What is the Meaning of Life?

The Meaning of life for ME

  • To spread love, and/or the word of my religion

    Votes: 3 33.3%

  • To Understand the problems of the world and find resolution.

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • A mixture of everything with a bit of materialism

    Votes: 5 55.6%

  • I havent really thought about it, just go with the flow.

    Votes: 1 11.1%
  • Total voters
    9
Prober said:
Some see the world the way it is and ask "why".

I see the world the way it could be and ask "why not".
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Hi Prober, fantastic, wonderful sentiment.
There be power in the impossible - possible dream to move mountains.

Love the new avatar.

- c -
 
Ciel said:
Hi Prober, fantastic, wonderful sentiment.
There be power in the impossible - possible dream to move mountains.

Love the new avatar.

- c -
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Ah, yes...faith as much as a tiny mustard seed!

Thanks C
 
If suffering were ended there would be no reason to go forward to challenge the darkness that causes it. Living would lose its reason for moving forward. Things would get very boring, very rapidly.

These days suffering seems to be overbalancing joy on all fronts, but that might just be a set of media illusions. Suffering has always been rampant. Today we just see more representations of it in our living rooms and on the city streets. But it is a wonderful state of affairs to contemplate the lessening of suffering and what good things that might do in today's world to uplift spirits.

Q , 42 what ? The 42 children that sent the bald men up after they were attacked by bears sent after them as they passed the woods ? Or, perhaps 42 bottles of beer on the wall ?


flow....;)
 
lunamoth said:
Certainly we need to work to lessen suffering where we can. And as Christians we have hope in Christ, that one day the veils between heaven and earth will be removed and all suffering will end. We live now as in that future. But to say that we can eliminate suffering is not realistic.

luna
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Um...yeah...maybe, but...there no harm in trying!
 
flowperson said:
If suffering were ended there would be no reason to go forward to challenge the darkness that causes it. Living would lose its reason for moving forward. Things would get very boring, very rapidly.

These days suffering seems to be overbalancing joy on all fronts, but that might just be a set of media illusions. Suffering has always been rampant. Today we just see more representations of it in our living rooms and on the city streets. But it is a wonderful state of affairs to contemplate the lessening of suffering and what good things that might do in today's world to uplift spirits.

Q , 42 what ? The 42 children that sent the bald men up after they were attacked by bears sent after them as they passed the woods ? Or, perhaps 42 bottles of beer on the wall ?


flow....;)
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Then it's going to be boring in heaven.
 
Maybe so, but the serenity and peace promised in heaven is the absence of the quest for material gain or egotistical glories that drives our lives on earth. Suffering is tied to these behavior patterns down here, but are absent up there, if we are to believe the legends. Not necessarily boring, perhaps just more enlightening without the automatic costs.

flow....:)
 
flowperson said:
Maybe so, but the serenity and peace promised in heaven is the absence of the quest for material gain or egotistical glories that drives our lives on earth. Suffering is tied to these behavior patterns down here, but are absent up there, if we are to believe the legends. Not necessarily boring, perhaps just more enlightening without the automatic costs.

flow....:)
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Have you never had a taste of heaven flow?

Sure you have.

And right, we move beyond the duality.

- c -
 
flowperson said:
Maybe so, but the serenity and peace promised in heaven is the absence of the quest for material gain or egotistical glories that drives our lives on earth. Suffering is tied to these behavior patterns down here, but are absent up there, if we are to believe the legends. Not necessarily boring, perhaps just more enlightening without the automatic costs.

flow....:)
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Too bad we can't eliminate that quest for material gain or egotistical glories down here...Or can we?

After all, if the kingdom of heaven is within us...
 
"c"

Absotively and posilutely. But fleeting tastes only gives one a yearning and longing for more bliss. I think Joseph Campbell would have liked that thought. That's why I try to lead my life "following my bliss" even though I'm old enough to know that reaching a permanent state of it on earth is never going to be possible.

prober...such an improved avatar...love it !

Only one human that I am aware of was able to eliminate the chases in his life, and they were so jealous of it that they crucified Him...or so the stories that we know of go. Of course they killed MLK and Ghandi also because of their pursuits of bliss.
Yep, the kingdom is within us...but it is usually well hidden and submerged in most people's lives because of their material pursuits. Therefore we are only allowed occasional glimpses to lead us on to the end.

flow....:p
 
flowperson said:
"c"

Absotively and posilutely. But fleeting tastes only gives one a yearning and longing for more bliss. I think Joseph Campbell would have liked that thought. That's why I try to lead my life "following my bliss" even though I'm old enough to know that reaching a permanent state of it on earth is never going to be possible.


flow....:p
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Now don't you know, where bliss is concerned you never know.
It just Is.
In your absotively of the absolute have you been at the absinthe?
- c -:)
 
"c"
Yep, one is only aware of bliss when and if it happens. Had a little bit of it happen thursday talking to my daughter's moustache parakeet at sundown on my porch. Lovely!

Never have done the "absinthe" thing, but I've been known to partake of some other dream inducing substances in the past.

flow....:cool:
 
flowperson said:
"c"

Absotively and posilutely. But fleeting tastes only gives one a yearning and longing for more bliss. I think Joseph Campbell would have liked that thought. That's why I try to lead my life "following my bliss" even though I'm old enough to know that reaching a permanent state of it on earth is never going to be possible.

prober...such an improved avatar...love it !

Only one human that I am aware of was able to eliminate the chases in his life, and they were so jealous of it that they crucified Him...or so the stories that we know of go. Of course they killed MLK and Ghandi also because of their pursuits of bliss.
Yep, the kingdom is within us...but it is usually well hidden and submerged in most people's lives because of their material pursuits. Therefore we are only allowed occasional glimpses to lead us on to the end.

flow....:p
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01. I really enjoy Joseph Campbell's stuff.
02. Thank-you! (reaching for heaven:))
03. I think this (killing the ego, heaven on earth) is an area where Christians can learn something from Buddhists (do I dare say that?)
 
There are quite a few people who see Bhuddist principles in Jesus' teachings. Earl posts here and know a lot about all that. Look up some of his posts. DARE to be different.

flow....:)
 
Haven't read it. Now I'm going to have to spend money again and buy it. See how we are tied to materialism to improve even our minds ?

flow....:p
 
I don't know about Prober, but I was being fecicious. 42 is what my father-in-law told me the meaning of life was. I never forgot that (it meant, who knows?).
 
aburaees said:
I personally think the question is flawed. Like asking "what does the colour red taste like?"

I think the question should be "what is the purpose of life?"
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I think that this is as close to the best answer, but for me even this falls short. If we reframe the question the absurdity of ideas like "meaning" and "purpose" actually show us the way. Imagine asking what is the purpose of a tree? what is the meaning of a mountain? The very question asks us to leave the small mind behind and enter the silence of what the Zen practioners refer to as Big Mind. In any even it does call us to come up a bit higher doesn't it?

Peace
 
Quahom1 said:
I don't know about Prober, but I was being fecicious. 42 is what my father-in-law told me the meaning of life was. I never forgot that (it meant, who knows?).
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Q,

Your Father in law must have been a big fan of Douglas Adams :)
 
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