This is the form taken by destruction.

[OneGrassRoot]

2. #5

5) We are all Buddhas and Bohdisattvas awakening to our Unborn Mind...we don't have to DO anything, we simply have to BE.


I think that is often a point of contention for those of us with similar spiritual views such as here at ASAH.

The "do'er" versus "be'er" thing.



I personally feel that there is no ultimate truth to the whole "do'er" versus "be'er" thing.

Perhaps some are here to DO and others are here to BE. I don't believe there is a blanket universal law that says we don't have to do anything but instead must simply Be. I think it's different for each soul.

I also feel no one knows for certain how the Universe works or whether there are truly any universal laws that apply to each and every human being. There seem to be so many different realities and perspectives that I personally don't know ANYTHING for sure.

I resonate more with FWWM's feeling that we must DO, though I greatly respect others, such as yourself BTTB, who advocate focusing on Being rather than Doing.

Our views about this may change repeatedly as we go through life.

I've often received the same advice as you provided here, offered with the genuine concern that we "do'ers" will burn out. We're simply all such different personality types, and, for some of us do'ers, our life force may be extinguished in many ways if we don't DO as we are led to do.



We have to Do or Be in a way that works for us as individuals and is our individual truth, at this moment in time, recognizing that it may not be another's truth, at this moment in time.

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