All have the opportunity….
2012 August 30
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Online since 2006, Full Contact Enlightenment is where you can find the rants, ramblings, wisdom, musings and stumblings of a lightly-seasoned and still percolating dharma student and practitioner.
Blog posts within do not reflect the thoughts of my teachers, my teachers teachers or any of my past lives (or do they?).
In the ‘Devadatta’ chapter of the Lotus Sutra, an eight year old female Naga, after listening to Manjushri preach the Lotus Sutra, transforms her body into that of a male human and immediately reaches full enlightenment. This narrative reinforces the ironic viewpoint prevalent in Mahayana scriptures that a male human body is required for Buddha-hood, (even if a being is so advanced in her realization that she can magically transform her body at will and demonstrate the emptiness of the physical form itself).