[Note: This is the final edit of the Hindi translation of Antar Yatra, later published as part of Sadhana Path. This is for reference use only, pending publication.] My Beloved Ones, This afternoon I would like to discuss a few more points relating to the real center of the body. ...

Question 1 : Would you please explain what the real Differences Between men and women are? The psychology movement is basically male chauvinist, and strangely, it has exploited women more than men. Most of the differences between men and women are because of thousands of years of ...

Osho on Responsiblity of being a Mother [A sannyasin says: I am pregnant and I want to ask you if I can be a good mother and if the child can be okay. ... I wanted a baby so much; that's why I don't know. Maybe I'm not strong enough -- that's why I wanted to ask you. Osho checks h...

Question 5: I have seen many Women having strong Catharsis in Meditation, But never Men. Why? Don’t they need it? They need it more than any woman. But they have been conditioned not to weep, not to cry; from the very childhood a boy is taught not to be sissy, not to be like a gir...

Question 1: Beloved Osho, Would you please explain what the real differences between men and women are? The psychology movement is basically male chauvinist, and strangely, it has exploited women more than men. Most of the differences between men and women are because of thousands...

Question : Osho, How can india be free when her women are not? R. K. Karanjia, India is suffering from a very ugly and rotten past, and the problem is that Indians go on praising their past as golden. The whole world, except India, believes in evolution; India believes in Involuti...

Question 1: Beloved Osho, What do you think about the attitude of the messiahs, avataras, tirthankaras, paigambaras towards women? Just disgusting. These people, who have been thought to be messengers of God, who have been teaching compassion, love, have never considered at all th...

Question 1 Beloved Osho, The other day in discourse you mentioned that when a woman wears red lipstick it is ugly, because it is not natural. i am from new york where it is required that women shave their legs, underarms, dress stylishly, have their hair neatly combed, wear makeup...

Question 1: Beloved Osho, I have noticed that the women here are becoming juicier and more active, while we men are becoming lazier and lazier. would you comment? The women is not the weaker sex, as it has been said by man for centuries. The woman is the stronger sex. She is made ...

Question 2 Beloved Osho, Women have a better feeling for others than men do. How come there have been no great masters among them so far? It is a very delicate question, and a little difficult too -- about women everything is difficult -- but I will try my best. First, you never a...

To give birth to a religion one has to be like a feminine body, a womb. The feminine consciousness is extremely introvert. A woman lives in herself; she has a very small world around her, the most minimum possible. That is why you cannot interest a woman in things of great vastnes...

Question 3 Beloved Osho, Why is it so difficult for men and women to be friends? it seems so ordinary, and turns out to be almost impossible. either there is an ugly compromise -- like man and wife -- or else passion that eventually turns into hate. why is there always ugliness be...

Question 4: You say that it is important to have courage and sincerity. therefore i will drop my fear and ask you the questions deepest and most honestly within me, and i hope you will answer. How can there be any generalizations about the qualities of man and woman? we are each a...

Question 5: Beloved Osho, Having had the adventure of looking through ancient scriptures of yours, i have noticed that for at least ten years you have kept on repeating this legend: "there are four times more female disciples than male disciples. the same was the case with buddha,...

Osho on Feminine Qualities - Love, trust, beauty, sincerity, truthfulness, authenticity - Love, trust, beauty, sincerity, truthfulness, authenticity -- these are all feminine qualities, and they are far greater than any qualities that man has. But the whole past has been dominated...

Question 4: Why have your teachings attracted so many followers, and why are women, particularly, attracted to your teaching? Truth has a magnetic force in it. It always attracts, particularly those who are young and fresh, particularly those who are not burdened with old rubbish ...

Question 1 Beloved Osho, Why is it still so difficult for me to see the worth of my feminine qualities? There is still something in me that judges them as weak and having a feeling of not being able to survive. can you please say something about this? It is the long condemnation o...

Question : Beloved Osho, In the west, the portrayal of woman’s body is used in films, books and magazines. This art form is known as ‘eroticism’. Through the sculptures of khajuraho and ajanta i have seen that a similar art form was there in the east. Can you talk about the differ...

Osho on Women’s Menopause In each person's life the time of change comes. And one of the greatest things to remember is that when you change a certain pattern of life, you have to change naturally. It is not in your hands. Biology makes you capable of sex at the age of thirteen or...

