What were some of your previous goals? Did they change over time? Regardless of the extent to which you achieved them, did they not lead to new ones?
To be meaningful, goals must necessarily involve achieving something constructive - i.e. building something new, something which did not exist before. This could be raising a child. Or building a castle. Or translating and marketing something very insightful to a different language zone. Or giving people in faraway lands a feel for everyday lives of people around you.
Or simply finding new and important questions to ask, and enunciating them.
They could involve making the world a better place, but need not. Just making one's own surroundings into a better place can be just as meaningful. But goals we must find; otherwise, what is the point of living?
People in a monastery are just people. Like people everywhere. No different. I tried it. I realized it was just another effed-up closed group drum-circle, like any society.
What were some of your previous goals? Did they change over time? Regardless of the extent to which you achieved them, did they not lead to new ones?
To be meaningful, goals must necessarily involve achieving something constructive - i.e. building something new, something which did not exist before. This could be raising a child. Or building a castle. Or translating and marketing something very insightful to a different language zone. Or giving people in faraway lands a feel for everyday lives of people around you.
Or simply finding new and important questions to ask, and enunciating them.
They could involve making the world a better place, but need not. Just making one's own surroundings into a better place can be just as meaningful. But goals we must find; otherwise, what is the point of living?
People in a monastery are just people. Like people everywhere. No different. I tried it. I realized it was just another effed-up closed group drum-circle, like any society.