W is for Warren Buffett, A Feminist like Osho

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                          W is for Warren Buffett,
                            A Feminist like Osho

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                                           Osho Rose

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Welcome

Through years of active Osho meditations, I have experienced remarkable healings, in spite of
many difficult if not impossible challenges in my life. Being firmly rooted in the body and
feeling self with an awareness of breath gives us extra strength and stamina when the going gets
rough. Osho’s exquisite freeform dance, breath and awareness meditations have shown me how
to find a permanent state of let-go so that I am authentically myself and not especially invested in
outcomes. I am learning to allow Existence, a very loving Super Mother, to drive for me.

It is my heartfelt wish that everyone could experience the wholeness, freedom, joy, and the
profound ecstasy of Osho who is more alive than ever before, thanks to his eternal spirit, and the
grace of his long-time sannyasins--bodhisattvas, healers, and creatives. I am forever grateful to
my Enlightened Master Osho and Swami Anand Arun, Swami Satya Vedant (author Dr. Vasant
Joshi), Swami Chaitanya Keerti, musician healer Milarepa, and Sri Karunamayi, my Amma, for
they live in wholeness and broadcast it by example. I am forever grateful to Oshoworld, Osho
Tapoban and the individuals who have made long-time endeavors and personal sacrifices to
bring Osho back to America with love, grace, and dignity. Though Osho celebrations, love and
grace, we can be a New Humanity, filled with Divine bliss and a new wave of living in totality
with respect for life.

I offer this humble outpouring to my Enlightened Master Osho. May these words spark your
spirit and surround you with a love that remembers all of time, the Alpha and the Omega, for He
was there, and you were there, and I was there, too.

What Warren Buffett and Osho Have in Common

Women carry a silver language in our throats, a million mothers in our tongue. With beautiful
body bliss our birthright, we send rose rivers and golden gangas through our touch. We
magnetize with mere intention, prepare food that is both joy and medicine, heal strangers with a
slight smile. We see in a flash the whole future of something. We know beforehand problems
arising along with their solutions. So what happened in the so-called Women’s Movement?
Was it really a Man-Money Movement? After all, so many women began to imitate men poorly,
becoming workforce warriors. We wanted to be “taken seriously” but ended up be seriously
taken.

Enlightened Master Osho says, "It is the long condemnation of feminine qualities that has gone
deep into the blood and the bones of women. It is man's conspiracy to prove himself superior to
women -- which he is not.”

Recently my favorite conscious billionaire, the Oracle of Omaha and octogenarian Warren
Buffett, made massive social and historical impact on the human perception of women with a
single Tweet that led to his full essay on women. Buffett’s tweet read: “Read my new essay on
why women are key to America's prosperity.” His essay begins:

“In the flood of words written recently about women and work, one related and hugely
significant point seems to me to have been neglected. It has to do with America's future, about
which -- here's a familiar opinion from me -- I'm an unqualified optimist. Now entertain another
opinion of mine: Women are a major reason we will do so well.”

Woman around the world must have cheered when they read the alpha investor’s assessment of
not only a woman’s worth but also a woman’s intimate challenges with conditioning to be less
than a man. Based on his new essay about women, it seems that Buffett is very sensitive to
women and even understands a woman’s psyche. He reveals how women must shatter the
“funhouse mirror” that deforms our self-esteem. He contrasts his daughter’s healthy sense of
self with that of his friend the late Kay Graham of Washington Post fame. Even after enormous
success, she still had self-doubts about her abilities, according to Buffett.

Now 82, Warren Buffett has a fortune of about $75 billion and is the absolute king of the good
old boys club for his ability to make money and for his warm, witty presence. In what must be
near his last chapter, Warren Buffett delivers a wondrous gift to the masses, that he, like Osho, is
a true feminist and lover of woman. In my view, Buffett is as feminist as the Enlightened Mystic
Osho, and that is flat-out amazing. Serving as a bridge between business and evolution, Buffett
is the role model for millions if not billions of men who aspire to his wisdom and fortune. If
Buffett can see and proclaim the value of women, surely others can and will. Buffett’s essay
gives me hope and marks a sea change in our society.

