The Moon and Flowers: A Woman's Path to EnlightenmentKalyanavaca Windhorse, 1997 - 285 sider The 19 women who wrote these essays have all been ordained within the Buddhist tradition. They come from different countries and have very different life-styles: some are career women, some are mothers leading a family life, and some live and work in country-retreat centres. One thing they all have in common is their firm commitment to Buddhism. In the essays they describe how they are trying to bring the various aspects and concerns of their daily lives into harmony with their Buddhist ideals and practice. The many topics they discuss include feminism, motherhood, work, sexuality and friendship. |
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... continue to have – restrictions placed on them because of fixed views about women's capabilities , views which may be held as tightly by women as by men . It is when these views become fixed that they especially present a problem . It ...
... continue to have – restrictions placed on them because of fixed views about women's capabilities , views which may be held as tightly by women as by men . It is when these views become fixed that they especially present a problem . It ...
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... continue with my education and not be married so soon . My father did not have enough money for my education but I got a scholarship , so was able to continue with my studies . One day my elder brother attended a retreat with the TBMSG ...
... continue with my education and not be married so soon . My father did not have enough money for my education but I got a scholarship , so was able to continue with my studies . One day my elder brother attended a retreat with the TBMSG ...
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... continue to be miserable , I started to concentrate on my spiritual life again , meditating daily and turning fully towards the Dharma . I realized that I had to let go of the past and concentrate on the future ; that there would always ...
... continue to be miserable , I started to concentrate on my spiritual life again , meditating daily and turning fully towards the Dharma . I realized that I had to let go of the past and concentrate on the future ; that there would always ...
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