Bornstein suggests, “from a point of nothing, really being nothing, we have the potential to be anything, including any gender”. Nagarjuna, a Buddhist philosopher states similarly, “since all is empty, all is possible”. It is through the emptiness of no-identity, without-gender, that we are able to explore our true selves.
Excerpted from an essay on Zen Buddhism, Taoism, and Gender by mekyla.
Sources:
Bornstein, Kate. My gender notebook. New York: Routledge, 1998. 167
Ricard, Matthieu, and Trinh X. Thuan. The quantum and the lotus: a journey to the frontiers where science and Buddhism meet. Trans. Ian Monk. New York: Three Rivers P, 2001. 31.
