[Life] is not a business, it is a play .
Did you ever asked your self why I am here ? are your purpose driven by something you heard from someone else, or from a divine spirit or a feeling inside?
Are you living a life struggling to achieve what someone else (parent, friends, boss, or coach ) told you what your purpose was /is ?
This has been a question for practically anybody who has searched for life’s deeper meaning, because so often others actually do have other agendas that influence us. Even if they have great intentions, they have agendas for us that may have nothing to do with our inner abilities or spiritual calling.
My parents didn’t say, that I will grow up to be a doctor, an author, teacher, artist etc.” My father wanted me to be an artist a great painter like him but i didn’t like the poverty life of an artist .
He used to send me to the museum every week end to sketch some of the statues and figures . Later he helped me to be registered in the art academy after I passed my exams , but I didn’t attend .I skipped and went to science school a regular general science high school with out my father permission . One day the son of Jawad al saleem asked my dad that I am not attending the art school. My father was mad and asked me why I did this. I told him that it wasn’t my life purpose to be an artist like him , and that I like science, Archaeology, geology , astronomy and all science that make difference to humanity. Humanity with out art is just like an animal ,he said.
I will do art as an option and not as a major , I told him. He didn’t talked to me for few days then it was OK, He wanted some one to carry his legacy .
He meant well; his dream was that I would be like him . Like many children, I didn’t want to disappoint them, but I liked biology and chemistry classes, and knew that art wasn’t my life’s path. It took courage to tell them and refused the art school that so many tried to entered and failed. I had to reject their ideas of how my life should be and follow my own inner voice. I used to read allot about Einstein and other scientists . My decision wasn’t easy, but I am glad That I followed my own dream.
Our bodies are rich with feelings and incredible wisdom, ability to gain knowledge and learn . Our spiritual nature accesses higher wisdom. Our life’s purpose is the thread that connects spiritualityand wisdom. Our minds only rest easily and think clearly when they are aligned with our body and our spiritual nature too. I used to try to “find my purpose” just through thinking and talking myself into action, but my body and spirit just weren’t in harmony with my thoughts. My mind desired something, but something inside of me didn’t. Or my instincts said to do something, but my mind stopped it. Many times I procrastinated or held myself back when fear arose.
As powerful as our mind is, in order to “know” our life’s purpose, it’s important to stay aware of how it sometimes overrides what our body and spirit are trying to tell us. Listening to my body and its feelings, and trusting my inner voice and instincts, always led me to the right place at the right time, and my life’s purpose has always gotten clearer and stronger every time I did. When I didn’t follow that inner voice I always end up with trouble or regret the choice that I made. I stop and correct my action and selection and retry again and again.
In the holy books all the great prophets teach us to follow the path of God the light of the universe the truth and the life of God almighty and follow his commands other wise we will be driving to darkness with the negative inner voice of the devil that dwell in our fear.
To the Indian guru, Osho link is external : “[Life] is a cosmic play, a continuous beautiful game, a beautiful hide and seek , not leading anywhere. Nowhere is the goal.” And, since Osho regards the world itself as essentially goal less, he adds that “you need not be worried about individual purposes, evolution, [or] progress.” In fact, in his view: ” progress is the basic disease of the modern age. What is the need?” . But he is not completely correct as the purpose of the beautiful game and pressure is to bring happiness ,so in my view nothing in life is with out a purpose .Even if you run and do diet you have purpose to feel good and look good. If you want to sun tan and go fishing your purpose is enjoyment etc.
Addiction to advancement undermines (and can even destroy) the sheer pleasure of being, of mindful awareness and aliveness to all the joys life has to offer, or can offer if you cultivate the right perspective toward it. Which is a perspective able to value things independent of their pragmatic value.
living vibrantly in the now and without the hindrance of self-consciousness is ideally suited to foster a greater sense of well-being. I always wonder why good time seem to end faster than bad time, how space and time disappear when you’re satisfyingly immersed in the present. That why when we are working happily in a place or living playfully like a child with out expectation make us more in peace with our self and with others, make us happy and less stressful.
In philosophically vindicating the “aimless goal” of non-purposive play, Osho argues that the non-achieving mind consonant with it “is possible only with the background of a cosmic purposelessness.” For “if the whole [of] existence is purposeless, then there is no need for you to be purposeful. Then you can play, you can sing and dance, you can enjoy, you can love and live, and there is no need to create a goal. Here and now, this very moment, the ultimate is present.”
