joeberon

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by joeberon 5y ago
I have compassion towards them, I don’t have compassion towards the fact they are colonising Buddhism.
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by joeberon 5y ago
> It looks to me like a large portion of American Buddhism is not really that interested in the traditional Asian form of Buddhism, but instead in a form that's heavily influenced by secular Jewish ideas No idea, I don't know a
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by joeberon 5y ago
No, but I didn't say I was a good practitioner. That's why I practise for a rebirth in Amitabha's Pure Land. My feelings come from a place of hate and malice, but also compassion for the Asian Buddhists who tell me every sing
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by joeberon 5y ago
I don't follow the śrāvaka path
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by joeberon 5y ago
Because it is directly oppressing Asian Buddhist voices in the west
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by joeberon 5y ago
We have lots of resources over at /r/GoldenSwastika https://www.reddit.com/r/GoldenSwastika/wiki/misconceptions I will not stop until we've erased secular voices from Buddhist spaces
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by joeberon 5y ago
Amazingly you are demonstrating the exact racism and colonialist ignorance that I am arguing against in the original post. It is actively erasing traditional Buddhist voices, people who have actually studied Buddhism instead of projecting
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by joeberon 5y ago
dogmatic: > inclined to lay down principles as undeniably true. dogma: > a principle or set of principles laid down by an authority as incontrovertibly true. Buddhism: > a widespread Asian religion or philosophy, founded by Siddart
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by joeberon 5y ago
Why would it be surprising? Buddhism is a pretty dogmatic religion. Literally the first of the Buddha's eight fold path is Right View, which means "you should believe in rebirth, believe in life after death, believe in karma, etc.
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by joeberon 5y ago
Why would that affect women more than men?
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by joeberon 5y ago
Honestly as a Buddhist, I find perennialism and the western approach to Buddhism to be offensive and degrading to the religion. Many such people even claim that traditional Buddhist lineages are "backwards" and "for stupid pe
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by joeberon 5y ago
Unfortunately that bites them with a lack of confidence and taking risks in the future. However that is mainly due to patriarchy and internalised misogyny in my experience.
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by joeberon 5y ago
> You haven't seen Twitter yet in the US. Yes I have, and there is much more of a culture to be taken care of and get emotional support there than I've seen in other countries. Even British twitter is way harsher lol Americans
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by joeberon 5y ago
Different fields always have different nationalities dominating though. You could easily say "look how Italians dominate astrophysics" but that doesn't necessarily mean anything.
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by joeberon 5y ago
I think you'd be naive to expect that an increase in the price of butter would be related to increased animal welfare
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by joeberon 5y ago
I think it's precisely because of that collectivism, which leads to much harsher punishment of outliers.
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by joeberon 5y ago
What I don't understand is that if you look at the performance of Chinese academics it isn't particularly exceptional compared to those who had lazy upbringings in the west. Surely they should be basically superhuman in their acad
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by joeberon 5y ago
> The article also mentioned that this went on just as a bad online with encouragements for suicide being a frequent part of the cyber bullying. That doesn't surprise me at all. Back in the day 2ch, which was the forerunner of 4chan
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by joeberon 5y ago
I'm British, and in the UK it's extremely hard to get adult ADHD diagnosis. Basically you have to go to a private doctor and even then they are quite strict. Due to my high academic achievement (doctor in quantum physics) they wil
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by joeberon 5y ago
I already listen to techno when I'm working. The problem is that when I'm not intrinsically/emotionally interested in a task I struggle to force myself to focus on it. It seems like focus is not something I can control, I alw
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by joeberon 5y ago
Margarine almost always contains buttermilk unless it's specifically marketed as non-dairy
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by joeberon 5y ago
Unfortunately, in Europe (at least in the UK and Germany) butter seems to have skyrocketed in price over the last few months, whereas margarine has stayed the same.
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by joeberon 5y ago
You were supposed to read it as if the question mark was not there. It was a "question mark of incredulity and disbelief" not a "question mark of question".
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by joeberon 5y ago
Yes, I play about an hour a night, but I don't really get into the flow of them, I'm usually checking my phone during loading screens or cutscenes. I'm sure physical sports would be somewhat easier. Making music can sometimes
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by joeberon 5y ago
Quitting social media is not really about FOMO, it's about the fear of being bored due to not having anything else to fill that time.
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by joeberon 5y ago
My concentration and attention abilities are destroyed by computers and media. It doesn't seem to be retrainable, even after meditating 30 minutes to an hour a day for a year, using concentration on breath method, I still do not seem a
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by joeberon 5y ago
I'm in Germany
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by joeberon 5y ago
Please add celcius to the scale EDIT: it can be changed at the top right
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by joeberon 5y ago
No, that's what I said, I'm not totally convinced that reproduction is a biological imperative. I think _being horny_ is, but I think that actually having children is not.
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by joeberon 5y ago
Well I don't really see intrinsic value in anything (I'm a Buddhist), but that isn't what I said, I said intrinsic value _compared to other species_. I meant that many people don't see humans as superior to other animals

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