There are two types of people. Just as physically there are men and there are women, psychologically the same distinction also, the same division exists. But a man may be physically a man and may not be psychologically a man; he may have a feminine psyche. Hence things become complicated. A woman may have a masculine psyche. There is no necessity that the body should decide the psyche.
The woman, the feminine quality I call the moon type, and the masculine quality I call the sun type. Their paths are bound to be different. Of course the goal is the same; they reach the same peak but they follow different paths.
The feminine psyche follows the path of love. Sufism is basically a feminine approach towards existence. The masculine spirit will not find any appeal in Sufism, in the path of love; it will be more attracted to Zen, the path of meditation. The path of love is more of feelings, emotion; it is greener. The path of meditation has the beauty of a desert, the silence, the infinity of a desert.
And if you have been in the desert at night, there is nothing more beautiful than that: the total silence -- no birds, no animals, no trees, no people, and the stars seem so close that you can touch them, and the air is so pure, so unpolluted, so transparent. The path of meditation is the path of the desert. It is not an accident that many meditators have moved to the deserts, for the simple reason that it corresponds to their inner work.....
-Osho, Dance Til the Stars Come Down From the Rafters, #4