Discussion by Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, on “Compassion and the Individual”, “The Purpose of Life”.

Personally I find it more instructive to view the question as the purpose of life rather than the meaning of life.

I have enjoyed this site and discussion. Thank you Mary for that.

Phil

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Carla

thanks for this
steve

I had to laugh when I read about ‘customizing the break!” Very funny – and very apt.

So I guess the trick is to decide what you want your short break to be about. Kinda goes with ‘the Meaning of Life’. We get to pick our own ‘meaning’. I think that’s infinitely superior to some pre-ordained agenda. If there was one you probably wouldn’t like it,or at least be a little indignant that you didn’t get to choose it yourself.

I like the dot idea-it puts you in a place of power, the here and now…and that’s the only place where you can start customizing your ‘break’.

the idea was that the physical space occupied by “me” was not in fact what is called in art, “positive space,” that is, it was not the body that was full. I felt that I could feel the opposite, that where my body began was the point where all else ended, that I was in fact purely empty, a scintillation, a chimera, dependent on the arrival of an infinity of energies on spectrum across all ranges of energy, which simultaneously arrived to points infinitesimally small and — stopped there…

in this way, I can relate to your metaphor, but as a literal experience, feeling my dotness as emptiness, tickled by rays emanating from everywhen and where… they dance all around these holes and the holes move across time and space according to their dance…

because of this I no longer wonder about the meaning of “my life” because I do not feel that “I” have a life, but that life has me.

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Enjoying going back and reading some of your old posts.

peace.

j

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