Go ahead. Say that real fast several times.
Amit Goswami uses that little diddy to get across the point that life is to be lived DOING and BEING; however, particularly in the West, it’s more DO-DO: and you can interpret that two ways. Businessmen in the 80′s were taught the difference between RUNNING a corporation in America and SITTING a corporation in Japan.
So, take off your shoes and sit awhile.
Most Americans are trapped in the DO-DO world wherein life is a struggle to survive (meaning living paycheck to paycheck) or at best to simply stew in the juices of temporal accomplishment that get you a pat on the back and maybe a raise. The more widgets we can build, the more widgets we can buy: to store in our small warehouse units for things we can’t get in the attic or garage.
Early Christian writers made the distinction between wood, hay, and stubble versus gold, silver, and precious stones. It seems as though we moderns have yet to see that distinction.
I now understand more clearly those Mexican and Italian siestas.
Ever since I got “layoff” I can enjoy the wonderfull siestas, be at the gym without looking at the watch, watching a movie with my wife at any time, preparing food whichever way and working in my garden weather permiting, going shopping and just looking arround; being creative and taking care of my loved ones. If only does bills stopped coming