Life Purpose pursuit or Enlightenment experience or something else?

[TheSimon]

Hello all,

I want to ask you to help me out to get a better grasp of my experience I had 3 years back when I was 28. I would appreciate suggestion from people, who actually experienced Enlightenment.

I am not sure, if my Life Purpose was fully revealed for me, or it might have been an accidental Enlightenment experience.

The circumstances were like this. I offered free consultation to a student of mine to help him develop a better statistical model to get better results in his semester paper. It took us a few consultation sessions. Student submitted the paper with a full statistics model, I corrected the paper, after that he did re-wrote it … it was a lot of work, but worth it.

When I was going through the final version of the paper, something mystical happened. I started to have a great sense of joy, which started to grow rapidly. I had to sit down, the joy did grow into ecstasy. Suddenly all the emptiness in me was filled with this amazing feeling.

And it kept on growing quickly. I suddenly though as if I am going to a different place. I got scared since I felt as if my brain is going to explode with joy. I could not do anything, just to witness, what was happening. From the start, it might have been a few seconds.

It felt as if I was losing myself, my sense of self was gone. When I passed that feeling, I felt as if I went some barrier. I was simply just on my chair alone in the office. I experienced an eminent feeling of joy, peace, beauty, fulfillment. And the feeling lasted for a few minutes. I was just experiencing the greatest feeling in my life, ever.

I didn’t have any seeing apart these feelings. If I would compare this to something, the only thing, that comes up to my (atheistic) mind is only: “Being touched and cheered by God himself”.

This experience was deeply personal for me. I did not experience anything like this at any point before or after. I do meditate frequently for 20 – 45 minutes. The best experience I got so far might have been a feeling of energy going upwards my spine as if I started to “fly”.

At first, I thought to myself, I have discovered my Life Purpose, which seemed to me “Help others grow.” Or the explanation might have been, that the student paper was containing a bit of LSD or DMT I might have inhaled.

Lately, I thought about this experience differently. Could that be an Enlightenment experience? I would appreciate suggestion from people, who actually experienced Enlightenment.

Thank you all

[Tanz]

There is no difference between life purpose or enlightenment.  Pursuing a life purpose will lead to enlightenment to a progression to where in order to achieve greater transcendence you will have to transform your role as a teacher in the setting you are in and go deeper. 

Try going for either a solo meditation retreat for 3-7 days or do a paid retreat that does meditation and or yoga.  
 

[Rigel]

Your life purpose is your creation it won't be revealed to you. I'd say focus on what inspires you most. Every road leads to Rome. 

[TheSimon]

@Rigel @Tanz thank you for your answers