Maddie

Why did you transition? Me: because OVERALLS!!! 😃

Sounds like Feng Shui

No I don't think its just a guy thing and I can't comment on gay guys (since they don't flirt with me). My socializing situation has improved a lot since transition. Before I would always feel more comfortable being friends with women but the outer packaging made it complicated (especially being a straight guy). Now I have many more friends and its easier to make them as a woman. Straight guys seem to think a "date" is "hey come over to my house new person that I just started talking to" lol

Ok but being more serious, the social skills of most younger (and some older) guys these days is just awful.

Or maybe if they do feel a self that wants a girlfriend they spiritualize it away lol. 🤭

These last few tidbits of information have been very interesting since I have never heard of this before, and Zhunti mantra has been one of my longest running practices. I have seen my clinic continue to improve as I continue with the mantra, but I also notice I keep thinking about "emptiness" more as well.

You mean thinking you can shoot lighting out of your nostrils and getting combative when someone is skeptical isn't conducive to relationships?

I think someone on this website referenced Bill Brody's website for something else and then I was just scrolling through the articles and I came across that and I found the description fascinating because I was obsessed with karma.

I thought I would make a thread where if anyone has questions about TCM or acupuncture they can feel free to ask. I am a licensed acupuncturist. *nothing I say constitutes a doctor patient relationship.

Good answers, I have nothing to add :-)

wow that is very interesting, this is the first time I have ever heard of this!

I'm not sure what that is?

I see you've seen me with a pizza 🍕 🤤 🩷🤭

Sounds like a club that a couple of overly dramatic queens that take themselves too seriously would make in New York.

In my experience since this is such a powerful mantra I get almost the same effect listening as I do actually chanting it.

I would say from a Buddhist POV boredom is desire unfulfilled.

The Big Gay Disco that can be named is not the eternal Big Gay Disco.

Well those selfies aren't going to take and post themselves are they? LOL 🫣

I would also say more "spiritual" people for lack of a better word seem to be quite plain. Chop wood carry water.

Yes, my early experiences with Theravada meditation instruction seemed to be quite rigid and I found that the way I was being taught didn't work for me. It was after I found a way that worked for me that things improved.

Theravada was my primary introduction into Buddhism, and I do think there is a lot of good in it for sure, I just didn't find the claims that it was practically synonymous with early Buddhism to be completely accurate.

Your unpopular opinion thread is proving to be quite popular lol.

I've never heard of the Buddhaghosa before. Yes I have noticed this as well. Theravada likes to portray itself as (in some cases) almost identical to original Buddhism, and at the beginning I took this for granted since I did not know any better. In time however as I read more of the Pali canon and then saw what the Theravada did and thought this did not seem to be exactly the case in my opinion.

Ok so I was kind of in the ballpark in regards to your point lol. I think this is a very interesting and worthy point to explore due to the fact that the sense of Buddhism I get from reading the Pali canon is somewhat different from what I see in modern day Theravada being practiced.