Robot Monk Xian'er

The life purposePurpose, toput in a colloquial way, is the ‘goal’, whichhas to be found and established by oneself.The Great Learningsays, “The way of Great Learning lies in the dissemination ofbrilliant virtues, in showingloving-kindness to ordinary people, and in the pursuit of ultimate goodness.” This is what we call purpose. The purpose of life could be either short- term orlong- term. It could be for this life alone, or for many lives to come.However, no matter it is a long- term or short- term goal, we all need apurpose, a great aspiration to live with a direction and with strength.  Having a purpose in heart, we won’t be swayed by the outside world.We should be fully aware that the outside world will affectus only when we accept and internalize its influence. If we empower our mind,many problems won’t be problemsany more. We should read more biographies of the sages. When we read it, weshall get involved and think, if we were caught in the situations, what wewould think and how we would handle, an