Women and Buddhism

Our autumn study group on Women and Buddhism began a month ago with a lively session on what the subject meant to those of us there.

In the second session Mike and Gina introduced 'male and female perspectives on practice'. We talked about our aspirations and how these might have a gender dimension, and about how the way we hear and understand Buddhist teaching is affected by how we already treat or regard our own experience - and that this may be affected by whether we are men or women. We talked too about the socialised deferent behaviour that can grow up in religious groups and the important difference between self-deprecation and humility.

More to come - the sessions are fortnightly.