Which Buddhist Personality Type Are You?
Greedy, Aversive, or Deluded? Find out with this guide—and quiz!—from AMITA SCHMIDT.
”You must be a Deluded type,” said my retreat dishwashing partner. “I can tell by the way you’ve loaded the dish drainer.”
I glanced at my dish drainer with its skewed plates, a glass perched on top of a pot, and serving spoons stuck at odd angles. It looked like a circus balancing act. Next to it was the dish drainer he had stacked before me. His dishes were meticulously in line from smallest to largest, glasses were in a particular place and order, and everything looked as if it could be hermetically sealed in plastic and sent as a compact UPS package.
Comments
Oy veh
John: Food for the greedy conceptual mind. Just the kind of nano-narcissism from which I'm struggling to liberate myself.
KISS: Keep it simple, Sanghamates.
:-)
John
Buddhist personality types
Any kind of structuring is useful to me. I try to get value from these approaches, since there is often something I can relate to. (It helps pierce the delusion of terminal uniqueness, transcendence and superiority). Accuracy is less important, since it is so subjective. I particularly appreciated the "spiritual tasks" - have used them as starting points for journal writing, and they've borne fruit in some creative and satisfying directions. Thanks for doing the work on this and sharing it.
Buddhist personality types quiz
I got 3 B's and 10 C's but I was pretty clueless and felt there were no right and honest answers for me. Is clueless the same as deluded/speculative? I think I'll take the Zen approach and laugh at the quiz this evening to wake up tomorrow counting my blessings, deluded or not, as Dalai Lama exhorts us to do.