I repeat, exactly as it is written on the title. If you have even read the Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy (WARNING: SPOILER) you will know that the answer to life is 42. However, because that answer makes no sense, they bring up this dandy idea: "But what is the question?" And that is exactly the point I am trying to prove. Anyone who asks this question is WRONG. It is just like any word we have ever learned to associate an object with. A little while after we are born, we learn to speak, and identify objects. Meaning, equate them with someone that supposedly allows us to understand them. But does it really? No, words are merely something we use to cover up the mystery of things that we don't actually understand.
But back to the "meaning of life". My refusal to answer this question is not a denial of a meaning, nor an acceptance of one. I am saying that thinking of life as something that has a meaning, something you can equate with a word, is just not the right way to do it. Life is not a thing. It is not terminal, and death does not end it, it is not a means to an end, as most people prefer to look at it. It is a journey, albeit not eternal (in this current consciousness), yet still eternal, because everyone is one and all. Every person is one piece of the whole, the universe, the big picture. And while we search for a meaning, a purpose, while we think and equate our "self" with our thinking mind, essentially with our ego, we will be unawakened, unable to see the big picture of it all. The true self is not the one who is thinking, but the one who is observing the thinking mind. He is the truly awakened one. Until we are awakened, we will be unable to proceed on this journey to enlightenment, and our "reincarnation", if you must, will only gain the karma of our past life, giving us yet another chance to advance towards enlightenment.
So what is the meaning, you ask? Some say to be able to deal, some say to be happy, but I say that once you are enlightened, you will no longer need a meaning at all. Therefore I reject this silliness on the terms of my current attempt to work towards enlightenment, and become awakened, unattached to the material, and ultimately unidentified with the ego that is keeping me here.
Way to come out swinging! ;) So the question "What does it mean?" doesn't mean anything. http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-s8yQCqupoCM/T8-v4Ht1D2I/AAAAAAAAA_o/InJuFpopzGE/s1600/keanu-reeves-whoa.jpg
ReplyDeleteNice Hitchhiker's reference. You're probably one of the only people to answer it this way, haha. I like your comparison to the objects, it reminds me of allegory of the den.
ReplyDeleteI didn't know that you take philosophy!
ReplyDeleteAnyways, you have a thought-out and in-depth response here. It's heavy in material, which is good. It also serves to be a pretty accurate approach. The very concept of life is not one to be associated with purpose, rather than it just is.