Sage Women

[Anna Konstantaki]

Any female sages I can go look up?

[ajasatya]

@Anna Konstantaki sages have no gender. first step is quitting sexism.

[Pallero]

@Anna Konstantaki Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi.

[Dodo]

8 minutes ago, ajasatya said:

@Anna Konstantaki sages have no gender. first step is quitting sexism.

I have big problem here. The thing is when i walk on the street and see all those amazing gorgeous women, they activate deep desire in me. Lately ive been conflicted - i both like seing pretty girls and at the same time i feel angry at them for making me desire! Lol, my dick won't allow me to quit gender. Beauty is too strong!!

[Prabhaker]

@Anna Konstantaki

Bahá'í Faith

Táhirih

Bahiyyih Khánum

Ásíyih Khánum

Buddhism

Alexandra David-Néel author of books on Tibetan Mysticism

Yeshe Tsogyal 8th century C.E. Tibetan mystic, consort of Padmasambhava

Christianity

Beatrice of Nazareth Flemish nun

Joan of Arc French saint

Teresa of Avila Spanish saint

Hildegard of Bingen German saint

Heilwige Bloemart

Hadewijch Dutch nun

Margery Kempe

Anna Kingsford

Christina of Markyate

Flower A. Newhouse

Julian of Norwich

Marguerite Porete

Mother Shipton

Catherine of Siena

Mother Teresa

Lilian Staveley

Simone Weil

Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi

Hinduism

Vedic

Ghosha

Gargi Vachaknavi

Maitreyi

Medieval

Akka Mahadevi

Sant Andal (Nachiar or Goda-devi)

Sant Avvaiyar

Sant Bahinabai

Sant Janabai

Sant Kanhopatra

Lalleshvari

Sant Mirabai

Sant Molla

Sant Muktabai

Sant Nirmala

Sant Rupa Bhawani, saint-poet

Sant Sahajo

Sant Sakhubai

Modern

Amma Sri Karunamayi

Anandamayi Ma

Mata Amritanandamayi

Ma Devi Jnanabhanishta

The Mother

Mother Meera

Shree Maa

Sarada Devi

Gurumayi Chidvilasananda

Daya Mata

Sister Nivedita

Islam

Rabi'a al-Adawiyya

Hazrat Babajan

[Prabhaker]

36 minutes ago, Dodoster said:

Lately ive been conflicted - i both like seing pretty girls and at the same time i feel angry at them for making me desire!

The woman remains powerful only when she goes on hanging in front of you like a carrot -- never available and always available, so close and so far away. Then only is she powerful. If she immediately falls into your lap, then the power is gone. And once you have exploited her sexuality, once you have used her, she is finished, she has no more power over you. So she attracts you and yet keeps aloof.
She attracts you, she provokes you, she seduces you, and when you come close to her, she simply says NO.! Now that is simple logic. If she says yes, you reduce her to a mechanism; you use her. And nobody wants to be used. It is the other side of the same power politics.
Power means the capacity to use the other, and when somebody uses you your power is gone, you are reduced to powerlessness. So no woman wants to be used. And you have been doing that down the ages. Love has become an ugly thing. 
It should be the greatest glory, but it is not -- because man has been using woman and the woman resents it, resists it, naturally. She does not want to be reduced to a commodity. That's why you will see husbands just wagging their tails around their wives and their wives in such an attitude that they are above all this nonsense -- holier-than-thou. The wives go on pretending that they are not interested in sex, ugly sex. 
They are as much interested as you are interested, but the problem is: they cannot show their interest, otherwise you immediately reduce them to powerlessness, you start using them. So they are interested in everything else, in being very attractive to you and then denying you. That is the joy of power. Pulling you -- and you are pulled almost as if pulled by strings -- and then saying no to you. Reducing you to absolute powerlessness. 
And you are wagging your tail like a dog -- then the woman enjoys.

[Toby]

Irina Tweedie and Anandamayi Ma are amazing. And also Bernadette Roberts.

Edited December 8, 2016 by Toby

[Anna Konstantaki]

4 hours ago, ajasatya said:

@Anna Konstantaki sages have no gender. first step is quitting sexism.

I can´t follow you because...

1. Humans (are said to) have gender+ Sages are humans= Sages (should) have gender.

2. Gender and sexism are not the same thing. Unless you meant quitting gender. But that would mean a radical change in biology, psychology, sexuality,  culture and more which I am not sure how one could attain...

3. I guess you meant that wisdom has no gender and therefore gender is irrelevant. If that is the case I agree. If not... Then I think the life layout and path to reach wisdom in this world which believes in gender is influenced by it... Allow me to be curius, to learn and get inspired by beings I share the same anatomy and function(s) of  energetic "vehicle" with...

4. oh "I" love "you" too by the way...

[ajasatya]

@Anna Konstantaki the first set of teachings that really hit me came from a book called nothing special - living zen, written by a female zen master called charlotte joko beck.

the teacher doesn't really matter. for me, it's about being able to embody and practice the teaching. this is where the finger pointing to the moon analogy comes from.

[Anna Konstantaki]

6 hours ago, ajasatya said:

@Anna Konstantaki the first set of teachings that really hit me came from a book called nothing special - living zen, written by a female zen master called charlotte joko beck.

the teacher doesn't really matter. for me, it's about being able to embody and practice the teaching. this is where the finger pointing to the moon analogy comes from.

Well, I guess I´d miss out on many "moons" then without asking for these many fingers to point them for me. I don´t think all teachers "point" in the same way... But yes, you are right in the sense that after all it´s up to me if I will learn.

[Arman]

+1 for Anandamayi Ma

 

Edited December 9, 2016 by Arman

[Sevi]

@Pallero JSM?

[askdfjnak]

I recommend this book for the ladies:

https://www.amazon.com/Cave-Snow-Western-Womans-Enlightenment/dp/0747543895