Does having a life purpose jive with being a buda

[StarStruck]

Buda doesn’t have an ego so when you become one, it seems having a life purpose doesn’t jive that. Having a life purpose entails having egoistic ideals. I’m I missing something here? 

[Truth Addict]

Does drinking water jive with staying alive?

[StarStruck]

19 minutes ago, Truth Addict said:

Does drinking water jive with staying alive?

Is that a rhetorical question or do you want a serious answer?

[Truth Addict]

2 minutes ago, StarStruck said:

Is that a rhetorical question or do you want a serious answer?

It's as accurate as an analogy can get.

[StarStruck]

22 minutes ago, Truth Addict said:

It's as accurate as an analogy can get.

Your analogy doesn’t fit. 

[Truth Addict]

@StarStruck Perhaps if you change your maps, it will.

Edited September 18, 2019 by Truth Addict

[Sempiternity]

*Buddha 

[Consilience]

14 hours ago, Truth Addict said:

@StarStruck Perhaps if you change your maps, it will.

Boom. 

The analogy fits. When you can understand how, then you’ll have an answer to your question. 

[Truth Addict]

50 minutes ago, Consilience said:

Boom. 

The analogy fits. When you can understand how, then you’ll have an answer to your question. 

It can also be expanded to include the possibility of various degrees of drinking, for example: does suffocating oneself with water jive with staying alive? And the answer is, obviously, yes.

It's about conscious balance.

[StarStruck]

6 hours ago, Truth Addict said:

It can also be expanded to include the possibility of various degrees of drinking, for example: does suffocating oneself with water jive with staying alive? And the answer is, obviously, yes.

It's about conscious balance.

That is what I thought but if that is thé case why half ass it?  If you don’t half ass it you wouldn’t fear to die and die soon after by car crash or something. 

[Nahm]

On 9/18/2019 at 6:31 PM, StarStruck said:

Buda doesn’t have an ego so when you become one, it seems having a life purpose doesn’t jive that. Having a life purpose entails having egoistic ideals. I’m I missing something here? 

No one is “being a Buddha”. It means enlightened, one knowing the truth of one’s self as infinite being. One who doesn’t know could do just about anything they want life purpose wise, and so could one who does know. One can marry one or many perspectives however, which appear to limit what one can do. 

[Leo Gura]

The Buddha was a Bodhisattva, who's life purpose was to awaken mankind.

What you're missing is that a life purpose doesn't have to come from ego, it can come from God. And anyways, all ego is just a limited expression of God. So even if an LP is coming from ego, it's still seeking God, however imperfectly.

[cetus]

@StarStruck  Buddha lived the ultimate life purpose.

[StarStruck]

@Leo Gura ok. I get it now. Is it right to say that life purpose isn’t a choice but a discovery?

[Leo Gura]

3 hours ago, StarStruck said:

@Leo Gura ok. I get it now. Is it right to say that life purpose isn’t a choice but a discovery?

It's both

[Aaron p]

I don't even know much about Buddha, all I know is...I am the buddha