bahman wrote: ↑Tue May 17, 2022 4:35 pm
Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Tue May 17, 2022 4:54 am
bahman wrote: ↑Mon Apr 25, 2022 10:31 pm
Whatever it is it cannot be in the thought and feeling category. Well, if there is such a thing as the meaning of life then one should be able to experience it.
ALL humans are "programmed" with an inherent meaning of life.
If one is suicidal one is losing grip on the inherent meaning of life.
If one has not commit suicide yet, then one is still in alignment with the inherent and fundamental 'meaning of life' in reality, not in mere words.
When one has committed suicide, the meaning of life just '
poof!!' and it is gone like a bubble bursting and then vanished in thin air.
Note my earlier post;
viewtopic.php?p=569364#p569364
I think we are cognitively not evolved enough to experience meaning.
Point is the meaning of life is inherent and one effectively has to experience it spontaneously and naturally.
Are you familiar with 'Flow'
In positive psychology, a flow state, also known colloquially as being in the zone, is the mental state in which a person performing some activity is fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and enjoyment in the process of the activity. In essence, flow is characterized by the complete absorption in what one does, and a resulting transformation in one's sense of time.
In a flow state, one enable the inherent meaning to flow spontaneously and naturally without being conscious of what the meaning should be in accordance to one's beliefs.
Even the Bible advise one to be natural like the lilies in the field;
And which of you by being anxious can add one cubit unto [a]the measure of his life? 28 And why are ye anxious concerning raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: [Mathew 6:27-28]
It is common wisdom in Eastern Spirituality not the be too bothered with the meaning of life but merely to allow it to flow and live it,
but of course one must be serious in cultivating such a condition to achieve such a state of freedom;
Note the common wisdom; "Chop Wood, Carry Water" to denote spontaneous enlightenment without any concern to be conscious of what is the meaning of life. This has to come about after the effective rewiring of the brain to achieve such a state, not by intellectualizing what is the meaning of life.
What you want is for one to be
conscious intellectually of such meaning. As such one can only be intellectually conscious to the degree of one's intellectual capacity but not one's spiritual capacity.
Unfortunately it is the suicidal who fall into this trapping, and when they failed to grasp the meaning of life in this intellectual sense, they commit suicide.