Meaning-giving: Is it a habit of the mind?

Have you ever wondered as to why one wants to have a meaning to one’s life? Or some may call it a “life-purpose” (other than simply living).

The mind seems to have an engrained pattern of making and giving meaning to life.

Every object it perceives, every emotion it feels, every event it experiences must have a meaning.

It is through meaning; the stories are formed.

This is a form of judgement.

The mind judges, it is its nature (as long as the illusion of separation is there).

Through judgements and appraisals, narratives arise. Through narratives meanings are given.

These narratives are the chains that we create, and through those chains we lock away ourselves from seeing (or rather being) the direct experience as is. The stories are the barriers.

The stories revolve around cause(s) and effect(s), and events linked along a timeline.

This is the cause and effect realm the mind creates and lives within.

It traps itself within the limitations of cause and effect.

What IS, the actual, is not the narrative. It is not the cause and effect. However real that may seem. It is not reality.

Initially, intellectually, it is difficult for the mind to accept a reality where it does not ‘think’ through or ‘function’ through. However, by Grace, the intellect, the mind, surrenders as it merges with its source.

Only then, the mind can understand the illusion of cause and effect. The illusion of giving meaning, and finally gives up the urge to give meaning.

This is Freedom. 

The wave knows its essence is the ocean.

The wave merges into the ocean.

I Am

That

I Am