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Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
seeking the meaning or the purpose of life. In other words, the
current situation, this present simple, ordinary situation has got a
meaning to it. In other words, it is leading us somewhere. Now
that somewhere is obviously not here because we’ve said that the
current experience must have a meaning or a purpose. So, with
this idea of there being a purpose or a meaning, we create a future
in which the real purpose of life is going to be found which the
current experience, towards which the current experience is
pointing. That’s the normal view of things. It’s basically called the
search for happiness, the search for meaning or purpose in the
future. So what this statement, that you’ve just read, was pointing
towards is that the substance of this very experience, whatever this
experience is, however, simple and ordinary is itself already that
for which all plans and purposes are made. In other words, our
search for happiness, for projected happiness in the future that
we’re going to find when we acquire a particular object or a
particular relationship or a particular situation, that happiness
that we are seeking is actually the substance of this and every
experience. It is already present at the heart of every experience.
There is really no purpose to life. Life is already that to which all
purposes are made. However, having said that, if we have
forgotten that, if this experience or understanding has been veiled
seemingly veiled and we have imagined ourselves instead to be a
separate, limited and located self. It is inevitable that we will be on
a search for happiness in the future. It’s not possible to consider
oneself a separate entity and not be in search for happiness. In
fact the separate entity is a search for happiness. And as such the
purpose of life, not the highest purpose of life but rather the
highest meaning of life is to find this peace, happiness and love for
which we are reaching, longing. So we could say from the absolute
point of view there is truly no purpose in life, it is already that to
which all plans and purposes are made. However, if that has been
veiled from us, if we believe and feel that we are a separate entity
then happiness or love is the highest goal in life, the meaning of
life.
TRIP: Yes. Well, we have an email from an admirer. Perhaps this
person; I hope I don’t mispronounce her name, but Shaya
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