SING WHILE YOU WORK!

Bhuban Badyakar, The Genius Badam Seller! 

In a Zen Koans, I read this story. 

Zen Monk asked his master, "How to ensure that I am enjoying meditation or any other work that I am doing?"

Zen Master replied, "You should sing while working!" 

Zen Monk asked, "Which song?" 

Zen Master replied, "That's not your concern, you should focus on working!" 

Zen Monk remain puzzled. 

This wonderful Koans tell us the nature of flow and work. The song should not be a means to your enjoyment. It should be a symbol of your enjoyment, a kind of signal that your unconscious gives you that it is liking the job. 

The Zen Monk was in the presumption that the master will tell him some specific song that might work like a miracle and make him more focused. But the truth is the essence of focusing is in focus. Any alternative way will be just a disguised way of focusing only. 

When you focus, when you work, your brain functions in the non-sympathetic zone and thus, keeps itself active. "Which song" signifies ignorance. 

That is not your concern. Then whose concern is this? Perhaps, the unconscious. 

Ever witnessed when you are absorbed in work, and suddenly you just start to sing. Sing something totally bizarre. Something, which is just idiotic, but in a rhythm. That has lost in times of excessive number of songs available in the market. The day you started listening to songs, was the day you stopped creating your own songs from your unconscious. 

You lost your creativity, became a consumer. Recall the "Kaccha Badam" seller on the streets. He was so absorbed in his favorite job of Selling peanuts that he made a song out of his work. 

This is how genius works. His work becomes a song to sing. He does not need songs to relax. He makes the work his song. 

As Wagner used to say, "I Sing while I sing, Other singers work while they sing!" 

That is the difference between a genius and other workmen, other people work, the genius only sings. Hence, he is ever rejoiced. 

Don't forget to sing while you work. But now, you understand, what I mean. The song should be yours; the singing should be your work. And sometimes, symbolically, you sing a self-made song to announce your enjoyment. 

The Song made by Bhuban Badyakar, The Genius Peanut Seller!