[NDS] The Boy Named Sue

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marcia_paul wrote:

Hi Harsha,

I totally resonate with the feeling of your post but my mind has a question. Is there anything worth

doing? What you resonate in me is a sense of

being and with this sense of being is there anything

worth doing? For example, saving the rain forest,

feeding the hungry. Not secrets to be chased after

but things to be done to as Gurdjieff said..."lesson

the sorrow of our Common Father" or put another

way perhaps, conscious suffering.

Marcia

Hi Marcia,

Good points. I will pass this on to HS as well.

The sense of being and doing need not be mutually exclusive. If there

is something worth doing, we know it, even without thinking. For

example, when the baby cries at night, the mother quickly offers her

milk. Many women prefer to give breast milk because it bypasses

thinking and is quick and easy and requires no preparation. So we see

that what is truly worthwhile enables us to act without much thought.

More the felt urgency, less the conflict and the thoughts on the matter.

The feeling of what is worth doing differs from person to person. The

term used in Hinduism is Dharma. People have their own unique Dharma

that they are compelled to follow. Whether it is saving the rain

forest, going into politics, giving to the poor, being successful in a

career, enjoying various pleasures, raising a family, or just getting

bye, or some combination. The basic nature of people (causal-seed body

of

yoga) determines the direction or the path they walk. Sri Ramana used

to say that the body has come into existence and it is bound to go

through certain experiences. Doing social work and helping

humanity is part of that. Mahatma Gandhi, Mother Teresa, Bishop Tutu,

Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley, Bob Hope, Jerry Katz, Joyce, Hur, Sarlo,

Dan, Jan, Mazie, Robert, Jill, Bill, David, Berit, Gloria, Jimmy, Bob,

Shawn, Kobe, Pete Rose, Dustin Hoffman,

and others all express their Dharma in their own unique way.

If you reflect on the things that you are drawn towards and feel

strongly about, your Dharma will become clear to you. Dharma belongs to

the body and gives it the sense of doing. You belong to yourself, and

feel the sense of being. Being and doing can alternate, co-exist

together, or merge. The merging of Being and doing is referred to by

Sages as the Sahaj state or the natural state. That is the state which

is approximated by saying that now the person acts without acting, does

without doing. It is the Knowing without knowing. This is the fullness

that is fully empty and the whole universe is born from it. Just like

water permeates the sponge and gives it wetness, the Self permeates our

personality and gives it life. It is a matter of Self Recognition.

Harsha