Growing up with sisters, Buffett explains the conditioning of his youth very well:

“The moment I emerged from my mother's womb, however, my possibilities dwarfed those of
my siblings, for I was a boy! And my brainy, personable, and good-looking siblings were not.
My parents would love us equally, and our teachers would give us similar grades. But at every
turn my sisters would be told -- more through signals than words -- that success for them would
be ‘marrying well.’ I was meanwhile hearing that the world's opportunities were there for me to
seize.”

“So my floor became my sisters' ceiling -- and nobody thought much about ripping up that
pattern until a few decades ago. Now, thank heavens, the structural barriers for women are
falling.”

Buffett continues with a piercing, oceanic truth for women:

“Still an obstacle remains: Too many women continue to impose limitations on themselves,
talking themselves out of achieving their potential…”

And still other women emulate men as a strategy to achieve. For example, in a Fortune 500
corporation in the 80s, a number of highly paid female managers resembled well-appointed
werewolves. In their total transmogrification to earn money, these women had gladly forfeited
their femininity. Tough, well-suited hybrids drank heavily with their male superiors, rattled
football scores, and barked assured sound bites to upper management. One sarcastic fast-track
manager, a John Wayne look-alike, had rightfully earned her title “Man in a Dress” for
exploding cockroaches in the lunchroom microwave oven just for laughs…The equal rights
experiment had yielded an unrecognizable new “WOW-MAN,” reflecting the words of Osho:

“Women all over the world are trying in every possible way to behave like men. They are
wearing men’s clothes, smoking cigarettes like men, and whatsoever they can do. They use
language like men have always used it, becoming arrogant, aggressive, losing the feminine
quality. See the women of the liberation movement: they have lost something — something soft,
feminine, receptive, passive, is no more there. They are aggressive, violent.”

To my ears, Osho is not prescribing a role at all. He is describing the true feminine nature under
a variety of masks. Through Osho, I dissolved the masks of masculinity and success dreams that
were killing me.

As a small business owner with big dreams, I was also behaving in an overtly masculine way to
run my own business. I was on a huge ego trip and under great pressure, and as Osho says, rocks
can and do kill flowers. I felt justified: To beat the uber predators, you have to meet them on
their terms, I rationalized. But I learned that this mysterious masculine mask was not really
empowerment but a caricature. Maybe our generation was over-correcting a sweety-sweet good
girl image of the 50s, also a mask. But it seemed that I and others were actually trying to squeak
by as “passable” in a male-driven corporate world. In the work world, women always feel the hit
of stern silent messages that there is actually something VERY WRONG, STUPID, CRAZY

with being a woman. In effect, to make it in business, we knew it was required to hide visionary
creativity, outrageous loyalty, commitment and love, intelligence, and our totally feminine
nature, described by Osho:

“Women have a totally different kind of being. Her whole body needs love. It is not sexuality.
Her whole body is orgasmic. That’s why there is tremendous trouble. Man comes to orgasm
quickly — within two minutes — and the woman has not even started. The woman takes a little
time. Her whole body has to become ready, ecstatic. Her whole body has to join the dance. Only
then can she feel orgasmic joy. So she is not actually interested in the prick. She is more
interested in hugging, in being close to you, in the warmth of your body. She wants to be
surrounded by your love, she wants to surround you with her love.”

How do we as women get so far away from appreciation and acceptance of our own feminine
energy? And if we don’t acknowledge our own real energy, why should men? Perhaps the
female workforce is a multitude of emotionally unmothered girls, never treasured. Many of us
were subjected to a sensitivity slaughterhouse of not only personal but social conditioning. If
you grew up in the 60s and 70s, your parents were probably Rock n’ Roll. We had no other
tender teachers for valuing the feminine, listening to the body, feeling the sensitive self, or loving
the treasure of sexuality. The post-Freudian Flower Power culture eventually stole everyone’s
virginity and commoditized even the soul of sexuality. But was their always a silent, collective
push for girls and women to ignore their own mysteries and timing? To explain sexuality,
power, and puberty, not one woman in my world ever used “goddess words” to explain the
divine aspect of my being feminine, how to enjoy the body temple, or see with the heart. We
didn’t grow up hearing the words “to feel, sense, treasure, and know.” We’ve all had to learn the
goddess way of patience--simply being with what is-- to reclaim a relationship to self, heart, and
a vast inner terrain of natural body bliss.

