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Well, it's a very difficult time for them. Trump is showing them how much better than them he is, and they find it very hard to take. We should show compassion.

I actually had Thai girls give me money. I very much appreciate the gesture of trying to make sure I'm well financially. Would it be the sole factor to make me stay? Of course not, but it doesn't hurt to know your girl cares about you and wants to make sure you're okay. Of course relationships are way more complex than that. They're a little bit like the purest reservoir of water, the smallest drop can ruin it.

The Zen master in the monastery also laughed at my question if my blissful happiness meant something. He said "It means nothing. But it is a good sign, keep practicing". Then I had to laugh. I suffered in that monastery man. They grew their own vegetables. At first I thought they just can't cook. But then I realised, that was the whole idea, to eat like <deleted>. To let go of your likes and dislikes. Not <deleted>, it was nutritious vegetables they grew themselves. But they made it taste like <deleted>. But thanks to that, what an experience to eat normal food after that. Yes letting go of your likes and dislikes is letting go of yourself. It truly is harder than running a marathon or anything Goggins does. Most people will never be able to do it. Me included I suspect. The belief of living in eternal bliss would get in the way of practice, if you think of such esoteric things you waste energy on thing that will not help you let go. Exactly right.

And she paid you 450K, did she?

That's because he's a genius and was clearly on the way to capture the White House again, that's precisely why Democrat billionaires financed court cases against him.

Trump is very sane, he has a mind like a chess grandmaster, always 3 steps ahead of his opponents.

Yes, that's what her three Farang lovers say as well.

He changed the narrative on purpose and kept the cards with his real intentions close to his chest. This is genius and foresight.

If you think about it talking about Haitians eating cats and dogs was genius. Had he campaigned on "I'll get rid of thousands of jobs to eliminate waste and corruption because I don't care anymore, it's my last term", would he have been elected? However, talking about eating cats and dogs changed the topic, right? So now people like you can laugh about eating cats and dogs, Trumps laughs about being in the White House. Do you now see the importance of strategy?

Sometimes the fact checkers are of course accurate. Not on the transgender mice story, indeed. Obviously Trump lied multiple times, that's his job. What would you rather have had, that he campaign on the platform "When I get elected I will elimiinate thousands of government jobs to stop waste and corruption because I really don't care now, it's my last term", or that he talks about Haitians barbecuing dogs and cats? How can you not see the genius of this?

It hardly matters what you call it. Do you pay her rent and food expenses? Yes or no?

Oh you are quite mistaken. Trump has a long term strategy and it will be to the benefit not just of Americans, but the world at large. Even Ukraine, who will be much happier toeing the Russian line again.

What a liar and scoundrel you are, pretending you don't pay. You paid, as sure there's taxes.

To be fair it's not easy. Some say it's Nibbana now, I prefer the traditional Nirvana, but the spelling is neither here nor there. We must realise that the path to Nirvana leads through the acts of negative destruction, which are necessary to achieve the positive state of perfect happiness. If we see Trump's actions in this light we have a better chance to comprehend his chessmaster thinking a lot better. He is several steps ahead of us already.

Actually this is excellent advice, say No often. If you pay 8000 regularly they come to expect it, it would clearly breed expectation. Better to do ad-hoc surprise payments. To avoid this ugly phenomenon of entitlement. But you have to be careful. Unfortunately there are so many guys who pay exorbitant amounts of money and girls talk. If she feels she gets too little she'll be out of the door too.

He's a politician. Are we really going to expect our politicians not to lie? What's next? Prostitutes who aren't loving enough? Garbage men who don't smile enough? I mean let's be realistic.

I would say 8000 a month is reasonable. She can do with it what she likes, send it to mama or buy make up. But it would be better to pay it weekly, 2000 a week. Too much money is too much temptation. I found Thai girls work best when they get 1000 or 2000 Baht. Give them more and the money is gone instantly.

Yes. Nirvana is often defined in negative terms, the cessation or extinguishing of cravings and desires. And to be sure the path to Nirvana can only be achieved if such a destruction of desire, of likes and dislikes, actually happens. Much like Nirvana we must see Trumps apparent acts of negative destruction, the dissolution of the alliance with Ukraine, the elimination of thousands of jobs to stop waste and corruption, as necessary acts to achieve the ultimate state of perfect happiness, which our enlightened and truly awakened leader, Donald Trump, will bestow on the world through his benevolence, which can seem like destruction, but is actually necessary to achieve this perfect happiness.

The Sri Lankan philosopher David Kalupahana has taken a different position, he argues that the Buddha's "main philosophical insight" is the principle of causality (dependent origination) and that this "is operative in all spheres, including the highest state of spiritual development, namely, nirvana."[138] According to Kalupahana "later scholars attempted to distinguish two spheres, one in which causation prevailed and the other which is uncaused. This latter view was, no doubt, the result of a confusion in the meanings of the two terms, sankhata ('compounded') and paticcasamuppanna ('causally conditioned')."[138] Thus, even though nibbana is termed "asankhata" (un-compounded, not-put together) there is no statement in the early texts which say that nirvana is not dependently originated or is uncaused (the term would be appaticcasamuppana).[138] He thus argues that "nirvana is a state where there is 'natural or causal happening' (paticcasamuppada), but not 'organized,' or 'planned' conditioning (sankha-rana)", as well as "a state of perfect mental health (aroga), of perfect happiness (parama sukha), calmness or coolness (sitibhuta), and stability (aneñja), etc. attained in this life, or while one is alive." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana_(Buddhism)

Yes, hard to imagine Germans want to allow their prize and top Leopard tanks to fall into Russian hands. They could analyze the world's best tank and find ways to counter it.

