>https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/08/exclusive-rachel-maddow-gives-her-first-interview-as-she-steps-back/amp
Red Black color coding too
Chopping Wood
Fly Fishing
top kek
Trump denied it andcalled Haberman, whose New York Times coverage he follows compulsively,a "maggot."
https://www.axios.com/2022/08/08/trump-toilet-photos-maggie-haberman
>Since they're accusing Trump of this, then we can automatically assume that Obama (or Biden) have done this.
8 hours ago - Politics & Policy
Exclusive photos: Trump's telltale toilet
Mike Allen
Mike Allen, author of Axios AM
Photos from Maggie Haberman via Axios
Remember our toilet scoop in Axios AM earlier this year? Maggie Haberman's forthcoming book about former President Trump will report that White House residence staff periodically found wads of paper clogging a toilet â and believed the former president, a notorious destroyer of Oval Office documents, was the flusher.
Why it matters: Destroying records that should be preserved is potentially illegal.
Trump denied it and called Haberman, whose New York Times coverage he follows compulsively, a "maggot."
Well, it turns out there are photos. And here they are, published for the first time.
Haberman â who obtained the photos recently â shared them with us ahead of the Oct. 4 publication of her book, "Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America."
A Trump White House source tells her the photo on the left shows a commode in the White House.
The photo on the right is from an overseas trip, according to the source.
Trump spokesperson Taylor Budowich told Axios: "You have to be pretty desperate to sell books if pictures of paper in a toilet bowl is part of your promotional plan."
"We know ⌠there's enough people willing to fabricate stories like this in order to impress the media class â a media class who is willing to run with anything, as long as it anti-Trump."
Between the lines: The new evidence is a reminder that despite the flood of Trump books, Haberman's is hotly anticipated in Trumpworld.
The cover of Maggie Haberman's book, "Confidence Man"
Cover: Penguin Press
Haberman's sources report the document dumps happened multiple times at the White House, and on at least two foreign trips.
"That Mr. Trump was discarding documents this way was not widely known within the West Wing, but some aides were aware of the habit, which he engaged in repeatedly," Haberman tells us.
"It was an extension of Trump's term-long habit of ripping up documents that were supposed to be preserved under the Presidential Records Act."
The handwriting is visibly Trump's, written in the Sharpie ink he favored.
Most of the words are illegible.
But the scrawls include the name of Rep. Elise Stefanik of upstate New York, a Trump defender who's a member of House Republican leadership.
Go deeper: A radical plan for Trump's second term
>What about the Red socks ???
and one black shoe
>Red Black color coding too
On Enlightenment: 3 Meanings of the âChop Wood, Carry Waterâ Zen Quote
By Kyle Kowalski // 42 Comments
We were recently having dinner with friends when a (highly intelligent) friend said, âAll I want to do is chop wood in the forest.â
It immediately reminded me of the simpleâyet profoundâquote below.
So, I did some homework on it. Hereâs everything I learned.
The Chop Wood, Carry Water Origin
It doesnât appear that thereâs a consensus about the origin of this quote. Here are three possible sources that I found while researching.
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Layman Pang, a Buddhist in the Zen tradition who lived from 740â808, wrote the followingš:
âMy daily activities are not unusual,
Iâm just naturally in harmony with them.
Grasping nothing, discarding nothing.
In every place thereâs no hindrance, no conflict.
My supernatural power and marvelous activity:
Drawing water and chopping wood.â
Those last two lines are well-known and have been translated many different ways over the years, including²:
âHow miraculous and wondrous,
Hauling water and carrying firewood!â
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The quote has been adapted and expanded to add a little more contextÂł:
âThe novice says to the master, âWhat does one do before enlightenment?â
âChop wood. Carry water,â replies the master.
The novice asks, âWhat, then, does one do after enlightenment?â
âChop wood. Carry water.'â
>On Enlightenment: 3 Meanings of the âChop Wood, Carry Waterâ Zen Quote
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Thereâs also a completely different variation that offers more storytelling and explanation4:
âA young boy became a monk. He dreamed of enlightenment and of learning great things. When he got to the monastery he was told that each morning he had to chop wood for the monks fires and then carry water up to the monastery for ablutions and the kitchen. He attended prayers and meditation, but the teaching he was given was rather sparse.
One day he was told to take some tea to the Abbot in his chambers. He did so and the Abbot saw he looked sad and asked him why.
He replied every day all I do is chop wood and carry water. I want to learn. I want to understand things. I want to be great one day, like you.
