Die deutsche Politikerin und Juristin Elisabeth Selbert (1896-1986) und Friederike Nadig sind zwei der vier Mütter
des bundesdeutschen Grundgesetzes. Ihrem Einsatz ist es zu verdanken, dass es seit dem 23. Mai 1949 den Artikel 3
Absatz 2 GG zur Gleichberechtigung der Frau gibt: "Männer und Frauen sind gleichberechtigt."

Symbol der Weiblichkeit/Frauen
stilisiert den Handspiegel
der römischen Göttin Venus

1872, vor mehr als 130 Jahren, kandidierte Victoria Woodhull, eine Frau aus der Unter-
schicht, für das Amt der amerikanischen Präsidentin. Sie hatte sich viele Jahre lang ihren Lebensunterhalt als Hellseherin und Wunderheilerin verdient und dabei viele Lebensge-
schichten und die Problematik einfacher Frauen und Männer bezeugen können. Um mitzu-
helfen, deren schwierige Lage zu bessern, beschloss sie, selbst politisch aktiv zu werden. Als erste Frau sprach sie vor dem Rechtsausschuss des amerikanischen Kongresses. Sie hielt Vorträge und füllte damit Hallen mit mehreren tausend Menschen. Und ließ sich als erste Frau als Kandidatin für die Präsidentschaftswahlen aufstellen.
Victoria Woodhul war Spiritualistin und betonte wiederholt, dass sie im Auftrag jenseitiger Kräfte unterwegs sei. Geistwesen und Engel hätten ihr aufgetragen, sich am politischen Geschehen ihrer Zeit zu beteiligen.

Ich bin als Prophetin in die Welt geboren worden und diese Überzeugung
erfüllt mich mit Demut, Zittern und Beben.
Augusta Ada Lovelace (1815-1852) English mathematician, writer, November 1844

Tarotkarte 3 – KAISERIN

Starke Frauen – unvollständige Namensliste

• Maria von Nazaret (Mutter Jesu)
• Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179) deutsche wissenschaftlich gebildete Äbtissin des Benediktiner-Ordens, Mystikerin
• Johanna von Orleans, französische Sensitive, auf dem Scheiterhaufen verbrannt
• Olympe de Gouges, französische Revolutionärin, Frauenrechtlerin
• Jutta Limbach, erste deutsche Vorsitzende des Bundesverfassungsgerichts
• Alice Schwarzer, führende Feministin Deutschlands
• Maria Jepsen, erste lutheranische Bischöfin
• Mary Robinson (*1944) erste irische Präsidentin, Weltälteste

Wangari Maathai

Sie ist mir zu gebildet, zu stark, zu erfolgreich,
zu dickköpfig und zu schwer zu kontrollieren.

sagte nach 10-jähriger Ehe der Exmann der bedeutendsten Umwelt-
schützerin und Frauenrechtlerin Afrikas Dr. Wangari Maathai (1940-2011).
Die schwarze Wissenschaftlerin und Umweltpolitikerin ist unter anderem für das von ihr initiierte Aufforstungsprojekt Green Belt Movement bekannt ge-
worden und wurde als erste schwarze Frau aus Afrika nach dreißig Jahren unermüdlicher Baumpflanzungs- und zugleich Frauenstärkungsarbeit 2004 mit dem Friedensnobelpreis ausgezeichnet.
Kenias Männergesellschaft hat sie nicht aufhalten können.
Sie und ihre Arbeit wurden jahrzehntelang von der regierungsfreundlichen Presse lächerlich gemacht. Sie wurde mehrfach von waldrodenden Land-
besitzern krankenhausreif und auch beinah totgeschlagen und von der Re-
gierungspartei, die erst Jahrzehnte später abgewählt wurde, ins Gefängnis geworfen. Seit 1983 hat die westliche Welt von ihr Notiz genommen und zeichnet sie mit Preisen aus.

