Being Is Both Noun and Verb

If we were to take all the practices, methods, disciplines and pathways from all the great religious and spiritual traditions and distil them all into a single practice, we would end up with the non-practice of simply being, the Pathless Path. Such is the beauty of the English language that ‘being’ is both a noun and a verb. It designates both what we are and what we do. If we think we are a temporary, finite separate self then simply being is what we do; if we know who we are, then simply being is what we are. There is no distance from simply being to simply being.

If we were to take all the practices, methods, disciplines and pathways from all the great religious and spiritual traditions and distil them all into a single practice, we would end up with the non-practice of simply being, the Pathless Path. Such is the beauty of the English language that ‘being’ is both a noun and a verb. It designates both what we are and what we do. If we think we are a temporary, finite separate self then simply being is what we do; if we know who we are, then simply being is what we are. There is no distance from simply being to simply being.