>>507727115 (OP)An ancient image, taken from a Buddhist text, is that of a man running breathlessly under the burning sun. At a certain point this man may ask himself:
>Why am I running? What if I were to slow down? And then, walking more slowly, he asks:
>"Why am I walking in this heat? What if I paused under a tree?And in doing so he may come to see that his previous running was caused by a foolish and feverish state of mind.
Such an image indicates the inner transformation, or metanoia, required to strike at the heart of the "hegemony" of work and to regain inner freedom: this, however, not in order to shift to a renunciatory, utopian, and miserable civilization, but in order to clear every domain of life of insane tensions and to restore a real hierarchy of values.