[Buddha-l] women & , er, religion

[Richard Hayes]

On Jul 22, 2009, at 1:28 AM, Jayarava wrote:

> I must say that it's a strange experience to have someone on the net  
> asking questions about the FWBO without overt hostility... it's kind  
> of confusing.

Hey! I was overtly hostile! Don't I get any credit for that? (And, by  
the way, it may be that Monier-Williams does not agree with Coyote,  
but Coyote thinks MW is a pile of roadrunner dung. Coyotes use only  
Apte. So put that in your hookah and smoke it.)

> There used to be a lot of criteria for becoming a mitra which made  
> it quite difficult, but a couple of years ago they changed it so  
> that you just have to want to do it.

You mean mitras no longer have to be vegetarians and to renounce  
abortion as evil on their way to their daily meditation sessions? God,  
how standards have fallen!

Dayamati Dharmachari (even though I flunked the acid test of a mitra  
by remaining pro-choice on the abortion issue)