In the dream we call life, the purpose is to answer the call to come home that emanates from our true being. Life is an experience that draws our attention outward, away from our true being. Paradoxically, it is only by embracing our life in this world that we will find our way home -- "back to the Father" to put it in religious terms.
We are born into this world with this question rooted in our psyche. The body consciousness, with its need for survival, definition and self-affirming experience, obscures the answer that is our birthright. Our actions in the world are aimed at answering this question but cannot succeed because that which calls from within us can only be answered by going within. It is the returning to the question again and again, with a growing despair that, paradoxically, leads to a final answer.
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"It is the returning to the question again and again, with a growing despair that, paradoxically, leads to a final answer."
Sometimes the return to the question isn't born of a growing despair .... rather, the progressive unfoldment of richness and 'rightness'.
True, for many people at many times it is the experience of suffering which leads to a return to the question, for a deeper answer which goes beyond that which we've settled for before .... but sometimes it unfolds differently, perhaps at a different stage of the path.
Rather than a dynamic hinged on suffering, the axis can be purity, contentment and bliss. And the question then isn't led by a feeling of lack, but more from an overflowing of 'wellness' ... for want of an adequate term!
best wishes to you in the Dharma
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