Reminder to self:

Laziness leads us to places

we don’t want to go.

Thanks to our laziness in everyday situations, and to our resultant failure to do what we are supposed to, we frustrate others. In our practice, laziness ends up with us feeling guilty or maybe even defeated. Instead of doing what we should do to transcend samsara, we’re wasting time in wandering thoughts and pointless activities.

Here we are, in one of those unbelievably rare lifetimes where we encounter the Dharma and all the right conditions to be able to practice, and what do we do? We binge-watch a TV series. We text. Incessantly. We tell ourselves we have plenty of time. We’ll chant tonight. Listen to that Dharma talk tomorrow. We do what is easy or pleasurable, not what is wise. We give ourselves excuses. We’re lazy.

And we do ourselves an incredible disservice by failing to take advantage of this rarest of opportunities. Thus, with others and ourselves, in matters small and large, laziness gets us into unimaginable trouble and does us great harm.