I hope this doesn’t disappoint you. I mean, here we are in this big beautiful world, alive, with a mind that can perceive and process and experience so much wonder, yet we still seek something more—something higher, vaster, greater, deeper. Yada, yada, yada. The key to everything is that everything is chopping wood and carrying water, and that if one does everything mindfully then it is all the same.” Those times when you are overwhelmed with work is exactly when you need to tend to your spiritual health. (I need to take this to heart more than anyone!) Conclusion But, what I recognize now is that the goal of setting up a lifestyle like this shouldn’t be to opt out of work and life and chill on a beach, but rather, to free up enough time and resources to figure out what you really want to dedicate yourself to.” Felix Dennis CHOP WOOD CARRY WATER is a revolutionary combination of functional strength training plus primal movement that helps you gain strength and mobility to bring new power, agility, and ability to whatever comes next - in life and in future workouts. In this 20-workout collection, you’ll focus on strength training, metabolic conditioning, primal movement, and recovery. Super Trainer Amoila Cesar knows that everyone has different starting points, goals, and lifestyles, so he is creating 3 calendars that let you work out 4, 5, or 6 times a week, allowing you to finish the program in 4-5 weeks. Choose the option that works for you and go at your own pace. With focused consistency and repetition, you’ll master the movements and see how powerful you can become.

Instead, we need to open ourselves (and our hands) to the grains of life, carrying these calmly and with dedication. But this year was different. Since I quit my day job as a data scientist five months ago, I didn’t have any Monday to dread following the holiday weekend. Yet, I still woke up at 7AM, made the commute to the local coffee shop, and spent time working.Like the bee, never give up, never get disheartened, never worry about money or how short your life is, or how little you think you achieve. Instead, strive, strive, and keep on making your life into the honeycomb you want. Like how enlightenment happens on the inside and your outer life remains the same, happiness is something that also occurs on the inside. We spend a lot of time thinking about how our lives would look if we were truly happy. We would have this job, this kind of house, we would make this much money…

Live by your principles: Feelings change constantly. Relying on them to do things is usually a bad idea. Principles, however, are here to stay. If you write only when you feel like writing, you’ll write twice a month probably. In contrast, if you have a principle to write every-single-day, you’ll do it regardless of how you feel. Set principles for work and for life and live according to them. Before enlightenment chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment chop wood, carry water. No matter how accomplished we are, how wise or successful, there will always be mundane things we have to do because they’re part of life. My list sounds more like feed the cat, fold the laundry, run to the bank, make dinner… The fundamental delusion – there is something out there that will make me happy and fulfilled forever.” -Naval Ravikant You will be lifting weights every day. About 70% of the program is lifting, but dynamic stretching and primal movements are the thread, woven in through warm up and cooldown, to ensure we're adding that dynamic movement and increasing agility and strength that'll empower your lifting and life. This all culminates in a final Primal Movement Flow.auditory, graphic, mechanical, or electronic—without written permission of both publisher and author, There’s an old Zen saying— “Before enlightenment, chop wood and carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood and carry water.” It’s easy to get carried away and think that living with a Zen attitude means anything other than accepting the present moment as it is. I appreciate what this book is trying to do. But it doesn't work for me. Endless typos and grammatical errors in this edition. As someone who knows quite a bit about Buddhist teachings (you know, for a non-practicing American) I found this dull, disquieting, and in some cases, distasteful. This is a confusing book which allows a modern day American boy to attend a 10-year long Samurai archery school (why, who knows?) and uses sports, pop-culture, and Buddhist references to teach him discipline. While I appreciate that the author is trying to make these concepts accessible to Americans, it just doesn't work. It comes across as ignorant and offensive. I would have rather read the boring business book version of this same text instead of this fictionalized American-Learns-From-Japanese-Master story. I'm also confused by the combination of Christian and Buddhist mythologies. RELATED POST: 4 Ways to Work Toward Spiritual Enlightenment What Does the Phrase “Chop Wood Carry Water” Mean? Many people keep climbing and climbing, only to get to the end of their life and the top of the ladder, and realize their ladder has been on the wrong building. Without a mission, it is easy to lose perspective on what truly matters. A mission will make you think beyond the moment, which is greatly important because the only thing that is significant about the moment is who you become in the process, and the impact you have on others.” Joshua Medcalf Lesson #5: You’re Building Your Own House Throughout Your Whole life

Let’s look at some of the best life lessons to learn while you chop wood and carry water. 1. Make Your Bed After Enlightenment, you are in harmony with the universe. You realized emptiness of it all, so you see that there is nothing more important than chopping wood and carrying water. All activities are equalized, there is no preference, no discrimination. Because there is no "you", no ego, no personality, no being, no separate individuality - there is no conflict. No need to escape. No other bank to be reached, no Nirvana to seek. But also, because you have mastered your mind, you are not chopped by the wood and carried by the water anymore. You can flip your perspective at will. It is your choice to chop wood and carry water, and you live it in complete suchness and spontaneity. You are beyond the beyond. And even beyond "beyond the beyond". The decisions we make every single day are the foundations of a future house. A place we’ll eventually end up living.Every day, people everywhere live their lives believing that everything will be different if they can just achieve more, win more, or make more money. But if achievement hasn’t filled that void to date, how is achieving more going to fill it in the future? Like thirsty people guzzling salt water, achievement only creates a greater desire for accomplishing more, dehydrating us of true satisfaction and fulfillment. Immediately, his heart sank.” writes Joshua Medcalf. “Unbeknownst to Kota, the whole time he had been building his own house.” Firstly, Zen is not ashamed that monks and priests integrate daily life into practice in the form of work. Actor Jim Carrey once said, “I wish everyone could get rich and famous and everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that’s not the answer.” Mike Posner The problem with small is that it isn’t sexy, and it’s often repetitively boring.” ~ Joshua Medcalf