⚡️One core meaning of the signifier ‘Tantra’ is ‘Continuity.’ The core problem in empirical science and non-Buddhist theology is: ‘At some point something MUST have come from nothing.’ The same scientist who poo-poos the Christian origin myth will wax lyrical on the Big Bang Theory. Well, where did that energy (Mana) come from?! In the view of the Highest Yoga Tantra (HYT), we sidestep this issue. We focus on what we can know: phenomena (an M-N word) arise, endure, and decay. We see this every day a million times. Thoughts arise in our minds (M-N-). They endure, momentarily. Then they decay and are replaced by newly arising thoughts (Nagarjuna is the guru on this - Nagarjuna's Mulamadhyamakakārikā (OUP translation by Jay Garfield entitled ‘The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way’). Our cells arise, endure, then decay. Our energy (Mana), institutions, bodies, continents,…. arise, endure, decay… These thoughts arise from Causes. Virtuous Causes provoke virtuous effects and non-virtuous causes provoke non-virtuous effects: this is the essence of the iron law of karma (cause and effect). The quality of ALL of these arising, enduring, decaying phenomena, according to HYT, in Ultimate Reality is Emptiness and Compassion. Synonyms of Emptiness are: Dependent Arising (see that Cause and Effect again - we’re not even looking for the primary cause. We’re focusing on the system as we found it, already working), Selflessness (the effect isn’t generating itself. It is being generated by a Cause- it is therefore selfless). ‘Emptiness’ is easier to grasp for those who believe in the quantum theory. Go small enough and you get air, energy, light. And so if this is accepted - the ultimate nature of reality is emptiness then all our bad thoughts are as empty as our cells, bodies, body politic, - they’re non-existent. They’re empty. They’re as meaningless, from the perspective of ultimate reality And the purpose of all this is to prepare us for the hallucinations we’ll experience as we go through the death process. If we don’t get frightened by them if we understand in that moment we are going through the death process (decaying) that these negative hallucinations and monsters and regrets are empty, like everything else. That they are emanations (another M-N- word) from our empty minds and so are not worth getting stressed over. The promise of HYT is that in that moment of the death process if we realise the nature of ultimate reality is emptiness and compassion, then we will have the peace of mind to notice the right light to follow and not become distracted. This is all in HHDL’s intro to the penguin edition to the Book of the dead - graham Coleman version. It bears reading repeatedly, inmho. This is also useful in the moment we experience any sense of psychological panic, say, in work - we know our bodies are emptiness and our minds therefore so are the thoughts which are dependent on our empty bodies. If we can develop the focus, insight and perspective to look at ourself, in the moment of a conflict, say, with our boss or a vastly annoying colleague… And if we correctly recognise that whatever is going on is emptiness then we will have the presence of mind to respond deliberately. We will act deliberately in the moment virtuously and as a result of a strategic choice, not merely from an emotional perspective. So whether or not we manage while going through the death process to realise the emptiness of the hallucinogenic phenomenon and therefore become able to control our continuity of consciousness, in these daily conflicts that arise, endure and decay in our bourgeois lives the mere recognition that what we’re experiencing is emptiness and that we’re empty and that ultimate reality is emptiness and compassion might help us be more virtuous. We operate in Conventional Reality but understanding the nature (emptiness and compassion) of ultimate reality can help us navigate Conventional Reality. 1/2

⚡️Donald’s ‘Peace Hopes’ belong in the realm of propaganda not NYT. Media outlets like @nytimesworld need to stop repeating Donald’s alibi for serving his russian masters: nothing Donald does is in service to peace in Ukraine. Ukraine is a mere alibi. An instrument to justify his support of ruschist aggression in Ukraine. “…Donald hopes will bring peace…” is the projection of a fairytale promoted by MAGA. Media outlets need to compare this peace-loving character with the actual Donald. There’s simply no substantive evidence that Donald hopes peace will reign in Ukraine or anywhere.

