DISCUSSION EASTEN RELIGION

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PART ONE

Can all activities be engaged in as an art (3-5) paragraphs

Consider CrispinSartwell's journal article (Art and War:Paradox of The Bhagavad Gita) take on how we should understand the Bhagavad Gita's teaching of letting go of the fruits of our actions.

Is Sartwell right to think that any activity can be pursued in the way he says artists pursue their work (in which the means of arriving at the end result are just as worthy as whatever the artist comes up with when she is finished)?

How would his point apply to most of us in the current world who live lives that seem so mechanical and repetitious? Would it be possible to apply Sartwell's insight to say even the most boring and monotonous jobs people have to do?

PART TWO

RESPOND TO COMMENT (briefly)

My long answer to the question is art is precocious, I suspect even for the masters. There will be times when we do and can pursue an activity enjoying the means as much as the ends. While we CAN strive to have the artistic experience every day, does it have to BE everyday, all the time?

If we are adding the pressure of trying to make art every time we do anything, are we not going counter to Sartwell's insight and being overly attached to the end result? One strategy to get the benefit of Sartwell's insight is appreciating the moments when art does grace the everyday and monotonous parts of our lives and detaching from the outcome when it doesn't.