Note that these three topics are devised for the lazy (). This should make them easy to remember and therefore perfect for practice. The 12-link business chain is the process of over-excitement which you see all around you in our culture. It is more than a linear sequence, it is a wheel of causation which leads to conditions of anxiety that some call `enthusiasm' or `invigoration'. Consider each of these carefully as you go about your laziness.
Knowledge leads people to come and seek your help. It makes one `useful' and will tend to attract unpleasing tasks. Therefore, cultivate a suitable nonknowledge (as happy Taoists call it).
Knowledge also leads to an overemphasis on planning. Planning is the bane of the Laze. It ruins all spontaneity and results in the type of mindset which spoils all potentially enjoyable present moments.
Scheduling also promotes the ugly process of intellectual prioritization. Making priorities is itself not a problem, but doing it according to some artificial structure instead of on a gut level in the moment is what drives the hard-core busibody. Avoid this like the plague.
Prioritization contributes to what the idealists in our culture would call `equality'. This concept not only destroys the foundation of the self-centered, 8-Fold Path of Laziness, but it also preserves the illusion that there is something more important than pleasure. Don't believe it.
Given high ideals, the busibody will set about the standard promotion scheme, encouraging you to do something other than follow your own desires. This may take the form of an attractive goal (like success, progress, etc.), but each of these is an illusion designed to entrap your will. Steer clear.
The sensationalism ultimately leads to the projection of a lifestyle and experience which is impossible on our plane(t). Such ideas as `nobility', `honor' and `the pure life' will be cast before you in an effort to get you out of your easy chair and into the trenches. The waters of the social machine are shark-infested. Beware!
You will be encouraged to `look deep down' into yourself to find the illness which `causes' your laziness. Don't buy it. Laziness is next to holiness. Those whose `feelings' are hurt by your inactivity are out to enslave your will just as quickly as are the employers and politicians.
In manufacturing `feelings' to inspire guilt, the busibody, seeing that they will not sway you in this manner, will begin to placate your desire to be lazy. Beware, this is a trick to thwart your path by introducing false concepts of what laziness is, how to get there, and who to follow in order to achieve it. Listen carefully, but don't be gullible.
These false concepts will nevertheless inspire you to dream of `perfect laziness', `the perfect Laze', etc. and compare them to yourself. Don't engage in this. It will inspire you to work toward laziness and this will be your undoing. Let go and be lazy. There is no secret involved. Anybody who tells you different is trying to get you working for them.
The Laze needs no discipline. Only those very new to the path will need the structure, the guide of discipline, to break them of diligence. Dreams may lead to self-discipline, and this is the beginning of true suffering. It involves restriction and pain, which contradicts all of that for which we have worked so little to enjoy.
Once discipline sets in, we shall begin to think that we have `got hold of reality'. This is a direct contradiction of the 1st fold of the 8-fold Path and has something to do with the 1st link in the business chain. (Note the numerical correspondences! -- purely chance, I'm sure). `Seizing reality' is the real suffering of life. Those who don't purge themselves of it with pleasure, comfort and enjoyment will find their lives filled with terrible trials.
Once we have reality there is little choice but to become a `Master of Reality'. This is the death of Laziness as we know it. It is the perfect opposite of any goal we may have. If you become one of these, you are surely headed nowhere fast. Note also that all these offices carry great responsibility and that this link leads directly back to 1. - knowledge. Those with the `answers' are the ones who will get stuck supplying them.