Question : It seems the Whole Commune is run by Women. Is there a particular purpose or strategy to that? Certainly there is a particular strategy. Man has dominated women for centuries and forced the idea on them that they are the weaker sex, that they cannot do anything that man...

on hell of living with a woman and the hell of living without a woman Question 3: My love-life drama now reflects an old saying of Humphrey Bogart's: Women -- they're hell to live with, and hell to live Without. What to do? Deva Abhiyana, one has to pass through this hell. One has...

Question 2: Beloved Osho, Women have a better feeling for others than men do. how come there have been no great masters among them so far? It is a very delicate question, and a little difficult too - about women everything is difficult - but I will try my best. First, you never as...

[A mother has brought her baby. Osho reminds her to enjoy being a mother.] Don't think of it as a duty. One tends to think of it as a duty sooner or later, and the day you think of it as a duty, something dies, something of immense value disappears; the relationship is broken. Thi...

Osho on Difference in Female mind and Male mind Modern research has come to a very significant fact, one of the most significant achieved in this century, and that is that you don't have one mind, you have two minds. Your brain is divided into two hemispheres: the right hemisphere...

Question 1: Osho, Can you say something about the mystery of women? Devageet, it is one of the ancientmost questions. Man has always puzzled about women, and the real problem is neither man nor woman. Reduced to the factual, to the existential, the problem is between the head and ...

[In The Prophet by Khahlil Gibran, a woman asks Almustafa to speak about pain. Would you comment on this excerpt?] And a woman spoke, saying, Tell us of Pain. And Almustafa said: your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the frui...

Question 3: Beloved Osho, As women, our natural Creativity is expressed through the bearing and raising of children. What happens to that energy now that that area of expression is no longer viable? Energy is always neutral. It has no program in it. It can save or it can mar, it c...

Question : Beloved Osho, Why is it so hard for me to surrender to a man? Then don’t surrender. Why unnecessarily create trouble for yourself? Who is telling you to surrender to a man in the first place? Don’t surrender. Why do you start taking unnecessary troubles on your head? If...

Osho on Woman destructive attitude during Periods [A sannyasin says she has her period and she always goes mad during it and the previous days she had smashed some things in the house] To feel wild is not bad, but to break anything is not good, mm? Whenever you feel wild, dance a ...

Osho on need of Contemporary Woman Question : What do you see as the greatest need of Contemporary Woman? Because the woman has been dominated for centuries, religion has disappeared from the earth. If religion comes back, the woman will again gain respect. And because the woman h...

My own vision is that the coming age will be the age of the woman. Man has tried for five thousand years and has failed. Now a chance has to be given to the woman. Now she should be given all the reins of power. She should be given an opportunity to allow her feminine energies to ...

Lao Tzu says the nature of the existence is more like the female, more feminine. And the analogy is beautiful. He is not saying that existence is female - remember this. This is not logic, he is not trying to prove that existence is female. He is not for the lib movement - no. He ...

Question : Osho, What do you think about the attitude of the Buddha, Messiahs, Avataras, Tirthankaras, towards women? Just disgusting! All these people have insulted woman-kind down the ages as much as it is possible. None of them can be forgiven. None of them can be forgotten. Ch...

[Mansoor asked: Yes…. How to love my mother? The translator went on to say that Mansoor loved his mother and felt that she was the one he was looking for as a lover or wife – but that he felt this was not good.] A mother has to be loved in a totally different way. She is not your ...

on Male Ego - man insensitivity towards Woman Question 4: Beloved Osho, A woman friend of mine often uses the words "male ego" about Me, which I feel is not true about me. From the very beginning i have been open and vulnerable to Feminine energy, which is teaching me to become a ...

There are two paths to the divine: one is awareness, the other is love. Through awareness you come to a point where time is transcended. Through awareness you fall into the now. There is no more past and no more future. Now is all, and now is not part of time at all. Now is beyond...

Question 8: Osho, This crazy, sweet, totally demanding and physically exhausting, delightful marathon called motherhood… Since this fireball came to us – almost two years now – not one uninterrupted night's sleep, not one day of rest. Feeling nothing as important as simply being p...

Osho on Men Question 1: Beloved Osho, I always hear you saying nice things about the Women. Could you Not stick up for the Men once in a while? It is a very difficult question. I could not sleep the whole night. I tried and tried hard to find something nice about men, but I have t...

