user6921: Can a person decide to do X action and be able to do it forever... from a mental point of view  -  if physically he can do that action? 
What I'm trying to say is many times I decided to not do anything for fun or to meditate Y time every day but even when it was 5 minutes every day I didn't do it. 
Every time either I didn't want to  sit to meditate or even be mindful of actions  -  or I wanted to watch a YouTube video and pass the time with YouTube videos etc. 
Is it possible to decided to do something and not break it at all?  
I mean for example I keep the 5 precepts by default and will probably keep them at the future hard for me to see a situation I won't  - but for example if I decide to keep the 8 precepts and never break them  (again mentally)  even if I never have to face something like a physical injury  or even friend begging me to go to a movie etc  but just in dealing with my own defilement - can I decide  not do break it in advance and guarantee myself I won't break it in the future (again if physically it's possible to avoid it).   

user151: It looks like your problem is that you want to practice but you don't want to practice. 
This whole fiasco can be pondered. The whole thing is the three characteristics manifesting. Are you in control? Do your plans and focus keep ending? Are you suffering? What are you learning? Ask yourself what you are taking for granted.
You could learn a lot by just pondering what is driving your every action, your karma. 
We are either distracted or mindful. 
Check out the 5 hinderances that are in your way. 
Don't make vows or oaths but instead undertake training to not do or to do X and if you fail ponder it but don't react like breaking the training rule must be punished or reacted to is some way. Don't get angry, get compassionate. 
Check out how to overcome procrastination. LOTS of people have procrastination problems. There are a lot of free pdf's or ppt's online about procrastination.
Do not smoke marijuana everyday because it often zaps ones ambition.

user-1: I know what you mean about oaths. It is easy to make an oath but usually less so to keep it. Often an oath is an aspiration. I suspect that nobody can be sure to stick to an oath except those who don't need to make one. The idea of the practice is to transcend the need for oaths and to live spontaneously but to reach this point one usually has to make some aspirational oaths. 
You might like to read up on Indian religion and the three Gunas. It seems you might be in the grip of one of them and this is a well understood condition. Pondering on the three gunas might give you a way of beating your inertia. I don't know a short introduction but Krishna Prem's wonderful commentary on the Bhagavad Gita covers the ground. 
I imagine most practitioners make and break oaths and promises quite regularly but their oath is to keep climbing back on the wagon come what may, so that in the end the oath may still be effective.     
For your condition Sadhguru recommends sitting in your room doing nothing for a few days. This charges the batteries and rekindles motivation. Usually we are too mentally busy and well-entertained to stay focused on our true goals.   
It seems a mistake to stop doing anything for fun although it might depend what you mean. Why else would the universe be here but for fun? Even God gets bored sitting in his room. If you associate fun with creativity then it is transformed. Not having fun is not what Buddhism is about.    
At least your problem is extremely common so is much discussed in the literature. I don't believe it is possible to control ones actions fully until one has seen the non-existence of self and it is a reality. Until then we all have to do the best we can and falling off the wagon means no more than than having to climb back on again, and again and again, until our oath is fulfilled and the wagon becomes our stable abode. 

6921: <p>Can a person decide to do X action and be able to do it forever... from a mental point of view  -  if physically he can do that action? </p>

<p>What I'm trying to say is many times I decided to not do anything for fun or to meditate Y time every day but even when it was 5 minutes every day I didn't do it. </p>

<p>Every time either I didn't want to  sit to meditate or even be mindful of actions  -  or I wanted to watch a YouTube video and pass the time with YouTube videos etc. </p>

<p>Is it possible to decided to do something and not break it at all?  </p>

<p>I mean for example I keep the 5 precepts by default and will probably keep them at the future hard for me to see a situation I won't  - but for example if I decide to keep the 8 precepts and never break them  (again mentally)  even if I never have to face something like a physical injury  or even friend begging me to go to a movie etc  but just in dealing with my own defilement - can I decide  not do break it in advance and guarantee myself I won't break it in the future (again if physically it's possible to avoid it).   </p>
 151: <p>It looks like your problem is that you want to practice but you don't want to practice. </p>

<p>This whole fiasco can be pondered. The whole thing is the three characteristics manifesting. Are you in control? Do your plans and focus keep ending? Are you suffering? What are you learning? Ask yourself what you are taking for granted.</p>

<p>You could learn a lot by just pondering what is driving your every action, your karma. </p>

<p>We are either distracted or mindful. </p>

<p>Check out the 5 hinderances that are in your way. </p>

<p>Don't make vows or oaths but instead undertake training to not do or to do X and if you fail ponder it but don't react like breaking the training rule must be punished or reacted to is some way. Don't get angry, get compassionate. </p>

<p>Check out how to overcome procrastination. LOTS of people have procrastination problems. There are a lot of free pdf's or ppt's online about procrastination.</p>

<p>Do not smoke marijuana everyday because it often zaps ones ambition.</p>
 -1: <p>I know what you mean about oaths. It is easy to make an oath but usually less so to keep it. Often an oath is an aspiration. I suspect that nobody can be sure to stick to an oath except those who don't need to make one. The idea of the practice is to transcend the need for oaths and to live spontaneously but to reach this point one usually has to make some aspirational oaths. </p>

<p>You might like to read up on Indian religion and the three Gunas. It seems you might be in the grip of one of them and this is a well understood condition. Pondering on the three gunas might give you a way of beating your inertia. I don't know a short introduction but Krishna Prem's wonderful commentary on the Bhagavad Gita covers the ground. </p>

<p>I imagine most practitioners make and break oaths and promises quite regularly but their oath is to keep climbing back on the wagon come what may, so that in the end the oath may still be effective.     </p>

<p>For your condition Sadhguru recommends sitting in your room doing nothing for a few days. This charges the batteries and rekindles motivation. Usually we are too mentally busy and well-entertained to stay focused on our true goals.   </p>

<p>It seems a mistake to stop doing anything for fun although it might depend what you mean. Why else would the universe be here but for fun? Even God gets bored sitting in his room. If you associate fun with creativity then it is transformed. Not having fun is not what Buddhism is about.    </p>

<p>At least your problem is extremely common so is much discussed in the literature. I don't believe it is possible to control ones actions fully until one has seen the non-existence of self and it is a reality. Until then we all have to do the best we can and falling off the wagon means no more than than having to climb back on again, and again and again, until our oath is fulfilled and the wagon becomes our stable abode. </p>
