Blake: Now available with less fluff.

[LordShiva]

But teh Buddha never cut his hair or shaved.

[Krill]

Copy cat.

[Lancer]

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

[Asher]

You look SO CREEPY. IT IS PERFECT FOR YOU.

[Blake]

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.

[EPW]

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.

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?

[Wiglaf]

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.

[Riesstiu IV]

You know who else shaves heads? Nazi skinheads.

[Blake]

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.

[Aeson]

I shaved my head again a while back. It's fun to do from time to time. Never shaved my eyebrows though.

[Maniac]

Re: Blake: Now available with less fluff.

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?

[Kidlicious]

Originally posted by Lorizael
Maintenance is required whether you have hair and eyebrows or you don't. I don't understand the point of such a silly superficial change.

Yep. I had my head shaved for a year or two. Then I got too lazy. Now I just have fuzz.

[EPW]

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.

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Riesstiu IV
You know who else shaves heads? Nazi skinheads.

That's the final proof. Buddhism = Nazism.

[b etor]

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.