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i've been asked to speak with evening about women buddhism specifically the role of the experiencing woman has put his practitioner and so i better say some brief
things about that when i have disabled will both entertaining and also useful importantly
in general in the teachings that were spoken by lord buddha which we known collectively as the buddhist tradition fundamentally in their essence there's no specific distinction to be made between men and women the same terms of different kinds of time
the fact that this has become an issue in this particular culture of this particular time t the role of women and what is ending
and womens women's issues as they pertain to the spiritual have is very much a function of the final place in which we live historically when the buddha taught
twenty five hundred years ago in india the cultural situation is quite different and we can see historically of we examine the the social situation that perhaps a great number of reps majority of the people who followed the buddhist teachings and promulgated them women but that was again simply a reflection of the cultural situation at that time they're not so
something that many to regard as inherent in the teachings setting then prejudiced towards one sex on the other ne them funny movie about variations on how called the whole for saw them and warming ramona and know
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in fact the buddha taught for the benefit of sending leagues with benefit of all
and we can see if we examine the historical records in india and other countries that moving to a very strong part even in the monastic are many number is filled with my of course raw wilderness as for the definition of the nuggets
creation of these populations of nuns in notaries played a very important role
in tibet in that tradition that buddhism the vast majority of llamas teachers were men but that doesn't mean that their word balloons teachers they were in fact many in my own school which is known as the soccer school of tibetan buddhism that was a very strong tradition particularly within my family clan is known as the current plan
many of the women who were born into this clan were fine practitioners and teachers in their right of certainly in my school the customers that if a man or with regardless of their sex if they wish to undertake practice and develop themselves spiritually there were no barriers in doing so
in my family the blood lineage play very important part so the sons and daughters of the holders of this lineage and can claim were regarded as potential teachers from the very fact that they were born into that family and the both social and legal
situation in soccer was such that these women in our family were accorded equal status with the mentors of their legal powers in terms of their ability to practice and develop themselves personally and in terms of their ability to act teachers
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as well in the human school most ancient school to them wooded and we find that a number of key historical figures for women one of the most famous who comes to mind was a woman's man whose name was john minimal she was not only regarded as a fine teacher of and also a person who discovered
bring any treasure teachings concealed a reveal conceal her hidden teachings which she revealed from the method for students so while the vast majority of teachers were man and it's not a not the case of the runaway teachers some it isn't here as much about
in the same could be said for the state cardio and the other schools of tibetan buddhism there are if you examine the histories of these calls with a women quite a very important historical role in the transmission of these lineages as well the
mere presence of women practitioners into that was a very strong force in the vitality of in religion women were noted for the sincerity and intensity of their practice
now it's only natural that people in a culture that is new to buddhism begin to wonder about different role models and different stereotypes and sofa and accepting a new religion to their culture and we must remember that buddhism is quite new relatively speaking to this culture and people do not have available
previous experience of its teachings i would suggest to you that if the true spirit of the teachings of lord buddha of are established in his country where there is no fundamental distinction made between whether the practitioner is a woman or man if we approach it from that point of view
oh than the forms of buddhism that will evolve in the west will be once that afford equal opportunity to men and women and we will see women taking as important a role as practitioners and lineage or was has been but we must remember that while there are these social issues to be taken into account fundamentally depends upon
the individual it depends on your own practice whether or not you become qualified teacher over the you become an adept practitioner really is up to the individual to make that decision
for those of you who are seriously pursuing you're seriously interested in pursuing the spiritual path
it's important to remember that and always has to be some name experience directly person
there are certain qualities that are absolutely essential regardless of the particular style or approach her practice as you ploy
and in order to really enter into the spiritual path of liberalism probably sorta the awakening being
the person must develop qualities that are very fundamental qualities about and compassion
it must learn to discipline com their minds to the practice of meditation all of this is something that is not to be learned his theory that sometimes applied directly to your own mind your own heart is experienced as something very direct person
because if you don't begin to cultivate these qualities writing the beginning you don't spend the time and energy necessary to awaken these qualities new salt than without that love without their compassion that that congress the poison on it it is extremely difficult if not impossible for a person to truly give rise to the attitude frame of mind which
