"So yoga can make a distinction: yoga for men, yoga for women.

"Mind is also different. Man thinks logically, linguistically. The woman is more affected by emotions, sentiments, which are nonverbal. That's why she tends to be not willing to argue. Rather, she would like to scream and fight, cry and weep. That's the way she has been for centuries, and she wins in it – because the man simply feels embarrassed. He may be right logically, but the woman does not function logically.

"So if meditation was concerned with mind, then too there would be a different kind of meditation for women than for men. But meditation is concerned with the very essential core of your being, which cannot be divided into male and female.

"Consciousness is simply consciousness.

"A mirror is a mirror.

"It is not male, it is not female.

"It simply reflects.

"Consciousness is exactly like a mirror which reflects. And meditation is allowing your mirror to reflect, simply to reflect the mind in action, the body in action. It doesn't matter if the body is a man's or a woman's; it does not matter how the mind functions – emotionally or logically. Whatever the case, the consciousness has simply to be alert to it. That alertness, that awareness, is meditation.

"So there is no possibility of any difference in meditation between man and woman.

Osho,
I am such a doer. How can I become more open and available to you without doing? How to find the balance between doing and non-doing, to reconcile your two statements: 'You have to act without will,' and, 'Effort is also needed'?

"It is a complicated question – not existentially, but when you think about it, because the thinking part of the mind is the doer. It wants to do something, to make an effort. It is absolutely unable to understand that there is the opposite side of the mind which is non-doing, non-active, and already effortless.

"The problem becomes more complicated because these two parts of the mind are not in any connection, in any communication. Nothing joins the split.

"You are already doing many things, and also you are not doing many things. But both sections are so separate, so unbridgeably separate, that neither is aware of the other."