Life is activity – from the elementary breathing and pumping of the heart, over thinking and feeling, to the painting of walls and tending the garden... No action, no life. Aristotle speaks of ‘action within the things’, the en-ergeia (energy), that can only be observed when it actualizes its potential. The Greek philosophers’ starting point is the thing, then the energy – and this requires a cause, a ‘maker’. Alternatively, in the eastern view there is first the energy (always been, having neither start nor end) of which nothing further can be said. Taoists call it ‘Qi’, Buddhists a conceptual Void, inaccessible to the mind.
How does all this relate to chores? With each action, we express this energy – ‘filtered’ though it may be by our individual self. And by my actions, my life, the whole is no longer as it was before.
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