is necessary to attain blyton
one of the values of biographies and historical records that existed what is more than they provide us with role models we can see the kind of dedication that was necessary in order for people in the past to attain those qualities in london if we examined the
biographies of great women teachers and the passage of you should forgo minerva
we can see the kind of effort they put into purifying themselves the kind of effort they put into their practice of meditation can see the kind of obstacles they had to overcome the kind of challenges that they have compared to meet and that provides us with inspiration we realized the nature
how the commitment we're undertaking and if we in the west have courage to meet those challenges then if we are women there will be many great moments great jetson months we've been saying for attorneys to reach a great teachers in the west were when it's
the question of whether the individuals can meet that challenge in their own personal frame of reference
the reason why this is a not only a distinct possibility but a certainty in the west is because of an interesting principle that we can see from time of the lord buddha that the teachings of buddhism has tended to adopt certain cultural forms which does not
i mean that the integrity of teachings need be lost but nevertheless as put as a move to a given culture it begins to express itself and work within the cultural framework and in the west because there is a great deal of emphasis in modern times on equality between the sexes and upon a for
in each individual their right to progress or advance as much as their personally capable of doing so we can not only expect but predict with certainty that there will be great by teachers in the west but the mere fact that we can make this prediction doesn't mean it will happen
without that individual effort it's up to individual women to become enlightened than there will be brave women teachers certainly there will be great with the teachers in the west but it is again the get question of the individuals putting the effort into that
instead of continuing at this point jensen crusher says i would like to ask you if you have any personal questions or issues you'd like to discuss i actually find is very rewarding
more than teaching more than talking at people i prefer to and some feedback from and begin to discuss things i don't claim to the ammunition if i don't know the answer don't be surprised to hear me say i don't know because i'm very up front of it that if i don't know i'm not going to pretend that i do but if i do know if i can answer for my own experience and training then
the more than happy to to entertain any questions at this point within a hit
he fact i feel that you'll probably get more out of the talk if rather than just listening to me you actually have a chance to express your own use yet somehow feedback really implies to a person
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the event as i understand another questions without lineages in the west established lineages how is a woman to know when she's qualified the teacher and i guess that is impact from formal structures are more western influences mean an occasional little pony kwanzaa
from from of the traditional lineage and and from another culture and in the air
as i said previously
i going to be used for and
just going to that i said previously buddhism is very new to this culture we have to learn adaptations we can't expect things to establish themselves overnight that's impractical
ah so on one hand we might say well it's very difficult for things to get going immediately on the other hand we can't rule out the possibility
in fact we can't rule out the certainty that there are western lineages in the process of forming we may not have the same kind of obvious signs of lineage in this country that are evident in countries that have had a longer historical association buddhism but there are western lineages forming
there are western long as he used to that in turn them into that inside of buddhism there are western as being trained in retreat centers for example host which are directed by the animal coloring machine new teachers who are from traditional to and settings but are very active in the road establishing west
and lineages through their students to make an hand over the lineage once there are people who are all if i confirmed it will have been trained and empowered in the traditional manner
then we will see not the not too distant future that their arm tangible lineages in the west held by westerners men and women of sancho get cardio england teachings from the to then speed with the that nutrition partitions pointed to you
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but in order for these lineages for for the actual phenomenon lineage and historical lineage to establish itself
it is necessary for the future lineage holder to go through a fairly rigorous training it's also been impractical to expected there are just going to be self or isn't the new choice who will suddenly pop up and establish a brand new lineage it's far more likely to be a process
of the old tradition handing it's knowledge over to the new and making that transition from one culture to another which means that the same processes that we observed in the buddhist india and we observed him what is to that who probably hold true for buddhism in the west and student will go to a teacher a qualified teacher and
she'd empowerment and teaching and direction and through their own practice who come to be worthy and add a certain point of the responsibility of carrying on that lineage and that will be a very individual things that always has been where teacher will assess for or his students men or women and decide who is the most
capable person of maintaining and transmitting them lineage for future generations
so we can't out the possibility of
