117. The third eye: Chapter 16 - The meaningful life

 

If all is true, the idea of purpose in the materialistic Western world, where we constantly ask "why," can be traced back to Aristotle. However, life does not have a purpose; it has meaning. In other words, our life exists for someone and for something. The question of life is not "why," but "how." We did not receive the gift of life to achieve goals—not to move from point A to point B—but to give meaning to it, stemming from the free will granted to us by grace. Someone who wants to go from point A to point B could also say that the goal of life is death, or the reverse. But this is not the case. The task of life is to preserve the universal meaning (intellect) within us, to make our consciousness increasingly perfect through the perceptions and experiences we gather, and to return to the One. 

A meaningful person admits that he/she do not know the purpose of life, because they know the tasks they must fulfil. The ignorant, on the other hand, set goals for themselves and others and have no idea why they live. They replace tasks with goals. Purpose-driven people, due to their ignorance, defend themselves and seek the company of others. They enjoy forming interest-based friendships to fulfil their own needs. Because of their defences, they cannot even exist quietly by themselves. They are always searching for new human connections, new goals and pleasures, new stimuli, such as noise, travel, comfort, hustle, etc. They are also unable to admit when they don’t know something, though awareness begins when we admit, “I don’t know, but I want to know.” 

Those who talk about achieving life goals are not striving for the perception and experience of a meaningful life, but for a life according to man-made, artificial principles, ideologies, material and non-material religions, worldviews, etc. But this false, constructed bubble of illusory reality has nothing to do with true, complete, pure, meaningful life. Those who live according to principles live rationally, with mathematical precision, and when they eat, they do not have sausage, cheese, and tomatoes for breakfast, followed by jam bread—they consume calories. They are abstract people, whose lives are also abstract, because they are always searching for goals. They constantly set new goals for themselves and others, and when they reach one goal, they call themselves successful and immediately set the next goal, so they can be successful again. Purpose-driven people thus live an entire life and are surprised when they must die, because death was not among their goals. 

This is a typical Western, modern, liberal, profit-driven, foolish, meaningless behaviour. Modern people also follow the principle of gradualism in achieving goals, much like the individualistic alpinist who sets bigger and bigger goals. Once I’ve reached a smaller peak, the bigger peak can come, and once I’ve reached that, an even bigger peak can follow. What happens when all the peaks are exhausted, and the only way left is down the mountain? What happens when I can no longer achieve new successes, when I no longer have new goals, because the sacred time has run out, I have aged, and my strength is less? What was the point of all the goals in my life if I, the successful, materially rich individual, became more miserable, and tomorrow I will no longer have a life? If we continuously live according to selfish goals—not aiming to return to the One—it is certain that our life will be meaningless. The goal-oriented individualistic self brings us closer to death as well. 

Goals never end because achieving them is a whirl and a trap. Goal-oriented, ignorant individualists set traps for themselves and others, and constantly step into traps set by power. Such traps include success, material wealth, profit, religions, worldviews, dogmas, party ideologies, and so on. A meaningful person is not successful, is not materially rich, is not religious, does not have a communal worldview (for example, they are not on Facebook, TikTok, etc.), and does not live according to ideologies because they know that all of these belong to rational thinking and the creation of illusory reality, not to universal meaning. If we are in traps set by ourselves or others, we cannot assert the free will granted to us by the One. Our free will is exactly what we need to avoid the traps set for us. Ignorant slaves live in multiple traps, while the conscious avoid them. One might even say that those who live according to goals like to live in accordance with others—the ones who set the traps—and serve them as slaves. In the trap, there are always the manipulable, successful individualist slaves who cannot see the forest from the tree because their thinking and behaviour are linear, not vertical. They always walk with their heads down, never daring to look up at the sky. 

They are the ones who always feel comfortable in the thick of life, in constant movement, in administrative tasks, those who cannot go to bed without a drink to try and calm their constantly racing minds. In the evening, they already prepare tomorrow’s to-do list, schedule their time, plan, and execute, so that they can achieve the goal, the success, the profit, etc., for the client (the customer) as quickly, efficiently, and with the least cost and time. The successful individualist always wants to move from point A to point B, then from a new point A to a new point B. Let us ask ourselves: does the life and order present in nature, of which we are a part, have a goal? Does the peach tree have a goal? Does the peach tree want to move from point A to point B? The peach tree knows: its task is to bear peaches. The peach tree’s “consciousness” is that it does not want and cannot bear apples. 

Rational people, however, lack even this much “awareness,” so they constantly come up with new and new goals, instead of performing the tasks entrusted to them, such as creating, struggling for others, returning in their consciousness to the One, and not seeking answers to "why," but to "how." Let us remember that goals exist only in our minds, in the individualistic consciousness we have constructed, in our rational thinking, but in the reality of life, there are no goals, just as there is no development or progress. Universal consciousness has no goal, just as life has no goal. Life does not want to move from point A to point B because this is meaningless and impossible. Instead existence has meaning.