Life purpose and enlightenment

[Emne]

Is it important to search for my life purpose. I am worried that I might be wasting my time, and instead should be focusing on enlightenment. What is the relationship between life purpose and enlightenment? Will I still have a life purpose after getting enlightened. I am a newbie so I don´t know very much, please answer. 

[aurum]

@Emne

Welcome to the community. This is a very common question, so don't be surprised that it's still confusing.

Your spiritual practice essentially is a process of stripping away thoughts and behaviors that aren't authentic to who you really are. It's like achieving freedom, because you are free from acting in a way due to what others want.

So there's no telling exactly what you will decide to do as you evolve. Only you can make that choice.

What most people find though is that they don't desire to do nothing. Something calls them, and they feel more passion than they ever had before because it's truly authentic to them. Now we're talking life purpose.

I encourage you not to look at these ideas of "life purpose" or "enlightenment" as binary things that you either have or don't have. The reality is that it's much more like a spectrum, and the goal should be to continually evolve till the day you die.

[egoless]

I don't believe in life purpose. You will do whatever you are willing to do. Even if it is living life at the fullest while traveling... Whatever you make purposeful for yourself that will be your life purpose... 

[Nahm]

@Emne

Reality is tough, there’s a lot of challenges, and a lot of worry and stress. I need to get going and get more done and I don’t have the desire or energy to really do what I want to do. How could I know what I should do! This is so hard. Life is hard. My random start in life could have been better. I wish I had more money, and X, and more Y, and more Z. Some times things work out, sometimes they don’t, some days are better than others. I’ll die one day and that’s scary. I don’t even realize people manipulate me. Circumstances are unfair sometimes, often. 

Vs

Holy shit I am the only being which exists, and I am the dreamer / creating an illusion that is “reality”. Everyone is also me / this being, and 99.9999999% of the population has no idea whatsoever about the truth of this situation.  I get to live this life? Are you even serious!? This is the most amazing thing possible, better than I could have ever imagined! I don’t need anything to “be happy”, I am Love itself! Everything is Love! People are so manipulated and stressed, and in complete denial and self deception about it, and at the same time they are not even interested in discovering this for themselves. I could never die, I’m not even real or not real, I’m a completely different undefinable outside of reality and unimaginable thing that can’t even justifiably be called a “thing”. I am  forever, and all is so freakin well it’s ridiculous. I wake up and cry every morning because the love and beauty is so overwhelming.  At least once a day I am literally brought to my knees by the simplest thing revealing the infinite love and perfection of all that I am. I can do anything. I can’t believe I ever thought anything was happening to me - the WHOLE experience is for me!

Just some spit ballin, might help. Obviously LP is easier in the second scenario. 

[JustinS]

@Emne

Once you're enlightened you lose the dreaded burden of having to need a life purpose, or the sense of needing anything. In so, you live life with a constant overflowing cup of unconditional giving and freedom of expression which makes life purpose something that comes from inside out rather than from outside in. Do You.