Posted on April 15, 2024

SPIRITUAL JOURNEY TO SUCCESS AND THE PATHWAY

Triangle Nature of Success

Right Thing - Right Time - Right Place

It’s quite hard to understand how there is too much sunlight on some parts of the earth while the north or south poles are freezing. There is no life that even exists in some other parts of Earth. Cosmic spiritual cultivation is a work that requires an understanding of reality and practical conduct that will bring results and attainment.

Commonly, the success pattern happens in everyday life, in every creation, in nature, and in every walk of life. For instance, when you start to form life even before becoming a little baby, it’s already the start of a success. When you were tiny cells conceived in your mother's womb with the purpose of life and happiness, everything had to satisfy those conditions for your mother to conceive you. When you are born, you will need time to grow and be cared for by your parents or caretakers, and those are the right conditions for you to grow until you can take care of yourself.

When you take a greater look at our own Earth, which is able to harbor life today because it has been through all the right conditions and life purposes of the cosmic spiritual nature, As I mentioned before, Earth is just in its all-right and perfect conditions, stable in the cosmic life zone that enables life to create itself through time until our very own civilization today. It’s the Earth’s cultivation and evolution in cosmic spiritual nature.

In life, when you grow up, in every walk of life, from growth, study, and work to spiritual cultivation, all actions are needed to fulfill those success conditions, one way or another, for them to happen in your life. Those are the basic drives and foundations for success. Reincarnation concept of endless life circle belief: in such circumstances, whatever comes, it will just come, and we just have to accept it. Even though this is true, life is not always like that. For the larger picture, we need to plan things in a frame of time in our lives to have a better vision of work and results.

As a matter of fact, timing is the answer to everything in our lives. Just a simple example of the importance of time: when we talk about loan interest, you would understand how serious the interest payment is if a loan is ever taken by you. You would be in trouble if you were not able to pay an interest due on time, or over time, your interest would be added to your principal, multiply from time to time, and become a bigger debt. Everything has its time. Time is always changing, but to succeed, we need to plan well ahead for the changes so we will be more appropriately prepared for everything that might come.

Time has become extremely important in our society. Time changes, and people change. Even lovers who love each other live for life; they promise each other to meet one life after another, but after sometimes living together, everything changes. They will no longer care about each other anymore; they will fight each other; they will curse each other; they will even beat each other; and finally, they may just separate; in some worse cases, they may even kill one another. Everything is impermanent, and so time is also impermanent.

However, time is an evolutionary force that brought us from a very simple life cell to an advanced and intelligent species as we are now. As time passes, our society is also advancing, as is spirituality. Today, Spiritual Religion is advancing to Cosmic Spirituality, the ability to understand reality and our larger surroundings as sacred in their spiritual nature; your cosmic spiritual cultivation is where and what you are taking refuge from and in. Hence, understanding the right time is important in everyday action; in whatever you do, the right time is an important factor in your success.

To be successful in cosmic spiritual cultivation, cultivators must take serious consideration into their daily actions in the most mindful fashion to maximize their efforts. Every action must be considered to fulfill the four basic fundamentals, which are: Right Time, Right Place, Right Subject and Right Spiritual Purpose. 

Right Time

Righteous Time That Assembles the Most Appropriate and Precious Opportunity For An Action To Get Done With The Best Result And Wisely

In the cosmos, there is no real time that may be right or wrong, but if anything moves in the vast cosmos, there will be times for it. Here on Earth and where we live, there will always be time that counts for each specific value frame that gives the time concept to determine duration for our every action with or without our will in the participations.

Time and place have very different definitions in our cultures. Timelines and destinations are interconnected to support an action. Though timing values in western and eastern societies are often different in each culture's perceptions, In the west, timing value is based on a straight timeline, while often in the east, timing is a circle of life and death interconnected and repeating itself. For instance, in Thailand, time is considered a circle, nonstop. Years ago, I had thought about the Thai circle time, even though people said that it may reflect an indiscipline of timing, while in the west, people think time is a straight line.

Though you may believe that time is uniform, it is not. Even though we all live on the same planet, we all have different timelines. The time in the US, Asia, and Europe are all different at the same moment. Even in the US, we all have different times. Eastern time is 2 hours behind central time, and western time is 1 hour ahead of central time. Thus, to conduct a successful business and contact your loved ones over a large distance, you need to be mindful of this factor. For instance, while living in Houston, the central time zone, I have friends and relatives in the western US who are two hours behind; sometimes they call me around midnight here, which is usually my bedtime, while it is still early for them. I would be too tired and in no mood to talk at that time, as it would disturb my sleep. Unless it is an emergency or urgent matter, it would be different.

