Yes indeed - good question. What is the meaning of this life?
And you know, in this article we will give you the exact answer to this question!
Only it will be at the end of the problem book. Remember how in the algebra textbook at school?
But we have to warn you right away!!!
After reading this article, your life may change 180 degrees.!
Yes Yes exactly!
Think about it, do you really need this answer? Are you sure you're ready to hear it?
If not or you are not sure, then feel free to close this page and go further somewhere to Google or Yandex to read hundreds of other articles there about how the meaning of life is in children!
For those who have already read this far, let us say right away: the meaning of life is NOT in children!!
The last phrase can be underlined and highlighted in bold!!!
Why? We'll explain a little later...
So what is the meaning of human life? A...?
Why all this: a job for which you need to get up every morning on an alarm clock, some goals, plans, loans, a constant lack of time, stress, traffic jams, the subway, family, children, medications and headaches?
Why is all this needed? What is the meaning of such a life?
Where are you going? What are you aiming for? You are rushing headlong into the future at a speed of 200 km/h, not noticing how the events of your present are flashing outside the window. And you don’t even have enough time to breathe in the scent of flowers?
Loans, suppliers, contracts, partners, kickbacks, taxes... and now the alarm clock is ringing again in the morning! Ding-ding! Climb! And again pictures from life flashed at a speed of 200 frames per second. And somewhere now the sun is rising, the surf is roaring, seagulls are screaming and the air still smells of morning coolness!
Or is there emptiness ahead of you? All the colors of your life have long been erased. And you live only in thoughts of the past... reliving old grievances, heartache, betrayal, slowly fading away from the lack of love, warmth, care, understanding... regretting opportunities, blaming your fate and other people, who made it this way for you? This must be fate, you tell yourself.
So what is the meaning of life then?
Why live at all?
After all, every year there are more and more wrinkles on the face, but no one has explained why a person lives, what is the meaning of his life.
Well, okay, stop being lost in conjectures, poking around in your past, thoughts, experiences!
From now on you can start smiling! Like this: :))))))))
Just what you were looking for!
First, let's look at the wrong answers!
Although, probably 99% of people, when asked “what is the meaning of life,” will answer this way, because they also don’t know what it is! :))
Wrong answer #1
The meaning of life is in children!
Why not in children, you ask!
Yes because!
Just think: Masha gave birth to a little daughter. And Masha decided to name her daughter Katya. Beautiful name! But before Katya was born, Masha had no meaning in life. None at all! More precisely, no, he was: to give birth to Katya. For all 35 years, Masha lived only to give birth to Katya. And now she finally has the meaning of life: to raise and educate her beloved daughter (or son, whatever). But what will happen when Katya grows up? When she is already 21 years old and she finally says: “Mom, well, that’s enough already! I’m not little...” Masha will again lose the meaning of her life!
It turns out that way.
The saddest thing is that for most of these Mashas, for whom the meaning of life is children, this is what happens. After their child grows up, their lives become aimless and dreary again.
But Nature intended it this way that sooner or later Katya and Vasya will grow up and leave their parents’ home to begin building their own independent lives!
And if their mother (or father) by this moment has not found the correct, Natural answer to the question “what is the meaning of my life,” then she will continue to “cling” to her children, trying to control their lives without having her own!
And if we continue this chain, then Katya will think the same as Masha: I must give birth to a child, because this is the meaning of my life. And then history will repeat itself!
Night, street, lantern, pharmacy... pharmacy, street, lantern...
Because the meaning of a person’s life is not in children!
A child is only a tactical (intermediate) goal, but not the main, strategic one.
Although most people, not knowing what the main goal is in their life, put a child in this place!
Wrong answer #2
Who cares what the meaning of life is!
Do not worry. Just live and DO NOT think about it!
Well, that’s also an option! Indeed, what difference does it make what the meaning of a person’s life is!
Live for yourself and live! If you die, then maybe the guys with white wings up there will finally explain what the point was. And they will give you a pass or fail... Well, like in college, remember? :) And then they will be sent back to Earth for a retake, but in a different body, in a new incarnation, in new family... To some popuas in the jungle. And everything is all new again: being born again, screaming, sucking a tit, learning to walk... And then, one fine day, when the Sun is at its zenith, warming the earth with its warm rays, you will be devoured by some skinny-toothed tiger in the bushes, where did you go little by little? And again to heaven, welcome to heaven, to the admissions committee with its tattered record book from past incarnations! Just some kind of Samsara circle!
So what's the joke? Can someone explain? Otherwise, I’m already tired of back and forth... I’ve already changed so many bodies, I’ve been both a man and a woman, I’ve seen so many things on this Earth over many centuries, but I still remain a fool! Hey, guys in white coats, what is the meaning of life?
Well, I finally thought to ask! And you type in Google “what is the meaning of life”, they will answer with thoughts in your head... You will find an article “what is the meaning of human life”. And read. Read attentively! Until the end. If after so many lives I have not yet understood what the meaning is. There they will explain everything to you in human language. And maybe this time, when you return from Earth to us again with your record book, we will give you a solid 4 instead of zeros and ones for past unlived lives.
Wrong answer #3
The meaning of human life = power, sex and money.
