Being is the expression of Suchness, and in the realm of the living, Doing is the imperative of Being: if there were no doing there would be no being. And we find that through millions upon millions of years Awareness (which is the stuff of life) has in its doing, refined its capacities of being toward the full flowering of Pristine Awareness: the awakening of the Universe to its Self.
The Being of any life form is woven of capacities and limitations, and we can recognize the character of any animal by its Doing. In the cultural histories of humanity's doing we find two dominant threads. One of them is the violence universally found in natural systems, and in that natural violence the cleverness of humanity has found a home for its animal genius. The other thread is the press of Pristine Awareness to Self realization, and this is the foundation of religion and philosophy.
The genius of religion and philosophy is not an animal genius: it is the pressure of Pristine Awareness seeking the liberation which is the flower of its Awakening.
This flowering has been called "Enlightenment"
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