The world suffers too much from conflict because of male energy and the domination by it. Balance is needed. I am not saying that male energy is not needed at all; it is needed but in proportion. Right now, ninety-nine percent is male energy, and the woman exists only on the margin. She is not the main current of life, hence there is strife, struggle, fight, and war.
The third world war can be avoided only if feminine energy is released into the world to balance male energy…. It cannot be avoided by peace marches and protests against war, because that too is male energy.
The masculine energy can talk about peace but can only prepare for war. It goes on saying that we have to fight to protect peace. Now look at the absurdity: we have to go to war, otherwise there will be no peace in the world. That's how we have been going into war down the ages and peace has not come. In three thousand years, man has fought five thousand wars. Not a single day passes when there is no war somewhere or other. Sometimes it is Vietnam, sometimes it is Israel, sometimes it is Kashmir, sometimes it is something else. And it is not only a question of changing the political ideology of the world – that won't help because all those ideologies are masculine.
The feminine energy has to be released. That can bring balance. The moon has been neglected too much; the sun has become too prominent. The moon has to be brought back to life. And with the moon is not only the woman: with the moon is all poetry, aesthetics, and love. All that belongs to the heart comes from the moon. All that is intuitive feeds on the moon.
In each being, man or woman, both energies exist – the sun and the moon. The emphasis has to be toward the moon. We have leaned too much toward the sun; it is destroying us. Just to keep a balance we have to lean to the opposite direction, and slowly, slowly one has to be exactly in the middle – the moon in one hand, the sun in the other but both equal. I declare man and woman as equal, not because of any political reason; I declare them equal for an existential reason. They have to be equal, otherwise life will be destroyed.
So, find the woman in you. Feed it, nourish it, help it to grow. Don't be shy of it and don't think ‘I am a man’. Nobody is simply a man; nobody is simply a woman; both are both. It has to be so: half of your being has been contributed by your father and half by your mother. You are the meeting of these two energies. Absorb the feminine energy, enhance, and help it; become softer, receptive, passive, and loving. Because meditation comes easy when one is passive. It is not an active approach toward life. It is just waiting in openness.
Abridged from The Madman’s Guide To Enlightenment, courtesy: Osho International Foundation, www.osho.com
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