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Can we live a life without doing any work?

Staying alive and doing our work; if these two are separate and are not
interdependent then work can be excluded from our life. The essential properties
of our work should not have any relation with the essential properties of being
alive for a work-less life. If the essential properties of our work and being alive is
not separable then work-less life will be impossible. Keeping these in mind we
will begin our exploration in a step by step logical fashion. Our journey will be
from a true superficial and straightforward understanding to a highly true and
deeper awareness of actual reality.
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1. When we begin seeing our work we find our involvement in doing it. The
identity of our work is not free from our identity. Such as our work of running or
sitting is not possible if we are not doing the running or sitting. Our involvement
is a must for our work to happen. Any work in which someone is not involve then
that work cannot be his or her work.
Think!
Now I will try to negate the first argument: If I do not comply with no.1, then the
doer of work is that person who is not the doer of work. Then I am not the doer of
my work. Who is the doer then? Not me, but anyone else. Whomsoever you
identify as the worker he/she has to be the non-doer of the work. To identify the
non-doer we are bound to have some or full idea of the doer of the work.
Therefore directly creating a contradiction, where I am searching the doer and I
know there is a doer whom I am ignoring to replace him/her with the non-doer
but representing him as the doer. Do you see the falseness and meaninglessness
of this contradiction? Therefore argument one holds true instead of this
objection.
Another objection came to my mind and that is: a worker or doer is not at all
necessary for work to happen. This objection is irrelevant; because then it means
that our work happens without our involvement or a doer. Here the exploration is
on our work therefore we as worker cannot be excluded from this process.
You decide.
2. Therefore by continuing our observation we naturally get: when we are doing
a work we are aware of it. That is, we know we are working. When we do a work
we also choose that work. This choosing is not possible without being aware of
our work. Work for us exists only because we are aware of it. If we are not aware
of a work which we are doing then we cannot say we are doing any work.
Think!
Let me object the second argument by saying: I am not aware of work while
doing it or I am not capable to be aware of work. Is it true? When I try to find the

possibility of a work-free life then that clearly means I have identified work from
which I want to be free. Therefore this objection is not true.
3. Awareness of work means awareness of doing. Awareness of doing is
awareness of an action by us. Our action involves experience of change.
Therefore awareness of work is awareness of change. Even when I am still,
sitting on a chair, I am experiencing change of duration because time passes by.

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