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Today's
Meditation:
Oh my
goodness--how often I want to take the easy way out!
It seems to be human nature to want to stay lazy and stay
in ignorance because that's definitely the easiest course
of all. But being lazy doesn't get the house built
or the novel written or the groceries bought (though now
that it's so easy to get our groceries delivered so that
someone else can make money off the delivery, it is very
possible to stay at home and do nothing but click a few
times on a website to get something like that done).
Whenever
we find ourselves being lazy, whenever we find out that
we're ignorant of something or another, we're faced with
the dilemma of doing something about it or just letting it
lie. If we accept our laziness and ignorance,
though, we're simply taking an easy road that requires
nothing of us. We don't have to do anything, and we
don't have to learn anything. That's why we have to
fight these two traits constantly, for if we don't,
they'll win out and we'll plod through life in a mediocre
way that doesn't improve life for ourselves or for the
other people in our lives.
We
really do like to blame life for many of our problems,
when the fact of the matter is that we're often
responsible for them ourselves. We don't dare to
think that our failures may be a result of our own
actions-- or inaction. A result of our own
ignorance, not knowing what needs to be done or how to do
it; or our own laziness, an unwillingness to start up with
something that we may not be able to finish, or that we
may not want to undertake because of the effort necessary.
I am
sometimes lazy. If I don't admit it, I'd be
lying. But I do fight against that laziness, and I
do make sure that I'm making an effort when I need to do
so. And I am often ignorant. I simply don't
know everything, and when I admit my ignorance I also admit
my responsibility to learn what I need to learn to destroy
that ignorance. Neither of these actions always come
easily, but I find them both necessary if I want to push
my life past the mundane and the safe, and allow it to
grow into what it wants to grow into.
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