If we contemplate how the universe is defined by multiplicity and movement, we might come to an understanding about why staying active and moving is healthy. It is, quite literally, living in harmony with nature. And when you don't move, you are, in essence, attempting to reject that which can't be rejected. And the tenseness and anxiety that one feels in such a state, comes from recognizing that you are moving against nature, notwithstanding your protestation of indolence.
And you may ask, then, why meditation, in which one strives to remain still, can be pleasurable. My response is, "what happens when you meditate?" Hard as you may try, your thoughts race, a sound interrupts your reveries, and the universe moves around you. And the pleasure you may feel comes from contemplating and being at peace with the movement of the universe.
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