"Western laziness consists of cramming our lives with compulsive activity, so that there is no time at all to confront the real issues."
- Sogyal Rinpoche

"Simplifying our lives does not mean sinking into idleness, but on the contrary, getting rid of the most subtle aspect of laziness: the one which makes us take on thousands of less important activities."
- Matthieu Ricard

No problem here with western-style laziness - if you thought I did little yesterday, I cut that productivity in half today. At least yesterday I had the excuse of going in to the office in the afternoon. Today, I barely left the house.

Plenty of time to confront the real issues of life, like don't you hate it when you go to turn on a light and the bulb doesn't work, but you didn't get that last-moment pop signaling the end of the lightbulb's life? Did the lightbulb die in its sleep? Did someone else see the bulb pop but not bother to change it, figuring they'd leave it to you? It makes you feel, as you go looking for a replacement, like you were cheated out of the popping flashbulb experience.