01-19-2017, 10:48 PM
Interesting, I always found the image of buddha just being this fat man a little strange. Even worse I come across something, I don't even remember what it was suggesting that a fat stomach was healthy and the proof was "because buddha has a fat stomach".
WTF... great logic there. Sounds like the Indian type buddha is more my style.
Damn, now that you mention it. I can't say I thought of it but as soon as I read that it made sense. I don't like the whole spiritual 'reject your sex drive' kind of thing. And i've found people who get too spiritual have a very weird vibe about them.
WTF... great logic there. Sounds like the Indian type buddha is more my style.
Quote:In contemporary Western popular culture, the Buddha is commonly portrayed as an androgynous, asexual character, often in a seated meditation posture and wearing a beatific smile. Many (incorrectly) associate the Buddha with Hotei, a corpulent, jolly figure of Chinese Buddhism traditionally viewed as a manifestation of the future buddha Maitreya. Buddhist monks, such as the Dalai Lama, have also become images of normative Buddhism, which is assumed to valorize celibacy and is often portrayed as rejecting gender categories (at least in theory).
Damn, now that you mention it. I can't say I thought of it but as soon as I read that it made sense. I don't like the whole spiritual 'reject your sex drive' kind of thing. And i've found people who get too spiritual have a very weird vibe about them.
