| All women are dakinis and we should treat them like | | | | culture, tradition has dictated that women serve men. |
| that. In Buddhism, women are considered the pillar of | | | | It's up to you if you want to follow tradition or if you |
| the family. They provide emotional strength, they are | | | | want to follow logic; that's not really my business. I'm |
| gentle and feminine, yet strong, they are miracle | | | | not here to change 20,000 years of society and |
| workers and their energy is wisdom. They produce | | | | culture. But what I'm trying to say is that however |
| children and they produce what we want. They give | | | | we are served, we will have to serve one day. The |
| us company and they support us. In Asian societies | | | | karma will come back. Everyone wants something |
| especially, women are incredible because they are | | | | from each other. That's natural, isn't it? So why don't |
| taught to put up with a lot of things from men and | | | | we give that to each other? It's very small. |
| they do put up with it. Women are treasures and we | | | | So take care of your wives - they are dakinis, they |
| have to treat them like that. | | | | gave you your kids, they give you a lot of pleasure, |
| What men want is not to come home to a nagging | | | | they give you company, they have stayed through |
| wife who rants and raves, and complains about | | | | thick and thin with you. Give back. Imagine you |
| everything. Men feel that they have worked all day | | | | running around for nine months with a huge belly! |
| and they just want to come home and have their | | | | Buddha recognised the value of the female energy |
| wives make a nice home for them. Men want their | | | | and made Vajrayogini and Tara most supreme in the |
| women to be nice little wives, to stay home, always | | | | hierarchy of the practices. It is not because women |
| give them face and not to be embarrassed by them. | | | | are better than men but - as even Mao Tse Tung |
| Men like to sit there, be served and be given things. | | | | recognised - women hold up half the sky. |
| It doesn't matter if it is wrong or right. In every old | | | | |