• Die Gleichberechtigung ist ein moderner Mythos.
  Solange Feminismus ein Schimpfwort ist, kann es keine Gleichberechtigung geben. Denn solange Frauen sich davor fürchten, Feministin zu sein, haben Männer die Deutungshoheit darüber, was eine gute Frau ausmacht.
  Die männliche Herrschaft ist in weibliche Selbstbeherrschung und in die emotionale DNA der Frau übergegangen.
  Das mit dem Annehmen des männlichen Namens kommt aus derselben Ecke wie das väterliche Führen der Braut zum Altar: Es geht historisch gesehen um Eigentumsverhältnisse und Eigentumsübergabe.
  Unterwerfung und Sexualisierung werden uns heute als Gipfel der weiblichen Selbstbestimmtheit und Freiheit verkauft. Der Unterschied zu früher ist bloß: Die Frau wird nicht mehr gezwungen, sondern stimmt der Aufgabe ihrer Selbstbestimmung zu.
  Eine Studie unter Highschool-Schülerinnen in New York deckt sich mit meinen Interviews. Die große Mehrheit der jungen Frauen gab an, Blowjobs wie Hausaufgaben zu betrachten: eine lästige Arbeit, die gemacht werden muss, etwas, das sie lernen müssen und wofür sie dann bewertet werden. Die eigene Lust spielt dabei keine Rolle, es geht darum, dass die Bewertung gut ausfällt.
  Das älteste Mittel, um Frauen zu kontrollieren, funktioniert immer noch bestens: das öffentliche Beschämen. Weibliches Verhalten hat bis heute Konsequenzen, männliches sehr viel weniger. Wenn eine Frau begrapscht oder vergewaltigt wird oder wenn man ihr sexuelle Gewalt androht – was im Netz massiv zugenommen hat –, heißt es: Die muss sich ja nicht wundern, wenn sie so spät noch unterwegs ist, ein solches Foto von sich postet, solch feministische Meinungen vertritt. Thematisiert wird die Frau, die von ihrer Freiheit Gebrauch macht. Und nicht der Mann, der diese Freiheit verletzt.
  Frauen, die im Rahmen von #MeToo offenbarten, begrapscht worden zu sein, wurde vorgeworfen, sie würden dadurch echte Vergewaltigungen bagatellisieren. Damit sprach man ihnen gleich wieder das Recht ab, eigene Grenzen zu setzen. Es ist bezeichnend, dass während der Debatte geradezu wissenschaftliche Abstufungen von Sexismus, sexueller Belästigung und Gewalt gefordert wurden. Dabei hängt das alles zusammen: Sexismus ist die Abwertung von Frauen und der Nährboden für sexuelle Gewalt.
  Pornos haben eine einzige Botschaft: Sie macht, was er will. Darauf beruht die ganze Sexindustrie. Aus patriarchalischer Sicht ist da die Welt noch in Ordnung. Problematisch ist vor allem, dass die Filme immer gewalttätiger werden, das geben selbst die Produzenten unumwunden zu.
  Pornografie ist eine Parallelwelt zur Gleichberechtigung. Wer sagt, es handle sich ja nur um Fantasien, mit denen sich Männer jene Macht zurückholten, die sie im realen Leben verloren hätten, macht es sich zu einfach. Pornografische Bilder wirken auf die gesamte Gesellschaft: Der Porno-Chic ist im Mainstream angekommen, das sehen wir am Ekel vor Intimbehaarung.
  Laut Studien verändert das unser Verhältnis zur Gewalt: Wenn man Menschen Filme zeigt, in denen Frauen misshandelt werden und diese dabei protestieren, werden die Filme eher abgelehnt, als wenn die Frauen die Gewalt einfordern. Dann wird das als stimulierend empfunden. Denn die Botschaft ist: Wenn eine Frau herabgewürdigt wird und freiwillig mitmacht, dann gibt es kein Opfer und keinen Täter, und alles ist gut. Nach solchen Szenen wird sexuelle Gewalt als akzeptabler erachtet, und zwar von beiden Geschlechtern.
  Prostitution ist der Ausdruck sexualisierter Macht, die zeigt, wie alltäglich und gewöhnlich es ist, dass man Frauen kaufen kann. Es spiegelt ein Frau-Mann-Verhältnis wider, das so nicht mehr akzeptiert ist, aber immer noch praktiziert wird. Die Prostitution wird gerne als glamourös dargestellt und als ein Beruf wie jeder andere – trotzdem wollen die wenigsten Männer, dass ihre Töchter in dem Metier Karriere machen.
  Das Argument mit dem ältesten Gewerbe der Welt ist die älteste Entschuldigung der Welt, um patriarchalische Gesellschaftsstrukturen nicht hinterfragen zu müssen. Eine ehemalige Prostituierte hat das einmal so auf den Punkt gebracht: Prostatakrebs gab es auch schon immer, trotzdem tut man was dagegen. Abgesehen davon waren die ersten Prostituierten Sklavinnen, und ihre Töchter wurden in die Prostitution geboren. Das hatte mit Freiwilligkeit und Selbstbestimmung nichts zu tun.
  Der Ansatz, die Frauen mit der Legalisierung nicht länger kriminalisieren zu wollen, hat nichts gebracht, profitiert haben nur die Freier und eine hochkriminelle Parallelgesellschaft. Und gesellschaftlich gesehen heißt die Legalisierung nichts anderes als: Es ist in Ordnung, den Körper einer Frau zu kaufen und eine Frau zu benutzen. Die schwedische Idee, den Freier strafrechtlich zu verfolgen, ist sinnvoller, weil es klar macht: Frauen sind weder Objekte noch käuflich. Wer behauptet, es gäbe ohne Prostitution mehr Vergewaltigungen, sagt damit, dass alle Männer Triebtäter sind. Das ist sexistischer Blödsinn.
  Interview mit Dr. Sandra Konrad (*1975) deutsche Diplom-Psychologin, Psychotherapeutin, Sachbuchautorin, Die sexuell selbstbestimmte Frau ist eine Fata Morgana, präsentiert von der überregionalen Schweizer Tageszeitung Tages-Anzeiger, Gastgeberin Bettina Weber, Sonntagsausgabe, 7. Januar 2018

