Just Being Is The Most Powerful Doing
The culture of the separate self is a culture of doing towards outcomes.
Being busy is good.
Work will set you free.
Taking part, communicating, and social skills are all valuable in this mode, and those who are withdrawn, introverted, and not good at communicating are seen as having a problem.
For this culture, the notion of just being is seen as disassociated, pointless, not contributing, nihilistic, and depressive.
After awakening, however, there is a tendency to desire just to be.
The awakening to true nature can often change the personality as the structures of it that were focussed on doing towards outcomes fall away.
This may take the form of an apparent withdrawal from the world, friendships, and groups.
However, this is only from the perspective of the mind that is set on doing as a solution to happiness.
Who is to say this form of living is working?
Our entire society is to encourage this doing towards the outcome.
But is this delivering the happiness we seek?
Is this doing seeking outcomes not damaging our planet?
When we are young, we are told that having a job, money, and family will make us happy.
When we have those things, is our search over, or do we still worry about things and feel something is missing?
As we get older, we worry about health, illness, and growing old.
The basic survival needs of our body-mind, which provide a road map for organising society, are to achieve some level of autonomy, safety, skillfulness, restful rejuvenation, exchange with other body-minds, physical and emotional intimacy, communal association, respect and participation, and broader contextualisation beyond its limitations.
The motive energy of our body-mind works in relation to the Universe of which it is a part to maintain healthy, balanced nourishment.
The human body-mind process consists of the energy of motion that moves it towards nourishment and away from danger.
As the motivation for nourishment and protection is satisfied, the emotional energy is discharged, and the system remains in balance.
This is a constantly fluctuating, naturally self-organising system.
Suppose we identify with this system as if we are a separate self defined by being a body-mind. In that case, we confuse this motivational energy as being the definition of happiness, which becomes defined by physiological status.
We will become the slaves to this physiologically fluctuating process.
This will imbalance this natural process, as we equate physiological states with happiness, and thereby lead to a fundamental seeking of physiological states as a solution to happiness.
This leads us to constantly live in a state of doing towards the outcome.
This will never fully resolve our deep sense of happiness because this process is in constant fluctuation.
Once we are awakened to our true nature and have found happiness, we can take the pressure off this natural self-balancing process and allow it to find its level instead of driving it to deliver happiness.
The effect will often be a life that is far simpler than previously lived.
For human needs of nourishment and protection are pretty simple.
It is only when we identify as this physiological process that we create the expectation that their satisfaction is our happiness.
They become distorted, contributing to a vicious circle of mental and physical ill health.
Then we move from thinking work will set us free to understanding the truth of our experience sets us free.
Love,
Freyja