Saturday 8 June 2024

Post No. 2,802 - The main benefits of Buddhism for me ...

 ... was that, as a teenager, the fundamental coercive tool of social conditioning, which is that I must please parents and other figures with coercive power (teachers, etc) by going along with what they thought was desirable / worthy / “right” / “proper” - that there was an alternative, a broader worldview-based, ethically sound, logical approach to life, one based on spirituality, compassion, and growth / service / stewardship. 

Everything, including a vocabulary to fight the coercive social conditioning and a life direction, flowed from that. 


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Remember: we generally need to be more human being rather than human doing, to mind our Mӕgan, and to acknowledge that all misgendering is an act of active transphobia/transmisia that puts trans+ lives at risk & accept that all insistence on the use of “trans” as a descriptor comes with commensurate use of “cis” as a descriptor to prevent “othering” (just as binary gendered [men’s and women’s] sporting teams are either both given the gender descriptor, or neither).

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