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When spiritual teaching reflects gender assumptions

I'm the only woman in my Buddhist sangha and the teacher keeps giving me domestic metaphors for enlightenment while the men get warrior imagery.

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What we've seen

Unconscious bias within sacred spaces reveals how cultural conditioning infiltrates even traditions aimed at transcending conditioning.

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