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Does the mind have a gender, or is it only a property of the body?

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Gender is only a property of the body.

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Good question, really.

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I mean, people don't realize that, but yeah.

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Gender actually is, in Buddhism, it's a physical, it's called itindriya and purisindriya, I think is the other one.

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So females have the physical, female faculty.

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Males have the male.

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And I suppose you could conjecture that some people have both or neither.

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I don't really know how it works.

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But the important point is that, yes, it's only physical.

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There is no mental aspect to gender.

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Except as to, first of all, how the physical affects the mental, because the female physical faculty

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produces certain chemicals and the male faculty produces different chemicals and those chemicals affect the mind differently and to some extent, I think, I don't really, I'm not a biologist, but they affect the mind in different ways and so condition the person's mind in different ways.

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This is why

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you would expect that females exhibit certain characteristics, whereas males exhibit certain different characteristics in general, because of the influence of the different chemicals, I would say.

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Among other things, of course, the physical characteristics, differences between the female body and the male body,

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will also affect one's behavior indirectly through conditioning.

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And then on top of it you have culture and society that highly specializes gender roles and gender expectations and so on.

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Gender, the way we look at gender.

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And all of that of course has a profound impact on the mind.