To just BE means I have to let go of doing. We are in such a culture of doing, of performing, of making things happen. BE-ing is something we have little experience with. So much of my doing has been a distraction, a filling of time. This "making things happen" is so ingrained in us that we feel like we are supposed to fill up our time with doing. This task performance and doing feels unrelated to my true self. It feels disconnected from my core energy, my life force energy.
If I spend my time just Being, then I am able to attend to each moment. Time takes care of itself; my life takes care of itself. That's such a reversal of our conditioning. If I attend to each moment as it comes, I won't know anything about how my day is meant to unfold, and that's okay. I will just connect with each moment that leads to the next, and the next -- until I see, by looking back, what the day has been about. I am then able to see what things wanted to be accomplished. Our first thought is: "Wait, I'll never get anything done!" And yet, I have had the experience of Being, of following the moments, and then observing all of the things that I got done without any pressure or a fixed schedule. Just Being seems like a strange way to approach life. And yet it feels very freeing, effortless, and perfect. When I did let the day unfold naturally, organically, without a plan, it gave me the freedom to complete important activities in their own time, and it even led to some extra surprise visits that were not on my radar. I believe it can be a true and constructive way to live. And any lesser or greater amount of Being can be integrated into our current life structures as a way of practicing this approach.
"When you learn to flow with Life, you discover the way to just be. When you simply are, you are happy."
--Avis Viswanathan
"Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be."
--Henry David Thoreau
