Showing your real picture
Showing your real picture
So, maybe it is time for the members to show their faces? Drop the good old symbolic icons to prove you are a Buddhist. I would like to see more lovely faces on here, maybe we even can be friends. How cool is that, really?
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I agree. I put mine up, but then took it down. Maybe I'll post a pic up again later.
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Is that a koan?Showing your real picture
Has a similar topic
Anonymity on Buddhist forums
https://dharmawheel.net/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=25385
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Hi!
དམ་པའི་དོན་ནི་ཤེས་རབ་ཆེ་བ་དང་།
རྟོག་གེའི་ཡུལ་མིན་བླ་མའི་བྱིན་རླབས་དང་།
སྐལ་ལྡན་ལས་འཕྲོ་ཅན་གྱིས་རྟོགས་པ་སྟེ།
དེ་ནི་ཤེས་རབ་ལ་ནི་ལོ་རྟོག་སེལ།།
"Absolute Truth is not an object of analytical discourse or great discriminating wisdom,
It is realized through the blessing grace of the Guru and fortunate Karmic potential.
Like this, mistaken ideas of discriminating wisdom are clarified."
- (Kyabje Bokar Rinpoche, from his summary of "The Ocean of Definitive Meaning")
རྟོག་གེའི་ཡུལ་མིན་བླ་མའི་བྱིན་རླབས་དང་།
སྐལ་ལྡན་ལས་འཕྲོ་ཅན་གྱིས་རྟོགས་པ་སྟེ།
དེ་ནི་ཤེས་རབ་ལ་ནི་ལོ་རྟོག་སེལ།།
"Absolute Truth is not an object of analytical discourse or great discriminating wisdom,
It is realized through the blessing grace of the Guru and fortunate Karmic potential.
Like this, mistaken ideas of discriminating wisdom are clarified."
- (Kyabje Bokar Rinpoche, from his summary of "The Ocean of Definitive Meaning")
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Hi! Put it as your avatar.
And nice picture of you, TharpaChodron.
And nice picture of you, TharpaChodron.
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Taking a page from the Buddha's book, I say:
Enough, odysseus! Why do you want to see this foul body?
Enough, odysseus! Why do you want to see this foul body?
There is not only nothingness because there is always, and always can manifest. - Thinley Norbu Rinpoche
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I read the passage. But a picture on the internet is just this, a picture. It's a virtual representation of the body only. However foul this body could appear, it is what we are known by. We have to live with it, and it is also needed to live the holy life.
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Well, I don't have a photo handy, but this is a pretty good likeness:odysseus wrote:I read the passage. But a picture on the internet is just this, a picture. It's a virtual representation of the body only. However foul this body could appear, it is what we are known by. We have to live with it, and it is also needed to live the holy life.
There is not only nothingness because there is always, and always can manifest. - Thinley Norbu Rinpoche
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That's funny. But I am still awaiting your real picture. Whether you are an internet geek, it's not harmful. I guess in these Snowden days, everybody got scared of the internet.
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After reading that thread on anonymity, I'd really like to change my name to Kristen, but I can't seem to find out how. Anyhew, thanks Odysseus.
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Is your real name "Kristen"? Well, I even posted my Facebook profile. I am not so worried about internet, the scammers cannot use my identity for anything.
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Yes, it is Kristen. I'm not worried about anyone here, Buddhists or spammmers, but I do retain a little anonymity because of working for what is known commonly in this country as "child protective services".odysseus wrote:Is your real name "Kristen"? Well, I even posted my Facebook profile. I am not so worried about internet, the scammers cannot use my identity for anything.
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I think it's generally a bad idea, and maybe a little irresponsible in some cases.odysseus wrote:So, maybe it is time for the members to show their faces? Drop the good old symbolic icons to prove you are a Buddhist. I would like to see more lovely faces on here, maybe we even can be friends. How cool is that, really?
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and yet, you've shown your own face. good on you haha. why could it be irresponsible?The Cicada wrote:I think it's generally a bad idea, and maybe a little irresponsible in some cases.odysseus wrote:So, maybe it is time for the members to show their faces? Drop the good old symbolic icons to prove you are a Buddhist. I would like to see more lovely faces on here, maybe we even can be friends. How cool is that, really?
btw, are there any other women on this forum? i would like to know.
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One of the mods is a woman. There are a few others, but it's mostly a sausage fest.TharpaChodron wrote:btw, are there any other women on this forum? i would like to know.
There is not only nothingness because there is always, and always can manifest. - Thinley Norbu Rinpoche
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thank you, good to know. a balance of both men and women is healthy. is there a thread about that topic? i'm relatively new so i won't press the issue...yet.dzogchungpa wrote:One of the mods is a woman.TharpaChodron wrote:btw, are there any other women on this forum? i would like to know.
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I agree with your implied comparison of the forum to Sukhavati in that respect.dzogchungpa wrote:One of the mods is a woman. There are a few others, but it's mostly a sausage fest.
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Just think of all of the disgruntled baby mamas (yes, this is a legitimate designation in the English language—goodbye Western civilization, your apex was fun,) who will come after you once they've got your mugshot.TharpaChodron wrote: why could it be irresponsible?
No point in doing that unless you're some obscure Democritus type whose opinions will yield no consequences for you as you go on from the peanut gallery—or some creep using a display of openness to play 5 dimensional chess. Or both.and yet, you've shown your own face.
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