Nick Treklis wrote:
Right, but the kind of attention given to the subject is entirely the opposite of the kind given by the typical man you described above. If you lived in a neighborhood filled with heroin addicts I'm sure much of your time would be spent dealing with that problem. The world's addiction to Woman is even worse though, it's in every neighborhood and every culture. It even has an entire society hell bent on spreading and preserving this addiction. If sanity, rationality, and consciousness are what one values most, how can one not give the issue of Woman its due attention?
Then too, I read < I’m not denying that women have innate talents, and mediocre women are superior to mediocre men in many ways. However, I’m judging women through the context of how likely it is that she can achieve enlightenment, which is almost nil.> from another poster.
But the question is being carried on as if it can be plotted on a line, when in fact it is multi-dimensional. I know women who have had sex in a spiritual ritual. For a man to do this, proves nothing. For a woman, it at the very least, proves she has moved beyond the constraints of group think. I have likewise shared sacred potions with women in the sacred time, at the sacred space, and have a far better idea of their degree of spiritual enlightenment than you can get any other way. Nevertheless, "almost nil" is certainly true for the vast majority of women. But there were times and places where such a spiritual path was SOP.
They did not live in neighborhoods of drug addicts, but powerful psychoactive compounds were commonly used to speed spiritual enlightenment for most people. To use these outside of the sacred space and time was not illegal, just blasphemy, and as a result, they didnt have "drug problems". Cultures have problems when they receive unfamiliar substances that dont have traditional methods of dealing with.
I have given Soma to young men and women, but it is the young women who return later to express their gratitude for the spiritual experience they had. Maybe there was a time when young men were more mature and enlightened, but considering those I get to see now, that time has passed.
In the Tang, and prolly long before, there were many Buddhist nunneries, who like European abbeys, owned land & peasants. And as in Europe, these nuns were literate. they recorded the births, deaths, marriges, and other contracts for the people. But they also transcribed and translated sacred texts, and shared them with the Tocharians, just beyond the Jade Gate, which also had a female literati, that was also involved in business.
Given the high cost of paper, the superior muscle control of women allowed them to write smaller and put more text on a given sheet. This led to them being translators, on both sides of the Jade Gate, of the 20 languages then circulating on the Silk Road. And on both sides of the Jade Gate, there are images of female bodhisattvahs.
This was also the era when the Tocharians were ruled by queens, and sometimes China had an empress; but even if not, the alliance between the harems and the eunuchs was often the real power behind the throne. The absence of enlightened women is to some considerable exten the result of rule by the warrior class and a bad press. In Europe, for a long time, a spiritually enlightened woman would have been regarded as a satanic witch.
While the airheads are just as stupid as ever, increasing numbers of smart young women are researching their spiritual roots to recover the enlightenment of their ancestors.
Goddess made sex for company.
