Resharing and expanding on a comment I left on this on Facebook.
In Zen, cleaning is used as a metaphor for the incompleteness of practice. This is very familiar to Zen practitioners because one of the main things we do during work practice is clean the practice space, and as anyone who has cleaned anything knows, you can wipe away all the dirt, but more will appear and you’ll have to clean again.
This seems relevant as an alternative metaphor that can be used instead of healing or exercise.
Resharing and expanding on a comment I left on this on Facebook.
In Zen, cleaning is used as a metaphor for the incompleteness of practice. This is very familiar to Zen practitioners because one of the main things we do during work practice is clean the practice space, and as anyone who has cleaned anything knows, you can wipe away all the dirt, but more will appear and you’ll have to clean again.
This seems relevant as an alternative metaphor that can be used instead of healing or exercise.
“Emotional work is endless boring cleaning” doesn’t sound as attractive as either healing or exercise, though. :-)
Strange, I find cleaning a pleasing activity.