Well, for such chosen meanings of life, they put zeros (0) and ones (1) in heavenly office angels in white coats. Just kindergarten some kind! I amused my ego called personality by playing into the illusion of my power over the world, or power over 5 janitors from the HOA. Who has what power... Small, medium and large businesses. Policy. He spent 20 years building his empire, and then the government changed and everything fell apart, like House of cards in a few months. And if this business was the whole meaning of life, then, in fact, there is no need to live any further! Alcohol, anger, accident... and again write off the expense!
Knock Knock? Can? Hello office! I came to you again with my record book. Somehow it turned out to be an unsuccessful implementation. Somewhere I messed up again!
The conversation might go something like this:
But there were hints! Well, if you remember. Don't you remember?
Don’t come here, it’ll snow on your head and you’ll be completely dead. Don’t sign this contract, it smells bad, don’t start this business, better look here... This is much more promising and profitable.
But NO! I said, I decided so, I want this, I will achieve this at any cost...
And we talked to you, suggested, but you don’t hear...
Your personality, your Ego has grown so much that it seems to you that this is you. That nothing else exists. That only your personal will, your personal plans and your personal goals determine your life.
What if we tell you that you have your invisible master, your boss?
No, not the one who, spitting saliva, yelled at you with anger and discontent every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. (By the way, your earthly office boss did this too because he doesn’t know what the meaning of his life is).
We are talking about your Spirit! And his tasks of incarnation on Earth through yours physical body and your Personality!
Well, why are you looking at us again with such stunned, incomprehensible eyes, like 125 years ago, when you took your last test?
Explain?
Okay, let’s explain in human language you understand!
With pictures like in comics!
And don't tell us again that you didn't understand.
And here is the answer at the end of the problem book!
The correct answer to the question: “What is the meaning of human life?”
But first, let's figure out who this person is.
There is a physical shell, a material object of the dense plane of existence of matter. Arms, legs, head, stomach, lungs, rectum, bones and heart.
But what distinguishes the dead from the living?
It seems like the same set of organs. But something is already missing from this set.
Can you answer what is missing?
Right! Souls, more precisely, a subtle material object that connects with the physical body (biological carrier) throughout life.
What about the Soul or the Spirit? What's the difference. Let's figure out how all this is interconnected.
The human body is surrounded by an energy shell (in other words, an aura or biofield). These are objects of the astral plane of existence of matter. On the human aura (biofield) we can distinguish zones of energy condensation, which are called chakras. There are 7 of them.
The human energy shell is enclosed in a cocoon of the emotional shell, which feeds the energy shell. Therefore, the more often a person rejoices, the denser and larger his energy shell is and the less he gets sick, since there is a direct relationship between a person’s state of health and the density and size of his energy shell. “Jupiter, you are angry, that means you are wrong.”
What is a person?
Physical and energy shell person
On video: Vyacheslav Gubanov - Rector of the International Institute of Social Ecology
The emotional shell of a person
Next, after the emotional shell, come the intellectual and program shell structures. We will analyze their functions in another article. Yes, by the way, the state of energy, any chakra distortions can be measured. And we teach this within the framework of our scientific direction “Infosomatics”.
It looks like this:
Developments of the International Institute of Social Ecology.
Any material object is distributed in outer space with a finite speed C. Well, you may remember this from the school and college physics course, who attended it :) Einstein also described this in his theory of relativity. What does the theory of relativity and the meaning of human life have to do with it, you ask. The answer is further.
So, the physical body and the thin material shell structure of a person spreads in outer space at a speed of C. And according to the theory of relativity, in this case the material object loses its dimensions in the direction of the propagation axis. Those. This whole thing degenerates into a disk.
This is what the human soul looks like:
This is a set of disks (human states) for each quantum of lived time from the point of birth. It records all the stress, all the emotions of a person.
And it can be measured! Yes, yes, you heard right. The human soul - an object of the mental plane of existence of matter - can be measured!
This is what we do regularly when someone comes for a consultation with their problems. We remove the characteristics of the mental body and look for all the stresses in the past that affect the person’s present and help him “turn them off”, rewrite them in his past on the life line.
It looks like this:
So what is the meaning of life?
Here's the thing...
The soul, the mental body of man, spreads over the surface of the Spirit. Spirit is an object of the next order; it belongs to the causal plane of the existence of matter. It contains information about past incarnations of a person, about the experiences of all past lives.
It looks like this:
This is the very record book into which spherical objects of the Causal plane of the existence of matter and higher, which some call angels, look in the heavenly office. We call them Curators. Because they constantly supervise the embodied person and give him tips. The only question is whether he hears them or clings only to his personality: Me, Me, Me, homing head... :)
Spirit, by the way, can also be measured. Not with a ruler, of course!
Find in it the controlling stresses and programs, both in the current incarnation (Soul) and in past ones. By the way, a person’s gender can change from incarnation to incarnation. Many problems of sexual self-identification are associated with this, when a person’s consciousness still hears its previous incarnation, but is already in a biological carrier of the opposite sex.
So what is the meaning of human life!
It is to develop as many layers of your Spirit as possible during the current incarnation and to smooth its surface as much as possible due to positive emotions from tasks/problems that arise on the road of a person’s life. The spirit is that same invisible master who guides a person through life, helps and protects him or, on the contrary, spanks him on the butt! And he has to spank, oh, how often. Because otherwise a person does not hear, or rather does not want to hear.
