What's The Hurry? Sloth Says Graphic Design
by OLena Art by Lena Owens - Vibrant DESIGN
Title
What's The Hurry? Sloth Says Graphic Design
Artist
OLena Art by Lena Owens - Vibrant DESIGN
Medium
Digital Art - Graphic Design
Description
To learn the art of living one must have leisure. The word leisure is greatly misunderstood, as we said in our third letter. Generally, it means not to be occupied with the things we have to do such as earning a livelihood, going to the office, factory and so on, and only when that is over is their leisure. During that so-called leisure you want to be amused, you want to relax, you want to do the things which you really like or which demand your highest capacity. Your earning a livelihood, whatever you do, is in opposition to so-called leisure. So there is always the strain, the tension and the escape from that tension, and leisure is when you have no strain. During that leisure you pick up a newspaper, open a novel, chatter, play and so on. This is the actual fact. This is what is going on everywhere. Earning a livelihood is the denial of living.
So we come to the question - what is leisure? Leisure, as it is understood, is a respite from the pressure of livelihood. The pressure of earning a living or any pressure imposed on us we generally consider an absence of leisure, but there is a much greater pressure in us, conscious or unconscious, which is desire and we will go into that later.
School is a place of leisure. It is only when you have leisure that you can learn. That is: learning can only take place when there is no pressure of any kind. When a snake or a danger confronts you there is a kind of learning from the pressure of the fact of that danger. The learning under that pressure is the cultivation of memory which will help you to recognise future danger and so becomes a mechanical response.
Leisure implies a mind which is not occupied. It is only then that there is a state of learning. School is a place of learning and not merely a place for accumulating knowledge. This is really important to understand. As we said, knowledge is necessary and has its own limited place in life. Unfortunately this limitation has devoured all our lives and we have no space for learning. We are so occupied with our livelihood that it takes all the energy of the mechanism of thought, so that we are exhausted at the end of the day and need to be stimulated. We recover from this exhaustion through entertainment - religious or otherwise. This is the life of human beings. Human beings have created a society which demands all their time, all their energies, all their life. There is no leisure to learn and so their life becomes mechanical, almost meaningless. So we must be very clear in the understanding of the word leisure - a time, a period, when the mind is not occupied with anything whatsoever. It is the time of observation. It is only the unoccupied mind which can observe. A free observation is the movement of learning. This frees the mind from being mechanical.
So can the teacher, the educator, help the student to understand this whole business of earning a livelihood with all its pressure? the learning that helps you to acquire a job with all its fears and anxieties and the looking on tomorrow with dread? Because he himself has understood the nature of leisure and pure observation, so that earning a livelihood does not become a torture, a great travail throughout life, can the teacher help the student to have a non-mechanistic mind? It is the absolute responsibility of the teacher to cultivate the flowering of goodness in leisure. For this reason the schools exist. It is the responsibility of the teacher to create a new generation to change the social structure from its total preoccupation with earning a livelihood. Then teaching becomes a holy act." ... - JK
Synonyms:
laze
loll
bum
dally
dillydally
dream
drift
evade
goldbrick
idle
lie
loiter
lounge
malinger
piddle
relax
saunter
shirk
slack
stall
stroll
trifle
vegetate
be inactive
be indolent
be slothful
be unoccupied
bum around
fool around
fritter away
hang out
kill time
knock around
let down
lounge around
not lift a finger
pass time
sit around
slow down
stand around
take it easy
twiddle thumbs
waste time
while away hours
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April 30th, 2018
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