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Hence the split.
Hence the split.
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Hi i shave my head all the time as you can see from my photo it's a great feeling when the razor goes over your head and i have had it shaved bald for ten years now there' nothing like it.
@Marcus- I'm almost 41 and I started buzzing my hair off when I was 26 or 27. I did it because I wanted my appearance to be consistent and unpredictable with zero effort. My hair was pretty short already, and I still spent too much time paying attention to it. Paying attention to my hair made me feel vain- and although I hadn't started thinking about Buddhism, I was already aware that vanity is a prison.
My friends didn't care. My wife, who was my girlfriend at the time, didn't really like it and still doesn't... but we've been married 8 years as of yesterday.
It had the exact desired effect. I tried to grow it out to a normal length earlier this year to be nice to my wife, but I had no idea how dramatic my bald spot is!! Insecurity came back, and I shaved it right off again.
I recommend that anyone tries it. You might benefit from it. If not, hair is a renewable resource, so why sweat it?
oops
I guess you can't fight the system
Of course you can!
(You'd lose, but of course you can!
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It’s interesting, for many people who are now getting a bit older there was a tendency to not cut their hair for spiritual reasons. For example my stepfather walks around with a topknot. I guess these things vary with the generations.
Yes! My ex mother in law commented a few years ago that she didn't like the look of my shaved head and I should have a comb over.
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I haven't had hair in so long I wouldn't actually know what to say if I went into a barber's.
I've been shaving my head for over 23 years and love it. I do have a pretty long beard so you might say that my hair has been lowered.
@Vimalajāti said:
If I went into a barbershop the only thing I would say is "oops, wrong door"
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Also available in the Xtian Sutras:
2 Vanity[b] of vanities, says the Preacher,
vanity of vanities! All is vanity.
3 What does man gain by all the toil
at which he toils under the sun?
4 A generation goes, and a generation comes,
but the earth remains forever.
5 The sun rises, and the sun goes down,
and hastens[c] to the place where it rises.
6 The wind blows to the south
and goes around to the north;
around and around goes the wind,
and on its circuits the wind returns.
7 All streams run to the sea,
but the sea is not full;
to the place where the streams flow,
there they flow again.
8 All things are full of weariness;
a man cannot utter it;
the eye is not satisfied with seeing,
nor the ear filled with hearing.
9 What has been is what will be,
and what has been done is what will be done,
and there is nothing new under the sun.
10 Is there a thing of which it is said,
“See, this is new”?
It has been already
in the ages before us.
11 There is no remembrance of former things,[d]
nor will there be any remembrance
of later things[e] yet to be
among those who come after.
Ecclesiastes 1
Personally being attached to ones little mound with a Brazilian Head, is no different to being a hair freak. Who shaves their eyebrows? Me neither. Fail.