Sunday, April 12, 2009

How to find life's purpose

When there are no selfish desires or goals, the purpose of life is illuminated in our consciousness. From this perspective, you may realize that the real purpose of your life is invariably rooted in desireless, choiceless actions. If you can discover this real purpose, you can change your life from misery to mastery.
A simple, pragmatic way to find your life’s purpose is to start minimizing unwholesome actions and start maximizing wholesome ones. Whenever there is a sense of greed or hatred, you ought to abandon the action. Whenever there is self-interest or delusion, you ought to abandon the action. See list below:

Greedy Actions (To Be Minimized):
Acquiring
Accumulating
Attaching
Clinging
Conning
Corrupting
Craving
Dominating
Exhibiting
Excessive cheering
Excessive consuming
Excessive entertaining
Excessive partying
FlatteringGambling
Hoaxing
Intoxicating
Lying
Longing
Lusting
Stealing
Scamming
Sexually overindulging
Passion
Patronizing
Pestering
Possessing
Showing off
Stalking
Womanizing
Hateful Actions (to be minimized)
Accusing
Aggravating
Arguing
Antagonizing
Being Mean
Competing
Complaining
Condemning
CryingEnvying
Fighting
Forcing
Getting bored
Hating
Killing
Punishing
Polluting
Regretting
Resenting
Slandering
Deluded Actions (to be minimized)
Advertising
Becoming suspicious
Believing
Bewildering
Celebrating
Dogmatizing
Endorsing
Fearing
Feeling restless
Forgetting
Grieving
Holding back
Indoctrinating
Lazing out
Manipulating
Judging
Justifying
Mystifying
Opining
Overreaching
Performing rituals blindly
Politicizing
Standardizing
Self-mortifying
Self-aggrandizing
Self-satisfying
Worshipping without understanding
Worrying
Wholesome Actions (To Be Maximized)
Admiring
Agreeing
Appreciating
Attending wisely
Balancing
Befriending
Caring
Concentrating
Contemplating
Cooling
Cooperating
Detaching
Developing pure understanding
Devoting
Discovering
Empathizing
Enabling
Enjoying
Equalizing
Establishing faith with understanding
Fearing wrongdoing
Forgiving
Gifting
Giving
Gladdening
Guarding mindfulness
Healing
Helping
Honoring
Investigating
Just being
Lightening up
Listening
Neutral observing
Neutralizing
Meditating
Moderately consuming
Neither believing, nor disbelieving
Non-adhering
Non-discriminating
Non-disturbing
Non-forgetting
Non-hindering
Non-opposing
Non-resisting
Non-wobbling
Observing silence
Penetrating
Promoting virtue
Promoting welfare
Purifying
Rejoicing
Remembering
Removing others’ suffering
Renouncing
Resolving
Respecting
Resting
Serving
Simplifying
Smiling
Studying
Sympathizing
Thanking
Trusting
Wielding
Wondering
Worshipping with understanding
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