Doing any simple action with delight looks ritualistic.
If you watch a very skilled craftsman at work, or a surgeon, or a good dentist, or a shoemaker, or a potter who thoroughly loves the work, you notice their caressing hands, the delight, the dance they do; to do this thing.
The doing of it is more important than the done-ing of it.
You see, they look ritualistic in their action.
It’s a ceremony, and you think he’s worshiping some kind of a God.
That’s because he’s turned the rat race into the mandala.
So you can do that with everything if you’re not in a hurry.
And you’re not in a hurry if you know there’s nowhere to go!
I mean, here’s the end of the line, and there’s a place called death and a tombstone on it that says, “Well, he did it once.”
We write his name on the tombstone.
That’s the end.
That’s where you’re going.
