Note: this piece originally appeared on my Patreon as part of my free public offerings. It’s one of my most popular free posts, so I’m including it here as well. Since her death in 1964, American poet Sylvia Plath has become a hero of feminism, an icon of what feminists see as the struggle of women to reconcile their family responsibilities and personal relationships with their creative and professional ambitions. Her husband, Ted Hughes was a famous poet in his own right. He is universally blamed by feminists for her gruesome suicide. His notorious affairs and alleged emotional and perhaps even physical abuse of Plath is often cited as the final nail in the coffin of a brilliant woman who suffered from depression for all her adult life. Following Plath’s suicide, radical feminists openly accused Ted Hughes of driving his fragile wife to suicide, some even going as far as to threaten to murder him on her behalf. Others wrote poems condemning both Hughes and Sylvia’s father, now famously known as the subject of her bitter poem
Look, I don't know what book of the death they refer to. But the only one serious is about helping the dead person to go towards a good rebirth.
The conditio sine qua non of Buddhism is love and compassion. Without love and compassion, and selfishness, morality and so on you are not a Buddhist. Those people were crazy if they have put together occultism and Tibetan Buddhism. They are opposite.
Look, I don't know what book of the death they refer to. But the only one serious is about helping the dead person to go towards a good rebirth.
The conditio sine qua non of Buddhism is love and compassion. Without love and compassion, and selfishness, morality and so on you are not a Buddhist. Those people were crazy if they have put together occultism and Tibetan Buddhism. They are opposite.
An interesting read, full of fascinating details I (surprisingly) didn't know.
I see your name + comments pop up in Orthodox chats so happy to now be reading these too.
It will be a happy day when these works are destroyed forever and their authors forgotten.