Femininity

 

 

Become more feminine, become more soft, delicate, and allow it to happen. Your ego is trying to create trouble. Your ego is saying to you 'Be strong, be masculine, be this and that.' Don't go on that male chauvinistic trip -- forget about it. Relax. Whatsoever is coming naturally is beautiful. This femininity has to be absorbed.

 

It is not weakness, it is delicateness; it is softness that you are thinking is weakness. To use the word 'weakness' is to evaluate it. Your ego is evaluating it, condemning it -- that this is something wrong, you are becoming weak. Ego always thinks of softness as weakness. That's why women have been thought down the ages to be the weaker sex. It is not true, it is just false.

 

The woman is the stronger sex but she is delicate, that is true. And now biological investigations prove that. Women live five years more than men: their average age is five years longer. More men go mad than women, double the number. More men commit suicide than women, double the number. More men are prone to illness than women; women have more resistance against disease and illness than men. Women are capable of tolerating pain much longer than men. Just think of giving birth to a child or having a child in your womb for nine months and then for years the nuisance that the children create. Only a woman is able to bear it all. She has a kind of strength which is totally different. She may not have muscular power but muscular power is not the only way to judge strength. The deeper way to judge strength is by the capacity to resist illness, death, the capacity to tolerate pain, the capacity to remain alive in spite of all that is against life, the capacity to remain sane in spite of the whole insane world.

 

Drop that word 'weakness' -- simply call it softness, femininity, and allow it. Much more is on the way. And it is beautiful!

 

-Osho, “The 99 Names of Nothingness, #2”