I'm going to address a subject perhaps only the world's greatest minds would attempt. What is the meaning of life?
To begin I answer that there are many, perhaps thousands of answers to the question "what is the meaning of life?" yet, there is no one explaination. There is no ONE explaination yet there IS one, not a single definition but a compilation of them, a compilation of one.
The meaning of life might be to live it. To live is to have life. To have life is to live. But how? The answer to "how to live life" may reside in the question "why should we?" And it is from this point we will start to look.
I believe I would not get an honest answer for any question about life from one who is suffering a tremendous suffering right now. Many times I have experienced that it is not easy to answer such a meaningful question when our line of sight is blurry or distorted. To compound this matter if I am seeking the response from an adult who has had years of discomfort I wouldn't expect him or her to reply assertively, with focus. Who represents them or fights for them?
Children on the other hand act and re-act differently under similar circumstances or yet even grave and often hopeless conditions. Who represents them or fights for them?
And this is where we take a second look " who fights for you?"
It is no lie that there isn't a lack of terminal illness. It is no lie that there isn't a lack of painful emotional/mental situations. It is no lie that there isn't a lack of hopeless and helpless cases. But who fights for you?
I was compelled earlier to address both sides of the aisle- belief in God or a Higher Power AND non- believers of a supreme being. It is my wish to do so connecting terminal illness, painful emotional/mental situations and hopeless and helpless cases with the question "who fights for you?" Here goes;
1. If you believe in a God or Higher Power and are terminally ill or suffer from a painful emotional/mental mind or are hopeless and helpless - who fights for you?
2. If you do not believe in a God or Higher Power and are terminally ill or suffer from a painful emotional/mental mind or are hopeless and helpless - who fights for you?
If you're expecting me to directly verbalize an eloquent answer for question 1, then question 2 , you are mistaken. Truthfully, the answer to both questions is the same! Without being descriptive, wether atheist, agnostic or believer, the answer to questions 1 and 2 is simply that what or who fights for you is someone or something more powerful than you.
Let's briefly address "fights" in the context of this letter.
Fight - "power or will to fight" ( from the Thorndike Barnhart Comprehensive Desk Dictionary circa 1951. )
So someone or something WILL take part in your conflict. They may make manuevers on your behalf, maybe even struggle for you. They may dispute, contest and engage on your behalf.
At your weakest you MAY or WILL rely on them.
At your weakest you MAY or WILL trust what they are doing.
At your weakest you MAY or WILL expect them to bring you through to the other side.
Deity or man - what's the difference? Deity or man what's the similarity- the will?
When WE'RE in the thick of things there are developments which we may or may not have control over. It is these developments that may;
a. spark a fire under us to get moving.
b. douse what little fire is left in us.
When we become weak, discouraged, confused and non-responsive something has to happen AND happen it will. But what? And how?
Who is going to fight for you? You?
Correct me if I'm wrong - there isn't a situation or problem on this planet that doesn't require the power of at least 2 people to solve or make headway with. In many cases many people get involved and the use of technology is soon enough introduced. Are these people and machines the result of accident and mis-fortune? Or is something else involved here?
And even if one person using a device could get the desired results - other people are indirectly involved because of the device. Who made it?
My friend Bill Flyzik might comment after reading this something like "the guru didn't say anything that most people who have had 25 years of a life experience would know." O.K. so I'll submit the possibility of osmotic pressure at work. Perhaps the meaning of life is thus:
One day we wake up and have ALL this knowledge in our head just like that AND even if we didn't have the physical experience we can ACT like we did and teach and give lectures on it.
My friends and colleagues read a story pertaining to childhood that went something like this, "and who on a star lit night didn't look up into the sky and ask who made all this?"
I have an answer to that question about the maker of all this "I don't know" because it boggles the mind. The nearest answer to "I don't know" is "this is what I think." Be honest now and please be sober at least.
Take for instance the results of prayer, meditation and self examination. What happens there and why do changes occur and improvements take place especially in the most dire cases that then become unexplainable results? Some call these occurances miracles.
And why would there be any kind of ORDER in our lives, AND there is order when the whole of humanity can be described as simple and disorderly by those who don't believe in a Greater Source?
Please understand that for the most part I am not including organized religion which tends to emanate with rules and regulations as the "board" sees fit. AND the Bible is open to interpetation IF for only this reason - words from the original Greek and Hebrew versions cannot be translated to English because there IS no English word for them SO a substitute word is inserted and HAS been inserted into the Good Book. I have studied the Greek and Hebrew versions.
There isn't much meaning in noise I've learned.
There is much meaning in silence I've experienced.
In silence I manage to GO somewhere, maybe inside of myself OR somewhere out there amongst the stars. I'm not sure but the experience is usually profound and life changing. Of course I didn't come up with the idea of prayer and meditation myself and I don't know who did. (maybe is was osmotic pressure). I don't have an answer either as to how prayer, meditation and self-examination become linked to and part of the many spiritual paths and religion.
Certainly there is much more that could be written about this topic and I don't have the time and room right now. I do want to share this with you.
Life, no matter how you look at, no matter how you describe it, no matter what it means to you, no matter how you feel about it, life cannot be explained away simple. And that's life.
Simply put, the meaning of life cannot be answered in that form of a question and be even close to answered exactly.
Exactly speaking there is no meaning of life.
Life is as life does with ONE exception -
" the only meaning of life is the meaning WE give it, without US it's simply life with no meaning."
