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Finding Meaning in Life
As most things, meaning is different things to different people.
Also meanings change. Some 'meanings' are superficial and others deep. All meanings change.
The 'meaning' and thrill feeling one person gets from riding a motorbike devlishly fast down the highway is what it is.
Another type of person may get meaning from collecting stamps. Both forms of meaning and feeling are perfectly valid and neither one is at all better that the other.
The 'warmth' and 'love' most folk look for so much from a significant other and family also is what it is.
Religious fervour and passion also is what it is. Many of these types of energies are collective. Meaning that a congregation of people is needed. Society is also collective.
While there is nothing wrong with persuing more superficial meanings - like riding a motorbike, or a seemingly more substantial meaning like finding a life partner and having a family, all these 'meanings' - 'come to pass'. They stay around fotr a while and then vanish away. Well, you can say that all of physical life comes and goes (Maya in Yoga lore) Our bodies get old and eventually die.
So perhaps a 'meaning' in life to seriously think about is awareness and consciousness. Specifically their nature, meaning and effects. Awareness is the bed-rock. The deep underlying essence that permeates all sentient biengs. Awareness is that medium or force which we appear to have sprung from, seemes to be our deep nature, and that to which we appear to return to one day.
Depression, ptsd, violence and the syndrome of 'a deep meaningless exisitance' prevalent in our modern world, is on an exponential rise and I believe the inti-dote is not to be found in ever more fabulous technology, psycholdelics and more and ever greater 'thrill' experiences, but to become deeply familiar with the knowledge and mastery of our own awareness and consciousness.
Perhaps its like the famous 'sidhis' in yoga. Yoga masters have always warned of the pitfalls and dangers of persuing yoga solely for the purpose of attaining these 'powers'. They are a 'trap' along the way and once a certain level of mastery is achieved they appera naturally as 'by products' of our path and practice.
So 'thrill experiences' including those gained from psycholdelics, glittering manifestations such as LoA promises (and often delivers) material, political and social powers are all 'by products' of our mastery of awareness. Once we chase these and lose sight of our purpose, we fall into their trap. Nothing wrong with enjoying the fruit of our path, but to become ensnared and lose our deeper vision is dangerous waste of precious time.
Also meanings change. Some 'meanings' are superficial and others deep. All meanings change.
The 'meaning' and thrill feeling one person gets from riding a motorbike devlishly fast down the highway is what it is.
Another type of person may get meaning from collecting stamps. Both forms of meaning and feeling are perfectly valid and neither one is at all better that the other.
The 'warmth' and 'love' most folk look for so much from a significant other and family also is what it is.
Religious fervour and passion also is what it is. Many of these types of energies are collective. Meaning that a congregation of people is needed. Society is also collective.
While there is nothing wrong with persuing more superficial meanings - like riding a motorbike, or a seemingly more substantial meaning like finding a life partner and having a family, all these 'meanings' - 'come to pass'. They stay around fotr a while and then vanish away. Well, you can say that all of physical life comes and goes (Maya in Yoga lore) Our bodies get old and eventually die.
So perhaps a 'meaning' in life to seriously think about is awareness and consciousness. Specifically their nature, meaning and effects. Awareness is the bed-rock. The deep underlying essence that permeates all sentient biengs. Awareness is that medium or force which we appear to have sprung from, seemes to be our deep nature, and that to which we appear to return to one day.
Depression, ptsd, violence and the syndrome of 'a deep meaningless exisitance' prevalent in our modern world, is on an exponential rise and I believe the inti-dote is not to be found in ever more fabulous technology, psycholdelics and more and ever greater 'thrill' experiences, but to become deeply familiar with the knowledge and mastery of our own awareness and consciousness.
Perhaps its like the famous 'sidhis' in yoga. Yoga masters have always warned of the pitfalls and dangers of persuing yoga solely for the purpose of attaining these 'powers'. They are a 'trap' along the way and once a certain level of mastery is achieved they appera naturally as 'by products' of our path and practice.
So 'thrill experiences' including those gained from psycholdelics, glittering manifestations such as LoA promises (and often delivers) material, political and social powers are all 'by products' of our mastery of awareness. Once we chase these and lose sight of our purpose, we fall into their trap. Nothing wrong with enjoying the fruit of our path, but to become ensnared and lose our deeper vision is dangerous waste of precious time.
