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The year's biggest Los Angeles-area rap concert will be simulcast live tonight beginning at 7:15 pm. Big Boy and Co. from "LA's Hip Hop station" Power 106 FM bring it free after hyping it for two months straight. Tickets are sold out, and more than one surprise appearance is planned.
Tonight only! If rap matters, and it may not, tune in and watch the biggest concert of the year free! Performances by 2 Chainz, Kendrick Lamar, Rick Ross, Big Sean, Meek Mill, The Weeknd, and Ca$h Out are scheduled.
(WARNING: Profanity may go uncensored). So catch the livestream to see it as it all unfolds live.
Wisdom Quarterly didn't succeed selling the station on the idea of including BUDDHIST RAPPERS like Japanese monks Kansho Tagai ("MC Happiness") and Ven. Shidaoxin, or "Faithful Bodhisattva" and our favorite Buddhist rapper Arj Barker! So catch these futuristic acts right here, right now:
Ven. Kansho Tagai raps to spread sutras and happiness to young Japanese Buddhists
WARNING: Mild profanity! Arj Barker is the "Sickest Buddhist"!
Buddhist-Christian syncretism celebrating the Siddhartha/Jesus'bodhisattva ideal
Ven. Shidaoxin takes lax Mahayana Buddhism to a new high (or low)
Produced by Anonymous Content's Matt DeRoss and Engine 7 Films' Joel and Jeremy Goulder. Directed by Phillip Montgomery.
(ReGENERATION-themovie.com) This is the award-winning documentary film that explores the galvanizing forces behind the Occupy Movement and the state of social activism among today's youth.
Narrated by Ryan Gosling, the film features leading social movement experts including Noam Chomsky, Adbusters' Kalle Lasn, the late "people's historian" Howard Zinn, Amy Goodman, as well as influential cultural activists including Talib Kweli with an original score by Sound Tribe Sector 9 (STS9). #ReGENERATION #ThisisanUPRISING.
Now if we close our eyes and pay attention to our breathing, Who would believe what’s going on inside our heads?
That steady flow of thoughts, emotions, and fantasies is said to be "normal." Yet it can distract, stress, and keep us from recognizing who and what we really are. It can keep us from being here for what’s really happening right now.
"I'D RATHER BE HERE NOW" a sticker on a van reads.
MAYA Retreats lets teens and young adults take a step back from life’s demands to explore what’s really going on inside and around us. Then it provides a place to share the experience with other teens who are also looking for what’s real.
Using silent meditation techniques, discussion, and activities in a friendly environment, we learn to develop the kind of calm while alert mind that can help us feel more relaxed, confident, and satisfied.Click to learn more.
Buddhism has an interesting teaching. It is redeath. Time is cyclical, circular, spiraling. We imagine a straight line and do not see it bend away to come around again -- in much the same way, but not exactly the same way.
Death after death, there is life. Life keeps coming. One grows young again and again and again. What people mostly misunderstand is that it is not us. No one is reborn. What is reborn is a process. The process does not stop, so it cannot really be said to start again with each death and rebirth.
What is now? Some body, feelings, perceptions, willed formations, consciousness. They are altering every moment. They do no reoccur but utterly pass away. If we are them, we are dying. If we are something else, an owner or watcher of them, the owning and watching are dying. It's redeath, redeath, redeath.
The body passes quickly, but the mind passes much more quickly.
And with each death there is "again becoming." For all the aging, sickness, and falling away, there is rearising, health, and again-coming-to-be. What then would it be like to talk to ourselves, to say to the young ignorant version of the future that keeps reiterating?
My pets? They're all dead. My friends? Gone. My family? They wished you well. But all of these tend very strongly to come back again. They are not lost to us completely, just in this form, which utterly passes away as they hurtle toward destruction.
But what about me? Dead. My consciousness (awareness)? Gone. My feelings? They wished me well.
I'll be young again! But it isn't living "forever" if it isn't living for even two moments.
In the future I may become male or female or indeterminate (neuter or androgynous), any race, any nationality, any caste, any planet, any form (a deva, being of light, or dense), any kind of being in 31 very general "planes" of existence.
What would I say to that newborn? If it is a deva, it comes fully formed without birth parents. Similarly, if I slip into the Downfall, perdition, the Great Waste (subhuman planes of existence), rebirth is immediate, even if it is into an intermediate state, it comes fully formed. But on the human and animal planes, transformation and impermanence are very obvious.
Meditate. End all suffering.
There is no need to "meditate" to see youth fleeting. But meditation, whether as contemplation or profound stillness in non-discursive awareness, is necessary to see ourselves cyclically growing younger only to die again.
It works in our favor and can be taken for granted only so long as we have wholesome karma to exhaust. When the profitable is exhausted, we painfully face what the Buddha warned about suffering and taking the Dharma for granted as if it were always available to us.
