Now look at this... the "killing authority generation, killing their teacher generation..."
Singing "we don't need education, we don't need seftcontroll"
As the other thread seems to have gone in the direction of material support for nuns, which is of course great and much needed and appreciated, I want to focus a little more here on another aspect I touched upon and something I only recently started fully appreciating.
Some years ago I did not notice this, or did not want to notice it, even though I heard other nuns say things. I thought it was just them. At first I took it all in my stride, thinking it’s part of the path, it’s just the way things are and just be equanimous with it all. But now it is slowly creeping up on me, I have begun to see the detrimental effects on my own mind.
You might not have an adblocker on your browser. You might think that those commercials have no effect on you; you never had the intention of buying that stuff anyway. But if you keep on seeing these ads, even without paying attention to them, over and over again, they actually start having a subconscious effect on the way you see things and the way you behave. This is how marketing works.
It’s just all these small little signs that if they happen once or twice you don’t think anything of it. Like a monk ignoring you or starting to get nervous when he accidentally finds himself in your presence. Or a monk not wanting to sit anywhere near you, or when you see that senior nuns always have to go behind the junior monks on Pindapata if they are allowed to go at all. Or when you have to sit on a lower seat than monks junior to you. Or when you accidentally touch the box of tea-bags, and it has to be re-offered to the monks. There are so many little signs, too many to list here, that just say: you’re different, you’re inferior. The lay people also pick up on those signs and start acting like that to you as well.
Even those monks who see it have to face the pressure from their peers and superiors. A friend telling me he cannot talk to me because I’m a woman and his superiors won’t agree or the lay people will get upset. Another telling me I should talk to the nuns. But amongst the nuns we can all only just say the same thing. We can try to support each other, telling each other: “it’s not you!”, but as long as we cannot have an open and honest dialog about these things with the monks, nothing is going to change; they will never understand. Like I could never appreciate this until it happened to me. But they stay safe behind the comfortable walls they have built; for them all is well, why put in the effort to understand?
I look into my own mind and find it harder and harder to fight against this. Like a relentless virus that keeps creeping in, wispering: “you’re not like them!”. I can so understand why so many nuns disrobe. It’s not just the material support; that’s only part of the picture and just one more of those subconscious triggers saying: “you’re not worthy of the same support as monks”. It’s the very slow and gradual undermining of your psyche, an almost imperceptible force that eats away at you until you cannot go on any more.
All in all it’s just another brick in the wall.
Aside of the fact that they would be even at the same low stage they are if they later can sit on the corpse of their teachers, sit higher then the Buddha, this people totally failed to understand the purpose of the path but simply seek for approve and huging of their defilements and ego.
Pointless to give even a penny into such resolve, ignorance and foolishness.
Simply shamelss revolting naked crying undiscipled punk girls seeking for fools who might be touched so that they help them killing the Gems. After having killed as higher, the slaves estimate to be at peace. They only get more poor and bound.
Those fools expect that they get objects for sacrifies, not by themselves would never be able to do, never learned the basics and feeling annoyed to go after and sacrify for higher.
That's exactly why the Buddha did not really suggest to open doors for people not capable.
Only a rich person, someone having put himself into the position of giving, not demanding, has joy in giving. What ever position a poor person, a greedy, strong defiled person is given or reaches, poor will she stay.
Why? Because simple foolish, a Bala, and not because poor in regard of wealth, honor, happiness or praise (eg. the short lasting treasures driving the world).
So as told many times: to give even a penny into that simply means to invest into killing the Buddha, Dhamma, Sangha.
And that is why the Buddha told "like a caravan with many woman is a beloved target for thieves" it should be for those with some small amount of sight clear that sacrifices placed into envy, into untamed fools, will be, like all that flows toward the useless sutta-central gang and the monks and nuns of group of six, sacrifice into increasing harm and demerits for many.
It's very, very hard for a western, "modern-minded" man to become capable to master even basics and outwardly requirements. As for western woman, as told many times, a change one in 10 Million having the Upanissaya, the capacity to even come up with the basics.
And such fools running around in puplic, even advertising their foolishness on big scale are nothing but to even destroy the possibilities for the one in ten million.
And because it, like this, is such a danger for many, it is regarded to be a downfall of breaking rules, if a nun associate with worthless Bhikkhus and does not change her ways.
No more being regarded, accept as Bhikkuni.
And all of this live/life samples explain why more compassionate because originated by wisdom, not by defilements say:
How could the Buddha have approved of this being done in his name? It’s not an act of compassion to the senior bhikkhunīs, who are creating the bad kamma of teaching without being qualified to do so; it’s not an act of compassion to the junior bhikkhunīs, who are absorbing the examples set by unqualified teachers; nor is it an act of compassion to the world, subjecting it to teachers who create a false impression of how a true bhikkhunī should embody the Dhamma in word and deed.
So: not please, but simply
Stop!