for example the phenomenon of people in the west who might conceivably be the rebirth of someone who has a a higher grade teacher to bring his lifetime however so called total for incarnation it's conceivable that a woman in this culture could be until you have someone a reincarnation of someone who was a very low
since practitioner in previous lifetime and that such an individual will take would need far less training and someone who hadn't had that background and previous existences but i still think it is important that we recognize and respect the
authenticity and the validity of a process of a student going to teach her receiving guidance empowerment teaching in the tradition man i think of that has played a very important role historically in the transmission of lineage from one culture to one hundred and i think it would west as well
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lineages for women to that do those lineages still exist in lineage holders who are women advices or a great women teachers do they are they still alive and would american women have access to those teachings and could they then carry on that role in american culture said the machine him
the word a great number of integration to that former other people might realize
and the practitioners were very own noted for their level scholastic achievement and also their death of meditative experience in the power of their practice
there was not the formal status and abbess as we might think of it in the west because simply because the on form a hierarchical form or investing someone as an abbess lineage was never brought from india for whatever reason in simply didn't was
i'm transmitted across the minds to tibet so there was not the form formed investiture ceremony of an atlas the way was for habit monastery is didn't mean that there weren't heads of nunnery they had been under he was also a woman and was an extremely fine example of a woman practitioner but the formal invests
signature ceremony was never transmitted stored and for that reason for that reason alone to speak of an abbess is really technically speaking not entirely correct
there will she would have been the head of a nunnery would be something like that but not like a mother superior or and have us not in that formal sense of having a title
it doesn't projects as i myself was a nun in my early life
but i didn't live in a nunnery i actually chose to live in a monastery or rather to take my teachings in the monastery it would have been perfectly okay for me to stay in the monastery but i chose again simply because of my own preferences to practice at home where i lived with my family i would go to the monastery with one other none vast majority of p
people weren't monks were taking these teachings but the two of us would go and we were freely allowed into the monastery and when not denied or or restricted in any way to seeking out teachings and learning her practice so in our particular case we had free as as re access as did all lungs and then i would go back to my house back to my own room in my and
practice there though it would have been perfectly ok in accordance with of legal situation in my region and also with the religious situation for me to stay in the monastery
as far as the status of these none notaries ease and their lineage holders into that i'm afraid i really don't have a lot of indignation since the military occupation fifty nine the situation obviously has deteriorated a great deal from what was before and in terms of exactly
who's is the line which mana none of these are still standing in which many are still ah
expand i'm really not sure i can do a great deal of advice on that level i do know that a number of these women teachers didn't come to india and the several these have either moved to the west or have made tours of the west of western countries
and as far as the status of being a nun or not
doesn't matter said i might offer my own personal attack one longer know i am a placeholder with a husband and children but i'm still permitted ah
to teach and in fact i didn't teach as much as i can i get empowerments are unable to transmit lineage even though i'm no longer formerly invested with the nuns were nation i chose to give that back at a certain point
as far as western women are american women being able to receive these teachings and established these lineages in the country in this country yes definitely and can be done but again if i was a question the if is always whether there are individual women who are willing to undertake the training if there are than
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the managed to either of women practitioners in the lineage years in this country is really a question it does really boiled down to whether the individual women can meet that challenge take the teachings practice in the realization that
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children being raised in the buddhist tradition and beginning young to me are exposed to buddhist teachings and the novel question of the tibetan tradition which revolved merging showing my the monastery of nunnery and for who used to be in training vis-a-vis a situation the west with us
when i might be the main thrust of things will use it possible to establish a context for raising children as buddhists without them being put into the monastery
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in tibet there was a very strong participation on part of the late communities in practice and study but the educational institutions were monsters the child was not sent to a monastery and the child will learn they should be at home
that would be the the method of education and is the person's parents the child's parents who are strong and sincere practitioners in child with the automatically exposed to those values were very early age
in the west i feel that that's very much the way that things are going to develop rather than developing something like a monastery where we send kids to be todd they'll learn in the home and whether we're talking about buddhism judaism christianity and hinduism or whatever his parents are sincere practitioners and
