Q: What is the relationship between laziness and busyness in a commune?

According to Osho, in a commune "laziness" means inner non-doing - the witnessing self - while "busyness" is loving activity done without the egoic doer. He is "busy without business," the laziest as pure watcher; his people work joyfully, turning work into worship. Thus outer busyness sustains and expresses inner laziness, and both coexist when action arises from love and awareness.

Question 1

How can one find a path through laziness?

Accepted Answer

According to Osho, the way through laziness is not to force activity but to discern your swadharma and transmute inertia into surrender. If the urge to work is absent, become a devotee: weep, sit silently, accept whatever comes as God’s will—“Thy will be done.” If energy arises, act resolutely as a yogi. Aligning with one’s nature opens the gate.

Question 2

How can there be a path through laziness?

Accepted Answer

According to Osho, even laziness can be a path—if it is your true nature. Spiritual growth begins from authenticity: only truth leads to truth. The genuinely lazy can let rest, sleep, and non-doing become a doorway to receptivity. But if you are naturally active, choose the path of action—work joyfully and offer your doing to the Divine; forced idleness breeds misery.

Question 3

What can I do when I feel too lazy to think of a question?

Accepted Answer

According to Osho, you’re not truly lazy if you can ask, but if no question arises, celebrate it—don’t invent one. The real work isn’t gathering answers; it’s dissolving questions until mind is empty. Rest in silence, let thoughts fall away; in that wordless awareness—samadhi—the answer is already present. The empty mind is the buddha mind.

Question 4

What is the relationship between laziness and busyness in a commune?

Accepted Answer

According to Osho, in a commune &#34;laziness&#34; means inner non-doing - the witnessing self - while &#34;busyness&#34; is loving activity done without the egoic doer. He is &#34;busy without business,&#34; the laziest as pure watcher; his people work joyfully, turning work into worship. Thus outer busyness sustains and expresses inner laziness, and both coexist when action arises from love and awareness.

Question 5

Who is a lazy man?

Accepted Answer

According to Osho, “lazy” is a relative label: to workaholics almost everyone seems lazy, yet true laziness simply means non-mischievous non-doing—refusing unnecessary fuss, interference, and restless conquest. The lazy person, like Diogenes, lives simply, harms no one, and doesn’t chase egoic ambitions. Such idleness can be wisdom, saving the world from the hyperactive mischief of compulsive doers.

Question 6

Why do I keep falling more and more lazy after being in the East for eight years?

Accepted Answer

According to Osho, your growing laziness isn't a personal flaw but a 'local disease' - the ambient rhythm of the East rubbing off on you. Don't make it a problem; notice it playfully. With awareness, the relaxed pace can become a conscious ease rather than inertness, turning guilt into acceptance and creating space for natural energy to reappear.

Question 7

Why have I been accepted despite my laziness?

Accepted Answer

According to Osho, you’re accepted because his path welcomes every temperament: even laziness can become a doorway through surrender. Don’t fight your nature; make it your sadhana. The Divine already accepts you—your very breath proves it—so he does too. For the lazy, resolve and struggle hinder; simply sit courageously, drop doership, and let the Divine come.

Laziness

How can one find a path through laziness?

How can there be a path through laziness?

What can I do when I feel too lazy to think of a question?

What is the relationship between laziness and busyness in a commune?

Who is a lazy man?

Why do I keep falling more and more lazy after being in the East for eight years?

Why have I been accepted despite my laziness?

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Laziness

How can one find a path through laziness?

How can there be a path through laziness?

What can I do when I feel too lazy to think of a question?

What is the relationship between laziness and busyness in a commune?

Who is a lazy man?

Why do I keep falling more and more lazy after being in the East for eight years?

Why have I been accepted despite my laziness?

Explore Related Frameworks

Gachchhamis

Representation

Social Justice

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