As a woman, I have felt deeply confused for most of my life because our society, our work place,
and almost everything and everyone in my experience seemed to stop my natural love or use my
natural love, then disappear my natural love, and ultimately, denigrate my natural love. As
women, we get used to this constant erasure, this prevailing undertow that it is almost
imperceptible because the rage of discovery would be too overpowering to manage daily life.
Over decades, I had slowly and subtly shrank and cooled and withdrew to avoid this huge,
hidden yet obvious, enculturated, incorporated hatred of feminine essence that I am. Suffering
from suppressed love and silenced song, I competed in the man’s world, my undoing. I then had
the privilege of taking sannyas with Beloved Swami Anand Arun who introduced me to the
reality Bhagwan’s living consciousness in a single gaze, the real undoing. This moment healed
my life and my soul and gave me a golden thread to Self.

Growing up in a power-based, crudely sexualized media society robs everyone of essence. For
example, many women of my generation live only in their heads, from the neck up. They admit
they don’t really feel feelings or their sensuality or even body sensations. They don’t seem to

know how they have been wounded unless they make deep discoveries through Osho
meditations, ecstatic dance, and cathartic breath work. Surely, every woman feels sorrow upon
realizing that her earliest sexual brightness was just currency in someone else’s system. But it’s
the best feeling in the world to Osho-dance yourself into a discovery of sovereignty and self-
worth. Experience yourself through the heart of Osho, and you will be amazed. What a
beautiful, balanced world we could create if men and women themselves embodied the words of
Enlightened Master Osho:

“A woman is one of the most beautiful phenomena in the world; not to be compared with
anything else. The woman is the masterpiece of god. So if you are afraid of woman, you will be
afraid of god. You will be afraid of love, afraid of prayer. You will be afraid of all that is
beautiful, because woman personifies beauty and grace.

“And once this happens -- that you start flowing towards feminine energy around you -- then
your violence will disappear. Violence is nothing but the energy that has to become love and is
not becoming love. Violence is nothing but love unlived. A violent person is one who has too
much love-energy and does not know how to release it. Love is creative, violence is destructive,
and creative energy turns into being destructive if not used.”

I found it very touching the way Warren Buffett encouraged his friend, the late Washington
Post’s Katherine Graham to be confident and flow in her own energy, regardless of the men
around her. He called her “a person of unusual ability and character... but the gender-related
self-doubt was certainly there too.” He explained: “I told Kay that she had to discard the fun-
house mirror that others had set before her and instead view herself in a mirror that reflected
reality. Then, I said, you will see a woman who is a match for anyone, male or female." Reading
that was pure Osho. Buffett was saying to see the lion, not the lamb, in the mirror.

We live in a society of polite violence, one that discourages and represses sensitivity. Young
Americans are brainwashed into making all kinds of tradeoffs to achieve the unquestioned
American Dream of inevitable success, a deeply engrained sense of entitlement in the American
psyche. In this cultural milieu, I split off from my own fundamental needs at an early age to
secure my own success, i.e., safety. In kindergarten, I saw way into the future and there were
only two tracks, one for winners and one for losers. To win, a girl was inevitably poured into a
masculine system that stripped away the feminine qualities like a fast military head-shaving.
Since failure was not an option, I felt enormous pressure to succeed and bring status to the
family. And I must give credit to the resilient, creative girl in me that sized up the situation and
manufactured a persona that could meet with and beat the powerful men of the world. But
through Osho’s grace, my agenda was revealed, dismantled, and the game dissolved over ten
very difficult years. Poetry aside, I failed. Unlike Kay Graham, I had no doubts at all but I was
failing. Free-falling! Free-failing for years in hellish business environments…I failed so much
and so often that I wondered if it was possible to fail at failing, for that would surely equal
success!

But life is wholeness. Ultimately, massive failure was really good for me! It took a series of
scamming baby-faced partners, cell-phone spies, and financial poundings for me to realize that I
was not meant to be in the business realm at all. The high-tech “entremanures” won via low
technology of lies and greed. I was far too sensitive to engage these types, but for years, I denied
my feminine energy to earn money and “win big.” My trusting feminine heart could simply not
believe that anyone would lie TO ME for advantage. How many times do we live to a future
fantasy of self and press forward in a wrong situation, ignoring body wisdom? In my case,
Existence, being so very wise, would not respond to my adamant, hard-shelled dreams. But in a
spiritually-mandated time-out, Divine Ma stopped me from making money the old way. This
mysterious time-out of ten years burned up my desire for success, and burned the old me to ash.
Existence reset my clock to a natural pace, and erased the addictive adrenaline lifestyle. I gladly
forgot the speed of greed.

