2. Becoming Vs Being
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When you are intense, you just are. You don't need to become, you just need to be. We know so many ways of becoming. Becoming is totally different from being. To become a doctor we know what has to be done, to become a lawyer we know what has to be done, to become a politician we know what has to be done. All our knowledge is all about becoming. Becoming is d i r e c t l y related to the mind. Being is directly related to your nature. Becoming is related to society, being is related to you. We know only how to become something. We forgot an important factor, how to be. Because our inner space has become too much corrupted with the concept of becoming, we lost touch with the idea of being. We lost touch with our very truth which is being.
2.1 The healing touch of being
If you can experience your being at least for one moment, so many things that you accumulated when you wanted to 'become' something like physical illness, mental illness, suffering, sorrow, and all those things - will be washed away. You will experience the inner healing. Whatever was disturbing you, all the wounds, will be washed away.
Above all you will have a real, concrete solid base to become something. Even becoming something will be a great success if you start after experiencing being. Without experiencing the being, if you start or if you try to become something, you will be an utter failure.
2.2 'Being' is Intensity
What is being? Being complete, total, integrated, expressing your full energy, is what I call 'being'. If you are partial in your experience or expression, be very clear you are being hypocritical.