Taiwan same-sex union points toward Asia shift on gay rights

I think the west cries about a lot of shit these other countries don't concern themselves with; but they have their own issues. It's simply that in all my examinations of the various countries of the world, I see America as one of the biggest train wrecks: something like a badly gone wrong experiment in frail-minded fail, full of oversensitive pussies who cry a lot and FUCKING OBSESS over trying to force others to do things. I think both sides do this, but it's a grand and reeking lie that democrats and liberals do it anywhere NEAR as often as conservatives and republicans -- whose PARTY IDEOLOGY is built upon FORCING people to FALL IN LINE, no less. I mean, their very ideology is based upon attempting to *force* everyone to live in one single way, which is why they so tremblingly hate diversity, etc.

Anyway.

There is nothing in buddhism that specifically prohibits anything gay.

And both brides families did not show up for the wedding.I saw it on the six o'clock news.Bo-ho.Now they won't have any in-law problems or otherpeople to buy presents for on birthdays and Christmas.

snyper wrote:

There is nothing in buddhism that specifically prohibits anything gay.

That's because Buddhism is no ordinary religion.. Its pantheistic ideals are as far removed from ugly fanaticism and intolerance as ordinary religions are from the true meaning of the love-thy-neighbor precept..

david traversa wrote:

<quoted text>That's because Buddhism is no ordinary religion.. Its pantheistic ideals are as far removed from ugly fanaticism and intolerance as ordinary religions are from the true meaning of the love-thy-neighbor precept..

Buddhism is not "pantheistic"; at least not the "real" variety. It's a very agnostic phenomenologic psychology; very existential with a functionally pragmatic atheism.

The forms of buddhism that melded and grew with cultures outside of it's origins quickly re-brahminized, and accreted with regional errors. For example, buddhism + brahminism = mahayana. Mahayana + tantric brahminism + local animism = vajrayana. Mahayana + Taoism = Cha'an (zen). Even among the descendent variants of the original form when admixed with common non-buddhist devotionalism created the distinctions between "forest monks" and "city monks".

The five lay precepts (training rules), and the additional five devotee precepts are proscriptive, not prescriptive: I will refrain from taking life; I will refrain from speak that which is untrue, unhelpful or unkind; I will refrain from taking anything which is not given; etc.

Buddhism has no specific prescription to "love they neighbor", but teaches that cultivation of metta (compassionate kindness) is beneficial on a personal level as well as for others. Literally, buddhism has no commandments of any kind. Rather, it has training guidelines geared to the cessation of dukkha (the perception and/or experience of unsatisfactoriness). It offers various sets of guidelines that have been refined for the level of time and commitment of the practitioner.

Just saying.

(For quite a while,

"Anagarika Suvira Saddhu")