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Searching for meaning in life?

Dedbeet

Dedbeet

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Who wants meaning in life will realize how meaningful fear and avoidance are.

Who *doesn't want meaninglessness and hopelessness* will realize how meaningless the search for meaning is, and how hopeless it all is.

Peace...
 
Who wants meaning in life will realize how meaningful fear and avoidance are.

Who *doesn't want meaninglessness and hopelessness* will realize how meaningless
the search is, and how hopeless it all is.

Peace...
 
the meaning of life shouldnt be answered in life as it should be answered in hindsight in the afterlife. you cant find meaning without gathering the observations n information collected over a lifetime. the meaning of life is to live.
 
The meaning is actually love. Love is very meaningful and only thrives when you keep hope alive!
 
"Evil and ignorance are from inattention, and love won't vanquish them."



I dont think im seeing this clear enough but what difference is there between ignorance n inattention??
Both are what happens when you dont realize somethings significance.
The lack of realizing somethings significance is a lack of love.
 
There is no meaning in life. There is meaning in the present moment, and that meaning can change as each moment passes.

My philosophical thought for the day.
 
Sweet P said:
There is no meaning in life. There is meaning in the present moment, and that meaning can change as each moment passes.

My philosophical thought for the day.
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Life is the present moment because you can only live in the now.

If i could elaborate on your original idea tho
Perhaps the meaning of life is the sum of all the sub-meanings of each moment.
 
ziggo said:
The meaning is actually love. Love is very meaningful and only thrives when you keep hope alive!
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I think your spot on!

I believe we are all manifestation of the god and goddess, and the prime point of our existence is to return to the god and goddess, by identifying them within ourselves and holding true to their ideals. The ideals they hold are staying true to each other and all of existence itself. This is love, this staying "true" to each other. The same way bees gather up honey for the hive, we gather love for the spiritual abode. This is true not just for humans but for every species, as we all play a role in being male or female. We must stay true to ourselves and our own ideals, as well as our other and their ideals. Even though LOVE is whats its ALL about, the wise person should advance dimensionally, for this is also a pursuit of dimensions. The love human beings make is by far greater than the love made by grasshoppers, far more liberating, exciting, and pleasing to the gods. The absolute and highest purpose and platform one can come to is not just love for a man or woman, but love for god. This can be done by loving the transcendental being as he is, and also in the lover, or just as he is if ur single, without through the lover. This transcendental love is called Bhakti and is the highest thing one can ever accomplish or pursue, however it is all genuine. For such a person, one may say that the purpose of life, is to plant trees of which he expects no shade.
 
I think this life is some sort of growth or development exercise. If a being that is not of this world dwells within your core and lies behind your sentient experience right now, then I could think of a lot of things that one or more runs of sentient embodied existence could teach such a being. For example, maybe the Master Builder experiences life as human beings and the like, in order to know firsthand what separateness feels like in all its ugly glory.
 
^ Interesting idea. I've thought in the past that the reason we experience pain, distraction, imperfection, disconnectness; is in fact to give rise to joy, focus, perfection, and unity; just as the figure will not exist without the background; the white lettering is not made readable without the black of the chalkboard.

But, here is a problem I have encountered with this idea: if everything requires its opposite to exist, wouldn't the opposites negate each other, leaving a sum total of nothingness? Perhaps what remains is the outline that is formed where the figure and background touch.



When the question is posed, "what is the meaning of life?", my response is, "what is 'meaning'?". To me, "meaning" is an ill-defined term. And I know that those who have read my previous posts in this forum probably tire of me repeating myself, but I still insist: those of you who engage in the attempted discovery of "meaning" in life, tell me the nature of this "meaning" you seek!
 
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