Penetrating the Layers of Purpose is Pleasurable

Purpose is not a singular block of matter that you put into your pocket or hang on the wall. It's more like a realm of consciousness and action that has many layers. At every layer of consciousness and action, you will find different aspects of purpose. All of these layers and activities emanate from a definitive core, which we can liken to the heart. Here is the deep teaching, however: You must live FULLY at every layer. Once you have penetrated that layer, mastered it or been mastered BY it, you allow it to fall off and die. 

In the journey of life, you must prepare yourself to go from being an expert to a novice and repeat that process again and again. Remember elementary school? You finally reached 6th grade and achieved super star status. But it only lasted one year. Then, you were thrust into middle school and reduced to dust... Just like that! The same thing happened when you graduated middle school, and again when you graduated high school and then again when you graduated college. If you're committed to a meaningful life, this pattern of expansion, climax and dissolution will continue endlessly. 

As you maintain your commitment to living the medicine that will heal your life and heal the lives of the people you're destined to serve, you will be drawn irresistibly into deeper and deeper layers of your purpose. Sounds cool, right? So why isn't everybody living the medicine? Because it HURTS like hell. The layers of consciousness and activity that I mentioned before are fond memories and loving encounters with great people in wonderful place. As they fall away and die, you will definitely feel hurt and varying degrees of loss. Most people stop there and settle into mediocrity. Don't let it happen to you!

​Here are three practices that will help you experience how penetrating the layers of purpose is pleasurable:

1. Acceptance: Allow your feelings to flow through you. Greet them like old friends. Talk to them, joke with them, acknowledge them. But do NOT be intimidated or afraid. 
2. Humility: Humble yourself to your deepest emotions and ask them to teach you. Think of them as instruments that help you to observe and measure your experience. You don't look at the telescope right? You use a telescope to look into deep space. Likewise, don't waste time looking AT fear. Use fear to look into your perceptions of the future. 
3. Enjoyment: Take real pleasure in the uniqueness of the experience. Taste it. Inhale it. Savor it. This is how you diversify your emotional and experiential palette. Living the medicine is very much like eating in the sense that food IS medicine. What you eat should heal you. In this regard, different spices, fruits and dishes become much more than just sweet, tangy or spicy. You must become attune to how they effect you, what shifts inside you when you come into contact with them. Learn to enjoy them all for what they are worth. 

Learn more about the pleasures of penetrating layers of purpose in my course, 16 Essential Traits of Personal Priesthood. 

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