Abortion. Buddhism & The Right to Choose
01/16/24 • 26 min
Lama Tsultrim Allione discusses the ambiguities around a right to choose in today’s world and as Buddhist woman.
“From the Buddhist point of view, life begins at conception. Killing is negative karma, however, the circumstances of a pregnancy need to be balanced when thinking about abortion.”
In this episode, Lama Tsultrim reflects on her own experience with abortion, and the importance of a woman’s rights in the aftermath of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2022 turnover of Roe v. Wade. Lama Tsultrim also shares practices to heal and process parenthood, providing tools to better hold ourselves, and all beings, with compassion.
BIO: Lama Tsultrim Allione is the bestselling author of Women of Wisdom (1984), Feeding Your Demons (2008), and Wisdom Rising - Journey into the Mandala of the Empowered Feminine (2018). Over 55 years of practice as a monastic and a laywoman, Lama Tsultrim has fully embraced the arc of Buddhism coming to the West as well as fully embracing her experience as a woman emerging from a patriarchal structure into a — of empowerment and agency. She founded the first Western Buddhist center dedicated to the Sacred Feminine in the Buddhist tradition, and leads several long term practice paths including, Magyu, the mother lineage. She emphasizes the need for emotional development to accompany spiritual practice, leading a vibrant international community with over forty groups around the world.
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Lama Tsultrim Allione discusses the ambiguities around a right to choose in today’s world and as Buddhist woman.
“From the Buddhist point of view, life begins at conception. Killing is negative karma, however, the circumstances of a pregnancy need to be balanced when thinking about abortion.”
In this episode, Lama Tsultrim reflects on her own experience with abortion, and the importance of a woman’s rights in the aftermath of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2022 turnover of Roe v. Wade. Lama Tsultrim also shares practices to heal and process parenthood, providing tools to better hold ourselves, and all beings, with compassion.
BIO: Lama Tsultrim Allione is the bestselling author of Women of Wisdom (1984), Feeding Your Demons (2008), and Wisdom Rising - Journey into the Mandala of the Empowered Feminine (2018). Over 55 years of practice as a monastic and a laywoman, Lama Tsultrim has fully embraced the arc of Buddhism coming to the West as well as fully embracing her experience as a woman emerging from a patriarchal structure into a — of empowerment and agency. She founded the first Western Buddhist center dedicated to the Sacred Feminine in the Buddhist tradition, and leads several long term practice paths including, Magyu, the mother lineage. She emphasizes the need for emotional development to accompany spiritual practice, leading a vibrant international community with over forty groups around the world.
Connect and Continue to Experience your own Wisdom Rising
Follow Lama Tsultrim Allione on Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter.
Join the Lama Live! webcast with Lama Tsultrim Allione on YouTube.
Learn more about Lama Tsultrim.
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Generating Peace from Within: A Meditation with Lama Tsultrim
Pause. Channel your inner peace and connect with Mother Earth. For this episode, Lama Tsultrim Allione leads us in a short meditation to help ground and connect to the world around us. This meditation is meant to help us compassionately channel our own power to be still, pacify, and transmit this peace to all beings, everywhere, without one exception.
BIO: Lama Tsultrim Allione is the bestselling author of Women of Wisdom (1984), Feeding Your Demons (2008), and Wisdom Rising - Journey into the Mandala of the Empowered Feminine (2018). Over 55 years of practice as a monastic and a laywoman, Lama Tsultrim has fully embraced the arc of Buddhism coming to the West as well as fully embracing her experience as a woman emerging from a patriarchal structure into a — of empowerment and agency. She founded the first Western Buddhist center dedicated to the Sacred Feminine in the Buddhist tradition, and leads several long term practice paths including, Magyu, the mother lineage. She emphasizes the need for emotional development to accompany spiritual practice, leading a vibrant international community with over forty groups around the world.
Connect and Continue to Experience your own Wisdom Rising
Follow Lama Tsultrim Allione on Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter.
Join the Lama Live! webcast with Lama Tsultrim Allione on YouTube.
Learn more about Lama Tsultrim.
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The Great Mother, Dakinis & The Embodiment of Wisdom: A Meditation with Lama Tsultrim
For this week's Wisdom Rising podcast, Lama Tsultrim Allione guides us on a meditative examination of the Great Mother and her manifestation around us. “The Great Mother is the ground of being itself, the pure potential from which everything arises.”
Within this short meditation, Lama invites you to explore the dimensions of the sacred feminine, the three kayas, and joyfully reflect on all of the dakinis, or women, in our lives.
Connect with other female energies and the Sambhogakaya aspect of the feminine, which is in the dimension of luminosity; for it is in the Sambhogakaya that we have the dakinis: the embodiments of wisdom.
BIO: Lama Tsultrim Allione is the bestselling author of Women of Wisdom (1984), Feeding Your Demons (2008), and Wisdom Rising - Journey into the Mandala of the Empowered Feminine (2018). Over 55 years of practice as a monastic and a laywoman, Lama Tsultrim has fully embraced the arc of Buddhism coming to the West as well as fully embracing her experience as a woman emerging from a patriarchal structure into a — of empowerment and agency. She founded the first Western Buddhist center dedicated to the Sacred Feminine in the Buddhist tradition, and leads several long term practice paths including, Magyu, the mother lineage. She emphasizes the need for emotional development to accompany spiritual practice, leading a vibrant international community with over forty groups around the world.
Connect and Continue to Experience your own Wisdom Rising
Follow Lama Tsultrim Allione on Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter.
Join the Lama Live! webcast with Lama Tsultrim Allione on YouTube.
Learn more about Lama Tsultrim.
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