In our modern time, time seems to be the most valuable asset that determines everything, everyone, who or which is different from one another from different perspectives in our society, like beauty, ugliness, happiness, suffering, emptiness, success, failure, rich, poor, healthy, sick, young, old, even death of all differences that exist on Earth from time to time. In society, business at the right time not only associates with opportunities but also destruction and, at last, evolution. The timing mechanism of our world determines its operation, progression, and development. For instance, as the Russian-Ukraine war has ravaged the global economy, inflation becomes another war that many central banks have been fighting with through interest rate hiking which is also the path to self-inflict the economies. Both the physical and inflation wars will be short-lived in a few years, but they wiped out trillions of dollars in capital and physical assets built for centuries, leaving millions of people in danger and even dying, and soon the world will have a new order.

Time Often Seems Endless, And It’s Sometimes Too Limited That One Can Never Feel Having Enough for Joyful Time While For Others Too Much While In Sorrow

There is a verse that says, "The early bird will get the worm". It’s to say that the first person who takes the opportunity will be successful. In business, when you have a business idea, you must understand the market opportunity in time and capture it before it becomes mature and full of competition. A right business mind gets to see and take the earliest opportunity when the market competition is still empty or weak, so it can enjoy the potential growth easier and more profitable than when the competition is harsher.

It’s also true for a cosmic spiritual cultivator who starts his own spiritual cultivation journey as early as possible, where he will have more time, health, and opportunities to succeed and attain spiritual realization and enlightenment than those who turn to spiritual journeys at a late age when their time, health, and opportunities are severely limited based on their nature.

Hence, it can be hard to tell when it's the right time and when it's not when we don’t have all the control. However, as cosmic spiritual cultivators, we always try our best to be mindful in every action that will bring the best results to ourselves, others, and our surroundings. To be mindful, we must understand all realities in our environment, and time is an important factor of the minute, the moment that will land us into an action that we wish to carry out at any specific time that we think it’s best in our own knowledge and planning up on so it will be consistent to a larger time frame of actions and as a whole to give us the most healthy and harmonious life to prosperity and success. For instance, as a serious cultivator, you must always try your best in your own study and practice so you can learn in a modest fashion with the best effort, and the very simple thing in life that you do every day is sleep. For me, meditation is best done in the early morning when I get up.

Hence, you must know when you must sleep at night and when you must get up early in the morning without trouble, so you can meditate enough before you start anything else in your working day. You must maintain a good sleep schedule so that your body can rest enough at night and maintain good health throughout the day.

Let’s say you want to meditate for 2-3 hours in the morning and sleep for 6 hours at night. So, it’s best that you try to arrange and finish all you need to do during the day until mid-night, when you need to be in bed no later than 12:30, and you must get up around 6 to 6:30 am at the latest and start your meditation immediately. You should not drag your sleep schedule, or else you can’t get up early in the morning as you don’t have enough sleep at night. In both cases, if you sleep late and get up late, which will affect your physical health, you will have a bad day of sleepiness and tiredness. You won’t be able to complete your routine meditation, and its quality can turn bad, which also affects other activities throughout the day. Your day instead turns ineffective or even a failure. Though you would always wish to have more time to read, learn, and practice, we all only have 24 hours a day, and it’s no exception. Then, you must arrange your time and schedule in the most appropriate and scientific mode of living so as to maintain your wellbeing and a healthy lifestyle that is sustainable, which you can cultivate more efficiently and effectively.

Timing is an important factor that can determine the success or failure of an action, but it’s not the only factor that will bear the brunt. Other factors are also extremely important and are interconnected and interdependent with one another for the final fruit. They are the place and subject associated with the action and its spiritual purpose to happen in the very first place. In business, it is the same: when you have a business idea, you must understand the market opportunity in time and capture it before it becomes mature and full of competition.

In spirituality, time is very important. You must start cultivating early, when you are younger and full of energy, since you will need to go through harsher practices that require the strength of a youth. However, at all times, mindfulness is a core practice in every moment that you become aware of. As I always say, in living a spiritual life, you won’t live in any future or past but in the very moment, and so cultivating can be done in every moment that you live.

