Courage

Are women more courageous than men?

Man has to be taught to be more heartful because from the heart goes the way to being. You cannot bypass the heart. The woman is in a better position, she can go directly towards being from the heart. But instead of recognizing this immense quality in women, man has been condemning women. Perhaps there is a reason; perhaps he was aware of some superiority in woman -- the superiority of love. No logic can be higher than love, and no mind can be higher than the heart. But the mind can be very murderous; the mind can be very violent, and that's what the mind has done for centuries. Man has been beating women, repressing women, condemning women. And not knowing that condemning women, repressing women is making them inferior, half of humanity is deprived of raising its consciousness. And you are deprived, because you could also have learned…

Osho, what is courage?

Prem Leela, THERE IS ONLY ONE COURAGE and that is the courage to go on dying to the past, not to collect it, not to accumulate it, not to cling to it. We all cling to the past, and because we cling to the past we become unavailable to the present. And the mind has reasons, valid reasons, for clinging to the past. First: mind itself is the past. Just look at your mind -- what it is. It is nothing but the past: all that you have read, listened to, experienced, observed, all that has been. Mind never is; it consists of the past tense. So naturally mind feeds on the past, it clings to the past, because that gives it strength, power, energy, life. But the more the past accumulates around you, the more you become like a mirror covered with layers of dust. And, of course, the…

Beloved Osho, what is courage?

Premo, courage means going into the unknown in spite of all the fears. Courage does not mean fearlessness. Fearlessness happens if you go on being courageous and more courageous. That is the ultimate experience of courage -- fearlessness; that is the fragrance when the courage has become absolute. But in the beginning there is not much difference between the coward and the courageous person. The only difference is, the coward listens to his fears and follows them, and the courageous person puts them aside and goes ahead. The courageous person goes into the unknown in spite of all the fears. He knows the fears, the fears are there. When you go into the uncharted sea, like Columbus did, there is fear, immense fear, because one never knows what is going to happen and you are leaving the shore of safety. You were perfectly okay, in a way; only one thing…

Osho, the resolve to carry your message to every home is growing dense on its own. Society will raise a thousand obstacles—it already is. Life too may be endangered. What should I do?

Neeraj, life is already in crisis; death will come anyway. So what more can happen now that would put life in crisis? What accident could be greater than death? What can people really spoil? Everything is going to be taken away as it is. Then why panic? Why worry? Where everything is destined to be looted, sell your horses and sleep—drop the worry! What will people do? What can they take away? And the obstacles people create—if there is understanding in you, every obstacle will become your practice. People will put up barriers; if you have a little understanding, each barrier will turn into a step. Let people create hurdles; from them your inner being will grow dense, strong, concentrated. Do not be afraid. If the resolve itself is arising, what can you do now? The message will have to be shared! This is beyond your personal will. If the…