Aufruf des 14. Dalai Lama an die Frauen
Ich habe einen Glauben, weswegen mich manche womöglich als Feministen bezeichnen werden.
Vor Millionen von Jahren existierte kein Herrschaftsgedanke in der menschlichen Gesellschaft.
Alle waren gleich.
Die Leute arbeiteten miteinander und was immer sie hatten, teilten sie unter sich.
Schließlich wuchs die Bevölkerung. Einige bösartige Leute kamen auf die Idee, die Herrschaft einzuführen.
Die wesentliche Eigenschaft der Herrschaft ist der materielle Status.
Ich glaube, die männliche Vorherherrschaft [= Stolzkultur] stammt von damals.
Schließlich nahm die Bildung eine wichtige Stellung ein, wodurch sich das Gleichgewicht der Geschlechter
bedeutend verbesserte.

1. Geld oder Reichtum genügte nicht, um inneren Frieden zu bringen.
2. Das [naturwissenschaftlich orientierte] Bildungswesen genügte nicht, um inneren Frieden zu bringen.
3. Die Technologie genügte auch nicht, um inneren Frieden zu bringen.
4. Im 21. Jahrhundert müssen wir die Menschenrechte, Ethik, Mitgefühl und Zuneigung nachhaltiger fördern.
Frauen sind einfühlsamer angesichts der Schmerzen oder des Leidens anderer. […]
Daher bitte ich die [westlichen] Frauen, sich stärker [in Führungsrollen] zu engagieren.

GENDER
Basic gender equality – See also: Gender research

• Men are not better, women are not better. […] We're all following the path to light. But we have to understand the operative conditions of the universe. It's men who make the wars, it is men who are interested in hatred and killing. By and large. […] It is because men are afraid of women. If they would accept their female side, their female side, their femaleness, then there would be a balance. Frederick Philip Lenz, III, Ph.D. [Rama] (1950-1998) US American Buddhist spiritual teacher, 1, minute 17:27

Balancing and transcending gender roles – See also: Gender research

• [T]here is no difference between men or women at the deepest levels. The particle of being that is our existence is both male and female. [...] The physical bodies and the subtle physical bodies of a man or a woman are very different and affect us. The subtle physical bodies are composed of luminous fibers of light. A man's subtle is more fixed. A woman's subtle is more pliant, can retain light and change more easily. [...] At the deepest levels there is no difference. We are all one.
  As either a man or a woman, there is neither or both, you need to harmonize yourself with eternity. […] Whether you are homosexual or gay or whatever it really doesn't matter a bit. What matters as a man or a woman is that you see that you are not a man or a woman. You are both. And that you create a balance on both sides of your being. And it's necessary to do a little work at the side that you have been neglecting. As you do that you become stronger and stronger and stronger. Frederick Philip Lenz, III, Ph.D. [Rama] (1950-1998) US American Buddhist spiritual teacher, 1, minute 2:11 and 46:55

