resting as simple Beingness....

[Guest guest]

> Melody: 'beingness' and 'doingness' are not mutually exclusive.

 

Doing is an automated byproduct of being.

In other words, action is dictated by being.

 

Mice do as a mice do.

Mouseness dictates mouse behavior,

even though one mouse behaves slightly differently than another.

 

Similarly, humans do as humans do.

Humanity dictates human behavior, even though each behaves according to his own fashion.

 

Differences from one to another

reflect relatively minor circumstantial variations embodied in self-image.

 

Thus one born pauper may become king, even as one princely born may become pauper.

 

To understand what one does, discern who one is believed to be, acknowledging belief as yet another doing.

 

Witness cosmic jig.

 

-tomas

 

 

[Guest guest]

> > He did recommend spending 'all the time you can spare' resting as > simple Beingness....

 

 

I certainly appreciate the spirit of this statement,

and his recommendation to sit with a quieted mind.

 

It could be noted, however, that 'beingness'

and 'doingness' are not mutually exclusive.

 

My first experience of 'no-me' came

when I was at work....during a very

busy day.

 

How do I know this?

 

Somone came in and asked me

"what do you need"?

 

And I couldn't answer their question!

 

It didn't make sense at first. I

remember consciously and

deliberately seeking out, and

reconnecting with, the sense

of 'me' first.

 

As soon as I did, I remember feeling

sorry I had.

 

Melody

 

 

[Guest guest]

> > Melody: 'beingness' and 'doingness' are not mutually exclusive.

>

> Doing is an automated byproduct of being.

> In other words, action is dictated by being.

 

 

Yesterday's offering from " A Net of Jewels " couldn't have

been more 'right on' topic here :

 

" There is an extremely important but subtle aspect of spiritual

development that is often lost sight of. It is that in each case,

depending on the makeup of each psyche, the development is taking

place spontaneously according to nature and that any deliberate

efforts on the part of the pseudo-entity only create hazards and

obstructions. If this is kept in mind, one automatically evades the

greatest spiritual danger, which is the uprising of the ego. What,

then, is the individual to do? Merely to let true understanding

deeply impregnate his very being, passively and patiently, so that

all illusions and obstructions gradually fall off by themselves. "

~

Ramesh

[Guest guest]

Dear List,

 

We are already resting as simple Beingness. Who denies that they

*are*?

 

As seen from here, it's about attention. Where is attention? On the

contents of consciousness, or on consciousness itself?

 

The 'surprise' is that after paying attention to I AM, or the

Beingness for a while -- it is realized that attention never is or

was anywhere else.

 

This realization appears as a sort of reversal of perspective.

Instead of Beingness in the 'background' of activity, activity is

noticed as the 'background' to Beingness. The Beingness is 'prior

to' activity -- the manifest taking place 'within' it.

 

As for 'Parabrahman' or what is 'prior' to Beingness, nothing can be

or need be said... the above 'realization' is all that need be

mentioned. And it's very simple, just some attention taken off the

various happenings in consciousness, and becoming conscious of

consciousness itself. " Awareness " takes care of itself.

 

Namaste,

 

Tim