Sermon on the Toilet.

Trump may not destroy America - but GREED might.

Proverbs 6:16-19 lists “six things the Lord hateth, and the seventh His soul detesteth” (from the American Standard Version):
haughty eyes,
a lying tongue,
hands that shed innocent blood,
a heart that deviseth wicked purposes,
feet that are swift in running to mischief,
a false witness that uttereth lies,
he that soweth discord among brethren.

“Five Poisons” of Mahayana Buddhism:
A.k.a. five kleshas, mental states that can cloud the mind and result in unwholesome actions:
Ignorance or delusion
Attachment or craving or GREED
Aversion or anger, hatred, rage, fury
Pride or arrogance, conceit, condescension
Jealousy or envy

Buddha was not fat until the Chinese had a craving for wealth and good fortune.

Jesus, who was not "J" Jesus but "ichthus" - fish...

visited 'so called' Jerusalem without the "J" - Hierosolyma (an Egyptian City of Sun Worship)

But none of that matters!

"The... father of modern prosperity gospel teaching is Oral Roberts. The faith-healing evangelist... started his own school, Oral Roberts University (ORU). At the height of his influence, Roberts... brought in $110 million in annual revenue."



Kenneth Copeland, a student at ORU who served as a pilot and chauffeur for Oral Roberts, also became one of the most notorious (and wealthiest) of prosperity preachers.



These men paved the way for the televangelists who became famous in the 1980s, including Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, Benny Hinn, Pat Robertson, and Robert Tilton.

The Hebrew Selah is a word of uncertain meaning.

No it isn’t. Selah is the Levantine use of the Pali word Svaha (be well).

Aum,
Gate, Gate, Paragate,
Para Sam gate
Bodhi svaha.

(Sound of creation – begin)
Gone, gone, all gone,
Every One (or thing) gone
Awaken, be well.

Pali is a dialect spoken in ancient Nepal.

Pali, Nepal. Pali is a small town in Arghakhanchi District in the Lumbini Zone of southern Nepal.

Pali or Magadhan, is a Middle Indo-Aryan language native to that region.

Pali means text. It refers to the written language of the Buddhist texts. Its academic name is Magadhi. It might be a derivation of the language Buddha spoke. The language was not standardized until Ashoka’s time, about four centuries after Gautama.. The oldest Buddhist texts in Pali were preserved in Sri Lanka.

Siddhārtha Gautama, Shakyamuni – last name, first name, Sage of the Shakya Clan.

Nepali (Khas) langauge is the language currently spoken in Nepal and neighboring areas.

Even though Pali and Nepali belong to the same language family, they are different languages with almost zero mutual comprehensibility.

Possessed for Success: Prosperity Buddhism in Upper Burma

Oh, and not Jesus:

We have traveled full circle.

Be well.