Enlightenment transcends gender tracks

• The [gender] situation is bad – it's bad for men, and it's bad for women. [...] Men are suppressing women [politically, philosophically, socially, economically, educationally, spiritually] and women are suppressing men [responding with the second attention for their survival]. [...] The pain has been greater for women, because some men are able to draw back when they recognize that level of manipulation [extended by women] and they resist it. [...] Thus many spiritual teachers who have mostly taught men have said, 'Stay away from women.' [...] They see the ability of women to use the second attention and realize that if a man becomes overly involved in relationships enlightenment is not possibl because he is directing too much attention to duality and not to enlightenment. Frederick Philip Lenz, III, Ph.D. [Rama] (1950-1998) US American Buddhist spiritual teacher, 2 Why Don't More Women Attain Enlightenment? – Rama (Dr Frederick Lenz), minute 39:30 and minute 40:55, YouTube film, 1:11:46 duration, posted 28. August 2012

• The solution is not easy, either for men or for women. Two people are fighting each other. They are so busy fighting each other that they don't realize that they could be inspiring each other, or giving each other strength or learning from each other. […]
  What is necessary for a woman to attain enlightenment is to undo everything what's been done. She will have to completely reexamine her life, her priorities, and specifically her use of the second attention, of course along with the physical attention, her sexual manipulation. […] She will have to realize that […] it will bring her no further, that she has to take that second attention which she's already developed and use it for spiritual pursuits.
  What a man must do is to realize that his continued belief in the inferiority of women is going to produce a type of karma which is going to hold him back and already has. And he must be honest enough and have enough integrity to change the description of the world even though everyone else in the world may not feel that way. By doing this a man and a woman they will not necessarily change the world but they will change themselves. They will enter into a state of balance. Frederick Philip Lenz, III, Ph.D. [Rama] (1950-1998) US American Buddhist spiritual teacher, 2 Why Don't More Women Attain Enlightenment?, minute 43:26

• You have to become both a man and a woman [beyond the gender roles engendered by society] to be enlightened. Simply meditating is not enough. […] Selfless giving is not enough. […] If you give to others but still hold the ideas about the inferiority or superiority of women or men you will still be stuck. You must accept what is real and what is true. And to do that you must examine yourself, your history, and simply start to observe. Frederick Philip Lenz, III, Ph.D. [Rama] (1950-1998) US American Buddhist spiritual teacher, 2 Why Don't More Women Attain Enlightenment?, minute 45:30

MEN
Emotional modus operandi of men

• There is this idea that women are emotional and men are not. And that's how they act. But actually, it's not. It is quite the opposite. Men are much more emotional. They love much more quickly than women do. [...] What I am suggesting is the way we see men and women outwardly and the way they act in society is not the way they are inwardly. It's backwards. And that's why not too many people in this world attain enlightenment. Frederick Philip Lenz, III, Ph.D. [Rama] (1950-1998) US American Buddhist spiritual teacher, 1, minute 24:57

Sex reveals men's attitude towards women.

• Many men have deep rooted problems regarding the status of women, and during sex these problems come out. They consciously or unconsciously project anger and hate towards women they have sex with. This energy enters a woman's subtle physical body and damages it. Frederick Philip Lenz, III, Ph.D. [Rama] (1950-1998) US American Buddhist spiritual teacher, source unknown

Men's liberation

• Men, if they don't begin the spiritual process fairly early, tend to fall into the world of ego – very quickly. There is this need to fight your way to the top. Men become obsessed with power which is completely unnecessary and destructive for them. It is better for women to be obsessed with power. […] Later at about their 40ties, 50ties, and 60ties [a essential time for men] sometimes their interest in meditation will come forward again. […] But most men, if they don't catch it at that age, they will dive into maya. Frederick Philip Lenz, III, Ph.D. [Rama] (1950-1998) US American Buddhist spiritual teacher, 1, minute 12:41

Men are less afflicted by the world than women.

• Men are not quite as affected by the (destructive) vibratory forces of the world as women are. Frederick Philip Lenz, III, Ph.D. [Rama] (1950-1998) US American Buddhist spiritual teacher, 1, minute 14:29

Recommendations for men

• Being a man is a very noble thing, a very powerful thing, a very gentle thing. [...] As a man it is necessary to become loving and gentle and kind, to be as strong as you can be and to be a fearless warrior, but at the same time to be delicate, to work on your capacity to love purely, to not throw sexual vibrations at [everyone] someone because of the way they look. [...] It is quite harmful to them and to you [the man] because you put yourself in a very low plane of consciousness. Frederick Philip Lenz, III, Ph.D. [Rama] (1950-1998) US American Buddhist spiritual teacher, 1, minute 45:40 and minute 51:11