After all, many people begin to think, use their heads and change only when they feel bad!
After all, you probably didn’t find this article while lying on the beach with a cocktail in your hand.
Greetings from your Spirit! :))
Well, now to the answer, what is the meaning of a person’s life, you can add new question... It sounds like this: how free is human will!
Man's will is free within the framework of the combat mission assigned to him by the Spirit!
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The meaning of life: what is the meaning of life? Answered by Doctor of Psychology
B. S. BROTHER | OCTOBER 5, 2009
The meaning of life: what is the meaning of life?
What place does death occupy in a person’s life?
Almost everything has probably been written and said about death, and it is difficult to add anything to it. However, if we look at what place death occupies in a person’s life, in his real life, everyday worries, thoughts, objects, we will see that this place is negligible, much less than some change in the style of clothing or a scandal surrounding a rock star. And, as one old author wrote, the biggest, most striking, most terrible illogicality in a person’s life is that he does not prepare for death, does not prepare for what is most certain and inevitable in his life.
A psychologist will explain this situation quite simply. He will say that death is repressed from consciousness, from the psyche, and that this repression is necessary and even useful, Fyodor Efimovich Vasilyuk has already spoken about this in part. In fact, if we think about death, how can we continue this often hectic life, how will we do all our affairs and affairs?
And, indeed, this is the kind of collision that we were talking about today, which comes from St. Augustine: “While we are alive, there is no death, and when we die, there will be no life.” These states are separate, and the question is how to look for them together.
But nevertheless, in psychological terms, death meets life. Moreover, it meets life not somewhere on the periphery of collisions of psychic reality, but in a very important, almost central place. This place is a problem meaning of life.
Meaning of life
In order to somehow confirm these words, I will allow myself a small psychological retreat. What is meaning? Meaning is not an object, a name, a word, Meaning is what we catch, the reflected connection between objects. Usually this is a connection between objects and a smaller situation in relation to a larger situation. Let's say, it is impossible to understand the meaning of why you came to this conference based on this conference. In each case, we must go beyond the boundaries of this conference, and then it turns out that one, say, came to gain knowledge, another - to write a dissertation, a third - to show himself, etc. That is, in each case we must leave given situation and enter into the context of the broader situation.
Further. Each meaning is sublimated, ascends vertically into a certain hierarchy, a ladder, because the answer that I came to show myself immediately implies a new question: why do you want to show yourself? And there you have to answer: for the sake of the fact that I have such a profession or something else. The question about profession again implies the question: why do you need this profession?
And such sublimation inevitably leads to the last question: what are you living for?
And here we again find ourselves in a situation: to understand meaning of life, based on life, from its context and situation - it is impossible by definition. Because by definition: meaning is the relation of less to more.
Meaning of life as a problem, as the question itself can be posed only if we relate it to something that is greater than our life, that goes beyond the boundaries of our life. This is where the real encounter with death takes place.
And this sublimation is implied in our lives, even when we do not carry it out. Just as in the Roman Empire all roads led to Rome, all questions about meaning, or more precisely, about the meanings diffused in our lives, one way or another lead to this main and essential meaning of life.
And lastly, when we talk about meanings, we are not talking about some declarations that a person makes. We are talking about internal subjective reality. Meaning is the sovereign territory of the soul. Therefore, meaning cannot be imposed, it cannot be taught. Truth is not taught, truth is experienced. This is the old position of philosophers.
When does an encounter with death occur? In ontogenesis, that is, during the course of individual mental development, this happens several times. After all, posing the question of the meaning of life is an essentially eternal posing. There is no set answer for life here. But the severity of highlighting this problem occurs at the main, turning points human life.
Marshak has a poem “Four years without death.” He recalls that until he was four years old, he was immortal, that is, death at that time did not seem to be present in his life, and at four years old he suddenly realized that he would someday die, of course, in infinite space-time, but will die. How bitterly he experienced this, he cried.
Then death appears in a very important age- approximately 9-10 years old. This is generally a rather mysterious age, because during these years a person is very often accompanied serious illnesses, bringing him to the brink of death. If you look at the biographies of many people, you will find that during this period of life many of them were seriously ill.
Then follows teenage years. This is, of course, the most dramatic age. The main drama of adolescence is that here for the first time a person understands his mortality with complete clarity and clarity. In adolescence, the first suicides appear, the first games with this edge appear. And as we know adolescence- this is the most sublime, philosophical age, when a person solves problems associated with his entire future, with all the semantic content of the meaning of life.
I remember the entry of 51-year-old Tolstoy in “Confession”. He writes: “two mice - white and black - every now and then undermine the roots of the bush, on the branches of which I hang over the abyss. I hold on to the branches of life, knowing that the dragon of death will inevitably devour me.”
Question about the meaning of life
In addition to age-related patterns, there are also structural patterns in resolving the question of the meaning of life. They are closely connected with those steps or structures of the semantic sphere that can be outlined.
We can talk about the egocentric level, when a person perceives himself as a unit, a center, and others, the entire environment, perform a service role depending on whether they help his desires or not. If they help, they are good; if they don’t help, then they are enemies. Death here is perceived as the end of personal well-being, as a stimulator of egocentric work. Accordingly, the meaning of life is seen as increasing the amount of personal achievements regardless of the benefit of other people.
The death of such a person seems to destroy him; everything becomes meaningless after his death.
