What's Your Spiritual Purpose
For Living?
by Hu Dalconzo
DHARMA is an Sanskrit word that means... your unique spiritual
purpose for living. Everyone has a purpose in life...a unique
talent, skill, or ability. Deepak Chopra states the following
about dharma, "When you blend your unique talent with service
to others, you experience the ecstasy and exultation of your own
spirit, which is the ultimate goal of all goals!"
"If you are spending your life struggling
at work that has no meaning to you, and justifying it by
saying that you must do it because it gives you the money you
need to pay bills, then you are
opting for some personal dishonesty with yourself. You have made
money more important than
your sense of purpose, and as long as you keep the priority in
that order, you will always be
lacking in purpose and total self-honesty!"
DR. WAYNE DYER
The LAW of DHARMA is rooted in the same principles that
Nature uses to create everything that you can see. LAW IS...THE
WAY LIFE IS! Law is the process by which the un-manifest becomes
manifest. It's the process by which you create your life. It's
the process by which you attract people and circumstances into
your life. It's the process by which your dreams become physical
reality. You don't have to like the laws, but you do have to learn
them and use them if you want to create the reality you desire!
Ignorance of the Laws of Life is no excuse; you can get
hurt not knowing. For example, if you didn't understand the law
of gravity and you fell down an empty elevator shaft in a
ten-story building, you would still get hurt. Your ignorance of
the reason why your body was falling downward would make no difference
at all; you would still hit the ground!
It's a real challenge to find your unique purpose for living.
Unfortunately, most people spend over seventy percent of their
life "making a living" doing work that they dislike. This
can make life seem more like a "prison sentence" than an
"adventure in living." Factoring in the Law of Karma
to this metaphysical scenario, many people are sowing and reaping
what they don't want because "what you resist persists!"
The key to living a happy life is to find what you love... and
do it! As Buddha said, "When you do the work you love, you'll
never have to work another day in your life!"
John Caple shares with us in his book, Finding The Hat That
Fits, that there are three reasons why finding the work that
fulfills your purpose for living is so important. They are: (1)
To live on purpose is to discover your power, your capacity to
add value to your every experience and to the lives of those around
you. (2) Finding and living your life's mission adds meaning and
dignity to your life, because living on purpose is a noble adventure.
(3) When you have a sense of purpose, you stop worrying about
life and you find joy in each moment. You laugh more and lighten
up because you love what you are doing.
What would you do for a living if you had one billion dollars?
What would you do for a living after you have bought everything
that you always wanted and traveled to every place you ever wanted
to see? Take a moment and contemplate what fascinates you. What
are your hobbies interests, and talents? Allow yourself to imagine
what it would be like to have the freedom to do anything that
you wanted to do, absolutely anything!
One way that you can tell when you are working at your dharmic
purpose for living is that time flies. When I am writing,
five hours feels like five minutes. Another sign that you're working
on purpose is that you feel that what you are doing is servicing
mankind. Pay attention to any persistent impulse to do or try
something new. Pay attention to new people who come into your
life who seem to call you into a new direction. There are no accidents
in a perfectly evolving Universe. Therefore, any person that comes
into your life you have attracted there for a reason. Stay open
so you can find out what that reason is.
Marsha Sinetar in her book, Do What You Want, The Money Will
Follow, instructs people who seek to find their purpose for
living to ask themselves (with pen and notebook in hand): (1)
What is my real life's purpose? What is it I want to have accomplished
when I look back upon my life in old age? (2) How, specifically,
would I have to think, speak, and act in order to bring that purpose
into being? What habits would I need to cultivate? What would
I have to delete from my present life to live out my true purpose?
(3) What activities, actual daily choices, attitudes, and concrete
accomplishments would I have to do if I lived as if my purpose
meant everything to me? (4) How would I live, on a day-to-day
basis, if I respected myself, others, and my life's purpose? "The
world is as we are" is an old Hindu saying. As we enhance our
Self-mastery, we enhance our understanding of our dharmic purpose
for living!
The Buddhist term "Right Livelihood," which originates within
the Buddha's Dharmic teaching of the Eight-Fold Path,
has entered our culture as a reflection of a general attitude
of caring about one's work in the same way that one would care
about one's body.
Michael Philipps, offers us four qualities that he considers to
be the essentials of "Right Livelihood". They are:
(1) Your work should be an area of great passion! Most of the
time right livelihood means looking forward to the day with the
same excitement that you would if you were on vacation.
(2) Right livelihood is something that you can spend your whole
life doing. This means that your right livelihood should have
within it the room for your constant curiosity. It must give you
room to keep learning, to grow in love and compassion, and it
should offer you challenges which will try you and yet appeal
to you time and again.
(3) It should be something that serves the community. You should
feel that you are serving the community in what you do or you
will have longings, as you get older, to do something else; you
might even have regrets. You'll serve people best when you are
fully using your own unique skills.
(4) It should be totally appropriate to you; meaning that your
right livelihood must engage your unique talents and abilities
to the fullest.
I will leave you with a wonderful Dharmic Exercise to do. Ask
a soul friend to ask you this question 50 times, "What is God's
destiny for me?"
Namaste, my soul friends..... Hu Dalconzo
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