Tired of tossing and turning, in the morning he finds a little bit of sleep – and that is the time suggested that he should run and he should jog! How much can you jog? How much can you run? And a man who has not slept the whole night does not feel like running in the morning, because the whole night he has been struggling to find a little bit of sleep. You jog, and nobody pays you and you find it difficult to sleep. A futile exercise – why jog when you can chop wood? Why jog when your garden is being looked after by somebody else who sleeps perfectly? You pay him for the work, and he sleeps perfectly well. Or you have to create artificial exercises – go to the gym, run for miles, jog. If you have been painting the whole day, that will also bring sleep. It is possible the work may be different. It never wanted these classes of the poor and the rich it wanted a classless society where everybody is working. Looking at the intentions of nature, it seems it wanted everybody to work.
Nature never intended that a few people should have all the riches in the world and most of the people should be poor. It always comes, you don’t have to bring it. They should start working in their garden, doing some hard work, and forget all about sleep it will come. If the people who are suffering from insomnia really want to get rid of it they should not think of it as a disease. If the whole day is of resting then the night cannot be of sleep. That is the only exercise left for you, and you don’t want to do even that exercise. In fact what is happening is: the whole day you are resting then in the night you are tossing and turning in the bed. Insomnia is not a disease, it is the richest way of life. The poor sleep better than the rich, because they have to work hard to earn their bread and butter, but side by side they are also earning the right to have a beautiful sleep.
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Laborers, manual laborers sleep better than intellectuals. It has been known for centuries that beggars sleep better than emperors. You cannot find fifty million people in a poor country…you cannot find five people. They are not working to create the situation in which sleep happens. So if fifty million people in America are suffering from insomnia, that simply means these are the people who are not earning the right to sleep. You could have chopped wood even without becoming a millionaire. But it seems difficult…you have earned enough money and still you are chopping wood for eight hours? Then for what have you earned all that money? It seems stupid. The body is made so that after eight hours of hard work it naturally needs to fall into sleep to rejuvenate its energy. The whole day they are doing small things which they enjoy doing, but it is not hard work like that of a stone cutter or a woodcutter. There is no need others can work for them. And as a society grows richer, people are not working hard. Unless he works hard for eight hours he does not earn the right to have a deep sleep. Man is made by nature to work hard for at least eight hours.
I don’t agree with a lot of what Osho says, but that doesn’t say his stuff is not good… it is good stuff… I don’t think it can make a difference… It leaves you to deal with the hard stuff alone, and you won’t do it. He has said things I would have never considered: he could see those and I could not. I have learned a certain way of looking at things from Osho.
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