Member Polls and Surveys.
Who Am I poll
Bowie Poopathy AL Muniandy
to kundalist
Esteemed members of the list,
I would truly appreciate if you could take this survey and give your insights from your daily life on what you have experienced and how you are living. The questions are intended to ascertain our original intended purpose on this earth.
I am very keen to understand if Kundalini activation aligns us to our true purpose / nature.
Question:
1. Who am I?
2. Where did I come from? (Not ethnic heritage)
3. Why am I here? (Purpose)
4. What can I do? (Direction)
5. Where am I going? (Not just eternal life, but the next 10, 20 years)
This could be tough for some of us as others might give some bombastic revelation but please be honest and if you don’t really know or haven’t really thought about it than please also reply as such.
I welcome your feedbacks. Thanks.
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1. Who am I?
There are several answers to this question, as it is very vague. I'd say my full name, but I don't want to. I'd give a description of my past, but I'm not even sure that's the kind of answer you're looking for. I'd give a description of my current situation, but alas, I really don't identify myself with it (to a certain extent).
2. Where did I come from? (Not ethnic heritage)
Um, a combination of my father's sperm and my mother's egg?
There's really no other way to answer this question, and it seems like you are implying that there are non-physical origins to the human organism.
3. Why am I here? (Purpose)
As purpose is subjective, we each make our own. I personally haven't decided my purpose, nor do I feel the need to. There's no objective "purpose" to our existence in the greater scheme of things, but every single action we do may have an objective purpose (e.g.- I drink from a water fountain for the purpose of quenching my thirst)
4. What can I do? (Direction)
I don't like talking about my abilities and talents with other people; this is sort of something that others have to tell you, IMO.
I want to go to college, get a degree, and the whole nine yards, but I don't know if that's going to happen.
5. Where am I going? (Not just eternal life, but the next 10, 20 years)
Seeing as one condition of life is that it must die, I don't believe in eternal life. I have absolutely no idea of what is going to happen to me tomorrow, let alone in the next 10-20 years. Honestly, I can't even speculate about this, it would be completely fruitless.
Belief in eternal life is the product of death anxiety, IMO.
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> Question:
> 1. Who am I?
Everything/Nothing/I have Absolutely No Idea
> 2. Where did I come from? (Not ethnic heritage)
No idea. The past just seems like a reflection, a memory, so I'm not even sure I could find an answer to that question.
> 3. Why am I here? (Purpose)
To experience.
> 4. What can I do? (Direction)
Allow myself to be open, experience more, and delve deeper into the ever more mysterious existence. Express, create, live, reflect, simply be still.
> 5. Where am I going? (Not just eternal life, but the next 10, 20 years)
I don't think so much about the future these days, except when fears and desires manifest. But to be honest, I have no idea where I'm going. If I look at how things looked 10 years ago, I couldn't even have conjured up what things would be now in my imagination. Maybe I don't need to know where I'm going. All I do know, is that I'm going. :)
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> This could be tough for some of us as others might give some
bombastic revelation but please be honest and if you don’t really know
>or haven’t really thought about it than please also reply as such.
No bombastic revelations. Everything is so amazingly mysterious and ungraspable, and the deeper I look, the more mysterious and ungraspable it gets, and that's the beauty. Where would the fun be in suddenly realizing you know everything, you got it all pegged and sorted out?
> I welcome your feedbacks. Thanks.
Thanks for your questions. They are a wonderful call to take a peek inside!
Namaste
Gustaf
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2009/9/17 deBunker wrote:
> Am I considered an "esteemed member? I don't know
I like it!
deBunker pretty well answered for me too.
But I cant resist a chance to talk about myself.....
1. Who am I?
My I seems to be getting smaller all the time. I am just another
human, trying to be special and realising that its best to be special
for myself, then those close to me, then to smile for strangers. No
need to be famous after all. Wouldn't mind a chance though....
