What is our purpose in life? Is there even a purpose?

One of the greatest challenges that adults and youth face in this era is the loss of sense of existence.

Why do we exist?

What is our purpose?

I do not know what I want to do in my life.

Is there even any meaning to life?

Am I on the right path?

These may be some of the thoughts visiting our minds during one of our silent moments.

Many people choose to ignore their longing for answers of these questions by being more busy with work or studies, going to loud gatherings, drugs, and sex to name a few. What's more saddening is that some people are so tied to their escape plan that they themselves are not aware that they are suffering because of their ignorance to these questions.

There are also those who are aware of these questions and spend many of their days searching for answers. I myself went through this. I also spent many hours reading philosophical and spiritual books, trying to understand how these "enlightened" people reached their states. I tried to understand everything through logic and reasoning, with my intellectual mind. I found myself spending more time reading and contemplating, than doing and immersing myself in the journey. When I got so fed up with all of the thinking and reasoning, that's where the light at the end of the tunnel appeared.

Here's what I found out. 

The specific questions actually don't matter. If they do visit your mind, simply welcome them, say something like this to your thoughts.

"Hello existential questions, I welcome you. I will embrace you. What are your questions? I may not be able to answer them but I will listen to your questions."

Embrace these questions with happiness and love. You should never shun them out nor ignore them. Instead, embrace them with your loving energies and mindfulness. Simply listen. By listening to your thoughts, without judging them or rejecting them, you are already aware of them. You are already one step closer to realizing the source of these questions.

So I tried doing these and the questions seemed to visit me less and less until they don't visit me any longer because what I found out is that these questions are simply stepping stones of our growth in consciousness. Yes, we need to embrace them and listen to them at some point of our lives, maybe right now you are going through this. But, as I found out myself, there will come a time when you naturally will let go of these questions. People who travel the seas in the past look at the northern star as their guidance. They constantly look at the star while they travel but once they reached their destination, they stop looking at the star. Our questions are like the northern star. They guide us in our life, telling us that we should start moving on and grow, and we should be thankful that these questions exist.

Wherever you are in your life, that is where you are supposed to be so far in your journey. Whatever your purpose or your meaning in this lifetime is, let it be. Let it manifest naturally, and simply enjoy your journey.

Whatever you are doing right now in your life, try to find happiness from it. The essential point is, you are happy, the people around you are happy, and our beautiful surrounding is not compromised. Through that journey, you may or may not find your purpose. I cannot tell you what you may find, but we can be sure that you have increased the joy in this world.

So far, we have tried to rationalize everything in our life through our intellectual mind but not with pure and sincere feelings welling up from the depths of our Goodness.

Don't think too deeply as to where you are in life right now. Try to feel whether you are happy, making others happy, and participating in keeping this Earth beautiful.

Yes, we all face problems- from simple, such as school exams, to complicated, such as international wars. Most of these problems arose from our overthinking and losing our sights on what is genuine happiness. We have tried to solve our problems through our intellectual minds for too long. By no means should we surrender ourselves to our whimsical desires and emotions arising from our ego. In fact, we should use our intellectual capacity as tools to support the greater purpose dictated by feelings that arise from Goodness.

Within you exists all the diverse energies from stars of this Universe, you are already that which contains everything and you deserve to be happy. 

Within you is Darkness, but there is also Light.

Within you is Sadness, but there is also Joy.

Within you is Anger, but there is also Understanding.

Within you is Sin, but there is also Forgiveness.

Feel these opposing forces stirring within you. When these opposing forces are in imbalance, questions start to visit us. But, let these questions visit! We can never remain balanced but, since we already know that everything exists within us, we can balance our darkness, sadness, anger, sin, and other negative feelings.  

Currently, I also have these feelings within me but as soon as they arise, the opposing feelings arises and balance them for me. Having a Space of Love helps me balance these dark feelings and thoughts. Having a refuge when you are too skewed to the negative side is a great way to cope with them. Personally, my refuge is my Space and it can be anything or anyone- family, friends, favorite mountain to climb, forest, book. It can help greatly if you choose the people you interact with. Choose those who can help you turn towards the light rather than feed your negative feelings. If you're angry at politics, stop watching the news, stop interacting with ranting people. These never solved anything but increase aggression. 

You are not escaping from your feeling, in fact, now that you are aware of the feeling, understood its source, you now know how to interact with this feeling and try to cope with it and result to your well-being.