Right Place

A Righteous Place That Assembles the Most Appropriate and Precious Opportunity For An Action To Get Done With The Best Result And Wisely

The right place, location, or setting is another important factor interdependent with an action time—when and where it appears or happens that appropriates and leads to its success. In the business world, the right location will determine a successful business where it can have access to a central area where people and other businesses can easily contact it and create opportunities. Even for religious organizations, let's not talk about the spiritual cultivation attainment, just the physical business of the operation and the more convenient location in the community, business area, or downtown. Those will allow easier access for more people to come into its worship places, which in turn will bring in more donation revenue to generate better operation and development of the services themselves. Even at the right location, the services or physical products offered should also target those who have the most potential, such as through segmentation of target markets, in which you may decide who are most appropriate, most appealing, and most compatible with your own service or offering.

All services and products wouldn’t make much sense until they reached targeted consumers in a quantity that could satisfy all investment costs to produce and maintain them and successfully deliver them.

However, not all people are suitable and match your own offering, so it’s better to stream some specific targets so that you can better allocate services and not waste your resources, which are better spent elsewhere more appropriately and can bring more accomplishment. Customer segmentation will save time and resources, which will lead to success. For instance, a few months ago, I went on a shopping trip for groceries at an Asian supermarket near my house. My family and I went to a food court close by to have lunch, and then a lady walked over to my table and introduced her new insurance business office nearby to me. It was just a minute walk from our table, and as I had some thoughts about purchasing a new policy, we just dropped by her small office, which was just renovated and looked neatly.

Then, soon after, I purchased a new policy from her. That sounds so simple. I met her at just the right time, in the right place where her office was located in the shopping mall where many potential customers as I was. If her office wasn’t just right where we met, it would be a lower opportunity or even none for such our dealing, and there she was, right where I was passing by, and she offered me just the right thing, and with my own spiritual purpose, to purchase a policy to minimize the impermeant and uncertainty of life for our future. And all just happened successfully and smoothly when all conditions were met.

Then, a few days later, the insurance lady dropped by my house to deliver an insurance policy for me. I was asking her what her insurance actually does for me. She said “there were more benefits to the policy conditions that I gave than at other companies”. But she didn’t give me the answer that I asked. Then I took her to see the triangle and explained to her the base success conditions that she should take into account and apply to her business.

She just opened her insurance office in a nearby Asian supermarket, where I met her on a shopping trip. I told her that I already had an idea to buy a second insurance policy a while back; that was the right time and the reason that she got business from me faster and easier without explaining and luring me into buying a policy like she had been doing to potential customers. It happened because her shop was in a good location where many shoppers were passing in the supermarket, and I was just passing by after doing the shopping.

In management, putting people in the right place according to their abilities is extremely important for success, as it gives people the opportunity to grow, be creative, be happy at work, and contribute to the organization. As a cosmic spiritual cultivator, however, you must also be mindful of where and when you would act, perform, or execute an action that is appropriate and can create the best result, bring the best benefit to all sides, and not create bad karma.

Back to the spiritual world, for instance, Buddhist monks and nuns should never sleep over a stranger's private place alone; they should seek out a temple to stay over in their best effort so they can maintain their practices in the utmost manner.

A woman or a spiritual cultivator should never walk at night alone unnecessarily. They should know where the best place is to be at an appropriate time. There was a story back to the Buddha’s time when a nun on her begging trip was walking alone in the early morning to a nearby community, and on her new way that morning, she encountered a man who found her too attractive to him, and he offered her to be his wife and a good life that he would take care of her.

He told her that she had a very sexy face and two beautiful eyes that looked just like two shinning diamonds. She would be his perfect wife, and he would take care of her body with pleasure. Then the nun responded calmly and politely that she was a nun and had made her own vow of celibacy for her spiritual journey, so she couldn’t accept his offer. However, if he insisted, she would just take her one eyeball to give him, so he just let her continue her spiritual journey. The man heard that he felt frightened and let her go.

This story shows us how committed a spiritual cultivator the nun was, who was willing to sacrifice her own body part just to be able to keep her vow and cultivation path solid, and she won the ignorant and greedy man.

However, as a nun, she had entered the wrong place on her begging trip. She might have taken some shortcut when she encountered a man alone who almost endangered her life. She should choose carefully where she could come and how to get there safely. For instance, she should choose the main road where there are more people around and be accompanied by someone on her trip.

