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The Practice of Being

The topic is just be. This is so endemic to spiritual practice, and so difficult. Most of society, as I observe, is not just being. In fact, if you just be, it gets quite a bit of resistance.

What does it mean to just be? We hear some of these famous terms: The Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle; Be Here Now, Ram Dass. When we fall in love with existence in the moment, it is an entirely different orientation on how one connects with life and experiences the moment. The moment becomes a magical experience unto itself.

We sit at dinner, and there is no day to talk about. There is no future to plan. There is no past to reflect on. The wind is blowing, the leaves are rustling, the sun is setting, and one is awestruck in that state of just being. The eyes of the beloved across from you are twinkling with your very own spirit, because we are all one.

This romance of existence can be emphasized, but usually there is a lot of chatter. I like how Krishnamurti talks about it. In his biographies, he talks about going on planes and how the people across the way were talking the entire time. I get what he means, because there is this feeling that their minds are so full of impressions and ideas that they do not even feel the majesty of the moment. They do not connect with that.

I want to stand for all of us to be able to live in a world where we are just being. I do not even want to say here and now, because in being, we can submerge so much that the concept of here is just an obstacle. What do you mean, here? How could there ever be anything but here? What do you mean, now? How could there ever be anything but now? We are so absorbed that those concepts are anti-not-being. But we do not even have to be anti-not-being. We can just be being.

This is a difficult one to sell to people because it requires a deep degree of vulnerability, a deep degree of humility. If you have no day to talk about, no problem to share, no excitement to reflect upon with somebody else, there is a feeling of emptiness. But really, that emptiness is an embracing of the fullness of the bliss of being.

When we cast off the moorings of thought, past, future, and place, we can begin to experience the radiance of being through our heart. Everything becomes a reverberation of absolute ecstasy.

Most people, if they have not touched this in a while or ever, do not remember it. We can be pulled back into the realm of time and space and away from this quite easily. So we have to stand up for this together and remind ourselves, because society will pull us back. Friends will pull us back. We do not want to be mean or inconsiderate, so we will talk about things for hours.

But this attitude of just being does not want to talk. What is there to talk about? Everything is perfect right now. Why do I have to turn my attention to some abstraction of the past, some resistance as a problem, or some conflict that is not even real, a superimposition of a mind onto reality?

There is a great deal of vulnerability in this because we are no longer preparing for the future. We are no longer controlling anything. That is a difficult thing for human beings to do. It requires a great deal of love.

Love is faith that we are enough as we are, and we will evolve into whatever we are meant to evolve into, and that will be good and right. Or perhaps not even that. Love is just faith that now is enough and that it will recursively define itself according to the intrinsic nature of what we are.

It is like a fractal. A recursive function is a function that often produces fractals, like the Mandelbrot set and the Julia set. These are the famous fractals that people see all over mathematics. Essentially, we take the answer and put it back in as the input. It comes out as an answer, and then that becomes the new input. It cycles: answer, input, answer, input.

In a way, when we are just being, whatever our intrinsic nature is, that is the input. Whatever the results are, that is the output. Then that becomes the input again, and we end up evolving, letting destiny unfold before us as a fractal of recursive process. We can use mathematics to see the way nature works, even in the spiritual realm.

Silence and Self-Transcendence

It takes a degree of vulnerability, but there is such a great gift there because we develop the capacity to see the truth. If we are so clouded by the past, the future, the ideas, and the self, it is hard to see simply what is before us.

We gain power because we cease to dissipate energy in resistance. Thought is a form of resistance. We are not dissipating energy anymore. Our spiritual energy is retained, and it magnifies. When we are being, we generate love. We generate qi, light.

The deeper we go into being, the more free and vulnerable we become to the is-ness, and the more energy accumulates in us. It is a mystical practice. The more energy you generate, the easier it is to enter into that.

When we are purely being and not exchanging words, we go from two egos connecting, to two souls connecting, to one soul being.

