Thank God that we as humans evolved and our societies also evolved and recognized women as very, very respectable beings on the planet. Thank God for that. And now I come back to assure you that women can become Buddha – I told you that I have been Quan Yin Bodhisattva as a female quite many times. And in Buddhism, like Bhaddā, the wife of Mahākāśyapa, She also became an Arhat. And Đại Thế Chí Bồ Tát is also a female. They’re still in Amitābha Buddha’s Land. They just retain the female kind of an essence, but They don’t have to be a female or a male. […]
So it doesn’t matter if you’re a woman, you still can be a Buddha. I assure you that. Because quite a few of my so-called disciples, God’s disciples, in my group, they have become Buddhas. Some are still alive. The people who are alive, I do not want to mention because they might be ruined by other people who come around and blow up their ego and make them fall. It’s easy. It’s easy in this world to fall. Even… Remember the story of the monk Guang Qin. He came directly from Amitabha Buddha’s Land for 600 lifetimes before His last reincarnation on the planet. He still made many mistakes. […]
Devadatta was a monk, and he even enforced stricter rules for monks, more than the Buddha! […] But it doesn’t mean that if you eat one time a day, then you’ll become Buddha. It’s not like that. So this is also one of the wrong concepts. So if some people see a monk is a little bit fat and round and well-fed, and they think this monk is “not practicing well,” it’s not like that. And if a monk who eats only once a day looks like a skeleton, then he must be “very holy” – it’s not like that. […]
