WHY, A HUMAN ALONE, IS KNOWN AND REFERRED TO, AS A HUMAN ‘BEING’?

Do you know, that, only a human, alone is known and referred to, as a human ‘being’? Nothing else or no other creature or animal, is known as a ‘being’. For example, a dog is never called a ‘dog being’ or a ‘lion being’ etc but only a human is known, as a human ‘being’. Why so? Because, only, a human has the potential of ‘being’, potential of ‘just being’.

‘Being’ is stillness and stillness is the quality of this existence, because, this existence is just ‘being’ or just a ‘presence’. Now, because of his evolution, to a certain level, this other dimension i.e. the possibility of stillness, possibility of just ‘being’ is available to a human only. Only, we humans, have, in us, this potential of “being” and we alone can, therefore, exist here totally still and silent, like this existence.

So, only, because, we are capable of realising this possibility of just ‘being’, and that’s why, a human alone, is referred to as a human ‘being’ and no other creatures. Other animals or creatures, don’t have this potential of ‘being’ and hence, this possibility of just ‘being’ or becoming still, is not available to them. An animal can only exist, here, as a movement, because, he can exist here, as a body, as a physical only. Please know, that movement is physical and is of the physical but stillness is divine.

However, the point we need to understand, is that, though we are known as ‘human beings’ but this possibility of ‘being’, needs to be realised, needs to be earned, by our own efforts, by our own striving. This is for the reason, that this state of ‘being’, doesn’t come to us automatically, with our birth, in this human form, though, for sure, we are known as ‘human beings’, simply, by our birth, in this human form, itself.

In fact, the reality, rather, is just reverse, which is that, with our birth, we also get the same compulsiveness, same unconsciousness, in the form of the destiny, like other animals. The unconsciousness, therefore, is our birth right and not the consciousness because unconsciousness, comes to us, for free and not the consciousness. Consciousness, rather, needs to be earned. However, the good thing about this human form, is that this possibility of ‘being’, this possibility of becoming conscious, is in-built, in this human form itself, and is, thus, available, to us, for realisation, with our birth itself.

Thus, though, this potential of ‘being’, exists in all of us but very few really and rarely, do dare to convert this potential into a possibility, which is evident, in the fact, that Buddhas or enlightened beings are very few and far between. A buddha or an enlightened one means, the one, who has realised this possibility of ‘being’ and has, thus, really become a ‘human being’ in true sense. That’s the reason, that an enlightened one, is not called, as an enlightened person but is known as an enlightened ‘being’. because, no more, he is a person, no more, he is a human, no more, he is a physical but he now exists here, just as a ‘being’ as a ‘presence’, like this existence only.

Most of us, continue to exist, here, as humans only i.e. without realising this potential of ‘being’ into a possibility, though, in each of us, does exist this possibility. That’s why, I said, that though we are humans, for sure, but not human ‘being’ yet, in real sense, because, for you to become human ‘being’, in true sense, you first need to realise this possibility of ‘being’, by your own efforts, by your own striving. If you don’t, then, this possibility of ‘being’ remains unrealised.

Now, for realising this possibility of ‘being’, what you need to do, is to just dissolve this unconsciousness, this compulsiveness, which you carry within, so that you can just ‘be’. You should know that, only, for the reason, of this compulsiveness, this unconsciousness, you can’t sit still or you can’t exist, as a ‘being’. Also, only because of this compulsiveness, you exist here as a movement, like other animals. Please know that movement, or the physical, is human but stillness or ‘being’, or the nonphysical, is divine. Meditation is just ‘being’ and hence, a technology to realise this potential of ‘being’, into a possibility.