The Abbot gestured to the scrolls on shelves lining the walls. He said, âWhen I started I was like you. Every day I would chop wood and carry water. Like you I understood that someone had to do these things, but like you I wanted to move forward. Eventually I did. I read all of the scrolls, I met with Kings and and gave council. I became the Abbot. Now, I understand that the key to everything is that everything is chopping wood and carrying water, and that if one does everything mindfully then it is all the same.'â
3 Meanings from the Chop Wood, Carry Water KĹan
A Zen kĹan is âa story, dialogue, question, or statement which is used in Zen practice to provoke the âgreat doubtâ and to practice or test a studentâs progress in Zen.â5
One of the great aspects of ancient quotes and stories is that they are subject to interpretation. Hereâs my own personal take along with some of my favorite explanations of the meaning.
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Although it appears nothing has changed on the outside (doing), everything has changed on the inside (being).
On the surface, the visible, external actions of chopping wood and carrying water are the same before and after enlightenment. So, whatâs changed?
The deeper invisible and internalâyour presence, awareness, perception, mindset. Your body may be busy, but your mind is still. You are present instead of preoccupied:
âIn simple terms we can say that before I developed the true nature of Wisdom I could chop wood and carry water but my mind was everywhereâit was heavily polluted with mental obstructions and worldly thoughtsâit was not present. After I found the Essence of my Mind and found true Wisdom then I experience Enlightenment. To the external eye nothing is differentâI still appear to chop wood and carry water but in fact within the internal eye everything is different. Everything has changed. It teaches us to be aware of the transience of visual forms. Nothing is what it appears to be and No thing is what it appears to be.â4
Growing up (and still to this day), I can hear my Dad saying:
âDo what youâre doing while youâre doing it. Donât do what youâre not doing while youâre not doing it.â
The being is more important than the doing. As Eckhart Tolle says in his book A New Earth: Awakening to Your Lifeâs Purpose:
âDoing is never enough if you neglect Being. The ego knows nothing of being but believes you will eventually be saved by doing. If you are in the grip of the ego, you believe that by doing more and more you will eventually accumulate enough âdoingsâ to make yourself feel complete at some point in the future. You wonât. You will only lose yourself in doing. The entire civilization is losing itself in doing that is not rooted in Being and thus becomes futile.â
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Mastering your mind allows you to appreciate the extraordinary miracles in ordinary daily life.
Chopping wood and carrying water are not glamorous activities, especially during the time these stories/quotes were written. If you are able to master your mind, you will find the extraordinary in the ordinaryâthe magic in the mundane (a tip from how to get started with slow living). Do you choose to see burden or beauty? Are you focused on presence or productivity?
Sources:
https://tricycle.org/trikedaily/green-koans-case-36-pang-splits-wood/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Layman_Pang
https://writingdownthestory.com/2016/11/12/chop-wood-carry-water/
https://buddhism.stackexchange.com/questions/15921/what-is-the-meaning-of-the-zen-quote-before-enlightenment-chop-wood-carry-wat
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C5%8Dan
http://www.interluderetreat.com/meditate/chop.htm
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Life goes on during and after enlightenment.
Everything in life is impermanentâeven enlightenment is transient. If/when you achieve enlightenment, itâs not like you can say, âWhew! Thank goodness Iâm finally enlightened. That was a long journey, but Iâm glad Iâve made it to the end.â
Remember, the longer story version of Chop Wood, Carry Water at the beginning of this post says:
âThe key to everything is that everything is chopping wood and carrying water, and that if one does everything mindfully then it is all the same.â
If you view everything as chopping wood and carrying water, you realize you constantly have to maintain present awareness:
âIt does little good to attain clarity of mind on your meditation cushion if you lose it as soon as you become active.â6
We all know this isnât easy. Overcoming the unconscious default setting of your mind is a key point in David Foster Wallaceâs iconic speech, This is Water:
âThe most obvious, important realities are often the ones that are hardest to see and talk about.â
Since enlightenment is a state and not a destination, that means we all still have to go on living even after attaining enlightenment. The goal then is to have your doing rooted in being to create awakened doing:
âAwakened doing is the alignment of your outer purpose what you do â with your inner purpose â awakening and staying awake. Through awakened doing, you become one with the outgoing purpose of the universe. Consciousness flows through you into this world. It flows into your thoughts and inspires them. It flows into what you do and guides and empowers it.â â Eckhart Tolle
Is the wood chopping you and the water carrying you? Or, are you chopping the wood and carrying the water? The responsibility is yours.
>toilet
>toilet
>toilet
>Since they're accusing Trump of this, then we can automatically assume that Obama (or Biden) have done this.
>that was my exact thought too.
Psychological Projection.
Define Conspiracy.
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a secret plan by a group to do something unlawful or harmful.
"a conspiracy to destroy the government"
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the action of plotting or conspiring.
"they were cleared of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice"
[Fake News]
Fake News collaborating and pushing knowingly false information?
Fake News âKNOWINGLY FALSEâ narrative pushes.
