Life is short! - What is the meaning of living? - Buddhist Wisdom.

 A common misunderstood on Buddhisim is that the word DUKKA translates to Suffering when a more correct translation of DUKKA is disturbance. In the Video below they point out this misunderstood of the word of DUKKA.

 The etymological (original) root word for LIFE is leip- with the meaning To get stuck, To cling. – A common misunderstanding in Buddhism is that the word DUKKA is translated as suffering when a more correct translation of DUKKA is disturbance.

To live in the spiritually high Indo-European culture, where it was realized that disturbances caused consciousness to get stuck in time and locked attention to the DUKKA disturbance. The purpose of Buddhist meditation is to release the attention where it is stuck, so that instead of being “stuck” the individual can allow life to flow without getting stuck. A beautiful thought! A Buddhist thought!

In this video it is pointed out that DUKKA has been incorrectly translated as suffering. -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e14gtu3MhFg

The video is in English and it is possible to have English subtitles printed.

Todde

Also check: https://axiom1b.blogspot.com/2025/01/blog-post.html

 The US's slide on the global shrimp sandwich is heading for a brutal end

 

 According to Peter Schiff, Donald Trump has misunderstood why US factories are being closed and production is being moved abroad. But the crash caused by the tariffs would have happened soon even without Trump, he claims. Through Trump's tariff policy, the US itself has pulled the plug on its debt-financed economic machinery, according to financial profile Peter Schiff.

 But the crash that is now happening is partly a liberation, and sooner or later would have happened anyway, he believes. - The US's slide on the global shrimp sandwich is heading for a brutal end, says Schiff. Peter Schiff describes how the Trump administration's tariff policy, the runaway debt and a growing global dissatisfaction with the dollar are now interacting in a perfect storm - with historically rising gold prices as one of the first effects.

 - I thought it would take an external dollar crisis to get everything rolling. But we did it to ourselves. We burst our own bubble, says Schiff in the interview. The price of gold has risen by almost 700 dollars since the beginning of the year and on Monday morning approached the record level of 3,400 dollars per ounce (just over 1,000 Swedish kronor per gram).

 And yet there is still almost no one buying, except for the central banks, says Schiff. According to him, these central banks have been quietly reducing their dollar exposure for a long time and replacing it with physical gold – in anticipation of a new monetary paradigm. – They are preparing for a world where the dollar is no longer the reserve currency.

What do you replace it with? The obvious answer is gold. But despite the strong goldrally, Schiff recommends small savers to wait to buy physical gold.
rally. Instead, he highlights mining companies as extremely undervalued. – Gold stocks are undervalued at a historic level. Central banks do not buy shares in mining companies – they buy the gold that the companies mine. And the mining companies' costs, especially oil, have never been so low in relation to gold. Their profits will explode

 At the same time, it is the trade war between the US and China that is driving market unrest. This week, Donald Trump imposed 145 percent tariffs on Chinese goods, to which China quickly responded with its own tariffs of 125 percent. Beijing calls the US actions "economic blackmail". Peter Schiff is merciless in his criticism of the tariffs – and believes that Trump has completely misunderstood how the world economy works. – He looked at our large trade deficits and thought it was because foreigners were cheating us. But no one is cheating us. In fact, the trade deficits are because we have borrowed too much, and lived beyond our means for decades.

 The US overconsumption, financed by foreign loans and asset sales in the form of newly created dollars, has long been possible thanks to the willingness of other countries to keep the US afloat by accepting the dollar as a reserve currency regardless of how many dollars the US creates, according to Schiff.

 When Trump now tries to “break the dependence” that he believes China has on the US, it has the opposite effect. – We are the ones who are dependent – ​​not China. It is easy to replace one customer base with another. Anyone can consume. The hard part is producing. And we have left the production to others. “The party is over” Schiff believes that the real crisis is about confidence in the US currency – and the ability to continue to borrow without consequences. With a national debt that has exceeded 34 trillion dollars, there is no way back. – We have lived at the expense of the world. We have had low interest rates, low inflation and higher stock prices thanks to foreign capital.

