♦why meditate? what are you seeking?

what is the whole purpose of spirituality?
why meditate?
what is to be sought?
what ‘truth’ is to be found?

realise the union of my
body mind & spirit

experience of d?j? vu ?

I will take a stab at your questions, as I have some free time. But if you answered these questions yourself, you will find the answers in the same place from which they arose: your mind.

What is the whole purpose of spirituality? Spirituality is about your spirit or soul. The purpose is to know your soul. In other words discover who is the ‘i’ But spirituality is not for somebody who has never bothered asking themselves who am I. If you are content in what you already know about yourself, then it is purposeless for you to pursue spirituality.

Why meditate? You meditate so you can clear your mind, because an unclear mind cannot get to its source: the self. The clearer your mind becomes the more evident the self.

What is to be sought? Nothing, because you already have it: the self. All you need to do is clear away the coverings which are concealing your self. This is why you need to meditate.

What ‘truth’ is to be ‘found’? Rather, what truth is to be uncovered. The truth about being-consciousness. The truth about the absolute. It is that truth, which whence known, everything else becomes known.

To add to Surya Deva’s comment.

The truth about the absolute is not necessarily a grand accumulation of knowledge as it’s often mis-interpreted by a young student. It’s most like self realization. An embraced unwavering truth of who/what/where/when you are and who/what/where/when you’re not. It’s a knowledge, that when attained, that cannot be distanced from your awareness.

The purpose of spirituality depends primarily on the intention of those who practice it. Spirituality is a vague word, much like the word ‘life’.
Often, the context of spirituality depends primarily on the culture and society. Where it’s perfectly acceptable to prostrate one’s self, it may lead to being arrested in another society, the means to justify the end are often very different depending on culture and often the ends are also very different.

I seek nothing through meditation. When I meditate, I am the animal as I exist. I’m able to refrain from all societal obligations and to step away from maya and stop being a human doing, and become a human being.
All that is required of me to be a human being is to eat when I hungry and to drink when I am thirsty. When I meditate, I am in timless awareness. I am one with my conciousness. Through looking inward, I am looking outward, unbound throughout the cosmos.

If you seek anything, you can’t meditate.

These questions are words. If they are a rhetoric, one has to wait for them to become an earnest inquiry. Until then, these are mind-games.

The questions may have come from a mind, but answers do not come from a mind. The answers are not important, the quest is.

What is to be sought?

I don’t know exactly. But my curiosity is inexorable.

I’ve never approached meditation with the intent on seeking anything.

I find the question comparable to asking “what do you seek by breathing?”

“what is the whole purpose of spirituality?”

There is no purpose to anything in existence, existence itself is not a means to an end.

“why meditate?”

This too, is not a means to an end.

“what is to be sought?”

Shatter this to it’s foundation.

“what ‘truth’ is to be found?”

Truth is not something that is to be grasped into your fist. You can come in communion with your own original nature, you can become the living truth yourself - but Truth is not an object of knowledge.

The answer to each question can well be ‘clarity’.

[QUOTE=makar;67484]what is the whole purpose of spirituality?
[/QUOTE]To find the Truth.

what is the whole purpose of spirituality?

We are spiritual beings in a physical form. So I take the purpose of spirituality is to remind us of our truth that our dualistic minds keep us from seeing in this physical form.

why meditate?

I meditate to get a sense of grounded-ness. To channel my inner power and BE. Meditation is like brushing teeth for me, it must be done at least twice a day. It keeps me in tune with my essence.

what is to be sought?

Truth and vision beyond our minds dualistic nature. Also freedom from our minds to realize we are not our minds though we are an essence that is in everything and everyone. So what to be sought is our isness.

what ‘truth’ is to be found?

Our inner truth. The fact that separation is an illusion because the ‘truth’ will show us that we are infinitely one with everything that is. And everything is. Isness is all that exist. Reality is to be found beyond our illusory minds.

Great questions that really made me search. Thanks for being you. This was eye opening!

The answer to all those questions is Unity.

Yes! @ StarTurtle314 The answer is Unity! Aha moment :slight_smile:

[QUOTE=kjamore;67927]Yes! @ StarTurtle314 The answer is Unity! Aha moment :)[/QUOTE]

There was a right answer? o.O … anyhooo, YAY for the Aha moment!

[QUOTE=makar;67484]what is the whole purpose of spirituality?
why meditate?
what is to be sought?
what ‘truth’ is to be found?[/QUOTE]

What is spirituality really? When you go deep within and look carefully, all spirituality, “meditation” or “I” as a distinct entity disappear. Would it be totally idiotic to say that spirituality’s whole purpose is that there is no purpose :wink:

Why meditate? I’ll put here one of my favourite quotes by Tsoknyi Rinpoche:

[I]“Sometime go outside and sit,
In the evening at sunset,
When there?s a slight breeze that touches your body,
And makes the leaves and the trees move gently.
You?re not trying to do anything, really.
You?re simply allowing yourself to be,
Very open from deep within,
Without holding onto anything whatsoever.
Don?t bring something back from the past, from a memory.
Don?t plan that something should happen.
Don?t hold onto anything in the present.
Nothing you perceive needs to be nailed down.
Simply let experience take place, very freely,
So that your empty, open heart
Is suffused with the tenderness of true compassion.”[/I]

Like this, the 3rd and the 4th questions are already solved puzzles :slight_smile: