The Meaning of Life

The Meaning of Life: An All Time Biggie
Hey, friend, rejoice!

You are about to get the low down on one of the all time biggie philosophical questions.

Religious interpreters and philosophers have been thinking, debating, writing and preaching about this question for millennia. On the whole they've been wasting their time. And your time, too, if you been studying them.

End that waste of time right now! This is Smartass Self Help, so you'll get your answer real fast.

Hang on tight!

Life Is Not Empty
Some people feel that life is meaningless or empty. If you are depressed, this is a normal reaction. It's also a common reaction to having focused too much on popularity, money and material possessions (i.e. so-called 'success').

Anyway, life isn't empty. It's chuck full of stuff. Just look around you. Even better, take a solo trip into nature, be silent (yes, silence your thoughts, too) and have a look around. Or go meditate or do an inner journey ... Inner journeys are great.

Life isn't meaningless, either. It only appears meaningless if you search for meaning. Like I told you, the search in itself will keep you away from the experience of meaning.

Also, life is not some container that you have to fill up with your own version of meaning (like 'loving others', 'doing good' or something). No siree, that's just more rubbish! You see: If you think you have to fill life with meaning that means that you think, yea, you believe that it's empty. It's not. SO STOP THINKING!

The Meaning: Inherent, Permanent and Absolute
The meaning of life is permanent and absolute. That means:

Meaning is INHERENT in life. There is meaning in your life right now. There always has been and there always will be.

In fact, there's meaning inside you right now. Always has been, always will be. Meaning is INHERENT in you.

Okay, Mr. Smartass: So What Is The Meaning of Life?
Well, it ain't what you think.

It ain't what you've been told or what you believe, either.

In fact it's incredibly easy:

It's what you experience.

Yep - the meaning of life cannot be thought. It cannot be believed (well, it can, but that won't help you). But it CAN be experienced.

The meaning of life is an experience.

I have experienced it. You can, too.

The meaning of life is the experience of being, of existing. Being / existing in its most basic and pure form.

That's why another way to express the meaning of life is this: 'I am.'

In your case it's the experience of existing as you, the experience of being who you really are. That's the meaning of life.

You will KNOW this is true when you experience it for yourself.

So: It's easy. Or, okay, maybe not easy to most people, but simple. Straight forward.

Okay. I've given you some basic info, so now I'm gonna tell you what to do.

How to Do It
Not only can you not think or believe your way to meaning in life - if you try to think or believe your way to meaning YOU WILL NOT GET IT. This is important!

Yes, your thinking and your beliefs actually stand in the way of your experience. Also, you will make your life difficult if you make a goal out of it ... if you start WANTING or NEEDING to know or understand the meaning of life.

Therefore you need to get rid of those things. Sorry about that, but there's no other way. Your thoughts, your beliefs and your needs about the meaning of life have to go.

The best way to do that is to let them go [LINK: LETTING GO]. This does not mean 'hate them' or 'fight them'. Basically, what it means is 'accept them and then ignore them'. Let them be ... and let them go.

STOP
In other word(s): STOP.

Don't DO anything.

STOP doing anything. Stop thinking, believing, needing and searching for anything. Stop trying to be someone or something. Just be. Breathe in. Let your breath out again.

Notice that you are alive. Notice how good that feels. Don't think about it, just notice it. Breathe in. Let your breath out again. Exist. Just exist.

Are you doing this? You can do it anywhere, at any time, but it's often easier when you are alone and close to nature.

Breathe in. Let your breath out again. Be. Don't be anyone or anything. Just be. Exist. Simply exist. Take another breath and let it out.

Now tell me: What is the meaning of life?