Cultural appropriation is complicated. The inspiration for reading this post was getting annoyed at this post on Psychology Today, in which a white lady uses a computer model to explain how creativity works to the savages (the real greedy racists with questionable motives). This is how it opens: I was saddened to learn this morning…
My commitment to atheism is so strong that I didn’t feel comfortable describing myself as Buddhist until fairly recently. It’s not that I didn’t have a Buddhist practice, a shelf full of Buddhist texts, a zafu, a yab-yum statue, and an enso tattoo. It’s that I didn’t want people to get the wrong idea, like…
It’s not that autistic people are unemployable. It’s that they took away the good jobs, like getting high and thinking about god while people feed you because you repent for their sins. Believing that’s good for society is an option, too.
I spent most of the weekend neglecting my body and obsessing over religious topics. Also using up the last of my Chronic Essentials 1:1 THC:CBD oil. Thus, I had to leave the house. It really came to that. Sometimes when I leave the house I’ll be amazed at how many stressful or depressing things happen…
Once I started learning enough about Buddhism to distinguish the different types, I found I liked reading about Soto Zen the most. I generally sit facing a wall instead of the inside of a room, opposite of what I was taught to do at the Rinzai place where I learned to sit. It expresses a…