700 club, finally....(nt)

What do you do for a living?

We must help you escape!

What does your username indicate?

:hi:

:scared:

Did y'all think I drank the kool-aid and joined Pat Robertson's 700 club?

Wow, I really haven't posted in the Lounge for a while, I thought everyone knew that the "700 club" meant someone who had reached the 700 mark in their posts.

People used to call it the "700 club", in jest!

:P you are in 'the 700 club' :rofl:

I was formerly known as barking_23 and after the election many of us here changed our screen names. As you can see, I don't post a lot, and the offer was made (after the election) for people to change their screen names.

I chose "vajraroshana", because I'm Buddhist, and the name is Sanskrit and refers to aspects of esoteric Buddhism. "Vajra" is 'indestructible essence of mind', also 'lightning' and 'diamond'. And "roshana" means 'rage', 'furious'. Part of esoteric Buddhism has the idea that 'rage' isn't always negative; it can be an aspect of clarity when it's connected to 'justice'. Or just seeing things very clearly. Sometimes anger isn't a negative emotion, it's just seeing things very clearly.

That's the way I felt when I chose that screen name. Perhaps, in retrospect, it's a bit pompous. Oh well, I don't want to change it again.

I think it represents the way I felt after the last election, and continues to resonate with the way I feel. Anger and rage can be negative and totally self-destructive (and other-destructive as well), but, at least according to esoteric Buddhism, you can use that energy for your own clarity for compassionate ends, as long as it's not selfish. Very dangerous energy, they say, but nevertheless, powerful. I guess an easier way to say it is the way 'Rage Against the Machine' says it :"Anger is a gift!"

:hi:

If you don't mind me asking: Do you practice Vajrayāna buddhism?