Being Need Not Practise Being Being

The progressive and Direct paths start with the presumption of separation. They give the apparently separate self something to do, practise, acquire, become, or understand. A goal. The Pathless Path starts with the recognition of our true nature, and we simply stay there. No apparently separate self to undertake a practice, to acquire, achieve, realise or understand something, to have a goal. If we suffer because we believe and feel we are a temporary finite being limited to and generated by the body, then there’s something for us to do. But what is there to do for one who has tasted their essential self as ever-present, unlimited being? Being does not have to practise being being. Even after this recognition, we may still have an impulse to seek, achieve, etc. It is a residue from seeking happiness in the world or seeking enlightenment in the spiritual traditions. Let any such residue subside in being.

The progressive and Direct paths start with the presumption of separation. They give the apparently separate self something to do, practise, acquire, become, or understand. A goal. The Pathless Path starts with the recognition of our true nature, and we simply stay there. No apparently separate self to undertake a practice, to acquire, achieve, realise or understand something, to have a goal. If we suffer because we believe and feel we are a temporary finite being limited to and generated by the body, then there’s something for us to do. But what is there to do for one who has tasted their essential self as ever-present, unlimited being? Being does not have to practise being being. Even after this recognition, we may still have an impulse to seek, achieve, etc. It is a residue from seeking happiness in the world or seeking enlightenment in the spiritual traditions. Let any such residue subside in being.