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Do Be Do Be Do

Also called do be do

Do Be Do Be Do is his formula for meditation as a cycle of doing and being. First comes the doing (HRV resonant breathing, OM Japa in the chakras), then letting go to soak in the after-effect poise state, paravastha, before doing again. It solves the riddle of practising without thought of results.

From Dating the Divine - Yogi Explains, at 05:13

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First full explanationNovember 2021

Do Be Do Be Do Meditation

The video devoted to the idea: it settles the just-sit versus control-the-breath argument, then moves from the doing into soaking in the Four Proofs, tranquil breath and freeze response.

01:03Watch from here

Where it comes up

25 videos name Do Be Do Be Do, the ones that teach it first. Each moment opens the video at that second.

05:10“On this channel, I keep talking about do, be, do, be, do.”Teaches, Dating the Divine - Yogi Explains, Nov 202409:16“It's the most focused, and yet we're letting go, and so it's a riddle in that way for the yogi, but it's easy to solve with the formula, and the formula, very simple, do be do be do be do.”Teaches, Expectation Blocks You - Yogi Explains, Nov 202308:38“It started with the noticing skill, and so now we're doing ten minutes of doing, and five minutes of being.”Teaches, Building Your Meditation the Best Way!, Oct 202200:01“Today I want to give you a fun way to understand meditation as a progression, and we're going to do it with a song.”Teaches, Do Be Do Be Do Meditation, Nov 202108:46“And then once you start to dip down, you can always go back and do more of the do.”Discusses, Understanding Kriya vs Paravastha - Yogi Explains, Aug 202601:05“So maybe you've already guessed what's happening because in the meditation there was still a sense of do and do and do.”Discusses, Delayed Meditative Response - Yogi Explains, Aug 202605:43“So there is a do, and there is a be.”Discusses, Therese and Her Little Way - Yogi Explains, Jul 202606:02“And now you have this glorious cycle, do and be, and do and be, and it's so wonderful because we don't always know how to get deep.”Discusses, Peak Paravastha - Learning To Enjoy In Meditation - Yogi Explains, Sep 202506:22“Do be do be do, and that do be do cycle inside of yourself.”Discusses, Ups & Downs In Meditation - Yogi Explains, Oct 202416:32“This is the do be do be, right?”Discusses, The First Key To Meditation - Yogi Explains, Jul 202412:17“We're going to do all of the doing, and then be.”Discusses, Stop Pushing In Meditation - Yogi Explains, Mar 202413:35“A very precise doing is enabling the being.”Discusses, Kriya Yoga Is Not Visualization - Yogi Explains, Jan 202412:35“Because once we do, then we be, and we go back and forth with that.”Discusses, New Year Yogic Goals!, Dec 202303:52“Well, the doing that you need to do now is the being.”Discusses, Enjoying Is Essential In Meditation - Yogi Explains, Jun 202311:03“Now I'm just going to do be do be do.”Discusses, Weekend Retreat From Home - Yogi Explains, May 202300:32“We have to do the doing and then be the being.”Discusses, 3 Levels of Paravastha in Kriya - Do Be Do Meditation, Dec 202200:40“How do I actually do this be phase?”Mentions, Soak Up What Shows Up - Yogi Explains, Aug 202600:11“When I have finished my technique, I've done the do, and now I want to be the be, as I'm attempting to just be.”Mentions, Paravastha Progression - Going Into the Deep, Jan 202501:46“So, this is the doing, and so maybe we do that for five or ten or fifteen or twenty minutes, and then we really need to enter into this next phase of just be, just be, and we don't quite always know what that means.”Mentions, Become the Holy Potato! - In Meditation - Yogi Explains, Apr 202400:12“I talk about do be do be do, right?”Mentions, Paravastha Progression In Kriya Yoga, Oct 202311:31“We did the doing. Now we're going to be the being, right?”Mentions, Best Meditation Advice Ever - Bro. Dharmananda, Feb 202309:53“I did the do, and now I want to be the be in the meditation, like that video I did, the do be do be do meditation.”Mentions, Relax the Face To Go Deep In Meditation, Sep 202208:51“Do be do be.”Mentions, 4 Stages of the Spiritual Eye In Meditation, Dec 202114:11“Well, you were probably too concentrated in that meditation, and then you came out and you just kind of relaxed, and so you did the do, and then you went to the be, and it was in the moment of the be that the higher self shine through.”Mentions, How I Left the Ashram - Lightning Experience of Kundalini, Nov 202116:34“We're defeating the deeper level of our meditation, and so don't fall into that trap, and just let go, and do be do be do, easy, right?”Mentions, The Achievement Riddle in Meditation, Nov 2021
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