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  7. Posted

    2 minutes ago, liminal_luke said:

     

    Most people here give themselves high-sounding aspirational names like Mysterious Sharon or Waterfall of Reckless Beauty.  Ya gotta wonder about a person who surveys the infinite variety of the English language and then dubs themselves surrogate corpse.


    I, being I in this clouded world,

    Am drawn by base desire and some malevolent duty,

    To thrust my naked self into the Waterfall,

    Deluged there by reckless beauty,

    Submerged in sandy shores and,

    Named Sharon mysteriously,

    Washed up on distant shores,

    Not dead but yet a surrogate corpse,

    The body of an unborn kind,

    Transmigrated from this world to the next,

    Timeless and yet waiting,

    For the late night bus.

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  9. Posted

    43 minutes ago, surrogate corpse said:

    @Apech torn between giving a serious answer to that (what is our status in society? from whose perspective are we deemed "malevolent"?) and gently chiding that i'm just trying to compliment a gal for looking good in a photo and it really shouldn't be taken too seriously, and as a compromise you get this halfway house of a post

     

    @Maddie 👁️

     


    could you give me the serious answer about malevolence?  I don’t really get it. Thanks.

  10. Posted

    3 minutes ago, surrogate corpse said:

    it means just what it says really, there's an innocence to it that's a bit sinister, like you're luring someone in only to steal their soul once they get close

     

    (cannot stress enough that this is a good thing. being vaguely malevolent spirits is our birthright)


    wot? Why the malevolence?

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  12. Posted · Edited by Apech

    14 minutes ago, forestofemptiness said:

     

    Why is that? Genuinely curious. 


    it is part of a general theory of mine which is that the Chinese influence on Tibetan Buddhism has been downplayed - also having read Olivia Kohn’s ‘ sitting in oblivion’ there is a strong Daoist/ Buddhist crossover which I think works both ways.

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  15. Posted

    1 hour ago, stirling said:

     

    Strange but true, the author is actually a well-educated student of Lama Zopa Rinpoche, a highly respected Tibetan teacher, and has been since the early 70's.  I studied with both Landaw and Rinpoche in the early 2000's for a few years. Both know what they are talking about. :)

     

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    I was only teasing - I’m sure it’s great.

  18. Posted

    10 minutes ago, Maddie said:

     

    Well aren't you Mr observant? LOL 🤣. The reason that's on my table is because that's a stack of books I'm going to bring to the half Price bookstore to trade in. Although it was really helpful at the very beginning of my exploration into Buddhism.

     

    oh cope, cope, cope!!!!

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  20. Posted

    4 minutes ago, liminal_luke said:

    Whew...this has been quite the ride.  I often rethink my posts after I´ve written them and decided to let a few of my latest entries go.  What came over me?  This thread was winding down nicely and it seemed everyone had settled into a cozy and nearly miraculous peace.  And then for some reason I decided to kick up some dirt -- go figure.  Anyway, thanks to all who have contributed here and especially to Maddie.  If the point of this thread was to make people think, then I count it a rousing success.


    Brother Luke trolls the thread.

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  21. Posted

    2 hours ago, blue eyed snake said:

     

    yeah but ...

     

    ehm, when we were young people were neatly classified in male and female ( as god ordained :ph34r:)

     

    Babies have no idea about male and female, 3 year olds in general have observed this classification. Brothers, fathers and boys are male, sisters, moms and girls are classed as female. But from the time they are babies they are approached according to their sexe. That is outcome of research but I've observed that rearing my son.

     

    I got clothing from a sister who had a girl about a year older then my boy. so as a baby he had a nice warm pink babysuit. "oooh, what a lovely little girl, and your momma dressed you warmly to protect you from the cold, what a sweet girl you are"

    Next week, same bakery, blue jacket and babyjeans, " now you're a sturdy little boy, you can handle the cold eh. You make your momma proud. See those different messages? shaping the expectations our society has from boys and girls, those expectations partly  shape our personalities. I found it also interesting that (perceived) babygirls got higher voices cooing over them then babyboys

     

    so there's the biological aspect plus the societal aspects that tries to mold us into gender-specific behavior and identification.

     

    But also, as a kid I was thus taught there are 2 categories, boy or girl. Nothing else to choose from. Well i was very sure I was not a girl so I had to be a boy. It was not that I wanted a dick  @Apech,  but i had classified myself as a boy "because i was not a girl" so there was no other choice. I expected to grow a dick as it was needed to fulfill the role of "boy"  just as my big sister in those days was growing boobs.

     

    During my younger years I have so often wondered what was wrong with me, after a time I sort of decided I was a lesbian, but that was not right to as there were also guys I liked to share my bed with, so then I was biseksual. But why did I lean to be a man...et cetera.  For young people it is important to be clear about who they are, where they belong and what their place in a group is.

    How they identify as it is currently called.

     

    But the dichotomy male - female is not true, it is manmade, as there are people who are neither, That's both the intersex people and the trans/nonbinary people. Now that may not be a large group, but many people belong to it.

     

    My life would have been a lot easier when i had been aware there exists a third category for those that do not fit in the large dichotomy. The way I lean to when doing nothing ( Thanks @surrogate corpse ) is mostly male, but I can lean female too. The current generation would probably label me nonbinary, for me, after all those decades, I am human and that's okay.

     

     

     

    I was being crass @blue eyed snake so sorry.

     

     

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  22. Posted

    On 18/04/2024 at 6:55 PM, dwai said:

    Kshanikam - Momentary

    Sarvam - Everything

     

    So the Buddhists say - "Everything is momentary" (impermanence)

     

    Khalu - Verify

    idam - This 

    Brahma - Brahman (the ground of being)

     

    Advaitins say - "Everything is verily Brahman"  (Permanence)

     

    The two seem mutually exclusive. But are they? Everything is certainly momentary/temporary, but does that mean Brahman is also fleeting and temporary? This can be understood by the statement, "Samsara (everything) is Nirvana (liberation), and Nirvana (liberation) is Samsara (everything)."

     

    The Advaitins say that "everything" is perceived as separate, ephemeral objects because the knowledge of Brahman (Pure Consciousness) is not realized. When the realization occurs that all things appear and disappear in Brahman alone, then the confusion is dispelled once and for all. 

     


    Brahman is not a thing - would be my answer.

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