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.”