Women and Enlightenment

The following is a talk given by Zen Master Rama about women and their enlightenment.  The first time I read this and applied the teachings to the best of my current ability, I experienced an unprecedented lucidity of mind and witnessed my own previously unconscious acts of psychic manipulation.  Since then I have shared this teaching with many of my sister goddess tribe and they have reported immense shifts in their energies.  This is equally important for men to be aware of.  iNJOY, apply and become.

(source: ramaquotes.com)

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.

Enlightenment comes through the feminine side of the being.

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.

Women vibrate at a slightly different rate that passes kundalini very easily. It is problematic though, because a woman also picks up negative energy, it affects her more.

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.

People always say, 'A good man is hard to find.' You've never heard that about women, have you?

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. 

Historically men have suppressed women quite effectively. They have suppressed women since the beginning of our history.  

There's this absurd innate need in most men to feel that they're more powerful than women are, which is ridiculous. 

Women have been taught that they are not powerful; they've been given an opposite description, that they are weak. The word "effeminate" implies weakness. 

A lot of men hate women subconsciously or just are very confused about them or are afraid of them or are afraid of their power, or want to suppress them.

Men have reacted very negatively to the power that is inherent in women. 

They have rejected that power and sought to convince women of the exact opposite, that they are powerless.

They have done this through sexual repression, economic repression, political repression, social repression, ideological repression and spiritual repression. 

Men, through the ideas they have, project a field of attention that limits women.

Because they dream so strongly in themselves, their superiority and women's inferiority, they project an image that a woman finds very, very difficult to fight against. 

Consider a very natural process, menstruation, and how the association has been created in which this process is dirty, degrading.

Many religions over the years have suggested that when a woman is menstruating, she should be avoided and not touched.

In their confusion and delusion, men hate the womb that gives them birth.  Not all men, certainly , but enough men to run the world.

Men are suppressing woman politically, philosophically, socially, through denying them education, equal rights, equal employment, and just by setting up a description of the world in which a woman views herself as a vessel, as someone who's only there to have children, as someone who can't succeed, even spiritually. 

Up until now, women have depended completely upon men for their survival.  You're dealing with thousands of years of history, where sexual slavery was the condition. While suddenly the laws may change, to some extent, the conditioning doesn't go away that fast. 

Women have been dependent upon men for their survival, for the survival of their children.

A woman's place, her entire experience in life, has been and in many places still is dependent upon the man she marries. 

It's unfortunate that we see a great many women settling. They think that simply because they have gotten the right to vote, own property and have gained some simple freedoms that the battle for women's suffrage is over.

The male establishment power structure has not really changed its attitude towards women. They did not give these rights to women out of kindness. These rights were fought for by many highly evolved women who cared about the lives of their daughters and granddaughters.

When you wish to subjugate a people, you have to convince them of their own inherent weakness. 

The social repression and ideological repression of women began with depriving them of education, political decisiveness, mobility and essentially creating sexual slavery. 

Women have been sexual slaves for most of recorded history.

Women are the sexual slaves of men. They have been convinced that they are the "weaker" sex through a variety of manipulative devices in the Judeo-Christian tradition.

God is seen as a male whose first creation was another man, Adam, whom we are told was made in his image and likeness.

God then made the first woman, not directly out of his own substance, but from Adam's rib. Her purpose was to serve man.

Eve was blamed for the fall of man, and in return all women to come were to inheret her karmic responsibility for the so-called "fall of man". Their punishment was to experience pain in childbirth, and never be trusted by man or God again.

By asseting the creation myth, in which God is a man over ealier creation myths in which God was viewed as a woman, men hoped to prove that the position of supremacy that they had assumed was Divine Law.

With this imaginary mandate from God, men have not allowed women to be given the educational, religous and social freedoms that are necessary for women to free themselves and become all that they are capable of being.

Men fearing their innate power, pushed woman back into slavery.

In the case of the brujos, the sorcerers in Mexico, the Spanish Conquest forced them to develop their second attention.

 The second attention is the occult side of the being. It is the ability to manipulate others, be it for good or ill intent. 

Women have developed the second attention because they were repressed, because they were manipulated, because they were used as property, as chattel, historically, for thousands of years and still today. 

In order to survive women have developed their second attention, which men have not evolved. They use the second attention, and have used it most effectively, to manipulate men; it's a justifiable reaction that has been necessary for survival. 

What women have done is developed a survival mechanism, and it's a fascinating one and it's been effective and justified, in my opinion. That is the ability to manipulate mensexually.

Woman knowing this was not right but not knowing what else to do, developed the only means to fight for their survival that they had, since their survival was dependent upon men, and that was to use sexuality to survive. 

Women wrap men with their second attention.

What they have done over the centuries is evolve the fine use of sexual power.

It's everyday for a woman to project a very strong wave of sexual energy through her second attention into a man, for him to assume that the energy he feels is his own. 

Women developed it as an art. They've had to, in order to survive. The problem is that it limits you. You are in a controlling situation in duality.

Men are really not all that interested in sex. For most men, sex is a very simple experience. 

A young girl is taught through the example of other women how to manipulate a man.  She's absolutely correct in doing so because the job she will get, the man she will marry, the experiences she will have, are very much dictated by her ability to do so. 

