Settling Into Beingness
Asentarse en el Ser
A student describes an experience of simply "being" that arose during practice, and the teacher explains how this sense of beingness naturally emerges as the illusion of doingness becomes more transparent.
Settling Into Beingness
A student describes an experience of simply "being" that arose during practice, and the teacher explains how this sense of beingness naturally emerges as the illusion of doingness becomes more transparent.
The experience for me was more, I don't know how to describe it, but like settling into being. It's very hard to put into words. It's almost mysterious. Just being. I don't know how to say it.
Yes. That's the direct consequence if what I was pointing to is successful, in the sense of its being seen. What's being seen is beingness, in a sense, or one aspect of it. "Beingness" is just a word, but it works as a contrast or an opposition to "doingness," which is this sense of agency: "I am a separate thing, and I am the one doing." We become addicted to that perspective, and it's very limited in its reality and truth. It's a very narrow perspective of what reality is.
The transparency of beingness
The more you're able to see through that and have a more transparent sense of reality, without veils and obstructions, the more beingness will become obvious and natural. It's almost like it's already there. It's always there, and it's always more true and real. The sense of being a wave is the doingness, and being the ocean is the beingness. As you realize that the perspective of being a wave is actually very limited and not that real or true, then the beingness of the ocean becomes more your natural sense of self.
It's very hard to put into words, but if I had to use a metaphor to describe it: it's like sitting outside and the clouds begin to fade, and you feel the radiance of the sun.
Beautiful.