Nothing to do Mandala

There is never nothing to do if you include breathing and eating and arguably being but there is often nothing to do if you mean hunting and gathering or paying bills or going to work or watching the kids or picking the weeds because there are times when all such things are for a time done and at those times we feel profoundly uncomfortable because if there’s nothing to do we have no justification for being but it is just at those times that the sages have advised us to turn such non-doings as breathing and sitting into things we are doing a necessity perhaps because the surplus economy that can beset our kind makes nothing to do a common hazard but are the sages making a virtue of necessity out of nothing to do and one has to wonder if ants who visibly never have nothing to do are therefore unable to attain higher consciousness simply because they never have nothing to do but do we really attain a higher consciousness just because we take the state of nothing to do and make it something to do and what is a higher state of consciousness anyway is it just a psychic leaving of the body and all its things to do the question then becoming what is “higher” about that and why do we call drug mediated states “high” and why are things that are high better than things that are low and what does “as above so below” mean and why does it sound right even if we don’t know what it means and when we work and accomplish things to the point that we have nothing left to do is the ultimate goal the ability to write things like this? Really?