“If I am willing to let go of what I want, then I shall receive what is truly mine.”
Being is what comes from the heart; there’s no logical explanation to it.
Doing is from the intellect; it involves logic.
Being is a state guided by the spirit. Feeling-based.
Doing is a state directed by the ego. Need-based.
Being involves doing nothing. But allowing what is truly ours to come to us.
Doing involves always doing something. And achieving something that we want.
Being is a state of love that just is. No outcome expected.
After doing, there is a state of fear, there’s anxiety. And of course, the need to prove.
Being. A state of knowing. We do nothing because we know.
Doing. A state of believing. We do something because we believe in it.
Just being is freedom. The state just is. We only follow the inner voice that pours out of our hearts.
Doing involves shackling ourselves to a regime or a theory or a system set by the world, by our past experiences or by the society, and conforming and following that.
When we compare ourselves to others we get into the act of doing because in the state of comparing, we start perceiving the other person’s state with his actions, when the two may not at all be related. We see a lack in our lives and involve ourselves in doing things to achieve what someone else has. We get into the thought of ‘trying’ to be someone we are not, by doing something not because we love but because we want a certain outcome which someone else has. And when our doing doesn’t work out, we judge all those whose life seems ideal to us.
Let’s look at exercising and working out.
Let’s just pause and ask ourselves why we are doing it.
Love or fear?
Love the act or fear that if we do not, then we’ll be unhealthy. When we base it on a target or goals then it involves need and compulsion, which takes us into a state of fear and anxiety. We get on a scale every day, especially after an indulgent meal.
Many a times, once we get into shape and we get a lot of appreciation or approval from the ones around us, we then feel fear of losing the approval. So again, why the weight loss? Love or fear?
The same happens with wealth as well. We start counting our wealth periodically. Where we are, where we should be, how much more we want to save so that we can secure our future, why we must sacrifice the wants of today so that we can save for a rainy day.
What about peace?
What about the lack we will feel today?
We tell ourselves that we are saving today so that we have a peaceful tomorrow. But what if there is no tomorrow? What if we don’t wake from our sleep to a tomorrow?
Remember – peace is in just being.
So be in the now. Relish it and embrace it because in embracing the now, we are embracing our being, our magnificence.
We are all living in a way where we are constantly decoding how to live itself.
Thus we feel the fatigue and we’re constantly striving. And on top of that, when the results don’t appear, we get frustrated or depressed and start affirming ourselves to how unfair the world has been to us. The blame game begins. And then there is grunting and despair.
So can we just pause for a moment and be loving, be abundant, be full of life? Just be.
Let’s just stop doing and start being. Being who we truly are.
No wonder we’re called human beings and not human doings.