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What do you wish to do with your life?

What do you like to do?

It can be anything, says the world?

What is your dharma?

What is your purpose?

What do you enjoy?

What do you wish to do with the rest of your life?

Some say, including myself…

You only have a certain amount of time left…

What do you wish to do with your life?

We have all these questions but…

We never seem to question where these questions come from in the first place?

Where does the idea that your life can be better than what it is today come from?

Where does the notion that you have a purpose come from?

Where does the notion that you MUST find meaning in life come from?

Where do these arise?

SOMEONE has told you that life is short.

SOMEONE has told you you have plenty of time.

SOMEONE has told you to find your purpose.

SOMEONE has told you that you MUST find your reason to live.

And all of these things we chase have been told by someone.

You may create your own goals, but all that you know has been taught to you by the world.

How to use the internet, what a certain item is called, and that life has a purpose.

I don’t know if life has a purpose or not.

I don’t know if life has meaning or not.

I don’t know the difference between a meaningful life or an un-meaningful life.

All I know is that someone has told me this is a meaningful life (having money, finding a purpose, etc.)

And, this is an un-meaningful life (not having money, not having children, etc.)

Everyone’s answer to these will be different, but one fact remains still

That we have been told what is a meaningful life and what is not.

So, you don’t know anything for yourself.

You don’t really know what is happiness

We have pointed it to pleasure

We have pointed it to achievement

We have pointed it to countless other things

But…

The only reason such things exist is we have been told so

You have been conditioned that happiness is equivalent to such and we go after it

But, in actuality…

We do not know what happiness is…

So, if you don’t know what happiness is…

Then CAN you really be unhappy?

Spiritualists have told you that you must reach the state of no-mind

That you must reach enlightenment

But…

Everything you know about the state of no-mind and enlightenment is told to you

Buddha said this

Jesus said that

And on and on and on

But do you, in fact, know that enlightenment and the state of no-mind actually exist?

No, you never can. If there is no mind, then there is no you.

You can never remember you were in the state of no-mind with no mind.

So…

What is all this chase of enlightenment?

What is this idolization of the state of no-mind?

When the very fact is that the state of no-mind was created by the mind.