Laziness

We have many reasons to be happy and we have many opportunities to be happy, but we say that we don’t have time. Really, we don’t have the courage to take all these opportunities. But still, we don’t even realize that we don’t take these opportunities or these reasons to be happy. And so we try to search more. But no matter how much you search, no matter what you receive, you never have time and you never have the power to be happy about these opportunities or reasons for happiness.

This is because of our laziness. Buddha said that with laziness it is not possible to do anything. Therefore laziness is our root problem. This is the root problem.

You see, we are too lazy to be happy. Not because we cannot be happy, not because we no have reason to be happy. We have reason. We are happiness. But we are too weak, too lazy to be happy. Not because we are not happy, not because we have no reason, just because of laziness.

Therefore, if you really want to be a happy person, you need to practice discipline. Discipline means you need both self-control and self-commitment. Whoever doesn’t have commitment and whoever doesn’t have self-control, they don’t have discipline. And if you don’t have discipline, you don’t have mind-awareness. If you don’t have mind-awareness, then you don’t have mindfulness. This means that you never see what you have. You never feel what you have. Your whole life you are kind of blind. You don’t have the courage to see things, to receive things. Without mindfulness, mind-awareness, no matter what you have, it is kind of senseless. Therefore, laziness is the problem.

There is one medicine for becoming a less lazy person. You need to believe. You need self-belief. Self-belief is the way to come out of laziness. Belief is very powerful for the mind. Therefore, we need to practice belief. Until we come to enlightenment, we need courage. You need courage as long as you have a problem with laziness. That means that without belief there is no way to better yourself. You always remain the same, at the exact same point. Nothing flows. The purpose of life is to come to enlightenment. This means that you find unconditional happiness. You want the journey of this path, then you need belief. Otherwise, laziness never ever allows us to go this direction. Laziness always pushes you down. Don’t make friends with laziness. But since you find laziness everywhere—looks like coca-cola—it is easy to become friends with laziness. But this is not a good friend to have on this journey of your samara life!

 

~Tulku Lobsang