⚡️Alibis for russian Mafia. Donald and Putler are russian mafia dons. I am not using ‘mafia’ as a metaphor. They serve the russian Mafia nexus, solely. Donald grew up next to Brighton Beach where hundreds of thousands of russians live. Brighton Beach russian mafia runs Epstyn, Kuchners, Don, Witkoff and all the rest as agents, assets, whatever. Those who cite ‘oh, this will ruin American arms industry,’ ‘Don will lose the midterms,’ ‘makes no sense, as Ukraine’s armaments are what US needs,’ ‘only a tiny amount of diesel,’ yaddah, yaddah are missing THE point. The late great Karen Dawisha charted how russian mafia took over russian state. Installed its actor leaders. Promoted russkiy Mir as a fig leaf, an alibi for all the murder. Today, the actual rus mafia controls Donald and those around him. All this peace trolling, trolling for a Nobel prize, wanting to make a deal, Yaddah, yaddah is an alibi. rus mafia runs the American state. Those who win the mid-terms must proceed on this basis. Augean stables must be thoroughly swept clean. Meanwhile on the actual battlefield away from the alibi-creating spectacle of russian missiles without warning, space x treachery, Donald’s decline into mumbling mafia Don, Ukraine is winning.

⚡️Donald’s ‘Peace Hopes’ belong in the realm of propaganda not NYT. Media outlets like @nytimesworld need to stop repeating Donald’s alibi for serving his russian masters: nothing Donald does is in service to peace in Ukraine. Ukraine is a mere alibi. An instrument to justify his support of ruschist aggression in Ukraine. “…Donald hopes will bring peace…” is the projection of a fairytale promoted by MAGA. Media outlets need to compare this peace-loving character with the actual Donald. There’s simply no substantive evidence that Donald hopes peace will reign in Ukraine or anywhere.

⚡️Alibis for russian Mafia. Donald and Putler are russian mafia dons. I am not using ‘mafia’ as a metaphor. They serve the russian Mafia nexus, solely. Donald grew up next to Brighton Beach where hundreds of thousands of russians live. Brighton Beach russian mafia runs Epstyn, Kuchners, Don, Witkoff and all the rest as agents, assets, whatever. Those who cite ‘oh, this will ruin American arms industry,’ ‘Don will lose the midterms,’ ‘makes no sense, as Ukraine’s armaments are what US needs,’ ‘only a tiny amount of diesel,’ yaddah, yaddah are missing THE point. The late great Karen Dawisha charted how russian mafia took over russian state. Installed its actor leaders. Promoted russkiy Mir as a fig leaf, an alibi for all the murder. Today, the actual rus mafia controls Donald and those around him. All this peace trolling, trolling for a Nobel prize, wanting to make a deal, Yaddah, yaddah is an alibi. rus mafia runs the American state. Those who win the mid-terms must proceed on this basis. Augean stables must be thoroughly swept clean. Meanwhile on the actual battlefield away from the alibi-creating spectacle of russian missiles without warning, space x treachery, Donald’s decline into mumbling mafia Don, Ukraine is winning.

⚡️Alibis for russian Mafia. Donald and Putler are russian mafia dons. I am not using ‘mafia’ as a metaphor. They serve the russian Mafia nexus, solely. Donald grew up next to Brighton Beach where hundreds of thousands of russians live. Brighton Beach russian mafia runs Epstyn, Kuchners, Don, Witkoff and all the rest as agents, assets, whatever. Those who cite ‘oh, this will ruin American arms industry,’ ‘Don will lose the midterms,’ ‘makes no sense, as Ukraine’s armaments are what US needs,’ ‘only a tiny amount of diesel,’ yaddah, yaddah are missing THE point. The late great Karen Dawisha charted how russian mafia took over russian state. Installed its actor leaders. Promoted russkiy Mir as a fig leaf, an alibi for all the murder. Today, the actual rus mafia controls Donald and those around him. All this peace trolling, trolling for a Nobel prize, wanting to make a deal, Yaddah, yaddah is an alibi. rus mafia runs the American state. Those who win the mid-terms must proceed on this basis. Augean stables must be thoroughly swept clean. Meanwhile on the actual battlefield away from the alibi-creating spectacle of russian missiles without warning, space x treachery, Donald’s decline into mumbling mafia Don, Ukraine is winning.

