spiritual sloth

It is your stupefying life of spiritual sloth that makes it impossible for you to answer these simple and superficial questions.

In Buddhism, the term kausīdya is commonly translated as "laziness" or "spiritual sloth".

Our translation of this term is 'spiritual sloth,' which we have taken from the Christian tradition, where it is very comparable to the Buddhist notion.

The words he sings are not of partying, but of protest, of indignance against greed, corruption and spiritual sloth.

Kausidya (Sanskrit; Tibetan Wylie: le lo) is a Buddhist term translated as "laziness" or "spiritual sloth".

Mr. Wyatt-Brown explores the family's persistent "melancholy," a tendency not only toward what Walker Percy called "accidie" (acedia), or spiritual sloth, but also toward madness and suicide.