Osho, I find myself mostly attracted to women and very rarely deeply to a man. I am a little bothered about it. Could you please say something about it?
“Without the rather clumsy revolution we went through back then, this new and necessary and beautiful higher revolution would not have been able to happen,” writes Madhuri in this essay
“If you love a man, meditation will be the best present that you can give to him. If you love a woman, then the Kohinoor is nothing; meditation will be a far more precious gift – and it will make your life sheer joy.”
Divakar (Marc Itzler) writes, “Society has become more sensitive and more discerning. We now ask more of ourselves. We demand a higher standard of self-awareness, of values, of behaviour.”
“Share whatever you have gained… Your meditation is a preparation for a higher life, for a deeper life, for a more divine life. But you will have to be more loving and more compassionate…”
Life in the Amsterdam Red Light District, told by “a young British woman, a newly-qualified nursery nurse who was lured by an advertisement to work in a crèche.” The reflective review by Madhuri concludes with “If Yin was honoured, meditation would become possible for humans.”
In this podcast, Upchara speaks to Bhavi from Kannagara Journeys about the Women’s Liberation Process.
Samvado’s insights on the question: ‘What are the seed points that lead men to rape or abuse women and young girls?’
Q: Why do I allow women to hold power over me, to accept or reject me? This old rut makes nonsense at heart. I want to get out.
Upchara talks to Punya about the Women’s Liberation Group, a process she ran first in Pune, then in Italy and South America. She is now bringing it to Spain and Greece.
Devageet asks a question: Beloved Osho, It is now becoming too much. The gossips are going right and left.
For men, vulnerability is not something to be confronted and expressed directly in the same way as it is for women, writes Divakar (Marc Itzler).
Osho answers a seeker’s question about how can there be any generalizations about the qualities of man and woman.
Q: Today at the lecture you extolled the virtues of Hasidism. But if they are so praiseworthy, so full of feeling of brotherhood, etc., why do they exclude women from their religious practices, and particularly their ecstatic religious dancing?
Osho speaks on the strength of women and how they had to live according to the philosophy of the male chauvinists for so long.
Excerpt from Devaraj’s book, ‘Ashram, ashram’: “Ed could think about a woman for literally years without saying a single word to her.”
According to a scientific study, it seems that this phenomenon really exists. Anybody acquainted with close male relatives will say that they knew this all along.
Osho answers the question, “Some days I feel like a swami and others like a ma. Can I be both? Or will I grow up schizy?”
Beloved Master, Why have you always emphasized that women are better than men in ruling and administration, taking care? Is that what you experience in your commune or is it only a theory?
“Ego always thinks of softness as weakness. That’s why women have been thought down the ages to be the weaker sex,” states Osho in a darshan.
Marc points out how Greek philosopher and scientist Aristotle’s views about men and women influenced later Christian and Islamic thinkers.
Beloved Osho, I love hearing the stories of the old masters and their disciples. It is so beautiful to feel the essence of those small oases of consciousness – which centuries of religion have since covered in the dust of dogma and deceit. But still, as I look at us sitting here, feeling the joy,
Dr. Jackson Katz is an educator, author, filmmaker and social theorist who has long been recognized as one of America’s leading anti-sexist male activists.
The so-called career path for awakening women can be an absolute disaster that smolders for years, smelling of napalm after the battle.
Single Indian woman ventures where hard-boiled, hardy types do not tread. Wanderlust addict Anjaly Thomas takes you deep into tropical jungles, up in the rare mountain air and far-out destinations no ‘normal’ woman has ever been, writes Kul Bhushan.
V-Day on 14 February 2013 (and no, we don’t mean Valentines’s Day): preparations have begun across the globe.
“Rape is one of the problems which is not so easy to decide and judge; there are so many complexities,” says Osho.