Since learning and experimenting in life is important for a cosmic spiritual cultivator, he must always know where his stand is, as the nun above says, where he is seeking refuge from, and so where he is taking refuge. Our society is advancing, and with time, there are so many religions that have grown into many huge organizations, as well as their psychosocial and teachings, which are also advancing. Many teaching books and teaching media are adding up with multiple explanations and ideologies, which are easily found in either paid or free content in the market, social media, and religious distribution outlets.

One who still has not grown strong enough in cultivation power needs to be careful and selective when reading content that may not brainwash oneself into delusional promises of fast spiritual attainment, delusional salvation, and an unrealistically fast cultivation path to some spiritual greedy benefits... Which could cause damage to one’s mind's long-term future perception, which may just delay his own true cosmic spiritual journey.

That is to say, cosmic spiritual cultivation is a way to find out the truth to understand the reality of life, and on the journey, a spiritual cultivator will encounter so much more experience, delusional promises, many desires, and choices, of which he will understand the essence within and their true impermanent nature at the end.

Nevertheless, one ought not to fall into such delusional greed, crave, and get stuck on the path but rather take those experiences as a lesson to learn spiritual purposes and transform them into one's own wisdom, enlarging spiritual enlightenment.

Right Thing

Righteous Subject, Work That Assembles the Most Appropriate and Precious Opportunity For An Action To Get Done With The Best Result And Wisely

The right thing, the right subject, the right product, or the right action are important interdependent factors that lead to success. Hence, this right measurement can facilitate and provide the opportunity for one to carry out action with the best results.

In everyday communal interaction, you all need to make your own choices to think right, act right, and be right, at least in your own understanding. Then, you have to exercise the utmost mindfulness through freedom to choose your right attitudes and your right actions by effectively controlling your emotions.

You must choose love over hate and forgiveness over seeking revenge. You can choose to learn and grow from your mistakes in order to improve and perfect yourself. Keep in mind that even a crisis can bring out the best opportunity in the worst scenario, which you can learn from and evolve from.

This means that in all that we do, we strive for competency, develop our conscience by focusing on and considering ethics, and nurture our compassion for others trying to make the world a better place, especially for those in great need. Which ethics are taken to be well-founded standards of right and wrong that prescribe what humans ought to do, usually in terms of rights, obligations, benefits to society, fairness, or specific virtues…

Henceforward, we always want to do the right thing at all times in our lives, but things never seem to go in the direction we expect. That doesn’t mean you should give up or abandon; instead, you should always keep in mind the impermanent nature of things that will never stay in the same place or in the same condition.

Things always change, and so you must pay your best effort to learn and improve whatever you are doing—your business, your products, or your skills—that will help you have the right and suitable business, work, or experience according to the current environment and requirements. Continuously evolving will help you keep any subject that you pursue successful.

The Mindfulness of Right Emotion, Empathy, and Compassion

Mindfulness is an important and distinctive instrument to transform knowledge into wisdom and enlarge your spiritual path. Practicing mindfulness involves living in the moment and observing your own human experience through all five of your senses and emotions. As we know, emotion is always a part of human mentality. Emotion is relatively interdependent on conditions that arise, and understanding your reality is an essential practice to help render right and mindful emotion in our actions. Without truly understanding your own emotions, you can easily leave your spirit under the control of your ego. For instance, hate is a very strong negative emotion born out of fear. When you feel unsafe, you either go into defensive or fight, flight, or freeze mode. You may develop the mindset that resources are lacking during a time of turmoil, so you hoard things and isolate yourself from people.

You join with others who are afraid, so you’re not confronted with information that conflicts with your point of view. This is not the right spiritual mindfulness and may eventually lead you into trauma. However, on the other hand, if you can practice patience and try to understand your true self and the circumstances that you encounter, you will be able to develop the right mind, which will enable you to spread love.

Differences in mindful judgment become motivating instead of threatening. When you are able to build your own compassion based on wisdom, you will be able to look outward for new resources, information, and problem-solving strategies. This wisdom transformation will help you to correctly resolve problems with yourself, others, and the environment that you encounter.

After all, you will be more confident in coping and responding with the right mindset if you have developed skills in your life with wisdom and a strong spiritual sense of empathy, which means being able to consciously relate to others with your own life experiences. This creates a new level of patience and compassion toward other people that may lead to more helping behaviors to relieve other people’s suffering and to right-response actions in everyday interaction.

