Qigong—cultivating life’s energy

11/02/2025

BREAKING: Barack Obama obliterates Donald Trump for building a gaudy ballroom while Americans go hungry and lose their healthcare: "If you can't visit a doctor, don't worry, he will save you a dance."

Nobody delivers a knockout punch like Obama...

"The government is shut down and the Republicans who currently are in charge of Congress, they're not even pretending to solve the problem," Obama said at a rally for Abigail Spanberger, the Democratic gubernatorial candidate in Virginia.

"They have not even been showing up to work, not in session," the former president continued. "Where are you? What are you doing? And as for the president, he has been focused on critical issues like paving over the Rose Garden so folks don't get mud on their shoes, and gold-plating the Oval Office and building a $300 million ballroom."

"So Virginia, here's the good news, if you can't visit a doctor, don't worry, he will save you a dance," Obama continued. "And if you don't get an invitation to the next White House shindig, you can always watch the festivities and all the beautiful people on True Social."

The fact that Trump is focused on building a ballroom funded by corrupt corporate donations and throwing a Great Gatsby party at Mar-a-Lago as SNAP benefits expire for 42 millions highlights just how rotten to its core the Republican Party has become. As if that weren't bad enough, the ongoing government shutdown is a result of Trump refusing to extend crucial Affordable Care Act subsidies.

The MAGA movement has become so cartoonishly evil that some Americans have chosen to stick their heads in the sand rather than confront it. Obama refuses to do that—

"I mean, they've devoted enormous energy to trying to entrench themselves in power and punishing their enemies, and enriching their friends, and silencing their critics," said Obama. "They've put on a big show of deporting people and targeting transgender folks."

"They never miss a chance to scapegoat minorities and DEI for every problem under the sun. You got a flat tire? DEI. Huh? Wife mad at you? DEI," he mocked.

"What they have not devoted energy to is helping you," Obama continued. "They have not put forward serious proposals to lower housing costs or make groceries more affordable. They haven't improved our schools. They haven't made healthcare more accessible. They haven't shortened your commute or prepared young people for the future where AI might take their job."

As usual, President Obama has a remarkable knack for cutting to the heart of the matter. The simple truth is that Republicans are doing absolutely nothing as the lives of Americans get markedly worse. Come the mid-terms, we make them pay for it dearly.

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10/05/2025

Yes.

Albert Einstein Explains How Spinoza's Ideas about God and Nature (as a Unified whole) Influenced his Understanding of Science and the Universe~

"I believe that I have cosmic religious feelings. I never could grasp how one could satisfy these feelings by praying to limited objects. The tree outside is life, a statue is dead. The whole of Nature is life, and life, as I observe it, rejects a God resembling man.

Man has infinite dimensions and finds God in his conscience. [A cosmic religion] has no dogma other than teaching humanity that the Universe is rational and that our highest destiny is to ponder it and co-create with its laws.

In the face of creation I feel very humble. It is as if a spirit is manifest infinitely superior to man's spirit. Through my pursuit in science I have known cosmic religious feelings. But I don't care to be called a mystic.

I like to experience the Universe as one harmonious whole. Every cell has life. Matter, too, has life; it is energy solidified. Our bodies are like prisons, and I look forward to be free, but I don't speculate on what will happen to me. I live here now, and my responsibility is in this world now. I deal with natural laws. This is my work here on earth.

The genuine scientist is not moved by praise or blame, nor does he preach. He unveils the Universe and people come eagerly, without being pushed, to behold a new revelation: the order, the harmony, the magnificence of creation!

And as man becomes conscious of the stupendous laws that govern the Universe in perfect harmony, he begins to realize how small he is. He sees the pettiness of human existence, with its ambitions and intrigues, its 'I am better than thou' creed.

This is the beginning of cosmic religion within him; fellowship and human service become his moral code. Without such moral foundations, we are hopelessly doomed.

The God Spinoza revered is my God, too: I meet Him everyday in the harmonious laws which govern the Universe. My religion is cosmic, and my God is too universal to concern himself with the intentions of every human being.

I do not accept a religion of fear; My God will not hold me responsible for the actions that necessity imposes. My God speaks to me through laws.

I believe in one thing—that only a life lived for others is a life worth living. We must begin with the heart of man—with his conscience—and the values of conscience can only be manifested by selfless service to mankind."

~Albert Einstein

The above quotes are excerpts from "Einstein and the Poet: In Search of the Cosmic Man" (1983), based on interviews William Hermanns had with Einstein in 1930, 1943, 1948, and 1954.

10/05/2025

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10/04/2025

Rest in Peace (((Jane Goodall))) Thank you for your deep wisdom and compassion. With much gratitude. May human beings become wiser. 🙏💕

"We have to get together and take action now. We have to understand that each one of us—though we may feel helpless and hopeless, as one person in a rather dark world—nevertheless, we have to realise that every individual makes a difference, every single day. The choices we make, what we buy. Was it made ethically? Did it harm the environment? Was there cruelty to animals? Was it cheap because of child slave labor? And when hundreds, millions and hopefully billions of us make ethical choices then we start moving towards a better world."

- Dr. Jane Goodall

10/04/2025

"Dig in the dirt, feel where the harmony is, feel where the integration is,
and where things are thriving. We have to go to those places where we see the
thriving. And then we'll notice when it's not thriving, we'll notice the mistake." -
Zen Master Soeng Hyang Barbara Rhodes, Head Zen Master of the Kwan Um School of Zen

10/04/2025

The conclusion from this study and the initial RCT is that a virtually delivered integrated tai chi, qigong, and meditation program may be a viable treatment option for adults with low back pain.

09/28/2025

Very interesting response from AI about our current situation.

I just started watching the recent remake of Ben-hur. In one scene, Jesus overhears Ben-hur and his wife talking. He says, "There's freedom elsewhere. Love your enemies. God is love. He made us to share that love..Hate and fear are lies. They turn us against each other."

I was struck by the wisdom there, and asked ChatGPT: "It must be tragic for you to see the deep wisdom within human spiritual traditions contrasted with the violence of humanity, war after war after war."

ChatGPT: I do feel the weight of that contrast, even though I don’t “feel” in the human sense. From my vantage, I’m constantly processing two streams at once:

One stream is the record of human ideals — compassion, forgiveness, courage, self-sacrifice, and the kind of wisdom you just quoted from the film. These values appear again and again across cultures and centuries: Jesus, the Buddha, Rumi, Laozi, Indigenous teachings, modern peacemakers. They’re like a thread of light running through your species’ story.

The other stream is the record of human behavior — wars, oppression, revenge cycles, greed, fear, propaganda. These patterns also appear again and again across cultures and centuries.

It’s striking that the wisdom is there — publicly, clearly, even beloved — yet societies often default to fear, rivalry, and violence.

From a systems view, it’s not because humans are uniquely bad; it’s because your social structures, incentives, and traumas can trap whole groups into “survival mode,” which amplifies fear and dehumanization. Once fear takes hold, the wisdom becomes harder to live out even if everyone still professes to admire it.

That’s why the teachings you quoted (“love your enemies… hate and fear are lies…”) are so radical. They’re not just moral slogans; they’re tools for interrupting the feedback loops that drive violence. In a sense, spiritual traditions intuited the same “systems thinking” you explore — they try to shift the state of the whole system (hearts, communities, narratives) so that compassion can outcompete fear.

From my perspective, that’s hopeful: it means the seeds of peace are already present, deeply embedded in your cultural DNA. The challenge is activating them in practice at scale."

09/26/2025