Spiritual work for men in liberation

• If you're a man the best way to balance your energy is through love. […] Men have to soften their nature. It's necessary to practice the yoga of love and to loose interest in power and conquest. […] What you need to do is learn about surrender and selfgiving and humility and self-effacement, if you seek eternity. [...] It's important to work on the refinement of your nature and to meditate. [...] Meditate on love and on the heart. […]
  You need to learn to be a woman. You need to surrender, take eternity as your lover and just open yourself up to and let eternity do with you as it will. You need to become stronger and more patient. Frederick Philip Lenz, III, Ph.D. [Rama] (1950-1998) US American Buddhist spiritual teacher, 1, minute 25:49

Obstacles on the way to self-realization of men

• This is still the age of men although the age of women is around the corner. […] The primary problem men may have in self-realization is a kind of a low masculine energy that lacks sincerity, the lockerroom mentality, a lack of caring, being obsessed with oneself and one's own destiny as opposed to a group destiny, the idea of being the maveric, the I'm-just in it for myself-mentality. It is best to meditate on love and the heart and just to learn to love more and more. And this will be a painful process for you because men have turned off their emotional selves [for the idea of being a man]. […] Allow the emotional whirlpools to open up within themselves. […] Practice kindness. […] To work on humility is the most important.
  Meditate, ground yourself in eternal light, and see yourself in a new way. Frederick Philip Lenz, III, Ph.D. [Rama] (1950-1998) US American Buddhist spiritual teacher, 1, minute 30:10

WOMEN

• Women tend to open themselves up more during sex. Because their subtle physical bodies are so much more sensitive they tend to pick up the total energy of the man they have sex with. Frederick Philip Lenz, III, Ph.D. [Rama] (1950-1998) US American Buddhist spiritual teacher, Sexuality, presented by ramaquotes.com, undated

• It is most critical for a woman, or for a man who is very sensitive and opens up his heart, to be very selective about the people they have sex with. Frederick Philip Lenz, III, Ph.D. [Rama] (1950-1998) US American Buddhist spiritual teacher

Denial of spirituality to women

• Women have also systematically been pushed out of spirituality by men. […] Even 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. The idea is that to be a woman is a lower birth. But still, all can attain enlightenment if they truly aspire. So even in a high spiritual and philosophical book we see the concept, which is quite ridiculous, that to be a woman is in a lower birth, that to be a woman is innately wrong in other words. You made a mistake somewhere and that's why you are born in the body of a woman. […] Women are cast into an image. That image is inferiority. Frederick Philip Lenz, III, Ph.D. [Rama] (1950-1998) US American Buddhist spiritual teacher, 2 Why Don't More Women Attain Enlightenment?, minute 41:48

• If a woman places herself in an environment of light […] her growth will be tremendously fast. If she is in the opposite environment her descent will be very very quick. Frederick Philip Lenz, III, Ph.D. [Rama] (1950-1998) US American Buddhist spiritual teacher, 1, minute 14:35

Women dealing with other women

• Women don't support other women. They are jealous, they're vindictive. Again, simply because they don't realize that they have enough power within themselves. To enjoy other women and appreciate them it is not necessary to compete over a male. What an absurd idea! Women should be sisters and unite and pool their energy. Frederick Philip Lenz, III, Ph.D. [Rama] (1950-1998) US American Buddhist spiritual teacher, 1, minute 21:55

Women in relationship with men

• Women have to be very careful with their relationship with men. It's easier to have someone to make the decisions for you, but it's not, because then you're enslaved and you don't grow your own power, and you become weak. Women seem to have this idea to always be nice and allow people to walk all over them. You don't help men by allowing them to do that. All you do is fixate them in a bad consciousness. Whenever you allow someone to abuse you you don't help them, you are not a friend, because they are incurring bad karma. If you truly love someone, occasionally, you are being a little mean, if it's necessary. Or it may seem mean, it's not. […] You have to learn to become much more unattached. Frederick Philip Lenz, III, Ph.D. [Rama] (1950-1998) US American Buddhist spiritual teacher, 1, minute 24:02

