The difference between Being and doing

Many people report that time is passing by so fast, or that there is not enough time to do ‘things’. The opposite to this is  reporting that time is passing by so slow, or perhaps the person is bored or wanting a certain situation or feeling to go by or end quickly.

In any case, the notion here is wanting to be somewhere else, someone else, some time else. Meaning, the notion is to avoid being present here and now. Being here and now is all that ever exists. Even memories and visions of the future happen here and now.

Wanting to be someone else, somewhere else, some time else, or wanting to do something else, or to finish what you are doing to do something else, all of this imply that there is a doer and the doing. Two separate things. Two separate thoughts created by the mind itself. The mind is creating the notion of the doer, and the notion of the doing as a thought. With this separation comes conflict and resistance. This is the resistance to being here and now.

Being, however, includes everything and nothing. It includes making effort and being effortless. It includes the doer and the doing. It includes activity and no activity.

Being is immensely lively, active, and fresh.

Being is also doing, without the identification of the doer. In Being, there is no separate doer. Therefore, it does not feel like doing or making effort. It is very active but without the doer who thinks he/she is doing something.There is simply a happening. 

This happening is living. Life itself expressed in the here and now in its marvellous immensity, intensity, boredom, passion, activity, silence, and all there could ever be.

When the doer surrenders to this immensity, there is doing that is Being.