The mundane existential drudgery and monotonality of life....
is our lot. Adventure and interests that seem to spark now and 
then being but the modulations and the prolongations on this 
basic tonic of drone that just goes on endlessly ....like a lazy
dragonfly nonchalantly flitting over a sultry pond on a warm 
afternoon with naught to worry it, hurry it, or disturb it ....

No matter where you go, at every turn, every peek, every look 
you are exactly where you have always been ...
... nothing has changed.

What are you trying to become?
Where do you want to go?
What do you want to achieve?
There is only ME which has not gained, achieved, become 
anything  but  ME. 
So who is this ME that has not become more or less through 
all the experiences of my life?
But IS  - unchanging, unmodified, undignified.
Who is the experiencer? Who experiences?
If experiences touch not the Core of who I AM
who then is it who experiences?
The compulsion to life, to experience, is for whom? 
Comes from whither? 
Serves who? Whose agenda?

Are we here to just sit still, in silence and attain that ME
through negating experiences but the one experience of 
at-one-ment? 
Isn't that a contradiction of life itself.
Life wants to experience
I want to exit it
Life says DO
I say BE STILL
Quite contrary....

It doesn't make sense...

The spiritual practice of at one ment is to merge in consciousness 
with the ME that is not perturbed, disturbed, modified by outward
experiences. It is to shift consciously from a ruffled outer self to 
the unruffled inner Self. It is not to cease experiences but to not 
be affected by the ups and downs of the experiences that one goes 
through life. To move from the constant yo-yoing of life to one of
unconcerned nonchalance - to a still, witnessing of life as it is lived.

It is a technique of stilling the outer life to experience the inner 
life of which we know naught till we experience it. Much is said 
of the inner experiences that we are capable of but are oblivious to
because of our mesmerized fascination, addiction to and lack of 
control over outer events. 

Through spiritual practice we master our response to and take 
control over our reactions to the outer world. We are not at the 
mercy of the world, we choose how we respond to (as opposed 
to react to) life events. Through this mastery we awaken to the 
whole-ness that we are inter-dimensionally instead of being locked
into the outer world by our senses. 

Spiritual work in a sense is a freeing of ourselves from the sensory 
imprisonment of our bodies. From  being a slave to our bodies and 
bodily needs to a mastery of our bodies and experiencing that ME
is not our bodies; to know that ME is unmoving, unchanging, 
ever peaceful and joyful and is not the experiences of the bodies.

It is not about this or that is right; both are existentially correct.
Spiritual work is to help us understand that we are more than just
physical beings. It is about discovering our true selves, our true nature 
and attributes, THAT WE ARE MORE THAN THE SUM TOTAL 
OF OUR PARTS.That we are both spiritual and physical beings. 
At this moment we are spiritual beings having a physical experience. 

These techniques help free us from our forgetfulness of who we are. 
As a result of this forgetfulness we have limited ourselves till we have 
imprisoned ourselves in this deathtrap of the physical realm and are 
on a ferris wheel of birth and death on and on ... stop and know I can 
get out of this limitation I have co-created on this planet.
But I have to work at it diligently....

Which brings me back to the basic question:
What is the purpose of it all? 

Which is another story entirely
No one quite knows the answer to that one!