alternative facts

All things exist. All things do not exist. All things both exist and do not exist. All things neither exist nor do not exist.

confirmation hearing

“In the morning, hear the Way; in the evening, die content!”

deplorables

Greed, anger, delusion

huge

“The bodhisattva can pick up this billion-world-galactic universe and throw it beyond universes as numerous as the sands of the Ganges.”

identity politics

Me versus myself

one-state solution

Abiding continuously in awareness

post-truth

Deepening one’s practice after an experience of insight

preexisting condition

Original enlightenment

travel ban

The king’s order that his son, Siddhartha, was not to venture beyond the palace

undocumented

“A special transmission [of dharma] outside the sutras, not depending on words.”