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Chop Wood, Carry Water: The Yoga of Work
Andrew Taggart
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Jan 2026
Work is unavoidable and reveals our attachments, aversions, and fears. By doing mundane tasks with attention and humility we can transform those tendencies and find ease. Through such steady practice, work becomes a path to wiser love and inner freedom.
3 Jan 2026
Work will always find you out as though it were hunting you down. Therefore, renunciation of the world’s values cannot mean the refusal to “chop wood, carry water.” Unpacking what this line means will be the chief purpose of this book.