"enlightened" Females??

[LRyan]

Something occurred to me tonight in between watching videos, I don't recall coming across any females that are enlightened?

If I come from an understanding of non duality, there is no female or male just what in conscious reality looks like a female...?

And there is no such thing as enlightenment there is only what is and everything in reality is one,there is no separation there's nothing to do, there is no path and no me....

Edited April 2, 2017 by LRyan

[Prabhaker]

21 minutes ago, LRyan said:

I don't recall coming across any females that are enlightened?

Exactly the same number of women attain to enlightenment as men. 

List of female mystics

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

Jeanne Guyon

Margery Kempe

Anna Kingsford

Christina of Markyate

Flower A. Newhouse

Julian of Norwich

Marguerite Porete

Mother Shipton

Catherine of Siena

Mother Teresa

Lilian Staveley

Rose Marie Muraro Brazilian feminist

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

Sarada Devi

Gurumayi Chidvilasananda

Daya Mata

Sister Nivedita

Islam

Rabi'a al-Adawiyya

Hazrat Babajan

Judaism

Hannah Rachel Verbermacher

Other female mystics

Helena Blavatsky

Annie Besant

[LRyan]

Wow, I didn't realize that.  I do recognize some names of course but that is a big list.   I don't often run across any of these names that are in the public eye or it seems to me there are many more males that are vocal via the internet or maybe that is a mis-conception also?

Thanks for the list!

[Guest username]

2 hours ago, LRyan said:

 

And there is no such thing as enlightenment there is only what is and everything in reality is one,there is no separation there's nothing to do, there is no path and no me....

This is a trap. Keep inquiring.

 

From the perspective of the absolute, it doesn't matter what you do. But from a relative point of view, the jiva seeks liberation.

[LRyan]

 

9 hours ago, username said:

This is a trap. Keep inquiring.

 

From the perspective of the absolute, it doesn't matter what you do. But from a relative point of view, the jiva seeks liberation.

It could be a trap of the mind?

It seems to me there are two clear areas of perspective.....either you are nothing and nothing is happening and there is no choice and the body is part of a consciousness that already knows what to do and we do not need to seek or look for anything because we alredy are what is........ OR

There is a path or a way or a means to know your true self which is called enlightenment or liberation or freedom from mind.

I am still looking but in the most simple way, I seem to be seeing two different ways or maybe two tricks, I don't know...

[Primeval]

Don't forget Gangaji!

https://www.youtube.com/user/stillinawareness

[Natasha]

@LRyan Lisa Cairns and Gangaji are my faves:

 

[Loreena]

Male and female are two sides of the same coin. One is heads, the other tail. 

 

 

 

Edited April 2, 2017 by Loreena

[Nahm]

@LRyan Look around. 

You are not nothing. There is no such thing.

You are everything.

The path is not direction, like a path you would walk on.

The path is how you live. How you observe. Right thinking, etc. 

This can go in any direction. It is not predetermined. You are choosing. 

@Loreena That's two great jokes in one. Very funny. 

And.......so........how's that simple thing coming...? ?✏️?

[Arkandeus]

if I recall Jane Roberts is so high level spiritually she's able to channel her higher self directly into this dimension

 

 

[Leo Gura]

Tons of enlightened females. They just don't get as much attention.

[Leo Gura]

@My_Name_Is_Mud I don't see many hot girls at meditation or contemplation retreats. They must be partying it up at the clubs instead. Can't blame them. Being hot isn't easy

[LRyan]

@Nahm What do you think about Jim Newman and Tony Parsons....where they believe we are nothing and we have no choice in anything?  

16 hours ago, username said:

 

[Sevi]

19 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

@My_Name_Is_Mud I don't see many hot girls at meditation or contemplation retreats. They must be partying it up at the clubs instead. Can't blame them. Being hot isn't easy

For those party settings, there is a Russian saying: there is no ugly woman, there is less vodka; 

And for those meditation retreats: there aren't lack of hot girls, there are lack of arrivals into the sahasrara.

Edited April 2, 2017 by Sevi

[Martin123]

3 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

@My_Name_Is_Mud I don't see many hot girls at meditation or contemplation retreats. They must be partying it up at the clubs instead. Can't blame them. Being hot isn't easy

Hot girls often fall into the trap of being validated by society for their looksand before they know it they are lost in a world that suddenly doesn't care and have no idea which way to go.

It can be a true challenge no joke.

[Prabhaker]

3 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

I don't see many hot girls at meditation or contemplation retreats.

Hot girls are dangerous, ugly women are good – they have to be good. You can find them at meditation or contemplation retreats. Whenever a woman is beautiful she need not care about being nice. It is enough to be beautiful, why she should be nice too? She will be nasty! Ugly women are very nice. They compensate by being nice, by being very loving. Ugly women are medicinal, but beautiful women are sweet in the beginning and very bitter in the end. 

The outer beauty comes from a different source than the inner. But the inner beauty comes from your own growth of consciousness. But sometimes it happens that your inner beauty is so much, your inner light is so much that it starts radiating from your outer body. Your outer body may not be beautiful, but the light that comes from your sources, your innermost sources of eternal life, will make even a body which is not beautiful in the ordinary sense appear beautiful, radiant. 

You fall in love with a woman or a man, because you can see only the outer. And just within a few days you start discovering his inner state; it doesn't correspond to his outer beauty. On the contrary it is very ugly.

[Martin123]

@Prabhaker dude no offense but your generalization of ugly and beautiful girls is innaccurate. The rest is very agreeable though.

Edited April 3, 2017 by Martin123

[Toby]

4 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

@My_Name_Is_Mud I don't see many hot girls at meditation or contemplation retreats. They must be partying it up at the clubs instead. Can't blame them. Being hot isn't easy

What? I don't know where you go to but in my experience there are always very attractive women around. Countless.

[Martin123]

Im tired pls delete

Edited April 3, 2017 by Martin123

[Martin123]

@Annetta well that's a beautiful start.

Self love has layers to it.

You begin with talking kindly, then you level up to treating yourself kindly.

Then you actually take it to a feeling based level by following up on Leo's visualization in "how to accept yourself"where he activates your heartcenter.

Then you radiate self-love through the way you treat others and not wanting anything back, and the final stage of the baseline of self-love is steping into your power and creating a life that you desire.