loldzogchungpa wrote: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.
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- Kim O'Hara
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A good balance is healthy but my experience has been that online forums (regardless of subject) appeal more to men than to women. In real life, women outnumber men in dharma centres. Online, it's the other way around.TharpaChodron wrote: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.
That said, there are plenty of people here, both men and women, whose user names and posting style don't reveal their gender. And why should it matter, in the dharma? Good sense is good sense - and nonsense is nonsense - whether it comes from someone who sings soprano or someone who sings bass, or whether it comes from a 15-y-o or a 75-y-o.
And I'm not sure that the better communication which comes from knowing these things is a big enough benefit to make up for the (often unconscious) bias and prejudgement that will come with the knowledge.
What I would like, more than a picture, is a location - at least to country or state level. It's a simple addition to anyone's ID information and tells everyone useful stuff about each other.
Kim
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This is a picture of me. Wow, that took some work to figure out.
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Well, as a mod, you've already got us there, Kim—unless we go to extreme lengths to simulate another location.Kim O'Hara wrote: What I would like, more than a picture, is a location - at least to country or state level. It's a simple addition to anyone's ID information and tells everyone useful stuff about each other.
Kim
I agree with you on both counts. I don't think most women have the presdisposition to engage in involved discussions, and arguments, over the internet about the details of religious doctrines anymore than most women feel compelled to build Linux boxes, construct conlangs or reconstruct the history of the Romulan empire from assorted references.A good balance is healthy but my experience has been that online forums (regardless of subject) appeal more to men than to women. In real life, women outnumber men in dharma centres. Online, it's the other way around.TharpaChodron wrote: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.
That said, there are plenty of people here, both men and women, whose user names and posting style don't reveal their gender. And why should it matter, in the dharma? Good sense is good sense - and nonsense is nonsense - whether it comes from someone who sings soprano or someone who sings bass, or whether it comes from a 15-y-o or a 75-y-o.
And I'm not sure that the better communication which comes from knowing these things is a big enough benefit to make up for the (often unconscious) bias and prejudgement that will come with the knowledge.
And unconscious bias is very powerful. It's the stuff of advertising and other forms of mass media manipulation. Unless we are very careful, we will all react to a given stimuli despite ourselves. Just a thought: adding our real pictures prompts unenlightened worldlings to start rating the attractiveness of the poster, outsourcing our evaluation of their ideas to the hindbrain rather than our more evolved forebrain. It would also cause women to be objectified, subconsciously and involuntarily.
See my post elsewhere on the forum about secular burkas.
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sorry for derailing this thread. insofar as gender, culture and unconscious judgments etc, i'll check the threads and discuss elsewhere accordingly.
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Duly noted.The Cicada wrote: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.
There is not only nothingness because there is always, and always can manifest. - Thinley Norbu Rinpoche
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I'm new to this forum but here I am in Russia, 2013
and me in October of last year
and me in October of last year
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Some bad tongues said that "Buddhism is the sole bastion of males." But I think women are more involved, as they appreciate the kind nature of the Buddha more. As women. Modern men are too macho and need to be pacified.
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yes, I don't think Buddhism is just for men, that's just silly. There are many female Buddhist teachers and writers. But the online forum is more of a male dominated area (apart from perhaps Pinterest ha), men do like to argue semantics etc more as women are often culturally trained to avoid conflict imo. Hence, I want to engage but have a hard time not being so damn agreeable on everything.odysseus wrote:Some bad tongues said that "Buddhism is the sole bastion of males." But I think women are more involved, as they appreciate the kind nature of the Buddha more. As women. Modern men are too macho and need to be pacified.
tbh, I would never find myself on an online forum except a friend showed me how to get on.
But, the secular Burkha thing, not my bag that's for sure.
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Dzogchungpa is such a literalist..
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Of course you agree...or rather, he agrees. He's a psychic, after all!dzogchungpa wrote:Duly noted.The Cicada wrote: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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རྟོག་གེའི་ཡུལ་མིན་བླ་མའི་བྱིན་རླབས་དང་།
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"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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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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I agree.conebeckham wrote:Of course you agree...or rather, he agrees. He's a psychic, after all!dzogchungpa wrote:Duly noted.The Cicada wrote: I agree with your implied comparison of the forum to Sukhavati in that respect.
Magic!
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Stop that flirting and get back to topic, how old are you really! I am 44 and an adult.
Where is the problem in coming out officially as a Buddhist and show it to the world? The Buddha wanted us to display our conviction.
Where is the problem in coming out officially as a Buddhist and show it to the world? The Buddha wanted us to display our conviction.
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Party pooper.odysseus wrote:Stop that flirting and get back to topic, how old are you really! I am 44 and an adult.
Where is the problem in coming out officially as a Buddhist and show it to the world? The Buddha wanted us to display our conviction.
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- Kim O'Hara
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Depends where you live and sometimes on your job. In some countries people face discrimination and even persecution for going public with a minority religion. It doesn't affect Buddhists here in Australia, but it is a problem for some Muslims.odysseus wrote:Where is the problem in coming out officially as a Buddhist and show it to the world?
But even here - and far more so in the US - anyone working (e.g.) in a Christian school would be silly to make a big public show of their Buddhist faith.
Kim
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I am not talking about a Pride Parade! I am talking about standing up for your conviction and be a representant of Buddha.Kim O'Hara wrote: But even here - and far more so in the US - anyone working (e.g.) in a Christian school would be silly to make a big public show of their Buddhist faith.
Kim
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Well, in all seriousness, I AM standing up for my conviction. My avatar is the best representation of my true nature that I can find, and the Buddha already has plenty of much better representants than me.odysseus wrote:I am not talking about a Pride Parade! I am talking about standing up for your conviction and be a representant of Buddha.
There is not only nothingness because there is always, and always can manifest. - Thinley Norbu Rinpoche
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Hey, I put up my photo again. A less pretentious one this time
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I am having trouble posting an avatar. Every picture I find seems to be too large in kb or whatever. Is there any way to size down the pic?