There were three books we read on the theme of "sacred feminine." They were The Red Tent, Initiation, and Zen Seeds.THE RED TENT by Anita Diamant (Hebrew women in Jerusalem)
Do you think about this part of your life? Why or why not, and how does this relate to power, history, and culture? How might we women, honor this part of our lives or integrate it more? We'll also think about how we build, nurture, and support our own power!?!
For many of us, this was a reread. We still love it.
INITIATION by Elisabeth Haich (White woman with Egyptian past life)
Jot down phrases/sentences that resonate for you. How do we build, nurture, and support our own power?
We had a hard time moving beyond her white privilege (and imagination?)
ZEN SEEDS: REFLECTIONS OF A FEMALE PRIEST by Shundo Aoyama translated by Patricia Daien Bennage (Buddhist woman in ashram)
No specific question, but we discussed the "seeds" that help us grow into powerful, spiritual women who can balance, accept, detach, and create (just to name a few ideas that came up).
We had a great discussion, barely got our fabulous dinner on the table and we were off talking about INITIATION and ZEN SEEDS. After some comparing and contrasting of the two women's stories, we all agreed that Zen Seeds has so much to reflect upon and that it truly is a "seed" to help us grow into powerful, spiritual women who can balance, accept, detach, and create (just to name a few ideas that came up).
We shared an article on Religion from Time Magazine. Here is a quote which we might use in our teaching profession.
Endeavor
If you do, you can.
If you don’t, you can’t.
When you say you can’t do what can be done,
It means you haven’t set out to do it.
Everything can be accomplished if I try.
Anything other people can do, I am sure I can [too].
Everything depends solely on effort.
- Buddhist saying
We ended the evening by reading quotes from the Zen Seeds which resonated for us.
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