The Ambassador Hotel

The Ten Thousand Things

Heaven and Hell is here and now? 1. Leaving the Ambassador Hotel 2. On clinging 3. Heaven on Earth, or somewhere else?

1. Joe at 19 in Bangkok, Thailand. A story he needs to tell, as life has not been the same since, but maybe it can be okay. Taxi drivers. Getting picked up by the tourist police. A strait jacket. A hospital, and a giant syringe. A gripping tale.

Hey, maybe humanity is not so bad after all. Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman, also wrote Utopia for Realists

2. Clinging: "If we do not cling, everything that arises is naturally freed"

Level 1 of Not Clinging? Getting into arguments on the internet, but being okay with how it turns out. Not needing other people to believe what you believe.

Does Sam get pwned in the comments on Isaac's video. You decide. It doesn't matter, but I think I did okay. https://www.instagram.com/reel/Ciuq7fgg1Ra/

Bhagavad Gita can teach us a lot about letting go, so can Epictetus and Seneca. Buddhism and the Gita agree Attachment and acquisition leads to suffering

Relaxing Bhagavad Gita audio summary on youtube

Hank Williams, as sung by Steve Earle. I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive

Victor Frankl "If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death."

Samsara - the forest fire of existence. Suffering

Dharma - the way, knowledge of the path, duty, what is and what must be done and must be accepted. Can also mean religion

Traditionalism "The War for Eternity" (and to subjugate women, the non-'white' and the non-straight) Ben Teitelbaum on Steve Bannon, Alexander Dugin etc

Tulpas - beings made out of our own thoughts - an idea from Buddhism but via Theosophy, which is a whole 'nother story

Buddhism is great. Here's a critique of some aspects of Buddhism

Paul Axton - peace loving Christian dude who knows his stuff and loves Lacan and Zizek. Peaceable Kingdom - Heaven on Earth?

All traditions can be problematic, and all can offer solutions. Peace to all

Creators & Guests

• Joe Loh - Host
• Sam Ellis - Host

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