Dear Prakash,
See there is a difference in the way we approach questions traditionally given in the text books or in any examinations and the questions that pertain to our life and mind.
So, I am asking you to find out that why does the mind ask this question? Why does the mind raise this question?
Alright, we will go into it systematically, sharply, with complete attention.
The contents of the brain are the contents of its evolution and evolution not only since your birth but the entire journey of your DNA.
All that information is contained in your brain. A very long duration of experiences.The content of your mind comes from this journey. The mind has learned in this journey, the principle of cause and effect. You have to appreciate this. These things will appear unrelated but you will see that they are one.
What is cause and effect?
"Something happens in time and after a while its results follow."
You can look this way that your brain has traveled a very long journey and it has kept along picking things along the way, picking experiences along the way and it contains all those experiences. Right?
Your body infact, is a sum total of all thoseexperiences. Now all those experiences are in the language of cause and effect, time. You do something and the result follows in the future.
So, mind thinks that life also must also have a result. And that result, you are calling by the name of ‘purpose’.
That something is happening or I am doing something in my life and at some point in future there must be a result for this, a purpose which gives a result and upon attaining that I can say that I am successful. That is the language of the conditioned mind.
Just as the mind seeks a result in every activity that it does, it also thinks that life inherently has a purpose. You see what the brain wants.
This brain always exists in time and it is always projecting the future. What basis does it have to project the future? Just the past.
So, while we keep thinking that we are dreaming of a new future and that’s what all of us think, we all want a new future, a great new future and we use terms like new ideas, new future.
The fact of the matter is that all timely projections of the brain are based entirely upon the past and there is no new thought, no new idea, no new future.
"Dreams, hopes, future, purpose are nothing but the craving for the repetition of the past."
when the brain thinks of all ambitions, desires, future, they are bound to be stale, old, repetitive. Now, such a mind even if it dreams of some purpose in life.
Where will that purpose come from? From the past. From something that it may have heard, from something it may have experienced.
Presence not purpose. Presence is intelligence, purpose is conditioning.
So, there is no purpose in life except what is happening right now. And this right now is called presence. Whatever you will call as the purpose of your life will essentially be your conditioning.
Different people can have different thoughts and dreams about that. But whatever you will say, your purpose of life will come from your conditioning.
Somebody’s purpose may be to attain heaven. And what will your heaven be like? Depends which religion you follow, which religion has conditioned you. If you are an atheist you may something else. If you are deeply attached to your parents, you may say something else. If you are very patriotic, you may say something else. But whatever you will say that will come from your attachments and identities. Are you getting this?
Tell me, do you ask for the purpose of life when you are greatly joyful and immersed in something ? No, because then that is it, you are done, you will not ask for the purpose. That is the real thing. Being into it. Completely into it. Being in love with the present.
That love is not the love that we feel in our surrounding, not attachment but complete understanding, complete contact. Whatever the purpose you will come up with, will come from your past and that thinking in terms of time is the function of brain which is the product of evolution and evolution is time.
But intelligence does not operate in time. Where does it operate? In the present. Right now. Past and future, these are the doings of the brain. They are contained in the brain. The present is not the brain.
In fact, the brain wants to run away from the present, it wants to take shelter in imaginations, hopes and dreams.That’s why most people prefer to be in dreams and thoughts; they are the convenient escapes from the present.
There is no purpose, there is only this moment and living it. Those who are not living it are distracted and are making fool of themselves. Don’t do that. Be present. Don't lose this. There’s no other opportunity. Don’t squander it.
For more clarity, just type Words into Silence in your search box.
AS
See there is a difference in the way we approach questions traditionally given in the text books or in any examinations and the questions that pertain to our life and mind.
So, I am asking you to find out that why does the mind ask this question? Why does the mind raise this question?
Alright, we will go into it systematically, sharply, with complete attention.
The contents of the brain are the contents of its evolution and evolution not only since your birth but the entire journey of your DNA.
All that information is contained in your brain. A very long duration of experiences.The content of your mind comes from this journey. The mind has learned in this journey, the principle of cause and effect. You have to appreciate this. These things will appear unrelated but you will see that they are one.
What is cause and effect?
"Something happens in time and after a while its results follow."
You can look this way that your brain has traveled a very long journey and it has kept along picking things along the way, picking experiences along the way and it contains all those experiences. Right?
Your body infact, is a sum total of all thoseexperiences. Now all those experiences are in the language of cause and effect, time. You do something and the result follows in the future.
So, mind thinks that life also must also have a result. And that result, you are calling by the name of ‘purpose’.
That something is happening or I am doing something in my life and at some point in future there must be a result for this, a purpose which gives a result and upon attaining that I can say that I am successful. That is the language of the conditioned mind.
Just as the mind seeks a result in every activity that it does, it also thinks that life inherently has a purpose. You see what the brain wants.
This brain always exists in time and it is always projecting the future. What basis does it have to project the future? Just the past.
So, while we keep thinking that we are dreaming of a new future and that’s what all of us think, we all want a new future, a great new future and we use terms like new ideas, new future.
The fact of the matter is that all timely projections of the brain are based entirely upon the past and there is no new thought, no new idea, no new future.
"Dreams, hopes, future, purpose are nothing but the craving for the repetition of the past."
when the brain thinks of all ambitions, desires, future, they are bound to be stale, old, repetitive. Now, such a mind even if it dreams of some purpose in life.
Where will that purpose come from? From the past. From something that it may have heard, from something it may have experienced.
Presence not purpose. Presence is intelligence, purpose is conditioning.
So, there is no purpose in life except what is happening right now. And this right now is called presence. Whatever you will call as the purpose of your life will essentially be your conditioning.
Different people can have different thoughts and dreams about that. But whatever you will say, your purpose of life will come from your conditioning.
Somebody’s purpose may be to attain heaven. And what will your heaven be like? Depends which religion you follow, which religion has conditioned you. If you are an atheist you may something else. If you are deeply attached to your parents, you may say something else. If you are very patriotic, you may say something else. But whatever you will say that will come from your attachments and identities. Are you getting this?
Tell me, do you ask for the purpose of life when you are greatly joyful and immersed in something ? No, because then that is it, you are done, you will not ask for the purpose. That is the real thing. Being into it. Completely into it. Being in love with the present.
That love is not the love that we feel in our surrounding, not attachment but complete understanding, complete contact. Whatever the purpose you will come up with, will come from your past and that thinking in terms of time is the function of brain which is the product of evolution and evolution is time.
But intelligence does not operate in time. Where does it operate? In the present. Right now. Past and future, these are the doings of the brain. They are contained in the brain. The present is not the brain.
In fact, the brain wants to run away from the present, it wants to take shelter in imaginations, hopes and dreams.That’s why most people prefer to be in dreams and thoughts; they are the convenient escapes from the present.
There is no purpose, there is only this moment and living it. Those who are not living it are distracted and are making fool of themselves. Don’t do that. Be present. Don't lose this. There’s no other opportunity. Don’t squander it.
For more clarity, just type Words into Silence in your search box.
AS
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