{
  "id": 8061372,
  "title": "The “hidden laziness” holding you back, according to a Tibetan Buddhist master",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/17/the-hidden-laziness-holding-you-back-according-to-a-tibetan-buddhist",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-09-17T16:45:01.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Big Think",
    "slug": "big-think",
    "url": "https://bigthink.com/mini-philosophy/the-hidden-laziness-holding-you-back-according-to-a-tibetan-buddhist-master/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Three stories about laziness, perhaps not. Sam returns from work exhausted and slouches onto the sofa, leaving his partner to do housework. Billy spends his weekend gaming, hanging out with friends, watching TV, and possibly drinking in the park. When Monday arrives, he claims he was \"ridiculously busy\" with no time to complete his essay. Katie, a single mother of three, drives her dad to a hospital appointment while working part-time at a department store. She sees a slim twenty-something on social media claiming to look like them and wonders what's stopping her from doing the same. Tulku Lobsang Rinpoche, a Tibetan Buddhist master, offers insights into laziness. He asserts that calling someone lazy is rude and difficult to determine. Laziness manifests in three forms: basic, advanced, and hidden. Basic laziness is physical, like watching TV on the couch. Advanced laziness involves postponing tasks. Hidden laziness occurs when life is so hectic that there's no room for important tasks. Rinpoche distinguishes between \"invented\" and \"genuine\" busyness. Invented busyness is creating tasks to avoid necessary ones, while genuine busyness refers to those consumed by daily responsibilities. Rinpoche highlights how the modern world's abundance of wealth and resources leads to a lack of time, making it difficult to prioritize self-improvement, growth, and meditation. To find more time, he suggests recognizing what activities are truly valuable and allocating time accordingly.",
  "summary": "Here are three stories about laziness. Or maybe not. 1. Sam’s just returned from work exhausted and slouches onto the sofa. So, Sam’s partner is left to do everything else for the night. Make dinner, tidy up, put the kids to bed. All that domestic busyness is someone else’s job. “Outside my wheelhouse,” Sam likes to say. Sam works hard at work, and the salary pays for the house and everything in…",
  "key_points": [
    "Tulku Lobsang Rinpoche identifies three forms of laziness: basic, advanced, and hidden.",
    "Hidden laziness occurs when life is too hectic for important tasks.",
    "Modern abundance of wealth and resources leads to a lack of time for self-improvement."
  ],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}