Being right and good

Between "right" and 'good' are the two basic terms of moral evaluation. In general, something is 'right' if it is morally obligatory, whereas it is "good' if it is worth having or doing and enhances the life of the conscientious. If you are conscientious, you will strive to do what's right and to carry out your sense of duty, and you will find your great willingness to do so responsibly spiritually. Then, you will realize that spirituality and action are not just compatible; they are and must be consistent. As under spiritual purpose and graced guidance, even if you will have to go through a difficult and challenging life, from the cultivation of your actions, you will evolve and become a sacred part of the very much mother Earth and the larger spiritual comic nature.

By doing the right thing, it will lead you to peace in your judgment. Doing the right thing generally means making decisions that are not only based on your own personal needs, expand your popularity, or enforce your personal beliefs. It means doing what is best for the greater or common good.

If others perceive you in a certain way, you want to keep in mind what others will say about you. Before carrying out the decision, try researching, consulting, asking around, and trusting people to see if what you think is truly the right thing to do. Don't ignore advice; expand your knowledge on the matter.

We are all happier when we do the right thing, which helps us overcome difficulties. Doing the right thing will always bring more positive energy into our lives. With the same mindset, wrongdoing will only attract problems into your life. It’s the spiritual cosmic law of karma; the person who chooses to do the wrong thing doesn't realize that he'll be paying the price for his action one way or another. It always comes back.

Being able to trust our own intuition is the best guide for knowing if we are doing the right thing. It can be hard to admit it or access that quiet but steady inner voice, but it is there. The choice is yours. It is never too late; you can choose and re-choose.

Spiritual Purpose

The Core Essence Inside the Triangle of Rights Is the Spiritual Purpose

Spiritual purpose is often construed as the meaning of life, and how a person lives his life with some meaningful purpose is more than just that. Encountering a spiritual purpose is not so much about finding the meaning of life;

It is not only about becoming the best thing about yourself but also about going beyond the worldly mind to attain cosmic spiritual wisdom and enlightenment as you go through spiritual life cultivation. A spiritual purpose at a very basic level is to establish a foundation of values, principles, and beliefs that give meaning to life and then use them to guide the decisions and actions you take. After all, a spiritual mindset will help you recognize that your role in life has greater value than what you do every day. It can free you from dependence on material things and help you understand the greater purpose of your life. At the same time, the spiritual resolve of your own action can bring much confidence and benefit your cultivation path in coping with change and uncertainty.

Societal Norms and Perception

Naturally, we live in an advanced society, no matter who we are. A societal norm of success in the very beginning for an individual starting to enter life as an independent adult is financial stability; seeking safety from the world and its trials is our life-time pursuit. We try to save enough money. Thus, a respectable, stable job often becomes our aim in life. Thereafter, we go on to seek security such as housing, car acquisition, societal acceptance, and recognition, then start a family, and then shift more priority to other higher desires and comforts. Marrying into a "good" family, choosing a partner with substantial income, amassing power, and/or joining clubs, communities, gangs, or other groups to protect us in an uncertain world

All these wants and needs keep shifting instantaneously in life. All along, we try to accomplish our lives so as to become happy through having security and recognition. Nonetheless, driven by such ego, ambition, and greed, individuals amass wealth and goods that are much more than their needs without spiritual involvement every so often. After living in the materialistic world for too long, worldly people often argue that success is the creation of empires for their children and earning big names in society. This thinking never lets the desires, attachments, and lust for money and power diminish their entire lives. Such individuals are hardly at peace.

As they do not have a spiritual view, their happiness will be short-lived and will surely get lost in this world of materialism and power addiction. Money will not last forever; high posts will be lost; egos will clash and break up relationships; health will deteriorate; and death will take them away in a miserable and unsatisfied state. Most of the time, their desires would not be fulfilled, bringing them back to the miseries of the cycle of birth and death again and again. They will surely get tired of this miserable situation. Then, they keep hankering for more and more, eventually causing greater damage to themselves and the world surrounding them.

In all these, only worldly aims and material and power aims are visible; such individuals have their own worldly agenda, as if confined to this level of essential acquisition of goods and services for a livelihood only, it would not be spiritually beneficial. They are leading an aimless life without realizing its true spiritual purpose.