The next important level is group-centric, where the central is the group, the community with which a person identifies himself. One's attitude towards others depends closely on whether one belongs to this group or not. If it belongs, then the other person is worthy of pity, regret, love, and condescension. If he doesn’t belong, then these feelings may not apply to him. In this case, the meaning of life already goes beyond the death of a person, and it is seen in the life and well-being of the group with which he identifies himself. We all lived in a world where such a centering was official: “We have such concerns, we have a lot of work - if only our native country could live, there would be no other worries!” “If we could make nails out of these people, there wouldn’t be any stronger nails in the world!” And so on. The main point here is for a certain “piece” of the community to live. It can be different - from family to country. It can be completely different in volume, but psychologically it is one and the same: if “mine” would live, “we”, “ours” would live, and as for the rest, it makes no difference.
And finally, the next stage, which can be called humanistic, prosocial. At this stage, any other person, whether he belongs to my group or not, has the same value in semantic perception as I myself. At this stage, morality first appears, because before this we cannot talk about morality. We can talk about morality: group-centric or corporate. But morality, as we know, exists in all layers of society, from criminals to trade workers, etc. Only at the level of moral consciousness does Kant’s imperative begin to operate, or, to put it more simply, the old Golden Rule Ethics: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. As an example of experiencing such a moral state, one can refer to 37-year-old Einstein, who, during a serious, death-threatening illness, wrote: “I feel so connected with other people that I don’t care where my life ends,” hence the meaning of life.
At the level of moral consciousness, the meaning of life is broader and brighter than that which is present in group morality. It transforms human activity, although this meaning applies to all of humanity, it is, strictly speaking, finite, since human existence is finite and humanity as such is also finite. Another thing is the extent and timing of this finitude.
And finally, the last step that can be designated is the spiritual or eschatological step. At this stage, a person begins to consider himself as a being connected and correlated with the spiritual world. Then he himself and any other person acquires not only humanistic, universal, but also a certain sacred value. Here, at this stage, his personal “formula” is established, a connection with the spiritual world, a personal form of connection with God. At this stage, death is not considered at all as the end of personal existence, but as a transition from one state of life to another, a transition from mental-physical changes to spiritual-incorporeal changes. And in fact, at this stage and only at this stage, the appearance of an infinite meaning of life is possible, a meaning of life that is not destroyed by the fact of physical death.
The conflict in life is resolved by finding the meaning of life only in religion. Therefore, death is called the trump card of religion, in particular, comprehending our culture, the trump card of Christianity. Because other approaches cannot cover this map.
In conclusion, I would like to return to the doubt that was expressed by the old author about whether people should think about death while they are alive. This doubt belongs to many psychologists who believe that the thought of death should be repressed, since it only interferes with life. In fact, this or that solution to the question of the meaning of life, which, as I tried to show, is necessarily connected with death, plays almost vital role in the organization of human life, in the organization of the most different manifestations this life.
If we talk about medicine. Medicine cannot exist outside the concept of life and death. Let me say that it starts with this concept. Moreover, let me state that if this concept does not exist, then this is not medicine at all, no matter what tools it has. Because the foundations of medicine were laid by Hippocrates and his oath. The oath does not talk about any tools. In it we're talking about about certain organization like an order. A doctor is not a profession along with others such as a plumber or engineer. This is a special profession that should include people with a special consciousness and calling.
Let's take any manifestation modern medicine, which Valentina Vasilievna Nikolaeva spoke very well about, for example, the child’s attitude to the situation of illness. Children in hospitals do not play, they are withdrawn, they are fixed on their parents, they perceive the disease only as a limitation. All this applies entirely to the Soviet hospital.
All this corresponds to best case scenario the level of group-centric morality or group-centric understanding of the meaning of life, because at the center of the Soviet hospital is the disease, not the person, not the child.
If there had been a child at the center of a normal hospital, then everything would have turned out differently. Because the task of the doctor and the task of this kind of hospital, where there are children, seriously ill children, is to make sure that they live there, and not just get treatment. Now treatment is the center of the hospital routine, to which the life of a sick child adapts. You need to turn it the other way around. In the center is the child’s life and its meaning. Treatment is a means that “must adapt” and correspond to the meaning of the child’s life.
And there are such hospitals. However, I haven’t seen them here. I've seen them abroad. In such a hospital, a child can live, communicate with peers, and joke. It will not be fixed on the parents.
All of these questions are key. If they are not resolved, if the education of doctors is not based on understanding the meaning of life, then we will remain with the idea of a person as an organism that needs to be manipulated, its organs cut out, traded or passed on by inheritance, etc.
Understanding meaning of life, the sublimation of this understanding to the level of genuine spiritual values is the basis of human medicine.
Seraphim of Sarov defined the meaning of Christian life this way: “The true goal of our Christian life is to acquire the Holy Spirit.”
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Almost everyone asks themselves the question of what is the meaning of human life. The meaning of life, the concept of it, is one of the central ones in philosophy or religion. Lack of meaning in life can lead to depression and serious illness, so it is necessary to look for an answer to it. When the purpose of life disappears, a person becomes unhappy and loses interest in life, which also complicates the existence of those around him. In search of a life with meaning, some turn to religious texts, others go through psychological trainings, someone independently seeks the answer to this question by studying the treatises of famous philosophers.
