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What Was I Made For?

Friday, April 19, 2024,

A simple, but very charming and reflective, song by Billie Eilish is titled "What Was I Made For".  Used in the 2023 "Barbie" film, the lyrics, like most of Billie's songs, are quietly spoken in an understated, almost "whispery" tone.  The message the lyrics convey is one of mild confusion at that very high-level question of what is one's purpose?.....what is one supposed to do with one's life?.......what were you made for?

The best way to reduce the troubling and anxiety building question of "what was I made for" is to surrender and extinguish your own will.  Eliminate your own desires as much as you can; "empty" yourself.  This is difficult as the modern world is constantly attempting to fill one's brain/thoughts with ideas and "what-ifs", so finding silence and peace to contemplate one's life is already an up-hill climb (how can I find silence when I have my iphone at my fingertips....it has so many treats for me). 

Religion teaches us that our will, our bodies, ourselves, etc. are inherently flawed and always will be.  Extinguishing our will so we are not full of our own wants/desires is a path towards happiness and an untroubled (or less troubled) mind, body, spirit, life.  What was one made for?  We were made to have mastery over ourselves and be used as tools and vessels of divine will; nothing more.  

Time to begin today's practice....

Part II:

Writing Part II, as always, on my mat having just come out of Savasana/Corpse pose.  A great practice but time to enter the world. What was I made for?  I was made to enjoy my time here on Earth; that is what all of us are made for. 

Namaste

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