Cosmic spiritual ingenuity

On the cosmic spiritual path, every cosmic spiritual cultivator has an aim in spiritual life according to his needs and circumstances at any specific time that arises.

On the path, there is always actual higher and more valuable energy to actions will come than one original aim for. Spiritual purpose in success goes beyond and is more specific than just physical materialism; it’s more about a meaningful, worthwhile experience that a cultivator commits to for the purpose of enlarging his spiritual wisdom from the action. Experiment and experience from the physical world will eventually benefit in the spiritual sense.

It is also much about looking for and creating a meaningful connection environment with something greater than oneself, which can habituate positive results to enhance success and wisdom, such as peace, wonder, satisfaction, gratitude, and acceptance.

As I mentioned above, success in the triangle requires the basic tri-factors of right time, right thing, and right place. Then the fourth force needed to be satisfied as an umbrella of the whole three factors of such success which, lastly and most importantly, is the spiritual purpose. It carries out the work that can satisfy his action in the utmost sacred cultivation way to improve oneself in spiritual wisdom that brings no harm to others or themselves.

By means of spiritual experience, it is extremely important for a cosmic spiritual cultivator who is on a spiritual journey to learn and experience life to gain true wisdom from his own experience after time and time learning from teaching from his master.

However, one ought to build his own inner quality, competency, and persistent practices to truly see his own spiritual purpose and bear fruit from his own actions. At the same time, to be a cosmic spiritual cultivator, you will certainly have to live in a world of people where you can learn, experience, and transform that knowledge into spiritual wisdom. Consistently with this, you have learned that every action that you encounter or plan requires all those factors to fulfill the triangle aspects of the right place, right time, and right thing to be successful.

For instance, I am writing this book with the spiritual purpose of passing down knowledge, experience, and courage to all potential spiritual cultivators of all times and to future reincarnations of myself who will have fewer obstacles to finding the pathway and to bring more practicality and ease in practice for realization attainment. The higher factor that powers the right action should be seen and determined in advance through its purpose in your decision-making for your spiritual evolution.

Hence, you must understand what you truly want to explore, understand, experience, and learn from time to time. The action that you may carry out, which should benefit your spiritual wisdom and spiritual enlightenment and may also bring benefit to other people in general, may not pose any damages or sufferings to anyone or yourself at greater cost. Even though spiritual purpose also requires your spiritual mindfulness competency, which can give you a clear vision and show you a clearer goal and objective that you wish to experience, you will still achieve a result.

Strengthening Spiritual Purpose for Success Through Practice

Determine your spiritual purpose

· Practice Open-mindedness

Another part of having empathy is practicing tolerance for others. To be more tolerant, put yourself in their shoes to try to understand another point of view. You can also practice tolerance by asking another person to explain their beliefs or perspective. Try to look at your similarities with others rather than your differences; chances are, you have more in common than not.

At the end of the day, your spiritual purposes are up to you to determine. Spiritual purposes are any intentions that you have related to discovering your purpose and living a meaningful life. It doesn’t matter if you follow the teachings of Christ, Buddha, or are not religious at all. Setting a spiritual purpose helps you connect to your spiritual side and gain clarity on the actions of your life journey.

Back to the business world, a more materialistic world that people are more interested in as it’s everyone’s life. So, we are talking about what you actually believe in your business or what you are doing for your job would benefit people in particular. It’s more than what your family believes or what most of your community believes. It’s all about what you believe in and what you are producing. What collection of truths, guides, and observances leads you to feeling a sense of peace in what you do, which encourages you to live a kind and welcoming life that fills you with wonder and joy?

Let’s talk about the insurance lady I met a few months ago in the supermarket, where I purchased an insurance policy from her. As I mentioned about the benefits, though she was able to give me more benefits in the insurance policy, instead of just answering how better conditions inside the policy were more favorable, she could have told me how peace of mind would be assured to me in the future that I could be well prepared in case I fell ill and was not able to work, as life is impermanent and so is our health. We never know when we will get sick or die. Her spiritual purpose in selling insurance policies to people is actually a high-merit way to leverage our bad karma, which would always be ready to come to anyone in time when it comes; no one can eventually predict its due time.

It's always acceptable to re-evaluate your spiritual goals every so often to see your progress and determine how far you are from reaching them. Your spiritual journey may last a lifetime, as it may continue to evolve with new life experiences. Even though change won’t happen overnight, but by making small better changes in daily life for the improvement, you can work up to reaching the spiritual goals that you establish.

