I’ve Noticed Souvenirs And Stamps With Charles Face Today. Im Really Hoping Bank Notes Won’t Change

原来那位俄国作者讨厌一切欧洲人

发现一个规律，中国人好感普京，会写普京梦女/梦男文和抹布普京文，俄国人好感普京，会写普京攻，还有各种泽连斯基受的文（攻不只普京），俄国人写不写梦女/梦男文我就不知道了。（我最近这是都看了些啥啊

Me, staring at the "Nezha is eternally 12/Nezha is often depicted as a kid so he's just a kid and nothing else" crowd: man, have you heard of Child Manjushri a.k.a. Wenshu Tongzi

(This is totally not an excuse for me to find cool statue pictures and talk iconography)

So, here is Bodhisattva Manjushri in his standard "graceful aristocratic prince" form, riding his azure lion. The statue in the picture doesn't have it, but oftentimes, he'll also be holding a flaming sword that symbolizes wisdom's ability to cut through ignorance and delusions.

This is "Holy Old Monk Manjushri", a variant that I came across a few times while temple-touring, but couldn't find many good online pictures of. It seemed like a thing that was popular around Mt. Wutai, based on the "Buddha-palita met Old Man Manjushri" tale. Sometimes his BFF Samantabhadra is depicted as an old man too, for matching purposes.

And this is Child Manjushri, with his five hair buns, often worshipped in an esoteric context. On Mt. Wutai, there are five major temples atop five peaks, each worshipping a different form of Manjushri, and the "middle peak" temple has a Child Manjushri in their main hall. Like, it's far from the most common variant, but neither is it this super obscure form that no longer enjoys active worship.

Lastly, just for fun: this is Yamantaka, a guardian deity/Wisdom King, who, in Tibetan Buddhism, is believed to be Manjushri's wrathful form.

If you wouldn't call Manjushri "the eternal child Bodhisattva" just because he has a child form, why would you say Nezha is an eternal child when he, too, has both child and adult forms?

Even though Nezha's child form is vastly more popular and well-known than Child Manjushri, I think my point still stands: A deity is capable of having multiple manifestations, of varying ages and appearances, each fulfilling a particular function and niche——none of which is the "One True Form TM", just different clothes they wear based on occasions and audiences.

To stretch the analogy a little, Manjushri's child form is the formal dress he puts on before attending a religious event, while Nezha's child form is the lotus T-shirt he wears a lot while appearing on TV, to the point it becomes his most iconic attire.

This doesn't mean he only has a single shirt, for goodness sake, and using his child form as evidence for the "eternal child" claim is like saying Nezha's only allowed to wear that one shirt and nothing else.

我的心仍旧会被这种事情割伤

是好文明

但“台湾女权高涨”就很......

只是脑海闪过有关《黑暗中漫舞》的念头就本能地要避开心痛

This is what my parents did when I was a kid. I got so frustrated and annoyed because all the mental preparation for going out just went to waste. Now they are going to visit and I’m making all the plans. Don’t know if I could manage them successfully!

可能比6月更早

到底有没有一家ktv歌单里面有《心甘命抵》，我已经从6月忍到现在了

听到《生命树》意识到小林还是有写得好的歌的 这首就很顺呀

friends and partners have asked me before why i need to show them so many movies and so many songs and so many books and why i wax poetics for so long and i have to explain hi hello these were my only companions for so long, this is where i learned how to love, this made my heart sing, this brought me such joy and understood my sadness and held me so tenderly, i need to show you because it’s a part of me it’s a piece of me, it understands me in a way i want you to understand me, it’s one of the ways i can tell you i trust you with this strand of my dna, i offer these pieces of me to you because i love you.