double X, double time

she has been in the news lately, also due to the book* that has been written about her: tensin palmo, the woman who wants to achieve buddhist enlightenment in a woman's body. which, allegedly, is impossible, a woman would have to be reborn as a man to achieve the highest state of spiritual accomplishment.

she spend twelve years in a cave, sleeping only three hours a night in upright sitting - meditation - position, meditated most of the day and farming her few crops and fethcing spring water the rest of the time.

buddha spend six years the same way.

it proves, again: a woman has to do twice the job af a man to have a slight chance of acknowledgment. even in everyone's favorite religion.

(in a meeting with the dalai lama, the man who is adored by so many for his wisdom is just as reluctant and hesitant about her inquiries and demands as any wordly boss might be towards his female subordinates. it goes to show.)

* a cave in the snow