Ramtha, God, and Ursula K. Leguin, doing nothing, and being everything

Ursula K. LeGuin’s character, the Archmage Sparrowhawk, solemnly warns an energetic neophyte:

“Try to choose carefully… when the great choices must be made. When I was young, I had to choose between the life of being and the life of doing. And I lept at the latter like a trout to a fly. But each deed you do, each act, binds you to itself and to its consequences, and makes you act again and yet again. Then very seldom do you come upon a space, a time like this, between act and act, when you may stop and simply be. Or wonder who, after all, you are.” (The Farthest Shore, p34)^{^[6]}

And so, Ramtha tells us to “Never seek truth. Simply be. In being you’re at one with the infinite universe... When you simply are, you are in alignment with the isness of all things...and you have to do nothing except be!” (Ramtha, p116,197)

The disregard for the necessity of conventional work, at all costs, as well as the avoidance of life's tangles, and a-musements, is one of the characteristics of many of the individuals quoted in this book. To live society's way is to find only what society finds. And if that is all that you want, then be sure it is easy to have, but if you seek the 'life more abundant', you will have to re-vise (i.e. re-vision) it all. For, as Christ states in the Gospel of Thomas, in uncompromisingly iconoclastic terms, "Whoever has come to understand the world has found (only) a corpse, and whoever has found a corpse is superior to the world."(brackets are translator’s)

What happens when the pleasures of the idle life become more valuable than the struggles of the active life, is that the individual falls away from the society which prides itself on its knowledge and accomplishments, because these efforts have only led to more struggle, more inward poverty, more sorrow. The individual, thus liberated from the need to participate in the 'responsible and respectable' world, becomes profoundly peaceful, profoundly alert, profoundly unimportant, profoundly greater than the contagion of 'doing', to which he or she no longer belongs.

[6] Commisseration from above runs as follows: “If you choose [to have] peace and joy and love, you won’t get much of it through what you’re doing. If you choose happiness and contentment, you’ll find little of that on the path of doingness. If you choose reunion with God, supreme knowing, deep understanding, endless compassion, total awareness, absolute fulfillment, you won’t achieve much of that out of what you’re doing. In other words, if you choose evolution- the evolution of your soul- you won’t produce that by the worldly activities of your body. Doing is a function of the body. Being is a function of the soul. The body is always doing something. Every minute of every day it’s up to something. It never stops, it never rests, it’s constantly doing something. It’s either doing what it’s doing at the behest of the soul- or in spite of the soul. The quality of your life hangs in the balance. …The soul is forever being. It is being what it is being, regardless of what the body is doing, not because of what it’s doing. If you think your life is about doingness, you don’t understand what you are about. …Your soul doesn’t care what you do for a living- and when your life is over, neither will you. Your soul cares only about what you’re being while you’re doing whatever you’re doing. It is a state of beingness the soul is after, not a state of doingness.” God (Conversations with God, Book 1, p178)