Our words are conceptions of self. They are not necessarily reality. They are ideas, interpretations, impressions. But when you sit with somebody, holding hands, driving on the freeway, the top down, the sun shining, and not a word is spoken, the whole universe is spoken.

We experience a deeper, more true communication in silence. Not in silence with the mind going, going, going, but in silence with a mind that is empty, free, listening, loving, and immersed in the bliss of being.

Our substance is the bliss of being, the light, the fabric of consciousness. Even deeper, in the clear light of Nirvana, is the bliss of being as a substance. We seek to shed the obstacles, to remove the sense of being ensnared in selfhood. As a spiritual practice, that is what we are doing. Every moment, we are trying to maintain the capacity to just be.

You have to let your small self dissolve so the big self can emerge. We are going beyond the ego, the conception of self, so it requires a kind of humility. Whatever I thought I was does not matter anymore. I do not care anymore. I have been there. I have done that. I have done that for a thousand lifetimes. I have done that for many, many years in this lifetime. No more.

Freedom is what I seek, which happens in silence.

It is a very practical exercise. It is a great thing to do with another person. It is a great thing to do with yourself. People are very preoccupied with their technology and their social media, but can you go to the park, the beach, the sunset, the forest, or the desert and just be?

Let it all go. Sometimes the momentum, the inertia of self, that giant wheel that has been turning, needs to slow on its own. We do not necessarily have to be the agent of its cessation. We can allow it to wither in its own lack of sustenance. We stop giving it little pushes.

Deny the self. Deny the agenda. Deny all that is not just being.

This is an intense practice, but it is quite accessible, quite simple, and quite relevant to everybody. It can make us pretty happy.

Spontaneity and Creative Flow

You might go from just being into a beautiful state of creativity because you cleared everything. Now that you are free, you move into a state of being as flow state.

What is flow state? Flow state is where being meets action, spontaneity. I am doing, I am talking, I am working, I am coding, I am walking, I am with friends, but I am not the doer. I am just being because there is nobody to care. It is just the joy of letting my heart decide.

The only right action is the spontaneous action. Any premeditated action is the action of ego, the action of agenda, the action of selfhood. But when the heart decides, it is entirely spontaneous. There is no gap between a decision and an action. Total spontaneity.

That also retains the spiritual energy. We can go into enormous creative states where we are creating not from conditioning, but from inspiration, from freedom. What comes through us almost seems as if it is not our own. But it is our own because we refract the light of Dharma into Svadharma.

We, as a person of incarnation, as a soul of individuality, have a particular quality and predilection that takes the perfect white light and refracts it into a unique spectrum. That is the purpose of our life: to be what we are, to be honest.

As Bruce Lee says, “It is very difficult to be honest.” That honesty is the absolute spontaneity and humility of freedom, of being.

When we go into these creative modes, we are being whatever we are. It is not a choice anymore. I did not choose to be this or that. I am this. I either can choose to resist it or to allow it.

It is hard to care what other people think at that point because it does not matter. I will do what I do. As long as we are in touch with the heart and our intentions are honorable, those actions are dharmic.

Practice just being, and stand for it in your life. Some people will resist it. But I want to know you. I want to see you as you are now, because the day is not there anymore. The day is the past. The real is the now.

The only real way to connect is through that transmission of knowledge that can happen only in the depths of being and the silence.

Spiritual Practice in Productive Life

The more you try to do two things at once, to be and enact, the more skilled and refined the abilities need to be.

Some of the ways that we can do this in productive, professional, corporate lifestyles, where we have to generate certain outcomes and perform in certain ways, involve building systems. That is one of the strategies that is absolutely necessary to employ.

We can very gracefully and easily run these systems with very little effort. Imagine a CEO who runs a business with a pinky finger because they built it like a beautiful plant of structural integrity. Everything is streamlined, and every action they take reverberates through an entire organization exactly as it is meant to.

I used to have a business, and I had a team of people in India creating very complex Excel documents for my clients. They were on the other side of the world, working on detailed, very specific documents, and there were always mistakes.