Feminine Respect the feminine -- it is higher, certainly higher, than the male qualities. But the male chauvinist mind is incapable of accepting it. Out of an inferiority complex the male mind has tried to repress the feminine and of course because the male is aggressive, violent,...

Question 2: Are Women more courageous than Men? They certainly are. These are men just feeling jealous... nothing courageous. The woman is more loving because she does not live by logic, by reason, but by pure emotion and heart. The way of the heart is beautiful but dangerous. The...

Osho on Birth of a Mother Women can wait, and they can wait infinitely, their patience is infinite. It has to be so, because a child has to be carried for nine months. Every day it becomes heavier and heavier and heavier, and more and more difficult. You have to be patient and wai...

Question 3: Are all Women really Soft, Feminine and Loving? I have not said that – that all women are really soft, feminine and loving. Neither are all men aggressive, violent, ambitious, hard. Because deep down in you the consciousness is neither. The anima and the animus, the ma...

Question 1 Osho, Can a woman really drive a man crazy? It depends on the man. If he is wise he becomes a henpecked husband; if he is not so wise, then there is no other way than to be crazy. That's why ninety-nine point nine percent of men decide to be henpecked husbands -- just t...

People look at each other, but they don't look at each other at all. They are just looking for the sex object. A woman passes. Have you ever seen a woman as a being? Sometimes you become interested in a woman, but not as a being. You feel a certain attraction, but not as a being, ...

Question : What’s wrong with the Men? Man has been running the whole society for thousands of years, and he has proved absolutely impotent to run the society in the right direction. Give the chance to the woman now. My commune is running far better than any society which is domina...

[A sannyasin says he has been feeling very miserable. Last night he stayed up to look after his son who was sick. He has heartburn often and thinks it is repressed anger. Osho checks his energy.] Nothing to be worried about…. Just ordinary cycles of misery and happiness. I don’t s...

Question 5: Beloved Osho, There is research in the west that suggests that men are happier being married than not, and that the suicide rate is lower for married men. and that the reverse is true for women. please comment. Prabhudasi, there is a difference between the male mind an...

Question 5: Beloved Osho, Are you against the women's liberation movement? Shakti, I am not against women, I am all for them. But the liberation movement is something ugly - and I know the responsibility is on the male chauvinists. They have been doing so much harm to women down t...

Question 1 Osho, Although i am deeply satisfied and nourished by my ekdam punjabi food, still from time to time i feel a strong pull towards other dishes, and enjoy italian pizzas, french wine, or japanese sushi. it's not that i don't want to eat out occasionally, but i'd like to ...

Osho on Making Sex as Meditation Question 1: Beloved Osho, My girlfriend told me I am a little boring, not very juicy, very Dependent and a victim. Then I felt very guilty and depressed and Utterly unworthy. I began to feel inside me a big no: towards Existence, life, love, you. M...

Question 1: Beloved Osho, It seems to me that you are truly the first man this planet has ever known who really understands women and accepts them. please comment. Prem Bubula, I have told you that a woman is to be loved, not understood. That is the first understanding. Life is so...

on "Why women are not yet liberated?" This is one of the reasons why women are not yet liberated, because they cannot become a force together. They sympathize with the man; their sympathy is not for other women. With other women they have a relationship only of jealousy -- if she ...

There are two approaches towards reality: one is logical. Of that approach, Aristotle is the father in the West. It simply moves in a line, a clear-cut line. It never allows the opposite; the opposite has to be discarded. This approach says A is A and never not A. A cannot be not ...

Osho Quotes on Woman “A Woman is to be Loved, not understood. That is the first understanding” ◇ “It seems to be absolutely unbelievable that people who are born of women — their blood, their bones, their marrow, everything is from the body of the mother — have condemned woman con...

on Women Woman Has Been Repressed Continuously “Man has ruled over women for millennia. He has been given every opportunity and chance and woman has been repressed continuously, has been crippled. She has not been allowed to compete with man shoulder to shoulder in life. That’s wh...

Osho Quotes on Mother "In the human experience, the relationship between a mother and her child is the closest to compassion. People call it love but it should not be called love. It is more like compassion than love because it has no passion in it. A mother’s love for the child i...

