Two people can have the same experience at the same time and yet have totally different perceptions about that experience.
Why have some people become enlightened one, two, three or more thousand years ago and yet most people are still not enlightened in the present time period? In order to become enlightened one must find and learn the purpose of life. Then one must apply the Self to mastering this purpose. One must apply the Self and the mind until one’s purpose unfolds and the Real Self achieves the full meaning of life.
How did these incredible beings become enlightened so far ahead of the rest of humanity?
The answer is,
They made different choices.
What are these different choices?
They are choices that enhance one’s ability to know and understand what is lasting and real.
The reason the way to enlightenment seems so difficult to learn and understand is because we can’t see it with the physical eyes, we can’t smell it with the physical nose, we can’t hear it with the physical ears, we can’t taste it with the physical tongue and we can’t touch it with the physical skin.
For many people the belief or assumption is, if I can’t see it, taste it, hear it, smell it or touch it, then it doesn’t exist. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Molecules aren’t seen with the physical eyes yet they exist. Air isn’t seen with the physical eyes yet every breath you take proves air exists. Atoms are not seen yet they exist.
In order to come to know the truth, purpose and meaning to life there must be the acceptance within the Self that there is a life and experience that is much more lasting, permanent and eternal than our temporary physical experiences.
The purpose of life has to be more than temporary, and it is. The purpose of life is lasting, permanent and eternal. Otherwise, what we do is a waste.
The five physical senses never give us the experience of what is permanent and lasting. They give us the experience of the temporary. The five senses give us the experience of the changes in weather, of the changes in our heartbeat, of the changes in scenery, of the changes in food, of the changes of the odors in the air, and of the changes in the sounds around us.
In short, in order to fulfill one’s purpose there must be the realization that there is more to life than meets the eye.
People achieve greatness because they have great purposes. The conscious mind must be disciplined in order to be utilized fully and most efficiently.
Purpose is personal benefit.
Purpose begins with Self and includes Self. In order to know yourself you must do things for yourself. This is the admittance of one’s Self value.
As you cause yourself to be a better person by practicing purpose in all you do you become much more capable of helping and aiding many more people.
By constantly practicing the discipline of having or creating purpose regularly, day by day you become a better and more fulfilled person. Day by day you discover more of the purpose of life and week by week you become aware of your purpose.
You can be very idealistic yet until there is purpose that idealism may not accomplish much. This is because until there is purpose you will lack the motivation required to succeed. People often fail to complete those goals and ideals that challenge them to change and go beyond limitation. This is because they lack the continual motivation that comes from purpose.
Ideals and activity are connected by purpose. Goals and action are connected by purpose. Dreams and effort are connected by purpose.
Stable, productive thoughts lead to stable, productive emotions. So purpose helps one build more stable and productive emotions. Many people would like to become more stable emotionally and purpose helps accomplish this.
In order to live a purposeful life one must practice and cause purpose in the thoughts, in the emotions, in the actions and in the life everyday.
A disciplined mind leads to a still mind and a still mind is necessary to know one’s purpose in life
Through the still mind is the Real Self known.
Through the still mind is one’s purpose known.
Throughout my life I have disciplined my mind and through this have developed a greater and greater stillness in my mind. As this greater stillness has developed I have received greater and greater awareness of my purpose in life.
Few people discipline their minds to achieve one-pointed concentration.
Fewer still use the disciplined, concentrated mind to visualize or image what they desire to occur in their lives.
Fewer still imagine what they want to become.
Fewer still apply the disciplined, concentrated mind to become enlightened.
Each person needs to integrate concentration into their consciousness.
Each person needs to integrate stilling the mind into their consciousness.
Meditation enables one to use the developed, concentrated mind to create a still mind within the Self.
If you have ever learned to ride a bicycle you know that it takes some practice to learn to balance yourself. Yet, with diligent practice, after a while you can learn to ride a bicycle very well.
So it is with a disciplined mind. A good way to begin to develop a disciplined mind is to practice concentration on the object of your choice for 10 minutes each day. Gradually or quickly your concentration ability will improve.
