To Be Not Do

 The true essence of life can only be understood in stillness. Life is not a doing because it exist regardless of what is done. Defining life through what you think you need to do is your doing, not life’s…

Think about the most beautiful thing you have ever seen and experienced, how much does it have to do with what’s happening right now? It may be a fond memory, a story, but this exact moment would be the same regardless of what was seen and experienced in the past. At the time I’m sure the experience was breath taking (to the Conditioned Mind) but it really has nothing to do with right now. The story of it does because the conditioning makes it so, but that is your doing not life’s.  

To simply be is life because to be simply is; being always is regardless of what you do. This is where many fall short of understanding the true essence of life because doing and not being is put first and is thought to be what’s needed to live life. Life will always be, that is until one day it won’t be, and at that time all the doing in the world will not stop this from happening. So do whatever it is that you want to do, but understand it is in being where life arises from and when you’re just being life is lived to the fullest because you don’t have to do. We cannot do the next right thing, we can only be the next right thing, this is why it’s said to “Just Be” not just do because to be is the true essence of life. The simple saying “Just Be” can be used as a tool to stop the squirrel cage doing mind in its tracks. After all we are called human beings and not human doings and that’s because it’s only in being not doing that life can be lived to its fullest extent…