Where my lady mystics at?
Are there any good threads/books/people to talk to/whatever with helpful perspectives on the differences between masculine and feminine practice, path, etc?
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It’s just an utterly unavoidable observation that the “nose to the grindstone, meditate it out, know Pure Reality, attainments attainments attainments” approach attracts young men overwhelmingly.
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And I don’t see a ton of feminine perspectives on practice (except when young men discover surrender and describe it as a Discovery of the Feminine Principle type of thing)
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Thank you
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Replying to @_StevenFan
I was wondering earlier today what kind of spiritual practice might have been invented (for example) by mothers of small children.
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And another. More?
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nearly everything I’ve read on meditation, spirituality, personal transformation, etc, was written by childless men
I can’t believe how little of it is still relevant now that I’ve become a mother twitter.com/made_in_cosmos…
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Not directly related, but very evocative of this question— and written by Brit Marling, which means it’s perfect
nytimes.com/2020/02/07/opi
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Related—I just remembered that one of the most prominent female practitioners I can think of, Pema Chodron, regularly makes fun of herself for not being a good meditator, and seems utterly unfussed by it
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sorta related and i also ended up quoting both those tweets here:
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if you meet the buddha on the road ask him how his son feels about being named “unwanted” and then abandoned
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C4%81hu
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