The nature of the question: what is the purpose and meaning of human life
Many regularly ask the question: what is the meaning of human life? The need to find an answer to this question distinguishes humans from animals. Animals exist by satisfying only a certain set of material needs - sleep, food, reproduction; for some animals communication or community is also important. If a person does not find an answer to the question: “What is the meaning of my life?”, he will not be able to live truly happily. That is why the search for the meaning of life is so important for a person.
The meanings of life are a kind of compass that allows you to understand what is important for your future existence and what is not. Living with meaning allows you to make conscious decisions in different situations. Having a goal in a person makes his existence understandable and fulfilling. When he knows what he wants, he can easily formulate a strategy for his path.
Loss of meaning in life, on the contrary, leads to depression. A person may begin to abuse alcohol to get rid of sad thoughts. If you don’t find support in time and don’t understand what the meaning of a person’s life is, you can even become an alcoholic. After all, alcohol or drugs are an escape from reality, from the need to think, form your own goals and key areas of life.
Is it worth searching for the meaning of life?
Not everyone thinks about how to find the meaning of life. Some people don't even think about it. After all, there is successful examples people who did not think about how to live the time allotted to them, and lived it quite happily. This kind of people believe that there is no need to think about the meaning of life, it is enough to just live and have fun. However, this is more like the life of animals and plants, so in old age, as a rule, such people become deeply unhappy and begin to rethink their existence.
Close to those who do not think about the meaning of human life are those who believe that the purpose of existence is simply to live. You just need to fulfill your functions as a father or mother, go to work, help your parents, and so on. Everyone does it. And this is the meaning of life - just to live it, fulfilling your social roles. But this is also an illusion. After all, a person, for example, sleeps to restore his energy, and not just to sleep. Or eat not in order to be full, but so that you also have the strength to further work. Therefore, the meaning of life is not to simply live it, but to do something, achieve something.
Finally, there are those who could not easily find the answer to this question for themselves; they believe that there is no meaning in life, and therefore it is not worth looking for it. As a result, these people also liken themselves to plants and animals, believing that there is no special meaning to life.
Self-realization as a life goal
A fairly popular answer to the question of what the purpose of life is is self-realization. Such a goal and meaning of human life means that a person has achieved certain success in some area of life - in business, education, politics or any other social issues. In other words, in this case, a life with meaning consists in the fact that a person leaves a certain mark in history, his successes will be remembered and, perhaps, even enjoy the fruits of his labors. This motivation is often present among scientists who want to make a discovery and thus preserve their memory for a long period.
However, there is a serious moral dimension to this goal. Self-realization can be achieved in different ways. After all famous criminals also self-actualized. They have achieved impressive success in their illegal affairs and operations. They are also remembered; they are recognized authorities in their field. And in cases with scientists, the issue of ethics is of significant importance. For example, those who studied the structure of the atom probably simply wanted to understand the nature of the structure of the world. As a result, there appeared atomic bomb- one of the most scary views weapons.
Staying healthy
Some people, especially girls or women, make preserving beauty their meaning in life. Answering the question of what is the meaning of a woman’s life, they regularly visit various fitness gyms, use the services of cosmetologists, use various means for rejuvenation, and so on. Increasingly, men are beginning to behave in a similar way, paying very much close attention your physical health.
News healthy image life is good, of course. This really gives a person more energy; as a result of sports, endorphins are produced - hormones of happiness, which creates a feeling of constant success and joy. People who actively and devote a lot of time to their health look, of course, happy, and therefore it seems that they have found their meaning in life. However, this is not quite true. Long years life, beautiful body, a lot of energy - what is all this for? If only in order to increase this beauty and health, then this is not entirely true. After all, every person is mortal. And even the best athlete will still die, no matter how hard he tries to maintain his physical fitness. Therefore, over time, the question will still arise, why was it necessary to lead such a lifestyle? After all, all this energy could have been spent on something else. For example, for self-realization in some areas.
Earn Money
In the conditions of the material world, an increasingly popular answer to the question of where to find the meaning of life is in wealth and the accumulation of goods. As a result, more and more men and women are making great effort to earn a lot of money to satisfy your material desires. Moreover, such desires tend to constantly increase; a person needs more more money and it turns out like this vicious circle, from which it is very difficult to escape.
Before death, people seeking to accumulate as much as possible Money, appears serious problem- how to divide the inheritance. Moreover, when a person thirsty material goods, reaches old age, many even begin to wait for his death in order to gain access to his savings. This makes him deeply unhappy.
It also makes no sense to take your savings with you to the grave, and this is where the question arises: why did you need to work so long and so hard? Indeed, in the process of earning material wealth, such people sacrificed a lot, starting from attention own family and ending with receiving some simple pleasures in life.
How was the question of the meaning of life resolved before?
The question of how to find the meaning of life has concerned humanity for many centuries. Already the ancient Greek philosophers asked the question: is there a meaning to life? Unfortunately, they were unable to give a clear answer to the question of how to find the meaning of life; only a few concepts appeared, one of which - self-realization (its author is Aristotle) is still popular. Later, many scientists tried to find an answer to the questions: “What is the meaning or purpose of life, is there a common goal for humanity, should a man's goals be different from a woman's?
