Nothing to Do to Be Being

Can you talk about how there is nothing to do to be being? Rupert says: ‘Your being is effortlessly present. How much effort are you making to be? None. You’re making an effort, albeit a very small one, to hold up your mic. You blinked just then – that required a very small expenditure of energy. Your thoughts require an expenditure of energy. Your body is circulating blood. Everything requires an expenditure of energy, apart from being. Being is completely effortless. For one who has lost themselves in the content of experience and overlooked their being, some effort will be needed to begin with to extricate themselves from the content of experience and come back to their being. King Lear needs to make an effort to trace his way back to John Smith. But being itself is completely effortless. So when you’ve extricated yourself from the content of experience and arrived back in being, then that resting in being, as being, is completely effortless. It’s your natural state. It’s not something you do – it’s what you are.’

From event 05 - 12 April, 2025 Seven-Day Retreat at Mandali, 5–12 April 2025

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