Why not have a progressive ‘Buddhist Council’ and the formation of a progressive monastic alliance (post discrimination)?

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@laurence

To me it’s simple: I have daughters. If, they aspired to enter an institution that did not protect - unconditionally - their basic human rights then, that would make me sad.

@Vimala

It’s just all these small little signs that if they happen once or twice you don’t think anything of it. Like a monk ignoring you or starting to get nervous when he accidentally finds himself in your presence. Or a monk not wanting to sit anywhere near you, or when you see that senior nuns always have to go behind the junior monks on Pindapata if they are allowed to go at all. Or when you have to sit on a lower seat than monks junior to you. Or when you accidentally touch the box of tea-bags, and it has to be re-offered to the monks. There are so many little signs, too many to list here, that just say: you’re different, you’re inferior. The lay people also pick up on those signs and start acting like that to you as well.

@vimalanyani

And all these small things that Ayya Vimala has mentioned in her post occur with monks from Bodhinyana just as they occur with others.

@Mat

I think the coalition which has been called for is the Ajhan Brahm lineage of monks and nuns that is working on the same issues mentioned in this thread

So this is something that just blew my mind in the ‘Brick in the wall’ thread. Clearly Bodhinyana is not doing nearly as well as I thought. Where is the leadership? Where is the training in normal decent values?

I don’t have daughters (or sons) @laurence , but if I did and they were at school, playing something like ‘Bhikkhunis and Bhikkhus’ and these were the behaviours displayed, I would take them out of that school until they had sorted the problem, let alone encourage the children into actually joining a monastic sangha that allowed this sort of behaviour. What sort of messages is this sending to young men and women, boys and girls? Please senior monastics, get a grip - the junior monks (I presume it’s just the junior monks) are letting you down and undermining all of your good work.