“Man thinks he loves. Woman loves. She does not think that she loves. For man, thinking comes first; love is secondary. Hence his love has not the beauty, the same divine flavor that a woman’s love has. He could have it. Nature has made you both alive, but your woman is repressed, you don’t allow her to raise her head. And this has created so many problems that you are always in need of a woman; a woman is always in need of a man.

“But if a right kind of psychology prevails in the world and every child is brought up with both his sides growing together, he will have the strength of a man and he will also have the softness, the lovingness of a woman.

“Somebody from Japan, a Zen master who has fallen in love with me so much that in his monastery he teaches Zen through my books… And when I was in jail in America, he went around the monasteries in Japan to get signatures of Zen masters, in protest. I don’t belong to any religion, but if there is really a religious man, he belongs to me.

“He sent me a statue of Gautam Buddha, but a very strange statue, more representing Gautam Buddha truly than I have seen in any other statue. In one hand there was a lotus flower and in the other hand there was a sword. The strangest thing was that if you looked from one side, if you looked from the sword side, the face looked like that of a warrior. If you looked from the lotus side, the face looked so feminine, so beautiful that you could not conceive that this man could fight.

“A buddha has to be both together – a sword and a lotus flower. He has to be a man, and he has to be a woman – in their ultimate flowering.
“If the right psychology is prevalent, every man and every woman will feel a certain independence. The need for the man, or the need for the woman, will disappear, because you have the woman within you, and you have the man within you.”
Osho