Yes, if you get yourself into relatively ego free state, women will tend to throw themselves at you. Then 5 minutes later if you slip out of this state, suddenly the attraction fades. Quite amazing really. Money is the same - it comes to you if you don't chase after it.

http://financetrends.blogspot.com.au/2012/01/zen-and-art-of-trading.html

Importantly, it's not the wealth or the high status that attracts women; it's the fact that relatively selfless guys tend to drift to the top of their chosen careers and thereby attract the status and wealth that goes with that. In other words, material success and high status positions tend to go to those who have (to some degree) let go of their egos. There's a correlation, but the wealth and status is secondary.

Of course some men become wealthy by force, manipulation or underhanded means (politicians, bankers and so on). Their wives married them because they saw all the right signs (wealth/status) but forgot about the person's ego. The wealth and status had come by an unnatural means and so there's no love and a lot of unhappiness. They confused *wealth and status* with *the cause of wealth and status*. I imagine it would be an easy mistake to make.

So if you were to get into spiritual practices because you thought you'd attract women more easily, I think that could work for you. But if you have no job and no money, it can't work. Again, the reason why it won't work is not because you don't have wealth and status, it's because if you had a relatively ego-free existence, you'd already be attracting money and a job and all that goes with it. See what I mean? Consciousness is primary, outward manifestations are secondary.

I suppose the ability to keep eye contact would have an impact...

Yea, women hit on me all the time now. When I look in the mirror and don't register the image as "me", sometimes I even feel like hitting on that person. Or was this question just directed at the mens?

I'm having fun with you... haha... because this question is a crapshoot. There isn't a solid version of enlightenment that pans across peoples' personalities. Personality traits are still around. Lots of the people I've met who have lots of experience with meditation, enlightenment, whatever, are really different and I can't say there's much about any of them I can hone in on that seems like some similar "quality" of enlightenedness.

Why do you ask?

I think it just makes you less preoccupied with the whole subject, an underrated benefit.

My nose is still too big, I guess it's back onto the cushion for me

But seriously, one of the fruits of my practice is that my voice got lower and deeper. When I reach Barry White levels I guess I'll be fully enlightened

Power is hot.

Meditating has a giant potential to improve your success with women.

1) Mediation improves equanimity and unattachment. These are the single most important factors when dealing with women. They are the benevolent forms of apathy, the reason that bad boys are so attracted to women.


2) Meditation improves the vibe you give off . How you make the woman feel is the second most important thing. The gold standard is “The way you feel is the way the women feels”. If you are having a blast the woman will have a blast, if you feel super cool and awesome the woman will perceive you as cool and awesome.

The way people perceive you is exactly the way you feel

I’ll say a couple more things but I want this to be digested first. If you really get these fundamentals… you will be a monster around women.


-d

In my personal experience, what seems to have made me more attractive was meditation itself, not necessarily the progress/enlightenment that came with it. I think it's somewhat like this: Once you get some decent mindfulness and concentration going, your mind relaxes, your body relaxes, your face relaxes, and you look healthier, happier, more wholesome, so people will like your appearance. As you start understanding the nature of reality, though, you inevitably come to see that "falling in love" and "passion" and "commitment"—and all the other stuff that your partner is probably going to be looking for from you—are basically nothing but deluded mental fermentations leading to suffering, so as soon as you open your mouth, especially now that you're not really into lying anymore, the women who initially had the hots for you will change their mind really quickly.

Taking all that into consideration, I'd say your first A&P may very well represent the peak of your attractiveness to the opposite sex.

First of all, try to find the source of the question. If you find the source, you get one step closer to finding the answer yourself.

In the meantime, the answer is yes. Not only opposite sex, but all life - women, men, adults and children, birds and foxes. You become attractive to LIFE, because you are life. The same way women and men find babies, before they have developed personality "cute", they find enlightened beings "cute". There is no rational reason, just "something about them". You are everything any person is looking for, whether they know it or not. I am not going into detail to explain how this attraction is expressed, to not feed your mind with some image of "Enlightenment" and what it entails - it has been done so many times already (most are wrong).

The attraction from opposite sex is absoulutely there, it is totally up to being to act on it or not. From my own experience, I can't see any permanently enlightened being going around having one-night stands with everybody. Whoever comes into contact with this, on a romantic/sexual level, falls in love on the deepest level of their being. If they lose it, it breaks their heart. I can't see myself ever doing that, of course can't speak for the others. Deep desire for a meaningful romantic relationship can be there, but it is not exactly desire as you might understand. It is seen as an experience, whether one chooses to have it or not, is up to every being themselves.

A realized being, let's say a man, is everything a woman is looking for, on the deepest level. The "unpleasant" body odors are gone, replaced with excess amounts of pheromones, unconscious immediate attraction to women. The full relaxation of the body in the permanent meditative state is expressed in the eyes - whether one sees it consciously or unconsciously, it creates an immediate attraction, across sexes. The natural non-neediness, no desires, is irresistible to women. It is kind of same when you are looking for a relationship or a partner, you attract the people that you don't really want. But when in a relationship, and this initial satisfaction and love (piece of pure love experienced for a short period of time if one is still identified with ego-mind) becomes subconsciously attractive to opposite sex. I guess it is commonly interpreted as "you are shining". When being is permanently liberated, this shine is natural, it needs no outside experience to have it. It is permanent, and it is obvious.