environment to avoid another Mars, it is a start.  

In yesterday's news, I read the most disturbing headline of my lifetime so far:
 

Melting Ice Redraws the World Map and Starts a Power Struggle

This article stated "factually" how icebergs are melting and Rick Perry, the US Energy Secretary -- with good hair I might add -- is making sure the US is getting its share of the new resources.  

Really!  That's it.  Nothing about changing our greedy ways to protect the planet, but business as usual talk.  

That's right, these greedy bastards are seeing dollar signs and so instead of doing the right thing by protecting the planet are lining their pockets with more more climate change money!

Are they nuts?  Do they really think they will survive?  Maybe the spaceship they are creating so they can escape while we all suffocate -- as I have reported in a previous post: read here -- is why they are doing this.  I don't know.  Fact is, the planet is dying because of climate change and they don't seem to want to do anything about it except make more profits!

What's wrong with us!



~~ Dr. TV Boogie

change is a coming, a good, happy, New Atlantis...

In case you missed the news last week, the lost continent of Atlantis has been found.  

That's right folks, Plato wasn't bullshitting when he spoke of the land called Atlantis, where a mighty empire vanished beneath the waves after a series of “excessively violent earthquakes and floods.” 

Douwe van Hinsbergen, a geologist at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, has been exploring one of the most dramatic of these lost continents — known as Greater Adria. In a paper published in early September in the journal Gondwana Research, he and his colleagues studied rocks around and beneath the Mediterranean Sea to reveal the full extent of Greater Adria for the first time. “It’s enormous! About the size and rough shape as Greenland,” he says.

If you don’t recall seeing Greater Adria on a map, there’s a reason for that. It is completely buried — not under the ocean, but beneath southern Europe. About 140 million years ago, the two continents began to collide. Greater Adria got bulldozed and buried in the process and mostly sank beneath what is now Italy, Greece and the Baltics.

 So pull out your crystals boys and girls, because from Plato to Edgar Casey to Isaac Asimov people have been telling us about the lost city of Atlantis, where everyone was rich and took care of each other.  Funny, how the finding of this continent comes at a time when "Climate Change," "Over Population," and "Greed" have given us a distressed world where people are killing people just for the fame and the United States of America has given us a modern Adolf Hitler. 

So, what am I saying here?  

Simple:  change is a coming, a good, happy, New Atlantis... which includes medical care for all and free education.  Okay, so you rich bastards will have to downsize you five-thousand square feet homes down to something more manageable like, say twenty-five hundred square feet.  I mean, how many rooms do you need for your kid? 

Wake Up America, don't get left behind.  Stop Supporting Hate.  Stop Supporting "Climate Change Denying" politicians.  Stop supporting Republicans!  Please, before it is too late. 

~~ Dr. TV boogie. 

The Tale

According to the Egyptians, or rather what Plato described Critias reporting what his grandfather was told by Solon who heard it from the Egyptians, once upon a time, there was a mighty power based on an island in the Atlantic Ocean. This empire was called Atlantis, and it ruled over several other islands and parts of the continents of Africa and Europe.

Atlantis was arranged in concentric rings of alternating water and land. The soil was rich, said Critias, the engineers technically accomplished, the architecture extravagant with baths, harbor installations, and barracks. The central plain outside the city had canals and a magnificent irrigation system. Atlantis had kings and a civil administration, as well as an organized military. Their rituals matched Athens for bull-baiting, sacrifice, and prayer.

But then it waged an unprovoked imperialistic war on the remainder of Asia and Europe. When Atlantis attacked, Athens showed its excellence as the leader of the Greeks, the much smaller city-state the only power to stand against Atlantis. Alone, Athens triumphed over the invading Atlantean forces, defeating the enemy, preventing the free from being enslaved, and freeing those who had been enslaved.

After the battle, there were violent earthquakes and floods, and Atlantis sank into the sea, and all the Athenian warriors were swallowed up by the earth.

A Buddhist on Climate Change

In my Nichiren Buddhist training, I've learned to roll with the punches.  That is to say, happiness has nothing to do with what is going on around us or the material things we have.  Happiness is just what we are with our Buddhist nature.  So, we tend to see the good in all things.  For one, without the bad things, the good things would hardly be noticed.  That is one part, the other part is out of bad things there is always a good thing.  You know, you have a car accident which seems bad but then they find a spot on the x-ray which saves your life.  So it is an attitude thing.  

A great example of this is with today's Climate Change.  We all know it is bad and we all know that greedy leaders like Donald Trump have no internal guidance to do anything about it and so it will continue to get worse and all we can do is stop using straws and chant/pray.  This is true, but there will be things brought to light by this.  For instance, the Greed Worship that has got us here is being exposed and more and more people are seeing that we need to stop chasing fame and fortune and start being more compassionate.  We need to "give more" and "take less."  

Easier said than done, I know.  

~ Buddha Bop



On another note, because of Climate Change, receding waters has shown us a new "Stonehenge" in Spain.  That's right, receding waters levels in Spain’s Valdecañas Reservoir has exposed a stone monument dating back to between 4,000 to 5,000 years ago.

Why "Black Lives Matter" matters!

When I was in a rock band at 19, we wrote a song called: There's Nothing New Under the Sun: It's all been done.  

How true it is.  Let's go back to the year 1971 on this day.  An IBM Chemist living in San Jose California had taken his date home and well, was murdered by a white-police officer.  

The Pagan American Ritual