I love people freaking out that *gasp* a Buddhist thinks she’s right!

Why are men so disgusting?

I am doing nothing of the sort. I am demonstrating the evolution of Mahayana doctrine and philosophy.

You’re absolutely correct. We live in the age of mappo and “just sitting” isn’t going to accomplish anything. Nor will engaging in magic. Which is what the mystical traditions push.

Man that is a bad take.

This isn’t religion, per se, it is the cult-worship of charismatics.

The forms of Buddhism in America that are accessible are laughably “practice heavy” sects that literally are laughed at by other Buddhists who have since figured out how to do the same thing with a fraction of the necessary commitment.

American Buddhism seems to be about profiteering to me.

As an American Buddhist, I am completely unsurprised by this. Buddhist teachers have taught love and respect while being predatory and abusing their power since the dawn on Buddhism. It is a million times worse in areas with less prohibition against the denigration of women.

I would add that everyone messes up! It is what you do when it happens that matters. Just apologize, correct yourself and move on! No need to dwell or make a scene. I have friends who were married for five years before one of them transitioned. They mess up still and just correct themselves, move on and get better :)

Transphobia hiding behind technicalities. Wonderful.

Eh, I trust gay cis men about as far as I can throw them. Another shoe will eventually drop. (And yes, this is earned cynicism.)

I guess that you simply make the mistake of thinking that these things are mutually exclusive.

How can you take that away from this? Women are being killed and harmed and you think that this is the issue?

I can’t help but have a warm reaction to this song every time. It came from a period of my life that is deeply ingrained with a wonderful group of people and an experience that I will never repeat. It reminds me of that last gasp of youth before the real world hit us all like a pile of bricks.

I have to get back into Arrowverse.

I mean come on, she’s only gorgeous. That shouldn’t be enough to make her an actress.

Thank you.

You are literally describing how discourse works.