Over one two-week period, I sat down and built a spreadsheet that automatically updated almost everything. All they had to do was a very particular task that almost could not be done improperly. All of a sudden, it was perfect. I did not have to worry about it. It was there. It was an asset to the business, and it allowed me to just be more.

That is part of the strategy: to set up our lives so that they are not frenetic but can be enormously productive.

You get in your car. You can just be chilling on the road, hardly thinking. All of those parts in your car are working perfectly together. Imagine if you had to micromanage every single one. That would be an enormous task. There are so many things that would burden us.

We live in a time when we can set systems up more easily, thanks to new technological developments. That is why I say we can become the ascetics of abundance. This is the age of asceticism and abundance merging.

The ascetics of the past begged for food and had nothing, one bowl, one robe. The ascetics of the future may have castles and robot servants, sit in samadhi all day, and have food brought right to them. It is an exciting time for enlightenment, if you use it that way.

Meditation and Reflections on Being

One of the ways to connect with being is to feel your heart. That is where the bliss of being comes from. It aligns with the center of the universe, the essence, the quintessential.

Allow that wheel of self, of thought, to gently lose momentum.

Perhaps you are swept away immediately by that luminosity of the light of consciousness, this great dignity in just being. You can feel it. There is a righteous quality too. In that humility, your will aligns with the will of the universe, and there is dignity in that.

When you get absorbed, you do not know you are there. It is what you are. It is the part of you that is eternal. It does not change. It cannot be added to. It cannot be taken away from. That is your being.

Being is the container for becoming. It is the thing in which all the contents of consciousness and life in the universe occur.

When people are asked if they know themselves, they give their name and history. But that is not yourself. Your self is essentially the being, the thing behind all of that, the thing that witnessed all of that.

Full Transcript

Adam Wes Nice to see your face, Ariella.

Ariella Oh, thank you, Adam. Good to see you. How are you feeling?

Adam Wes Good. You're better.

Oh, great. Mostly better.

Namaste, everybody. Welcome. So happy to see all of you.

The Practice of Being

I'm going to just dive in. The topic today, the sermon for today, is "Just Be." This is so endemic to spiritual practice, and so difficult. I think a lot of people, most of society, as I observe, are not just being. In fact, if you just be, it gets quite a bit of resistance.

What does it mean to just be? We hear some of these famous terms: "The Power of Now," Eckhart Tolle; "Be Here Now," Ram Dass. So what does it mean to just be?

When we fall in love with existence in the moment, it's an entirely different orientation on how one connects with life and experiences the moment. The moment becomes a magical experience unto itself.

We sit at dinner, and there's no day to talk about. There's no future to plan. There's no past to reflect on. The wind is blowing, the leaves are rustling, the sun is setting, and one is awestruck in that state of just being. The eyes of the beloved across from you are twinkling with your very own spirit, because we're all one.

This romance of existence can be emphasized, but usually there's a lot of chatter. I like how Krishnamurti talks about it. He says he goes on planes a lot, and he oftentimes, in his biographies, talks about how the people across the way were talking the entire time. I get what he means, because there's this feeling like their minds are so full of impressions and ideas that they don't even feel the majesty of the moment. They don't connect with that.

I guess I want to stand for all of us to be able to live in a world where we're just being. I don't even want to say "here and now," because in being, we can submerge so much that the concept of here is just an obstacle. What do you mean, here? How could there ever be anything but here? What do you mean, now? How could there ever be anything but now? Right? We are so absorbed that those concepts are anti-not-being. But we don't even have to be anti-not-being. We can just be being.

This is a difficult one to sell to people because it requires a deep degree of vulnerability, a deep degree of humility. If you have no day to talk about, no problem to share, no excitement to reflect upon with somebody else, there's a feeling of emptiness. But really, that emptiness is an embracing of the fullness of the bliss of being.

When we cast off the moorings of thought, past, future, and place, we can begin to experience the radiance of being through our heart. Everything becomes a reverberation of absolute ecstasy.

