Living a Meaningful Life

 

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Living a Meaningful Life

Everything that we do is in some way contributing to someone’s life. If we can find how to make this a conscious process of contributing to everyone’s life through our work, then our life will be very different. Contributing does not mean that we will not make money in our business. If we constantly see how to give our best to everyone around us, then we will profit from it and also not have to worry about it.

Contributing is not about money or material – it is the basic volition of our life. If we make our life into a contribution, then our life will become truly meaningful and worthwhile because we are creating what we care for. If we are creating what we care for, then it will be a joy to go to work every day. With this, we will never die of stress, believe me. We may die of exhaustion, but we will not die of stress - and that is a very good thing.

The moment we see the way how to contribute, the moment there is a certain pleasantness of experience within us, our body and mind will function at their best. There is substantial scientific and medical evidence to prove this. If our body and mind are not functioning at their best, does one think that one will attain success? Success is a consequence of harnessing all that we have to the best possible result. If this has to happen, we must be in a pleasant state of experience. Then, the more we do, the better we should feel. This will only happen to us if we are always looking at how to make a contribution to everything around us.

At some point we have all wondered as to the purpose of our lives, haven’t we? If we were feeling really ecstatic, would we ask ourselves about the purpose of life? We ask this question because in some way, the experience of life is not good enough. Most human beings have become a bundle of thoughts, emotions, ideas, opinions and prejudices. That means our psychological drama is hijacking our life. Most of the time, we only think about life, not how to live it. We have come here to live life, not to think about it.

We should not try to invent all kinds of purposes for life. If we explore the nature of this life that we are, we will come to know that life does not need any purpose – life is too phenomenal by itself. If we experience this life in its fullness, we realise that life is a purpose unto itself.