Editors’ note: The most common manifestations of laziness are in relation to the body, which likes nothing better than sitting down eating, drinking and generally taking it easy. Physical laziness is often easy to see but a person can also be lazy in any centre. Most people, in fact, are lazy in the intellect – instead of using their critical faculty they speak from fixed attitudes. There is only one way to overcome laziness and that is to struggle against the body and the ego, getting tasks done instead of talking about them.