Most people, if they haven't touched this in a while or ever, don't remember it. We can be pulled back into the realm of time and space and away from this quite easily. So we have to stand up for this, I think, as Sangha, together, and remind ourselves, because society will pull us back. Friends will pull us back. We don't want to be mean or inconsiderate, so we'll talk about things for hours.

But this attitude of just being doesn't want to talk. What is there to talk about? Everything's perfect right now. Why do I have to turn my attention to some sort of abstraction of the past, or some resistance as a problem, or some conflict that's not even real, a superimposition of a mind onto reality?

There's a great deal of vulnerability in this because we're no longer preparing for the future. We're no longer controlling anything. That's a difficult thing for human beings to do. It requires a great deal of love.

Love is faith that we are enough as we are, and we'll evolve into whatever we are meant to evolve into, and that will be good and right. Or perhaps not even that. Love is just faith that now is enough and that it will recursively define itself according to the intrinsic nature of what we are.

Kind of like a fractal. A recursive function is a function that a lot of times produces fractals, like the Mandelbrot set and the Julia set. These are the famous fractals that people see all over in mathematics. Essentially, we take the answer and put it back in as the input. It comes out as an answer, and then that becomes the new input, and it cycles: answer, input, answer, input.

So, in a way, when we're just being, whatever our intrinsic nature is, that's the input. Whatever the results are, that's the output. Then that becomes the input again, and we end up just evolving, letting destiny unfold before us as a fractal of recursive process. I like that.

See, we can use mathematics to see the way nature works, even in the spiritual realm.

Silence and Self-Transcendence

It takes a degree of vulnerability, but there's such a great gift there because we develop the capacity to see the truth. If we're so clouded by the past, the future, the ideas, and the self, it's hard to see simply what is before us.

We gain power because we cease to dissipate energy in resistance. Thought is a form of resistance. We're not dissipating energy anymore. Our spiritual energy is retained, and it magnifies. When we're being, we generate love. We generate qi, light.

The deeper we go into being, the more free and vulnerable we become to the is-ness, and the more energy accumulates in us. So it's a mystical practice. The more energy you generate, the easier it is to enter into that.

If I got together with any of you, and I was really loving it, and we were doing something that was my personal preference, we would be so immersed together that it would be pure being, the bliss of being. It tends to be quiet.

Here's the paradox. When we're being, when we're purely being and not exchanging words, we go from two egos connecting, to two souls connecting, to one soul being.

Our words are conceptions of self. They are not necessarily reality. They're ideas, interpretations, impressions. But when you sit with somebody, try this on your next date, or with your husband or wife. When you sit with somebody, you're holding hands, you're driving on the freeway, the top's down, the sun is shining, and not a word is spoken, the whole universe is spoken.

We experience a deeper, more true communication in silence. Not in silence with the mind that's going, going, going, but in silence with a mind that is empty, free, listening, loving, and immersed in the bliss of being.

Our substance is the bliss of being, the light, the fabric of consciousness. Even deeper, in the clear light of Nirvana, is the bliss of being as a substance. We seek to shed the obstacles, to remove the sense of being ensnared in selfhood. As a spiritual practice, that's what we're doing. Every moment, we're trying to maintain the capacity to just be.

I mean, the Buddha said it. Jesus said it. The great rabbis said it. Come on! Why does it feel like there's such resistance, like people don't want this?

You have to let your small self dissolve so the big self can emerge. We're going beyond the ego, the conception of self, so it requires a kind of humility. Whatever I thought I was doesn't matter anymore. I don't care anymore. I've been there. I've done that. I've done that for a thousand lifetimes. I've done that for many, many years in this lifetime. No more.

Freedom is what I seek, which happens in silence.

It's a very practical exercise. It's a great thing to do with another person. It's a great thing to do with yourself. People are very preoccupied with their technology and their social media, but can you go to the park, the beach, the sunset, the forest, or the desert and just be?

Let it all go. Sometimes the momentum, the inertia of self, that giant wheel that's been turning, needs to slow on its own. We don't necessarily have to be the agent of its cessation. We can allow it to wither in its own lack of sustenance. We stop giving it little pushes.

