is it enligtenment?
2006-11-21 02:22:01 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
80% of humanity, the religious folks, don't need to ask the meaning of life, the church tells them....the supernatural explanation. But the rest of us can't swallow religious dogma, because there's no evidence. Nobody can prove that there life after death, that people are tortured or rewarded after life or that there's invisible spirits running around.
I've come to two conclusions recently:
1. Life has no meaning
2. Life has a million meanings.
First, there's a certainty that death and annihilation awaits not only you, but the Earth in general. It's an astonomical certainty that our sun will supernova and leave the earth a burnt crisp, not to mention all the other extinction level events around the corner.
Second, the million things that give us meaning are the pleasurable experiences we can conjure up during the short period we are here on the earth, in the form of the relationships we have with our kids and other people, and the 'housekeeping' types of purposes. What i mean by that are the curing disease, ending hunger, improving literacy, reducing crime, preventing war, helping other kinds of things.
2006-11-21 07:38:18 · answer #1 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The ultimate goal in life is different for each individual. It is something that one has to figure out on their own. One might say that the ultimate goal of life is to preserve life.
2006-11-21 02:31:11 · answer #2 · answered by truly 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When a person is living with comfort, he wouldn t think of ENLIGHTENMENT actually. when something goes wrong, against his/her wishes, he seeks a support to continue his life and that is where GOD comes. only, then enlightenment comes.Otherwise,the ultimate goal of a person's life is to LIVE AND LET LIVE and that too peacefully, enjoyable and harmless to anyone. a person with bad mentality would aim at his satisfaction thru wrong ways, say in business , he may carry on unfair practices. where as , a normal person would love his family, friends and environment and make his life peaceful, enthusiastic and enjoyable by making people around him the same way. Living is like Breath. It should go on by itself, harmless. Living and letting live. AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, ONE HAS TO LIVE ACCORDING TO HIS SELF OTHERWISE, HE SURELY GETS DISTRESSED. So the ultimate Goal would be TO BE ONESELF , LIVE ONESELF AND LET LIVE ALL.
2006-11-21 04:19:36 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, Enlightment can be the ultimate goal of life. You can enlight others in many ways, by helping, caring, sharing. What you give comes back to you. You enlight others without expecting any thing in return, you will get enlightened at one point or other certainly.
2006-11-21 03:14:11 · answer #4 · answered by Rahul D 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If finding out what the ultimate goal of life is, equates to enlightenment, then enlightentment must be the ultimate goal in life.
:-)
2006-11-21 02:25:33 · answer #5 · answered by ME 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The ultimate goal of life is to do what you enjoy and avoid what you dont.
Other virtues would be getting knowllege of the worlds phenomenas, people, animals, things etc.
but the main thing is pleasure
2006-11-21 02:25:22 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dedication to God First, Family and the Friends. Being a good decent moral person on earth and after my death looking forward to Heaven.
2006-11-21 02:42:35 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
My ideal purpose in life is to alter into the very maximum suitable individual i would be, and that i think of that's not weighed in funds, recognition, or any of the shallow issues that men use to flee their real selves. the toughest ingredient to do is to be purpose approximately our own habit, and as quickly as we are open to advance, we get quite some those opportunities to look after circumstances in a distinctive way than we've in the previous. We get to enhance and to conform to a greater point of affection and compassion for ourselves besides as others. If we proceed to be diligent approximately figuring out our complete skill, and life comprises an end with not something yet dirt to dirt, what have we lost? We extremely won't be in a position to take something with us, yet we are in a position to bypass away this international only quite greater valuable off than it exchange into earlier we got here alongside. old Brutus suggested, "The evil that men do lives after them. the stable is often interred in thei bones." the real meaning of happiness is gaining information of to stay in the 2nd and to delight in it for what that's. as quickly as we live our lives dedicated to the utmost and maximum suitable stable of all, we gained't fail, and if we are open and elementary approximately figuring out our skill, we can be bring about the situation the place we could desire to be. The universe only happens to artwork that way, and people who've positioned it to the attempt are attentive to this regulation. to those who have not tried it, properly, you extremely won't be in a position to declare until you provide it a attempt. people who study to be loving and variety are plenty happier and greater effective, and people who have confidence in God are by no skill on my own.
2016-10-22 11:49:03 · answer #8 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To leave the world a better place than you found it, (be good to people, animals, the earth, in other words)...if you can do this and be happy, that's a bonus!
2006-11-21 06:44:17 · answer #9 · answered by jennycf2 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Osho was once asked what the meaning of life was.He replied that life in itself had no meaning and no purpose.
So the meaning in life is given by us.
The purpose in life is assigned by us.
2006-11-21 02:50:31 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