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what are the parameters of peace and satisfaction in life.

2007-07-06 00:54:14 · 17 answers · asked by MAG 2 in Arts & Humanities Philosophy

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The philosophical question "What is the meaning of life?" means different things to different people. The vagueness of the query is inherent in the word "meaning", which opens the question to many interpretations, such as: "What is the origin of life?", "What is the nature of life (and of the universe in which we live)?", "What is the significance of life?", "What is valuable in life?", and "What is the purpose of, or in, (one's) life?". These questions have resulted in a wide range of competing answers and arguments, from scientific theories, to philosophical, theological, and spiritual explanations.

These questions are separate from the scientific issue of the boundary between things with life and inanimate objects.
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"What is the meaning of life?" is a question many people ask themselves at some point during their lives, most in the context "What is the purpose of life?" Here are some of the many potential answers to this perplexing question. The responses are shown to overlap in many ways but may be grouped into the following categories:

Survival and temporal success
...to live every day like it is your last and to do your best at everything that comes before you
...to be always satisfied
...to live, go to school, work, and die
...to participate in natural human evolution, or to contribute to the gene pool of the human race
...to advance technological evolution, or to actively develop the future of intelligent life
...to compete or co-operate with others
...to destroy others who harm you, or to practice nonviolence and nonresistance
...to gain and exercise power
...to leave a legacy, such as a work of art or a book
...to eat
...to prepare for death
...to spend life in the pursuit of happiness, maybe not to obtain it, but to pursue it relentlessly.
...to produce offspring through sexual reproduction (alike to participating in evolution)
...to protect and preserve one's kin, clan, or tribe (akin to participating in evolution)
...to seek freedom, either physically, mentally or financially
...to observe the ultimate fate of humanity to the furthest possible extent
...to seek happiness and flourish, experience pleasure or celebrate
...to survive, including the pursuit of immortality through scientific means
...to attempt to have many sexual conquests (as in Arthur Schopenhauer's will to procreate)
...to find and take over all free space in this "game" called life
...to seek and find beauty
...to kill or be killed
...No point. Since having a point is a condition of living human consciousness. Animals do not need a point to live or exist. It is more of an affliction of consciousness that there are such things as points, a negative side to evolutionary development for lack of better words.

Wisdom and knowledge
...to master and know everything
...to be without questions, or to keep asking questions
...to expand one's perception of the world
...to explore, to expand beyond our frontiers
...to learn from one's own and others' mistakes
...to seek truth, knowledge, understanding, or wisdom
...to understand and be mindful of creation or the cosmos
...to lead the world towards a desired situation
...to satisfy the natural curiosity felt by humans about life

Ethical
...to express compassion
...to follow the "Golden Rule"
...to give and receive love
...to work for justice and freedom
...to live in peace with yourself and each other, and in harmony with our natural environment
...to protect humanity, or more generally the environment
...to serve others, or do good deeds

Religious and spiritual
...to find perfect love and a complete expression of one's humanness in a relationship with God
...to achieve a supernatural connection within the natural context
...to achieve enlightenment and inner peace
...to become like God, or divine
...to glorify God
...to experience personal justice (i.e. to be rewarded for goodness)
...to experience existence from an infinite number of perspectives in order to expand the consciousness of all there is (i.e. to seek objectivity)
...to be a filter of creation between heaven and hell
...to produce useful structure in the universe over and above consumption (see net creativity)
...to reach Heaven in the afterlife
...to seek and acquire virtue, to live a virtuous life
...to turn fear into joy at a constant rate achieving on literal and metaphorical levels: immortality, enlightenment, and atonement
...to understand and follow the "Word of God"
...to discover who you are
...to resolve all problems that one faces, or to ignore them and attempt to fully continue life without them, or to detach oneself from all problems faced

Philosophical
...to give life meaning
...to participate in the chain of events which has led from the creation of the universe until its possible end (either freely chosen or determined, this is a subject widely debated amongst philosophers)
...to know the meaning of life
...to achieve self-actualisation
...all possible meanings have some validity
...life in itself has no meaning, for its purpose is an opportunity to create that meaning, therefore:
...to die
...to simply live until one dies (there is no universal or celestial purpose)
...nature taking its course (the wheel of time keeps on turning)
...whatever you see you see, as in "projection makes perception"
...there is no purpose or meaning whatsoever
...life may actually not exist, or may be illusory )
...to contemplate "the meaning of the end of life"

Other
...to contribute to collective meaning ("we" or "us") without having individual meaning ("I" or "me")
...to find a purpose, a "reason" for living that hopefully raises the quality of one's experience of life, or even life in general
...to participate in the inevitable increase in entropy of the universe
...to make conformists' lives miserable
...to make life as difficult as possible for others (i.e. to compete)

