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Ayya Khema

Ayya Khema (1923 - 1997) was an international Buddhist teacher, and the first Western woman to become a Theravada Buddhist nun. An advocate of Buddhist women's rights, in 1987 she helped coordinate the first conference for the Sakyadhita International Association of Buddhist Women in Bodh Gaya, India.
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What Love Is

On the spiritual path, there’s nothing to get, and everything to get rid of. The first thing to let go of is trying to “get” love, and instead to give it wholeheartedly.

By Ayya Khema
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