Deny the self. Deny the agenda. Deny all that is not just being.

This is an intense practice, but it's quite accessible, quite simple, and, I think, quite relevant to everybody. It can make us pretty happy.

Spontaneity and Creative Flow

Now, you might go from just being into a beautiful state of creativity because you cleared everything. You're like, "Okay, now that I'm free, I'm just going to move into a state of being as flow state."

You see, what is flow state? Flow state is where being meets action, spontaneity. I'm doing, I'm talking, I'm working, I'm coding, I'm walking, I'm with friends, but I am not the doer. I'm just being because there's nobody to care. It's just the joy of letting my heart decide.

The only right action is the spontaneous action. Any premeditated action is the action of ego, the action of agenda, the action of selfhood. But when the heart decides, it's entirely spontaneous. There's no gap between a decision and an action. Total spontaneity.

That also retains the spiritual energy. So we can go into enormous creative states where we are creating not from conditioning, but from inspiration, from freedom. What comes through us almost seems as if it's not our own. But it is our own because we refract the light of Dharma into Svadharma.

We, as a person of incarnation, as a soul of individuality, have a particular quality and predilection that takes the perfect white light and refracts it into a unique spectrum. That is the purpose of our life: to be what we are, to be honest.

As Bruce Lee says, "It's very difficult to be honest." I love that. Find that on YouTube. That honesty is the absolute spontaneity and humility of freedom, of being.

When we go into these creative modes, we're being whatever we are. It's not a choice anymore. I didn't choose to be this or that. I am this. I either can choose to resist it or to allow it.

It's hard to care what other people think at that point because it doesn't matter. I'll do what I do. As long as we're in touch with the heart and our intentions are honorable, those actions are dharmic.

So, yeah, practice just being, and stand for it in your life. Some people will resist it, and they'll say, "Well, I want to connect with you. I want to hear all about your day."

Maybe turn around and say, "I want to know you. I want to see you as you are now, because the day is not there anymore. The day is the past. The real is the now."

Namaste. Thank you for allowing me to share what is in my heart right there, and hopefully some of you will join me in that. The more I feel close to you, the more I want to connect with you. To me, the only real way to connect is through that transmission of knowledge that can only happen in the depths of being and the silence.

Comments? Questions? I'd love to hear what anybody thinks or wants to add.

So glad to see you, David and Scott. It definitely made me happy when you guys jumped on here.

Just beam, man. That'll be our Sangha T-shirt. A bunch of beatnik Bhaktis.

Spiritual Practice in Productive Life

David P Yeah, I have one comment.

Adam Wes Yeah?

David P I think it's kind of hard to live a corporate lifestyle and, at the same time, let go, because it's about planning, execution, and strategy. Staying in the state of flow, it's quite a task to merge both worlds at this point.

Adam Wes But it's what?

David P At least for me, it's quite a task.

Adam Wes Well, it's absolutely true that the more you try to do two things at once, in other words, be and enact, the more skilled and refined the abilities need to be.

I love that you're bringing this up because I didn't think to include this until now, when you said that. Some of the ways that we can do this in productive, professional, corporate lifestyles, or whatever it might be, where we have to generate certain outcomes and perform in certain ways, involve building systems. That's one of the strategies that's absolutely necessary to employ.

We can very gracefully and easily run these systems with very little effort. Imagine a CEO who runs their business with their pinky finger because they built it like a beautiful plant of structural integrity. Everything is streamlined, and every action they take reverberates through an entire organization exactly as it's meant to.

I used to have a business, and I had a whole team of people in India creating very complex Excel documents for my clients. There were about 20 people in India, I think. They would make mistakes, completely, right? They're on the other side of the world, working on a very detailed, very specific document. There were always mistakes.

So, over one week or one two-week period, I sat down and built a spreadsheet that automatically updated almost everything. All they had to do was a very particular task that almost could not be done improperly. All of a sudden, it was perfect. I didn't have to worry about it. It was there. It was an asset to the business, and it allowed me to just be more.

