--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Interesting Q&A session, interesting question. For what
> it's worth, Rama (Frederick Lenz) used to give a very
> strong talk entitled, "Why don't more women attain
> enlightenment?" A strong part of his focus was on the
> enlightenment of women, and he had some equally strong
> opinions on the subject. I'll gloss over a few of them
> here, for anyone who is interested.
>
> First, he said that from his perspective women should
> *theoretically* be more able to realize enlightenment
> than men, because of the more refined qualities of their
> subtle bodies. So it's a puzzler when you look at his-
> torical records and discover that so few women actually
> *did* realize enlightenment.
I'd wonder whether the reason so few women are
in the historical record as having achieved
enlightenment is not because so few women actually
achieved enlightenment, but rather because so few
who did were noted as having done so in the
historical record--either because they weren't
mentioned at all by the men who wrote the record,
or because these men didn't recognize or didn't
bother to note or even actively suppressed that
information.
Some feminists use the term "herstory" to refer
to women's history to emphasize that the standard
records, largely written by men ("HIS-story"),
have tended to ignore women.
