for wise people only???

Question

why do you keep building when it is all going to collapse..??

hey hey hey guys come on i am not like that i am just asking about your opinions........besides i said wise people because some people may agree with what i am saying

Answer 1

The inherent ego within human beings prompts us to keep amassing more and more... be it worldly riches, your sexual appetite... even your love for countrymen! We just do not desire stopping... we gloat in amassing huge fortunes in every field... knowing well when time to depart comes... all is left behind!

People simply do not desire stopping at any stage of life. Why? The inherent fear of losing all to a strike of fate... fear of our competitors moving ahead of us... basking in the glory of being the richest... fear of losing status number one... are some factors that prompt us to keep amassing... no matter what!

We simply fail to remember inner happiness pursues not from hoarding fortunes beyond requirements! Life is enjoying the journey... not pursuing a goal that leads to amassing huge wealth. It is only when we balance our life between the journey and the goal... does the real value of life become understandable.

We have manifested the human form for an earthly sojourn of 70 to 80 years. Why not live it to its best! Serving mankind earns us Punya. It is this Punya karma that gets carried to next life... not the manifest earthly riches! What does the spiritual seeker on the spiritual path gain? It is only Punya karma one is after!

Reaching the end of cosmic life... gaining enlightenment (kaivalya jnana) and finally salvation (moksha) is the ultimate crux... why not do it now... who knows what we shall be in the next manifestation? More on Life - http://www.godrealized.org/truce_with_my_inner_self.html

Answer 2

Nesting. Providing for the future, the family or potential family, contributing to society at large.

It is instinct.

There does come a time when we pass it all on to the next generation and we stop accumulating, start living with less.

This is not a time of collapse or destruction. This is a time of the reward of ultimate freedom. A time when we have out grown our bodies, our homes and our societies. A time to fly.
I do not think the system is so bad.

Answer 3

The act of building is a purpose in itself apart from its intended use once it is built. Long before it can collapse, the first purpose is already served well by the very act of building.

By the way, I am not wise... I have just applied some common-sense logic in order to reply to this question.

Answer 4

The only building we really do is internally. It cannot collapse if we "find the foundation stone the workers discarded." The core of our identity and being is what we love - now how hard can that be for most people? What can collapse?

Answer 5

Even if I knew something was going to collapse tomorrow-I'd still build it today. To stop building would be giving up and it goes against my grain to give up on anything. What was that thing about the little old ant and the rubber tree plant?

Answer 6

The MIND is building. What will not collapse cannot be built!As long as Mind can convince the awareness that It is a body as well as the Mind itself, the building will persist. Mind has a hidden agenda-DESTRUCTION. Of you as well as all that it builds. Only ONE thing will last. Find the subtle essence of what you are and you will find what was never built and is never destroyed.

Answer 7

ye ye ye no, i am not wise like u still i am answering this question because we build hoping that it will stay. nobody builds keeping in mind that it might collapse anytime ( including relationship ) we know that evrything will come to an end for us when we die. but don't we live till we die ?why do we try to have education , search for better life & build relationships inspite of knowing that one day we are going to leave everything & go for ever ? that is life & we have to live that

Answer 8

Thats an assumption. Why ever move forward if you assume you will only be sent back to where you started?

For one, the reason you are back where you started is because something went wrong. So you learn from it and adapt it to a new way of moving forwards in hope that one day you will achieve your goal.

If you accept defeat before you try then you can never expect to achieve anything.

Answer 9

Because in building up things we find out a lot about ourselves. Read a book a month then re read them after a year and finding they are different books because you look at them with a different perspective. God put us in these human bodies to struggle, grow and believe. What a better way than to know that if we build it he will come...

Answer 10

it is to prepare for the rainy days... like the ants, they build a territory and contain foods for tha rainy days they know it would all be consumed at the end of the wet season or that their dwelling be destroyed and they move out again... but that's just it, to save for the rainy days, survival at least...

for structures, they are not designed to be impossibly non destructible, and this is for economy reason... and that we build structures only for a certain lifetime, that includes maintenance and all that to reach its maximum lifetime... nothing is permanent as they say... even a mountain that is build over era and era of time due to pressures caused by moving plates on the earth's surface, at time too they fall off at their weakest point... that is because naturally or man made, nothing is permanent...