Women's subtle body

• The subtle physical body of a woman is very different than that of a man. The subtle physical body of men are much more denser, more tightly packed, fixed. The subtle physical body of a woman is much more pliant. [It is a better conductor of light]. It's much easier for a woman to absorb and to retain light and to change. Frederick Philip Lenz, III, Ph.D. [Rama] (1950-1998) US American Buddhist spiritual teacher, 1, minute 4:07

• Women need to work on power and claiming their power and bringing the power of the kundalini from the root chakra and bringing it right up to the top of the head and asserting themselves. Frederick Philip Lenz, III, Ph.D. [Rama] (1950-1998) US American Buddhist spiritual teacher, 1, minute 25:54

Recommendations for woman

• As a woman you [are to] feel powerful, to feel strong, to bring the kundalini up [...], to assert yourself, yet to be inaccessible in a world that doesn't like women, to realize that most men hate women, because they are afraid of them, [...] the power of women, because they realize that women are much more powerful than men. And there is something in the unenlightened side of men that fears that power. It doesn't understand that if it would open themselves to that power that that power would enter them and help them in their liberation. Fearing that power they seek to put it down. And there is something in the unenlightened side of women that allows that to take place. It doesn't want responsibility. It wants someone to make the decisions. Ultimately that is not satisfactory because then a woman will be drained, tired and discouraged. Frederick Philip Lenz, III, Ph.D. [Rama] (1950-1998) US American Buddhist spiritual teacher, 1, minute 50:11

• As a woman you have to work on power, independence, self-confidence, supporting other women, and not always running to a man for justification, for condolence, for support. [...] You have to realize you have tremendous power in your being and you can bring that power into eternity. Frederick Philip Lenz, III, Ph.D. [Rama] (1950-1998) US American Buddhist spiritual teacher, 1, minute 46:01

Cultural error – Patriarchal conditioning of women

• Everything is reversed in this age. Men appear to be more powerful than women while the opposite is really true. What appears to be light is dark and what appears to be dark is light. Frederick Philip Lenz, III, Ph.D. [Rama] (1950-1998) US American Buddhist spiritual teacher, 1 minute 6:26

• Women have a misunderstanding of their purpose as women. Women think of themselves as being women and they are not. Women have a preconceived notion of what it means to be a woman and this notion is incorrect. This notion has been given to them by our society, history, men and other women. Frederick Philip Lenz, III, Ph.D. [Rama] (1950-1998) US American Buddhist spiritual teacher, 1 minute 5:55

• For a woman to attain liberation she has to realize that she has everything she needs within herself. Women have become dependent upon men in our society. They feel that they have to draw power from a man. They build their identities around men, or around their children. And doing so they do themselves and all women, and men a great injustice. Frederick Philip Lenz, III, Ph.D. [Rama] (1950-1998) US American Buddhist spiritual teacher, 1, minute 6:53

Women's liberation

• It is easier for women to attain to spiritual liberation than it is for men to do so. A woman’s subtle physical body accepts light in this world much more readily than does a man's. Frederick Philip Lenz, III, Ph.D. [Rama] (1950-1998) US American Buddhist spiritual teacher, 1, minute 00:08

Women and kundalini

• Women access kundalini very easily, but women also pick up negative energy very easily and it affects them more than men. Frederick Philip Lenz, III, Ph.D. [Rama] (1950-1998) US American Buddhist spiritual teacher, cited in: Idle Hearts

Women's subtle energy – See also: Energy and subtle energy

• Women are essentially much more powerful than men are. The kundalini flows through them much more readily. Frederick Philip Lenz, III, Ph.D. [Rama] (1950-1998) US American Buddhist spiritual teacher, 1, minute 5:24

• Women have developed a (fascinating, effective and justified) survival mechanism. It is the ability to manipulate men sexually [seduction]. Frederick Philip Lenz, III, Ph.D. [Rama] (1950-1998) US American Buddhist spiritual teacher, 2' Why Don't More Women Attain Enlightenment?, minute 17:45

Sensitivity and intuition – See also: Sensitivity

• Women developed the second attention as an art. They've had to, in order to survive. Frederick Philip Lenz, III, Ph.D. [Rama] (1950-1998) US American Buddhist spiritual teacher, 2 Why Don't More Women Attain Enlightenment?, minute 17:00

Women and power

• Women must realize that power is their true aspect and support other women. If men see you a certain way, the image that is projected onto you is not your real self. You have to become commanding and assume responsibility for your power. Frederick Philip Lenz, III, Ph.D. [Rama] (1950-1998) US American Buddhist spiritual teacher, source unknown

