Human-merely-being: (noun) the natural, simple state of living attainable by homo sapiens free of obfuscations resulting from accumulated daily stress
Human-merely-being: (adverb) a manner of blissful, embodied living whereby one’s innate joy brings fulfillment to all she does rather than searches for purpose or fulfillment outside of herself. The state of non-seeking where one copacetically exists in pure possibility, full adaptability, and cosmic awareness.
Human-merely-being is our birthright. A birthright that's "not known, because not looked for/ But heard, half-heard, in the stillness/ Between two waves of the sea".
In other words, it's a birthright we have a future-memory of--quasi-recognized from moments of flow and the precipice between waking and sleeping. Yet through simple practice, one can cultivate the seed into a fully bloomed inner paradise that sustains the slings and arrows of the external wilderness one experiences as the world.
In cultivating being, one releases stress, resets physiologically and gains innumerable practical, physical benefits. If such compels you, bravo, for this, too, is our birthright: to be rested, primed for action, capable and capacious in any and all endeavors. Yet the true gift that transcends specific purpose or gain is (re)learning how to thrive in the world as we did before the great forgetting: how to "return to the beginning and know the place [of infinite possibility] for the first time".
We call the means whereby (of cultivating this internal state) Vedic Meditation--a simple technique practiced twice daily to not only foster unencumbered being, but more importantly, to stabilize its blissful bounty into life's very foundation. Rather then temporary retreat from a harried, fragmented status quo, human-merely-being becomes the baseline.
This is what I teach (Vedic Meditation) and more broadly what I practice in art and life.
* Quotes from T.S. Eliot's "Little Gidding" from his Last Quartets. A powerful modern text inspired by Vedic philosophy.