Is life only meant for enjoyment?

[AiR]

Isn’t life meant to just have fun? Isn’t life meant to enjoy?

The world thinks this way, but why did a prince, who lived several centuries ago, think differently? Siddhartha Gautama, a rich prince in ancient India, had all the riches, all the pleasures that the world could offer him. Why did he give it all up? Why didn’t he think that life was just meant to be enjoyed? What inspired him to seek the truth? He found the true meaning of life - that life couldn’t escape suffering, that this gift of life given to us is checkered with pain and misery; we cannot escape it. Think about it. - we all have to face death. We grow, we get diseased, we decay and we die. We all face misery in life and while there may be pleasures, joy and happiness, eventually, we are going to face unhappiness and be miserable. Therefore, if we just close our eyes, have fun and enjoy life, we may escape the minor miseries of life only to be hit by that big misery finally. But, if we start living and realizing the truth of who we are, what we are and why we are here; if we come face to face with the truth, then we will not have to face that ultimate suffering. By realizing the truth and living a life of liberation by achieving Nirvana, we would attain the highest state of bliss and happiness, ‘ananda’, and move to Nirvana, Liberation.

Therefore, we have a choice. To escape life by just having fun, or realizing the truth of life and reaching that state of ultimate bliss, which is what Buddha chose. What would you choose??

AiR

[Beauty]

Is life only meant for enjoyment?, yes, life is only meant for enjoyment. If that was not the case, life would not be there. The sole purpose of life is enjoyment. If there was any other purpose to life, then that attained, what then? But Enjoyment - joy/happiness cannot be exhausted because the sources are infinite, so the purpose of life is enjoyment. But enjoyment should not be at the cost of another's enjoyment, or in other words we must not be wicked, or it brings pain/suffering. This is TRUTH. "Ye shall know truth and truth shall set ye free." Free of all captivity/hell/pain&suffering.

There was a prediction regarding Buddha when he was a child, that he would become an ascetic, a monk. So his father ensured that he not see any suffering, but only see happiness and then he won't become one. Then once grown up, he happened to come across three people, one handicapped, one diseased and one dead. He was badly shaken and particularly so in the face of the fact that he had not seen suffering before, and that made him leave home in search of truth as to why there is suffering, for he came to understand that it is kind of everyone's due. And then, Buddha found out through revelation from Heaven/Gods, that in this world there is suffering, wickedness is the cause of all suffering, nirvaan is the way towards ending suffering, and the way to achieve nirvaan is through right mind and right conduct, in which case no wickedness happens. Wickedness is sin. Sin brings us in Hell where there is pain/suffering. Dues paid and not wicked, we go back to Heaven from where we are - NIRVAAN. So we must not think wicked in Heaven, only to come down to Hell where there is pain/suffering. Earth is a Hell. Dues paid and no wickedness, we leave Hell and go back to Heaven. By the way I have written much on Nirvaan and Truth since long. My writings have gone all over the world.

[Terrapin Station]

Life isn't meant for anything. Life just is. There isn't any "true meaning" of life.

It's up to you what to make of it.

[Beauty]

Jain Scripture says that every thing in this world is thing. We are things having thinking, feeling, understanding etc. as well. I believe that like things like copper, aluminium, dark, light, perception, depth, air, water we also happened to be, but like things show physical and chemical properties, we have physical and mental aspect and accordingly show properties, character etc. Life just happened to be due to one thing leading to another, every little bit mattering and then a little going a long way. In so much as it is difficult to comprehend life happening itself, but then it is not any more astounding than an idea coming itself to us. But I think since it has happened, then the purpose is enjoyment. If life was meant for something, then it was well thought of from before and the question would be by whom and would never be answered for then it would be that, who created the creator? It seems that life just happened due to one thing leading to another, every little bit mattering and then a little going a long way. And life came up in the Cosmos.

[Hobbes' Choice]

I think it is pretty obvious that "life is not meant" at all.

Which renders the question meaningless.

Having a life, we might find ourselves lucky enough to be able to make up our own minds about what to do with it.