I already noted that I don't consider the human personality as a mixture of male and the female substance, as Weininger does. But some Buddhists also believe that to become a Buddha, a men needs to get in touch with his female aspect, a woman with her male. OK, but in any case I don't think that the correct practice should make you homosexual: the trick is to integrate the components properly. And if you meditate by my method, everything fall into place: then you cannot say that you're a man in the classical sense if only because you lose the desire to dominate and no longer worry about your status; on the other hand, you're also not a woman if only because you don't tempt anyone, don't let anyone inside you, and become completely indifferent to what others think of you.

I don't want you to get the impression, from what I wrote, that I see the human personality as a mixture of male and the female substance, as Weininger does. Instead I prefer to think of it as the result of two conflicting desires: the desire to deny the environment (which approximately corresponds to Freud's ego) and the desire to merge with it (which corresponds to id and super-ego.) In particular, the conflict between ego and super-ego is, in other words, the conflict between individual and collective consciousness.

I prefer to talk about bonds, not attachments

It seems that everyone already understands that being attached to things is wrong. But somehow when it comes to attachments to people, especially our relatives and friends, even Buddhists don't dare to call things by their proper names. Therefore, to be clear, I will use the terms 'ties', 'bonds',  instead of 'attachment' whenever possible.

One Wonderful Technique

I continue describing the technique that will allow you to handle your mental problems - if you think you don't have any, perhaps you don't need this practice and this post is a reminder that for that you should already be sufficiently prepared. It's also about why the correct Zen practice is better than psychoanalysis, and in the end, I'll outline in general terms how works the very process of understanding, which would be just pointless philosophizing if in the following posts I weren't be going to give concrete practical recommendations how to have such an experience.