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He said, "No, your case will be considered, but I'm becoming curious about something else... you sit down. Would you like to have some coffee or some tea?"
I said, "No, you just first tell me what your curiosity is."
He said, "My curiosity is about your small beard" -- it was just starting to grow -- "Why you are growing a beard and moustache and long hair?"
I said, "You are asking a wrong question. I'M not growing them, they are growing. In fact, I should ask you why you have been shaving your beard and your moustache, because that is a positive act, and you have to be responsible for it and answerable. Nature has not given beards to women -- just think of a woman who starts growing beard and a moustache! And it is not impossible; she just needs a few injections, a few of the hormones that grow the hair of the beard and the moustache."
I said, "Just imagine -- would that woman look like a woman? Could you fall in love with her if, by some magic, you can again be given your youth?"
He said, "My God! A woman with a beard?"
"But," I said, "yours is a similar case; a man without a beard is no different. You have been imitating women."
And there is an unconscious reasoning, because the man feels women are beautiful -- perhaps if he also takes away the beard and the moustache, he may look more beautiful. He's a hundred percent wrong. It is one thing that women go on tolerating, him because it is a man's society and he develops ideas and enforces them on everybody else who is in some way dependent on him. But if women are free to express their feelings, a beard is as natural, a moustache is as natural as your nose. You don't shave it.
Be proud of your qualities. Increase them, refine them because they are the path towards godliness.
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Osho
Sermons on Stones
Chapter17, 1987