Comments on: What It Means To Me http://www.abarefootman.co.uk/archives/2006/04/08/what-it-means-to-me/ treading lightly on this earth Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:36:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Lewis http://www.abarefootman.co.uk/archives/2006/04/08/what-it-means-to-me/#comment-141 Lewis Sun, 09 Apr 2006 14:22:21 +0000 http://www.abarefootman.co.uk/archives/2006/04/08/what-it-means-to-me/#comment-141 Absolutely bud! I think so often the Game we play is one long search. The search for meaning, for purpose, for happiness, for enlightenment. It drives us on, it is a deep desire. To see there's nothing to strive for is liberating, and yet paradoxically such a perception comes from striving for that perception! We chase after enlightenment, we desire it, even as we are told to let go of all desires. The questions we need to ask, and perhaps the ones we ignore by going on the search itself, is: if there's no meaning, why live at all? Why not just give up and die? But I think that very question shows faulty perception. It can be akin to the idea of doing the right thing, or being kind. You might ask, "if there's no God who will punish me for being bad or reward me for being good, why not just be bad, why be good at all?" And again, that question really misses the point. It is putting things outside of us again, "Out there", as you called it. And so we've come full circle once more... Absolutely bud! I think so often the Game we play is one long search. The search for meaning, for purpose, for happiness, for enlightenment. It drives us on, it is a deep desire. To see there’s nothing to strive for is liberating, and yet paradoxically such a perception comes from striving for that perception! We chase after enlightenment, we desire it, even as we are told to let go of all desires. The questions we need to ask, and perhaps the ones we ignore by going on the search itself, is: if there’s no meaning, why live at all? Why not just give up and die?

But I think that very question shows faulty perception. It can be akin to the idea of doing the right thing, or being kind. You might ask, “if there’s no God who will punish me for being bad or reward me for being good, why not just be bad, why be good at all?” And again, that question really misses the point. It is putting things outside of us again, “Out there”, as you called it. And so we’ve come full circle once more…

]]> By: Paulo http://www.abarefootman.co.uk/archives/2006/04/08/what-it-means-to-me/#comment-140 Paulo Sun, 09 Apr 2006 09:06:13 +0000 http://www.abarefootman.co.uk/archives/2006/04/08/what-it-means-to-me/#comment-140 A true reminder bud, it's so tempting to think of "Unseen forces" which are "Out there" working against us. After all, all good things stem from us, and all bad things happen to us, don't they? It happens to everyone once in a while that there seem to be "lost" moments, or even days. I've been considering an alternative view that I've discovered through Confucius, and a recent book I read by Marcel Möring: That there is, in fact, no meaning. There's no point, no goal and no sense to things. All there is, is just to be there. It's liberating in a way, sort of like Instinct, you know? Stepping outside of the Game. A true reminder bud, it’s so tempting to think of “Unseen forces” which are “Out there” working against us. After all, all good things stem from us, and all bad things happen to us, don’t they?
It happens to everyone once in a while that there seem to be “lost” moments, or even days.

I’ve been considering an alternative view that I’ve discovered through Confucius, and a recent book I read by Marcel Möring: That there is, in fact, no meaning. There’s no point, no goal and no sense to things. All there is, is just to be there.

It’s liberating in a way, sort of like Instinct, you know? Stepping outside of the Game.

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