#buddhist problems

[rub-the-rest-with-yellow]

Original: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi 1886 'the story of the courtesan Jigokudayu and priest Ikkyu'

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What if I’m too selfish for the Mahayana path? Should I turn instead to Therevada schools?

[bodhilicious]

Buddhist problems (bug edition)

• Screeching when there’s a bug on/near you because you now have to deal with it before someone kills it

• crying because someone killed a spider without asking if someone else could deal with it

• giving out to cockroaches as you try to trap them without squishing them BECAUSE WE WOULDN’T HAVE TO DO THIS IF YOUD STAYED IN THE FUCKING WALLS

• watching that mosquito buzz around your room tryin to convince yourself to kill it for like 5 minutes only to get really upset and just resign yourself to spending the next two hours hunting it

• having friends call you to catch the PARTICULARLY large insects because they’re scary and would sound gross when killed but your a Buddhist so you don’t get scared right?

• constantly fighting down the IMMENSE FEAR of bugs because you can’t bring yourself to kill something living

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What

Over the last few months, I’ve ordered a ton of incense, a stick and a cone burner, two sets prayer beads, etc from amazon for my secular Buddhist meditation. Now for some reason my “items you might be interested in” area is filled to the brim with self help books. Can someone please explain?

[niki-van-awesome]

I found out this morning that my uncle died. This is the first death I'm having to deal with in my family, and although I am upset and saddened... This is also the first time I'm having to actually confront the issue I've been toying with for months. As a Buddhist... What should my response to this be? Yeah I'm sad, but I don't see death as a time to be sad but instead as a time to rejoice in the life the person did have, while realizing that he'll be reborn in 49 days. This is all very comforting to me, but my gut tells me expressing those thoughts to the rest of my family would warrant a, "that's disrespectful" sort of response from them. ... Which is really bothersome considering my uncle would have probably really digged listening to these sorts of religious musings. So... I don't know.

[pikameme-dayo]

So today I go to work and I had some time beforehand so I got coffee from dunkin. Well my coworker decided she wanted some too so she gave me her card and had me buy donuts as well. Cool! Well on my walk back, I passed a homeless guy and gave him a donut. As I'm closing the box up, some upper-middle class white lady rolls down her widow and yells "God bless you!" at me... It kind of caught me by surprise because I was receiving praise for being nice...? Like. Obviously she acknowledges that that man needs help, as she praised me for helping him. But instead of following my example and helping the guy, she found it more pertinent to glorify me and bring her god into it. Honey, I'm flattered you approve of my actions but I don't deserve anything for behaving the way any human should behave. That's nice guy mentality. If you want your god to be happy, don't watch some shit head 20-something pizza guy do a good deed, get the hell out of your car and do one yourself. Fuckin a, is it that hard to help people these days?

[promiseofthefuture]

Random lady passing by: you all have a blessed day and Jesus loves you

me: aw, its too bad I'm Buddhist

[strawberry--daze]

whenever i pray i try to pray kinda fast otherwise the incense ashes will burn me and thats not cool yo. #buddhistproblems