Saturday, November 19, 2011

Everything exists without bothering to mean anything. Things do not mean; they just are.

‎"We are like motes carried on some kind of an invisible convener belt of life and time, emerging slowly from a dense dark on one end through dim zones into a bright spotlight for a fleeting walk on the ramp before we fade away on the same belt into the same dense dark from the opposite end. To the viewer it appears that for a brief while, an inter- galactic panorama of is lighted up, made visible, moved in front of him/her and then slowly rolled away. From either perspective, nothing emerges from a beginning nor fades into an end. The play of motion of the mote and of the panoramic stage goes endlessly on like some cosmic dance, creating rapidly shifting kaleidoscopic patterns before the spot light, the zone which we call life. The dense dark, the dim glow tapering into the bright zones and the bright zones themselves are all but a continuum, and immortality has no other meaning. Everything is always present in some form somewhere. Birth and death and the seemingly speeding or slow-motion zones of life are patterns in an optical play. And yet all this means nothing because nothing means anything here. Everything exists without bothering to mean anything. Things do not mean; they are."

and i do not see why this obsession with immortality or preventing death.. why ... what so great about immortality or the desire to attain one....on another level, all things in any case are immortal. even science says nothing can be destroyed; things only change form at its core, religion also says the same thing... only, the idiom of religion differs somewhat from the scientific idiom, but what difference does that make. both science and religion are human attempts at making sense of this universe, but even w e the humans did not make sense of it, the universe would still be glad to exist as it does.
  • Suzanne: very good question.and a very difficult one to answer. for the moment , let me just say that meaning is purely a human response to reality which is glad to just exist with not a care in the world as to what it means or whether it means anything at all or not. seems like seeking a meaning in or imposing a meaning are more or less one and the same thing - and both are essentially human obsessions. reality, god, nature and nature of things are just happy to be --and we will be happy to be too if we could accept things for what they are rather than for what they mean ( to us). and, madam, is it possible that this could also be what some of our religions mean when they ask us to "accept" life and things. I am tempted to believe that it is, but please let me have your take. Madan JI: May I also request you to consider this and enlighten us. Will be grateful.
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  • And Madan ji a furthe quesion: I have often wondered if there indeed such a thing as "a riddle' of life or cosmos . Is there a riddle really if we accpet things as these are rather then trying to seek a further meaning which, for all we know, may not even be there. is the riddle then merely a riddle about the meaning that we are keen to impose on things which are quite glad to be as they are. i am losing track......must discontinue

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    I have said so many times that I find the concept of God an entity so completely laughable. I don't consider that even worth a denial. however, i do believe in God. If you don't see God in me or the next man or creature or thing standing by you, then you are never likely to him anywhere....Budhha called it "suchness", others called it the spirit of acceptance....in my two cents, I have tried to suggest things just are and must be accepted as such, and any 'meaning' we put on them is our own and ahs nothing to do with things themselves. let me put it this way. harpreet singh just is and exists and will exist without regard to any meaning i give to his existence.


    and i do not see why this obsession with immortality or preventing death.. why ... what so great about immortality or the desire to attain one....on another level, all things in any case are immortal. even science says nothing can be destroyed; things only change form at its core, religion also says the same thing... only, the idiom of religion differs somewhat from the scientific idiom, but what difference does that make. both science and religion are human attempts at making sense of this universe, but even w e the humans did not make sense of it, the universe would still be glad to exist as it does.

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