2007-07-06 03:30:55 · answer #1 · answered by Jayaraman 7 · 1 0

The conditioned mind fetters, disrupts,questions, puts us down, disenchants, depresses, blocks, conceals and contrives all manner of devious stratagems to throw one of his/her decided pursuit. This indoctrination by institutional authorities (parental, educational, religious) begins from infancy.One has to be the Best, the most beautiful, the best genius, the foremost athlete, etc etc. The media emblazons these values through pernicious ads.
OK, fair enough.
But better than who? Mind you,the priorities subtly change here. The aim becomes not to be the best, but to be better than.. This is dangerous territory because unconsciously one will begin to think against the competitor, and not the game.
Another new damning mantra is winning at all costs-no holds barred. So one thinks of new ideas on how to make others fail so that one seems apparently the best. Our TV soaps show nothing but this. The mind then will never let one rest. There will be no PEACE of mind.
The best athletes of today confirm that the competition is always against oneself. They try to overcome self-imposed limits. That is the REAL competition. The opponent is not across the net, but inside one's head. And the game carries on and on. As long as one acts, according to institutionalised codes, there will be no peace of mind. There will always be someone better or more beautiful or whatever.
However, when we step aside and battle to recondition the mind- to lessen the chatter and the banter, a sense of quietitude begins to build inside one. With continued practice, Peace of mind and hence Satisfaction may be attained.The path is thorny and full of pitfalls indeed. But the rewards are great. The aim is to search out our Divinity.
So, the meaning of Peace and Satisfaction is Knowing/getting to Know who we are in relation to the divine. Begin work in this direction and one will feel sublime,peaceful and happy. One comes to understand that Every being is one and the same and there is an underlying Unity in the created world.
That Unity breathes through every atom of the Universe.
That Unity is God.

2007-07-06 02:23:47 · answer #2 · answered by ven_god_ky 3 · 0 0

If you mean having peace of mind and satisfaction of desires at the same time, then it is like uniting earth and sky!! You have to withdraw yourself from all desires and cravings, because as long as there will be these, your mind will never be at peace. Limit your desires as much as possible!!

Remember : A person with a free mind is a happy man!!!

2007-07-06 02:59:23 · answer #3 · answered by World Vision 4 · 0 0

You have peace in life when you go to sleep immediately in the night and can wake up early next day morning without hesitation.

You have satisfaction in life when you have got exactly what you wanted.

2007-07-06 01:13:25 · answer #4 · answered by Hi 2 · 0 0

peace is, following a life in terms of the norms prescribed by the governing agency. there is nothing like satisafaction of life. if one is satisfied with one wish, another wish immediately crops up. this will go on till the death of a person. a realised person will not seek satisfaction of life. he will follow the routine of life as a matter of duty!

2007-07-08 04:10:01 · answer #5 · answered by sristi 5 · 0 0

we can be satisfied easily.but getting peace in this fast growing world is bit difficult.
satisfaction comes when you have done something at the right time for a right purpose and for a right time.
but peace commes when your relaxed and free from tensions.
say for example,if you ve completed your family responsibilities after a retirement and got all your children settled in their life you feel relaxed and peaceful.
this is peace.
hope so this would have cleared your doubt.

2007-07-06 01:19:16 · answer #6 · answered by jeethu 2 · 0 0

satisfaction means u have the barest minimum to survive, like air, water, one or two meals a day, and clothing just enough to shield u against the weather
peace means, u are not being hunted and killed, though u may be despised or hated by others.

2007-07-06 01:06:02 · answer #7 · answered by wizard of the East 7 · 0 0

Happiness is a few thing that lies interior for me. It does not contain human beings or issues. however, while i'm chuffed i've got self assurance love for each individual and each little thing. Happiness does not anticipate something. That way if I lose the relationship with a individual, or I lose the textile ingredient i'm no longer likely to be depressing. possibly i will sense a loss although this is going to pass. Happiness isn't inevitably being chuffed 24 hours an afternoon, yet coping with the disappointments and getting by them with out giving up on existence. Happiness is an emotion it somewhat is mine no person "makes me chuffed." no longer something "makes me chuffed." this is my emotions that makes it my option to be chuffed and that's extremely empowering to comprehend that i will choose to be chuffed or unhappy or something that i choose to be. i do no longer supply my capability away and say " you're making me depressing." no person would desire to ever make me depressing. it somewhat is my selection and mine on my own to be although i choose to be.

2016-10-01 00:26:46 · answer #8 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

Visit Osho's ashram! You'll find absolute peace and satisfaction there!

2007-07-06 01:09:01 · answer #9 · answered by gee 2 · 0 0

Varies person to person depends his mental stability. A
simple person working in its facts will feel comfortable even
if he do not earn enough to take two times food but a padri
who do not have stable mind will leave his position in society
for the sake of money.

2007-07-08 21:34:57 · answer #10 · answered by Sachin Belokar 4 · 0 0

If the (desires fulfilled) / (desires contemplated to be fulfilled) >= 1 , it is the satisfaction.
Peace is nothing but having satisfaction - in one, broader, sense.

2007-07-08 15:48:52 · answer #11 · answered by Alrahcam 4 · 0 0

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