Believing, Analysing, Practising and Proofing

A spiritual practitioner is like a scientist.  For the latter, there has to be a belief formulated at the beginning that is of value and interest to him.  It will start off with a concept that may initially appear intellectual or academic.  There may not be evidence to substantiate his belief at the onset of it, but he knows that he is working diligently towards that goal.  In other words, he seeks to bring empirical evidence to what he believes in.  Through thorough understanding of the concept, he embarks on his experiment by investigation and research.  Results are often derived from numerous rounds of trial and error until he can master the law of causation, thereby providing evidence for a belief that has set the stage for all of the above.  

In spiritual practice, we also take on a belief with a leap of faith at the beginning.  But for a serious player, this alone can never quite satisfy him. He is eager to use his life as an experiment through recognition of what is going on within his psyche and the connection with the outside world.  He is always cultivating self-awareness by bringing his mind, body and spirit in union.  He understands that at times the ego energy will be untamed and subject him to vulnerability.  But he perseveres and lives authentically as a human being.

In spirituality, you can only testify what is true to you by direct experience and not by hearsay or dogmas.  This is what real freedom is - freedom from conditioning. 

The Mystery of Fate

Fate has dealt you a coruscating hand
Sparkling secrets of scintillating tomorrows
Cascading, captivating, mesmerising
But all in your imagination
What is going on within 37.2 trillion cells
Is happening out in the perfect world
With notes in tune and singing in harmony
There is no secret but only trust
There is no fate but only creation
For those with faith -
It is already happening 

Meaning of Life vs Meaning to Live

Saying that life is meaningless is not the same as saying that there is no reason or meaning to live.  In fact, the realisation of the former will give you the power to maximise life’s full potential.  How?  Say a tree or a flower, what is the meaning of it?  None.  It will be totally different though when one can give it a context.  For instance, if you are a horticulturist, gardening gives you a sense of fulfilment, maybe even relaxation.  Plants may then represent companionship or objects of appreciation.  Otherwise, to others, they are just appearances in the backdrop.  This is the same as our lives.  It is inherently meaningless but we give it a definition.


The universe makes no judgement, nor is there any packing order or hierarchical structure.  It is we humans that create the polars, extremes and comparisons.  But it is hard to totally escape this fact of life.  Naturally by doing something, we generate a feeling that will be different from one person to another.  And by the way we individually relate to an object or an activity, we also give different meaning to it.  If we are to make life meaningful to us, we would want to engage in things that make our hearts sing and be connected in activities that we find fruitful and rewarding.  This is what gives us the purpose to drive us to do what we do everyday.  It is when one loses this purpose, albeit artificially defined, that one loses the meaning to live.
Now that you have the option to define the meaning of your life, have you asked yourself lately what gives yours the deepest meaning?