Playing as Being - as a Resource

An exceedingly excellent AND VERY LONG session: http://wiki.playasbeing.org/Chat_Logs/2008/07/2008.07.26_07:00_-_Journey_to_Ithaca

A theme which Adams has come back to since the beginning of my days at PaB, is "Being as a Resource." In terms of sustainability and equanimity, this topic interests me more and more. Combined with "nothing doing" and "not making anything happen" there seems to come a shift toward not trying to give anything, away (particularly in PaB there seem to be many mindful to heal the world), but rather to Be, allow... just not hold back when openings come to the fore, as it were, rest... 

We too might... be resourceful ground for Being... play as Being Resourceful... in an appreciative stance wherein we recognize Completeness and nothing missing.

The following session is abridged, meant to be a pointer. Even my pointers tend to be long I guess, sorry. :)

Adams Rubble: I am not sure it "discussable"
Adams Rubble: but this morning I woke up thinking of my "vision" of being rocked
Adams Rubble: in association with seeing Being as a resource
Adams Rubble: that there is a connection
Adams Rubble: in seeing ourselves as part of a bigger picrture
Pema Pera: for sure, yes!
Adams Rubble: When I woke up I felt that I was close to understanding seeing Being as a resource

Pema Pera: can you tell me a bit more?
Adams Rubble: well the thought of the "vision" is what followed (or preceded)
Adams Rubble: The thoughts were conneected
Pema Pera: Being has to be seen/used as a Resource, to have any meaning at all -- even though the words to describe that are limited and seemingly paradoxical
Pema Pera: I think I've mentioned that I like the word "seen" better than "used" but in first approximation both are fine -- and neither is precise :-)

Adams Rubble: I was interested that the other day you said it was so easy
Pema Pera: from Being's point of view all is Being, so there is no question of using or even the notion of a resource
Adams Rubble: which means I am circling around the understanding
Pema Pera: but from our more limited perspective, if Being cannot be approached as a resource, it is meaningless and remains abstract
Pema Pera: yes, it is so easy that it is hard to accept that it is so easy !!!

Pema Pera: btw, just today I read the session of two days ago 1 pm: http://playasbeing.wik.is/Chat_Logs/...ce_and_Stories

Adams Rubble: we were just getting to the easy part :)
sophia Placebo: yes i remmber asking adams "resorce of what"?
Pema Pera: hahaha, yes . . . please continue, Adams!
Adams Rubble: well I am asking (hehe) I haven't found it so easy to figure this out
Adams Rubble: how I can take my understanding of God as a resource and apply it to Being as a resource
Adams Rubble: I was going to ask what is the difference?

Adams Rubble: well, I felt that God had a plan for me
Adams Rubble: that He would guide me
Adams Rubble: the best part was that I felt at peace
Adams Rubble: that I did not have to depend on my own weaknesses
Adams Rubble: that I could act despite them
Adams Rubble: be more than I could just by depending on my own poor skills
Adams Rubble: transcend my weaknesses
Pema Pera: all of that can carry over easily to viewing Being as a resource, even though the language would be somewhat different

Storm asks whether I see myself separate from God and I stop to think about it

Storm Nordwind: In order for that to work, Adams, do you feel the need to stay separate from God so that there is a "guide" and a "guided"? If so would that be different to Being?
Adams Rubble: Interesting point Storm
Adams Rubble: I'd have to think about that

Pema notices that my use of "plan" is referring to a previous conversation in which I talked about a "calling"

Pema Pera: what would be a "calling" or a "plan" in terms of a more personal image of God, could be seen as "the natural next step" at each given time, in a less personal-God approach, as in Taoism for example, or in PaB

Pema Pera: I found it fascinating that Paradise brought up a very similar point yesterday evening in http://playasbeing.wik.is/Chat_Logs/...00_-_Nasruddin
Pema Pera: Paradise Tennant: but in each and every moment we experience .. there is always a sense of whatever is the situation .. this is what should be :)
Pema Pera: Paradise Tennant: we so often fight .. or want to change what is .. instead of accepting that what ever is ..could not be otherwise .. that is not to say you do not plan or try to improve things just focus on the now and enjoy it for all it is .. and really all you ever have :)
Adams Rubble: yes, that is VERY close
Pema Pera: and then Eos quoted the Beatles: Eos Amaterasu: "Nothing you can see that isn't shown. Nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be."
Pema Pera: and Eliza continued the quote: Eliza Madrigal: Its easy... lalala
Pema Pera: so we are back to the "easy" Adams!
Adams Rubble: :)))
Wol Euler: :)

Storm Nordwind: Though of course "difficult" may be an entirely subject term, and something you can change
SophiaSharon Larnia: I feel that these weaknesses are our vulnerablities, not that they make us weak, they make us individual, I feel that we are all given everything we need as a part of being

Adams Rubble: It is when things are difficult we need to see past our identities
Pema Pera: yes, that feels more like going to the core, Adams!

Adams Rubble: how does Being help us to see we are capable of more than we think we are???
Adams Rubble: or I am I seeing it wrong?
Pema Pera: we are more than we think we are
Pema Pera: that's the most basic point
Storm Nordwind: Being is something you can come to see as having no separation with. If that happens, what else would there be to be? :)
Adams Rubble: is that the easy part Pema?
Pema Pera: what we think we are turns out to be a bunch of mistaken identifications -- roles we have
Pema Pera: if we drop what we have we can begin to see what we are
Pema Pera: and yes, that is "easy" in the sense of considering it to be "difficult" makes it impossible
Pema Pera: "difficult" points to a procedure, something to do
Pema Pera: but there is nothing to do, doing/changing you into something more wonderful than you already are is impossible, more than just difficult

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