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09/22/09
Oh yeah I'm definitely forwarding this blog to His Holiness and a host of other Kagyu (name of the sect He is the head of) folks. Karmapa Kyenno!
09/21/09
"I will meditate and then destroy you!"
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In other words, productive aggression is much better than unproductive aggression.
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Ooooooooooh.
09/20/09
Although they are probably both nice guys, I only recognise Trinley Dorje as 17th Karmapa Lama. Karmapa Chenno.
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@Shell_Krackerश्रमण: Could not find a decent SFII font quick enough. :/
09/20/09
Thaye Dorje would yoga tower over Ogyen's ultra and pwn him, IMO ;-)
Trinley Thaye Dorje is also a geek lol.
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Buddhism is not an ascetic religion, meaning it's not about denying anything. Nor is it about completely indulging into anything. It's about taking the Middle Path, which is to fully engage in the activities your doing, while at the same time remaining detached (as in, don't get too caught up with the outcome.) That way a practitioner can play a video game, per se, to the best of thier ability, and yet not get pissed because they didn't win.
Just my two cents.
09/21/09
Siddhārtha Gautama, upon exploring India tried various forms of self-cultivation he found being practiced while discovering himself. Amongst the people he found were some ascetics, who were starving themselves and exposing themselves to the elements while living in the wilderness.
Following their example, Siddhārtha Gautama also stripped to a loincloth and starved himself in a cave. He was dedicated, to the point the other ascetics and various people around the area thought he was a saint or a great teacher.
But Siddhārtha Gautama realized he was dying, his body was too weak and he had learned nothing. He realized this EXTREME, was the wrong way to find enlightenment, and provided no benefit or meaning whatsoever.
He ate some proper food, and re-clothed himself, and informed the other ascetics that there was no wisdom in denying the world or your bodies their sustenance, if it would essentially just kill you and prevent you from accomplishing anything.
09/20/09
Also, I see this more of a natural extension to how some Tibetan monasteries also allow the monks to participate in sports like soccer, to burn off excess energy. Shaolin Kung Fu came about because the Shaolin monks wanted their students to burn energy and also to learn something that could be used for defense.
The only thing that has come up is, in the case of something like soccer, when competitiveness sets in, that's when the elders get a little worried.
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Everything in life is always in "beta." Even our lives are always in beta. Our lives are never set in stone, with something coming along to always change the bugs in our lives, making us having to repair them. Nor are our lives truly finished until we have reached the RTM Gold Master and finally reached the completed product: our life, complete.
Truly everything can be explained as a method for satiation, even sinful ways satiate our desires. Video games can be said to enact our sins without any physical harm or mental harm to anyone in the real world. But then this reaches a ethical crosspoint for me: should virtual characters be treated as equals to their real-life counterparts? Even if they are created to be abused and mistreated, should they even be given the same set of morals and laws that we have? I know that they are created specifically for enjoyment, but does that not make them our equals?
In the end, our lives are like a cloud, always changing, but "forces in nature (elements in our lives)" force this change [upon us].
09/20/09
No, until they have enough AI to become self concious, then morals kick in.
Before that happens they are just objects to be abused. So enjoy videogames and don't overanalize things before the time is right.
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Does Fleshbot.com have a companion article where it excerpts the part about his justifying his thrice daily usage of tentacle porn?
;)
/just kidding, I'm sure a Lama is more into bestiality and furries
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They gave up on meat!?!?!?
*tears apart her application*
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Pass me my steak, I'm hungry.
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Of course that doesn't mean you can't be a Vegi Monk. If you want to stop eating meat completely, then that's your choice.
09/20/09
Sex is a luxury? By extension the human race is just superfluous :P
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Seeing as how I completely made up everything I wrote for my basic psych class in college, and still managed an A, I would have to agree.