I was glancing through an old Zen story, in which the disciple asked his master:
"Master, how do you put enlightenment into action? How do you practice it in everyday life""
"By eating and by sleeping," the master replied.
"But master, everyone eats, and everyone sleeps!"
To this the master replied, "But not everybody eats when they eat, and not everybody sleeps when they sleep."
Our lives are lived in a constant state of distraction; modern technology only compounds the problem, while inserting itself deeper and deeper into our daily lives by the day, creeping into our subconscious, rooting out mindfulness. In the name of productivity, connectivity, and ultimately, interdependence, we creep into our technologically-laden bubbles. Never, it seems, to eat when we eat, or even to sleep, when we sleep.