i'll put a great deal of energy and sincerity into their study and practice of their chosen religion then the child stands a very good chance of being exposed or a healthy way and great organic way to those teachings now the problem that we immediately realizes it does not all that many people in this culture
who are all that spiritual a great number of people know nothing whatever about religion couldn't care less and that is the kind of value of their children are exposed to and that's the kind of knives that the child learns to espouse
so i really think in the west is going to be far more a case of parents providing simply new temple in asakusa said i really feel the best kind of example for teaching or investment kind of this way of teaching of it is to provide example without forcing anything upon a child simply to provide a good example garage roma
a child children preaches grow up
whether we're talking about spirituality or just being in the world and very ordinary way if a person has a good roll on to grow up with
and sees that their spears in someone is hypocritical zones challenged superficial the someone who truly is involved in a very intelligent way their religious tradition and the child has agreed and chance of developing those kinds of similar qualities to go out

how is it appropriate to ask get someone to say few words on for being an emanation of duty tara
often told you that i was an emanation of tara she ended up with in petrol oh
if the fisher will i hope you don't think that i'm teaching because i think i'm an emanation because i think of that gives me some kind of special status means i should go around teaching him proclaiming them
i basically teach me as i was told i had to work if you want to know the true
i feel that them
i don't feel i'm particularly special person he said that i had a very fortunate opportunity to meet great teachers receive teaching the practice them and at a certain point my teachers told me that i was ready to teach and they said how in people request teachings you are qualified to give those teachings but following my marriage
with the responsibilities of being a household and raising a family i found i had very little times on my teaching equities came to a halt it's only in recent times that i have received directives from my or as that by should teach and the reason that they have given specifically as because i am a woman i feel that it's extremely important in
west at this time for women especially among for everyone in the west to understand that there are women teachers that women can practice do practice to do becoming like him
that is perfectly possible for a woman any woman as well as any man to follow they a is in her hand attain realization so i don't teach because i think i realized i don't think that they didn't teach because i think i'm tara i teach because my girl told me to and i try to all at my girl tells me to do that it's concerns on the
rather important especially if audrey on buddhism where the relationship between student and teacher or girl is a very crucial her important one
and if your girl with whom you have this intimate relationship tells you to do something you try your best to carry out their instructions and as you realize that they have your best interests and other people's best interests at heart
so because of mine connection my commitment or somalia with these teachers i feel
obliged to teach teaches much if i can whenever and invited to go somewhere i try to make room in my schedule but will i don't think injunction packed and one of the interesting things about this whole question of who is an emanation of water home is that it
seems anyway the it is possible for a person to be what conventionally would be termed an emanation as time or ammunition of saraswati or any other femininity to congress
and not really realize it themselves
certainly not at this point that it might require a regular training and the realization there's that awakened for them to really realize it
because we're all very much in the same boat or minds are obscured our minds are full of a of emotions and confusion and to be as actually able to saying what someone is
able to say what you yourself hard realities was often very difficult
so she said disagrees that i certainly don't discount the strong possibility that there are already emanations of tara and emanations of saraswati and whatever in the west
we don't have social forms for formally recognizing are investing those nations as such providing titles and roles and cell phone
and of course if anyone stands up the waves there are instances in line and emanation of and should have opposable suspects not a bit of praise yourself in the sky if all was a level and suspicious but we really must remember that nobody has the final word on who anybody is so to say there is
are there is not
an emanation of tara in his room or there are over there are naughty emanations of tara in america over soon so is or is not something straight for digital so we have to allow that element of doubt in the situation
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my own experience by have my own experiences based upon my situation which is as someone with a full time job so i work nine to five or thereabouts roughly and also have maintained a practice over the years
what i had simply found is that it is necessary and possible to make the time for her practice i get up earlier in the morning that i might normally and use what time i can for practice morning for a work when i come home at night we get any and how tired i am again i simply make the time you simply have to develop the intent
to make the time necessary for your formal practice
i realized it is difficult you men and women who have family responsibilities and jobs and so forth it is difficult to make the time it simply has to be made it can be made and it simply asked to be name
i'm delighted it's difficult doesn't mean it's impossible i understand that there are many demands on your time and energy their children their jobs even when you come home is always talking to the died and all sorts of things to to go on in the house
