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Is it more difficult for a woman to become enlightened than for a man?

Enlightenment is not harder for women; their natural balance and ease often lead them to a deeper understanding without the frantic striving that characterizes many men's journeys.

— Osho
According to Osho, enlightenment isn’t harder for women; historically fewer women became 'Masters' because women are more relaxed, balanced and pragmatically oriented, lacking the inner tension and neurotic drive that pushes men—often crazed by wives and their envy of women’s biological creativity—into feverish achievement and truthseeking. Men’s imbalance creates seekers; women’s ease means less outward striving, not lesser capacity.

It isn’t harder for women; they just don’t feel the same push to chase big spiritual goals, while tense men run around and sometimes stumble into truth.

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