Meditation with Song - A Buddhsit Feminist

Meditation with Song - A Buddhsit Feminist Dr. Song (Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology) is dedicated to enhancing women’s access to spiritual awakening and empowering women to teach and lead.

She works as the personal assistant of H.H.D.K.C. and is a graduate of The 3 Doors Academy.

10/21/2022

Do you want to rush through cooking mindlessly or treat it as a meditation practice to stay in the moment? Let's add mindfulness and gratitude to our cooking meditation

Silence is both a weapon to oppress and a door to liberationI always find it hard to rely on the door of silence to conn...
07/03/2022

Silence is both a weapon to oppress and a door to liberation

I always find it hard to rely on the door of silence to connect to my inner refuge. Recently I found out why: In my life, (and I believe in many people's lives) silence is often used as a weapon to oppress, to cut off and close up.

For example, I grew up with teachers demanding "No talking while I'm talking" to assert their own power; In relationships, I experienced passive aggression expressed in silence; On social media (especially in China), many of my posts advocating for women's rights have been deleted; I've also worked with many clients who are totally disconnected from their feelings because emotions and feelings were never talked about in their family.

The patriarchal system is an expert in using silence to oppress and maintain its status quo. On the interpersonal level, it uses silence to create gaps between people and break connections among them. On the intrapersonal level, it demands people to silence their pain, frustration, anger so we become emotionless robots and can be easily controlled and manipulated by the system.

I feel grateful that my feminist perspective helped me understand my resistance to meditate on silence. With this insight, I was able to release my painful memories with silence and experience silence with a beginner's curiosity in meditation. In this context, silence is achieved by not doing instead of doing. I just observe my inner chatters to naturally die down and exhaust on their own. Then, when it's really silent, I can almost hear the echo of spaciousness and luminosity.

06/28/2022

As a Buddhist feminist, of course I care about lives. But here is why I support women’s constitutional right to abortion.

First: overturning Roe v. Wade will not stop abortion. It will only stop safe abortion, which will end up costing more lives, especially underprivileged women’s lives.

Second: The assumption behind this ruling is that we as women are incapable of making the best decisions for our body. “My body my choice” is falsely interpreted as “Oh, if they have the choice, they will get an abortion for fun and have the life they want.”

This is bu****it. The most common reason for women to get an abortion is the lack of financial resources to raise a child. Abortion brings tremendous trauma to women’s body, spirit, and mind. If a state truly does not want women to end a pregnancy, it should provide legal, financial, and social support to make parenthood a feasible choice.

Third: Polarizing women and their children into opposing enemies - The murder and the victim - can only cause permanent damage to the bonding between a mother and her child. How can this possibly benefit the life of a child?

Fourth: Mandating motherhood but not fatherhood implies that women are solely responsible for getting pregnant. While in reality, many women are pressured into s*x by men who have no concerns for the consequences.

Last: This is truly about power not life. It will start with abortion, then move on to contraception, then gay marriage, then transgender rights, and etc.

A real solution should come from love and compassion not hatred or the greed for power.

My reaction to supreme court’s overturning Roe v. Wade as a Buddhist Feminist:Abortion brings tremendous trauma to women...
06/25/2022

My reaction to supreme court’s overturning Roe v. Wade as a Buddhist Feminist:

Abortion brings tremendous trauma to women’s body, spirit, and mind. Had there been enough options and resources, abortion would have naturally become the last choice instead of the only choice for many women.

If our society and legal system really cares for the well-being of both women and children, the real question should be: What is missing in our system that many women, especially underprivileged women, do not trust that they can bring their child up safely?

The pro-life narrative “so that the parent can have the life THEY want” lacks compassion. It polarizes women and their children into opposing enemies: The murder and the victim. It is hypocritical to claim “we care for the well-being of both women and children” while portraying women as cold-blooded murders. A real solution should come from love and compassion not hatred.

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