2006-11-25 11:34:22 · 17 answers · asked by Sagi 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
42. That is the answer to life, the universe and everything.
42.
2006-11-25 11:43:20 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Joshu asked Nansen: `What is the path?' Nansen said: `Everyday life is the path.' Joshu asked: `Can it be studied?' Nansen said: `If you try to study, you will be far away from it.' Joshu asked: `If I do not study, how can I know it is the path?' Nansen said: `The path does not belong to the perception world, neither does it belong to the nonperception world. Cognition is a delusion and noncognition is senseless. If you want to reach the true path beyond doubt, place yourself in the same freedom as sky. You name it neither good nor not-good.' At these words Joshu was enlightened.
2006-11-25 19:58:36 · answer #2 · answered by The Zen Hippo 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I ask this same question once in a meditation. The answer came clear as a bell.
It said I have placed you here to learn the true meaning of Love. What ever it was that was answering then told me something that really set me back. It said that I felt the way I did about certain people because I did not understand the true meaning of love. I protested and said that I did my best to love all of
the people who were deserving of love.
It replied "yes that is, you’re misunderstanding. You see love as something
that you dole out in tiny little portions here and there to people who you
have judged to be worthy of it. This is not love at all, it is only
judgment". This stopped me dead in my tracks. I suddenly realized that what
it was saying to me was true. This realization brought me to tears. It went
on and told me, "You treat love as though there is some shortage of it. It
is not something that you can run out of. The more love that you give, the
more love that there is in the world. Its that simple. The only way that
there can be a shortage of it is if you hoard it and keep it to yourself."
It went on to explain, that "this is what Jesus was trying to tell you when
he asked you to turn the other cheek, to judge not and to love your
neighbor. He made no exceptions in these things that he requested of you.
Why are you making exceptions, and judging some as worthy of love and others
as not? Jesus fully intended for you to apply this love that you are to all,
in a universal manner without any judgment of any sort". By this time the tears
Were flowing so freely. I was crying because for the first time in my life I
Understood what the message Jesus left for us in the bible actually meant.
This has become my truth. I can't say what yours is for sure, but I have a feeling that it is probably similar.
Love and blessings
don
2006-11-25 19:36:37 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
I think the purpose of life is simply to learn through experience.
2006-11-25 19:42:46 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Life is like an intangible passbook that you have to submit after your life ends where someone will check and computer all the debits and credits of your life...
2006-11-25 19:42:18 · answer #5 · answered by Virginia 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
there is no meaning to life, it is only the after life that has meaning.
2006-11-25 19:39:31 · answer #6 · answered by Hannah's Grandpa 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
It's a Monty Python movie.
2006-11-25 19:39:17 · answer #7 · answered by nuthnbettr2do0128 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
that really depends on your own beleifs being a christian i beleive it's to develope a relationship with God but many other religions have explainations for this so in the end i think you can only find out this answer through your own faith
2006-11-25 19:38:06 · answer #8 · answered by bluefrog988 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It Nothing there is no meaning of life get over it! Its just a game in peoples head! trust me I tryed to find it and got me no where!
2006-11-25 19:36:23 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
The Westminster Confession describes God’s purpose for mankind as being “to glorify God and enjoy Him forever.”
2006-11-25 19:42:46 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