I found this today via a typepad network.
"There's a Buddhist teaching," one of our friends on the mailing list writes, "that the impulse to stay busy can be a particularly insidious form of laziness. As Sogyal Rinpoche put it:
There are different species of laziness: Eastern and Western. The Eastern style is like the one practised in India. It consists of hanging out all day in the sun, doing nothing, avoiding any kind of work or useful activity, drinking cups of tea, listening to Hindi film music blaring on the radio, and gossiping with friends. Western laziness is quite different. It consists of cramming our lives with compulsive activity, so there is no time at all to confront the real issues. This form of laziness lies in our failure to choose worthwhile applications for our energy."
HT: N-Judah
ignoring the silly Buhddhist babble.
FYI It seems that ken Silva is running out of money at http://apprising.org/ I am not on one side or another of you and his issues...but I am kinda liking the idea of his sight being gone, should that happen. The tone of his sight was getting repetative and mean. I am all for calling out those who deem it, but he seemed to be on tears against people in streaks...he nails the fool Jay Baker for weeks on end...then another, maybe the lesbian Lutheran...but he, LATELY seems to be way off the deep end.
I will be cool with his sight going bye bye. And really, how much does it cost to keep a domain and type on your keyboard? Sheesh.
Posted by: AJ | August 27, 2009 at 09:42 AM
...of course....now I find this:
http://sacredsandwich.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/reeses_buddhacups.jpg
Posted by: AJ | August 27, 2009 at 12:26 PM