If by "existence" you don´t mean "the fact that you exist", please define "existence", for purposes of your questions and responses.
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If by "existence" you don´t mean "the fact that you exist", please define "existence", for purposes of your questions and responses.The emphasis would completely change from a focus on "existence" to the "fact that you exist".
Better to believe in eternity w/God & be wrong than to be an atheist, die, awaken & stare up at an extraterrestrial/Angel (frowning)
So you are differentiating between "purpose" and "meaning" to life, as well, then?Meaning would reasonably have to be generated by individuals for it to be fulfilling, rather than to have one thrust upon you from outside yourself. As subjective as it may be, it's more realistic as to meaning in its essence rather than reducing us to a function, something teleological in a mechanical sense rather than a purpose which can be provisional and change as goals are met or priorities adjust.
My meaning of life is different than a meaning behind or underpinning life itself. The latter has no meaning, it merely has existence. Those who have the capacity to comprehend can discern that meaning is a motivator factor to actions and the will as well. Animals don't have a purpose to life, they serve functions as they experience life much faster in comparison and don't have the seeming ability to contemplate their life's meanings. They shouldn't, however, be reduced to a means, which is another thing entirely that connects to ethics more than whatever one might call the study of the meaning of life (teleology, perhaps?)
I define "existence" in this context to mean "the totality of reality, including self-consciousness".If by "existence" you don´t mean "the fact that you exist", please define "existence", for purposes of your questions and responses.
So you are differentiating between "purpose" and "meaning" to life, as well, then?
"I don’t think anything gives your life joy and meaning. I think your life simply has joy and meaning. The love for my children, the love for my parents and the love for my friends is the end in itself. The meaning is life.” ― Penn Jillette
Good quote, thanks for sharing!"I don’t think anything gives your life joy and meaning. I think your life simply has joy and meaning. The love for my children, the love for my parents and the love for my friends is the end in itself. The meaning is life.” ― Penn Jillette
Is love the meaning .. or the purpose?
Is this "highest existence" you are speaking of real?I define "existence" in this context to mean "the totality of reality, including self-consciousness".
Why love, and not compassion, or peace, etc.?I think it is both.
Purpose is to love and reason for existence is love. Meaning for this particular "life" here is that we learn what good and evil means. And that lesson is provided by Love. And as many may already understand, evil is all Godless things and good is when God takes care and people love as God has commanded and don’t reject God and that commandment. That is how I understand this.
Personal experience of higher realms, and the law of kamma, etc. I have not experienced Nibbana (the highest goal) yet, but (as he instructed us to do) my faith in what the Buddha taught grows as I personally examine and verify each step of the path he mapped out. So far, I have no reason to disbelieve that Nibbana exists.Based on what exactly?
So, if you define "existence" as "the totality of everything, including consciousness" and this "highest existence" is real (i.e. included in "existence" - what´s the "meaning behind existence", again?I believe so, yes.
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