1 post tagged “more more more”

What would you like to do more of?

Maybe an inane question but maybe also a useful heuristic for daily writing. Of course there are all the fairly easy answers: more time with family, more sex, more exercise, more writing, and on the flip side less time obsessing over work, career, money, etc. Then there's the "zen" answer: more time doing less. Be mindful. Adopt the present moment. Breathe. Who wouldn't like to breathe?

As pat as these answers might be, they are all in some way accurate. Desires lead us this way and that. Words such as "like" and "more" always send us in the direction of desire, even when desires are for noble, moral, ethical, selfless ends. They are still desires. Recognizing desire as external, as not-self, defuses judgment. Then figure out how to act next.