CENTAURUS
“The soul is forever being. It is being, regardless of what the body is doing, not because of what it’s doing. If you think your life is about doingness, you do not understand what you are about. Your soul doesn’t care what you do for a living. Your soul cares only about what you are being while you are doing whatever you are doing. It is a state of beingness the soul is after, not a state of doingness.” D. N.Walsch, Conversations with God, Book 1
“God said: I sent you out to play in the world and to make it beautiful. Life on Earth is important. Just because it is illusion doesn’t mean life in the world is unimportant.
True, life in the world isn’t everything, yet it is something. Living in illusion has a part to play, or why would illusion be? Being born is an event! The new soul on Earth is starting on an adventure that is unequaled. You who come to Earth are adventurers. You are on a mission. You may be sleeping, yet you are in the process of awakening while you are on Earth. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. It is a privilege to serve evolution on a day-to-day basis on this imagined planet and in this imagined life.” http://www.heavenletters.org/illusion-has-a-role-to-play.html
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Theoretically, our immediate answer to this question seems obvious and easy. We know we are more than our body. Yet, what do we experience in our day-to-day life if not that, more than often, we seem more to be our body than to be in our body.
In fact, we indirectly seem to be our body. What we seem to be directly in is activity, action or, generally speaking, doing. Our body is constantly doing something even when it is at rest. In fact, the only real function of the body is to enable us to do something. So its only function is to do. No wonder then that we easily slip, without even noticing it, into the identification with our body.
At the same time, the real and only function of our soul is to be. To be is an eternal function while doing is a temporary or transitory one. To be is changeless while doing is the very expression of changing something into something else, of changing one form into another form. The two functions — to be and to do — seem to be conflicting and this conflict is often expressed in some wishes or desires we nurture like doing what we would really love to do while not having to worry about paying the bills, being free and being in a relationship, attracting money without having to work so hard, having enough money and enough time to do all we would like to do, etc. It seems like if (and it is) the soul does not care at all about the job we are doing, no matter if we like that job or not.
Yet, as well as the soul’s sole purpose is to be, it is only through doing that it can experience the fullness of its being. The mind takes what the soul desires to experience, creates the appropriate conditions to express the soul’s desire and the body transforms it into concrete manifestation through its action or doing.
It appears then that the relationship between being a body and being in a body lies in the relationships we make between what we want to be and what we choose to experience as the expression of what we want to be. And this relation is expressed through our desires and the way we express those desires.
We are constantly creating without knowing it
The real conflict does not reside between to be and to do but in our contradictory desires and in the confusion about what we really want in life and of life. What we desire (job, money, relationships, objects) is just the reflection of what we desire to be or what we think we are. It comes down to the fact that, through our desires, we constantly choose to be one of the many potential versions of our individual self (by doing) or we make the decision to be the highest version of our individual self which is our Higher Self, that is our divine image (by being). Do we want to be self-centered or Self-Centered? That is the real question and the only one. If we choose to be self-centered, we can operate only at the level of doing. Then we inevitably think that we are our body. If we choose to be Self-centered, we are operating at the level of being AND doing. Then we know we are in a body to experience fully what it feels like TO BE IN a body. It is Being put into doing and growth.
If someone wants to make money and to enjoy the experience of it, he/she will surely attract money by putting his/her desire into action. That is the choice of an entity who wants to experience what it feels like to have money. If someone feels unhappy about his or her situation of not having enough money (or any other unhappy or unsatisfactory situation), then he/she is effectively making the experience of being unhappy with his/her situation.
Our thoughts are constantly creating, and the Universe always responds to our desires, even if most of the time we have the impression that our desires remain unanswered. The Universe never refuses us any of our desires. Yet it is the internal consistency of our desire that conditions its result or outcome. This consistency lies in the clarity of the relation between the desire of our soul to be and what our individual self wants to experience through its doing. The Universe, in that respect, acts like a computer. The output must correspond to the input. What we programmed as a ‘coded’ desire is what will show up on our screen. One would reply: ‘Well, that is not what I asked for. — But that is what you wrote down in your request.’
Who would not want to do what he loves and make money out of it? For some people it works and for some, it doesn’t. This is a very interesting question because it generates two types of answers.
Making money is produced through the activity of the body, and it corresponds to one of the many versions of the individual self that someone can make the experience of. To be an Olympic athlete and to aim at winning a gold medal is another version of an individual self that one can explore. This pertains totally to the realm of doing. It does not really involve being because this specific doing does not aim at reflecting being. It is self-centered, and that’s the way it has to be because it corresponds exactly to the desire to be so. We cannot express our being by doing anything. To be is expressed indivisibly by being, which is totally inconceivable. And so it is with Oneness and the ciphers 1 and 0(no quantity. But if one’s prime motivation in doing is to express being, then the desire is to allow the soul to do the experience of being and the activity of the body is secondary. Soul growth or evolution is not the result of the body activity.
We know that some schools of thought aim at producing states of being by stimulating body action (discipline, fast, yoga, etc.). But it seems more natural, from a soul’s perspective, that doing should reflect being rather than being reflecting doing.
This is illustrated in the difference between happiness and pleasure. Pleasure requires doing. A good meal has to be prepared, and somebody has to do the dishes. Traveling is a pleasure yet we have to go through visas, immigration, scanning. Pleasure and its contrary, displeasure, are attempts to make being the reflection of doing. On the other hand, happiness has nothing to do with doing. We are not happy because we do something. On the contrary, happiness is a state of being that stimulates us to do something. Happiness is a state of being where doing becomes the perfect mirror or reflection of being.
So, attracting money may be an expression of being, but it is different from attracting money by virtue of the individual self’s will and activity.
I chose the Centaur to express the image of an indefatigable horseman that is one with his mount (horse). We could see the lower body part of the Centaur, the horse, as the realm of doing while the upper part, the human, as the realm of the soul or being. In the Centaur image, being and doing are one and the doing part (the horse) is the reflection of the being part (the human).
But to reach that unity of being and doing, there must be a concordance of will between the soul’s or the Higher Self ‘s Will and the individual self’s will.
If we think that the Universe does not necessarily respond to our will, we have to ask ourself if we are responding ourself to our real deep will. This is where the two following statements become confusing. God says: “My Will is your will” and “Your will should be My Will, but it is not necessarily so.”
As long as we ‘falsely’ believe that God’s Will contradicts the individual self’s will, that by following God’s will, we are losing or sacrificing something, then the manifestation of our desire might take unexpected if not unreadable expressions. Then our will is not God’s will because we exclude being from our desire.
On the other hand, if we acknowledge that God’s Will is our real will, then what we choose is to express with and in our body (doing) the highest expression of what we are.
This seems like a learning process and in a certain way it is. This is so because we have to know our real will. In knowing our real will, we might discover that it does not necessarily correspond to what is only an individual self’s will. Then, we have to accept this real will we carry. Acceptance is not sufficient if we don’t make this will the highest of our wills. This means that we have to love unconditionally this will. And finally this will has to be claimed our own and only will.
Then God can say ‘My Will is your will and your will is My Will.’
Beyond the appearance of a learning experience, it is more of a REMEMBERING experience.
Written by Normand Bourque on Dec 08, 2013
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