Gender, An Origin
5.04.2005Buddhism creation stories intrigue me. Before human existence, only Soul, or consciousness, existed. This existence was without dualities. However the Soul saw that it was alone and became afraid. It suffered. Realizing it was free from harm only saddened Soul. Now it was alone. And it suffered more.
Out of this suffering Soul decided to making a second. Voila! Female and male came into existence.
Funny?! In Buddhism, suffering and attachment create gender. How different from monotheistic religions where gender creates suffering.
Indeed, gender creates suffering. But, truly, if I have learned anything in my transsexual lifebody, it is my attachments to fear and loneliness and neediness that create my gender.
Gender is a ruse, existing only in my mind. Injecting powerful drugs, cutting and reshaping my body is my form of body modification/mortification.
Through these rituals, and now here, I know gender depends on minds spinning stories about genitals, hormones, chromosomes, etc. etc. etc.
All of it is empty…and very, very delicious.