The Power of Being

More often than not the state of Being requires that we stop doing. While doing is an action, being is a natural state. Sometimes returning to our natural state of being requires that we release the veils of doing, specifically those we have come to think of as our Self, our condition, or our collective reality. Doing is a part of the illusion that we are not already perfect, and not already complete in who we are.

In shedding these veils it will become more difficult for outside sources to continue to suggest what we are to us. So sometimes to just BE we have to untie the knots of bondage that are our thoughts and attachments.

If you find yourself concerned about the current state of the world, whether the rising gas and food prices, the terrible presidential candidates, the trouble of living in scarcity in a world that is so inherently abundant or what is being fed to us as an inevitable Third World War, just take a moment to STOP.

Stop listening and reading the words that make you afraid,
Stop repeating the words that keep you afraid,
Stop adapting to your fears and creating a reality,
Stop spreading you fear and empowering a movement,
Stop looking for reasons on why WE are separate and begin to focus on the incredible humanity that Unites every single one of us.

Stay in Honesty
Stay in Kindness
Stay in Love
Stay Clear.

This is the power of NO action.
This is the power of Being.

The undoing of these ideas expressly means we engage in Doing, or rather stopping- which is an emphatic expression of non-action. When you keep a lightness in your non-action, it will eventually become easier not act out because of external sources. It's like holding your breath at the top or bottom of an inhale or exhale. At first it feels forced but eventually we let go of choking the breath at the top of the inhale or forcing the depletion of the exhale and struggling to be there. We let go of striving to not act, not attach, not fear, we release the judgement of how poorly or wonderfully we acted in a trying situation and we return to compassion and patience that we already are. We remember the lightness that we already are.

tricky hope

It seems that almost every commonly adapted social convention defies the progress of human evolution. If you're hungry you eat, if your thirsty you drink, tired you sleep... but what happens when you're unhappy? So many of us stay in unhappy situations for much too long and I suspect we aren't even conscious about what exactly is it that motivates the decision? I here the word hope thrown around like so many other words whose meaning have become diluted by overuse and whose origins are somewhat obscured. Hope is a tricky promise that necessarily denotes tomorrow.

Hope comes from reason. Or more accurately our ability to reason with ourselves and our own attachments. Hope has very little to do with the heart or our true nature. A hungry person will not rely on hope to bring food tomorrow for long. Hope is subversive, it's a word used to mask the disappointment of a present situation that is failing. It is a word that softens the hurt of reality by inducing a dreamlike state of what will come soon, so soon, any day in fact.

How would we explain this to Modern Man. There is something so inherently perfect about our impulses and our ability to intuit what works and what does not work, it is a mechanism that we developed over several thousands of years. And yet we find ourselves feeling miserable and sitting with that dis ease. Whether it appears in relationships, friendships, at work, in our own bodies, with our place in life, etc... all of these truths are somehow whitewashed with an illusion of hope, hope for change, hope for happiness, hope for a raise, hope to work less, a new car or thing(!), cooler friends, to lose 10 pounds, to be or have something else than exactly where we are or what we have. With hope to save the day suddenly the heartbreak we face gains a new luster, one that sparkles distractingly and which we can attach to rather than find the courage to face the music and change the things that are making us unhappy. Hope is deviating, obfuscating and dishonest.

It takes courage to be vulnerable, to breath through the parts that are uncomfortable all the while knowing that you are safe and perfect and will come out of the other end alive, lighter and more liberated from what enslaved you but-is-not-you. In honoring the human beings that existed before us and that have delivered us to this point in human history we must emancipate ourselves from dogma and evolve. This means releasing the thing that is inhibiting us from our evolution or changing the way that we interact with it altogether. There is no room for hope in freedom. And there is really only freedom in the universe which created us. We will return to freedom whether or not we are aware and whether we go kicking or screaming through life, begrudging something new at every turn, or accepting conventional bondage and obfuscating our very happiness though we have the power not to. How beautiful it could be to return to our origins with grace, ease and gratitude, and an honest acceptance of the unbound spirit that we are. This is an honor the yields from no accomplishment. This is the intelligence of creation.