Gate Seventy-six
Read the following, place it in your heart and sleep on it. Then, tomorrow, live it until evening when you can leave a brief comment on what you may have received during the process.
Right discrimination is a gate of Dharma illumination; for [with it] we eliminate all discrimination and lack of discrimination.
Discrimination : treatment or consideration of a person or thing based on the group, class, or category to which that person or thing belongs rather than on individual merit
By “Dharma Gate”, We mean a teaching or practice that can lead to spiritual growth: some kind of positive outcome in terms of our practice. A way to approach the truth.
Koan:
"There’s no simple answer to this question. The Buddha taught that everyone, regardless of gender, has the capacity for enlightenment and through the millennia, countless women have flourished on the path as lay practitioners, teachers, and monastics. Yet over the past 25 centuries, most Buddhist institutions have discriminated against women, some more severely than others."
Most note worthy replies :
合掌 仁道 生開 - gassho, Jindo Shokai
stlah
Read the following, place it in your heart and sleep on it. Then, tomorrow, live it until evening when you can leave a brief comment on what you may have received during the process.
Right discrimination is a gate of Dharma illumination; for [with it] we eliminate all discrimination and lack of discrimination.
Discrimination : treatment or consideration of a person or thing based on the group, class, or category to which that person or thing belongs rather than on individual merit
By “Dharma Gate”, We mean a teaching or practice that can lead to spiritual growth: some kind of positive outcome in terms of our practice. A way to approach the truth.
Koan:
"There’s no simple answer to this question. The Buddha taught that everyone, regardless of gender, has the capacity for enlightenment and through the millennia, countless women have flourished on the path as lay practitioners, teachers, and monastics. Yet over the past 25 centuries, most Buddhist institutions have discriminated against women, some more severely than others."
- Tricycle article on Equality; link here
Most note worthy replies :
Who sees flowers from weeds?
Same dust
Same atoms
Same particles
Same energy
How am I different?
Inseparable
Inseparable
yet distinct
Not one and not two
合掌 仁道 生開 - gassho, Jindo Shokai
stlah
Comment