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The Meaning of Life, To Be Happy, and Doing Good and Being A Good Person 91

Thursday, April 1st, 2010

Part of the meaning of life, which is to be happy, means looking at yourself as a good person. However, most of us have been taught that if we do something wrong, we’ll be punished. This punishment comes from an outside source.

Suppose there was no outside source of punishment? We would only have the consequences of our actions and words. What happens to us because of what we say or do, is up to us. It is up to us because we have power over what we say and do. Suppose you are not paying attention to what you are doing and accidentally place your palm on a hot burner; you will get burned. The burn is not a punishment; it is a natural consequence of putting your palm in the wrong place.

Here is the video version of this blog/vlog. If you prefer only text, then skip this pane (pain?) and continue below it.

Whatever you do or say will have natural consequences. Your palm burned on the hot range top. But you immediately can vow within yourself never to be so careless again. The consequences of any action can immediately help you start over again. Start over at being a more careful person, a better acting person, a good person. You are not stuck in what caused the adverse consequences of any situation.

You have to get away from believing there is a force that punishes you for wrong actions. I believe that there is no such force. This is where you need to shift your belief system. Change your world-view.

I believe, and am not alone in this belief, that what we name God has made the Universe free. In other words, God does not worry about you doing anything in particular. Yes. Yes. Religions have taught us that God is keeping track of our every wrong move. Those religions have taught that we will be punished for our sins. But if the Universe is free, then actions are actions. In a free Universe there is no judgment, there is only natural consequences, like a burnt hand.

So, what do you do? You do what you believe needs doing in the moment. You are the one who needs to weigh the consequences against your contemplated action. Doing your best in this moment is all you ever need expect of yourself. Considering the consequences, you act as you think best. Will you make mistakes? Yes. Because of those mistakes, will there be negative consequences? Possibly. But you will have done nothing wrong or evil. You did the best you could. That is all you need ever ask of yourself. Did I do the best I could? If the answer is yes, then you are a good person. You can relax. You may have to live with consequences, but you need never feel or believe you are being punished.

Here is my definition of a “good person”: acting as best you can in this moment. The meaning of life, to be happy, is also acting as best you can in this moment.

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The Meaning of Life, To Be Happy, and The Growing Secularization of Society 89

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010

You know the saying, “I wish I had a dollar for every . . . .” I lost count early in my full time life coaching career (clergy) of the number of times people came to me and told me of their childhood in church. How they were scared to death over what was described to them as Hell. How if they did not conform to the teachings of that particular religion, that’s where they would spend eternity. I just got a Facebook the other day about how a woman’s child was fussing in worship service. A man sitting nearby took the child from the woman and began spanking him. Wow!

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Yet, some religious organizations are complaining about the increased secularization of society. That means that people are turning away from the religious organizations and trying to run their own lives. I say hurray! I say this, hurray, from one who spent his entire adult life, from age 18 until retirement at 61, being responsible to see that folks knew and followed what my religious organization taught. I still remember the day when a woman come to me after a worship service of that organization and said, “You got to tell me what to do. I’ve always relied on the church to do that.” I told her I would not do that. But I could help her find her own way. She was visibly upset with my reply. Shortly, she left the particular religious organization I served.

My point is this: it is time for all humans to begin to make up their own minds. I know that some do not want to do that. Many, maybe even a majority, still want someone else to tell them what to do. I believe people need to decide for themselves.

If people do this, some will say, there will be religious anarchy. There is now. Some will say that people won’t behave if there are no threats of hell. (Threats of hell were deliberately used over the centuries to have people be kept in line.) We have got to come into a new age where people decide for themselves to behave, whatever that means, because it is the best for them to do for themselves. I behave well because that will get me the best for myself.

When you have found happiness within by being in contact with the Supreme Consciousness of the Universe, which is the meaning of life, you will, naturally, want to fulfill that happiness in the world. Find you bliss within and beam that bliss into the world. What do you think would happen if everyone started trying to do this? I think that peace would break out on the earth. I think that sanity would break out on the earth. I think that conservation of all species on this planet would break out. I think that we would have a far, far better chance of surviving the next 100 years as the species we name human.

So, I say, hurray! For the great secularization of society. Let people choose for themselves as they are taught the consequences of their own actions. Let us drift away from religions that tell us we have to do it this way or go to hell. Nonsense. Let us drift toward ideas that teach us we are responsible for our own actions and their consequences. But this is not new with me. Such has been taught and demonstrated for thousands of years.

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The Meaning of Life, To Be Happy, and Your Entire Life Is in This Moment 87

Saturday, March 27th, 2010

The meaning of life, to be happy, means I need to be conscious of this next step I am taking.

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The meaning of life, to be happy, means I need to be conscious of this next step I am taking. One of the most difficult mental and spiritual activities I undertake is living in this moment. I know from years of study and more years of experience that this is the only moment I have. My entire life’s journey is contained in the step I take in this, the here and now. Every choice I made, every decision I accepted, culminates in this instant.

So I need to be taking as correct a step as I can. The only way to do that is to be conscious of what I am doing, saying, thinking in this moment. In the process that we call living, each activity I have done in the past leads to this moment. Every possible step I can take in the next moment is a collaboration of all that has occurred in my life from the past. But, neither the past nor the future exist for me in this moment, in this step.

It does not mean I am cut off from the flow of time. It means I have another example of the non-existence of time. For I am free to choose, in this moment, what I will do, given what I have done. Confusing? You bet.

Let’s try this: The past is gone as we measure time. The future has not yet come, as we measure time. What’s left? Of course, this moment. Only. So, everything I am or hope to be is contained here and now, only. Mentally you can see this as someone taking a strip of paper and cutting out a central section of it and discarding the two ends. What is left is now.

Therefore, you are unencumbered by the past, just as the piece of the strip of paper that represents the past is discarded. Similarly, you are unencumbered by the future; that piece of paper is gone as well. So, you make of what is left, this moment, just what you will. You can make it happy. You can make it meaningful. As long as you are conscious of what you are doing. You become conscious of what you are doing instantly by placing your attention on this moment only.

Yes, this is a tough concept to get your mind around. Yet it is so simple. Live in this moment. It is the only moment you have. Make it meaningful. Make it happy. Because you are unencumbered by past or future, you are totally free to make it whatever you want it to be. No matter what is happening in your world, you make this next step your entire life. For it is. And that is one of the insights into the meaning of life, to be happy.

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