· Practice Selflessness

Practicing selflessness is an important road map to enabling your clear spiritual view and mind, as it is critical to your success in any endeavor to help control the ego self, but without a selfless mind and focusing specifically on your spiritual purpose, with worldly action, you can’t expect your actions to be automatically spiritually fulfilled once your other needs are met.

· Being Grateful

You may go through periods of time in your life when you’re oblivious to all of the positive things that you have or fail to proactively consider them. There are so many ways that you can practice gratitude, and being grateful is quite possibly the topmost spiritual practice. Having gratitude helps us recognize value, dignity, and worthiness in everything, so you may actually consider it a remedy for many forms of suffering. Because of this, by simply practicing gratitude can be its own form of spirituality.

· Strengthening Faith

Spiritual growth requires building strength in faith every once in a while, regardless of what "faith" means to you. For instance, rather than putting pressure on your cultivation by staying up late worrying about whether your lessons must be learned as much as possible, you just need to relax a bit, ensure your learning effort is always straightforward, and then just let your plan of execution evolve on its own. Take a leap of faith and believe that you will be provided for.

This might be a harder question to answer than you think, even if you’re devoted to a specific faith. And, if you do follow an organized religion, there are certainly going to be some lessons that resonate with you more than others.

It’s important to have clarity on the principles that you’re basing your daily life on, because the truth is, you can’t practice your beliefs if you aren’t sure what those beliefs are. Such as karma belief, Buddhism and Hinduism often teach people such beliefs, but others, like Christianity and Islam, are not their general concepts in preaching.

Then, to be able to understand and take the belief into your own spiritual practice, you need to learn, read, research, talk, and share your understanding with other people to fuel your mind with as much information as you can acquire and develop.

Until you’re confident in your true beliefs, that is when they will fully power your own true spiritual purpose.

The spiritual purpose of bearing fruitful physical benefit

In an earlier part of this book, I mentioned that the world was about to enter trouble. I was cautious, but COVID-19 came and affected the whole world. I wasn’t an exception in our human collective to this planetary karma. However, with my own spiritual purpose for respecting life and my own good health, without good health, life is actually becoming a living hell. Then, with an understanding of love and compassion for our human beings, I decided right away to join a vaccine trial after seeing an advertisement on Facebook about it looking for potential volunteers on the COVID-19 vaccine trial. I called the center, and we worked out some arrangements. After a few months, fortunately, I became the first of a few thousand people in the world who received the real Moderna vaccines in the trial before they came into use over a year later, when over a million Americans and many millions of others around the world had died because of the virus attack.

At these times, people were fueling anti-vaccine propaganda that caused more deaths in the general population among those who did not believe in the vaccines as well as the dangerous virus itself. I was happy that I joined the success vaccine as well as upset with those anti-vaccine for their own ignorance that is still bringing deaths, and I still continued to take more vaccines on a regular basis to protect myself.

Nonetheless, on a trip to San Diego in March 2023 to pay a last visit to one of my cousins who passed away quickly within a month in her early age of 43, without prior knowledge about her lymphoma cancer, until a few days later after she was admitted to a hospital for a sinus treatment, a different unrelated surgery caused her death. She has a 20-year-old daughter who is in her second year of college. She didn’t leave much valuable inheritance to the daughter; even a life insurance policy whose benefit would have gone to her daughter would have been a great help for the young orphan girl of both parents. When she was alive, she thought she was healthy and young, and buying life insurance was such a curse for her early death. It’s a common belief among many Asians about buying life insurance. We can see clearly that she didn’t have a spiritual purpose in her impermanent self, and her health and life as a human were fragile and unpredictable even at a young age.

Probably, her health and immunity had deteriorated for some time since she told me in few years before that she was infected with COVID-19 around two - three times prior to her death. We would never know, but COVID-19 is a really troublesome virus for humanity. It has killed ten million people around the world up to the time of this writing.

On the fourth day of my nine-day trip, I developed a flu-like symptom, and that ruined all the joy and peace of the rest of the trip. I got back to Houston, as I was on another new flu vaccine trial for a new combo COVID-19-Flu vaccine for Pfizer, and I needed to inform them about any symptom if it developed. Then I was told that my test was positive for COVID a few days after the visit, during which they drew my blood and took a nose swap. Then I and the trial office staff continued to monitor my symptoms days later until I retested negative.