I think that's part of the strategy, to set up our lives so that they're not frenetic, but can be enormously productive.

Just think about it. You get in your car. You can just be chilling on the road, hardly thinking. All of those parts in your car are working perfectly together. Imagine if you had to micromanage every single one. That would be an enormous task.

"Oh, we have to get the starter motor going. Okay, now these pistons need to go. Wait, they're not timed correctly. Let's pull over and get the timing right."

There are so many things that would burden us. We live in a time when we can set systems up more easily, thanks to new technological developments. That's why I say we can become the ascetics of abundance. This is the age of asceticism and abundance merging.

The ascetics of the past begged for food and had nothing, one bowl, one robe. The ascetics of the future may have castles and robot servants, sit in samadhi all day, and have food brought right to them. It's an exciting time for enlightenment, if you use it that way.

Thanks, David.

I love how David does such a beautiful gesture. See, what he's doing energetically when he bows like this is he's centering his energy. Correct me if I'm wrong. He's activating the third eye with his pointer fingers, centering them, being, and then feeling and centering his heart. His third eye and heart gain a kind of coherence that brings him into a state of mind that's energetically, phenomenally, just gorgeous.

Thanks, David. Love that. I rarely see anybody do that. It's cool.

I wonder if my response was helpful or applicable for you.

David P Yeah, totally.

Adam Wes Cool. You and I both have a little bit of an entrepreneurial side, so I know the challenge. I know it.

He's like, "I want enlightenment, but I want to be an entrepreneur. Okay, wait, hold on. That means I can't live in a cave. Okay, well, that means I can't be a jerk when I'm doing business either. And those guys are being jerks. They got away with that."

Right? So it's this whole thing. You have to be a next-level entrepreneur, a next-level spiritualist.

All right, let's meditate. Let's just be, because I've talked for 30 minutes. I'd rather just say it once, and then we can all do it. I mean, you guys were probably doing it. I'm not the creator of that, but say it once, put it out there, and then...

I should correct that, though. I am just being. When I share the teachings, I'm just enjoying it. I love talking about it, so there's a being to that too. It's like what I do with my friends. My friends come over, and we literally just constantly talk about these things. That's all we do, and then we meditate. Then we cuddle and hug and eat food, being and being in the moment. That's what I want to do with everybody.

Dum, dum, dum-dum.

All right. Colleen? Colleen and Colleen. All right. Mom and Dad, are you guys there? All right. Okay.

Meditation and Reflections on Being

Let's meditate.

Sometimes we feel just being in these films that are so spacious, before humanity got large, and they point to that time. This is from Braveheart. Think of those Scottish fields and hills.

Farm animals on it.

One of the ways to connect with being is to feel your heart. That's where the bliss of being comes from. It aligns with the center of the universe, the essence, the quintessential.

Allow that wheel of self, of thought, to just gently lose momentum.

Perhaps you're swept away immediately by that luminosity of the light of consciousness, this great dignity in just being. You can feel it. There's a righteous quality too. That humility, your will aligns with the will of the universe, and there's dignity in that.

Colleen No kidney stones, no infections.

Ariella Interesting.

Adam Wes Namaste, everybody. Mom, would you like to share?

Colleen Hi. I was in the car, and I couldn't figure out how to unmute myself, so sorry I didn't answer earlier.

Adam Wes No, that's okay.

Colleen I really enjoyed your talk today. Thank you.

Adam Wes How was your meditation?

Colleen Well, I was driving, so I wasn't meditating much, but I was enjoying the music and relaxing.

Adam Wes Okay.

Colleen Thank you.

Adam Wes You're welcome. Namaste. How about you, Ariella?

Ariella I also enjoyed the talk. In the beginning, what sometimes happens to me happened. I spaced out, but thinking back on it, I think it was being, in an amazing way.

Adam Wes Really, you, of your own clarity, gave it a new word. Good. I'm glad to hear it. Yes, exactly. Let's space out. That's true.

