Most people think that an enlightened Buddhist Teacher is a fireman; His job is to put the fire out so that you can live in your home safely. But seeker beware! A fully enlightened Buddhist teacher is an arsonist! His job is to set your spirit on fire...by feeding the flames of your soul with love.
You may not need a teacher or you may be drawn to one - everything is individual. But the main thing you need to do is meditate and learn to stop your thoughts and enter into the ocean of infinite awareness. You will be directed from there.
Why don't more women attain enlightenment?
I observe that more evolved souls are now reincarnating as women. Women find it easier to meditate and easier to develop their psychic abilities.
The most important problem for our world to solve is the inequality of men and women.
When women come into their full power, a balance will occur which has not been seen for so long that no one remembers it.
Until women assume their rightful place on earth there will never be an end to wars, cruelty and oppression.
A species divided against itself will eventually fall.
If global extinction is to be avoided, woman must unite and come to terms with their destiny.
If even one woman in the West were to become enlightened, it would change karmas on this planet.
The world has never had a greater need for enlightened women and men.
What is male and female? Is it just a physical condition? No. The energy runs very, very differently in a woman than in a man.
What is a woman? A woman is chaos. Chaos is the naturally perfect state of all things.
A man, as we see in this world, is chaos, but he doesn't recognize that fact so he tries to bring order into everything. Order is disorder. Order creates disorder.
It is much easier for a woman to meditate than it is for men, innately. Their subtle physical bodies pick up the kundalini much more quickly.
There is something beyond the natural chaos that is woman or the chaos with implied order that is man, and that's the totality. To stay as we are, is not the issue, but to awake from the dream of life.
I don't work with men who are antagonistic to the liberation of women. I do work with quite a number of men who are supportive of the enlightenment of women. Such men are rare.
It is equally easy, initially, for either a man or a woman to attain enlightenment, what we would call liberation or self-realization.
It seems strange, since the aspect of a woman is power and that her subtle physical body conducts light very well, that more women don't attain enlightenment than men. I would suggest that the reason this is so, is cultural.
Women have been denied access to advanced methods of self discovery throughout the ages.
The few women who have been admitted to the study are usually given a second-class status in which they are taught only the basics of self-discovery.
They are denied access to the more advanced techniques of releasing the kundalini energy, which bring about quantum leaps in self-awareness.
Many Eastern spiritual groups feel that women are not capable of enlightenment. They advise women to have sons and pray to be men in their next incarnations
Women have been systematically pushed out of spirituality by men.
In the Bhagavad-Gita, a book that I revere and respect, it's indicated that even women, along with animals, are capable of attaining enlightenment.
