Does this mean all of us have the same Life Purpose?

[Vision]

David Deida says that your Life Purpose is like peeling back an onion. Each layer is something you're fascinated with while you're in that chapter of your life.

After you exhaust/fulfil your desire to actualize your vision within that chapter, you have peeled back a layer of that onion, or burned through your karma. 

"You will experience layer after layer of purposes, each one getting closer and closer to the fullness of your deepest purpose. It is as if your deepest purpose is at the center of your being, and it is surrounded by layers of concentric circles, each circle being a lesser purpose. Your life consists of penetrating each circle, from the outside toward the center

 

If your deepest purpose is to meditate and realize God, you might find that before you can totally dedicate yourself to this practice you must work your way through the concentric circles of playing with sexual partners, using drugs, getting married, raising children, developing a career, and finally, having dissolved your fascination and need to do all of that, getting down to the business of fulltime meditation.

 

As you dissolve each layer and move toward the center, you will more and more be living from your deeper purposes, and then your deepest heart purpose, whatever that is, in every moment. However, you probably are not living your deepest purpose yet. You probably need to burn off the karma, or fulfill the need, of the present purpose by which you are fascinated and distracted." - The Way of The Superior Man, David Deida.

 

Would this mean that our current Life Purpose is (most likely) just one of the lesser purposes we are burning through to get to our deepest, core purpose? 

 

Would this mean that our deepest core Life Purpose would most likely be all or either of these? 

• Helping raise humanity's consciousness 
• Raising my consciousness (A.K.A becoming a monk) 
• Realizing God
• Enlightenment

 

Let's take the example of someone who's Life Purpose is to be a doctor. Helping solve people's health problems. 

 

They work as a doctor for 10 years perhaps, then burn through their karma of being a doctor.

 

After some reflection, they decide that they want to become a Spiritual Teacher (like Sadghuru for example).

 

Now their Life Purpose is to help raise humanity's consciousness by sharing wisdom. 

 

They do this for 10 years. Then they feel that they've exhausted their desire to help raise humanity's consciousness.

 

Now they decide that they want to become a monk. Devoting all time and effort to raising their own consciousness and becoming Enlightened or realizing God.

 

Isn't a monk an applied metaphysician after all? 

 

So would this mean that at our very core, our deepest purpose, whether we could reach it in our lifetime or not, we would become a monk? 

[Moksha]

Nice process. Next: At the Monk center, there is no Monk. 

[Bodhitree]

I think you are missing one... beyond monk, once you have reached enlightenment, there is living in tune with the universe.

[Vision]

On 1/10/2021 at 1:19 PM, Moksha said:

Nice process. Next: At the Monk center, there is no Monk. 

I'm speaking relatively

4 hours ago, Bodhitree said:

there is living in tune with the universe.

What does this mean? 

 

[Moksha]

11 hours ago, Vision said:

I'm speaking relatively

From a relative perspective, the role you play in life is irrelevant, regardless of how lucid you are. You can be an enlightened tomato farmer, or an enlightened global leader. 

There is a tendency for enlightened people to become teachers, because they see the unnecessary suffering in others, but being truly enlightened means seeing and living the reality that everything is already the same. "You" can live the dharma with equanimity and integrity, without having to be a monk.

[Bodhitree]

That being said, it is much easier to be an enlightened tomato farmer than an enlightened global leader.

Have you seen the documentary I am Greta? About Greta Thunberg's life. It makes it really obvious how two-faced most politicians are, looking for selfies with her while in fact doing exactly nothing for the environment.

[Moksha]

20 minutes ago, Bodhitree said:

That being said, it is much easier to be an enlightened tomato farmer than an enlightened global leader.

Easier in some ways, but not in others. Eckhart Tolle admitted that had The Power of Now been a flop, he would have been equally happy farming tomatoes. Physical labor is simple, but it is back-breaking work. Certainly Tolle would have made less money, and lived less comfortably, as a tomato farmer. The upside is that he is able to help people suffer less, through the path he has chosen. From an absolute perspective, there are no "people", and there is no "suffering" to alleviate. Choose your own dream.

[Bodhitree]

Being attached to comfort, hmm. Hard work can be pleasant if your body is used to it. The real problems with being an enlightened leader is avoiding attachment to power, status and money. It tends to corrupt. There are a few examples of how it can be done right, but not many. The Dalai Lama and Ghandi come to mind.

[gettoefl]

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