Tag: Buddhist Practice

“I cannot see any way that a Buddhist can support any medical professional doing this” ~ ABN

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From a Buddhist point of view, “identities” (such that there even is such a thing) are to be understood and seen through as being evanescent, “empty,” not deeply real, fundamentally delusional. The Diamond Sutra says:

All conditioned things

are like dreams, like illusions,

like bubbles, like shadows,

like dew, like lightning

and all of them should be contemplated in this way.

For an adult to allow, let alone encourage, a child or adolescent to take “puberty suppressants” or undergo surgery based on an “identity” that is “like a dream” is extremely harmful to both the adult and the child. The “doctors” who provide these services are profoundly mistaken. They are playing with the beautiful minds of vulnerable young people whose brains are nowhere near fully developed. Interfering with the natural course of their development while encouraging the mental illness of their parents are deeply wrong actions based on pride and ignorance. I cannot see any way that a Buddhist can support any medical professional doing this. ABN

EXCLUSIVE: Leaked files expose how U.S. pediatricians accuse their own professional body of pushing a ‘harmful’ drugs-first approach on trans teens — and of deliberately BLOCKING moves to change the rules

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  • DailyMail.com obtained leaked files that expose how rank-and-file pediatricians are slamming their academy for pushing puberty-blocking drugs on teens who identify as transgender
  • The American Academy of Pediatrics causes ‘great harm’ with drug cocktails to youngsters, member says 
  • Top youth medical body pushes ‘unsafe and unsustainable’ policies based on ‘scant and shoddy’ evidence, says another
  • New AAP rules blocked a resolution calling for a policy rethink at annual meeting in Chicago
  • AAP says its policies are evidence-based, widely accepted, subject to review, and best bet for vulnerable teens
  • Critics say the academy has bowed to pressure from ‘young activist doctors’  
  • Did you suffer from bad transgender care? Email James.Reinl@mailonline.com
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Good article, worth reading. Looks like another medical fiasco of control from the top through censorship and intimidation. Top-down control is what corralled one million US doctors into covid obedience. In Buddhism no mundane “identity” is inherently real in itself. All of them are empty, devoid of self or “own being.” Thus medically changing your body to “correct” it to fit an ephemeral notion of “identity” is on its face an egregious mistake, an act of delusion with potentially very serious consequences. To encourage a young person to take harmful medication or to undergo destructive surgery to fulfill a delusive fantasy of this sort is not right. For a doctor to do this, worse for a pediatrician to do this, is a grave act of malpractice especially when the AAP is deliberately avoiding public, transparent, scientific debate on this very serious matter. ABN

Sundance is not only a great analyst, he is also a generous spirit

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Several people, some very influential people, have written or made contact asking permission to extract the Four-Part series I wrote, updated and posted yesterday. A few want to put the articles into a published format of some sort.  My response, go for it.

Everything I research, write and share is free for the taking.

Download it into a pdf form, modify the internal citations as footnotes, proofread, add, subtract, modify it, change the language, simplify it, do whatever you want to make it your own in whatever format suits your needs. No attribution or citation is needed.

This is a battle to save our nation from a corrupt enterprise. I put no parameters on any tool or intellectual weapon you may find of benefit. That just isn’t me.  Those who have been around a while know where I stand…. which is right next to anyone who is in the fight.  Getting the message out is the urgent and important part; how it arrives, is of no issue for me.

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A true artist! ABN

“I’m trying to make up for my mistakes which is honoring the medical ethics I subscribe to, which is helping the patients first” ~ Dr William Bay

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The sooner the better, but it’s never too late to come clean, admit mistakes, apologize, and make amends for them. This is basic to Buddhist practice and all reasonable ethical systems. I applaud this doctor and hope to see many more like him. We can forgive you but the first step must be yours. ABN

To readers of ABN

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ABN has gained many more readers since coverage of covid and other matters became of more pressing importance. They still are more pressing since our very existence as a free society is at stake.

That said, please do your best to understand and practice FIML with your spouse or best friend. FIML is a life-changing practice that will reveal the building blocks of both of your makeups in a most wonderful way.

Positive change through FIML is easy in the sense that each building block is small. Being small, they are easy to analyze and not difficult to accept if we see we are in the wrong. This promotes rapid incremental transformation for the better.

A little change here, a little change there, patterns are recognized and rather easily transformed into something much more adaptive, real, appropriate for your lives. No theory or concept of personality is necessary. No training in psychotherapy is necessary.

