It just occurred to me today that time has texture. When you are in a hurry, it closes in on you. When you “have” time, it opens up. The same outward amount of work can be done within both textural contexts, but the best work is done well with the same feeling of space and openness.
As Tarthang Tulku has explained–at least, as I have understood him–across a number of books, work well done is something you enter in to, it is something which expands. It is something you participate in, not something you “do to”.
Where else can you be physically, but here and now? Why not be here and now perceptually as well? Here and now is the only place you have to become larger and duller, in the sense of being diffused, not sharp.
There is a place for the open blade, but its uses are rare.
Again, not entirely sure what I am saying, but you can print this out, and use the back of the paper for a To Do or grocery list.