Name: Your life has a purpose..
Uploaded: 2019-03-31T10:38:27.000Z
Duration: 3 min 17 s
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I know it sounds like a silly question, but
it's one of the most important questions

Because if you don't know what you want
in life, then how are you going to get it?

It's like wanting to travel somewhere, having
your car and your passport ready, but having

What's going to happen is that you won't
go anywhere, or worse you'll find yourself

The buddhists say that “Life is suffering”.

And that might be the case... for our travel
analogy that means that the car you're driving

And you might say, if that's the case, then
why bother with it?

And they ask it in a way that result in their
own destruction and even worse in the destruction

There are individuals who become particularly
cruel and bitter, and sometimes even suicidal

because they can't bear the conditions of
their own existence.

We can certainly make a proposition that life
is full of tragedy, and that suffering is

So the question is well what do you do about
it?

You notice in your own life and you can do
this by watching your own life.

Say look watch your life for a week, and pretend
you don't know who you are.

What you understand most about yourself are
the arbitrary presuppositions that you used

And you act as if those presuppositions are
true, so that the revelation of the full nature

People hide in their own boxes, and it's
not surprising but it's not a good idea.

Because life is too hard to hide in a box,
you can't manage it if you do that.

If you watch yourself for a week you'll
see certain things, you'll see some of the

time that you're resentful and annoyed and
those are times when you're either taking

advantage of yourself or you're thinking
improperly.

Some of the time you'll be bored in which
case you're either undisciplined or you're

probably pursuing something you don't want
to pursue.

And some of the time you'll actually be
engaged in life.

And the times you're engaged in life you
won't notice that you're there.

Right, the distinction of subject and object
disappears when you're engaged in something

The purpose of life as far as I can tell from
studying mythology and studying psychology

for decades, is to find a mode of being that's
so meaningful that the fact that life is suffering

is no longer relevant, or that is even acceptable.

And I would say as well that people know when
they're doing that, you know when you're

doing that in part because you're no longer
resentful, you say “Geez I could do this

forever” right there's a timelessness
that's associated with that state of being.

From a mythological perspective that's equivalent
to brief habitation of the kingdom of God.

That's the place where you are that's so
meaningful that enables you to bear the harsh

preconditions of life without become resentful
bitter or cruel.

And there's nothing that you can pursue
in your life, that will be half as useful

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