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Divine Matters
There are many who wish to gain enlightenment in a man’s form and there are few beings who wish to work for the benefit of living beings in a female form. Therefore may I, in a female body, work for the welfare of beings until Samsara has been emptied.
~ Tara’s famous vow, from the Green Tara Commentary with Lama Tsultrim Allione.
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God’s world manifests itself in spirituality and sexuality… Spirituality and sexuality are not your property, they are not things you possess and contain, they are instead possessing and containing you…
— C.G.Jung
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Both genders need a well-differentiated masculine and a well differentiated feminine. The power structures of patriarchy have profoundly wounded both, making mature relationships almost impossible without hard psychic work…
Part of the resistance to the words masculine and feminine lies in our inability to accept that each of us contains both masculine and feminine energy and that both energies are divine. We pay lip service to the concept consciously, but if we listen to ourselves, we hear the archaic, gendered, pigeon-holed thinking plop out of our mouths like an unexpected toad. For example, some men and women who accept the Goddess as equal to the God and proclaim her divinity in matter can still become angry if they…
