The world has some ‘Please don’t mind?’ and a lot of ‘Mind your business.’ The two are contradictory but exist side by side. One is asking you to put your mind into something and the other is asking you to take it out of something. When you ‘mind your business’ you are stressed out and tense. When you ‘don’t mind’ you are eased and pleased with yourself. Not ‘minding’ is the art of lunacy. As a little loosed-screw myself, I would like point out certain benefits of lunacy. I would quickly add here that clinical lunacy is out of the question. The main distinguishing line that I can see is that in the kind of lunacy I am talking about you know why you are behaving in a certain way and you are in control of the situation.

            I’m no artist and don’t know exactly whether creativity can be inculcated. But I do know that nature follows certain rules. We can stand properly by forming a certain angle to the surface of the earth. Also we are comfortable that way. What if the rule set by nature is in conflict with ‘minding our business’? This is when we should be seeking solace in lunacy. Now I’m becoming restless to give you some examples. Imagine that your hands and legs are just logs of wood and you don’t feel any pain if something hits them. Even if you feel pain you will not express it on your face. For many of us this sounds ridiculous. But in karate this goes down very well. A psychological fight is going on beside the physical one. Your tell-tale signs to your opponent will make him or her take advantage of it. A strong affirmation that your hands and legs are just logs of wood also causes a self-induced hypnosis (delusion?) which lessens your pain. Studies have shown release of pain-relieving chemicals by the brain. Can you give me the allowance to bring Mahatma Gandhi’s ‘satyagraha’ under its ambit? (Someone hits you and you are ready to have some more of it!) There is so much out-of-worldliness in what Osho preached and practiced but it strikes us because there is so much of inner truth hidden in it. He does not mind what has already been taught for centuries as so sacrosanct to be questioned. What I’m asking you is to become extraordinary to solve your extraordinary problems. But what if all problems are extraordinary one way or the other?