⚡️Why Authoritarians ALWAYS Victim-blame. ‘They provoked me’ Logic situates the aggressor as victim. Blaming the victim gives permission to Ruschia’s 500,000 dead soldiers (RIP) to murder Ukrainians like they would so many ants. Positing the woman, NATO, Ukraine,… as the ‘provocateur’ of their own annihilation is a justification for the genocidor to carry through on their diabolical extermination strategy. ‘Accusation in a Mirror’ (citing mythical crimes of your intended victim as a motivation/excuse/justification for executing those same crimes actually against the victim) is common to ALL genocides. Wife/beater logic. It’s the mental routine Trump/Putin/Nigel Porridge/Hitler is installing in the brains of many who hear and propagate this ‘Provocation Cycle Logic.’ I wrote a chapter on this phenomenon of Ruschism and Trump-Brexitism in disinfolklore.net/p/disinfol… “…According to Putin’s Disinfolklore, passive U.S.S.R., like a damsel needing a hero to save her, collapsed because of an attack by the Great American wolf. This is nonsense: U.S.S.R. was always an agent of its own destiny. There were no Americans anywhere near the room when Yeltsin, Kravchuk, and Shushkevich signed the U.S.S.R.’s death warrant on 8th December, 1991. The three men had gathered there to discuss, among other matters, how to solve the problem of the U.S.S.R. refusing to enter into winter gas supply contracts with the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic. The only solution they could conjure up to the urgent problem was to assert their own state’s legal personalities. Then with legal personality, they could solve the problem by entering into agreements among themselves. The Soviet authorities had overplayed their hand. That’s right: the U.S.S.R. was dissolved because of an attempt by those in charge of the U.S.S.R. to use energy to blackmail Belorussia by freezing it during the bitter cold winter. The U.S.S.R. died because of a botched negotiation by the U.S.S.R. which thought it could hold millions of its own people hostage by freezing them. Thirty-three-years later the successor state to the Soviet Union would use the same blackmail strategy on Ukraine, on the customer for 86% of its gas sales (the European Union), and on those living in Africa and Asia who are reliant on Ukraine and Russia-grown crops to avoid starvation…”

⚡️Why Authoritarians ALWAYS Victim-blame. ‘They provoked me’ Logic situates the aggressor as victim. Blaming the victim gives permission to Ruschia’s 500,000 dead soldiers (RIP) to murder Ukrainians like they would so many ants. Positing the woman, NATO, Ukraine,… as the ‘provocateur’ of their own annihilation is a justification for the genocidor to carry through on their diabolical extermination strategy. ‘Accusation in a Mirror’ (citing mythical crimes of your intended victim as a motivation/excuse/justification for executing those same crimes actually against the victim) is common to ALL genocides. Wife/beater logic. It’s the mental routine Trump/Putin/Nigel Porridge/Hitler is installing in the brains of many who hear and propagate this ‘Provocation Cycle Logic.’ I wrote a chapter on this phenomenon of Ruschism and Trump-Brexitism in disinfolklore.net/p/disinfol… “…According to Putin’s Disinfolklore, passive U.S.S.R., like a damsel needing a hero to save her, collapsed because of an attack by the Great American wolf. This is nonsense: U.S.S.R. was always an agent of its own destiny. There were no Americans anywhere near the room when Yeltsin, Kravchuk, and Shushkevich signed the U.S.S.R.’s death warrant on 8th December, 1991. The three men had gathered there to discuss, among other matters, how to solve the problem of the U.S.S.R. refusing to enter into winter gas supply contracts with the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic. The only solution they could conjure up to the urgent problem was to assert their own state’s legal personalities. Then with legal personality, they could solve the problem by entering into agreements among themselves. The Soviet authorities had overplayed their hand. That’s right: the U.S.S.R. was dissolved because of an attempt by those in charge of the U.S.S.R. to use energy to blackmail Belorussia by freezing it during the bitter cold winter. The U.S.S.R. died because of a botched negotiation by the U.S.S.R. which thought it could hold millions of its own people hostage by freezing them. Thirty-three-years later the successor state to the Soviet Union would use the same blackmail strategy on Ukraine, on the customer for 86% of its gas sales (the European Union), and on those living in Africa and Asia who are reliant on Ukraine and Russia-grown crops to avoid starvation…”