The American Buddhist teacher and bestselling author Jack Kornfield popularized the expression “After the ecstasy, the laundry” in a book by the same name. What this means is that even after a deeply insightful transcendent experience, we still have to deal with the nuts and bolts of life, the everyday activities like cooking and cleaning and caring for our children and elders. I’ve often wondered why we don’t use doing the laundry as a method to discover the ecstasy in the first place. Is this idea too far-fetched?