Fear of Women is basically the Fear of the Mother [A sannyasin said that he had discovered a violence inside himself, and a fear of women. He said he felt the fear of women was connected with his birth, which he had relived in the group and which had been very painful for him.] Th...

Question : Beloved Osho, Are you against the Women’s Liberation movement? Shakti, I am not against women, I am all for them. But the liberation movement is something ugly — and I know the responsibility is on the male chauvinists. They have been doing so much harm to women down th...

Question 4 : Why have your teachings attracted so many followers, and why are women, particularly, attracted to your teaching? Truth has a magnetic force in it. It always attracts, particularly those who are young and fresh, particularly those who are not burdened with old rubbish...

Osho on Feminine Qualities “Grace is a feminine quality.” - Osho, "Is the Grass Really Greener...?, #8" “A woman is more humble, more grateful, more loving.” - Osho, "Communism and Zen Fire, Zen Wind, #5" “To be feminine is to become passive, to be feminine is to allow; to be femi...

Every man is a woman too and Every woman is a Man too Question 3: Some days I feel like a man and others like a woman. Can I be Both? Or will I grow up Schizy? Everybody is both, and you have become aware -- that's very good; that's a great insight into your being. Everybody is bo...

Question: What is your attitude toward Women? What should be the attitude of society towards Women? What is god and what does attaining god actually mean? Let us first dispose God. There is no God, so the question of attaining him does not arise. Anybody who attains him, simply pr...

[An older sannyasin, recently arrived from america, says: I’m aware of great anger sometimes for not much reason. It passes over very quickly, but I was not aware of it before. Perhaps I always had it…. ] No, it happens after a certain age that polarities change. It is a very subt...

Osho on Pain of Witch and Beauty of Witches Question 2: Beloved Osho, Sometimes people have said that they see in my face that of a very old, hard witch. and i have felt inside me a deeply buried, revengeful, cold rage against all men who have ever forced, raped, killed or hurt wo...

Osho Quotes on Respecting Women “Every man should be respectful to women: they are your mothers, they are your beloveds. Every woman should be respectful towards men: they are your children, they are your lovers. There is no question of any conflict between man and woman: they are...

[A forty-eight-year-old sannyasin says he still has a sexual block which he experiences as an unwillingness to say what he really wants when he is with a woman. He has noticed too, that his sexuality seems to be on the decline…. ] That time is the time, mm? Somewhere near around f...

Man has been taught to be just a man: never to show any feminine traits, never to show any softness of the heart, never to show any receptivity, always be aggressive. Man has been taught never to cry, never weep – because tears are feminine. Women have been taught never to be in a...

Osho on Motherly Qualities of woman Buddha says : TO BE A MOTHER IS SWEET, AND A FATHER. IT IS SWEET TO LIVE ARDUOUSLY, AND TO MASTER YOURSELF. TO BE A MOTHER IS SWEET.... Why? Just giving birth to a child is not to be a mother, remember. Otherwise there are millions of mothers on...

Question 2: Beloved Osho, Sometimes people have said that they see in my face that of a very old, hard witch. and i have felt inside me a deeply buried, revengeful, cold rage against all men who have ever forced, raped, killed or hurt women. This feels like something i have been c...

Question 3: What are the reasons for man’s insensitivities and how to remove them? When the child is born the child is helpless. The human child, particularly, is totally helpless. He has to depend on others to be alive, to remain alive. This dependence is a bargain. The child has...

Osho on Female Creativity - Female Creative Spirit Question 2 Could you speak of the creative Female? I am a woman, And the creative spirit burns strongly in me. Recently, You mentioned that there should be much art and music, But it was in reference to men. I know women can offer...

Question 1: Do we need special meditations for Women? No. Meditation is concerned with your consciousness -- and consciousness is neither man nor woman. This is one of the fundamentals I want the world to be aware of. All the religions have denied the woman any possibility for spi...

Question 3 Beloved Osho, Whenever, i am in love with a man, for those years no other man attracts me. but for the man, it's not the same. though he is happy and satisfied with me, and wants to keep the relationship with me, he has his short love affairs every few months. i underst...

Question : What exactly is man? MAN IS A MERE PERHAPS, A POSSIBILITY, A POTENTIAL, a becoming, a longing. Man is not yet. Man has to be. That’s the agony of man, and the ecstasy too. The beast is — there is no growth possible. It is a finished product. There is no possibility to s...