Hello, everyone! I started getting in touch with zen buddhist teachings through Allan Watts and other spiritual/philosophical communicators (I'm not sure if this is the proper english term to use, but I'm trying to observe that Watts is not an actual buddhist cleric). And just like every buddhist, I also have one great question I want to be answered. Recently, I caught myself thinking that a great part of my feeling of depression and hopelessness comes from the absence of some sort of purpose. And I'm not referring to purpose in a deeper sense as something to give meaning to my whole existence, because I tend to believe this is quite impossible to attain.
I'm in fact talking about purpose in the sense of “what I'm going to work with” or “what I plan to do for the next 10, 20 years”. Just regular, human purposes. I feel that not knowing what to do about it induces a lot of personal emptiness, and I feel that I'm just spending my days. My question is: am I not perpetuating the logic of relying and attaching myself to a future event, that will eventually bring me suffering if not obtained? And if yes, doesn't it make planning for my future irrelevant and utterly silly?
Submitted May 04, 2020 at 12:42PM by JeanSolo https://ift.tt/3b4Ma82
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