The Meaning of Life

Shohaku Okumura is a Zen Buddhist Abbot in the Soto Zen tradition. He lives in Bloomington, Indiana and teaches in the Sanshin Zen Community: www.sanshinji....
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As we solitarily and collectively claim the force of a relevant contemporary mythos, we are delivered to the possibility of life-lived-in-depth, the possibility of authentic life. This is the path beneath the surface.
The Transformative Encounter: The Practice of Contemplation
In the current age this transformative encounter, as well as the practices that deliver us to this encounter and the personal connection that flows from this encounter, is seldom the focus of our lives. Many of us wander disoriented through life, often on a self-destructive path, in a world seen, understood, and measured primarily by the external environment. We are disconnected from the Connecting Myth. We are disconnected from the interior depth to which the Connecting Myth might deliver us. Ironically, we have come to understand myth as a lie rather than a symbolic and metaphoric gateway to a deeper truth.
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*Abbot Shohaku Okumura* 🙏
It's impossible to know the purpose of life which itself is an expression of the Universal True Nature localized in an individual's body-mind.
And the individual by its sense of a (false temporal) separate self is always earnest to find, know and understand the life purpose of its existence.
Which is impossible because its true nature is in an eternal & timeless 'divine' or 'quantum' state of infinite possibilities which cannot be known, predicted, copied or cloned;
Why? Because its quantum nature is boundless, timeless & spaceless, for which the finite human mind is unable to 'process' its infinite possibilities of purposes or meanings. 😊🙏🙇‍♂️🌷

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Siewkonsum, as always, we are grateful for your voice and profound guidance. We are especially grateful for the contemporary language you choose to express this timeless truth.
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We are grateful you have discovered this special channel. We hope you will return often. Please consider a sustained encounter with The Life Journey series on the home page of the Interior Mythos Journeys RUclips channel. It provides a sequential, guided, experiential path for the contemporary contemplative practitioner. You will discover this dynamic profoundly in Life Journey #7 - The Ultimate Journey. Check it out and keep in touch!
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Virt, thank you for this reflection. Please expand on the comment you have shared. Thanks. GO Deep!

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@@Interiormythos it's a shorts video. Where can I find full speech video?

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