Confucius (born September 28, 551 BCE, in the state of Lu, China) was a teacher and philosopher whose sayings went on to shape Chinese thought for over two thousand years. His genius was practical: he once advised the emperor to pay doctors for keeping people healthy, not for curing them, turning the whole incentive structure of medicine on its head. In this piece, Osho explores this and other glimpses of a mind that valued right order, right conduct, and consequences that actually served people.&nbsp;In China, Confucius advised the emperor of China that doctors should be paid not for curing a sick man -- that is dangerous because that means the doctor will like people to be sick so that he can cure them. If everybody remains healthy then only the doctor will be sick, he will die of hunger. So to create a system in which the doctor is paid by curing and healing people is to create a dilemma. The doctor's business is to cure people, but his prayers will be that people should fall sick. There should be as many epidemics as possible. One doctor came to Mulla Nasruddin and said, "You have not paid me. I visited eight times to cure your child of smallpox; you have neither paid for my eight visits nor have you paid for my medicines. And you have some nerve, you go on in front of my medical clinic as if you own it." Nasruddin said, "You should remember who started the epidemic -- it was my child. You should pay me! Who made the whole school sick? In fact I own your medical clinic. My boy has done so much for you, and not even gratitude .... you should pay me, and remember that!" If the doctor is paid when people are sick, then Nasruddin is perfectly right, logically right. His boy has done such a great job making the whole city sick; all the doctors should pay him. Confucius suggested that doctors should be paid for keeping people healthy, not for curing them. Everybody should have a personal physician. Every body should register himself with one physician as his personal physician, and he should pay him every month a certain amount of money for keeping him healthy, If he becomes sick the money is not to be paid to the doctor any more. If the doctor cannot cure him then the doctor has to pay him because he is not able to cure him and he has to go to another doctor. Till the patient becomes healthy again the doctor has to pay for his medicines, his doctors, anything that is needed. Confucius turned the whole direction of medicine around. From Darkness to Light ~ 27 &nbsp;