As a woman experiment and observe. Observe yourself as you go through a day. You will be amazed to discover the number and variety of things you do just on the physical level to control, or at least pass without being hassled.

Consider your second attention as a spiritual perceiver. Consider how you use it.  You may plead innocence. You're not doing anything wrong. Don't feel that you've sinned. You have done what you had to do to survive, as did your mother, as did your grandmother.

Review your description of the world, what it is to be a woman, and see how inadequate it is. 

See how it's a philosophy that's been handed to you by a bunch of men who were afraid. So instead, they overcompensate with hatred and violence and repression.

Examine what you do and examine what other women do. Examine the dreams that men hold of you and how they force you in a corner, literally and figuratively.

Your very success is what's going to destroy you.  The survival mechanism that you've developed is the very thing which will cause the downfall of your subtle physical body.

Many women devlop the second attention, attract a great deal of sexual attention, and for many years, appear to be very vibrant and strong.

Then there will come a time where, very quickly, a woman will lose what some call her beauty.

She'll find rapid deterioration, which is particularly noticeable in the skin.This is the sign that the subtle physcial is aging.

All disease and aging occurs as the subtle physical body breaks down.

The problem is in the type of energy that is directed, either in the act of sex or simply walking down the street or talking to someone.

The attention that's being projected by men who simply watch you walking down the street, in the office, or in bed, in most cases, is going to be extremely destructive.

The sexual energies returned, when they're not evolved, are still linked with violence and the fear of power -- the fear of women.

These energies when directed towards the subtle physical body cause the subtle physical body to break down, to lose its lumonisity.

If it's not true love, then that energy will gradually wear the subtle physical down.

For men, it's necessary to push aside that marvelous ego that tells you that you are all knowing and capable, and see that you are not.

Much of the time your attention is directed towards the world of sexuality, it's done through the second attention of a woman - not simply in your physical presence but from thousands of miles away. 

The majority of times when a man thinks he has been the instigator, which men like to think, in sexual and romantic experiences, that has not been the case.

Women have allowed you to think that, which is a part of their inaccessibility in using their second attention. 

For men, it's absolutely essential to stop believing that they're superior to women because that very belief engenders ego, which sets them off-balance. Therefore, they don't realize that they're being manipulated by the second attention of woman because their ego won't permit them. 

What a man must do is realize that his continued belief in the inferiority of women is going to produce a type of karma that is going to hold him back, and already has. 

  

Men have learned the secret of unity. 

Women do not help each other attain enlightenment because in the description of the world they've been given, unlike that of men, it's every woman for herself in order to survive.

Your very own sister may take your husband away and your husband may be the ticket for economic survival. 

Observe how women defeat each other; whether it's simply for a promotion, for a husband, for survival, so she won't be beaten up in a relationship.  She has to now fear every other woman because every woman represents a threat to her.

If her security rests upon her alliance with a man, another woman may take that man away; therefore women have no unity between themselves. 

Sisterhood is powerful. Woman can support each other as women, in their pursuit for enlightenment or anything else, without fear. But as long as she's still in the commodities exchange market, buying and selling, she must fear the competition. 

It's necessary, sometimes, for women to embrace the company of other women even more than might seem normal. But there is no normal in this world.  Radical change is necessary to counterbalance what has occurred.

As a woman you must unite with other women for a while and perhaps even reject the world of men, just to balance yourself.

You must ban together with other women of like mind and for the first time find fellowship, womanship, without the need to compete, without having to climb to the top over each other.

In meditation you can erase the conditioning. But still, you have to fight the description of the world that everyone else is carrying around.

The average woman today is almost completely out of touch with her own power.

While notable advances in certain parts of the world in woman's rights have occured in the last hundred years, the centuries of conditioning and the mentality that views women as inferior still prevade our world today.

Women must work doubly hard to overcome their conditioning in order to become enlightened. They must erase both conscious and unconscious ideas of sexual inferority that have been programmed into their awareness.

Women have very powerful second chakras, and the goal is to move that energy up and use it.

Meditation erases conditioning. It allows a person to channel the kundalini energy through their subtle physical body and reach enlightened states of awareness.

Through the proper application of kundalini, a woman can quickly become aware of the tremendous power that resides inside herself and reach enlightenment.

For the first time, we live in a society that shows any sign of the possibility of women changing this condition.

Only until you rise above the use of the second attention for manipulation that you can enter into a consciousness in which there is enlightenment.

I'm not blaming men, I'm not blaming women.  What's gone by has already gone by. It's history.  It's done.  There is no right or wrong in higher spirituality.

I don't feel that men have been wrong. I don't feel that women are wrong for using their second attention to combat sexual repression.  That's just how it's been.

Today for the first time, at least in this country, you don't have to use those powers to survive.  Our societal structure now provides the possibility to survive without using sexual manipulation.

More men will continue to attain enlightenment than women, unless women change their use of the second attention.

You have developed the second attention much more than you realize and you use it more than you realize as a woman.  That's why I feel women can attain enlightenment more easily than men.

If you seek to change your life and attain enlightenment, you must deal with these questions. If there is no truth in this, then ignore these silly words.