A Quote by Frederick Lenz

Why don't more women attain enlightenment?

Frederick Lenz

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Frederick Lenz
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February 9, 1950 - April 12, 1998

In your everyday life you always have opportunities for enlightenment. If you go to the rest room, there is a chance to attain enlightenment. When you cook, there is a chance to attain enlightenment. When you clean the floor, there is a chance to attain enlightenment.

Shunryu Suzuki

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.

Frederick Lenz

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

Frederick Lenz

By god the Buddhist means that from which the universe was born, the unborn of the Buddhist scriptures, and by soul that factor in the thing called man which moves towards enlightenment. Why need more be said of it, at any rate those who are not content with scholarship, but strive to attain that same enlightenment?

Christmas Humphreys

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.

Frederick Lenz

Some souls attain enlightenment. No one knows why. You could say it is individual inclination. I'm not convinced that's the case.

Frederick Lenz

Further, if Spirit has any meaning at all, then it must be eternal, or without beginning or end. If Spirit had a beginning in time, then it would be strictly temporal, it would not be timeless and eternal. And this means, as regards your own awareness, that you cannot become enlightened. You cannot attain enlightenment. If you could attain enlightenment, then that state would have a beginning in time, and so it would not be true enlightenment.

Ken Wilber

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.

Frederick Lenz

The limitations that we can see of the sexual description of reality are very apparent. Very few men attain enlightenment, even fewer women.

Frederick Lenz

Whether or not enlightenment is a plausible goal for us is a vital question for our lives. If it is possible for us to attain such perfect enlightenment ourselves, our whole sense of meaning and our place in the universe immediately changes. To be open to the possibility is to be a spiritual seeker, no matter what our religion. Enlightenment is not meant to be an object of religious faith. It is an evolutionary goal.

Robert Thurman

Be humble in order to attain enlightenment. Thus, after attaining it, be more humble still.

Samael Aun Weor

Simply by performing good actions and thinking good thoughts you will not attain enlightenment. It takes something more.

Frederick Lenz

And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment.

Bodhidharma

Through meditative techniques, one can free the mind of delusions and attain what we call enlightenment.

Dalai Lama

Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.

Dogen

Yes, women are stronger than us. They face more directly the problems that confront them, and for that reason they are much more spectacular to talk about. I don't know why I am more interested in women, because I don't go to any psychiatrists, and I don't want to know why.

Pedro Almodovar

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