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6/13/2025, 6:08:11 PM
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We can go deeper with this so let's do it.
First off Jataka's are Thai Folk Religion, Buddhist in aesthetic but nothing to do with the scripture.
The Angutt quote is taken out of context. It's describing the unique challenges each gender faces in searching for enlightenment, and it prefaced by discussing the insatiable desires men have as well.
The final quote however, is much more interesting, and 100% true. A fully enlightened Buddha, a Samyaksambuddha, will ALWAYS be male. All 5 of the current tathagatas are male, and will always be male. Even Arya Tārā, the female mahaboddhisatva, one of the 'highest' beings in the entire Buddhist world view, who for all intensive purposes is 'equal' in enlightenment to the tathagata and who has Vowed to always take the form of a woman and to support the enlightenment and of woman, understands that upon her final incarnation (as much as the idea of a 'final incarnation' could even exist) that she will take the form of a man.
The reason behind this requires an understanding of the prajnaparamita, but to horribly simplify into western esoteric terms, the prajnaparamita is the feminine principle. She is the mother of all the buddhas. Boddhisattvas rely on prajnaparamita in order to stay within Samsara yet free from the afflictions.
>all phenomena bear the mark of Emptiness
>their true nature is the nature of no Birth no Death, no Being no Non-being, no Defilement no Purity, no Increasing no Decreasing.
The prajnaparamita is the true nature of purified Samsara, emptiness free from all suffering, the womb of the tathagata leading all beings to perfect final enlightenment.
We can go deeper with this so let's do it.
First off Jataka's are Thai Folk Religion, Buddhist in aesthetic but nothing to do with the scripture.
The Angutt quote is taken out of context. It's describing the unique challenges each gender faces in searching for enlightenment, and it prefaced by discussing the insatiable desires men have as well.
The final quote however, is much more interesting, and 100% true. A fully enlightened Buddha, a Samyaksambuddha, will ALWAYS be male. All 5 of the current tathagatas are male, and will always be male. Even Arya Tārā, the female mahaboddhisatva, one of the 'highest' beings in the entire Buddhist world view, who for all intensive purposes is 'equal' in enlightenment to the tathagata and who has Vowed to always take the form of a woman and to support the enlightenment and of woman, understands that upon her final incarnation (as much as the idea of a 'final incarnation' could even exist) that she will take the form of a man.
The reason behind this requires an understanding of the prajnaparamita, but to horribly simplify into western esoteric terms, the prajnaparamita is the feminine principle. She is the mother of all the buddhas. Boddhisattvas rely on prajnaparamita in order to stay within Samsara yet free from the afflictions.
>all phenomena bear the mark of Emptiness
>their true nature is the nature of no Birth no Death, no Being no Non-being, no Defilement no Purity, no Increasing no Decreasing.
The prajnaparamita is the true nature of purified Samsara, emptiness free from all suffering, the womb of the tathagata leading all beings to perfect final enlightenment.
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