In our contemporary world all cater to women. Every political or religious leader must participate in the glorification of females. Here are two quotes from Dalai Lama:
"The world will be saved by the Western Woman", " Women have the capacity to lead us to a more peaceful world with compassion, affection, and kindness."
What the ancient Buddhist texts tell us about women?
"Pray, lord, what is the reason, what is the cause why womenfolk neither sit in a court [ of justice ], nor embark on business, not reach the essence of [any] deed?" To which, we are told, Gautama replies:" Womenfolk are uncontrolled, Ananda. Womenfolk are envious, Ananda. Womenfolk are greedy, Ananda. Womenfolk are weak in wisdom, Ananda. That is the reason, that is the cause why womenfolk do not sit in a court of justice, do not embark on business, do not reach the essence of the deed" [ Anguttara Nikāya ].
"Women are even the root of ruin, and of loss of substance; when men are to be controlled by women how can they gain happiness?....A woman is the destruction of destructions in this world and the next; hence one must ever avoid women if he desires happiness for himself" [ Saddharmasmrtyupasthāna ].
"All desire are suffering, the vilest of evils,
The impurity of pus, extremely despicable....
Like the overflow from a toilet or the corpse of a dog or a fox,
In the Sitavana cemetery pollution flows everywhere.
The evils of desire are contemptible like these.
Fools lust for women, like dogs in heat.
They do not know abstinence.
They are also like flies who see vomited food.
Like a herd of hogs, they greedily seek manure.
Women can ruin the precepts of purity.
They can also ignore honor and virtue....
As the filth and decay of a dead dog or dead snake are burned away,
So all men should burn filth and detest evil.
The dead snake and dog are detestable,
But women are even more detestable than they are....
Women are like fishermen; their flattery is a net.
Men are like fish caught by the net" [ Mahāratnakūta ].
"The world will be saved by the Western Woman", " Women have the capacity to lead us to a more peaceful world with compassion, affection, and kindness."
What the ancient Buddhist texts tell us about women?
"Pray, lord, what is the reason, what is the cause why womenfolk neither sit in a court [ of justice ], nor embark on business, not reach the essence of [any] deed?" To which, we are told, Gautama replies:" Womenfolk are uncontrolled, Ananda. Womenfolk are envious, Ananda. Womenfolk are greedy, Ananda. Womenfolk are weak in wisdom, Ananda. That is the reason, that is the cause why womenfolk do not sit in a court of justice, do not embark on business, do not reach the essence of the deed" [ Anguttara Nikāya ].
"Women are even the root of ruin, and of loss of substance; when men are to be controlled by women how can they gain happiness?....A woman is the destruction of destructions in this world and the next; hence one must ever avoid women if he desires happiness for himself" [ Saddharmasmrtyupasthāna ].
"All desire are suffering, the vilest of evils,
The impurity of pus, extremely despicable....
Like the overflow from a toilet or the corpse of a dog or a fox,
In the Sitavana cemetery pollution flows everywhere.
The evils of desire are contemptible like these.
Fools lust for women, like dogs in heat.
They do not know abstinence.
They are also like flies who see vomited food.
Like a herd of hogs, they greedily seek manure.
Women can ruin the precepts of purity.
They can also ignore honor and virtue....
As the filth and decay of a dead dog or dead snake are burned away,
So all men should burn filth and detest evil.
The dead snake and dog are detestable,
But women are even more detestable than they are....
Women are like fishermen; their flattery is a net.
Men are like fish caught by the net" [ Mahāratnakūta ].
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