In The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, author Sogyal Rinpoche describes a Western tendency he calls “active laziness”: the need to compulsively cram your life with a myriad of unimportant activities, leaving little time to confront what really matters. He jokingly renames the petty projects called “responsibilities” as “irresponsiblities.“
What Rinpoche describes is like of what author Milan Kundera in his book Slowness, explains how we live in a highly sped-up culture, and that our need for speed promotes forgetting. For example: If you want to forget something, you will pick up speed walking down the street. If you want to remember something, you’ll slow down your steps.
Kundera warns how speeding up your life not only keeps you from remembering daily details but also keeps you forgetful about your overall life values and how to live your most passion-filled, love-filled, growth-filled,
fun-filled life. You are losing contact with your truest feelings, deepest needs and most valuable insights.
This is another way of pointing out that we all need Mindful Meditation to wake up to our lives?
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