Zen & Laundry

in life •  7 years ago 

You Can Be Right Where You Want To Be When You Do Laundry.

Back in the day it was the job of your elders to pass down wisdom.
Learning from those who have gone before us is a lost art.

Do you listen? Do you hear? Do you learn?

I just started listening to mentors myself.
Here's a doozy of a discovery I made at work.

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thats a great advice for anyone thanks for sharing video.

Thanks for watching. I appreciate it.

PS just checked out your writing. Fantastic.

Thank you so much you are very kind :)

Wonderful advice! Zen can be practiced in any activity at any moment. My favorite Zen activity is doing dishes. I wrote an entire meditation about doing dishes a few months ago. Dishes represent the soul lol

Thank you for taking the time to share these thoughts. :)

Thank you. I can see dishes being the same as laundry. Beauty in simplicity and presence. Thanks for your thought.

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This makes a lot of sense to me...and its a new insight on happiness...as a function of presence of mind.

By placing a greater emphasis on the coordinates of one's mind, you can be more intentional about finding satisfaction within those coordinates. For me, I've always been more fascinated with my vector, and whether I'm satisfied with its heading.

Are these ideas competing, or complementary?

This line of thinking kind of skirts this idea I have had rolling about in my head, which I wanted to share with you and get your take.

In fact, if you're taking requests I'd love to nominate this as a future topic for one of your posts :)

In the past, I've asserted that one key thing needed to ensure happiness (or at the very least stave off depression) is struggle...not so much in terms of suffering, but in terms of having challenges that one must work hard/smart in order to overcome.

Lately, I've been flirting with the notion that this is untrue. Instead, the only things one needs to achieve long-term, meaningful happiness are love and curiosity.

So where do you stand? Unfortunately I've no answers, just a healthy curiosity :)

This is a great thought. Upvoted! A nickel for your thoughts haha.

I will definitely use this as a post idea. Here's my initial take. A struggle does improve our happiness level. As humans we're programmed to return to a base level of happiness. If your radical rat Rufius dies, you will be really sad for a couple weeks. Then you will recover and return to your base level.

If you win a million dollars you will ball out for a few weeks and then get bored. You will come back to that same level of happiness.

Here's what I think a struggle does; it resets your base level of happiness.
Say you win that million dollars, you play with the money for 2 weeks, then you are forced to go shovel poop in the sewers for 2 weeks. Then when you come back to spending the million dollars you will be stoked on it again. You won't just get used to the pleasure. You could go back and forth between the 2 and always appreciate the money because it is separated by a struggle.

This is why you see rich people get bored and unhappy. They don't intentionally reset their base level of happiness. If a rich person were to go sleep in the woods and live off the land for one full week every month, they would enjoy their mansion more. Instead they just try to buy more happiness by improving their mansion and their material wealth. This doesn't work. It needs a reset, not more spending.

It's all about the struggle.

Dang! Thanks for spurring that thought. Picture me grabbing my camera and shooting a video on this right now.