[fectsnanteemy]

You look like Herr Seele.

[littlePen]

[Pharmaciest2007]

People with blue eyes should be prohibited to sunbathe.

[mensforyouthis]

I Think it is a lot more ascetic to never cut your hair.

Do you need to shave your hair off?

JM

[extessarere]

Originally posted by Colon™
You look like Herr Seele. QFT!

Don't eyebrows help keeping water/rain out of your eyes or so? I wouldn't want to lose them.

[QQQQQ-Trek]

I'm thinking of shaving my ass, pics coming.

[hygtfrdes]

http://data76.sevenload.com/i/fc/ej/t80e9vu/kvw.jpg

The only man with a mohawk who's not gay, on chemotherapy, or gay

[CxofxJFm]

But teh Buddha never cut his hair or shaved.

[lalffibra]

Woaha! They're all are kung fu types, watchout!

[aaafluochugh]

LONG before I shaved my head, long before I started talking about Buddhism....
People would ask me if I knew martial arts, were even insistent I did.

God only knows why. Must be a inner-confidence thing.

But what is the "need" for hair? It is for security. Observe what girls do, and you'll understand this. They feel very insecure if their hair looks bad, and they feel a little bit secure when it looks good. So they spend an awful lot of effort on their hair.

But there's a deeper reason to shave off your hair and eyebrows. I could say a lot, but I could also probably just leave it at "Conversation starter".

But one thing I've already noted;
Hair and eyebrows are awfully drippy!!!! Like you're having a shower and when you take your head out from under the shower faucet, you need to wipe the water from your eyebrows to keep it out of your eyes. I was surprised to discover I no longer needed to do that! I'm already happy to be not carrying around a (potentially) soggy mass on my head.

[Adiamant]

LONG before I shaved my head, long before I started talking about Buddhism....
People would ask me if I knew martial arts, were even insistent I did. The ultimate non sequitur.

But what is the "need" for hair? It is for security. Observe what girls do, and you'll understand this. They feel very insecure if their hair looks bad, and they feel a little bit secure when it looks good. So they spend an awful lot of effort on their hair. Just because many girls obsess over hair doesn't mean everyone who has hair overvalues it.

One day you will learn it is possible to be a perfectly good person who understands his limitations and what to value, without subscribing to bullcrap Buddhism and shaving your head and snuffing rock gardens.

[7UENf0w7]

Originally posted by EPW


But you have to shave your head and eye brows often, isn't that more of an inconvenience? And wiping the water off your eye brows takes what, 1 second? Don't mistake fringe benefits for reasons.

[glagoliska]

Originally posted by Blake
Having only what you need, is the way to happiness. So having more than you need, makes you unhappy?


Can I have all your money when you go to the monastery?

[ClapekDodki]

Is it purely symbolic? In ancient Greece and Rome, beards was the symbol of philosophers. They had a practical argument though: 1.God or nature gave us hair for a reason(beards to distinguish males from females, young from old )2. It was hard to shave back then.

They would also argue that even if there were no practical reasons, over the centuries it had become symbol of the philosopher, and this was reason enough to continue the tradition. There was value in symbol

Perhaps people had a lice problem in Buddha's time...but the symbolism stuck through the centuries.

[bDvYaQfM]

Originally posted by Aeson
Never shaved my eyebrows though. i did once. i didn't know about tweezers yet, so i just shaved the top half of my eyebrows off. luckily it was over a summer.

[enurihent]

Buddhists are attention whores. Who else lights themselves on fire.

[Fellionas]

You don't need your pinky fingers either, pinky toes too. And since you're becoming a monk, there's another organ that you don't need.

[pissmanvd]

Originally posted by DaShi
You don't need your pinky fingers either, pinky toes too. And since you're becoming a monk, there's another organ that you don't need. Don't give people bad ideas.

[spapsinee]

Originally posted by DaShi
You don't need your pinky fingers either, pinky toes too. And since you're becoming a monk, there's another organ that you don't need. A very important and central question in Buddhism, asked on issues such as this are:
"Who does it harm? If the answer is no-one, it is okay"

Someone may not need something, but if taking it away from them would harm them, it is not Buddhist kosher to do so. That question can put almost anything into perspective.

[Tyncneiff]

Originally posted by Oerdin


That's the final proof. Buddhism = Nazism. Not just that but also the swastikas.