What is our life purpose? What is our spiritual life purpose? How can we balance our effort towards well-being with our spiritual surrender? This episode maps two paths: The "horizontal path" has its survival needs, daily responsibilities, self care, and right effort toward well-being and wellness, and this is perhaps our human life purpose: survival as a movement away from pain and toward pleasure, and thriving in well-being. (Though we can get caught in pleasure-seeking and pain avoidance). 

Then we have the "vertical path", and this is our spiritual life purpose. Here we move from suffering to enlightenment. The key of walking this path is knowing and accepting that both pain and pleasure together walk us up this path. Now we are not trying to run from pain towards pleasure but instead to take both pain and pleasure as our teachers and as steps towards something greater than both: full peace when we are neither avoiding nor grasping but trusting and including and being included in all.

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To visualize this, consider 4 quadrants in an XY axis:

- The x axis is the wellness path that goes from pain on the left to pleasure on the right.

- The y axis is the enlightenment path that goes from suffering below to enlightenment above. 

- Note that as we walk the enlightenment path, we experience both pain to the left of us and pleasure to the right of us, equally, as we walk up the path. (You can also visualize a wave going up the y axis sometimes veering left (pain experiences) and sometimes veering right (pleasure experiences) but always ultimately going upward.

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1:13 - The Path of Wellbeing

4:44 - The Path of Enlightenment

6:39 - Pain vs Suffering: The Role of Blame

11:12 - Both Paths Together

15:04 - What Do You Really Want?

19:24 - How to Walk the Path of Enlightenment?

22:57 - LIfe's Promise

24:01 - The Spiral up Towards Enlightenment

26:35 - Personal Will vs God's Will

29:49 - Life Purpose, Well-Being Path

34:22 - Life Purpose, Enlightenment Path

37:40 - Final Conclusion: Bringing it All Together

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