Fourth Sunday in ordinary time. Today’s readings: Jeremiah 1:4-5, 17-19; Psalm 71:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 15-17, 1 Corinthians 12:31-13:13; Luke 4:18.21-30 In her book Cave in the Snow. Tenzin Palmo’s Quest for Enlightenment, Vicki Mckenzie tells the fascinating story of Diane Perry, who is one of the world’s most revered Buddhist teachers; the first-ever Western woman to receive full bhikṣuṇī ordination in the Tibetan tradition in 1973. As a novice nun in 1964 she received the name Tenzin Palmo, and had to live in an all-male monastic setting, experiencing misogynistic discrimination, even though monks were very nice and kind to her. Vicki Mckenzie’s book Cave in the Snow. Tenzin Palmo’s Quest for Enlightenment. After six years, she was allowed to become a hermit in a cave in the Indian Himalayas. There she spent 12 years, the last three spent in full retreat. After 24 years, she was forced by the police to break the spiritual law of seclusion, whereby “her retreat was irrevocably broken”, and to quit India in 10 days. Instead of falling prey to disappointment, Tenzin Palmo said to herself that evidently she was not meant to stay there in long meditative solitude. Immediately after...