Human Being vs. Human Doing

A Call Back to the Sacred Simplicity of Life

In our hyperconnected age, we measure worth through metrics: productivity scores, bank balances, social media followers. We've constructed a civilization that venerates doing above all else. Rise, hustle, consume, repeat. Yet we entered this world not as "human doings" but as human beings.

Somewhere in our collective sprint toward more, we lost the art of simply being.

The wisdom traditions understood this fundamental truth. Jesus invited his followers to "consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin… yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these." He saw in nature a different paradigm — one where flourishing happens without frantic striving.

The Tao Te Ching speaks of wu wei, the principle of effortless action. This isn't laziness or passivity, but rather alignment with natural rhythms. "When nothing is done, nothing is left undone" — a paradox that reveals how forcing often creates more resistance than flow.

Buddha identif…