<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Yoshizen&#039;s Blog]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://yoshizen.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[yoshizen]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://yoshizen.wordpress.com/author/yoshizen/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[WOMAN  womam  !]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve encountered a woman at somebodies&#8217; birthday party  who <strong>questioned me, why the Buddhism</strong></p>
<p><strong>discriminate the women</strong> and keep them in the lower lank in the hierarchies.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s an awkward question.</p>
<p>My explanations  &#8221; <strong>There was no such thing in the time of Buddha, as there was no organized system of</strong></p>
<p><strong>ranking his followers,  and the seniority who has learned longer and knows deeper was obvious</strong>,</p>
<p><strong>regardless the gender</strong> &#8221; &#8212;&#8212; Though, this woman who said to be practicing  &#8221; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; something, never</p>
<p>heard of kind of meditation&#8221; was so tenacious,  saying  &#8220;Even a woman who achieved the high enough</p>
<p>level of enlightenment,  still been recognized lower than the male and couldn&#8217;t be ordained to the same</p>
<p>rank as the male counter part etc etc. &#8221;</p>
<p>As the matter of fact,  I rather liked to <span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>just shut my mouth and ignored the question though,</strong><span style="color:#000000;"> this woman</span></span></p>
<p>just keep repeating the question and push and push,  and <span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>unlike the Great Buddha,  my silence didn&#8217;t</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>hit the world like a thunder</strong></span>.  ( Ha Ha Ha  😀  )</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;</p>
<p>The matter was too obvious,  It is not my business.  And I don&#8217;t think it is her business neither.</p>
<p>Somewhere some sect administrate the way of their organization in their own rules,</p>
<p>it is their problem. (if any at all ) <strong> If anyone doesn&#8217;t like it,  just go to another sect</strong>.</p>
<p>Obviously this woman is arguing the matter which is not what she is facing herself,  in other words,</p>
<p>she is arguing the matter which is only in her knowledges, the thinkings.    And talking an injustice of</p>
<p>discrimination in social recognition of the one&#8217;s achievement in her assumption. Not in her reality.</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;- Unfortunately,  the starting point of this woman was hopelessly wrong.</p>
<p>Buddhism is not a cooperate system to organize the people in bureaucratic hierarchies,  therefore</p>
<p><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>expecting to receive high-ranking etc is not the Buddhism,  but the one&#8217;s ego and the greed</strong></span>.</p>
<p>Invested the money to the speculation of the land, but as the bubble collapsed and couldn&#8217;t get the profit.</p>
<p>Though,  before complain the lost profit,  think own greed  expected to grub the money with dubious scheme.</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;- I really wonder,  what sort of Buddhism this woman was imagined of.   Instead to find the peace,</p>
<p>she  created a discord in her mind,  which is not even  her business and only exist in her knowledge.</p>
<p>The one&#8217;s enlightenment is not given by the organization of sect,  but gained by the person oneself.</p>
<p>Attending the sect&#8217;s talking shop, which chair to sit is not the matter at all.   <span style="color:#0000ff;"><strong> The person,  just sit on </strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#0000ff;"><strong>the floor  comfortably,  without any dithering,  is in fact sitting closest to the enlightenment.</strong></span></p>
<p>And I&#8217;m sure,  when the founder of  THAT  sect had encountered  a woman of this kind,  who was just filled</p>
<p>with ego,  still insisting  &#8221; I&#8217;ve achieved and gained the understanding of Buddhism&#8221;</p>
<p>the founder must be amazed and fed up to argue with her.</p>
<p>After so many years of study and the practice and achieved to gain so much so &#8221; Knowledges&#8221; still able to</p>
<p>maintain so much so ego and the greed,</p>
<p>the founder must come  to the conclusion &#8221; They are the hopeless&#8221;  ( I guess )</p>
<p>So, after &#8221; The historical woman&#8217;s right fighter &#8221; the sect changed their rules, it was the<span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong> unfortunate history</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>in a corner of the Buddhism sphere.</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#0000ff;"><strong>In the Buddhism Paradox, the Dharma prevails to the one who achieved the perfection without </strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong><span style="color:#0000ff;">asking the return. ( in other word, in  Mushin </span></strong><span style="color:#0000ff;">&#8212;&#8211; </span><strong><span style="color:#0000ff;">or so-called Selflessness )</span><br />
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