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The author surely means taking occasional breaks that involve just tea and doing nothing else. Otherwise how does one earn a living and support their dependents
by ketanmaheshwari 4y ago
The author surely means taking occasional breaks that involve just tea and doing nothing else. Otherwise how does one earn a living and support their dependents while doing nothing as much as they love it?
- LesZedCB 4y agoyou don't take a break from work to drink tea. while laboring, you are in the mode of "doing" something, whether that be programming, writing, or otherwise creating. while drinking tea, nothing must be done. it's not the negation of work. it's the affirmation of nothingness.
- adrianN 4y agoPersonally I take breaks from drinking tea to work.
- blaze33 4y agoIn "Action and Contemplation", Aldous Huxley wrote the following: "Pragmatism regards action as the end and thought as the means to that end; and contemporary popular philosophy accepts the pragmatist position. In the philosophy underlying Eastern and Western spiritual religion this position is reversed. Here, contemplation is the end, action (in which is included discursive thought) is valuable only as a means to the beatific vision of reality." So you can take a break from work to improve your overall productivity and that's okay. But you could as well consider work as a necessity of our material lives while the peaceful moment where you can make and drink tea is in itself the real deal.
- nicbou 4y agoI fit that pattern, but I am self-employed. These breaks are required for sustained productivity. They let me ponder, zoom out, reconsider. It shakes better ideas loose.