The Ultimate Purpose Of Life

While there are many things you could make your life's purpose, there is an ultimate goal that your life purpose should eventually be. That goal is understanding your true nature and who you are. To have a spiritual life's focus. This doesn't mean you stop everything in your life to go pray in a cave. It's not about escaping the world. Instead, it is a fundamental shift in direction, that comes from seeing the bigger picture.

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Then what is should be a purpose of life is different than what is could be purpose of life.

What I mean is what is should be a purpose of life is something greater and more reaching to the ultimate goal.

So that part is for everyone,

Same for everybody.

Regardless your current capacity,

You can pursue this and this is your goal.

This is everybody's goal you can pursue.

So that means usually human beings are driven by desire and attraction.

So basically human beings are looking for satisfaction in whatever way.

For some people only material wealth is satisfaction.

For some people,

Reputation or social status or recognition or fame or whatever is a relationship,

Loving relationship or comfortable home,

Anything they are looking for.

But all of them are temporary purpose of life.

Nothing is ultimate and nothing is absolute.

That means when you don't have those things,

You are looking for that.

When you got them this,

You temporarily happy,

Enjoy and satisfied,

But there is no guarantee forever you can satisfy.

There is no guarantee you are comfortable forever.

It will change everything impermanence and changeable.

It will change situations but also more likely change your desire and your comfortableness.

All of them will change.

So that's why if you are looking for the ultimate purpose of life,

If you are looking for the absolute purpose of life,

Then you cannot pursue for that purpose,

For that reason.

You cannot pursue normal people looking for such as relationship and status and recognition and fame,

Wealth,

So forth.

So what you have to do is you have to look for spiritual path.

So sometimes even we say spiritual path,

People misunderstand because people think that spiritual rituals they think is spiritual.

And some people think that particularly religion,

Culture is spiritual path,

But not.

The real spirituality is basically inner developments.

Inner developments means regardless you have the external conditions such as social status and relationship and material wealth,

Whatever,

You not rely on that.

And you are relying on your inner developments.

So that kind of purpose if you can take,

That should be the purpose of life for everybody.

Why?

This is doesn't matter if you have this,

This doesn't matter what conditions,

External conditions changes.

You always have that inner wealth within yourself and nobody can cannot take away.

So that's why inner development should be purpose of life for everybody.

So then you might think what is the inner development really is.

So that means you can make very complicated,

But the simple way is thinking,

Simple way to understand is normal human beings born as selfish.

Every individual have a different degrees of selfishness,

But in general everybody born as a selfish.

That means everybody kill themselves more than others.

So as long as you care yourself more than others and then you are born on the selfish.

We say that.

But if you are not born as you not care oneself more than others,

Then you are not selfish.

That means you are not normal human being.

You are superior human being.

So if you are not superior human being,

If you are average normal human being,

Then we have this,

We care oneself more than others.

And sometimes people even more than that,

You use other people's happiness and everything used for your own happiness.

You are completely unfair.

So that kind of we have feeling and attitude and this kind of view.

Everything we balance,

First balance,

Try to care others,

Try to be similar of oneself.

And then you can more steps,

You can try to equal as oneself and then slowly you can care others more than oneself.

If you can do that,

That means you are developing inner qualities,

Inner the best qualities you developing.

Why?

Because if we care oneself more than others,

That is not fit in the nature.

Because others is far bigger than oneself.

Others is far more,

Far,

Far,

Far,

Far,

More important than one.

So that's why if we do against the nature and oneself,

We care more than others is completely against the nature.

So that's why we have all the problems never separate from us.

No matter how many conditions we collect for our purpose of life,

For our happiness,

Our satisfaction,

We try no matter how hard,

Always we have some problem because of that.

But if we not focus in the branches,

The secondary of the condition of happiness,

Instead if we go the primary condition of the happiness and the best solution is focus in inner development to focus in others.

If we do that,

Then we have lasting,

Long lasting goal,

Long lasting happiness,

Long lasting satisfaction because we go with nature.

We are not against the nature.

So that's why we have to develop that inner quality.

That doesn't mean you give away everything and you never take care of yourself and you only just live for others.

It doesn't mean that.

But you have to develop within your mind you care others more than yourself.

And why?

Because the others more bigger than,

Far bigger than you,

Far important than you.

You know,

One self is only one and others innumerable so you cannot put one self before than you.

You need that view,

You not need that attitude,

You not need that feeling.

