The beautiful sunset today.

All they needed to do was to get one of their evil brownshirts to murder an innocent woman with full impunity, then lie incessantly about it, and we all stopped talking about the Epstein files for another week. Pure, fascist evil.

The English teacher in me loves this cartoon… From Benjamin Slyngstad.

Never forget that a man of great evil staged a violent insurrection against the United States of America.

懶菩薩 心平如靜水，慈悲植心靈。 天天立雄志，普渡天下民。 志向當強烈，慈悲放光芒。 濟世不拚命，無為順自然。 所做平常事，造福天下人。 你這活菩薩，救世也好玩。

The most successful "Wag the Dog" operation in history: I had not heard the words "Epstein files" mentioned in the news even once the entire day.

Evil. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Yup, it's time to post that video again. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xteK...

The Patron Saint of Japanese lunch boxes.

A beautiful speech by a wonderful human being. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jtlt...

I've seen one or two pairs of turtle doves at a time, I've never seen a whole flock like this. Wow.

A congratulatory message for our Korean friends. youtu.be/akuPZi4SAJ0

The beautiful sunset today.

Beautiful. www.buddhistdoor.net/features/bud...

As Bhante says, having tea together is good, getting a club to the head is bad. Also: I told a joke that landed so badly it had to be edited out. 😂 youtu.be/AdYxLwnrOAI

I always learn a lot talking to Bhante Sujato. youtu.be/EaGomh0nGC4

With regards to rise of fascism, the thing to worry most about is the military purge, and here we are. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...

After a night of big wins, there is only one question on everybody's mind: How is the Democratic Party going to f* this up?

It's fascinating to me that even the great Venerable Chodron is capable of experience jealousy, and doing so over a seemingly trivial matter like who gets to serve tea. youtu.be/UJk8r7Ax0xE

It's no longer theoretical for me, now I viscerally feel unsafe. Armed masked men who can violently "disappear" people with impunity, sent here, to our town, by an evil fascist monster who holds the power of the presidency, and who openly hates us. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/u...

Don't miss the awesome Bhante Sujato. youtu.be/LGS_sOyMV4A

My talk at Cambridge University a few weeks ago. youtu.be/Q2-Qp6hVZRg?...

Turns out there is an entire Andy Lau movie filmed in Singapore, and I didn't even know it existed. www.amazon.com/Last-Blood-A...

Literally the first thing I did after resubscribing to Disney+ / Hulu today: watched Jimmy Kimmel Live. @jimmykimmellive.bsky.social

I guess I'm restarting my Disney+ / Hulu subscription.

So Trump gets DOJ to drop an obvious bribery case against Tom Homan, then fires the US Attorney who found insufficient evidence to prosecute Letitia James, then threatens to fire Pam Bondi and replace her with dunce Lindsey Halligan unless she immediately indicts his enemies.

According to the Project 2025 Tracker, 47% of Project 2025 has been done, and we still have 1217 days left in this horrendous administration. www.project2025.observer/en

Canceled Disney+/Hulu subscription.

Just another random, irrelevant historical headline, for those who like that kind of stuff.

Singapore Festival, happening this Sunday! Don't miss the food and the performances. (I'll have a speaking role, but despite that, it'll be great.) singaporefest.com

Come with me to Jesus (the College, I mean). Signup link: www.tickettailor.com/events/intel...

Come by! Why waste your time doomscrolling on social media when you can waste your time listening to me?

Very inspiring for me. "He went about barefoot in the palace compound and vicinity – and, at night, slept on the hard doorsteps of the Second King’s chamber..." dorji-wangchuk.com/2018/05/03/t...

Don't miss the end, where Ven Damcho discovers her long lost student. youtu.be/NEbFG0zFNXM?...

“从今日 应依法不依人， 应依义不依语， 应依智不依识， 应依了义经不依未了义。” -- 《大智度论》

I was trying to buy a cake. Salesperson: "The whole cake?" Me: "The cake, the whole cake, nothing but the cake."

It's always a lot of fun to talk to Venerable Chodron. :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwo1...

Meng wishes His Holiness the Dalai Lama a very happy 90th birthday. Meng made this short in his capacity as a member of the PeaceJam board, and Co-Chair of One Billion Acts of Peace. peacejam.org billionacts.org buddhism.net

My answer to the question: What does it mean to say that a god is perfect, from a Buddhist point of view? qr.ae/pA6tMJ

My answer to the question: "How can someone start exploring the belief in personality (sakkaya-ditthi) and challenge their own perceptions of self?" qr.ae/pAljkf

Venerable Gyatso is white and male. I joked to him that he is our DEI hire. 😄 Register: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

So say we all.

Venerable Damcho is a star, her interview with us has been viewed almost 40,000 times already! See: youtu.be/jpyYup92ydI Better still, you can get to talk directly with her this Saturday. Register here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Rainbow.

Season 2 of Andor is great, but the last 5 episodes are just out of this world (pun intended, of course). This especially resonates: "The death of truth is the ultimate victory of evil." This may be the most evil thing the GOP and its neo-Nazi media has done to us. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BK2q...

Venerable Lamsel will answer the question: "What does it mean to say 'I love you'?" Register at: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Good tips. www.ntu.edu.sg/hey/search-s...

We were taking a break during the interview, so I clowned around and spoke candidly. But the cameras were still rolling. 😅 www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGFo...

I wondered why Portugal was transliterated as 葡萄牙 in Chinese. It made no sense. And then I tried pronouncing it in Hokkien, and it suddenly made perfect sense.

In this profound session, Roshi Joan Halifax explores the intersection of Buddhism and social activism. She reveals how the Buddha and historical Buddhist figures were deeply engaged in social reform, youtu.be/t2OTPq2IQEU