The Purpose of Life.....

[Basra-]

In this western civilised life i mean. Do u feel that u r just living just for the sake of living? I am missing a purpose. I am bored with existance. Is there a meaning to life aside going to work 5 days/7, and enjoy, party relax in the weekend? DO u get bored? Maybe i need to go to somalia and see how life is to appreciate it huh?

[Babygirl-]

OMG Basra didn't u already make a thread like this!!

[Basra-]

Baby......my point exactly! Dont u get tired of this repitition and routine?? I need an adventure! I need to go mountain climbing or on a cruiship!

[Babygirl-]

YEAAH .. I went on 2 road trips last year with friends , 1 from CO to Boston & the other from CO to MN..

[Basra-]

[quote="Babygirl-"]YEAAH .. I went on 2 road trips last year with friends , 1 from CO to Boston & the other from CO to MN.. [/quote]


Baby can u be my friend then? I promise i wont be naughty!

[Sir-Luggoyo]

Basra,

Who knows the purpose of life better than the One who actually created life? He who created life says in His book:

"Wamaa khalaqtul Jinna wal Insa illaa li yacbuduuni"

We did not create Jinn and Humans except to worship Allah"


Now, you need to put on yr Burqah, get yourself one Alshabaab man (not a Hutu of course) and start praying non-stop.

[Khalid Ali]

Purpose of life is to fear your lord, be a good muslim and be a good father to your daughter and teach your kids the basics of islam, which is your responsibility ,Work hard on this earth , to get the internal life , I think that’s the purpose of life. You will run around this earth maybe 70 years and it will be over,

[Babygirl-]

YEAAH .. I went on 2 road trips last year with friends , 1 from CO to Boston & the other from CO to MN..

Baby can u be my friend then? I promise i wont be naughty!

If u promise u won't rape me.. ( I can't fight ur fat ass u know )

[Basra-]

[quote="Sir-Luggoyo"]Basra,

Who knows the purpose of life better than the One who actually created life? He who created life says in His book:

"Wamaa khalaqtul Jinna wal Insa illaa li yacbuduuni"

We did not create Jinn and Humans except to worship Allah"


Now, you need to put on yr Burqah, get yourself one Alshabaab man (not a Hutu of course) and start praying non-stop.[/quote]


Sir Lug

Mashaalaah that is an outstanding message! Jazak-Allaah



Khalid u too.


Baby---nayaahee why does everything has to be about weight?

[Macaaney_1991]

being born,
eating,
sleeping,
growing,
studying,
getting a career,
getting married,
having kids,
then eventually death!!!!!!!!

[Sir-Luggoyo]

being born,
eating,
sleeping,
growing,
studying,
getting a career,
getting married,
having kids,
then eventually death!!!!!!!!

macaaney,

You missed the most important part. Cibaadah. I think I need to marry you and teach u the basics.

[foolxume2005]

If you want to discover your true purpose in life, you must first empty your mind of all the false purposes you’ve been taught (including the idea that you may have no purpose at all).

Here’s a story about Bruce Lee which sets the stage for this little exercise. A master martial artist asked Bruce to teach him everything Bruce knew about martial arts. Bruce held up two cups, both filled with liquid. “The first cup,” said Bruce, “represents all of your knowledge about martial arts. The second cup represents all of my knowledge about martial arts. If you want to fill your cup with my knowledge, you must first empty your cup of your knowledge.”

So how to discover your purpose in life? While there are many ways to do this, some of them fairly involved, here is one of the simplest that anyone can do. The more open you are to this process, and the more you expect it to work, the faster it will work for you. But not being open to it or having doubts about it or thinking it’s an entirely idiotic and meaningless waste of time won’t prevent it from working as long as you stick with it — again, it will just take longer to converge.