Remember, discipline of the mind is the ability to hold the attention where one has chosen for as long as one wants.
Progression in the discipline of the mind entails choosing to give more and more of one’s attention to what is permanent and lasting.
As one ages, the tendency for the undisciplined mind is for more and more of the attention to go to sensory engrossment and memory images.
In order to master your mind the physical body must also be brought under one’s control. Therefore, choose what you eat rather than eating habitually.
We have the ability to choose. There are always choices in life. Therefore, a big factor in learning about one’s purpose in life is to learn to make better and better choices. Choices come from thoughts. So in order to make better choices, you must learn to be aware of all your thoughts. Often what people think are choices are merely unconscious re-actions to external stimuli or habitual memory thoughts.
In addition, learn from every experience in order to be a more productive individual.
Learn to receive the essence of the Universal Learning in each and every experience. Then be diligent in integrating through practice and application this learning into one’s consciousness.
This is why concentration and mental discipline are so very vital to a quickening of one’s enlightenment and understanding of the purpose of life.
Even if someone walked up to you on the street and told you the purpose of life it would not necessarily advance your consciousness. This rapid advancement only comes when one creates ways to apply and practice the universal truth one has received.
It is necessary to know the Universal Laws and Universal Truths.
One of the Universal Laws and Universal Truths will now be described.
1. The Universal Law of Cause and Effect. All the physical forms and shapes around us began as a thought. A car, a chair, a house, a ring and clothes all began as a thought.
1. Universal Truth = Thought is cause.
Your thoughts are the cause of your life. It is through your thoughts that you create your life to be the way it is. You make decisions that affect your life based on your thoughts.
Your destiny is not physical. The place to achieve your destiny is.
Each person has a physical life. Yet physical life is not the end all and meaning to life. Physical life is meant to be used to build greater awareness and understanding of one’s self, one’s mind and one’s connectedness to all of the created universe.
So the key then is to:
Learn how to learn the learning that lasts forever and is eternal.
What is this learning? This is the learning of Self and creation.
What is meant by the word learning? To receive the higher truth into one’s Self and being.
How does one learn how to learn of Self and creation?
First and foremost you must learn to harness the power of the mind. This is accomplished through mental discipline.
The primary exercise or practice to learn to use, direct and wield the mind is concentration.
The objects of concentration are many and varied. What they have in common is that they do not entertain the senses or the brain. For example, one might concentrate on the tip of one’s index finger or a dot on the wall or an orange. The important point is the object should be still in order that the mind and the thought of the mind may be trained to be still.
Until one has learned to concentrate or focus the mind there will be little progress in controlling and directing the thoughts.
Until one learns to direct the thoughts there will be little progress in stilling the mind.
Until one learns to still the mind there will be little progress in aligning the conscious and subconscious minds in order to attune them to superconscious mind.
Until one has aligned conscious and subconscious minds there will be little ability to draw upon one’s subconscious mind.
In order to know one’s purpose in life one must draw upon knowledge and wisdom from one’s soul or individual subconscious mind which resides in the great Universal Subconscious Mind.
It is your soul or individual subconscious mind existing in the great Universal Subconscious Mind between lifetimes and prior to each lifetime that calculates your need for learning and growth and thereby chooses your purpose for a lifetime.
In other words, you as a soul existing in Subconscious Mind choose your individual purpose for this lifetime before your birth in this incarnation. Yet you, existing in the brain and to some degree in the conscious mind have forgotten or lack awareness of the choice you made while in subconscious mind. This is because until the conscious mind is disciplined most people do not have controlled access to the knowledge and wisdom stored in their own subconscious mind.
The conscious mind of the individual must be trained and disciplined in order to be prepared to receive the knowledge, wisdom, purpose and assignment from one’s subconscious mind.
To know your destiny you must have a disciplined conscious mind.
Not only must the conscious mind be disciplined it must also be open to learning. In other words, to know your purpose you must have an open mind.
