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July 2009 
Do you know your purpose in life?
Posted on Nov 8th, 2008
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This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for October 23, 2008:
OK, I'll chew on this again and I'll try answering yes this time.
It would say that my purpose is This. Whatever is happening now, exactly the way it is happening. Everything all around supporting it and everything apparently leading up to it. This particular view/experience/angle. How could it happen otherwise? It had to happen this way in order to get this and apparently I need to be here in order for This to be experienced in this way at this point.
But... there is no particular point. At least I can't find one.
My fingers reach out to push a bowl across the table. The table is not me. The bowl is not me. The fingers are not me. The signals from the brain are not me. The thought and motivation to move the bowl is not me nor was it planned or caused by me. The sequence of events leading up to and supporting the possibility of the thought, the moving of the bowl, and the existence of this room and everything in it is not me. That is to say the history, everything here and everything surrounding here, which at this point allows for the possibility of (or makes inevitable) all this, the way it is, and the moving of this bowl. I wonder at what points in this continually changing sequence could a line be drawn to say this is where 'I' start and this is where 'I' end? And even if a line could be drawn and an 'I' found, how long would it last? It's gone already.
A seemingly infinite number of things had to happen, or line up, in order for this bowl to be moved. An equally infinite number of things needed to not happen.
In order for the bowl to move -everything- must move.
It would say that my purpose is This. Whatever is happening now, exactly the way it is happening. Everything all around supporting it and everything apparently leading up to it. This particular view/experience/angle. How could it happen otherwise? It had to happen this way in order to get this and apparently I need to be here in order for This to be experienced in this way at this point.
But... there is no particular point. At least I can't find one.
My fingers reach out to push a bowl across the table. The table is not me. The bowl is not me. The fingers are not me. The signals from the brain are not me. The thought and motivation to move the bowl is not me nor was it planned or caused by me. The sequence of events leading up to and supporting the possibility of the thought, the moving of the bowl, and the existence of this room and everything in it is not me. That is to say the history, everything here and everything surrounding here, which at this point allows for the possibility of (or makes inevitable) all this, the way it is, and the moving of this bowl. I wonder at what points in this continually changing sequence could a line be drawn to say this is where 'I' start and this is where 'I' end? And even if a line could be drawn and an 'I' found, how long would it last? It's gone already.
A seemingly infinite number of things had to happen, or line up, in order for this bowl to be moved. An equally infinite number of things needed to not happen.
In order for the bowl to move -everything- must move.
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No need to draw lines. No need to look for purpose beyond This.
Excellent post.
…Yes … This…