Our last week was all about the sense of 'I'. This week, we'll be focusing on the sense of 'being'. Sense of something comes from a sensation, and since we experience the world around us through our sensory organs, somehow it becomes easy (and logical) to comprehend the sense of 'I'. But what really is a sense of being?
If we look at the word 'being', it is a present participle. One is in action while 'being'. Therefore a sense of being is not to be comprehended as a normal sensory perception. This is the other form of sense. It takes a deeper understanding to perceive a sense of being.
To put it in simple terms, a sense of 'being' comes from participating in an activity/ action at this moment. And, while in this action too, we perceive the world through our sensory perception and then experience - the perception in being is generated only while performing this act at this very moment. Most of the time, our sensation is clouded by our preconditions or biases. That is why our hand naturally extends to a sweetmeat involuntarily because we know the experience of what sweet tastes like.
Therefore, one may notice that in 'I' there is a compulsiveness whereas in 'being' there is responsiveness. That becomes a fundamental distinction between the two.
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