A more clear answer to the question of purpose in life is contained in religious treatises. This is due to the fact that the basis of any religion is human soul. If the body is mortal, then the soul lives forever, therefore the meaning of life is not in material, but in spiritual development. And if we consider the most popular world religions, we can draw the following conclusion:
- Own spiritual development, atonement for sins, preparation for the transition of the soul to heaven.
- Redemption past life, cleaning karma, preparing the soul for the transition to a new state of eternal happiness (Vedic analogue of life in heaven).
- Preparation for the transition to a new reality or for reincarnation (settling into a new body), and relocation to a new body can occur either with an increase in status, if a person lives well, observes religious norms, pays attention to his spiritual development, or with a decrease, if norms are violated and a person leads an incorrect lifestyle.
Spiritual development
The meaning of life in the development of the soul can be formulated differently as learning, going through a certain school. Within the framework of this concept, a person must search for the meaning of life through his spiritual development. And not only in theory - by reading the relevant literature, but also in practice. Practice, in this case, is a form of examination. If a person is able to behave in accordance with religious precepts, then the exam will be passed and he will be promoted to the next class, where there will be more difficult tasks that test the spiritual strength and stability of the “student”.
Of course, in the process of such learning there is, as in regular school, changes, when you can relax, do various pleasant things. But then the lesson starts again, and you have to work again. Thus, the philosophy of life as a school requires significant effort. After all, constant development requires constant effort, but, on the other hand, treating difficulties as lessons makes them much easier to overcome. To overcome life problem, it is enough to understand what a person is doing wrong and how to do it right, and life will change for the better. In addition, if there is no meaning in life, you can always turn to the experience of saints who have achieved impressive success in their activities.
Preparing for the transition to a new reality
This concept says that in the course of his life a person goes through various tests, and the more he passes them, the higher the likelihood that he will be ready to transition to a new reality. Some religions say that there are several levels of life. If a person is engaged in the development of his soul, he moves to the next level, where he will have Better conditions, but the tests are also more difficult. If development does not occur, and even degradation occurs, as a result of which the person will be transferred to another reality of a lower order. In Christianity we are talking about heaven and hell (if a person behaves decently, thinks about his soul, then he will go to heaven, and if he sins, then to hell). Vedic treatises speak of the presence of ten levels of reality, each of which has its own tests and its own conditions of existence.
Reflections on eternal life And new reality They can also help when it is not clear what to do, if there is no point in living. In such a situation, depression is practically guaranteed, but it is not clear how to find the meaning of life. Conversations with mentors and loved ones who can tell you what to do if a person does not see the meaning of life help to achieve restoration of the desire to live.
How to return the meaning of life to a person?
Some girls, reflecting on the question of what is the meaning of a woman’s life, assume that it is in children. When they have children, they devote all their energy to them. However, children grow up over time and become independent. In such a situation, many mothers complain that the meaning of life has disappeared, nothing makes them happy, and there is no point in living further.
The question arises, how to fill life with meaning? Finding the meaning of life begins with answering the question: “What is the purpose in life?” How to determine main goal? To begin with, it is recommended to make a list of goals in life. From the resulting list, you should choose which goals inspire, give strength, and fill with energy. This will be the main personal goal that will help answer the question of what is the meaning of life. However, you shouldn’t stop at this stage; setting goals is not enough when life suddenly ceases to be meaningful. You need to understand how to achieve your goal. To do this, you will have to figure out how to change your life.
Spiritual practices can also help a person who believes that there is no point in living. Psychology, as a rule, does not help in such situations. It allows you to set goals, but it does not tell you how to change your life. Thinking about the soul and overcoming trials allows you to correctly set the goal of life, set priorities and find the meaning of life for both men and women. However, in fairness it should be said that for many who have lost their purpose in life, training personal growth help you change your life pattern and become happier.
Thus, when answering the question of what is the meaning of life, you should first think about your soul. Life with meaning makes it fulfilling and joyful. However, various ideas that one should preserve beauty or accumulate material wealth are false, because they do not have a spiritual component, which makes a person truly happy. In addition, you need to know how to set a goal correctly and how to achieve it later. This allows you to find answers to questions about why to live and how to live. If a person has lost the meaning of life, finding a purpose in life can help him. When he understands why he lives, he can see the purpose, his desire to live will most likely no longer disappear.
Last update: 01/12/19
The meaning of human life. Why does a person live, why do we live?
Agree, ask yourself the question, what is the meaning of human life. And even more specific questions: Why does a person live? What do we live for? - maybe not every person.
Well, firstly, ALL people are immersed in the everyday life of their lives - in the turmoil or habitual regularity of their personal and social everyday life.
This life does not include thoughts about the meaning of human life. Even the one that is happening here and now.
In the existential life of a person, he needs to do what is required of him by people and circumstances. And what he can and wants.
And think ONLY about this – your concrete, objective life. Without thinking, what is the meaning of life, even his - specific person.
Not to mention this literally global question: What is the meaning of human life in general, as such?
And, secondly, a person needs to have a certain development of his thinking - to know a lot and be able to comprehend.
So that through questions that are not so abstract: Why does a person live, why do we live? Approach the general question of human existence: What is the meaning of human life?
Why does a person live, why do we live - what is the meaning of human life. And regarding what
When we think about the meaning of something, we cannot comprehend it without something in relation to it.
The meaning of something becomes clear to us only when we tie it to some meanings already known to us.