But if we now try to cut that bond – then the party will be over. At the same time, the dollar, US government bonds and the stock market are falling – three assets that traditionally tend to move in different directions. Schiff sees this as an ominous sign.

The classic "flight to safety" pattern is breaking down. Investors are starting to understand that there is no longer a safe haven in the US. For Schiff, the fact that gold is rising so sharply is proof that reality has caught up with a system that has long rested on artificial respiration.

 He quotes himself from a recent post on X: "US dollars, bonds and stocks are being killed. The US's slide on the global shrimp sandwich is heading for a brutal end." And this is how he summarizes the developments in the Kitco interview:

We will be forced to stop living beyond our means. That means higher interest rates, higher prices, lower stock market values ​​– and a greatly reduced standard of living. With a sarcastic twinkle, Schiff says that the United States has now been "liberated" from its standard of living.

– I warned years ago that Trump was threatening to strip us of our prosperity. Now it's happening. And this is just the beginning, says Schiff.

Also check:

https://axiom1b.blogspot.com/2025/01/wealth-power-after-reading-book-wealth.html

and listen to what a man from China has to say about us in the western world:

Kinesisk influencer förklarar "vad som är fel med västvärlden" | Fria Tider

 

Before Birth After Death

 

 The Buddhas answer to these questions should interest every individual human being.

 Why do some souls choose darkness before being born into human form?

 Check this link to learn about the buddhist answers.

https://www.google.com/search?q=awakening+wisdom+Why+before+death+some+souls+choose+darkness&oq=awakening+wisdom+Why+before+death+some+souls+choose+darkness&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIHCAEQIRifBTIHCAIQIRifBdIBCTY1NDEzajBqN6gCALACAA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:34ce15c1,vid:q0SXRry2Xm8,st:0

Todde 

Also check:

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 The False Self – The True Self.

 I have in previous lives devoted myself to various philosophies - Among others Buddhism.

 So when I found this Video on the Internet I became a little happy. What a wonderful description of the importance of learning to see the difference between the “false self” (human nature) and the “true self” (Consciousness/Awareness – the Observer). So now I want to share this idea package with everyone who logs on to my blog.

Watch: https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?q=there+is+no+%22you%22+%28and+you+don%c2%b4t+even+realize+it%29&mid=C920673F750105D8268AC920673F750105D8268A&mcid=640398D716BB4071BFDF48C4C774538A&FORM=VIRE

 

Todde 

 Also check: https://axiom1b.blogspot.com/2025/02/what-is-nothing-from-philosophical.html

 And: https://axiom1b.blogspot.com/2025/03/buddhisms-answer-to-question-if-you-are.html

Buddhism's answer to the question: If you are not your thoughts, then who is doing the thinking?

This blog gives a very good Buddhist answer:

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&sca_esv=efe80ebf88ba2062&sxsrf=AHTn8zoYYKvlKN7SjLo0IqHPm5QCNx3llA:1741125297485&q=Buddhist+blog+if+you+are+not+your+thoughts,+who%27s+thinking+then?&spell=1&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwixrvaWtfGLAxXVCRAIHWukAN0QBSgAegQICBAB&biw=1440&bih=747&dpr=1#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:c854ef07,vid:HrKTGrj4YHo,st:0 

Who/What is the observer/consciousness that experiences this?

Todde

See also: https://axiom1b.blogspot.com/2025/02/what-is-nothing-from-philosophical.html

 

What is nothing?

From a philosophical point of view, your true self is nothing.

The basis of consciousness is nothing.

Consciousness = The observer is outside the physical universe (which consists of Space, Time, Matter and Energy)

Please watch this video about Nothing: 

https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?q=Quest+IQ+nothing&mid=CE100D036C144AC79819CE100D036C144AC79819&mcid=8AF207D8DB7E469B86A5A6ACE005B717&FORM=VIRE.

Todde

 

Also watch:

https://axiom1b.blogspot.com/2025/01/blog-post.html

Scientific evidence that reincarnation is something that actually exists.

 

Check: 10 Experiments That Prove Reincarnation Is Real

 

Also check: https://axiom1b.blogspot.com/2025/01/blog-post.html