The Lazy Yogi

To make enlightenment unabashedly your aim in life, you must walk the path like a warrior. This means becoming effortlessly impeccable. Your life may depend on it. 

You know what it means to be a warrior.

You don’t remember? You knew it long ago…but I’ll refresh your memory. 

1) A warrior is humble. 

Unlike earthly humility, the warrior does not lower himself and venerate another. Knowing Death, the warrior understands that no one thing is more important than another. Just as the scientist knows it’s all a play of quarks and emptiness. In this respect, the warrior bows to no one and allows no one to bow to him. 

2) A warrior is fearless. 

A warrior is dead to the world of men. “The saint is awake when the world sleeps, and he ignores that for which the world lives.” ~ Bhagavad Gita. Because a warrior knows death, he understands the folly of our very existence. His concerns dwell on the fringes of eternity and are bafflingly irrelevant to the world. He knows how to make himself inaccessible and keep the world from draining him dry. 

3) A warrior is focused.

A warrior doesn’t become morbidly obsessed about his death. He does not abandon himself to despair and existential lethargy. Conversely, he understands that it is always the time to act. Because he knows that death is always stalking him, he never does anything half-assed. 

Cultivate these qualities and the Path can become frictionless. 

Namaste, sangha.