Through business failure in an aggression-dominated realm (some women were equally if not
more aggressive and sneakier than men and much, much meaner), I came into direct relationship
with my feminine soul, and all the feeling, sensuality, sensitivity, creativity and holistic seeing
that is me and mine as a woman. Releasing the American Dream, a huge, artificial burden has
lifted from my soul. Today, with my feminine protections engaged, I can sniff out a narcissistic
predator in a nano-second and I walk away, feeling truly successful. I have repatriated my own
soul and all the love that is overflowing from my vast heart, a heart no longer for sale.

Over time, Osho’s meditations helped me drop spirit-less aspirations. I have become very
sensitive. Much to my surprise, I healed a fear of being too feminine and too sensitive as I
feared to die undefended. Clearly out of the radical ambitions game, I feel a growing sense of
moon-cool wholeness in real time. Ah! Luxuriate in exploring the feminine self, as Osho
describes:

“To be feminine is to become passive, to be feminine is to allow; to be feminine is to wait, to be
feminine is not to be in a hurry and tense; to be feminine is to be in love.” OSHO

In the work world, the glass ceiling and very thick plexi-glass walls are nothing new to women.
What is new is admitting that many of us want to walk away and create a way that works for us
—as women. It’s a relief to drop the male mask, relaxing the over-developed male side to
compete in business. Honestly, all I ever really wanted was to wear silk pajamas, and dance and
sing and paint. And I love cooking and baking cakes for people. All I ever really wanted was to
make beauty and bring love and be loved. Lots of silence and music, lots of kittens and flower
beds. All I ever needed was simple yet profound acceptance, love, and emotional safety. But I
had to travel through a toxic dreamland for millions of emotional and business miles to feel my
own, fundamental human needs. So while many women need to become much more assertive, I
had to let go of a dream that was not my own and really explore my deeply feminine, loving,
creative nature through Osho’s meditations and discourses. The spiritual womb of Osho

nourishes us in unfathomable ways, reclaiming soul energies flung far and wide in a bizarre
effort to be who we are not! Osho says:

“I would like the woman to become as feminine as possible, only then can she flower. And the
man needs to be as masculine as possible, only then can he flower. When they are polar
opposites, a great attraction, a great magnetism, arises between them. And when they come
close, when they meet in intimacy, they bring two different worlds, two different dimensions,
two different richnesses, and the meeting is a tremendous blessing, a benediction.”

In terms of equalizing the work world, Warren Buffett appeals to raw logic to be inclusive of the
feminine force:

“No manager operates his or her plants at 80% efficiency when steps could be taken that would
increase output. And no CEO wants male employees to be underutilized when improved training
or working conditions would boost productivity. So take it one step further: If obvious benefits
flow from helping the male component of the workforce achieve its potential, why in the world
wouldn't you want to include its counterpart?”

Buffett has issued a wonderful wake up call to wholeness, and I am so grateful that he used his
investment celebrity as an evolutionary platform.

In my own case, I was looking for the Beloved in the business world and could not find Him
there. But when a felt sense of Osho’s active presence and cosmic love for me as an individual
woman became real, I began deep healing, gathering up all I had bartered in hopes of acceptance
and support in a world that is not only wrong for me, but deadly to my soul. Through Osho’s
very alive love, we have an opportunity to use meditation as the most valuable bridge to Self.
Regaining sovereignty of self and mastery over one’s authentic responses to life, without any
filters of conditioning, I can now say, WOW! It’s great to be a sensitive WOMAN! It definitely
takes work to retrieve inner space and a conscious effort to make an outer place that nourishes
the divine feminine.

Thank you Beloved Bhagwan for understanding and valuing Woman. Thank you for reminding
us of the silver language in our throats, a timeless love-code for healing the self, each other, and
the world. Thank you Warren Buffett for communicating your invaluable wisdom to the
millions of men who are listening to you and only you.