[Konidurase]

Just a gentle reminder for anyone reading or posting in this thread that our Code of Conduct states:

" We welcome LGBT members to our community"

(LGBT means lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender.)

Personally I have always felt as equally at ease with LGBT people as I have with heterosexuals and see no difference in terms of Buddhist practice.

I like these verse from a nun who is challenged by Mara in one of my favorite suttas, SN5.2 Soma Sutta....



"What does womanhood matter at all
When the mind is concentrated well,
When knowledge flows on steadily
As one sees correctly into Dhamma.

One to whom it might occur,
'I'm a woman' or 'I'm a man'
Or 'I'm anything at all' —
Is fit for Mara to address."


http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipit....002.bodh.html