IAAP Newsletter: The Unified Field
Chris Kenyon
Being & Doing
In his talk, "Being in Heaven," Martin Exeter called heaven "the place of being," with earth as "the place of achievement" or doing. He further said: "If we merely try to be on earth we'll find considerable struggle involved....In one way or another we have to make a living, for instance – hard work.... There are all kinds of things that are seemingly necessary to sustain our being on earth - and no one has ever been successful.... If we are to experience what it means to be, to know the qualities of being, heaven is the place." (Third Sacred School, Volume 5).
I am blessed to share my life with two fur people who provide me with daily lessons on the art of Being, if only I remember to pay attention. I suppose we make quite a sight walking through the neighborhood, with 4-year old Pepper as far in front as his leash will allow, and 16-year old Muffin hanging back to make sure that every fascinating spot gets thoroughly and completely sniffed, with me stretched out in the middle like Gumby. This spectacle doesn't bother the two of them, of course. They just keep on being what they are, regardless. They don't hurry to finish the walk so they can be on to other, more important, duties. They don't worry whether there will be kibble in the bowl when they get home; they just know that the Universe (at present in the guise of me) will provide as long as they keep on being true to their real natures.
I wish I was half as good as they are in remembering who I truly am, that what matters is the result of my being and not my doing. But little by little, walk by walk, they remind me to be more like them, beings just being who they are, letting the doing take care of itself. Or, as Neil Donald Walsch, author of the Conversations With God books put it on his website: "Don't get caught up in the thought that your abundance/success will emerge from what you are doing. You'll be running around doing this and doing that... and end up with nothing but a pile of do-do."
—CK
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