According to Osho, allowing women into Buddha’s sangha wasn’t about fearing the future but about method: a meditative, ascetic path shaped for men would be redirected by women toward prayer, love, and worship. This shift alters the original discipline, so the religion’s longevity—as that precise meditative path—shortens. He cites Jainism, where devotional rituals gradually replaced pure meditation.
Osho says letting women join a meditation-only path turned it toward prayer and devotion, so the original version didn’t last as long.