The Meaning of Life is very simple to grasp, so long as you don't use words, and have a good visual imagination.

Imagine your life as a curving, twisting line in Time and Space (four dimensions), much like a thread in a tapestry. When you make a decision, the line changes position. When you interact with anyone or anything else, your line and the other's line touch. The beginning of the line is the beginning of your life, and the end of the line is your death.

Now ask yourself, as you look at this great pattern of lines, "What does this mean?" Also ask, "Why is this line like so?","Why is that line like so?", and "Why does such-and-such a line begin here and end there?"

Give yourself time to think about it, then read my personal belief on what the answer is.

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Life has no intrinsic meaning. Everything in the picture is meaningful only to something else in the picture, something that is related to (touching) it.

The purpose of the various vicissitudes of life is to make the (big) picture interesting and beautiful. Life is like a novel which can be written in many ways. The characters, as they progress through the novel, become happy, sad, angry; they progress, regress; are born, live, and die. And all the while, they most likely wonder...WHY? Just like us, they usually don't take time to step back and imagine themselves the reader, for whom the novel is supposed to entertain.

Of course, by now you're probably asking, "Who's the reader of my life? Who's the person viewing the painting of reality?"

I am. We are. God is. Consciousness. Buddha-mind. Choose your answers, they all mean the same thing, really.

"But what about Heaven/Hell/Purgatory/Reincarnation/Life After Death?" you may ask.

Those things are simply different ways of looking at the picture from 'above.' Because the picture exits in Space-Time, Time does not progress for it. Time is instead the action of perceiving being 'in' a particular part of a picture, and moving your 'gaze' away from Birth and towards Death. When you reach Death, you naturally stop, so you can see the whole picture, and imagine yourself 'in' any part of it again.

More Deep Thoughts...

Not much right now. Come back when I have the time to put more thoughts to 'paper.'

Meanwhile, here are some wisdom links for you to chew on.

Or check your biorythmn.