In this case, of course, if by meaning we understand the essence of the manifestation of a particular thing or process.
And not some nonsense of our philosophizing, but not burdened with knowledge, mind.
For example: we understand the meaning of our work by comprehending its results.
And, in turn, we can comprehend its results through the significance of these results for us.
Substantively it looks, for example, like this: What is the point of me going to work? - In order to get money.
Why do I need money - what is the point of it?
In order to maintain your biological existence by buying food and goods.
Why should I provide this existence? - In order to live.
Why does a person live, why do we live? - In order to live.
What is the meaning of human life?
You see how we can smoothly and logically approach the question of the meaning of human life. Abstracting more and more from our concrete objective existential life.
We can, but we don’t fit or don’t always fit, as I already said.
Due to absorption in existential life. Which, simply, leaves no time, no energy, no desire to think about the meaning of human life.
But, by the way, we may not think about the meaning of human life due to the fact that:
— Once, they already answered it themselves. Or someone suggested an answer to us, said it, and we agreed with him.
When the answer is known, why bother?
The meaning of human life - why does a person live? And who is a person
How can we answer what is the meaning of a person’s life if we don’t understand what a person himself is?
And vice versa, look, understanding what a person is. We, after all, will almost answer the question of what is the meaning of his life.
Almost, because it is not enough to know a thing to understand its purpose.
We can understand this, as was said above, only by comparing it with something. That is, through the search for its relationship with something else known to us.
We can quite confidently say that a person has two hypostases: as an animal being and as a spiritual being.
But which can only manifest themselves in the third hypostasis of man: man as a social being.
How these three hypostases of a person, as such, and of each individual person manifest themselves. In terms of the meaning of his life?
Man as a biological being, what is the meaning of life?
The animal essence of man: man is a biological organism.
And from this follows its essence: to maintain and reproduce its biological existence as a species.
And in this: its social and individual essence.
Can we see the meaning of human life here?
Of course, like an animal, the meaning of a person is quite obvious: to ensure the most comfortable conditions for your body. And bring into the world others like yourself.
Agree that the meaning of life for many people fits into this biological meaning of life.
If you look at the essence of all their vital movements, they do everything only for their bodily comfort.
Well, and, along the way, they produce their own kind - they continue the population of people.
This way of life, when justified as the meaning of human life, fits perfectly into the reasoning:
— Life is worth living for the joys of life, small and large.
For, “the joys of life” are nothing more than getting, excuse me, a buzz from your animal manifestation.
Namely: receiving pleasure from instincts - sex, and everything connected with the Basic Instinct.
Also: eat and drink, have a good bowel movement, warm up and cool down, scratch and cuddle. Protect yourself and win “your place in the sun.”
What is the meaning of human life as a spiritual entity
The spiritual essence of man is consciousness and all its products.
The difference between a person and an animal, in essence, is that a person is capable of not only realizing his biological, animal essence. But also to comprehend it.
If you do not attribute the mystical to human spirituality, out of your ignorance and stupidity.
It happened, first of all, to satisfy the animal needs of man. AND for the most part it serves for them.
In any case, all material production and material culture of human civilization is tied to the satisfaction of its animal needs. This is an indisputable fact.
There is also no doubt that material culture is the fruit of the spirit of man, who transforms the surrounding space with the power of his thoughts.
Where, here, in this hypostasis of man as a spiritual essence, is the meaning of human life visible?
Of course, here, the meaning of human life comes down to participation in the production of products, services, and goods. Likewise in production and in improving the means of production themselves.
In other words, here the meaning of human life is seen not only in the consumption of material goods, like an animal. But also in efforts to produce it quantitatively and qualitatively.
To put it simply: You have to work! At the same time, showing your spirit - consciousness. To improve working conditions, increase productivity, and inventiveness in this work.
Is this the meaning of life for a normal – adequate person? Undoubtedly.
Most people cannot imagine their life without work - active, transformative, productive activity.
Be it a housewife, or a pensioner, or a scientist, or a worker.
The social essence of man, what is its meaning
Considering the animal and spiritual aspects of human life. We cannot help but see that they cannot be carried out outside social life person.
For man is a social being.
What is the point here? Man, both as an animal and as a spiritual entity, can only exist among people.
A person is a person only having numerous relationships with people, in the most various forms and a wide variety of content.
Actually: the existential and spiritual life of a person is his existence in relationships with people.
Moreover, it is necessary to take into account not only the spirit of man, as a producer and consumer of material goods.
But also the manifestation of the human spirit in the process of HUMANIZATION of one’s life.
Humanizing one’s life by a person is the creation and consumption of spiritual culture in all its diversity of forms and content.
Well, for example, I am writing this article - I am participating in spiritual life. And as a consumer - using all my knowledge and skills of spiritual culture that I received from people.
And as a manufacturer, I create a kind of spiritual product.
Also, the person reading this article is doing a purely spiritual action: consuming a spiritual product. And produces a certain enrichment of his spiritual life.
Therefore: where can we, here, see the meaning of human life?
Of course: the meaning of a person’s life here is to arrange for oneself such a life:
- So that his relationships with people are normal and harmonious.
And in terms of everyday life - at work and at home, above all. And in terms of diverse purely human relationships.
In other words, the meaning of human life is here: to live happily. After all, this is exactly what we usually mean when we talk about happiness.