The simple dynamic of FIML done honestly and in friendship will help both of you feel much better and be much more authentic to yourselves. FIML is a process, a dynamic method. It has no other content save what you bring to it. ABN

An image that illustrates the value of FIML practice

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FIML practice is like JWST compared to normal interpersonal speech, which is like Hale at best. Like the telescope, FIML is a technical advance that allows for much greater clarity and resolution. In Buddhist terms, FIML is partner-based mindfulness that provides an objective control on understanding in addition to much better clarity. ABN

Animism

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Animism (from Latin: anima, ‘breath, spirit, life‘)[1][2] is the belief that objects, places, and creatures all possess a distinct spiritual essence.[3][4][5][6] Potentially, animism perceives all things—animals, plants, rocks, rivers, weather systems, human handiwork, and perhaps even words—as animated and alive. Animism is used in the anthropology of religion, as a term for the belief system of many Indigenous peoples,[7] especially in contrast to the relatively more recent development of organised religions.[8] Animism focuses on the metaphysical universe, with specific focus on the concept of the immaterial soul.[9]

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“The most unpopular opinion I’ll ever do”

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This is the heartbreaking reality of what the woke activists have done to our community with their push to sexualize & indoctrinate children. So many of us feel this way. Had we known this is what our fight for equality would have led to, we wouldn’t have fought for it at all 💔

Incredible and raw video from our newest contributor, Carol. You can find her on TikTok and Instagram.

Originally tweeted by Gays Against Groomers (@againstgroomers) on July 17, 2022.

The Buddha made rules for monks and nuns ad hoc, to address something that had happened or was happening. In the video above Carol says: “If I had known… I never would have.” I think that is a very good basic formula for how to draw the line on behaviors that have gone too far. Carol states it very eloquently, in a fine example of controlled brevity. “If we had known better… we would never have agreed to that.” This is a good way to assess public policies that have not worked for us and figure out how to improve them. ABN

Classic, shameless

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Incidentally, shame in Buddhism is considered essential for the cultivation of wisdom for without shame we do not recognize our own mistakes and learn from them. It is not right to dwell on shame, but feel it and contemplate it long enough to fully mend your ways. Rather than pretend there is no hypocrisy in her words, Ardern would do better for herself and others to simply admit her mistakes, take her lumps and move on. ABN

Easy and hard problems in Western civilization and how to solve them

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First the easy ones:

  1. Global warming. The earth is warming somewhat, CO2 may be involved, so might other factors like deep ocean warming. Solution for CO2 is build many more nuclear reactors.
  2. Immigration. Should be much less.
  3. Transgender surgeries for children should be banned. Trans drugs for children probably should be banned. I am not sure even adults should be allowed trans surgeries.
  4. Teaching sex stuff to young children; having drag queens perform in schools should be banned. Teachers who engage in this should be fired and lose licenses if offense is egregious.
  5. Critical race theory in K-12 schools either practiced or taught should be banned, teachers fired as above.
  6. Oil and gas in USA—drill as much as needed until nuclear can easily take over.

Most people can more or less agree on the above, even stated as bluntly as that. These and other simple issues are purposely made complex or stated as ideals to confuse people so advocates/activists can rake in the money.

The hard problems:

  1. General religious agreement. The West is not going to be saved by Christianity. The West should be open to all good religions, including atheism.
  2. General political agreement. The West has a long tradition of individualism and law-based social controls. This is an excellent core for Western civilization.

These two hard problems are difficult because they involve highest level beliefs/values. My proposal for these is put them together. The result will be a Western “religion” or “culture” that accepts individual rights in a law based social system that respects all religions that can accept this synthesis.

Girl, 17, who transitioned back from a boy reveals how puberty blockers and surgery have ‘irreversibly and painfully’ ruined her body as she backs Florida law blocking medical interventions

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2016: Chloe said that she became exposed to transgender activism at age 11 on Instagram and Tumblr which influenced her thinking on her own gender.

2018: At age 14, Chloe began taking puberty blockers and testosterone injections, that were administered by her mother. That same year she begins going by the name Leo.

June 2020: Chloe goes under the knife for the first time at 15 when she has a double mastectomy

Almost immediately, she regrets the surgery as she was confined to her bed for that summer as she healed from her surgery

May 2021: Following a biology class during which she came to the realization that she would never be able to feed her baby, Chloe said that she stopped taking testosterone injection

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Pretty much any hard-held identity is delusional in Buddhism. I do not see any way a Buddhist can honestly support surgical or hormonal transgender treatments on children, who obviously are too young to make these decisions for themselves. Not sure I see any reason to support treatments like these for adults either. Clinging to any mundane identity is the core delusion of the Second Noble Truth, the truth of the cause of suffering. Sexual orientation alone is not important enough to base an identity on. Surgically or chemically changing your body just to conform to some notion of what your “real” gender identity is is clearly excessive, not the Middle Way. As Buddhists, we do not reject people who do this just as we do not reject out of hand anyone who makes even very serious mistakes. But not rejecting is not the same a condoning or encouraging behavior that furthers delusion and suffering and does not lead toward greater wisdom. ABN

How the unvaccinated were treated in 2021

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You thought the treatment of folks going bare-faced in 2020 was intense? Wait until you see how unvaccinated people still wearing a mask – in good faith and according to CDC guidelines – are ostracized as dangerous pariahs in 2021.

[For Buddhists, this and virtually all things covid illustrate the First and Second Noble Truths with exquisite clarity. ABN]

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