shencomix

Listen, I SWEAR I really am a bodhisattva...

Added 2025-08-17 00:56:33 +0000 UTC

Just let me explain. You know how in Tibetan Buddhism, they once identified the new Dalai Lama by presenting a young boy with several items and seeing if he chose the one that belonged to the previous Dalai Lama?? That's because the Dalai Lama is a "bodhisattva," or an enlightened person who has broken the cycle of reincarnation, but decides to reincarnate anyway help others instead of attaining Nirvana for themselves. So, they were trying to find who he reincarnated into.

Anyway, they did that "pick your old item" to me. And I really am a bodhisattva, so I was sitting there are smug, thinking I'd nail it ...

But

BUT I FORGOT!!!!!!!!!

DUDE IT WAS LIKE 3 ALMOST IDENTICAL BRONZE CUPS

IT WAS HORSE SHIT. I HAVE TRULY PLAYED MYSELF WITH THIS FUCKING SECURITY QUESTION.

So, I got the wrong one, and they didn't believe me.

It also didn't help that I'm 26.

And it ALSO didn't help that there's a person who they think is me, currently leading the temple. He's an idiot, but a good natured idiot. He can lead the temple for all I care.

To be honest, I just wanted to reveal myself after all this time to show them the good one can do even when leading a humble life. After all, not everyone has a temple's-worth of resource and virtually limitless time to study scripture, right? So, I guess I wanted to be a little more "relatable" in this reincarnation.

Ah, well. I guess I'll just live normally, and do all the good I can. It's just sad that there isn't MUCH good I can do as just a part-time employee at a convenience store. Or from my 10-viewer gaming streams for that matter.

Right?