The Ordinary as Sacred
Lo Ordinario como Sagrado
A reflection on the cultural conditioning around constant productivity, and how the most ordinary experiences can reveal themselves as extraordinary.
The Ordinary as Sacred
A reflection on the cultural conditioning around constant productivity, and how the most ordinary experiences can reveal themselves as extraordinary.
I suppose I'm just conscious, as a Londoner and someone who's always lived in or around London, that there must be some kind of cultural, societal hypnosis that makes it seem normal to always be working or thinking about work. Not all cultures in the world are like that.
The conditioning of productivity
It's a really strong conditioning, this sense that it's not okay to not be productive or to not be working. If you can stare out the window and you want to stare out the window, have a blast.
Yeah.
Let's go deeper and deeper into that intimacy. Even if staring out the window is a metaphor, whatever it is. For me, it has become really, really powerfully about the most simple things. Everything that seemed ordinary is extraordinary.
When the division between sacred and ordinary falls away
I used to have a really strong division around what was spiritual or sacred. It was the "good" things, the "right" things: being with my teacher, being on retreat, doing a practice. That all stopped, in a sense, because I can no longer honestly relate to anything with a sense of it not being sacred.