The meaning of human life - why does a person live, why do we live? Find yourself
Thus, based on the above.
The meaning of a person’s life can be seen in finding oneself in the life in which we find ourselves from the first cry to the last breath.
In fact, isn’t this what we live for:
- to ensure a comfortable animal existence;
- to be in harmony, in tune with your consciousness-spirit;
- and to be happy in relationships with people.
And if we have big problems in life, if we don’t see the meaning in it. Isn't it because:
- We are unhappy in our animal body. Are you sick, hungry, freezing and frying, don’t enjoy sex and don’t have children?
Or is it because we have a bad job and our personal and family life is not organized?
And is it not because our spirit rushes about, not knowing peace, in search of the meaning of our personal life. Or the life of a person as such?
And is it not because our relations with near and distant society do not suit us?
Or, even, are you not satisfied with your relationship with one person - husband, wife, child, friend, and the like?
Summary: What is the meaning of human life
In my opinion, the meaning of a person’s life is to find his place in life.
Not just any kind - the one that is prepared for us by circumstances and other people. Namely - YOURS.
So that it suits a person, both as a biological being, and as a spiritual, and as a social being.
Well, as people say: the meaning of life is happiness or its achievement. Which, in my opinion, is the same thing.
This is generally the quintessence - an extract from the definition of what the meaning of human life is.
What do you think: Why does a person live, why do we live?
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What is a sense of life? One of the eternal questions that has plagued humanity since the time our thoughts made room for something other than “where to get food and how to shelter from the weather” was asked on the Quora website. So, what is the meaning of life? Why do people work hard all their lives knowing that nothing they have ever done or will ever do will stay with them?
Here are the top 3 most popular answers.
“You need to understand that you won’t own anything forever.”
Jos Buurman, the author of the most popular answer, admits: “Many years ago, my friends’ car broke down at the worst possible moment, because the friend’s wife was pregnant at the time. I had a car, and I gave it to friends, and I drove for a couple of months work public transport. During this time, they were able to save up money to buy themselves a decent car.
A couple of years later, one fragile young lady asked me for money for an operation for her sick father. I had my doubts, but I didn’t refuse her. At that time, the operation saved his life. I know this because I met him in good health less than a year later. I also remember one of my friends buying bread and clothes for a homeless person.
Yes, nothing may remain with us, but it will remain with others. Few people on our planet are completely alone. Most of us have families and friends, children and grandchildren. You never know who will benefit from your gift.
What is a sense of life? And it is to understand that you will not own anything forever, and to generously share with others. You're going to lose it anyway, so why not start today?"
/This is the number one classic answer to a question to which not a single religious and philosophical movement at all times could find an answer. Why classic? Because, in principle, we all agree to be generous and kind, to help each other and share with those who need it. So we support this user’s opinion with at least a like, giving him first place. But in the depths of my soul there remains a worm of doubt, everything seems to be correct, but something is wrong? Or not?/
"The idea of setting goals is doomed to failure"
A user who chose to remain anonymous writes: "Great question. First, I'll try to explain why the idea of setting goals for achieving happiness is doomed to fail. For example, if you set a goal for yourself, 'I will be happy if I graduate from college with excellent grades,'" then you will be happy, but only very short period time. Then you will start to worry about work or continuing your studies, then about career growth, marriage, children, retirement savings, health, etc.
Is the solution to just go with the flow?
The best thing you can do is enjoy the present and not worry about where you want to go. In other words, BE PRESENT in every moment of your life, here and now. On your way to work, school or out of town, enjoy beautiful landscape, be it a sunset or a bizarre combination of clouds, whatever. After all, few of us will even stop to enjoy the moment, right?
You can find pleasure in the most mundane things, even washing the dishes. Give it a try. Next time you are faced with a routine, focus all your attention on the task, pay attention to the smallest details and see how happy you feel.
/Call me a terry and callous skeptic, but it seems to me that the author of these lines enjoys life somewhere under the palm trees in Goa and the process of washing dishes for him is reduced to brushing the remains of food directly onto the sand. Although the idea is correct - to enjoy every moment in life. It's surprising that Quora users gave this answer second place, because that's not exactly what the question was about. Apparently, there were few housewives among those reading who found washing dishes already in..../
The path always ends where it began
Gayatri Kaliyamoorti shares her thoughts: “I once had a chance to read an excerpt from the trilogy about Shiva (translator’s note - meaning a series of books by the Indian author Amish Tripathi). I will share it here. This may be the answer to the question.
Let me try to put it differently. I'm sure you know how it rains in India, right?
Certainly. One of your scientists explained it to me. The sun seems to be heating up sea waters, causing them to rise upward in the form of gas. Huge masses of this water vapor are combined into clouds carried over the earth monsoon winds. When these clouds collide with the mountains, they make rain.
Great. But you're only halfway there. What happens after it rains?
The knowing smile on Shiva's face showed that he was beginning to understand.
Gopal continued: “Water finds its way into streams and then into rivers.” And eventually the river returns back to the sea. Some of the rain is used by people, animals, plants - everyone who needs to survive. But even the water that we use eventually returns to rivers and seas.
The path always ends where it began. Can we say that the water's journey was meaningless? What would happen to us if water decided that there was no point in starting a path that would end in the same place where it began?
We would all die."
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