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by KathyLauren
Mon Jun 27, 2022 9:52 pm
Forum: Ethical Conduct
Topic: What can i do if i discrespected the three jewels in front of others?
Replies: 37
Views: 2141

Re: What can i do if i discrespected the three jewels in front of others?

What's done is done. If there is karma to be had from it, that is done too. Why worry about something if you can change it? And what is the point of worrying about something if you cannot change it? - Shantideva What you can change is the present and the future. It sounds like you have learned from ...
by KathyLauren
Sat May 21, 2022 1:35 pm
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: Is there a non-sectarian Mahayana?
Replies: 23
Views: 1221

Re: Is there a non-sectarian Mahayana?

I don't know about any non-sectarian Mahayana sect. It seems like an oxymoron to me. However, there are certainly non-sectarian Mahayanists. I am one. I hear people trying to tell me that these guys believe blah-blah-blah, while those guys believe blah-blah-blah. And I am sitting there wondering &qu...
by KathyLauren
Wed Apr 27, 2022 8:04 pm
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: Religion Questions
Replies: 5
Views: 358

Re: Religion Questions

You get three questions. You have already used one of them. :lol: Just kidding.

Om mani padme hum
Kathy
by KathyLauren
Wed Apr 27, 2022 12:49 pm
Forum: Prayers and Aspirations
Topic: Please pray for my daughter-in-law
Replies: 17
Views: 1756

Re: Please pray for my daughter-in-law

I am wishing good health and good judgment for your daughter-in-law, her family, and her caregivers.

Om mani padme hum
Kathy
by KathyLauren
Sat Apr 16, 2022 3:48 pm
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Innate sense of self and gender identity
Replies: 119
Views: 6399

Re: Innate sense of self and gender identity

But you can't possibly claim that things like this are easy to understand: Currently, as a cisgender gay man I see myself in relation to gender rhetoric through a theory closer to symbolic interactionism than, like, post-structuralism or social constructionism. "Social construct" is an in...
by KathyLauren
Sat Apr 16, 2022 12:47 pm
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Innate sense of self and gender identity
Replies: 119
Views: 6399

Re: Innate sense of self and gender identity

That’s my issue with this whole area - it’s simply not realistic to expect the vast majority of people to absorb a bewilderingly complex vocabulary and philosophical system, and change the way they speak and interact with others, for a very small minority. It’s not that they’re not willing, it’s ju...
by KathyLauren
Sat Apr 16, 2022 1:09 am
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Innate sense of self and gender identity
Replies: 119
Views: 6399

Re: Innate sense of self and gender identity

I will see if I can find a few links to the science. I don't know how lay-accessible it will be, since it is mostly current research, but I'll do what I can. It won't be until later in the day, though. Here is some light reading: https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-neuro-061010-11...
by KathyLauren
Fri Apr 15, 2022 3:57 pm
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Innate sense of self and gender identity
Replies: 119
Views: 6399

Re: Innate sense of self and gender identity

I will see if I can find a few links to the science. I don't know how lay-accessible it will be, since it is mostly current research, but I'll do what I can. It won't be until later in the day, though. Here is some light reading: https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-neuro-061010-11...
by KathyLauren
Thu Apr 14, 2022 12:21 pm
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Innate sense of self and gender identity
Replies: 119
Views: 6399

Re: Innate sense of self and gender identity

That still doesn’t track for me with someone who feels they are a different gender from day to day. I’m a little skeptical about the existing evidence for -that- as being a biological reality, I’d have to look deeper into that, if you know of science to look at. I do recognize of course it’s someth...
by KathyLauren
Wed Apr 13, 2022 10:46 pm
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Innate sense of self and gender identity
Replies: 119
Views: 6399

Re: Innate sense of self and gender identity

And what I was getting at is that maybe a person is identifying with concepts (which may or may not simply be social stereotypes), or whether what a person is experiencing is really kind of beyond “identity” altogether, as in the example of being ill, or when you stub your toe, or even something mo...
by KathyLauren
Wed Apr 13, 2022 8:56 pm
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Innate sense of self and gender identity
Replies: 119
Views: 6399

