Just being in a world of hectic doing …

The innate meaning and value of just being, in a world of hectic doing.

I invite you to a contemplation, if you are interested. Here are some questions :

1. Do you value what you do?

Most of us have grappled with this question to some degree, and almost certainly so in the sense of the larger doing in our lives, like our livelihoods. But we can go deeper still if we consider the smaller doings in our lives, - the moment to moment doing … so much of which arises unconsciously.

2. Do you value who/what you are?
Again many of us have probably grappled with some version of this question too. The popular psychological take presents this as an issue of low or high self-esteem. Again we can go deeper than that, if we become interested in first knowing who or what we are that is asking the question. Conventional psychology looks upon us as being human and only human. In that context self-esteem makes sense. But are we only human? Is there more to us than our human selves? That is a deeper contemplation.
Now let’s change the questions just a little bit.

3. Do you value that you are? Do you value that you do?
These questions take us deeper still into the value of existence itself, of simply being. Perhaps it would not be an exaggeration to say that for most of us, it seems easy to just be.

What we find more difficult is to value just being. And our constrained ability to value just being, has staggering consequences for us all. When we are not connected with our own innate value, our just being, then we inhabit a world of doing and more frenetic doing, to find meaning and value, to prove to ourselves and others that we are worth something after all. But alas, as we are bound to discover, this kind of doing from lack cannot alleviate lack, and in fact engenders more of it in experience.

When we really get this we become interested in these questions of our innate value.

Being and doing are like the 2 legs we stand upon and walk with. The more consciously we tend to them both, the more stable our experience and expression in the world.