April 19, 2006
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Active Laziness
Sitting alone we feel restless. We want to always do something. We want to go to the mall, to the grocery stores, to run errands. We get involved in countless activities including volunteer works, Xanga, read, sadoku, TV, games, computer, cook, clean, wash and so on. We are too busy engaging in active laziness.
We are more interested in going out than going in. Why? Because it is too overwhelming to deal with the suppressed thoughts and emotions inside. We are fearful of the thousands of shits bubbling inside and in any moment they can explode. We don’t want to witness when the shits hit the fan. So it is better not to be there and escape somewhere else.
We may say that we would like to rest, but nobody wants to rest because if we really rest, it automatically becomes meditation and we start falling inwards and fear grips us. So we continue going to the mall, taking the kids to some functions, doing volunteer works, working overtime, watching TV, fixing the computer, engaging in a cause, and you get my sarcasm…
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Engaging ourselves will help us alleviate or perhaps temporary block all the pain but one must learn to accept the pain head on in order to conquer all of our fears if in any possible way… Take care, Anh. =)
I think far too people today take time to stop and think with no distractions.
because we need more sun hence we need to go out…. did you know that the sun is vital in helping our body to produce vitamin B?
Another great post! Do you know the work of Byron Katie? Her method of inner exploration might be something you’d find interesting. I find it freeing and enlightening. Meditation rates a 10 on my list of things to do but I find myself avoiding it. Still, I feel like growth does happen. Thanks again for your great posts.
Great thought. I do need to go inside to …rest:)
i’m very lazy too
Meditation for me is like water or food I never get too much, Judi
The only thing I hate worse than my bubbling shit is when someone stirs it up. Fixing computers can be a meditative experience. You just have to do it mindfully.
Traditional or “Eastern” laziness, as I had heard someone describe (but for the life of me I can’t remember who…Rinpoche’s Tibetian Book of Living and Dying?) as the laziness that’s content to lie in the shade and drink tea, versus this modern, “Western” laziness that is precisely this physically active way of denying reality. Hm…I don’t really know what to say, except that this has helped the image of the frog’s quiet awareness as a “middle way” to make more sense. Thanks.
too busy engaged in active laziness… there is subtle truth behind that claim. You’re inspiring me here – I’ve been thinking of a series on busyness. No matter how busy we try to make ourselves, that shit is darn sure gonna bubble over on us anyway.
Lazy is one of my nickname ^_^
some rest is fine. Its just sitting for hours that usually bugs people
I have read I Need Your Love, Is That True? and liked it very much.
Someday I am going to have to get my friend over here and have him translate your music into English. It is fabulous. As usual your entry is “right on”. If I keep busy I don’t look within myself. I don’t know what I think I am going to find. It is a love/hate relationship. Part of me is afraid to know me and part of me wants to know me so I keep busy and avoid the issue completely. ~ mom
Hey, look who’s back… LOLZ. Active laziness I will be since I hop back on xanga again. Oh wait, maybe I should call it rest laziness. But you know me, when sh!t hits the fan, I will be the first one out the gate faster than you can say “Wait for me….”. Hahaha.
NOT me!
I could sit in the backyard for hours.. ok, maybe not hours because I see the lawn needs to be mown, I see the hedge needs to be cut, house painted, garage cleaned.. ok, so maybe yur right:)
Happy Thursday, Anh! =)