SLUGGISH LAZY MIND

And How to Overcome It

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The text Sluggish Lazy Mind  is part of the text on how to change old stale habits and become a noble person.

 

 

In nature, nothing is ever dormant. Everything moves, every particle in the atmosphere is diligent, every plant opens and closes, every animal searches, flirts, it does not stop moving.

A dog doesn’t just sit and wait. Squirrel relentlessly battles for his peanut or walnut with jays and blackbirds, the woodpecker does not stop building his little caves for his new female, well, just imagine: a little living creature no even 80 g heavy and in one single second he hits up to twenty times in his empty tree drum. And what about bar-headed goose flying over more than the eight thousand meters high Himalayas…

Neither does water stop changing its forms, now it’s the ocean, now it’s rain, now it’s hail or steam. Even when it evaporates, the water becomes something. Wind relentlessly moves piles of particles from one side to another… Every particle and prana,  are diligent and never have an excuse for not being it. Only the human mind finds an excuse why not today even though it is considered the most developed substance on our planet. Sluggish lazy mind is a feature of most people on Earth.

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Every mind knows that one “I will do it tomorrow.”

And every mind has suffered because “tomorrow” naturally multiplies by itself. And so life eventually becomes nothing more than a pile of excuse for its own laziness.

But, the time a man spends on excusing why “I can’t today” can be used differently.

Naturally, if you are already trained in finding excuses, you will need less time than someone who is not so adept at it. A unskillful may take a minute or two more to find an excuse for why “I can’t now, I’ll do it tomorrow.” People are incredibly fast in such actions.

But if you (already) spend two minutes justifying laziness, try something new: get out (and the balcony is outside) for two minutes, jump, stretch, or sit quietly for two minutes, close your eyes and put your fingertips and thumbs together, or touch the first tree or plant next to you, or practice the sun salutation for two minutes or even one minute. Do something useful for yourself, not for others.

 

Do something that is quite the opposite of your well beaten laziness, but do it every day.

It’s called effort.

 

 

No effort is separated from the anguish and sacrifice which means that to awaken the sluggish lazy mind you have to sacrifice your mind.

You get angry when you have to wait for others, but you yourself wait.
How it comes?Are you waiting for someone to make you happier?

I will disappoint you, that will never happen. Even if you have very much money.

 

Once the mind is awakened a strong willpower moves in. In such a spirit there are plenty space for the new, for the purer, for the less painful because laziness is a useless creation that hurts.

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When a powerful crank moves the sluggish lazy mind, an end and a new beginning happen.

Both effort and sacrifice release happiness and energy.

Happiness is energy.

This energy burns all impurities.

 

If you get up and move away from your sluggish laziness, you will burn the mental garbage in your head. One fire always lights another.

Mental fire thus enters the war with emotional impurities and the game is over: clear thinking and self-control will prevail. With it, mental fire is not a quarrel with ownself or with others. Clear thinking and self-control are not scenes with scenery. These are all very clear and concrete things.

 

Purity is always a good opportunity for peace of mind.

The stillness of the mind awakens new inner powers.

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Yoga is the first science about man and the texts of that science give many useful tips that have been right and useful since man became man.

This burning fire is called Tapas.

This eternal struggle between sorry, my mind, I cannot today and Yes, I Can! is a rigor and constraint one, but this fight invigorates and strengthens the deadly sluggish, lazy mind. And it brings tremendous endurance and freedom that are, after all, a real dessert of mind.

If you decide to practice an asana or two, for a minute or two, do it persistently.

Note: however, before continuing with this practice, check on the pages of this large book-web site from this one to the last that you can see on the right side of this page whether your tragic understanding of Yoga as currently the largest and most immoral business on Earth has taken you to a completely wrong track or not. Even if you have perfected the Unity of Yoga, read these pages.

If you are also suffering through this, then struggle sincerely, with dedication, consciously, with full self-responsibility and with a great volition to change and challenge.

 

Every torture of the mind and body closes the heart. Each new torture brings new clouds to the human heart.

And the purpose of life is to open the heart which means to be in tune with higher consciousness, higher truth, higher knowledge and reality. It means being connected to the source.

 

The word tapas means:

„Warmth, heat, fire, (paṅća tapāṉsi, the five fires to which an ascetic is exposed in the hot season, viz. four fires lighted in the several quarters and the sun burning from above), pain, suffering, religious austerity, penance, mortification, the practice of mental or personal self-denial or the infliction of bodily tortures, the meditation connected with such a practice, moral virtue, merit“

(Monier Williams Dictionary)

 

It is up to you to fight this fire or let the sluggish lazy mind burns your,  still very alive creativity.