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Why is this what is?
Mateeah
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Why is this life? Who or what are we? How are we alive and what does it mean? These questions and others have been on my silly mind recently and I'd be greatful for any words of wisdom ;-)
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To be honest, I am not sure there are conceptual answers that can satisfy those questions. Though I am confident that practice and living life fully as a human and taking this precious opportunity to practice and study is probably the most rewarding thing we can do for ourselves. But then again that is pretty presumptuous of me to assert.
The answer is your life at this very instant. Have far does your trust go?
Ahh cracks me up to this day.
The humans build an almighty computer that calculates the answer to life for eons, when it finally calculates the answer, it says, 42.
The humans get angry and ask what it means, the machine tells them they need to know what the question is to know the answer.
You are everything.
There is only everything.
Study a spread of the buddhist schools.
If a particular form sings to you, check out if it has representation near you.
Get them to give you meditation instruction.
Be that meditative understanding!
Cheers
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It just is.
Hope this helps and much love.
ahh! yes now I remember, thanks
Deep Thought was a computer commissioned by mice to calculate the ultimate answer to life, the universe and everything - the answer is 42 but what is the question? Deep Thought designs an even more intelligent computer which is built by the megrathians - it will take millions of years to calculate the question.
Meanwhile on a distant planet a plan is hatched to eject all the 'useless' inhabitants who end up crashing on Earth which is in fact the planet sized computer built by the megrathians - these aliens turn out to be humans, a race whose very presence on Earth is a disharmony and who ultimately mess up the calculation.
After millions of years the mice don't have a question to return to their people with so rather than tell the truth they make up a spoof spiritual question and cash in.
I am often overtaken with such questions. I find it useful to really reflect on them-- not try and figure them out mentally (impossible task) but rest in the uncertainty of them and contemplate the urge and the feeling that brings them forth. Sometimes interesting things happen when I do that
if you have a giant quilt -- a never-ending quilt made of nice square patches, where does the quilt go when you take one patch out?
where does the quilt go when you take all the patches out?
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Cut different sized patches out of the quilt, so what was just a single patch is now made of parts of many. What is a patch?
What is a quilt then?
reality and its outlines blur -- much like fish in water
one can dissect it many ways
"A bucket fills drop by drop" ~ Buddha
Welcome to Buddhism.
On another note, everything seems to be information of one kind or another and when two streams collide, there is a sharing of information and a result... Life tends towards beings that can manipulate information and use it to further an ingrained tendancy towards exploration and reproduction.
Putting one and one together, it seems to me like we are trying to explore ourself.