Gentle, loving people stay quietly helpful in a harsh world; they can’t force others to change, but their care keeps life going.
From the Discourses
Passages where Osho speaks to this question — each links to the complete discourse.
Osho, in this intensely aggressive age, people with a feminine-hearted disposition find it difficult to live anywhere, because even education trains one to live aggressively. It feels as if people will force you to become like themselves. So what should one do?
Just now Morarji went on a fast. In that fast he tried to kill two birds with one stone: first, to make Indira bow down, and second, to seat Jayaprakash in his place. Because Jayaprakash’s name is rising rapidly. And it seems he has become the foremost in the opposition; that too is a pain. So if you go on a fast-unto-death, your name becomes foremost in the newspapers. These are big games. From small children to the aged, it makes no difference. Because the craving to gratify the ego remains. So among the Jews there is this tale that the thirty-six hidden saints wander the earth. Even though no one is helped by them, they cannot awaken anyone, no one listens to them, still they continue their work out of love. What do you think—that when I speak to you, it is with the assurance that you will surely…
Osho, up to the fourth body there remains an electrical difference between woman and man. Therefore, does the effect of shaktipat on a female seeker and on a male seeker differ when the conductor is a woman or a man who has reached the fourth body? And why?
In a spiritual land, a predominance of feminine personality When the history of the world is written spiritually—and when we cease to take only material events as history, and take events in consciousness as true history—we shall understand that whenever a country becomes spiritual, it becomes feminine; and whenever it becomes feminine, civilizations far cruder than itself will defeat it. It is a striking fact that those who defeated India were far behind India—practically wild and barbaric. Be they Turks, Mughals, or Mongols—any of them; they had no civilization to speak of. But in one sense they were men—wild men—and we had become receptive. We could only assimilate them; there was no way to fight. Thus, the female body assimilates, needs a medium; the male body can give and can also receive grace directly. For this reason, someone like Mahavira even had to say that for the ultimate attainment a…
A friend has asked: Osho, do all the enlightened have their consciousness become feminine?
It will, inevitably. But by “feminine” it doesn’t mean they become women. By “feminine” I mean their consciousness shifts from aggression to receptivity, from being aggressive to being receptive. Only when this receptivity arises can one open the inner doors to the divine.
Question: MY HEART DRESS YOURSELF IN THE SPIRIT OF ALL WOMEN AND REVERSE YOUR NATURE AND HABITS. MILLIONS OF SUNS WILL BURST OPEN WITH BRILLIANCE AND THE FORMLESS IN VISUAL FORMS. YOU WILL SEE WHAT CANNOT BE SEEN ONLY IF YOU CAN BE Hence, Jains and Buddhists are always in conflict -- because Mahavir is a male-oriented mind, a warrior, a conqueror. That is the meaning of the word 'mahavir'. That is not his real name; his real name was Vardhman. But he conquered truth. And he was so brave and the adventure was so great that he is remembered as Mahavir: the great courageous one. There is a very subtle conflict between Jains and Buddhists. Down through the centuries they have been arguing against each other. That can be understood. The reason is male-mind, female-mind, yin and yang, active and passive, day and night.
Osho, as I understand your teaching, you want every individual to be aware and to understand life in its totality. But today’s society is very complicated. Our environment is so complicated that it does not allow us to live a free life, to love people, or to live in the state in which we could live a very clean and smooth life.
Society is as it is; only by accepting this truth can anything be done. Society is like this—but if a person can see that apart from a simple, loving, joyous, clean life there is no life at all; if he sees that without becoming loving he will remain deprived of life’s joy; if he sees that without becoming simple there is no path to reach truth—then he will drop worrying about what society is like. For what can society give him—what is it giving? Once he sees that in another direction—which society does not offer and in fact obstructs—there lies the doorway to his life’s bliss, he will begin to move toward it. Certainly the social order will create obstacles. But for such a person they will not be obstacles; they will turn into challenges, and he will try to make steps out of them. The stones thrown onto his…