Here’s what to do:

Take out a blank sheet of paper or open up a word processor where you can type (I prefer the latter because it’s faster).
Write at the top, “What is my true purpose in life?”
Write an answer (any answer) that pops into your head. It doesn’t have to be a complete sentence. A short phrase is fine.
Repeat step 3 until you write the answer that makes you cry. This is your purpose.
That’s it. It doesn’t matter if you’re a counselor or an engineer or a bodybuilder. To some people this exercise will make perfect sense. To others it will seem utterly stupid. Usually it takes 15-20 minutes to clear your head of all the clutter and the social conditioning about what you think your purpose in life is. The false answers will come from your mind and your memories. But when the true answer finally arrives, it will feel like it’s coming to you from a different source entirely.

For those who are very entrenched in low-awareness living, it will take a lot longer to get all the false answers out, possibly more than an hour. But if you persist, after 100 or 200 or maybe even 500 answers, you’ll be struck by the answer that causes you to surge with emotion, the answer that breaks you. If you’ve never done this, it may very well sound silly to you. So let it seem silly, and do it anyway.

As you go through this process, some of your answers will be very similar. You may even re-list previous answers. Then you might head off on a new tangent and generate 10-20 more answers along some other theme. And that’s fine. You can list whatever answer pops into your head as long as you just keep writing.

At some point during the process (typically after about 50-100 answers), you may want to quit and just can’t see it converging. You may feel the urge to get up and make an excuse to do something else. That’s normal. Push past this resistance, and just keep writing. The feeling of resistance will eventually pass.

You may also discover a few answers that seem to give you a mini-surge of emotion, but they don’t quite make you cry — they’re just a bit off. Highlight those answers as you go along, so you can come back to them to generate new permutations. Each reflects a piece of your purpose, but individually they aren’t complete. When you start getting these kinds of answers, it just means you’re getting warm. Keep going.

It’s important to do this alone and with no interruptions. If you’re a nihilist, then feel free to start with the answer, “I don’t have a purpose,” or “Life is meaningless,” and take it from there. If you keep at it, you’ll still eventually converge.

When I did this exercise, it took me about 25 minutes, and I reached my final answer at step 106. Partial pieces of the answer (mini-surges) appeared at steps 17, 39, and 53, and then the bulk of it fell into place and was refined through steps 100-106. I felt the feeling of resistance (wanting to get up and do something else, expecting the process to fail, feeling very impatient and even irritated) around steps 55-60. At step 80 I took a 2-minute break to close my eyes, relax, clear my mind, and to focus on the intention for the answer to come to me — this was helpful as the answers I received after this break began to have greater clarity.

Here was my final answer: to live consciously and courageously, to resonate with love and compassion, to awaken the great spirits within others, and to leave this world in peace.

When you find your own unique answer to the question of why you’re here, you will feel it resonate with you deeply. The words will seem to have a special energy to you, and you will feel that energy whenever you read them.

Discovering your purpose is the easy part. The hard part is keeping it with you on a daily basis and working on yourself to the point where you become that purpose.

If you’re inclined to ask why this little process works, just put that question aside until after you’ve successfully completed it. Once you’ve done that, you’ll probably have your own answer to why it works. Most likely if you ask 10 different people why this works (people who’ve successfully completed it), you’ll get 10 different answers, all filtered through their individual belief systems, and each will contain its own reflection of truth.

Obviously, this process won’t work if you quit before convergence. I’d guesstimate that 80-90% of people should achieve convergence in less than an hour. If you’re really entrenched in your beliefs and resistant to the process, maybe it will take you 5 sessions and 3 hours, but I suspect that such people will simply quit early (like within the first 15 minutes) or won’t even attempt it at all. But if you’re drawn to read this blog (and haven’t been inclined to ban it from your life yet), then it’s doubtful you fall into this group.

Give it a shot! At the very least, you’ll learn one of two things: your true purpose in life -or- that you're stupid

[DANGIRL]

The purpose of life? .To reproduce.

[Ka darag]

I SERIOUSLY DNT KNO WAT THE POINT IS EITHER

WELL I DO BUT I STILL FEEL LIKE SOMETHING IS MISSING

[Grant]

My father told me the purpose of life was to have joy. Working on it, Dad.....