Woman and Rebellion

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Osho is known as an appreciator of female quali- ties, and as a supporter of the rights of women in a male-dominated world Woman and Rebellion is a collection of Osho talks given to students attend- ing some of India's all-women colleges. At the time these talks were given, Osho was also holding vast public talks in venues around the country In contrast, his listeners here are young women and their teachers. Osho has described at times how he has to speak in a language that can be understood by his listeners, and one wonders just how differently he chose to address these particular assemblies.

The talks explore the beliefs women hold, which have allowed them to remain enslaved by men, whether women's liberation is succeeding in bringing free- dom, the fundamental differences between the two sexes, and also questions which educational system would most benefit the feminine qualities Osho chal- lenges us to consider the meaning of true liberation.

"Until now, man has not allowed a woman to become an individual, instead he has tried his best that she should not become an individual For thousands of years, a woman was not allowed to be educated because education bestows a personality,"

Osho's unique contribution to the understanding of who we are defies categorization. Mystic and scientist, a rebellious spirit whose sole interest is to alert humanity to the urgent need to discover a new way of living. To continue as before is to invite threats to our very survival on this unique and beautiful planet.

His essential point is that only by changing ourselves, one individual at a time, can the outcome of all our "selves" - our societies, our cultures, our beliefs, our world - also change. The doorway to that change is meditation. Osho the scientist has experimented and scrutinized all the approaches of the past and examined their effects on the modern human being and responded to their shortcomings by creating a new starting point for the hyperactive 21" Century mind: OSHO Active Meditations.

Once the agitation of a modern lifetime has started to settle, "activity" can melt into "passivity," a key starting point of real meditation. To support this next step, Osho has transformed the ancient "art of listening" into a subtle contemporary method- ology: the OSHO Talks. Here words become music, the listener discovers who is listening, and the awareness moves from what is being heard to the individual doing the listening. Magically, as silence arises, what needs to be heard is understood directly, free from the distraction of a mind that can only interrupt and interfere with this delicate process.

I am the first man who is trying to compensate for all the harm and the wounds that have been done by the past and its so- called religious people. My respect for women is equal to my respect for men.

This has not been the case in the past. Gautam Buddha-a man I respect, I love, but that does not mean I agree with him on every point - denied initiation for women for years. He was not ready to initiate women, only men Why? - the woman is not so spiritual Strange The same people who go on saying that the soul is neither man nor woman, on the other hand start saying that the woman is less spiritual than man.

Only bodies are different, the souls cannot be different. And now we are more scientifically knowledgeable, a man can be changed into a woman just by plastic surgery Then what will Buddha do? Will he initiate the man or not? He is a woman.

Even Buddha denied, Mahavira denied that anyone can reach enlightenment from a woman's body. I do not see the logic at all. Mahavira was a great logician, but I can see the male chauvinist mind working behind it. There is no logic at all why a woman cannot become enlightened. He said that every woman has to first practice religious discipline so that in the next life she is born as a man, then begins the growth towards enlightenment! The same is true of all religions.

I say to you that it does not matter whether you are man or woman What matters is whether you are centered in yourself, silent, whether you are capable of becoming a witness to your own thoughts and emotions, moods. It does not matter whether your body is of man or woman; there is not much difference between a man's body and a woman's body - the difference is very little, and it has nothing to do with spirituality.

I have accepted women for the first time on an equal basis to men I am in favor of women's liberation because I know that unless women are liberated, men will never be liberated. Their liberation is together because they are two sides of the same coin. Naturally many more women have come because for cen- turies they were denied, they were insulted, they were never accepted as equal to men Naturally, more and more women will be coming and only those men will be here who are ready to - accept women as their equal.

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