Eric Arnow 
Dualistic Thinking and Ego: The Roots of Western Conflict “Liars, Murderers, all of you liars! You’re only happy when you see something die..why don’t you kill yourselves and be happy…You and your ‘God’s country…Freedom’! I pity you!…you’re three DEAD Men!” –Marilyn Monroe, in her last movie, The Misfits, 1962. She watched as Clark Gable tied up a horse to …
On the Retirement of Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland Remembering Victoria Nuland Washington DC has been called the Swamp. It looks to be filled with toxic people. Victoria Nuland first came into my consciousness with the notorious intercepted phone call with the US Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt in February, 2014. It was bad enough that she was planning a coup, which was obvious from the discussion of which puppet would run the country. But her crude remark overriding any sentiments of the EU—’ And you know, Fu(k the EU’, was so undiplomatic, to use a mild …
Anxiety and Panic Have Seized the Formerly Smug Nato Western Elites Before I left the USA in 2004, I asked myself, “Is America redeemable?” And the answer I came up with, was ‘no’. While the Western leaders put on a brave face, in fact, they are increasingly anxious and panicking, as they lose control, not just of the situation but of the narrative as they pull the wool over the eyes of their people. When Things Are Out of Control, Withdraw I was also introduced to Confucian basics in a little Zen group one day seminar. I was struck …
What Chance Does Jill Stein Have to Be POTUS in 2024? Here We Go Again—Another Edition of the Presidential Soap Opera Here we are in 2024, and the quadrennial US Presidential fiasco is gaining steam. And let’s be frank: Jill Stein has got the slimmest of chances this year of being elected President. What’s more, if she were elected, she’d have to deal with the “Washington DC Blob”. So why waste time writing an article about Jill Stein and why she’s the best candidate for 2024? Bleak US political Situation Here are a couple of notable quotes I …
There Are 6 Reasons Why You Should Hate China There’s a big controversy these days in the West over who is the real Boogey Man, you know, evil incarnate. Lex Luthor or even Satan himself….or maybe even China?? So I am going to make it easy for you in this article to explain why you should hate China…not that Russia, Iran, North Korea, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Cuba, Syria, aren’t about to wreck our great Western, and especially American (that is the United States of America) way of life. The two Coke or Pepsi political parties we have to choose from, …
Background to My Talk My China Pilgrimage was the most transformative experience of my life. On January 21st, 2014, I gave a talk to a group of monks at Wat Suan Dok, in Chiang Mai, Thailand. They are students at a University associated with the temple, Wat Suan Dok. These monks come from Nepal, Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand, Lao. After I gave my presentation, there was a question and answer session for about an hour. Here are some of the thoughts I expressed at the meeting. First, I told them that I had studied basic traditional Buddhism at the San …
Where in the World Is Irkutsk? As you can see according to the World Atlas, Irkutsk is midway across the vast country of Russia, which itself spans multiple time zones. It’s north of Mongolia, and directly north of China, Thailand and Southeast Asia. Because of this, it is a crossroad of various cultures, both Mongolian, Central Asian Turkic, Slavic and numerous indigenous communities. Russia comprises well over 100 different ethnic groups and languages. All recognized and supported. By Pablitto, Marcin Konsek, Ася Волкова, Vaiz Ha, Fanzuga, Вячеслав Ребров.Pablitto – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=57146326. Pictured above are some …
What Is This Thing About Sitting Meditation? Sometimes I wonder what it is that makes me sit and practice, and after all, why lots of people throughout history have done so. Most people, especially Westerners think that meditation is something weird or even dangerous. Years ago, I visited a community not too far from my university. This was a time of burgeoning spirituality in 1970. I was talking with one of the members of the community and when I told him I was interested in meditation, he replied that meditation was a sin. Since when has breathing while being …
Here We Go Again Well, here we are again in another Presidential electoral circus. I so recall the horror that people felt about a possible Trump reelection. And why Biden represented the ‘sane alternative’ (presumably). As for Trump fans, if the record presented here suits you, I have nothing more to say. Now, many who foolishly voted for Biden, thinking he would be an improvement over Trump, think that Trump will be an improvement over Biden. Never mind Biden’s mental state, his numerous betrayals of the people (breaking railroad worker strikes, making student loan forgiveness a shadow of what’s needed, …
Trip to Lake Baikal: Oldest, Biggest, Deepest Lake in the World Why I Chose to Make the Trip to Lake Baikal ““In ancient times all life was considered sacred. Now those times are gone, nobody thinks about it any more.” https://sacred-sites.org/lake-baikal-siberia/ Well, I do. So, I decided to see for myself and took the trip to Lake Baikal. Lake Baikal held fascination for me because of its uniqueness. It is 25 million years old, making it by far the oldest lake in the world. It also is by far, the deepest lake, 1.2 miles, with more fresh water than any …