How to do mitzvot

The Michtav Eliyahu discusses two types of ways that people perform mitzvot.

Paraphrasing:

A). You can do a mitzvah with deep kavannah and concentration, struggling at each step with difficulty facing issue at each turn.

B). You can do a mitzvah like "wearing clothing" as though it is meaningless and you just "do it".

Now, I was luckily reading Massechet Shabbos 77b. Where R' Zeira asks Rav Yehudah why is an outer garment called a "levusha", Rav Yehuda says, because one wearing it has no emberassment (lo vusha).

It would seem from this that the michtav eliyahu in option "b" doesnt just mean someone does it as a pattern, but rather out of emberassment.

This makes alot of sense, as they say tzaddikim, although the simpler lower levels seem as patterns to them, they struggle with more specific nuances or harder levels of the mitzvah that many of us dont consider. So there is always a stuggle.

Or someone simply does it because not doing it would emberass themselves.


I think if we want to concentrate on growth we must make sure to carefully analyze why we do each mitzvah.

Both option a) and b) have positives and negatives the michtav m'eliyahu explains:

Option "a" comes with kavanna (a struggle always brings immense thought if its won).

Option "b" type mitzvot are never lost though. If one is emberassed from not doing it, they wont come to not do it -- the emberassment is too much. They will never lose a mitzvah in that arena therefore.

So they both have "ups" and "downs". Now I obviously left out alot from the michtav me'eliyahu, but thoughts?

Would you add to the types of mitzvot? why? Or um...which do you think is "better"?