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Re: What do you think of modern movies?
True and I agree with you that women need to be able to see themselves in the hero role, but I think modern movies are very unrealistic in the archetypes they choose to cast women hero’s in. To cast a woman hero in the same mold as a male hero, punching and kicking, just isn’t true to what most female hero’s are like.
It says that to be a hero you need to be a kick-ass fighter, that combat is the only measure of conflict or is the way to raise tension in a story. I think that that is lazy writing. If you look at most ancient mythology, female hero’s tend to be figures of gentle wisdom.
The Captain Marvel story was an example of a character given extraordinary powers within the Marvel Universe, only to prove massively unpopular with the fan base. The fans like their hero’s flawed and complex, like Iron Man or the Hulk.
Jeroen
Re: Top 5
My top 5 quotes
"A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.' John Stuart Mill
"He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them. But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion... Nor is it enough that he should hear the opinions of adversaries from his own teachers, presented as they state them, and accompanied by what they offer as refutations. He must be able to hear them from persons who actually believe them...he must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form.” John Stuart Mill
"Where would I find enough leather to cover the entire earth? But with the leather soles of my sandals, it is as if the whole world has been covered. Likewise, I am unable to restrain external phenomena, but I shall restrain my own mind. What need is there to restrain anything else?" Shantideva
"Everything is a balance, and the problem is, is that because conditions change you have to be continually rebalancing." ~Dan Carlin
"There's a difference between knowing the path, and walking the path" Morpheus, The Matrix
person
Re: "Buddha's Teachings" - in 1,000 years, how will they know?
"Buddha's Teachings" - in 1,000 years, how will they know?
Like this:
- as we squash, so does a karmic freedom unfold
- as the river narrows, even if to dryness, it is still crossed
- it us who are authentic or true to our understanding. You will always touch the ground. Even if the Buddha or his following are all goners.
Unsurprisingly they are full of quotes that are not from recognized teachings but are mostly just self-help nuggets.
Ah ha. Yum. Nuggets [lobster drooling...]
...here's some
lobster
Re: "Buddha's Teachings" - in 1,000 years, how will they know?
@Jeroen said:
But perhaps online archives like Access To Insight will stay the course and provide the authentic words of the Buddha to LLMs.
Yes, but how many times, over the last 2000 years was that text copied, recopied, translated, annotated and copied?
ETA: Let's not forget that the Dharma was a purely oral tradition for how many centuries before it was codified?
Authentic? The word is meaningless.
Re: Top 5
Top 5 Buddhist teachers that have approved my Final and Complete Enlightenment:
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marcitko
Re: Some troubles with new sila efforts
You can think of each difficult interaction as a type of training or sparring. You may lose, but you'll learn something that will prepare you for next time. Being challenged on your views offers incentive to better understand and communicate why you value what you do. What also occurs to me is that similar to martial arts skill the more familiar and skilled one becomes the less forceful one needs to be.
I think this is harder with those close to us, not just due to our history, but if you've been rebuked once it makes it harder to assert yourself later.
Thinking on my own interactions with my mother on something like killing insects. I'll generally just deflect or avoid a confrontation in the moment and continue to act in the way I feel appropriate.
I can relate a bit to your tax conundrum. I work in renovation, while in my experience the roles have kind of been reversed, I get asked occasionally by my customers if I offer a cash discount. I'll just say no, sorry, its all the same to me. This has always been enough though and I've never been challenged on it. My feeling on avoiding taxes is that even if I feel like I'm being taxed too highly, to take action myself, rather than advocating for a lower tax rate, or more tax breaks, is the same as stealing. I think taxes are the dues we pay to live in a civilized society.
Edit: On a bit of reflection I think using "I" statements, talking about how you feel, what you value rather than making a claim about some objective morality helps avoid escalation. So say something like, its important to me to pay taxes or follow the rules rather than "avoiding taxes is stealing!" The first someone may scoff or think you're a fool, but they won't feel threatened like in the latter.
person
Re: "Buddha's Teachings" - in 1,000 years, how will they know?
@Ren_in_black said:
@Jeroen said:
But perhaps online archives like Access To Insight will stay the course and provide the authentic words of the Buddha to LLMs.Your other thread about control reminded me that whatever happens to Buddha's teachings in 1,000 years is what happens, regardless of how much I worry about it. 😄
While this is true and a helpful attitude to take. I think its valuable to also understand we can act in our lives in ways that help preserve the teachings. Something like double checking what you pass on or take in to make sure what you've heard is authentic. You can control that, you can't control the ultimate outcome.
person
Re: "Buddha's Teachings" - in 1,000 years, how will they know?
I remember there being a prophecy in the writings about Maitreya, the next Buddha, that Buddhism would be almost completely forgotten before the next Buddha would come to turn the wheel of Dhamma again.
Jeroen