The ‘Doing’ and ‘Being’ Modes

The ‘Doing’ and ‘Being’ Modes - (1835)

‘Doing’

We are very doing mode oriented over here in Western society.

We often even derive our identity based on what we do, rather than what we are or what we have come to be.

Sense of Worth from Doing

We derive our worth from what we have done. We say: “I deserve a good part of my father’s estate after he dies, because all of the things that I have done for him.”.

Because we do a lot we feel we deserve a lot. Or should even be loved more than others who do less.

Love and Doing

Often though love does not obey what people have done for us but more who they are. Sometimes this is unfair but this is how love works sometimes.

Obviously, we must balance the two: doing and being when it comes to love and our self-image.

The Being Mode

‘Being’

The ‘doing’ mode is not very helpful when working on certain egos, especially those of fear and anxiety.

The ‘being’ mode is much more helpful. Even the consciousness polarises more with the ‘being’ mode. Because the ‘being’ mode is produced by the consciousness.

It is to be mindful, alert and aware. It is bring our inner Being to the fore in us through our consciousness being active.

The interesting thing is that the consciousness acts or ‘does’ as well. The mind is the one though that always does and can not be, this is because it is the consciousness that is the only one that can ‘be’.

What we need is to not derive pour self-worth or self-image based on doing, but rather on being.

The ‘being’ mode is more useful to work on the ego because it brings our consciousness!

Doing for Being

What we need as a wise balance is ‘to do’ so that we can ‘be’ which is the same as ‘to do’ or ‘to work’ for the Being in us.

End (1835).

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