Hi Michelle,

I had the same thing, when I created my profile it already had a picture. My friend told me that was because I had created an avatar through another site (I can’t remember which one it was but it was a generic one that uses this avatar for some other places that are connected to it; it might have been Gravatar). Tiny Buddha must somehow connect to this. I just uploaded a different picture, as you did to cover the one that was automatically there. Perhaps if you can remember if you created an avatar somewhere with the picture that popped up automatically you may be able to disable it.

Hope this helps and welcome to the Tiny Buddha forums 🙂
Helen

Hi Michelle,

I’m 28 and single with a marriage breakup and another relation breakup. I wish to work in Canada; and wanted to know how easy/difficult it is to manage being single and live alone in Canada?

I’m currently in India and work in an IT company.

Thanks, Stay blessed !

Lots of positivity to you.

Hello,
I want to introduce myself. I am a 60 year old Japanese American living in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. I have embraced some of the Buddhist-like concepts and practices of compassion, living in the present moment, acceptance of What Is, meditation. I am not a student of Buddhism and don’t care to study or delve deeply into the philosophy of it.

I have read Jack Kornfield, Pema Chodron, Mark Epstein, and Sharon Salzberg who are Buddhists. I think of Buddhism as a philosophy of living rather than a religion.

I like the Dalai Lama quote which epitomizes my approach: “This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.”

I am working on figuring out how to transition in being a life coach full time. My website is http://www.markwillhelp.com.

I close my messages with “metta” which means “loving kindness.”

Mark