Brenda Schinke

We gain nothing talking about the truth, about our true nature, about the unity consciousness. We only flood our mind with more concepts. We are about living life, if we can really live life?

I was speaking to you about this young singer from Mexico. He came to the Oneness University several times. The first time he came, he came with a very profound question – What is the Purpose of my Life? May be if I spoke about that you will probably feel more at home because these are the questions that you expect spiritual people to talk about. This man came with this question. And every few hours he would ask this question to me - What is the Purpose of my Life? I would say I don’t know, Noel. His name is Noel. He kept asking this for ten days.

I had an explanation but that explanation is not the answer, because these questions don’t have an answer. The question itself must disappear, because the question arises from a discontent, from a sense of meaninglessness, from a sense of a lack, lacking a purpose. I offer no explanation because that would not be the real answer. However on the tenth day approximately we were all meditating in the night, a group of 70 people. The room was dark just a candle light at around 1 or 2 in the night we heard a man scream in the room and we all knew it was this person because by then he had become popular in the group because of his persistent question what is the purpose of my life. And what did he scream – "Master! All I want to do is drink a glass of water and eat a banana".

What a profound question – what is the purpose of my life, the ultimate existential question for which every philosopher would die to give an explanation and what an answer he found! He said – "All I want to do is drink a glass of water and eat a banana". This is Life. If we can truly drink a glass of water and eat a banana the question does not exist because the purpose of life is living itself. Because we cannot experience life this way, we try to create a meaning for our life and search for that meaning.

This is life. If you are doing what you are doing when the simple experiences of your day to day existence like drinking a glass of water, like driving your car, like working, like dancing, like watching a movie like playing a sport, when they are transformed into enjoyable experience that is living, that is spirituality.

1.    How conscious are you in everyday life?

2.    Notice the times when you are on auto-pilot. An example is driving to work and then realizing that is not where you were supposed to be going.

3.    What are some actions you will take today to become more aware and present?

Until next time,
Brenda