• With women their subtle physical body fade away much faster in this world. While the strength of a women is the fact that her subtle physical body is pliant and conducts energy it's also the thing that is problematic for her, particularly in this age. […] The destructive vibrations are very powerful. […] Men are not quite as affected by the vibratory forces of this world as women are. Frederick Philip Lenz, III, Ph.D. [Rama] (1950-1998) US American Buddhist spiritual teacher, 1, minute 13:45

• Women must work doubly hard to overcome their conditioning in order to become enlightened. Frederick Philip Lenz, III, Ph.D. [Rama] (1950-1998) US American Buddhist spiritual teacher, 1

SEXUALITY
Sexuality – on the way to self-realization – See also: Sexuality

• Sexuality is neither good nor bad. It depends how you approach it. Change is necessary. The most basic change that we make has to do with our sexual identity. Sex does not matter. It's not important, unless you make it important. People place much too great a charge on sexuality. It's not necessary to be celibate to attain enlightenment. It's necessary to be yourself. There will come a time though when you will probably be celibate for a while on your way to enlightenment in one incarnation or another. […] Then you'll return to relationships or sexuality perhaps when you have sufficient detachment so that it won't be sex anymore. When you're with someone it will be a giving, a pure self-effacement, pure giving, a transfer of energy. There won't be any desire. There will be no concern for the personal self or physical satisfaction. Then it can't be harmful. Your emotions won't get wrapped up. Every action will be service and self-giving. Frederick Philip Lenz, III, Ph.D. [Rama] (1950-1998) US American Buddhist spiritual teacher, 1, minute 15:18 and minute 43:35

Men's sexuality

• [F]or most men sexuality is filled with violence. In the act of sex itself, while making love, men become very hateful. They very often hate the women they are making love to. [...] It is because men are afraid of the power of women. They sense this tremendous power and rather than helping to foster it or accessing it they want to cover it over. They are afraid of their own impotence. And the unrefined masculine energy enters easily into a woman, particularly during sex. [...] Women affix themselves very readily emotionally, much more so than men do. When a woman falls in love she will think of the man she is in love with constantly. Frederick Philip Lenz, III, Ph.D. [Rama] (1950-1998) US American Buddhist spiritual teacher, 1, minute 15:23

Self-actualizing men in relationship with women

• In relationships with women it is necessary to be gentle and to foster the power of women, to realize that a great deal of wrong has been done [to women]. […] As a man who is working towards liberation you can aid women, mainly by leaving them alone and by not projecting sexual energy towards them. [...] It hurts her [subtle body]. [...] The macho image is absurd. [...] Frederick Philip Lenz, III, Ph.D. [Rama] (1950-1998) US American Buddhist spiritual teacher, 1, minute 26:38

Women's sexuality – ⚠ Demise of women's aura due to sexual contacts with men

• If a woman kept her emotional relationships to a minimum and if she has relationships, sexual contact, to make sure that it is with a nice person, someone who is not sexually abusive, and most importantly for women is not allow herself to become emotionally wrapped up in a man or in men then she can retain the integrity of her subtle physical body. And with meditation that power will grow stronger every year. Frederick Philip Lenz, III, Ph.D. [Rama] (1950-1998) US American Buddhist spiritual teacher, 1, minute 20:17

Both genders fear sexuality. – Men fear impotence, women fear an overflow of sexuality.

• Men are terrified of their sexuality. They're all afraid of impotence. Women are terrified of their sexuality because they've got so much of it. And we live in a society that says they don't. And it's very incongruent because women are told that they don't have sexuality, that men are sexual and women basically are not and actually quite the opposite is true in terms of the kundalini and the structure of the subtle physical [bodies]. Women are much more sexual – as Masters and Johnson have discovered – than men are and people are very put off by that. Frederick Philip Lenz, III, Ph.D. [Rama] (1950-1998) US American Buddhist spiritual teacher, Sophisticated Sexuality YouTube film, minute 65:36, 1:12:58 duration, recorded 1983, posted 28. August 2012

Male disdain damages the female subtle body.

• The damage that occurs to the subtle physical body of a woman occurs in several ways. Most of it is sexual. Most women lose their power in sexual relationships or simply by being exposed to the lower sexual energies of men. Sexuality is neither good nor bad. It depends on how you approach it. Frederick Philip Lenz, III, Ph.D. [Rama] (1950-1998) US American Buddhist spiritual teacher, 1, minute 14:54