Men measure what counts as real Buddhism through a male lens #teachingbuddhism
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Replying to @agleig
Early in my practice, I defined meditation narrowly through a lens of skill mastery and the ideal of the solitary ascetic knowledgable Arhat.
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Replying to @_StevenFan @agleig
These views trapped my practice and I think of them as naive masculinity. The way Buddhism (and most organized religion) has been practiced occurs to me as having been shaped by masculine leaning actors, institutions, and contexts
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Replying to @_StevenFan @agleig
I think theres an incredible amount of work to open up Buddhism. I think there is a two fold responsibility. For those with a feminine perspective to show up and engage even though they have millenia of institution building stacked against them.
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Replying to @_StevenFan @agleig
For those with a masculine bent to be receptive and open to influence, to leave space for innovation and recognition of new patterns of ways of being and doing Buddhism.
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I've never expressed these things before, but it has been in mind because of conversations I've had with women close to my practice, with recent integrating of my masculinity, and thinking about the nature of the masculine and the feminine.
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