 celestialdancer says: We're afraid of losing control. If we really slowed down to a more balanced pace and took time to enjoy life, what might happen? Would anything get done? Would we survive? Frightened of loosening our grip and free-falling into an imagined abyss,we struggle to impose our agenda on life while contracting away from the natural, ever-changing, and unpredictable flow of being. Like Arjuna on the battlefield when Lord Krishna reveals his splendor in the Bhagavad Gita, the mind is innately terrified of being because it represents mysterious, unexplored terrain. In fact, the mind's job is to resist the unknown and create a false ground of security, constructed of beliefs and identities designed to protect us from the groundlessness of impermanence and change. As the great spiritual traditions teach, however, our essential nature is far vaster than the mind can encompass. A constant challenge - the great balancing act. i have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room Blaise Pascal Love the quote syncopath  Hey syncopath your quote reminded me of this beautiful piece I found years ago in a tiny yoga book by Sri Aurobindo. This is from the chapter "Calm - Peace - Equality" "The difference between a vacant mind and a calm mind is this: that when the mind is vacant, there is no thought, no conception, no mental action of any kind, except an essential perception of things without the formed ideas; but in the calm mind, it is the substance of the mental being that is still, so still that nothing disturbs it. If thoughts or activities come, they do not rise at all out of the mind, but they come from outside and cross the mind as a flight of birds crosses the sky in a windless air. It passes, ... Your clip title caught my attention since several years ago I had, what I thought, was an epiphany. I wondered why my tennis friend could sit & talk for hours, never appearing to be in a rush to the next thing on her list. While I, on the other hand, having said my good-byes would hurry home to my next task. I realized that there are "human-beings" and human-doings". "Human-beings" show love by sharing your life and themselves. "Human-doings" show love by doing *things* for others. Usually they will marry each other & wonder why they are not loved; but they reveal their love differently. The trick is to find the balance in our own lives and accept the other's "human-whatever". :~) (sorry if I diverted your clip) Good comment, Jatfla. POP for all the great and insightful comments. I love the concept of human-beings and human-doings. No one way is right or wrong - just different. The creaking noise was my mind expanding - thanks! As adults the first words out of our mouths when we meet for the first time are "What do you do?"GRAND JUROR: "What do you do? SSKOTB: "I do what I am. GRAND JUROR: "What are you?" SSKOTB: "What do you see?" GRAND JUROR: "I don't know." SSKOTB: "Then if you are ignorant of what you see, how could you understand what it is I do?" jatfla your are right there is no one right way. Being is not a static thing it is constantly changing - yet doing seems (to me) to be more static and is the one that is often accompanied by the internalized "outward authorities" that are the inner critics. My own experience - I have a particular task I have to get done by a particular time. I start stressing about the time and feel I have to rush, this depletes me of natural inspiration/energy. I make more mistakes because I am rushing. I get frustrated. I give up and forget about it - I do something completely different and fun. When I "feel ready" I return to the task and get it done in half the time with less mistakes and it still gets d... steve interesting comment Great comments. The ultimate point to my comment was that each one is indispensable and not inferior to the other. When a 'human- being' marries a 'human-doing' and they both appreciate and accept the qualities and merits of each other, you have a *completed* and happy marriage. I am the human-doing & Husband is the human-being. I'm so grateful that he is and I think he likes all that I *Do*! :~) |
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