Re: Innate sense of self and gender identity

Well, what exactly does “identity” define? ... Outside of the mind, where can identity be found? And outside of the present moment, where can mind be found? Yes, identity is identification with something . "Identity" is something that a person recognizes as an accurate description of them...
by KathyLauren
Wed Apr 13, 2022 12:48 pm
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Innate sense of self and gender identity
Replies: 119
Views: 6399

Re: Innate sense of self and gender identity

I think where I get lost is that on the one hand there are people who claim to be “gender fluid” and change genders all the time, often citing that gender is entirely socially constructed, which is kind of nonsensical. Things that are socially constructed often have biological conditions as a stron...
by KathyLauren
Tue Apr 12, 2022 10:30 pm
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Innate sense of self and gender identity
Replies: 119
Views: 6399

Re: Innate sense of self and gender identity

Are you sure that it's biologically determined? Our conditioning, much of which is socially influenced, also determines how we mentally develop. There is a strong biological component, check the study linked in my previous post. That is not to say that social conditioning doesn't also play a role, ...
by KathyLauren
Tue Apr 12, 2022 5:29 pm
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Innate sense of self and gender identity
Replies: 119
Views: 6399

Re: Innate sense of self and gender identity

I detect no tactics on this thread - nor any attempts to obfuscate. You do? The fact that everyone wants to talk about "gender ideology" and no one is interested in understanding the experience of gender is in itself obfuscating. Gender ideology is more a creation of its opponents than of...
by KathyLauren
Tue Apr 12, 2022 12:15 pm
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Innate sense of self and gender identity
Replies: 119
Views: 6399

Re: Innate sense of self and gender identity

That makes no sense whatsoever. What exactly is the difference between gender and gender identity in this context? "Gender", strictly speaking, is an abstract concept. It refers to the spectrum that has male at one end, female at the other, and intermediate states in the middle. The word ...
by KathyLauren
Mon Apr 11, 2022 8:42 pm
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Innate sense of self and gender identity
Replies: 119
Views: 6399

Re: Innate sense of self and gender identity

As this discussion is happening on a Forum dedicated to Dharma, I wonder whether any identification with gender or sexuality isn’t eventually to be transcended? My teachers say that Realization does not happen through accumulation but by a radical view of Shunyata, True, no doubt. But you have to b...
by KathyLauren
Sun Apr 10, 2022 7:16 pm
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Innate sense of self and gender identity
Replies: 119
Views: 6399

Re: Innate sense of self and gender identity

If, at that moment, there is no sense of identity, then can identity be said to be a conditionally arising experience and not an innate quality? Or is it awareness that is the conditionally arising experience? We all know how hard it is to maintain awareness on the meditation cushion. Why would bei...
by KathyLauren
Sun Apr 10, 2022 5:19 pm
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Innate sense of self and gender identity
Replies: 119
Views: 6399

Re: Innate sense of self and gender identity

On a lighter note, I did actually extend my thought experiment. Could I imagine myself with a women's body and lesbian - yes easily. Could I imagine myself in a women's body with a heterosexual orientation to males - yes, and actually almost as easily. However, I cannot imagine waking up as a gay m...
by KathyLauren
Sun Apr 10, 2022 12:32 pm
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Innate sense of self and gender identity
Replies: 119
Views: 6399

Re: Innate sense of self and gender identity

At the same time, as a Buddhist, you wouldn't encourage me to believe in an inner state I cannot possibly verify for myself would you? Gender dysphoria is patently real. But gender identity sounds more like a state that can arise, rather than a universal condition that everyone has all the time. I ...
by KathyLauren
Sun Apr 10, 2022 1:19 am
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Innate sense of self and gender identity
Replies: 119
Views: 6399

Re: Innate sense of self and gender identity

I think that politicizing the discussion is going to get in the way of understanding the nature of gender identity. If you actually want to understand it, try the discussion without the denunciations and ideologies.

Om mani padme hum
Kathy

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