Namaste' the guru
To begin I answer that there are many, perhaps thousands of answers to the question "what is the meaning of life?" yet, there is no one explaination. There is no ONE explaination yet there IS one, not a single definition but a compilation of them, a compilation of one.
The meaning of life might be to live it. To live is to have life. To have life is to live. But how? The answer to "how to live life" may reside in the question "why should we?" And it is from this point we will start to look.
I believe I would not get an honest answer for any question about life from one who is suffering a tremendous suffering right now. Many times I have experienced that it is not easy to answer such a meaningful question when our line of sight is blurry or distorted. To compound this matter if I am seeking the response from an adult who has had years of discomfort I wouldn't expect him or her to reply assertively, with focus. Who represents them or fights for them?
Children on the other hand act and re-act differently under similar circumstances or yet even grave and often hopeless conditions. Who represents them or fights for them?
And this is where we take a second look " who fights for you?"
It is no lie that there isn't a lack of terminal illness. It is no lie that there isn't a lack of painful emotional/mental situations. It is no lie that there isn't a lack of hopeless and helpless cases. But who fights for you?
I was compelled earlier to address both sides of the aisle- belief in God or a Higher Power AND non- believers of a supreme being. It is my wish to do so connecting terminal illness, painful emotional/mental situations and hopeless and helpless cases with the question "who fights for you?" Here goes;
1. If you believe in a God or Higher Power and are terminally ill or suffer from a painful emotional/mental mind or are hopeless and helpless - who fights for you?
2. If you do not believe in a God or Higher Power and are terminally ill or suffer from a painful emotional/mental mind or are hopeless and helpless - who fights for you?
If you're expecting me to directly verbalize an eloquent answer for question 1, then question 2 , you are mistaken. Truthfully, the answer to both questions is the same! Without being descriptive, wether atheist, agnostic or believer, the answer to questions 1 and 2 is simply that what or who fights for you is someone or something more powerful than you.
Let's briefly address "fights" in the context of this letter.
Fight - "power or will to fight" ( from the Thorndike Barnhart Comprehensive Desk Dictionary circa 1951. )
So someone or something WILL take part in your conflict. They may make manuevers on your behalf, maybe even struggle for you. They may dispute, contest and engage on your behalf.
At your weakest you MAY or WILL rely on them.
At your weakest you MAY or WILL trust what they are doing.
At your weakest you MAY or WILL expect them to bring you through to the other side.
Deity or man - what's the difference? Deity or man what's the similarity- the will?
When WE'RE in the thick of things there are developments which we may or may not have control over. It is these developments that may;
a. spark a fire under us to get moving.
b. douse what little fire is left in us.
When we become weak, discouraged, confused and non-responsive something has to happen AND happen it will. But what? And how?
Who is going to fight for you? You?
Correct me if I'm wrong - there isn't a situation or problem on this planet that doesn't require the power of at least 2 people to solve or make headway with. In many cases many people get involved and the use of technology is soon enough introduced. Are these people and machines the result of accident and mis-fortune? Or is something else involved here?
And even if one person using a device could get the desired results - other people are indirectly involved because of the device. Who made it?
My friend Bill Flyzik might comment after reading this something like "the guru didn't say anything that most people who have had 25 years of a life experience would know." O.K. so I'll submit the possibility of osmotic pressure at work. Perhaps the meaning of life is thus:
One day we wake up and have ALL this knowledge in our head just like that AND even if we didn't have the physical experience we can ACT like we did and teach and give lectures on it.
My friends and colleagues read a story pertaining to childhood that went something like this, "and who on a star lit night didn't look up into the sky and ask who made all this?"
I have an answer to that question about the maker of all this "I don't know" because it boggles the mind. The nearest answer to "I don't know" is "this is what I think." Be honest now and please be sober at least.
Take for instance the results of prayer, meditation and self examination. What happens there and why do changes occur and improvements take place especially in the most dire cases that then become unexplainable results? Some call these occurances miracles.
And why would there be any kind of ORDER in our lives, AND there is order when the whole of humanity can be described as simple and disorderly by those who don't believe in a Greater Source?
Please understand that for the most part I am not including organized religion which tends to emanate with rules and regulations as the "board" sees fit. AND the Bible is open to interpetation IF for only this reason - words from the original Greek and Hebrew versions cannot be translated to English because there IS no English word for them SO a substitute word is inserted and HAS been inserted into the Good Book. I have studied the Greek and Hebrew versions.
There isn't much meaning in noise I've learned.
There is much meaning in silence I've experienced.
In silence I manage to GO somewhere, maybe inside of myself OR somewhere out there amongst the stars. I'm not sure but the experience is usually profound and life changing. Of course I didn't come up with the idea of prayer and meditation myself and I don't know who did. (maybe is was osmotic pressure). I don't have an answer either as to how prayer, meditation and self-examination become linked to and part of the many spiritual paths and religion.
Certainly there is much more that could be written about this topic and I don't have the time and room right now. I do want to share this with you.
Life, no matter how you look at, no matter how you describe it, no matter what it means to you, no matter how you feel about it, life cannot be explained away simple. And that's life.
Simply put, the meaning of life cannot be answered in that form of a question and be even close to answered exactly.
Exactly speaking there is no meaning of life.
Life is as life does with ONE exception -
" the only meaning of life is the meaning WE give it, without US it's simply life with no meaning."
Namaste' the guru
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