wolfcrap

First off Buddhism is not a religion... most people chalk it up to the god worshipers but its not. Buddha was a regular man from a wealthy family who upon leaving his rich home and basking in the sadness and poverty surrounding him in the real world he was shocked and slowly at first but rapidly in later years found a way to enlightenment. His golden statues are nothing more than shiny gravestones, we pay homage to the memory of a great man. Not worship but merely respect the dead so to speak. Like visiting your grandma's grave every year only done on a daily basis.

And overall its simply a life of morality and existing in a turn the other cheek lifestyle. Mind you thats a little over simplified but then again this is a blogpost on SG...

I've begun to study Buddhism and certainly would like to call myself a buddhist but I am far too aggressive in nature in my opinion to even close enough to say that and believe it myself. I'm working on it at least, and at the same time attempting to learn things out of the norm. I'm tired of the same lifestyle the same broken existence that makes us all bored sheep. Its odd learning to throat sing, and at times embarassing because it isn't a regular everyday "American" thing. I've always been ashamed to even call myself one... more and more I'm flooded with the overwhelming ignorance of the common man. I don't want to go to bars and try to get laid, or go to the new hot spot to spend more money than I make to look like the rest of us trying to look like we're something better. It just seems so pointless..

I want to learn my liuqin and sit out back and play made up songs that no one will hear again. I want real people to sit around my fires out back and shoot the shit with me and even get in each other's faces in a heated debate only to end it with a little more understanding of each others views.

Not to say I don't have some of that already.. I just am tired of only being able to get so close to people and not being able to grow closer. Strengthen bonds... its like only deeply engulfed in love can you ever attain that closeness but its not true. I mean its so easy to grow close to someone. Never understood why soo many people close up and shut down their trust. Is that really what we've become?

Anywho I hope you all the best in life, I certainly am glad I can occasionally come on here and see the body in positions that truly define an artform versus just a tit shot or a spread eagle. I really mean that. I've seen alot of wonderful photos on this site that just define the human body as an entity of beauty. So to most of the models out there... thank you, thank you for just being you, and sharing yourself and all your beauty to all of us.