Challenges you have been blessed with?

[Plenum]

I would respond, but then you'd just modify your original post to change the question. So why bother?

When have I done this, Zenmaster?

you learn by stating an opinion, and then seeing the response to it.

the flow of time in this experience is seeing what happens when you try something. Others too, can learn from seeing the flow of interaction.

editing, in fact, and editing the past is a misunderstanding of the process.

you mentioned here that you felt 'shame'. Editing out that shame is a lack of acceptance. What was done was done, and what was said was said. It just asks for forgiveness.

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in regards to the original question, one of the main challenges I've faced in this incarnation is being born an outsider, in the sense of being a racial outsider during childhood. I grew up Asian in a very white neighbourhood, and while things have changed massively in terms of demographics in the last 15 years, during the first half of my life the almost expected rejection by race was something that was most challenging and confronting to my sense of self. One of the consequences of this sort of childhood was the development of a strong will on my part, almost defiantly, and a cultivation of personal identify under the threat of the outsider label. I see myself as a bit of a 'forerunner' in challenging the racial dynamics of the region in which I grew up.

while not rare, by all means, in different parts of the world, this racial confrontation challenges the level of acceptance in the prevailing society.