2. Where did I come from? (Not ethnic heritage)
But I am proud of my ethnic heritage. I am 3 times a conqueror. I was
with the Normans when they conquered Northern France then with them
when they conquered England & with the English when they conquered New
Zealand. Shame I'm such a loser - I let the side down! Buit then I
never slaughtered people to steal their land
Where else did I come from? Evolution - but that's ethnic heritage
again - where else could I have come from? Ah geographical heritage!
Auckland New Zealand. -> hamilton -> Auckland -> London -> Brighton ->
Brussels -> Brighton -> London -> Brighton -> Belfast -> Nottingham
-> Darlington -> Milton Keynes -> Darlington -> Bristol -> ?
Each place I to from the one before. Its a journey
> 3. Why am I here? (Purpose)
dBunker said it all. I make my purpose - to learn how to love better,
to do the spiritual path in my own slow 1/2 baked way - but I only do
the path to love better. I am here to re-produce my species - I didn't
even do that so well - only producing one offspring - but of a high
genetic quality ho ho. Being a cunning human I have learned how to do
the reproductive acts as pleasure and as an act of affection. Not bad
at that and it is sure a purpose to do that - I am driven from my
depths. I am also here to eat to stay alive. Pretty good there too!
> 4. What can I do? (Direction)
I work as a programmer. I intend to teach yoga - I can do it but don't
as I have psychological blocks from the turmoil of my life. I can move
around getting work and getting laid off all the time. I can move to a
new town and sort myself out quite quickly and meet the local
buddhists. I can cook pretty good. I can sometimes make people laugh.
I can ride a bike, race a go-kart pretty good (well cant do that these
days - too poor). I can relate to my daughter pretty good. Cant make
the world a better place at large. i can make a few peoples lives
better by existing.
>> 5. Where am I going? (Not just eternal life, but the next 10, 20 years)
> I have absolutely no idea of what is going to happen to me tomorrow
Lucky you - at my age if I stay neutral each day will be like the one before it! I seek experiences. Become a yoga teacher that is where I am going and what will give me nice new experiences. I don't even know which town I will be living in 3 months time. If the injustice of the child support agency reaches its nasty conclusion I will probably have to move to another country. I might move in with my girl-friend if her kid moves out but what would it do to her if I have to flee
- maybe she would come with me? Such uncertainty! I used to find this stressful - but meditation works!
I am going down the buddhas golden path in a yogi stylee - maybe thats the most important direction.
> Belief in eternal life is the product of death anxiety, IMO.
Not believing in it is a sign of despair!
Only joking!
Realising you dont know seems to be the key! Having to believe is stressful.
Do we get entered into a prize draw for answering?
Keith.
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Il 17/09/09 03.33, Bowie Poopathy AL Muniandy ha scritto:
> Esteemed members of the list, I would truly appreciate if you could take this survey and give your insights from your daily life on what you have experienced and how you are living. The questions are intended to ascertain our original intended purpose on this earth.
> I am very keen to understand if Kundalini activation aligns us to our true purpose / nature.
>
> Question: >1. Who am I?
>2. Where did I come from? (Not ethnic heritage)
3. Why am I here? (Purpose)
>4. What can I do? (Direction)
>5. Where am I going? (Not just eternal life, but the next 10, 20 years)
I would like to give only one answer trying to touch all of the topics. My answer is not absolute, even for myself, I expect that I would give a different one in the future.
I am a drop of water in a river. I found myself running in the stream or resting in a bend. Yet another drop of water in a river, I dreamt of the fields around the river, I tried to imagine to explore them, flying like a drop of water part of of a cloud in the sky. I dreamt the subtle steam I could have been, lost in the universe.
I thought I've always been here since I came out of here. When I am in the river there is no way nor reason to be else than one of the other drops that flows with me. Sometime I've been thinking that I am special since I am conscious of being, but then I realized that it is a beautiful gift, not at all special. I share it with most of the drops I found in my path toward the see.
