18
07
2010

How to Understand the Meaning of Life

Understanding of the big question that eventually every one of us is faced with from time to time, about the meaning of life and my purpose being here on this planet, is usually hard to comprehend. Actually I don’t know if this can be understood, but in my journey through this time-frame while I’m vibrating as a human being I did some research and discovered something interesting. I’ll try to share my thoughts about this with you and anyone who reads this text, thank you!

I just write this text to help someone else like me that also is asking this same stupid/boring question.

Intro

As you all know, or say, we are here for a purpose so what is that purpose? Or, the point of being alive is to have a meaning. Who places these checkpoints „meanings”? Well me, you, and every one else. Meaning can be found everywhere and in everything. For example, if I think that reproduction is the most important thing in my life, then my meaning of life is to have children to rise them, to provide a warm home, take care for my family and so on and so forth. Or maybe, I think that spending money and traveling around the world is my ultimate goal, then this is important and this is what I should be doing. So eventually you arrive at the point where you define what is important, what is your meaning of your life? We’ll know when we have a picture of what is maybe the meaning of life, we know that maintenance of this goal is the hardest thing to do. Why, I have no idea. I just realize that there is no coincidence, and there are messages from my unconscious part of my Mind that pours out frequently and big part of these messages I don’t understand.

Who is sending this messages?

Well this is the part where I didn’t find any real answer. After good deal of research and moving from one philosophy to another I find out about these old writings from ancient times where these check points you can practice eventually you will find bigger understanding of your life, and learn to understand these massages that are coming out of your brain. How did I arrived to this bulletin list is described at the end of this text, but I suggest not to jump to conclusion. I do not sell religion, I just write this text to help someone else like me that also is asking this same stupid/boring question.

If say my life is a game that needs to be played, I have several attributes or qualities that will help me go along and continue the game as long as I can. The longer I play the longer I stay alive and continue building my ultimate goal. For understanding the game I need to be wise and firm before making any decisions for my next move. I have to spectate everything that is happening around me and learn to understand these phenomena. Use properly the contact with the people that I encounter and share my daily life. Acting rightfully with pure conscience, and moderating my life as good moderator viewing from third person perspective.

View

To know what you see and understand the end of all things. You are not permanent, I’m not permanent, nothing is permanent. If I have begging and end as a human being so I’m temporary here. Well the movie that I see in theaters is also temporary, the news on television are also temporary!? WOW!? I know every end in everything that is happening to me so this means that I know the result from almost every end. If I know the end, next I just need to choose the right start and drive along the road. Everything has a begging and end.

Intention

Intention is the first thing that we are doing before every choosing. Literally every choosing! Choose wisely now after you know the end of all things. If I choose to go out tonight I know that the end is back home in late hours, headache and morning sickness. Most importantly is to resist the pull of desire. Always embrace the Gods will, resisting the filings of anger and aversion. Never think or act cruelly, violently or aggressively. Try to develop compassion or understanding to the situations that you fall into.. The punishment of desire is the agony of unfulfillment.

Speech

Words can brake or save lives! Speech is our ammunition. Never lie and always tell the true. Don’t speak false against others and never use harsh words to hurt someone else. Avoid idle chatter and speak if only there is depth in the topic of conversation. This way you will avoid any problems that can arise from your talking. You will be invisible for the aggressive eye and free from the worries after saying something wrong. Understand this: words are your genetic ammunition, so be careful where you point your aim!

Action

Action is the area where you already have selected your way by the intention, so you are now at the point where you have to continue or stop walking along. If you think that you should continue your path do that, but if you think that you should stop, then stop. You must not harm, take life (including suicide), harm intentionally, steal, fraud, sexual misconduct and so on. The action is the moment when you realize and understand that you are in the current situation, but what next!? The moment when you understand that is the moment when you start thinking!

Livelihood

Wealth should be gained legally and peacefully. No weapons, no killing, no raising animals for slaughter as well as slave trade or prostitution, never involve in meat production, no selling intoxicants and poisons, such as alcohol and drugs… Avoid everything that you hear or tells you that “this is wrong”!

Effort

When you are in a state when you are feeling lightness of sense and thought, this state of mind and environment is called wholesome state. The mental energy is the force behind your metabolism and physical health, so wholesome state helps you attain this mental energy. Now you understand that you should avoid unwholesome states. Avoid always if it’s possible! Prevent arising and abandon unwholesome states. Help arouse wholesome states and maintain and perfect already arisen ones.

Mindfulness

The word moderator is the best example of this. Moderate everything about yourself, your body and mind. If you see using clear consciousness and create your third person spectator view you will understand that it’s the game you are playing so now I have to move my character along the scene. We always conceptualize sense impressions and we must understand that everything is a concept in our heads. That’s it! That’s all! Concepts, concepts and more concepts transported by our thoughts. Hear your body, watch your feeling, your mind, and the phenomena of things that are happening to you.

Concentration

Concentration occurs in natural consciousness at a relatively low level of intensity. So if you want to practice concentration the best way is with meditation or yoga lessons. This means one-pointedness of mind! You can read books, draw, write, but always keep your mind unified and directed onto one particular object or situation. You can practice meditation, but meditation is nothing more than jogging around the neighborhood for your brain! Your Mind needs to be trained like your body and the two elements of “you” should be kept in shape. If you practice concentration even in the smallest amount, you will immediately notice the difference from before. Try doing some exercises for energy flow in your body for testing, you’ll see.

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Conclusion

This “short” notice about my thinking of meaning of life is inspired by the Buddha way (I’m an Orthodox Christian), to be specific: The Noble Eightfold Path. But I think that these people (Buddha) are no different from the people that are here today! The same thinking is preserved in Islam, Christianity, Hebrew, Tao, Confucian, Hindu, and all the religions out there today. The meaning of life are the things that concern us. What we want to be important in our lives is the meaning of life. But there is one key-point that we have to overcome. The world we live in and the things we can do, or be able to do in this world. We have the physical forces of the world, the mental prejudices from our past and the questions in our Mind so the conflict is usually available 24/7. If we want to go with the flow we have to be patient and wait our thoughts to coupe – overlap with the outside world. Remember this, we all live in our own world, then we choose where we exist outside (world).

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