I dont agree with him as he is not aiming for the great happiness thereafter. We can adopt the model that given by the holy books and be happy here in life and happier after life in the spirit world ,and not just live for this life and the happiness in this life on earth.
[Life] is not a business, it is a play. God is the director , the writer and the story teller, and we are the players. Energy overflowing, just to let us enjoy our life while we have a purpose to worship him and aligned our energy with him. He allowed us to run after butterflies, collect colored stones on the beach, dancing under the sun, running under the trees, collecting flowers to experience life and death. To test our ability our ambition and to see if we will come back to the light in the end of the road or we follow the temptation of life beauty and go stray and follow our greed .
If a child could explain he would say, ‘Because I feel good. Running, I feel more alive. Collecting flowers, I enjoy, it is ecstatic.’ But there is no purpose. The very act in itself is beautiful, ecstatic. To be alive is enough, there is no need for any purpose for some. But for me it is for a great purpose as all these bits of data and information’s, experiences is part of our inner and outer growth of knowledge and wisdom . you want to feel good is a purpose it self to make you happy and enjoy life, To compare to feel to love to be happy and sad .This is the purpose of life to prepare us for something greater to come.
Moment to moment you have to be ecstatic, simple things have to be enjoyed. And life gives millions of opportunities to enjoy. You will miss them if you’re purposive. But you have to follow the role you can not enjoy and hurt others in the process. If you want to enjoy painting with out a plan you can just put colors on a a paper but it will have no meaning ,may be only to you. But if you study the colors and how light and shade can work together and plan to drew something it will come beautiful reflection of your thought as you start with a purpose.
All around us the divine is happening, the ultimate is showering. But you will be able to see it only if you’re nonpurposive and playful.” See it and feel it that is. and if you want to take the positive experience you have to ask why and for what purpose you want this or that, is that will bring you more happiness and if it does bring happiness to you, does it effect other people and make them sad? so we have to find the connection and not be selfish happy go lucky people.
Purpose it self have a purpose it is a cycle good and bad ,positive and negative conflicts. The bees doesn’t go to play with flowers , they have a purpose built in with in them ,to seek and select the flowers that have good nectar and bring that back to the hives and help the colony to grow. Butterflies doesn’t fly to showoff but to feed and pollinate the flowers , we are all connected in this life if one dies one peace of the puzzle of our life die with it.
We have a purpose in this life and that is to seek the truth and worship the creator of this life. you must have assumed that your life would be best lived that way that for you to be happy your existence had to be meaningful, had to be purposeful. As it is given to us by the creator .The angel are servant of God and their purpose is to worship him and follow his command. We human have the same direction but with a given choice and inner voice inside of us to select or reject the higher purpose in life.
Our conflicts with our believes, the doubt and negative thoughts we have as human distinctions us between human with purposeful or purposeless behaviors. And if, ultimately, it’s purposeless, then how much of your unique humanness might you be betraying in valuing solely that which you deem purposeful? We must balance but we have to put the purposeful at the top.”Don’t be serious, because a play can never be serious. And if the play needs you to be serious, be playfully serious, don’t be really serious. God is fun ,God is smiling God not angry God .Remember God made so many funny things.
Then this very moment you can move into the ultimate. The ultimate is not in the future, it is the present, hidden here and now.To help others, extend a helping hand to the poor and orphans, the weak and elderly people. The purpose of now is to start changing your self and your habits before change can occur in your family ,community and society as hall. treat every second of your life as the precious gift it is , whether your present moment or past memories and aim for the future good with hope and hard work but dont forget to stop and smell the roses.
“[When someone asked Jesus] who will be able to enter into the kingdom of your God, [he] said, ‘Those who are like small children.’ This is the secret. What is the meaning of being a small child? The meaning is that the child is pure with no evil intend .pure at heart and with no pride or arrogance.Pure and ready to learn and accept .Children are happy with our purpose because if that purpose taken away from them they will cry and be sad. God implant this divine purpose of happiness and hope in our hearts.
It is true some time that if you spend almost all your time focused on one destination after another, then you’ll resist or not fully avail yourself of the many pleasurable “detours” that life, in its infinite richness, may have to offer you. Anything that doesn’t fit your preconceived notions of where you need to go, and how you’ll get there, will likely be dismissed as imprudent, extraneous, or unwarranted. And yet how crucial to your overall well-being might it be to selectively ,and mindfully, immerse yourself in some of the intriguing diversions help other people and make your life purpose meaningful .
Thank you for reading. Steve Ramsey, PhD. Calgary, Alberta- Canada
