Life Has No Purpose

The most significant thing to remember is that life is not a business. It does not exist for any particular end. It exists for the sheer joy of existing. There is no goal as such. Hence, the moment you have achieved silence, meditativeness, awareness, prayerfulness - and you are capable of living the moment in total abandon - then there is no goal, no end. To live passionately in that moment is a blessing unto itself.

But that's how mind works. Life is not logic; life is not philosophy. It is more like love and less like logic. Do you ever ask why you love, to what end? Do you ever ask why you appreciate a beautiful sunset? Do you ask why the starry nights are beautiful? Why the roses are beautiful?

Life is purposeless. Don't be shocked! The whole idea of purpose is wrong - it is out of greed. Life is a sheer joy, a playfulness, a fun, a laughter, to no purpose at all. Life is its own end; it has no other end. The moment you understand it, you have understood what meditation is all about.


It is living your life joyously, playfully, totally, and with no purpose at its end, with no purpose in sight, no purpose there at all. Just like small children playing on the sea beach, collecting seashells and coloured stones - for what purpose? There is no purpose at all.

Abridged from Zen, Zest, Zip, Zap and Zing, courtesy: Osho International Foundation, www.osho.com