I do not know if there is a particular reason for me being here, I think there is a reason shared with many other drops to be here. Some of us will hose some garden, others will quench someone's thirst, some will evaporate or simply will be poured into the sea. Can we determine or prescribe what are we going to be? Even if I will not be able to choose my destiny and even if it can take lives to reach the sea, in the meanwhile I have a choice: "I can be". Also, I can be with others who are. I am grateful of the chance that is given to me to recognize that at the same time one can be a drop and the river itself.
All the best
Grifomelo.
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> Question:
> 1. Who am I?
A person subject to the human condition.
A spirit with endless potential and understanding.
> 2. Where did I come from? (Not ethnic heritage)
The eternal 'all at once' cosmic orgasm that 'is'
> 3. Why am I here? ?(Purpose)
To realize my own inner peace and balance.
To do my best given my abilities and circumstances.
To be happy. To reflect well on others.
> 4. What can I do? (Direction)
Be a conduit for awareness thru my chosen path as an artist and help inspire others.
> 5. Where am I going? (Not just eternal life, but the next 10, 20 years)
Hopefully to continue evolving on this planet, learning, changing, adapting, and maintaining my own being and health. The rest is a mystery.
Mike
mjsaf.com
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xtx writes: I finally checked my email after a couple of hours of yoga and meditational bliss. and i like to give it a try on these interesting questions ^^
^^ Question: > 1. Who am I? >
I am a conscious human being who goal is to live in the present moment, to allow experience from all corners of two paradigms-as above so below- to teach myself how to experience, how to open up and how to be vulnerable with who i am in one second to the next-involution of growth is self liberating.
2. Where did I come from? (Not ethnic heritage)
From consciousness that exist in everything, the mandala of truth, i am part of an invisible fire that burns within :)
3. Why am I here? ?(Purpose)
to live, and that is to allow the mental logic to relax the momet it ask its purpose, to fly through the limits.
4. What can I do? (Direction)
i can be who i am, and who i see in being-an actual human BEING not Just a human
5. Where am I going? (Not just eternal life, but the next 10, 20 years)
Right now, sitting in a block road of life, struck in salmon arm b.c i grin and pray n trust the universe to allow my citizenship documents to come so i may pass my test, sing the o'canada song and fly to mexico city..where my belove sits and patienly wait for us to share knowledge, a few bottle of wine and a few kisses to unite the taste of our essence and souls search from within.
A companion in flying is a grateful thing:) And be (money) energy o.k. for i dont feel like it all the time but i shall trust with my soul for i am laerning all that i can to be where i am seeing myself(mexicooooo is magicallll)
Namaste everyone :)-may i be a path to your peace
txt
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> Question:
> 1. Who am I?
Consciousness shaped by forms (physical and non-physical)
> 2. Where did I come from? (Not ethnic heritage)
I am a shard of infinite consciousness... never was and always been.
> 3. Why am I here? (Purpose)
Here is relative.
I like being creative expression.
If you mean in Physical life... to enjoy the mixed soup of humanity (experience different parts of myself in different forms) and to evolve. Part of evolving is getting free of past karma's (debts, agreements, attachment etc.). Eventually that wears thin and we just are. Shaped by our body's and minds but not fighting with our selves. Then what... Surrender to our self or hang out in the soup bowl (or both).
> 4. What can I do? (Direction)
Depends on the universe...
A book here says I have 8 bodies. I was talking to someone recently who suggests I have more than 25 bodies. I don't try to understand it. Each body is its own universe, so to get some idea of what I can do depends on the limitations in and of that universe.
In a physical sense the need to 'do' things is a lot to do with survival and ego...
The world today is turmoil. People are mindless in what they do but they don't may not know alternatives. Moulded into a 'system' from birth and perhaps not peeling the edges of their dramatisation and belief systems back to see that what they are and are doing is nothing but a heap of imprinted behaviours and identifications. being robots.
> 5. Where am I going? (Not just eternal life, but the next 10, 20 years)
In one sense there is no place to go.
