My last girlfriend was a Thai ladyboy. We lived together for 2 years in Koh Samui. She had no facial hair at all. and never shaved. She also had nice natural boobs. She told me she started taking a female contraceptive pill from when she was about 12 years old. It certainly worked for her. Maybe it won't work for westerners with thicker/stronger facial hair ?

The fundamental problem is that most people confuse perception with reality. Carl Jung: 'Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens'. Everyone sees the MANY OUTER, esp' the self, as real. Until they eventually Awaken and realize the ONE INNER, Consciousness, to be real.

You are your inner, not your outer. We are all constantly conditioned, from infancy until death, to see ourselves as our outer, the self, rather than our inner, and thus as separate. An illusion created by the ego-mind, and also a psychological prison.

You write that when you discover who you are, your individuality or ego, it give you a life. It does NOT give you a life. It is the beginning of your dreaming that you are your outer or self. A mere mental construct, and a psychological prison. To discover who you really are you have to let go of the dreaming ego-self. If you manage to do this you will realize that you are your inner or consciousness. It's what Buddhists call anatta, which translates as non-self. They call consciousness Buddha-nature.

Everyone sees THE WORLD (the outer) as real. Until they eventually Awaken, and realize CONSCIOUSNESS (The Inner) to be real. And the world merely Maya.

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I don't know what that Vietnamese Buddhist monk is talking about. The core belief in Buddhism is that the individual self is an illusion or delusion. To realize this simple truth is called Anatta, which translates as non-self or no mind in Zen. Separateness is merely a creation of the ego-mind, a mental construct. I could go on, but I would probably be feeding pearls to swine. As Carl Jung said: 'Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, Awakens'.