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**wMceqj7F** · 12-02-2011, 11:38 PM

I honestly want to be attached to the concept of romance.

Hi David,
I second that. It's never stopped me being a Buddhist. Yuan is right about it not being the way you envisage it. Right now you have some idealistic notion of what you would need to be in order to cut it as a Buddhist. Just dump all that - Buddhism isn't about being a squeaky-clean moralistic super-saint. This notion is already so perfect it doesn't need Buddha's teachings.

Buddhism is for real people, who make mistakes, get angry and mess up. Oh yeah, also meet girls, fall in love and have a life.

12-02-2011, 11:38 PM	#9
wMceqj7F Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 478 Senior Member	I honestly want to be attached to the concept of romance. Hi David, I second that. It's never stopped me being a Buddhist. Yuan is right about it not being the way you envisage it. Right now you have some idealistic notion of what you would need to be in order to cut it as a Buddhist. Just dump all that - Buddhism isn't about being a squeaky-clean moralistic super-saint. This notion is already so perfect it doesn't need Buddha's teachings. Buddhism is for real people, who make mistakes, get angry and mess up. Oh yeah, also meet girls, fall in love and have a life.
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