LipstickKiller wrote:
I know there are a few practising buddhists out there so I am turning to you for some help. I have difficulty interpreting what having autism means from a buddhistic perspective.
You fall into the human trap of categorizing yourself.
LipstickKiller wrote:
More specifically I'm concerned that from a buddhist perspective my search for answers about my own nature and the nature of my suffering (as it relates to AS) is an unhealthy form of grasping. Does having autism mean that I am furter away from being enlightened?
Only you can be in touch with your own true nature by thinking and meditation, and thus find out what you really need (i.e. how to end of suffering). Nowadays, this is very difficult or even impossible due to the impossiblity of peaceful exclusion and privacy. That is why I think monasteries can be very valuable.
LipstickKiller wrote:
Do my problems with relating to other people and difficulty understanding other people's emotion make me handicapped regarding true compassion and leading a life that truly benefits other beings?
In most Buddhism versions: yes; in real, hardcore Buddhism: no. There is no information on YouTube, Internet, nor in published books, nor in public teachings about what I call "real Buddhism" and there is a reason for that...
After thinking and meditating I just mentioned, you will know what other beings are and what interaction means.
LipstickKiller wrote:
I know enough about buddhism to see that to some extent my worries are irrational, as buddhism is all about acceptance and awareness, but I think some examples of viewpoints would help me integrate the scattered parts of myself. (If anything, being diagnosed with AS has caused me to see non-self from a rather painful perspective).
You have a real "self" that you can discover by means of thinking and meditating. There is also a "non-self", this refers to the secular/conceptional you, that does not spiritually/really exist.
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I'm a straight guy, '80s geek, and musician.
As a musical term for sure, "the '80s" imply the late '70s and early '90s. You can think of them as tapers of this golden decade.
22 Apr 2019, 5:30 pm
