What's the wisest thing you could do about your life? Doing or being?

[Panteranegra]

Life is full of challenges. Is it about doing or being? integrating both?

[Carl-Richard]

What do you think?

[Panteranegra]

 

17 minutes ago, Carl-Richard said:

What do you think?

My intuition says is Being, but not really sure why.

[Carl-Richard]

38 minutes ago, Panteranegra said:

My intuition says is Being, but not really sure why.

How do you get to Being without Doing?

[AtheisticNonduality]

20 minutes ago, Carl-Richard said:

How do you get to Being without Doing?

It's a duality of status vs. dynamism, or essence vs. action, or existence vs. process. So they're abstracted from each other, where Being is the simple existing presence that doesn't emphasize motion or work, whereas Doing is more motional, working, active, dynamic.

[Carl-Richard]

@AtheisticNonduality I was just going to deploy the "practice meditation" propaganda ;D

[Raptorsin7]

Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you (Matthew 6:33).

“Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me.

It's about trusting in god, everything else is a distraction.

[eye_wanderer]

This question of doing vs being has been on my mind for months. Through great suffering and lots of contemplation (and meditation), I've come to the answer for myself that our primary service is our being. Many many lines of inquiry ultimately led me to this conclusion. In summary, 1) being is independently valuable and 2) the quality of our doing (actions, plans, etc.) is proportional to the quality of our being. For instance, becoming more loving may allow us to be more honest (as love can soften the sting of ruthless self-honesty), and this honesty can allow us to more powerfully evaluate and prioritize our actions.

I think it's possible for us to develop modes of seeking in the moment (ie improving the quality of our being) that both meet our spiritual desires and also emanate "productive" actions (without us being too attached to the actions). The masculine doingness is integrated as the seeking component of our state of being.

[axiom]

@Panteranegra You can’t do. You can only be, and in being you will dissolve to nothing.