Comments on: The Next Dalai Lama Should Be a Woman http://working-on.me/personal-development/the-next-dalai-lama-should-be-a-woman Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:43:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: June@windowtreatments http://working-on.me/personal-development/the-next-dalai-lama-should-be-a-woman/comment-page-1#comment-313 June@windowtreatments Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:10:39 +0000 http://working-on.me/?p=412#comment-313 Just like the Dali Lama, women have always been the symbol of peace, compassion, and non-violence. How many different positions of power are there, be it politics or religion, where the best man for the job is a Woman?! Just like the Dali Lama, women have always been the symbol of peace, compassion, and non-violence.

How many different positions of power are there, be it politics or religion, where the best man for the job is a Woman?!

]]> By: Jethro@recessedtoiletpaperholder http://working-on.me/personal-development/the-next-dalai-lama-should-be-a-woman/comment-page-1#comment-303 Jethro@recessedtoiletpaperholder Wed, 03 Mar 2010 23:19:20 +0000 http://working-on.me/?p=412#comment-303 It amazes me that even in the so-called spiritually "enlightened" cultures, that women are still not allowed a position of leadership when it comes to religious matters. To see that a religion that has so many Goddess that are held in the highest esteem and prayed to daily, it just seems so incongruous to not uphold the same attitude for the "earthly" women that want to serve that very religion. Of course the same attitude is still alive and well in the Western world where women priests and ministers are still the vast exception to the masculine rule. It's taken 2,000 years for this exception...I hope it doesn't take another 2,000 years for this narrow-minded attitude to finally fade! It amazes me that even in the so-called spiritually “enlightened” cultures, that women are still not allowed a position of leadership when it comes to religious matters. To see that a religion that has so many Goddess that are held in the highest esteem and prayed to daily, it just seems so incongruous to not uphold the same attitude for the “earthly” women that want to serve that very religion.

Of course the same attitude is still alive and well in the Western world where women priests and ministers are still the vast exception to the masculine rule. It’s taken 2,000 years for this exception…I hope it doesn’t take another 2,000 years for this narrow-minded attitude to finally fade!

]]> By: rocker@channe http://working-on.me/personal-development/the-next-dalai-lama-should-be-a-woman/comment-page-1#comment-288 rocker@channe Wed, 24 Feb 2010 12:26:44 +0000 http://working-on.me/?p=412#comment-288 Even with the big step of letting women study to be geshes, there’s still a catch: Because of an esoteric technicality, women are currently barred from studying the Vinaya text, an important Buddhist text necessary for the geshe degree.<a href="http://www.channelslk.com/" rel="nofollow">online tv </a> Even with the big step of letting women study to be geshes, there’s still a catch: Because of an esoteric technicality, women are currently barred from studying the Vinaya text, an important Buddhist text necessary for the geshe degree.online tv

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