11 July

We worship doing. Buddhists would say all of the busy doing we live, even more so in our recreational time where we always have to be doing something: travelling somewhere, going out to some gig or to dinner etc., is us running away from a basic encounter with the here and now. And they’d be right. We’re running away from ourselves. Real happiness and joy comes from just being. Not doing. If you can’t be happy doing nothing, you will never be happy doing anything. Which will mean you will do even more stuff, to try to avoid that encounter, with nothing. Nothing is a mirror that shows you yourself, and we don’t like what it shows us.