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what do you want to be called??

CelebrinCelebrin
edited July 2006 in Buddhism Basics
what do you want to be called??

i think names are worthless for summing up anything.. i find the term buddhist annoying.. as well as my own name..

i find i don't really see anything in my name or any name anymore.. kinda feel likes loosing indivuality.... but it never really existed in the first place

so just for fun what would you like to be called?

I suppose.. Corebrin Eko.. weird sounding huh?.. i might think of a new one later lol

Comments

  • federicafederica Seeker of the clear blue sky... Its better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubt Moderator
    edited June 2006
    I'd stick to halves if I were you...

    Fede.
  • CelebrinCelebrin
    edited June 2006
    halves? who wants 1 name eh
  • CraigCraig
    edited June 2006
    I call myself me or I.
  • colleencolleen
    edited June 2006
    hey id be happy if someone just called me.
  • WindwalkerWindwalker
    edited June 2006
    Call me Ishmail :)
  • federicafederica Seeker of the clear blue sky... Its better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubt Moderator
    edited June 2006
    Ok, Celebrin, or thread-starter, or initial poster, or whatever..... let's give up names and labels altogether..... where to next?

    Talk about something - anything you like - without use of any labels at all.... see how you get on.....

    Your time starts.........






    NOW.
  • JasonJason God Emperor Arrakis Moderator
    edited June 2006
    Corebrin Eko,

    I'd personal go for Valentinez Alkalinella Xifax Sicidabohertz Gombigobilla Blue Stradivari Talentrent Pierre Andri Charton-Haymoss Ivanovici Baldeus George Doitzel Kaiser the Third.

    Love and peace,

    Vash
  • federicafederica Seeker of the clear blue sky... Its better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubt Moderator
    edited June 2006
    ......"The Third".......??!

    There were two before you?

    And here's me thinking you are the priceless original.....

    Illusion, shot down in flames..... :lol:
  • buddhafootbuddhafoot Veteran
    edited June 2006
    I guess I'd probably go by:

    Buck Naykidd
    Pat McGroyn
    Phil McKraken
    Ben Dover
    Hugh G Rection

    Somethin' like that.

    -bf
  • not1not2not1not2 Veteran
    edited June 2006
    Elohim wrote:
    Corebrin Eko,

    I'd personal go for Valentinez Alkalinella Xifax Sicidabohertz Gombigobilla Blue Stradivari Talentrent Pierre Andri Charton-Haymoss Ivanovici Baldeus George Doitzel Kaiser the Third.

    Love and peace,

    Vash

    I love Trigun. It's been awhile since I've seen it though.

    Love and Peace-u!!

    _/\_
    metta,

    Pat Mahiney
  • CelebrinCelebrin
    edited June 2006
    Vash the Stampede.. yea not1not2 lol its a good name

    and Fede.. hmm u want me to say something of value:

    Do you think that animals have a buddha mind more than humans? the continous calm .. is amazing in some.. they seem completely content with their lives and show us love and affection..

    i came to that conclusion before i even studied buddhism.. I want to be like a cat.. that mindset.. everything is as it is and everythign is as it should be
  • federicafederica Seeker of the clear blue sky... Its better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubt Moderator
    edited June 2006
    But you'd still be a Cat....
  • HannaHanna
    edited June 2006
    I should watch Trigun again.
  • BrigidBrigid Veteran
    edited July 2006
    I'd like to be called darling, sweetheart, little wee lamb, beloved, angel, honey, love, enlightened, nobody, already there, fearless, baby, my girl, nameless, faceless, unknowable, Queen of nothing and no one, servant, but mostly process.
  • buddhafootbuddhafoot Veteran
    edited July 2006
    Don't forget "punkin".

    -bf
  • federicafederica Seeker of the clear blue sky... Its better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubt Moderator
    edited July 2006
    Mr. Rection, how could we forget?
  • BrigidBrigid Veteran
    edited July 2006
    buddhafoot wrote:
    Don't forget "punkin".

    -bf

    LOL!!!! Awwwww! I did forget, silly me! That sure gave me a smile, BF!
  • PalzangPalzang Veteran
    edited July 2006
    buddhafoot wrote:
    I guess I'd probably go by:

    Buck Naykidd
    Pat McGroyn
    Phil McKraken
    Ben Dover
    Hugh G Rection

    Somethin' like that.

    -bf


    You forgot Buster Hymen.
  • PalzangPalzang Veteran
    edited July 2006
    It's weird, but ever since I got ordained and got the name of Palzang (actually Thubten Rinchen Palzang, but that's too much of a mouthful), when I dream, my name is always Palzang, even if I'm dreaming about when I was young or whatever. Strange, eh? Must be my real name...

    Palzang
  • colleencolleen
    edited July 2006
    my meditation teacher said today when i walked into the room

    "hello yurself"

    i thought that was cool
  • ajani_mgoajani_mgo Veteran
    edited July 2006
    Hmmm... Anyone here believes in the connection between the name and the life of a person?

    Let's see... Perhaps it may just be puberty and teenagehood but ever since I started calling myself Ajani I seem to have had lived my life differently... LOL.

    But of course, if you call yourself Sloth, there's no excuse for having a bad life. Hehe..

    Now try and think of a time where you'd have recognized and seen someone but you didn't know his or her name.. I think labels are not something absolutely necessary but just something society evolved...

