168 Who Do You Think You Are?
That has been the story for me, coming to recognize over and
over again this play of consciousness, this play of the mind, and then the
process of letting go and letting go and letting go and letting go over and
over and over and over again.
If you could give advice to those who are still searching for their
life’s purpose, what would it be?
The first thing I would say is to recognize that it’s not an accident that
you love the things you love. I said this earlier, but it’s such an important
point that you love and care about the things you do.
These things are important to you for a reason, and are the things
that will allow you to live your purpose in life. These are the things that
will allow you to discover who you are and to be able to live your life in
joy. Your job in this incarnation is to live in joy, and to align your life
with what you love most. Doing this provides a very simple yet profoundly
powerful method of getting clear on what’s most important.
The second thing I would encourage people to do is to find a
means, a technique, a tool, or a mechanism that allows you to transcend
the field of duality. As long as the mind remains in that field, and we
remain in the field of illusion, we will remain in the field of what is not
real. It’s only by transcending that field and going beyond that field that
we’re able to experience who we really are, which is beyond the pairs of
opposites. For me that technique has been the Transcendental
Meditation® program. It’s a very profound process. There are an infinite
number of ways that one can transcend the field of duality, to go beyond
the experience of separation, the experience of this and that.
The third thing I would say is to investigate the thoughts, which
keep you feeling separate. Investigate the thoughts that create suffering
or unhappiness in your life. As long as you still find yourself suffering, it
means that you’re holding on to some belief or concept that is not true
for you. The fact is, when we argue with reality we always lose.
Investigating our thoughts means investigating what is really true for us.
It’s amazing that when we ask questions the mind searches and will give
us the answers. So it’s just really a matter of asking the right questions.
For me The Work of Byron Katie has been a powerful tool for
that, because Katie’s process of investigation is so simple. It’s just four
questions and what she calls a turn-around. Those four simple questions
can be used to investigate any thought that brings unhappiness - Is it