Scandalous Media Bias?
Conspiracy?
Collaboration?
What are they hiding?
FAKE NEWS MEDIA IS NOT FREE AND INDEPENDENT.
FAKE NEWS MEDIA = PROPAGANDA ARM OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
Think WL list of journalists who colluded w/ HRC/DNC (2016 Pres election).
You are witnessing a FULL PANIC ATTACK by the FAKE NEWS MEDIA & COVERT ALT MEDIA AFFILIATES (foreign govât).
They cannot contain or defeat what they do not understand.
Is any of this normal?
Think sealed indictments count.
Think resignations of CEOs.
Think resignations of Senators.
Think resignations of Congress.
Think termination of sr FBIâŚ
Think termination of sr DOJâŚ
WATERGATE X1000
Attacks will only intensify.
Logical thinking.
Ask yourself a simple question â WHY????
Q
<>Think WL list of journalists who colluded w/ HRC/DNC (2016 Pres election).
Wendy actively pushing a fake story.
Fake news going to run with it.
>These reporters and networks have been named in the WikiLeaks to have colluded with the DNC or Hillary campaign during the 2016 election cycle:
<NYT â Maggie Haberman
They wouldrather see NK peace negotiations fail (WAR!) than see POTUS RESOLVE
Scandalous Media Bias?
Conspiracy?
Collaboration?
What are they hiding?
Donald Trump Calls Reporter Maggie Haberman 'Maggot', Slams Upcoming Book
By Adam Staten On 2/11/22 at 3:29 PM EST
Former President Donald Trump has referred to New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman as "Maggot Haberman" in response to her upcoming book.
On Friday afternoon, the former president issued a statement in response to Haberman's upcoming book, Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America, which is expected to land on shelves in October. One excerpt from the book that was released this week said toilets in the White House were "periodically" clogged up as papers were being flushed during the Trump presidency.
In his release, Trump also referred to the upcoming work as "yet another fake book, by a reporter who knows nothing about me." He also accused her of making up stories about his relationship with foreign leaders such as Kim Jong Un.
Donald Trump
On Friday, former President Donald Trump referred to New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman as "Maggot Haberman" in response to Haberman's upcoming book on Trump. Pictured, Trump speaks during the Save America rally at the Montgomery County Fairgrounds on January 29, 2022 in Conroe, Texas. Brandon Bell/Getty Images
On Thursday, after the report that Trump allegedly clogged toilets with shredded pieces of paper, the former president denied any wrongdoing, referring to it as "another fake story." He went on to say that it is "categorically untrue and simply made up by a reporter in order to get publicity for a mostly fictitious book."
Haberman, who has covered the former president since 2011, said in the recent excerpt from her upcoming book that several staffers in the administration reportedly found pieces of paper in toilets and were under the impression that the former president had tried to flush them. Haberman, in an interview Thursday on CNN, said even the toilet in the White House residence would allegedly get clogged with pieces of paper.
"I learned that staff in the White House residence would periodically find the toilet cloggedâŚwhat the engineer would find would be wads of clumped up, wet, printed paper," Haberman said. "This was either notes or some other piece of paper that they believe [Trump] had thrown down the toilet."
Following her revelation that Trump was allegedly flushing pieces of paper down the toilet, Haberman was criticized for holding onto that information for her book instead of reporting it during his time in office. Haberman replied that she was unaware such activities were taking place until "well after Trump had left office." She went on to defend herself, saying that she is not "known for sitting on scoops."
Appearing on the View on Thursday, former White House communications director Alyssa Farah said that she never saw Trump's bathroom and never saw him flush anything. However, she did say that she witnessed Trump tearing up documents, which staffers in the White House would then later piece back together. Farah also said that, according to those people that she still speaks to in "Trumpworld," the former president is reportedly "terrified of Maggie Haberman's book."
Mark Meadows, Trump's former chief of staff responded to Haberman's claims on Newsmax on Thursday. Meadows refuted the stories about paper allegedly being shredded or being thrown into the toilet and brought up Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and her tearing up a copy of Trump's 2020 State of the Union address.
"When we start talking about this was ripped up, it was taped back together - obviously that was preserved - it's supposed to show some nefarious purpose but yet they will ignore Nancy Pelosi ripping something up on national TV behind the president."
Haberman's revelation follows reports from earlier this week that the National Archives and Records Administration reportedly retrieved as many as 15 boxes of documents from Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence.
Newsweek reached out to a Trump spokeswoman for comment but did not hear back before publication.
>You are witnessing aFULL PANIC ATTACK by the FAKE NEWS MEDIA& COVERT ALT MEDIA AFFILIATES (foreign govât).
>They cannot contain or defeat what they do not understand.
Adm ROGERS post
<they are in full blown panic mode.