Maddie

In Buddhism the idea is to not identify with anything. So trying to make ourselves identify with something such as pure awareness is a type of grasping which is the opposite of what the Buddha taught. The Buddha taught letting go. I don't identify as a woman as the culmination of a goal but simply because that's where I happen to be at the moment. I tried to reject this identity and that did not work for me because it was motivated by control which again isn't letting go.

To me personally the idea of identifying with something abstract like "pure awareness" sounds like identifying with "world peace" or "Taylor Swift's guitar". It just doesn't make sense in the real world. Not trying to be mean but it seems like its too abstract to be useful or relatable.

Do the only thing that there is to do, be in the present moment.

Look maybe you were just getting way too metaphysical for me and if you were sincere then I am sorry for suggesting you were a troll. But I don't identify as pure awareness that doesn't even make any sense to me. I identify as a woman. I tried to not identify as a woman for a long time and the longer I tried that the worse my mental health got. Maybe the concepts you are speaking about are just too out there for me to relate to. Maybe you can explain what you mean by identifying with pure awareness because I have no idea what this is? ** I live stream a lot and get bombarded by trolls asking cheeky questions if that helps to put things into context.

May I ask you what you identify as? Is there a pure awareness restroom in public I wonder? 🤔

I think that was an excellent assessment of what is probably going on.

Yes this exactly

Ok so maybe you don't mean it this way, maybe you do, but this is the point where it no longer seems like a legitimate question and more like a back door challenge to transgenderism being a legitimate thing. I literally just gave you the textbook definition of gender, and your reply is no that's not right, don't you really want to know the truth. So tell me Salvijus, what is the truth according to you, lets just get this over with and state your actual agenda.

Typically its society that defines gender. https://www.who.int/health-topics/gender#tab=tab_1

I'm probably going to regret this, but what honest, sincere question do you actually have?

Yeah for real lol. Actually I think what I'm surprised about more isn't that there was a troll but it's that there's a few other people that don't seem to see it and I thought it was very obvious?

I think we're witnessing some inner Nungali ego dialogue LOL

I'm sorry you don't feel comfortable to post anymore as I do enjoy your presence, but as a trans person I have to deal with trolls on a regular often daily basis (I live stream regularly) and I do know how to spot them. I was going through his posts and I noticed that he wasn't really asking questions. He was making statements. Nevertheless I think its unfortunately that you don't feel comfortable posting here any longer, but if you do change your mind I am always happy to interact with you here :-).

This type of gaslighting is stereotypical troll behavior.

It's not the fact that he was making transphobic statements (he didn't really ask questions) that tipped me off that he was a troll. It was the gaslighting once it was pointed out that what he said was offensive. This is a distinguishing characteristic of a troll.