before you feel well now i have a bit of time to devote to my practice but as long as a person is dedicated and sensitive to their own needs so that they don't exhaust themselves there is always time to be found and it really boils down to them my own experience if you really want to know is that there's always time to be found it
you really care enough to make a fine time
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my question is whether most of gentleman show significant features have been in fail and whether she's noticed any difference between them and the study of women teachers and as opposed to women aesthetic managers said today
jetson crusher he said as i said earlier buddhism tends to adopt the cultural forms and social forms of countries into which it spreads out what that me and mentioned the deaden context was at the vast majority of teachers were male there
we're women teachers that proportionately fewer than male teachers in my own particular case all of my main teachers were men
i did have when the teachers but i did not receive a great deal and when impairments or formal teachings from
all of my mean the main teachings that i studied and practiced i received from men
that one exception was my father's sister my end who had she chosen was perfectly qualified to transmit or lineage to to transmit his goal
cycle practice and teaching that she chose not to happen because she didn't want to teach me particularly because she really shows on teach very much at all
so she was the one exception that might have been one of my main teachers had she chosen the that she simply for reasons of her own chose not to teach
and so am i in particular case mine teachers were almost exclusively in mean
as far as whether there's a difference between woman studying urban setting men i really don't know
she's an expensive but when i think of it i really don't see what essentially should be damaged
i don't feel that the teachings of buddhism as promulgated by man was complicated by word of a different
and it certainly would not be the case that a girl would make the decision of which changed the here based on whether the students that
so i think that all issue
is one that really needs closer examination that in terms of whether there is a difference between a person's of one sex heading christians from another sex or the presence of the same sex i think it would something be something and ultimately became the far more on the qualities of the individuals concerned rather than on
textile will question of the qualities of teacher and qualities stone far more than whether the students from other tissues but with i think it was different
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it isn't crusher says in my own personal situation there are three figures who stand out is really getting in my name teachers one was a great outlet more monastery at his name was sending in the past linen years ago
and another one is my brother so in effect isn't the head of the soccer order
and i've received in their entirety of a cycle of teachings which is particular to our school of soccer buddhism which is known as the long day that literally his path and permission
engineers can get connected with them the cycle that they have ordered hunter and i received these requested and received these teachings from my brother his holiness
and in the second edition this is considered to to be perhaps the most intimate and powerful bond that is didn't connect with teachers who request and receive this cycle teachings in practice
this cycle teachings pretends to put you know as buttery on our tantric buddhism in which the relationship with the girl is very important is crucial to entertainment
there has to be the wholehearted commitment on the part of the student to view the teacher pirro to view the teacher as a manifestation in hundred terminology or jargon he would say you view the teacher as watch with era which is a term for the embodiment of the heightened be
and in your attempt to maintain that relationship with a teacher i would have a respect and devotion from the teacher is giving you and shown you reveal to had
you attempt to follow the instructions in their teacher is a great level of trust there
now it might sound a little funny to say that my brother he's also one of my poorest but in so far as he is my guru i don't think of it was my brother he my girl i have committed myself to that discipline of not even and just as oh yeah my brother sunset but my group a person who is
has contributed to my own practice in realization
another the the third of my teachers was the very minimal nation she passed away last year
and again here there's an interesting situation because he had lived with my family my brother and myself from when we were very young and so he was a very familiar figure to us and as always tendency that familiarity breeds contempt and single yes on so we we know him for a long time just nice person but
he again was one of my girls i went to him and formally requested adrianna teachings receive them from him
and out of a recognition of the enormous kindness and grace that he showed me teaching him i did
i think it is only as of right and can only as a teacher guru not as
old phone so who's been around the house for so long was part of our families such a long time so it's an important distinction to make them when you commit yourself personally lodge realities is not something someone else tells you to do is thought that someone says now you have to think of me as enlightened you undertake the discipline voluntarily and when you commit yourself to
an authentic teacher in battery on you commit yourself to viewing purifying your view of that individual seeking to regard them as an ordinary person and instead always maintaining an attitude devotion and respect to them as an individual who has demonstrated and path to enlightenment to you
and so whether you a girl is your brother or whether you're growing your sister or grow is your husband or whether your guru is your wife
