It is easy for you to take a quick swing at someone with words like ‘woke’ and other anachronisms that really are meaningless. And then say let’s keep it short. Well I can easily do the same. Let’s MABA! ( Make America Beautiful Again) And free yourself of the UCA (United Clones of Ameretards)! If I may ask since when has a President of the U.S. clones spouted off nonsense and been an effective leader?? And when will you understand that I’ve repeatedly shown you evidence of the widespread suffering of the likes of a Putin and you still retort that we need to get rid of the wide spread suffering. Your statements show no coherency or logic mccoy. If you want to get rid of a dangerous snake you choke it at its throat. You don’t just negotiate with it and ask it to kindly be peaceful and expect it will listen.

However, on your behalf I will add this encouraging word from Zelensky to resolve the (outer battle) war. The ending of repression from Putin is another matter.

https://apple.news/ARLOT7T4SRXmRqd-Z1uIhTw

https://apple.news/Az7HcN3YyQAGeAdoMKoyovA

Steve, good to post shorties, we should make a rule of it in this forum, viewing them takes very little time and that's fundamental to a good follow-up in the discussion.

Back to Senator Sanders. He appears to be the only one who takes the nonsense often spouted by Mr. Trump seriously.

Everyone (but Senator Sanders) knows that the POTUS speaks BS one day, to correct himself and say the contrary another day. That's him, crazy Donald Trump.

However, crazy Donald Trump is the one and only person who is trying with some probability of success, to negotiate peace in that conflict. Everyone else, either wanted escalation, causing widespread suffering, or failed.

So, perhaps Sentor Sanders should wait a little while and see the outcome of the negotiations, before expressing a valid judgment, not indulging in messages that sound like old platitudes from a political opponent.

How the EPA plans to overhaul climate regulations

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin announced sweeping plans to roll back environmental regulations, calling them a “dagger through the heart of climate-change religion.”

Behind the move: Zeldin argued the deregulations, which may include upending the EPA’s own 2009 finding that greenhouse gases endanger public health — the basis for pollution regulations under the Clean Air Act — would allow American businesses to thrive. [NBC News]

Other targets: Zeldin announced plans to reconsider 31 regulations in total, including requirements that industrial polluters report their emissions, emissions standards for cars and trucks and wastewater rules for power plants. Here’s a full breakdown. [AP]

Reactions: Environmental groups criticized the move, with one saying it obstructs the EPA’s public health mission and would “leave the nation sicker.” The changes will go through a federal regulatory process and will likely face legal challenges. [CNN/ABC News]

I get inspiration from you and Mccoy too so it's a symbiotic relationship. It's only really been the past few years that I have gone chronic on my meditations. I was always serious about meditation since beginning on the path, but the last few years I've had time to really get stuck into it and now I have a glimpse of what may be possible. It really does require an incredible amount of discipline but as has been stated by others, the more lamb like we become in following Master the happier we become. I find this to be all so true no matter the strict routines needed to be of good service, to give our love where needed and to practice the pranayama of our Guru.

Carl Jung and the Tibetan Book of the Dead.

https://youtu.be/-5GJNsPLqbs?si=fDvUGoMwmjROzkvO

In some schools of Buddhism, bardo (Classical Tibetan: བར་དོ་ Wylie: bar do) or antarābhava (Sanskrit, Chinese and Japanese: 中有, romanized in Chinese as zhōng yǒu and in Japanese as chū'u)[1] is an intermediate, transitional, or liminal state between death and rebirth. The concept arose soon after Gautama Buddha's death, with a number of earlier Buddhist schools accepting the existence of such an intermediate state, while other schools rejected it. The concept of antarābhava, an intervening state between death and rebirth, was brought into Buddhism from the Vedic-Upanishadic (later Hindu) philosophical tradition.[2][3] Later Buddhism expanded the bardo concept to six or more states of consciousness covering every stage of life and death.[4] In Tibetan Buddhism, bardo is the central theme of the Bardo Thodol (literally Liberation Through Hearing During the Intermediate State), the Tibetan Book of the Dead, a text intended to both guide the recently deceased person through the death bardo to gain a better rebirth and also to help their loved ones with the grieving process.[5]

Tibetan illustration of the Peaceful and Wrathful Deities of the post-mortem intermediate state (bardo). Some Tibetan Buddhists hold that when a being goes through the intermediate state, they will have visions of various deities.
Used without qualification, "bardo" is the state of existence intermediate between two lives on earth. According to Tibetan tradition, after death and before one's next birth, when one's consciousness is not connected with a physical body, one experiences a variety of phenomena. These usually follow a particular sequence of degeneration from, just after death, the clearest experiences of reality of which one is spiritually capable, and then proceeding to terrifying hallucinations that arise from the impulses of one's previous unskillful actions. For the prepared and appropriately trained individuals, the bardo offers a state of great opportunity for liberation, since transcendental insight may arise with the direct experience of reality; for others, it can become a place of danger as the karmically created hallucinations can impel one into a less than desirable rebirth.

Metaphorically, bardo can be used to describe times when the usual way of life becomes suspended, as, for example, during a period of illness or during a meditation retreat. Such times can prove fruitful for spiritual progress because external constraints diminish. However, they can also present challenges because our less skillful impulses may come to the foreground, just as in the sidpa bardo.

Wikipedia

https://youtu.be/doNtWkJw1hY?si=eSlipU3KX81vWrJs

We use the mind to concentrate on various subject matter of the mind instead of using the mind to look at our own mind.

I attempt to be in the presence of others who meditate as much as I possibly can. I appreciate your help in encouraging meditation ‘web’ and sharing your experiences! I find that being in your presence here as the most helpful way to be encouraged to meditate recently. That was the main purpose of my life this incarnation and I hope to ‘keep on track’ regardless of the many distractions that have pulled me in other directions.

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I’ve provided 10 countries that have….

Minimum Required Defense Spending by NATO Countries

During the 2014 summit, all NATO members agreed to spend at least 2% of their GDPs on defense by 2025.
Top 10 NATO Countries with the Highest Defense Expenditures (by % of 2023 GDP)

Poland   4.12%
Estonia   3.43%
United States   3.38%
Latvia   3.15%
Greece   3.08%
Lithuania   2.85%
Finland   2.41%
Denmark   2.37%
United Kingdom   2.33%
Romania   2.25%

Since Trump has been in office the United States has incurred one of the largest debts in history. Why? He has given gigantic tax breaks to the richest people on earth. He is also considered one of the most disapproved presidents to ever be in office.

From the discussions here in Europe, it seems that no countries, barring a very few like Poland, have never met their quota of 2% GDP. they've kept far, far lower.