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June 2009 
Balancing what I Am and what I Do
Posted on Feb 16th, 2007
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Leendert
Leendert
One year ago I wrote:
Two of the most elementary and important polarities I have to balance, are the energies of being and doing. To be; is the ability of me being in the present moment, with an open and receptive consciousness - just endure the moment. Doing is the ability to move trough time with aimed attention, to do a specific task. Being is the essence of the feminine energy. Doing is the essence of masculine energy. Being a man I carry both energies inside myself. and Strange enough I lean in this perspective more to a feminine side inside myself; just Being instead of Doing. So in order to balance this out I need to work more on energy involving doing.(creating this blog for example). Because I feel more safe in Being I developed that side more then the opposite essence of Doing. To live righteously, I need to develop both energies fully. Today I take time to Be and to Do.
Leendert van Velsen
(been praying, meditating and took pictures with my almost 4 year old daughter as my assistant and light manager.... I have been and I have done this morning....:))
Two of the most elementary and important polarities I have to balance, are the energies of being and doing. To be; is the ability of me being in the present moment, with an open and receptive consciousness - just endure the moment. Doing is the ability to move trough time with aimed attention, to do a specific task. Being is the essence of the feminine energy. Doing is the essence of masculine energy. Being a man I carry both energies inside myself. and Strange enough I lean in this perspective more to a feminine side inside myself; just Being instead of Doing. So in order to balance this out I need to work more on energy involving doing.(creating this blog for example). Because I feel more safe in Being I developed that side more then the opposite essence of Doing. To live righteously, I need to develop both energies fully. Today I take time to Be and to Do.
Leendert van Velsen
(been praying, meditating and took pictures with my almost 4 year old daughter as my assistant and light manager.... I have been and I have done this morning....:))
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I have the opposite issue - I need to spend more time being. In fact, I’ve been working to consciously connect with the being part of my energy even while I’m doing. So, if I look a little spaced out on the elliptical machine at the gym, you’ll know why! =)
I often think of that Buddhist joke, “don’t just do something, sit there”
Its about ending the infinite chain of causation because whatever we do, even if it is just flapping our wings, we send ripples into the cosmos. My best doing comes out of my being, when my being is surrendered and devotional to divine order. Then divine order moves through me and the doing has a purity to it, not all twisted up by what I think I’m supposed to do or be. There is a bumper sticker I’ve seen around town. “Don’t believe everything you think.” ha ha. Let’s all get a little humbler in our minds. I’m sure it will serve us.
Thank you for posting this, I’ve not had this explained this simply before. I will listen to where I find myself, and move in to Doing from there.