I recalled the time when I was sick in my hotel in San Diego. I felt like I was in hell when my temperature and fever didn’t leave me alone, then headache, body soreness, fatigue, loss of appetite and taste, phlegm production that stuck my nose, and the worst part was that I lost sleep for two nights, which made me even weaker. Then two weeks later, I still have so much fatigue, my body shaking sometimes for hours.

Though I had four prior COVID vaccine doses over a 2-year period, and the last booster dose was just over four months before, I could still get infected. But probably my symptoms were much milder compared to those of many millions who were killed by the virus, as well as those of infected people who survived the virus without receiving any COVID-19 vaccine. It took me over a week to recover and another week just to get back to a normal state.

After all, I am happy that my spiritual purpose for the vaccine worked out and saved billions of people. I was also able to save myself after a real infection with the virus, though I went through a hard time during my outstate trip in my hotel, and the infection ruined all my fun. My own spiritual purpose and belief in vaccination have brought me a beautiful result and the natural fight of the infection; without it, I would have landed in really bad shape or eventually died like other unfortunate millions.

Still, in early practice, you may establish a set of values, principles, and beliefs that give life meaning to you, in which the evolution principle is taken as an important factor in the path for growth. In spiritual cultivation, that will help the cultivator learn, experience, and grow to transform those experiences into wisdom and enlightenment. Captivating a spiritual purpose is not so much about finding the meaning of life as it is about becoming your best self as you move through cultivation in life.

That includes behaving in a gracious and compassionate manner and striving toward self-actualization. Though it may take time to savor life and flourish in areas such as personal competency, relationships, mindfulness, and spiritual awakening, if you paragon yourself for spiritual purpose, you can travel many different pathways. The first step to finding your higher purpose in life is to understand what it is you seek.

Spiritual Purpose Essence

Understanding and Having the Ability to Control the Ego

The entire living spiritual life of cultivation is simply getting to understand our true selves, the physical selves, and the self-egos. That call to action is a need to confront our egoic view of the world, and to be able to have a clear view, we need an inner revolution of cosmic spiritual mind to overcome egoic consciousness. We will be hardly seeing our true spiritual self while we aren’t able to see ourselves as separate between the physical body and the sacred spiritual energy body; that is called spiritualization.

Spiritualization is the essence of spirituality, which enables us to see and confront the collective experience that is real and to dedicate our lives to transforming ourselves and our world so that we can truly understand impermanent nature and reality, develop compassion for one another, and open ourselves to new learning and new ways of being.

The self-ego

The ego self naturally shapes personality through experience and collective transformation, which creates different ego level, and may be an obstacle to spiritual cultivation. Every human being's upbringing, socialization, and life events can be overwhelming and sabotage our most cherished beliefs in spiritual realization and sacred cosmic spiritual nature. Since you cannot experience the level of subconsciousness and energy body until you realize your own spirit body, the ego self takes on the great job of acting itself as your own. When you are anxious, defensive, and afraid of being dominated, you are trapped in nonsensical, life-destroying traditions that squelch your cultivation and even your ability to spiritual experiment.

Often, humans are trained to be prejudiced or just self-protective, and when we promote and repeat ideas and beliefs that are obviously destructive, they hang out in our heads because we are afraid of not knowing and because dropping those familiar ideas would threaten our security and our acceptance by society.

The spiritual transformation toward realization is a revolution against egoic thinking and control to build leverage on the neutral view between the spiritual mind and ego self-control. It’s the practice that requires that we rethink everything, from the way we dress to the way we treat our mates, to the spiritual purpose of all works and the production of all possessions, to the way we relate to other genders, religions, sexual orientations, races, and species. Such spiritual view transformation will help lead us in a deep process of self-examination, culling through the debris of our fractured thinking and ignorance.

You can no longer pretend that spirituality is just an inner experience. It is our sacred reality to be go-betweens of higher consciousness in the world and the spiritual cosmic nature. Spirituality is the call to care, to connect with the resources you need to succeed, whether that’s from any sacred entity, another state of higher consciousness, or through your spiritual master that defines your spiritual purpose.

Your spiritual purpose will eventually evolve over time as you go through life experiences, acquiring more wisdom and becoming more competent in thinking and seeing the world from a higher level of spiritual mind.