Furthermore, if it happens that women come who are desirous of sensual pleasures and who seek to seduce the bodhisattva, at such times the bodhisattva should overcome his own thoughts, have patience and not allow them to arise. . . . Then again, the bodhisattva contemplates all sorts of impurity in desire. Of all the kinds of ruination, ruination by women is the most severe. One may still remain briefly close to such phenomena as knives, fire, lightning storms, enemies and poisonous snakes. But one cannot grow close to the miserliness, jealousy, hatred, flattery, seductive defilement, disputation, greed and anger of a woman.
Women are petty people.
Their minds are shallow and their wisdom is scant. Their eyes are only directed towards desire. They have no regard for wealth, nobility, wisdom, virtue or fame. They focus on carrying through with the evils of desire and in destroying a persons roots of goodness. When the lock of womanhood restrains a man, the defilement is solid and its roots go deep.