Ariella After a while, I became aware of my body and the music. I think I was able to focus on being, but it wasn't the same as not being aware of all of that.

Adam Wes Yeah. When you get absorbed and you don't know you're there.

Ariella Yes.

Adam Wes I would imagine it's quite blissful, right?

Ariella Yes, yes.

Adam Wes It's what you are. It's the part of you that is eternal. It doesn't change. It cannot be added to. It cannot be taken away from. So that's your being.

Ariella Yes.

Adam Wes Being is the container for becoming. It's the thing in which all the contents of consciousness and life in the universe occur.

They say, "Do you know yourself?" This is an Alan Watts thing. You should check out Alan Watts if you haven't checked him out. He's a guy with a nice British accent, a Zenist. He says, "Do you know yourself?" Then people say, "Well, I'm so-and-so, and this is my history." It's like, no, that's not yourself. Your self is essentially the being, the thing behind all of that, the thing that witnessed all of that.

Wonderful. Well, thanks, Ariella.

Ariella Thank you so much for getting me to that point of being able to sit, to realize that that was being. Thank you.

Adam Wes Yeah, congratulations. That's exciting. It sounds a little better than spacing out.

Ariella Yes.

Adam Wes What kind of light did you see? It's important that we share about the light.

Ariella Just white light.

Adam Wes Okay, just the white light. A white light appeared, and you weren't even imagining it. It was just there.

Ariella Yeah.

Adam Wes Good job. Namaste. Thank you, Ariella.

David, you're welcome. Do you want to share anything, or are you good? Scott, how about you? Do you want to share anything? Are you good? Okay.

So, this is the last week of our ten-week course this summer. Scott, you're welcome to continue joining us on Tuesdays, for sure. Thank you for following through. Good job. It's been amazing having you.

I'll see you tomorrow too, though, for a math class. That's the plan. That's on the schedule. I'm planning on it. Otherwise, you'll hear from me for some reason.

Thank you. Namaste. Bye, everybody. Bye, Ariella.

Colleen Namaste.

Adam Wes Bye, Mom.

Colleen Bye.

Adam Wes Hi, David.

Study Guide

The lesson explored the practice of just being through silence, vulnerability, humility, spontaneous action, creative flow, and the recognition of being as the witness and container for becoming.

Theme of the Lesson

Just being allows thought, agenda, and the small self to subside, opening the heart to silence, freedom, love, and spontaneous action.

Key Points
  • Just being means releasing the pull of thought, past, future, place, problems, and agenda.
  • The apparent emptiness of having nothing to discuss can become the fullness of the bliss of being.
  • Being requires vulnerability, humility, love, and a willingness to stop controlling.
  • Silence allows communication to move from two egos connecting, to two souls connecting, to one soul being.
  • Allowing the small self to dissolve makes room for the big self to emerge.
  • When resistance and thought no longer dissipate energy, spiritual energy is retained and magnified.
  • Flow state is where being meets action and spontaneity, without identification as the doer.
  • Creative expression can arise from inspiration and freedom rather than conditioning.
  • Systems can reduce frenetic effort and create more room to be within productive life.
  • Being is eternal, the witness behind personal history, and the container for becoming.
Assignment

Practice just being, alone or with another person, and allow the wheel of thought and self to gently lose momentum without giving it further pushes.

Actionable Focus for the Week
  • Feeling the heart as a way of connecting with the bliss of being.
  • Spending time at a park, beach, sunset, forest, or desert with no need to fill the moment.
  • Sharing silence with another person, with a mind that is empty, free, listening, and loving.
  • Noticing the impulse to return to the past, prepare for the future, or turn experience into a problem.
  • Allowing spontaneous action and creative flow to arise from the heart.
  • Recognizing where simple systems could make daily life less frenetic.
Optional Reflection Prompts
  • What is present when there is no day to discuss and no future to plan?
  • How does silence feel when the mind is listening rather than continuing its chatter?
  • Where might being meet action naturally this week?
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