Our Meanings for Life

What is the meaning to Life? What is our Purpose? Were does our Destiny lead us?

Questions upon questions we ask ourselves to investigate these types of inquiry. Something we all at one point or another determine to seek and find. Thinking ours is unique and specific for us.

Each individual explores the things that make them the happiest. Searching for what makes their individuality beat to. A deeper more inherent road to travel that gives us a sense of direction for a long lasting feeling of excitement, joy, and desire.

Somewhere on a path that makes us feel altruistic, while at the same time feeling as though all our wishes our met with little to no effort. Thought of as an impeccable passage that helps us fulfill humanity's essentials.

Even though this seems like the best way to travel. A highway containing all the right curves, bends, and up hill adventures. Are we not still seeking some sort of defiance to our particular sets of circumstance. 

When often asked about ourselves, is not our first response some objective or task we must achieve or complete?

I am a banker. I am a business owner. I am a father. I am a mother. I am in school. I am unemployed.

Each answer coming with its own personal set of responsibilities. Every response declaring an external aspiration. A mission you could say, to become good at and define some amount of your character. While also, moderately playing into the psyche of how you view your self and potentially increasing or decreasing your self-esteem.

It seems like we might be missing the mark. If we look back to what our species is named: HUMAN BEINGS. Are we not a genuine being at the core of its definition.

A physical thing with defining form to experience all the different varieties of echos the universe can create. A stream of moments to which our consciousness effortlessly sails from one to the next. 

A simple saying that the Buddha mentioned was to be happy and content with the reality of AS IT IS. Often a mechanism for suffering is the nonacceptance of the current concreteness of the matter around us. Without acceptance often comes struggle and strife.

This physicality of what is happening in these current moments is not something to disregard or refuse to take part in. But the understanding that this is not directly or indirectly part of our being. Or anything that has definition of who we are but just an experience to add to the ever flowing and every changing Maya we have chosen to take part in.

A timeless animation of the senses to create the yin and yang stream of life. We can define ourselves as a title of the reality going on around us. But must make room for the essence of how our humanness is what IS us. 

So, is the situation that defines our personality created externally by a set of circumstances, with some us having control over and others not? Could those just be parts of the experiential reality our being set forth, making way for the flow of our infinite energy learning to embody the existence of what IS and not what WILL or what HAS?

-RA BAR