Fullness comes with purpose. Life lived fully is in context of living in its true meaning. The essence of living is to feel alive. What aliveness means life force in full swing. There is bliss, joy, centredness.. peace, contentment.
All our desires are driving force to set us into action. It is the attachment to desires in form of obsessiveness or feverishness that pulls the string to imbalance the rhythm of action and sets chaos in. We act in a way that it defeats the very purpose or intention of our action. Eg. We want to help a certain person in need, financially or by doing some favors, but many a times its our expectations behind our deeds somewhat like we want our deeds to be recognized or applauded or we even look forward some rewards in return that leads us to act in a contradictory way so much that we may decide not to help next time or we may even stoop down to the extent of claiming our contribution.
The point is what is the significance of desires worth chasing for if it has the scope of triggering negativity. How much can we avoid being trapped into the cycle of expectation or complaints as a side effect of desires. What else can be the driving force to action or living a worthwhile life.
The wisdom tradition has been supporting the idea of having desires to orient your actions to certain direction provided we are able to give up attachments or watchful about obsessiveness to desires . It can be possible by expanding our perspective to look at bigger picture through vision of knowledge and awareness. To be able to surrender to the level of humility with an aptitude of non-doer ship and willingness to accept the unexpected contrasts of life which may not be very pleasant.
Once again let us revert back to main subject - Purposefulness of Life. What does it stand for - how different can it vary from person to person.
Let me begin with myself and my views of how it may vary for others depending upon their understanding of life in totality. To me, Life is a journey of experiences with a purpose to evolve, to grow through learning, practice with feeling of surrender to accept whatever is the result of our action. The reason why we face so many difficulties is to keep us going, to continuously striving for the best to happen. It keeps us in action and that is what keeps us alive letting our special skills and faculties to be functional to its optimum level.
Even if is a case of a sage who has renounced every desire to be on the path of his seeking spiritual growth, the ultimate goal of his life still exists giving his life a reason to live. Or if it is about ordinary average person full of desires, hope and dream, the very purpose of life is amalgamation of all - what brings happiness, joy, peace, serenity, feel good energy.
It can be even said that suffering, battling those challenges can be a reason for some to carry on life . After all it is a churning process of purification and further growth through learning, expanding one's capacity to endure, not just to go beyond one's limit to endure pain but rise above it. For some, facing life's struggles with one's ability to handle those challenges is a way of life and good enough reason to feel alive. Staying too much in comfort zone can be very boring and meaningless. It may upset their charm for life and fire of passion may get extinguished sealing all possible ways to flourish and experience life to the fullest. It is obvious here that certain amount of uncertainty, risk factor, constraints, or challenges are essential to ignite the fire of life to feel alive to experience the magic. It opens up the vast field of adventures, surprise, magic conjuring up all qualities we possess to bring forth to this world, can set our potential to optimum use. As if, life would not have been so much interesting if there were no failures or disappointments on the contrary. After all Light can glow up in darkness only.
So the more difficult life situation, more fun it is to feel alive and know the difference of lifeless life in total abundance.
The purpose of life varies from person to person with respect to what they relate to true meaning of life according to their understanding or experience. For me, the more centered a person becomes, the more refined are his ways to approach life situations and his life mission get elevated for higher goals in terms of shifting from self centered goals to self less service or contribution for others to feel happy and alive for a reason to bring difference for the cause of others happiness or welfare. That way real purpose of life gets refined to higher purpose for those who seeks the highest form of living fuller life.
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