Just Sweeping
"There is a body-mind dualism if I am sweeping the floor and thinking about Hegel. But if I am sweeping the floor and thinking about sweeping the floor, I am all one. And that is not trivial, nor is the sensation of it trivial. Sweeping the floor becomes, then, the most important thing in the world. Which it is."
-Gary Snyder
The Real Work (1980)
Interviews and Talks (1964-1979)
[NOTE: Image shows monk sweeping temple courtyard in Luang Prabang, Laos. Image from rbleib's Flikr photostream (thx)].
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