Understanding Being

If someone was to ask me "What is Being?" my answer would likely be:

"Experiencing life with no one telling you what to do, not your parents, not your friends, not your teachers, not your employers, not even your mates.

So, in order to experience being do you need to be alone in the wilderness?

I think it depends upon the person of what they are comfortable with. Everyone's somewhat different according to what they have experienced so far in their lives...

For me, escaping the madness of big city life and public school in Los Angeles (even though I was raised mostly in a suburb of LA Called Glendale from 1956 until 1969 when I was 21 and left there and even though I worked in a computer department for a hospital in Glendale for a time in 1977 I never lived in Glendale again after 1969. 

So, escaping to the Angeles National Forest above La Crescenta to the ponderosa pines and snow in the winters or to the deserts or to the beaches was a naturally desirable thing for me, everyone is different in what they need to survive here on earth.

Wilderness has always been my church most of my life.

If you want to find being I think find a big tree you can relate to with a good spirit and meditate on what that tree spirit is experiencing. Then you might find what Being is for you.

For example, Buddha meditated and fasted under a Bodhi Tree in Bodhgaya, in the Bihar state of India.

This is how he found enlightenment and the 8 fold path of ending human suffering here on earth.