from the laundry on a point of view you commit yourself to a desert where the role as grew transcends the role as husband wife brother sister old friend whatever and this is the think something that's important to realize
is that you don't have an ordinary attitude towards your word regardless of the social role that that girl my nominally fulfilling your life
it's an important point i think because it's great deal of confusion as to what constitutes relationship with the girl for example we often hear about the love between guru and student but that's not ordinary passion or ordinary liking each other as friends and buddies or pals that has no
student the love is far more profound and transpersonal than just two people liking each other or really enjoying each other's company are really having was hung together that really has nothing to do with so she said she said i think this is really important point to make and when you commit yourself to that specific hundred discipline
for example when you are if if you're visualizing yourself as a deity such as the bodhisattva of compassion in hundred meditation you visualize your guru as the buddha amitabha as the lord of that family above the crown of your head whether the girl was man or a woman or whatever whatever social role that guru has near like the girl is
meditate in pure form so they're always as this transpersonal how her transcendent emphasis and country out where the bureau is to be regarded it is pure way
and you guard against tendency to treat them in your own lines in ordinary person is just your brother just your sister her husband like the uncle air
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so the question is is not the issue of whether the the teacher is normally a man or woman but whether there are masculine and feminine principles embodied in the teachings of buddhism as there are another traditions that have i given just and to know
in the general tradition and lesson
there is no a whole herd distinction between masculine and feminine principles or masculine side feminine side that kind of thing when we begin to encounter them all nana teachings on emptiness which is a fairly advanced level and rather complex
and difficult to put in a nutshell but when we get to that level of teachings then we hear of the masculine principle a skillful method and the feminine principle of wisdom and emptiness so there is a distinction not in terms of the separate teachings but two aspects to
to the whole of the tissues the two together constituting the whole of attentions on the level of deity yoga and tantra were there are many so-called you done your chosen deities with the person may receive empowerment for a meditate upon an orange mood cultivate certain qualities and stay
it's of realization themselves there are i can practically there are distinctions between masculine needles and seven years i've gotta system to speak
but these are not considered to be pain in a concrete his way it's not as though women would focus upon a feminine deity exclusively and man upon masculinity
there are many many cases
male practitioners who identify with tara a feminine beauty or women who identify with manjushri but i sat on with a mask a nominally masculine easy on the level of the deities masculine and feminine and feminine is purely nominal has no relationship to the sexual practitioner or to the particular state
the realization that can be cultivated in their practice in fact when one practices the formal meditations invariably they begin with the phrase or a formula that goes something like all phenomena become empties from the state of emptiness there emerges the form of the you emerges with something
that
what that implies is that in beginning the sadhna you touch upon the level of pain which has nothing to do with them female the emptiness of all phenomena is neither masculine or feminine really he can lead can be nominally designated the feminine principle of wisdom but that's not an ultimate statement and neither
is our masculinity or femininity we in the beginning and an improper practice adrianna me begin by touching upon the nature of being which is beyond male and female which then expresses itself in a nominal way as a masculine or feminine principle embodied in from the deity
but while there is a nominal distinction on the level of these archetypes which are used masculine and feminine this in no way implies an old distinction between masculine and feminine teachings are masculine feminine partition smell general practitioners
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the question is credits are not speak about oppression and particularly in her personal experience of having and forced to with your family freer country and to experienced batch that oppression as so many people who in the world
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jason fisher said my my buddhist training and my buddhist experience leads me to believe that
oppression isn't is a two edged sword there are people who are prep oppressed and there are people who are people who oppress in there are people who are oppressed and this is a manifestation of the karma of both in both individuals are both parties have horses
i feel that in large part the reason we lost to bed was because he didn't deserve it
we didn't deserve to hold that in some in some sense to that had a previous history of people who were far more dedicated to the cultivation of marriage and virtue
then perhaps was is in recent times and i feel that at least one element in the loss of to that was when we were at fault and was some some fall from the heart of the tibetan people item
in my own mind place all the blame in the camp of the chinese com communists but i feel that while they were the the oppressors and situation we were the ones created circumstances where we were oppressed so i feel that there's there's no blame to be laid in any one direction ultimately
losing my country when i think about it losing all that i and i knew that was familiar to me
my own attitude is not been one of sadness really
i didn't find very much value and sitting around as being depressed and bemoaning my fate but rather regarding it as an expression of my own karma and working with in there