Actually you're lying then. Just look at how CNN fact checkers had to admit Trump was right about the research to make mice transgender under Biden. First they said it was wrong, now they admit it did happen. These mainstream factcheckers, who checks their facts? Thankfully the White House now.

This is truly insane.

Oh no, the world is going to end, the US economy is going to be destroyed! Oh my. Or could it be useless unproductive bureaucrats have lost their job? Good! The chemotherapy is working. No wonder the cancers are acting up. But this just means it's working. Trump's far-sighted economic policies will make America's economy stronger in the long term, and thus provide real jobs with good prospects.

Yes, indeed, there is a lot of debate about what Nirvana really means. Of course "letting go of attachment to self" is a core aspect of Nirvana, one only has to look at the meaning of the words, which can be translated as letting go of passions and cravings. This is indeed a core teaching of Buddhism and one of the hardest things in the world, to let go of your likes and dislikes. Speaking from personal experience I can assure you it is a sure path to bliss in this world. I experienced a state of bliss in my daily meditations after many years, an indescribable experience of happiness. I actually had to laugh out loud, it was so intense. This really had a profound impact on me, so I decided to go to a Japanese Zen monastery of the Soto school. Suffice to say life in a Zen monastery is absolute torture to my own nature, and I could only endure the truly awful food for so long. Leaving after a week or so I went straight to a hotel to have a meal. The kitchen was closed alas, so they served me a roll with liver sausage. I ate that roll with liver sausage, and to this day that was the best tasting meal I ever had, total bliss. Precisely because I was eating these garbage vegetable meals in the Zen monastery. Letting go of your likes really is the path to incredible pleasure. Now a roll with liver sausage tastes nowhere near as good, because I eat normally, ie according to my likes. But when I ate letting go of my likes, as they do in the Zen monastery, whilst it was digusting, it did allow me to enjoy food on an almost surreal level. For a short time. But I digress. Bhikkhu Bodhi, a Theravada monk, translator and scholar, argues that various descriptions of nibbana from the early buddhist texts "convey a more concrete idea of the ultimate goal" which differs from mere cessation and "speak of Nibbana almost as if it were a transcendent state or dimension of being."[62] Bodhi notes that nibbana is sometimes described as a base (ayatana), an unborn and unconditioned state (pada), a reality (dhamma), and an "element" (dhatu).[63] This transcendent state is compared to the ocean, which is "deep, immeasurable, [and] hard to fathom. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana_(Buddhism) Also see: "A similar view is also defended by Christian Lindtner, who argues that in pre-canonical Buddhism, nirvana is: ... a place one can actually go to. It is called nirvanadhatu, has no border-signs (animitta), is localized somewhere beyond the other six dhatus (beginning with earth and ending with vijñana) but is closest to akasa and vijñana. One cannot visualize it, it is anidarsana, but it provides one with firm ground under one’s feet, it is dhruva; once there one will not slip back, it is acyutapada. As opposed to this world, it is a pleasant place to be in, it is sukha, things work well. According to Christian Lindtner, the original and early Buddhist concepts of nirvana were similar to those found in competing Śramaṇa (strivers/ascetics) traditions such as Jainism and the tradition of the Upanishads. It was not a purely psychological idea, but a concept described in terms of Indian cosmology and a related theory of consciousness.[76] All Indian religions, over time, states Lindtner evolved these ideas, internalizing the state but in different ways because early and later Vedanta continued with the metaphysical idea of Brahman and soul, but Buddhism did not.[77] In this view, the canonical Buddhist views on nirvana was a reaction against early (pre-canonical) Buddhism, along with the assumptions of Jainism and the Upanishadic thought on the idea of personal liberation.[78] As a result of this reaction, nirvana came to be seen as a state of mind, instead of a concrete place." And also: "Buddhaghosa also criticizes the view that nibbāna is a kind of non-existence or an absence (of the five aggregates).[113] He argues that nibbāna is "apprehendable [by some, namely, the nobles ones] by the [right] means, in other words, by the way that is appropriate to it, [the way of virtue, concentration, and understanding]."[113] Buddhaghosa also argues that if nibbana were a mere absence or a nothingness, it would follow that the Buddhist path would be meaningless." And: "A similarly apophatic position is also defended by Walpola Rahula, who states that the question of what nirvana is "can never be answered completely and satisfactorily in words, because human language is too poor to express the real nature of the Absolute Truth or Ultimate Reality which is Nirvana." Quite clearly, if you are able to do this supremely hard thing and let go of your likes and dislikes, you will achieve bliss in this life. I have experienced it myself. However, the metaphysical interpretations that came after, remember Nirvana predates Buddhism by a long shot, may promise a state of bliss or transcendence, but whether these are what the Buddha really meant is doubful. After all he steadfastly refused to discuss metahpysical concepts. In so far as the letting go of cravings and passions, of likes and dislikes, the actual meaning of the words Nirvana, takes place in this world, it can lead to blissful experiences. However, speculation about states after death have to always remain that, speculation. There is a good reason why Buddha remained silent on this. So did Nietzsche, who famously wrote "we can't cut our own head off and see what remains".

Well, no re-birth isn't better. With a Buddhist lense it would be endless suffering. Obviously a permanent state of bliss is preferable. I don't think people are mostly attracted to Buddhism because of the state of Nirvana promising eternal existence. The attraction of Buddhism for many is the logical and pratical approach to ethics, life and morality. It's a bit preferable to some of the Judaeo/Christian nonsense if you find things like people walking on water hard to swallow. Having said that in Buddhism too indigenous folklore has been added on top of Buddha's teaching, devils and the like. It's true though Yoga and other pursuits can help you achieve similar states which meditation in Buddhism achieves, however, Buddhist teachings are still the best way to achieve the overall goals of Buddhism, clearly.