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India is introverted a feminine country. It is like a womb, very protective. But if a child remains in the womb forever, the womb will become the grave. The child has to move out from the mother’s womb, otherwise the mother will kill the child inside. He has to escape to find the world outside, a greater world. The womb may be comfortable. Scientists say we have not yet been able to create anything more comfortable than the womb. The womb is just heaven, but even the child has to leave that heaven and come outside the mother beyond a certain time. It is good for a time when the seed is growing, but then the seed has to be transplanted to the outside world.

Excerpted from ‘Zen: It’s History & Teaching’ by Osho