In another sense my physical body wants to survive, and I am here so better I enjoy the experience. Agreements and purposes lead me to things. I feel i am guided to things to fulfil, evolve and/or complete myself. Things I don't necessarily see I have within me at this moment.
r
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o0o0o... This looks like fun :-)
1. Who am I?
In the words of one of the greatest mystics that never lived, Popeye the Sailor Man: "I yam what I yam and tha's all what I yam."
2. Where did I come from? (Not ethnic heritage)
>From Emptiness I came, in Emptiness I am, to Emptiness I will return.
3. Why am I here? (Purpose)
Whatever is happening here-now is why I am here.
4. What can I do? (Direction)
As above: be as completely true to myself in the present moment as possible.
5. Where am I going? (Not just eternal life, but the next 10, 20 years)
I'm incapable of such projections. I could be dead tomorrow for all I know—if not in a few seconds from now. It's not worth wasting my time on such fantasies. But you know what? Wherever I am going, I will always be here, now ;-)
Love,
Shunya
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True Purpose - 2
Bowie Poopahty AL Muniandy writes:
After reading your feedbacks on my survey on True Purpose, I was oddly surprised anyone hardly mentioned “GOD”. Really, there are no right or wrong answers or opinions. I admit that we are all unique and special in our own way. The feedbacks given (for me) reflect the stages of growth and maturity. You are answering from your current position or state of mind. This too will change in time.
I was thought “GOD” (in whatever framework you want to take it), was the first link in Kundalini or spiritual activation. In fact, it should be a gift utilised to find our true purpose for existence or coming into being. And that too granted if we are truly noble, pure, disciplined and with other positive qualities.
Maybe, about this time is should admit, where I am coming from:-
I practice Hinduism or was born into it. I am southern Indian of Malaysian nationality residing in Kuala Lumpur. Being from a diverse culture, Malaysia is filled with all the religions of the world (or nearly). I have been a seeker for such a long time. Experimenting with everything that comes across my path.
You will be glad to know, I have finely found peace, when I have found God!
Ask me the right questions and we can grow together towards …
Gustaf Grefberg responds:
Thanks for your survey!
I love these things.
From what I understand, in India, the word God is still much alive. In many countries in the west however, it has become overused, and deadened. Many who become spiritually awakened here (not all of course) avoid the word God because it has become burdened with so many concepts, and more than anything else, so much judgement. An angry man in the sky dishing out punishments.
I sometimes use the term Goddess, since I'm very devoted to the divine embodied in feminine qualities. But sometimes I prefer to not use any word at all, because in the end, I can't describe the experience. It's beyond concepts. God, Goddess, Brahma or infinity can only be pointers, that help me look in a certain direction. I'm everything (God/Goddess) and I'm nothing (Buddhism) It's all the same to me.
For you, the word God represents this wonderful realization within you, and for that I salute you, and I feel much joy in my heart! If you look at the survey again, you may find that many of us share the exact same thing, we just happen to use different words for it. For me it is Goddess or that I'm simply nothing. (It's when I feel that I am nothing that Goddess fills every fibre of my being) Grifomelo described it as "I am a drop of water in a river" Mike described it as "A spirit with endless potential and understanding." Rich said " Consciousness shaped by forms". To me, all the same thing.
Another thing from my own experience, and from most I know, is that during the Kundalini process, for many, old concepts of spirituality are shattered, and words about them can change or become highly individual. For those with a real bhakti temperament like you, it can instead become deepened, and filled with a wondrous richness that you never experienced before. Before my awakening, I lived in a world where all I saw were people either preaching about God with empty hearts, or mindlessly droning about scientific tenets. I had no real interest for either. Instead I have learned to use the words and concepts that work best in the situation, I have no attachment for or against them. I love singing Kirtans, and I feel joy singing for Shiva, Kali, Durga, Krishna, Jesus or simply the trancendental Om. I just fall into it!
Namaste
Gustaf