because there are simply situations where no matter how much we might rail against the situation is not going to change there are many situations where even a country like america which considers itself some extremely powerful omnipotent is helpless in the face of certain problems even a very powerful force is handled
come on
change things
my own feeling about are losing tibet and how we should proceed from beard is
very much inspired by the words of his holiness the dalai lama who said that
tibetans will not really when back to that in the true sense by just going in fighting the chinese and using the same kind of tactics that reads against them but by becoming a strong honest virtuous people that is when the way to those were really
get back to beth
so i really feel that it's on that level of individual integrity that the person
copes with oppression that has been my personal experience
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what why is the state of being experienced one on sexual hilarity or yep that my part of at yeah that was the part of his and was wondering about yeah
so you're not speaking just in the case of people making distinctions in their minds perfect bodies are shaped differently and functioned ever made contact with or my retroperitoneal
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the normal distinction between get a loan so the question hinges on this idea of dualism were polite bipolarity and
having to go give away has given the the illusory nature of samsara and the dharma and the deities and all of it ultimately speaking why is it necessary for or why have we come to the point or why do we find ourselves in the situation where this bipolarity seems to be an integral part of our experience even even after the high levels of teachers
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what you say in terms of the ultimate level truth is quite true she said he understood that very well graduations but on the ultimate level there's no distinction me
male female none of that applies the ultimate level truth the ultimate nature of being
however on a practical level we find ourselves as unlike big involved in a world of dualism this and laugh and one expression of that he has sexual bipolarity there are men and women thirty two sexes that attention war
energy between the sexes
in terms of personal practice in adriano since you mentioned that is one of the context where this polarity seems to apply
the personal choice of a deity for example
you don't chosen deity upon which the person meditate with which the person identifies is an entirely personal and individual thing and as i said before it has nothing to do with whether you're a man or a woman and the deities masculine and feminine
doesn't push ups have my own personal practice is called your you're meaning a feminine thing that is my own personal chosen practice but it would be equally possible that it can be missouri viral very radical mail or masculine figure for another person it might be tara very peaceful feminine figure or it might be
the a vendre he a masculine nominal masking figure they really has very little to do with anything other than the individual persons carbon makeup they're drunk person what they feel most attuned on personal and that's really the on the basis on which a person can make it constructive choice
adrianna practice
now in terms of sexual bipolarity and where it all came from the first place you have had only one speck of that were why we ended up with two sexes why why the situation is the way it is now
all we can identify in the present situation is that a great deal of the problems between the sexes that you again referred to like so many of the problems in our lives are due to the individuals concerned having minds which are clouded by effective emotions my ignorance by confusion and therefore merely compounding each other's of
what the of emotions and ignorance and confusion and until such time as those individuals have realized the basic ego looseness of their individual selves with
there will continue to be of with emotions ignorance and confusion and they will continue the problems
we're extremely fortunate people she said on we realize how fortunate we are to have access to authentic teachers on authentic teachings and have the leisure to practice and develop or spiritual potential
but
again the game context has to be understood as one of the interrelationship between reading the interdependence of ultimate and relative truth we find ourselves in
a bipolar situation a dualistic situation
but we must understand that there's nothing ultimate statement that can be made about who we are by nature he the nature of the true nature of the ultimate nature of being transcends masculine feminine and sends me i came in

the question is is it true that prior to the military occupation to them
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is it true that prior to the military occupation into that than in traditional tibetan culture and he disposed within and were highly regarded
prior to the military occupations that politically speaking terms with their political power in the country women were in an interior position to him on a
legal and political power
more generally are culturally in terms of individual family groups there was harboring quality
it is true that women did not hold public office or were not appointed to high government posts so on that level that was definitely disparate was definitely
but on level of individual families there was probably as much range as there is many other cultures that you can make parish so don't hesitate to make sweeping statements all that and families were male dominance or female dominant or equal to whatever undoubtedly the remain individu
dual situations on the level of the teachings my own experience to my own
region was that there was totally quality and in fact on the political level in my region for but i realized that that may have been somewhat unique i don't have a great deal of experience