In Defence of Laziness.

Some people like to keep busy. If there’s no obvious work to be done, they go looking for something. Others are different. They do the work that needs to be done, and then relax the rest of the time. Both are OK, they’re just different personality characteristics. And yet we live in a society that lauds the busy person and regards busy-ness as a cardinal virtue, whilst calling the other type ‘lazy’ and reviling them.

That’s silly. There’s nothing wrong with being lazy as long as the work that needs to be done gets done. To revile such a person is merely a pointless prejudice. And as Osho says in Tao: The Pathless Path, the lazy person should be accepted and even welcomed because he or she is less likely to pose a threat to the peace of the culture.