Are the enlightened concerned with goals?

[aklacor727]

Thinking about goals....and how to approach them in a way that is the most spiritually beneficial as well as practically. To give context, my ultimate goal is happiness and peace no matter how that comes, but I also am wondering about practical advice for personal fulfilment. I appreciate your perspective on any or all of these aspects!

When it comes to emerging spirituality and personal development...question to someone that is enlightened if you are reading this -- I wonder how big of a factor goals play into your life? Are they not of concern to you, because you are in such content with the present moment living life as it comes? 

For everyone else, what are your perspective on goals, and if you are in fact a goal oriented type, how do you set and structure them? Do you focus moreso on the larger goals and visions, or the smaller steps and achievements along the way? Do those smaller steps come with ease and enjoyment as a result of the strength of your overall vision? 

How often do you check in with yourself and hold yourself accountable.. or are you more laid back about the results, and your life/the process unfolding and changing as it may?

[LfcCharlie4]

Enlightenment doesn't mean life ends, for me, it only truly began after awakening. 

It also won't solve all of lives problems, so unless your plan is to go live in a monastery and you want to be successful in anything, yes goals have their place. 

I have goals in most areas of life, Personal Development is still essential in my opinion if you want the best life possible, but everyone is different, I have very lofty business and personal goals because I'm very ambitious by nature, at the same time I'm completely happy, I'm doing everything in life (aside from practical reasons) because I want to and to express happiness, not to find happiness as many are. 

I think it's great to have huge goals, but then you need to break them down, everyone wants to be a millionaire but how are you actually going to get there step by step? I'd also say do things you actually enjoy. 

Career, Exercise, Relationships, make sure these are things YOU want to pursue, that's the key. 

Some people want to work for someone else, others want to be entrepreneurs, it's all about finding what YOU want, not what someone else wants. 

Of course track everything, if you start the gym, track the weights you lift and follow a program, that's how you get the best results in life in anything. Fail to plan and you plan to fail as the saying. 

An issue with getting into Enlightenment work is it's easy to disregard everything else, I almost did, but Personal Development is HUGELY important for the best life possible, enlightenment won't make your body in perfect health, your relationships as good as they can or your career perfect for example, so don't neglect these areas of life  

[Forestluv]

1 hour ago, aklacor727 said:

my ultimate goal is happiness and peace no matter how that comes

Is this desire toward unconditional happiness / peace? Or is this desire toward relative happiness / peace? The orientation of energetics is very different between the two. 

[aklacor727]

@Serotoninluv ultimately my desire would be unconditional peace and happiness. 

Relatively, my life is nothing crazy, overall pretty peaceful and happy. 

But I get bored, and it gives me purpose to try to improve my life in relative ways, grow myself,  think about self actualization, goals, etc. 

I guess what I am trying to do is find a vision for balance between the two? If that makes any sense

[aklacor727]

@LfcCharlie4 that makes alot of sense! One thing I am definitely not the best at is planning and tracking.  My laid back nature is not helpful in this aspect ? lol. 

[wesyasz]

3 hours ago, LfcCharlie4 said:

Of course track everything, if you start the gym, track the weights you lift and follow a program, that's how you get the best results in life in anything. Fail to plan and you plan to fail as the saying. 

For some, getting best life possible would be not tracking nor planning anything . Very personal, as you have said.

Edited December 17, 2019 by wesyasz

[LfcCharlie4]

@wesyasz Yeah of course, but I mean if you want to achieve things in life, this will usually involve some form of tracking or planning. 

The obvious being nutrition/ fitness. 

But, like I said very personal, many may not want to do that, and that's fine, just for those who want to achieve it would be much harder without proper planning and tracking.

[erik8lrl]

Yes, but you no longer try to achieve them, you simply know that they will happen and just be. You live within the flow of life and everything happens at the perfect time, there is no effort, just being and enjoying life. 

[Nahm]

‘Goals’ are thoughts. Useful in creating your own reality when properly aligned with feeling & source. Want for the feeling, the aliveness, the ride, the journey, the adventure of creation - not to attain, not to feel better when. Love is always Now. No thing is better than love. No thing is outside of Now. 

Maybe forget “goals” and it’s potential pitfalls of connotation, and just write everything you want on a dream board, and enjoy the non resistant ride of it coming. 

This is a miracle. “Goal” is a thought. 

This manifests - becomes what you are wanting. This has always been the case. 

Enlightenment reveals there are no ‘problems’, as all is you. However, by simply taking your “problem”, and writing it’s opposite on your board, you begin to see for yourself that a “problem” is just a label placed on the coming of the very things & experiences you are already wanting.  

All thinking is relative and therefore not to be believed or identified with. Thoughts are themselves absolute. There is only absolute.

It’s like building something out of Legos designed to help you find Legos. You are made out of happiness already, it can never be found, you’re free to build whatever you want out of your Lego self.

[aklacor727]

1 hour ago, Nahm said:

‘Goals’ are thoughts. Useful in creating your own reality when properly aligned with feeling & source. Want for the feeling, the aliveness, the ride, the journey, the adventure of creation - not to attain, not to feel better when. Love is always Now. No thing is better than love. No thing is outside of Now. 

Maybe forget “goals” and it’s potential pitfalls of connotation, and just write everything you want on a dream board, and enjoy the non resistant ride of it coming. 

This is a miracle. “Goal” is a thought. 

This manifests - becomes what you are wanting. This has always been the case. 

Enlightenment reveals there are no ‘problems’, as all is you. However, by simply taking your “problem”, and writing it’s opposite on your board, you begin to see for yourself that a “problem” is just a label placed on the coming of the very things & experiences you are already wanting.  

All thinking is relative and therefore not to be believed or identified with. Thoughts are themselves absolute. There is only absolute.

It’s like building something out of Legos designed to help you find Legos. You are made out of happiness already, it can never be found, you’re free to build whatever you want out of your Lego self.

@Nahm This is so inspiring!!!

I am happiest when I am in the present, with non-resistance, and I am happiest when I am not thinking about planning a future outcome (or at least focusing on it) and just letting life come as it may.  

Now that I think about it, you're right if something was truly a desire for me, it would unfold naturally.  And in fact, when I put too much pressure on myself to achieve something, it usually ends up not working out. When it comes to living healthily for example, my success in that area came when I made slow changes over the course of years, barely putting effort into it, but it ended up working far better than past attempts of being very strict with myself.

The "goals" that I have for myself are going to be present based. When I feel myself resisting something, I am going to remember that is not in alignment with my desires and happiness, and allow myself to let go and accept.  When I find my mind trailing off into fantasies and future scenarios and worries, I am going to ground myself in the present moment.  ??

 

Edited December 17, 2019 by aklacor727

[Nahm]

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