Finding Your True Purpose

A man asks how you can go about finding your true purpose in what you do. As a sports coach he also wants to know how he can use the non-dual understanding to help athletes cope better with performance anxiety, the pressures of success and the demands of the ego that takes away the love and enthusiasm for the game.

Rupert suggests that you start with what you love. If you go in that direction, the activity that you engage in will be the means by which you bring your love from inside you into the world. You could convey this whole understanding by discussing with your students what is required of them, mentally and physically, in order to perform at an elite level.

You are teaching them how to lose the ego. And of course, that's what all sports people long for, they long to be in the zone. The zone is the place where you feel the universe is operating through you.

That is the experience that the sportsperson is really aiming for. They're not really aiming to win, what they're really aiming for is to be divested of the ego.