The woman of Buddha Sakyamuni

[Individual]

Enlightenment comes naturally. After many reincarnations. You can't stop being something. You can't stop being yourself. You can't provoke it.

This seems to be the view propounded by the Ajivikas, which the Buddha rejected. The Buddha taught that enlightened comes through gradual, disciplined training. Your remarks above about the Buddha's woman, assuming they're about his wife, they're also wrong. She was well taken care of. He was gone, but everything is impermanent. No one would fault the world if the Buddha was taken away by cancer and yet if he was taken away by a quest to seek enlightenment for the sake of all sentient beings equally, this is a controversy?

[Fede]

Today, now, I am a woman.
I am a Buddhist woman.
I am a free-thinker and independent.
I am what many might call 'liberated'.
But I am not 'Feminist.'

I used to think as you do.

I have moved on somewhat.....

I actually find your view jaded, and objectionable.
It is obvious you have a prejudiced view and are propounding an agenda.
I think you need to shed the obscurations and clouds from your eyes and understand, know and accept that Gender, in Buddhism is entirely irrelevant.
Starting from this viewpoint, then you can build on the real message of Buddhism:

Life is Suffering/Unsatisfactory.
It is thus because we cling, grasp and insist....
We can rise above and leave this clinging, grasping insistence.
The way to do this, is through the Eightfold Path.

Nowhere here, is it even insinuated that there exists the Woman of Buddha Sakyamuni.
But there is emphasis on the clinging, grasping insistence.

Stop insisting.

You'll do fine.

[clw_uk]

This seems to be the view propounded by the Ajivikas, which the Buddha rejected. The Buddha taught that enlightened comes through gradual, disciplined training.

I agree here, it does seem to be an Ajivika thinking


In reguards to the Ajivikas, I read somewhere (cant find the site now) that out of his contemporaries the Buddha opposed the Ajivikas the most, since they denied action and result while others like ajita kesakambali denied result but not action etc