“While washing the dishes, you might be thinking about the tea afterwards, and so try to get them out of the way as quickly as possible in order to sit and drink tea. But that means you are incapable of living during the time you are washing the dishes. When you are washing the dishes, washing the dishes must be the most important thing in your life. Just as when you’re drinking tea, drinking tea must be the most important thing in your life.”
And so I tell my students, in the spirit of Thich Nhat Hanh and his mindfulness teachings, ‘when you are developing film, developing film must be the most important thing in your life.’