Tag: enlightenment for all

• The Buddha’s Promise to an Anxious Woman That Forever Affirmed Female Enlightenment

  

  In the annals of world religion, the voices of women are often muted or absent entirely. Yet, a 2,500-year-old Buddhist text contains a scene of such profound personal validation and radical inclusion that it echoes into our modern search for spiritual equality. This is the story of how one woman’s fear unlocked a universal truth.…

  William Altig

  December 26, 2025

  The Great Teachings of the Lotus of the True Law

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• Daily Dharma Study

  

  He will be able to recognize All the sounds and voices Inside and outside the one thousand million Sumeru-worlds, [Each being composed of the six regions] Down to the Avīci Hell and up to the Highest Heaven. And yet his organ of hearing will not be destroyed. He will be able to recognize everything by…

  William Altig

  March 15, 2025

  Chapter 19, The Great Teachings of the Lotus of the True Law

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