    Nowadays I'm into alot of evolutionary psychology and sociology... So I try to link every redundant concept we all have to something that was evolved. Woe to all who think that life is complicated, I'd rather think that life is advanced. :rockon:
  • inthedharmainthedharma
    edited July 2006
    Buddhafoot,
    Those are funny.......I can't help but laugh .........Those are the kind of names my husband would come up with......lol

    I'm sure I shouldn't encourage you.
  • BrigidBrigid Veteran
    edited July 2006
    LOL!! You shouldn't!

    Ajani,

    I have been amazed over and over at the names and professions some people have. Like the podiatrist, Dr. J. E. Foote. I kid you not. He had an office in the town where I went to university. I've seen countless other examples. I wish I could remember more right now. When I see some I'll write them down and post them here.
  • IawaIawa
    edited July 2006
    Celebrin wrote:
    what do you want to be called??

    In time for dinner!
  • SimonthepilgrimSimonthepilgrim Veteran
    edited July 2006
    Brigid wrote:
    LOL!! You shouldn't!

    Ajani,

    I have been amazed over and over at the names and professions some people have. Like the podiatrist, Dr. J. E. Foote. I kid you not. He had an office in the town where I went to university. I've seen countless other examples. I wish I could remember more right now. When I see some I'll write them down and post them here.

    We had a local rabbi who was also a very fine counsellor specialising in work with 'gender dysphoria': transsexuals. His name was (I kid you not) Ivor Willey!
  • BrigidBrigid Veteran
    edited July 2006
    OMG!! LMAO!!
  • JerbearJerbear Veteran
    edited July 2006
    We had a urologist at a hospital I worked at named Richard Tapper. He prefferred to be called Dick.
  • federicafederica Seeker of the clear blue sky... Its better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubt Moderator
    edited July 2006
    My now deceased father in law was an RAF pilot in WWII.... Lovely chap...
    There was a person working on his base, whose name was De'Ath....
    he delighted in answering the telephone -

    "Flight Squadron 729 - Medical room - DEATH speaking.....!"
  • BrigidBrigid Veteran
    edited July 2006
    OMG! LOL!! Dick Tapper and Mr. Death in the medical room!
  • inthedharmainthedharma
    edited July 2006
    Or how about the famous Olympic swimmer.............Her name is Ada Kok.
  • BrigidBrigid Veteran
    edited July 2006
    NO! Really? Poor, poor woman!
  • inthedharmainthedharma
    edited July 2006
    I know, isn't that terrible............What was that poor girl's mother thinking..........

    Bless her heart!!!! Talk about getting picked on in school, she didn't have a chance.
    I can't imagine bullies could leave that one alone.
  • PalzangPalzang Veteran
    edited July 2006
    There used to be a doctor in a tiny town near our Maryland temple whose name was Dr. Nurse.

    My dad used to work at a local psych hospital, and one time he had to go to the airport to pick up a famous expert on nonverbal communication who was giving a talk at the hospital. His name? Birdwhistle! I kid you not...

    Palzang
  • ajani_mgoajani_mgo Veteran
    edited July 2006
    Haha... I remember an old psychiatrist's joke...

    Here comes four women with their children, and a psychiatrist carefully scrutinizes them all...

    He starts, "All of you here have obsessions!!!"

    He walks up quickly to the first woman and says, "You! Obsessed with eating! Look! You have named your daughter Candy!"

    He then continues to the second woman.

    "You have a serious drinking problem! You even named your daughter Brandy!"

    To the third he shouts, "You have a serious obsession with earning money all the time... See? You named your daughter Penny!"

    At this time the fourth lady prompt stands up before the psychiatrist could walk to her, and very calmy she tells her son...

    "Come, let's go home now, Dick."

    :crazy:
  • harlanharlan
    edited July 2006
    I've changed my mind. I think I'd like to change my sign on from 'harlan' to 'skydancer'. That is, after reading this essay on dakinis. ;)

    http://www.keithdowman.net/essays/woman.htm
  • SimonthepilgrimSimonthepilgrim Veteran
    edited July 2006
    harlan wrote:
    I've changed my mind. I think I'd like to change my sign on from 'harlan' to 'skydancer'. That is, after reading this essay on dakinis. ;)

    http://www.keithdowman.net/essays/woman.htm

    "Skydancer" is beautiful. And it is a name that resonates across many spiritual myth systems. Wonderful.
  • PalzangPalzang Veteran
    edited July 2006
    Other translations of khandro (Tibetan for dakini, which is Sanskrit) are sky-goer and wind-walker. "Kha" means "sky", and "dro" means "to go". Feminine wisdom beings who bring assistance to Tantric practitioners.

    Palzang
  • SimonthepilgrimSimonthepilgrim Veteran
    edited July 2006
    Palzang wrote:
    Other translations of khandro (Tibetan for dakini, which is Sanskrit) are sky-goer and wind-walker. "Kha" means "sky", and "dro" means "to go". Feminine wisdom beings who bring assistance to Tantric practitioners.

    Palzang

    "Skywalker"?
  • PalzangPalzang Veteran
    edited July 2006
    Yes, could also be that. Then the force would really be with you!

    Palzang
  • SimonthepilgrimSimonthepilgrim Veteran
    edited July 2006
    I always thought that Luke was prettier than the Princess.
  • PalzangPalzang Veteran
    edited July 2006
    At least he didn't have sticky buns stuck on the sides of his head!

    Palzang
  • YogaMamaYogaMama
    edited July 2006
    "sticky buns" - LOL!!!
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