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The loudest Buddhist chanting I have been to was the Nichiren mantra being played at very high volume through speakers.

The Christians now are rescuing their organs.
Maybe the Heavy metal Buddhists (eg @Linc) would be interested in a new project, with 'Plague of Bodhi' (not yet available).

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/apr/25/york-minster-hosts-controversial-metal-concert-as-threatened-protests-fail-to-materialise

Is that the wrong kind of kind? Ah Well! I will be sitting in the quiet corner with the tone deafened...

@Jeroen said:
I came across this beautiful short documentary (37 mins) about the life story of a native woman from Peru who had a rough childhood, left to travel the world, lived in New York but found she got depressed, was given Ayahuasca by a friend and received powerful visions to return to the jungle and become a curandera. I very much enjoyed the story, great cinematography and an engaging sound track!

I’ve listened to and watched this docu about five times now, and I think I’m falling in love… it has such a pure vibe, a really clean energy. The clear waters, the steam, the settlement, the curanderos. Wonderful, it really brings me to rest.

I took the opportunity to watch it @Shoshin1 … as a Dutch person, it is strange to me to watch so many people in the thrall to extreme ideas of dominance, of taking land, of ejecting people, of making their lives a misery. The Netherlands is a successful multicultural society where everyone has the same rights, and I thought Israel held to similar, Western ideals. But apparently it is not so.

I found Louis to have the patience of a saint here, I would have booked a plane ticket out of there in days, it feels so oppressive.