If you have that,

Then doesn't matter how much you take care of yourself,

It still is the purpose of for others.

So that's why when we say others care more than yourself,

It doesn't mean you become loser,

It doesn't mean you become slave for others.

But your feeling and your attitude and your view is not selfish anymore.

So regardless your action,

Regardless your capacity,

The most important your view and attitude feeling and intentions what you do.

So that's why you just focus on that.

That is what should be purpose of life for everybody.

Why?

If you do that,

There is no any other disadvantage.

There is no against for this.

There is no danger for this.

Nothing at all.

That is one thing,

The most important,

Should be purpose of life for everybody.

The other is,

If you want to go even further more,

Then you have to understand slowly that all of everything is interdependent,

Impermanent.

So that means everything is not really truly exist.

Only interdependent means truly existent and independently existent is equal.

You have to understand that equal.

But interdependent,

Dependent each other means not truly exist.

That means it's illusion.

So if you understand this,

Then normal human beings attachment and killing things,

You not clean anymore.

You have no attachment.

So that's why is finally you understand such thing called emptiness.

Emptiness means is not really nothingness at all.

But also you can understand something more deeper.

But that one you don't have to know right way.

This is slow process.

You will know if you focus for others more than oneself,

If you have that kind of view,

Attitude,

Feeling,

Intention to serve others,

Regardless your current capacity,

You have that then always you are full of joy,

Full of purpose on your life.

But if you don't have that,

Then any other purpose is maybe okay for temporarily,

But nothings ultimately,

Nothings absolute.

So if you understand that is good,

That is the best.

So when I say everything is illusion and then I say everything is you have to focus others,

Then you may think if everything is illusion,

Why I have to focus others,

Why I have to distinguish everything is illusion anyway.

So what is the purpose?

Everything is emptiness.

So what is purpose?

You can think that that's contradiction.

You can think like that,

But it's not.

Why?

Because regardless is illusion or emptiness,

Not appear is illusion,

Not appear is emptiness.

Everything appears real for us.

We have that real feeling.

As long as we have the real feeling,

We can experience,

Real experience,

Then is real.

Even is ultimately not real,

But still is real for now.

So important to treat as real now.

And in the back of the mind or in the bottom of the mind,

Still you have recognition of that is illusion and not is emptiness,

Not ultimately true,

Not absolute true.

But at the same time,

You it is temporarily real,

Relatively real.

And so you can treat accordingly.

So if you have these two things in your mind,

The truth is true truth.

There is ultimate truth and there is relative truth.

There is temporary truth.

And right now you are cheating and dealing with your temporary truth.

But there is ultimate goal of the absolute truth.

So that's also you have incredible big recognition in your mind because normal ordinary human being don't have that.

They only understand one truth.

They don't understand true truth.

So if even you not fully understand,

But you just remember you have the ultimate truth,

The absolute truth.

But you dealing with temporary truth,

You know how to deal with temporary truth.

OK,

So that how to deal with temporary truth is there is many,

Many,

Many ways.

But the most essential is you have the feeling of others more important than oneself.

And even you have to dealing with yourself more and even you have to focus yourself more.

But in the bottom of your mind,

You still know that the others more important than oneself because a new mobile others in new mobile oneself is only one.

OK,

If you focus only one,

You cannot have a big goal,

Big purpose.

You don't have a big achievement.

You cannot have big satisfaction.

You cannot have a big happiness.

Impossible.

So that's why you know how to focus others.

If you do that,

Then you have the purpose of life.

What is should be OK.

That means more than what is could be.

So that means if anybody can do it,

Then you do what is should be.

But if you cannot do that,

Then you focus what is could be.

So what is could be?

Remember,

Whatever your capacity,

Whatever your life.

Just try to fit in your desire and purpose is fit in your capacity.

That's all.

So that's very,

Very simple.

So then either way,

What is could be your life,

Purpose of your life,

You focus in on that or what is should be purpose of your life.

Either way,

Then you have the purpose of life.

As long as you have a purpose of life,

Then you have a peace in your mind and you have a goal,

Your life.

And you have such is some degree of satisfaction in your life,

Your mind every day.

And you have the direction and you are not lost.

You have some degree of confidence all the time with you.

So this is everybody should understand.

Everybody should focus this.

I pray everybody to understand this and to start from this.

And then you can understand more in the development,

Spiritual focus.

Thank you.

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