Please understand that wherever you are right now is not only a result of one situation or event in your life. You are there because countless of coincidences occurred, whether they be good or bad, it does not matter anymore for you are already existing. What matters is how you feel where you are right now and what actions you are to do.

You do not need to know what your specific purpose in life. You simply have to trust that there is one greater purpose and do good and foster joy and happiness. Wherever you are being pulled into right now is part of this greater purpose.

BASICALLY, SIMPLY BE.

Exist right now, immerse yourself right now.

Be happy, share happiness, beautify the surroundings.

The answer that I have found is to create a Space of Love.

Yours may be anything but I secretly pray that we carry the same aspirations.

The snow has melted, the land may seem bare but in the my eyes, the flowers are already blooming.

The Space of Love: A paradise here on Earth

The spring season has awakened new forces within me. It's as if all the pent up energy gathered in the winter is now bursting, as with the life around me! Buds are coming to life, shoots are springing forth, hibernating animals are awakening, people are now outside more often- ah, the beauty of spring! Everyday is filled with immersion to Life and, though the sun is setting later in the evening, time seems not enough with the amount of work that needs to be done in the homestead.

Within this bustle of spring, a strong rain, such as today, visits us and bestowing me some quality time to pause and reflect again on what I have been doing so far.

In this season, farmers here in Hokkaido are all so busy with the plantings, land preparations, fixing structure, repairing machines, and all other matters that are needed in farming. There are moments when I get caught in their rhythm and that feeling of "I have to be as busy as them" arises. In these moments, my actions are misguided, the results of these actions are poor, I am drained of energy, and most importantly, I am not inspired by Love. In these moments, I am reminded by my Land, that what I am doing, my purpose is different. I am not living to force the land to produce food for money, I am not living to slave myself off to the system, I am here to create a family homestead, a Space of Love for my family and my co-creator.

What exactly is a Space of Love? Why am I not calling this a farm or a retreat place?

The Space of Love is a term set forth by Anastasia in the Ringing Cedars of Russia Series written by Vladimir Megre based on his encounter with her. The Space of Love is a land where your family line, your ancestors and descendants, will exist eternally and harmoniously enveloped in the bosoms of Love. Living in the Space means you are to build a house in your land with your own hands, grow food with Love, enjoy the Creations, and give birth to a fully-fledged human. Amidst all these Co-creation, true joy will be felt not only by you and your family, but also the Creations all around. Many of the problems so far in the history, in our community, and within ourselves arise from the fact that we were born without being a fully-fledged human. Physically, we may be functional, but mentally and spiritually, we are tremendously lacking. We are lost, we do not know were we belong and what is our purpose, we think we are disconnected with the Source, when in fact we always are. The Space of Love remedies all of these issues. Within the Space, we are always in direct connection with the Creations, thus the Creator. We are not swayed by dogmas or needless philosophies because everyday, every  moment, we are in communication with Oneness. We are mindful, we are always in the present moment because as we step out of the house, we are immediately surrounded by Love, fruit trees planted in Love, flowering trees and shrubs planted with Love perfume the air with ethers beneficial for us, grasses and herbs tended with care and Love heal our bodies, trees that filter and protect our Space from destructive energies, and most importantly, we are surrounded by people who sincerely Loves us and co-creates with us. A child born in this Space absorbs all of these and becomes a person worthy of carrying the crown of a Creator. In fact, we are all worthy, only if we are aware that we are worthy. We are not meant to destroy, we are meant to Create, to foster, and to bring joy from all of these.

What I and many other people around the globe are doing is not a farm, we are not looking at the land as a money making machine. We are also not making a retreat house where you only visit from time to time. We are building a Space where our family will live every moment in resplendent Love. We are trying to understand each plant, each grass, each sapling, each tree, each animal that visits us. We know that the Land will provide for us, will reflect the same Love if we pour into it same Love and effort. By no means we are lazy, for we know that whatever we put into the land, it will return thousandfold to us. 

Of course, land these days cost a fortune and not everyone can immediately build their own Kin's Domain. It's as if a system was made purposely to create this hurdle for those who want to build their Space of Love. This is currently one of the hurdles that I am contemplating on but I know for certain that this will be overcome in proper time. In all honesty, I still do not know the answer but I am sure it will manifest in this lifetime.

In the meantime, those of us who are fortunate enough to have their own land, must continue to build and put in more inspired effort to build a paradise here on Earth so that more people can see and be enveloped in our Spaces of Love.

My current physically present Co-creator. 

No matter how lifeless it may seem during the winter, in the eyes of a Creator, Life is always stirring within. Manifestation takes time, but it is already there.