○Success Experience

     When you start to produce results in what you are engaged in, gain skills, achieve numerical evidence of success, and gain recognition, you attract attention, receive praise from those around you, and have your opinions heard. This gives you a sense of purpose and overflowing confidence.

    Significant success experiences are also opportunities to learn the process leading to success, which becomes a valuable asset in life and builds confidence. Even when tackling something different later, having previous success experiences makes it easier to achieve results. This is because you have the confidence that you can do it and you can apply the process to success in your new endeavor.

    However, even if you have a significant success experience, you won't feel that it's the goal of your life. There are just many elements that make you feel good, but it does not eliminate suffering. Still, from that success experience, there is the knowledge that there is no goal of life there. Then, the next thing to think about is what the purpose of life is. As mentioned earlier, the answer lies in no-mind, which exists between the two extremes of happiness and suffering. There is a calm state, free from attachment and suffering. The human ego always wants to gain something, and before you realize it, acquisition can become the purpose of life.