Questions About Life

 

Is evil ever good?

Is nonsense ever truth?

Are chemtrails and GMOs teaching us how not to be or are some of us beyond such lessons?

Does greed and war serve a purpose or are they anti-everything that is divinely designed to be?

And is it right to accept such awful things as just another way for life to express itself?

Can causing death ever promote life?

 

What if people lived through their hearts?

Would we allow a more beautiful world to exist?

Could we recognize the perfect balance in nature and find our place within it?

Or are we just aliens trespassing in a land in which we don't belong?

 

Is truth subjective or can it be absolute?

Is there a right and a wrong or is it a matter of opinion?

Can we trust are eyes and ears or does our physicality deceive us?

If we listen very closely, tune in to the pulse of our being, will we ever know real truth?

 

Does death give us a different perspective?

Do we suddenly know all when we discard our bodies or do we search for all eternity for the answers?

When and where do the answers end all questions?

Or are we never laid to rest?

 

If we are God expressing itself then is there an end to such expression?

Why has the Creator not yet had enough of the trials of terrestrial life?

Is she/he a slow learner?

Is suffering necessary for learning and growth or are we the spawn of a sadist?

 

If life is a game, who is the winner?

Can we stop playing whenever we wish?

Is the game of life fair or is it rigged?

Is having no memory of who we truly are essential in order to play?

 

Or is this just a stupid plan?

Are we the failed experiment?

Will we triumph at some point?

Or is there even an end?

I love this...really good questions and I'm sure ones that many of us ask ourselves. You could write a whole book pondering the answers to these questions. In the end there is light and there is dark and I like to see the dark as an opportunity....as something that's showing me what I don't want so that I can reach out and grab what I do want and be of service to others in helping them overcome the darkness and step back into the light. I often wonder if there is ever any end....or if there is just a constant cycle of birth, life, death, rebirth throughout our universe. I do know that this gift we have been given of life in these physical bodies is precious and that our physical bodies and lives are but a blip on the cosmic screen. Sometimes I think heaven and hell exist in unision here on this earth and which one you live in is completely up to you and how you choose to perceive and live your life. 

Great questions Noa!  Here is an attempt to come up with an answer to them.  Here goes:

 

Is evil ever good?

I don't believe it is good, but I think it is necessary in order for there to be a choice.  Without it, life would be perfect, but very very boring. 

Is nonsense ever truth?

Of course.  There are some mentally disturbed people in this world that may have a better grasp on the universe than some businessmen.  They may not speak or act coherently, but their truth could be just as valid as mine or yours.

Are chemtrails and GMOs teaching us how not to be or are some of us beyond such lessons?

I don't like to focus my attention on such things, but like the first question, without evil, how can good exist.

Does greed and war serve a purpose or are they anti-everything that is divinely designed to be?

Everything is going according to plan.  There is so such thing as could have, should have, would have.  They are parts of our imagination.  Everything that happens is meant to be.  Otherwise, it wouldn't have happened.

And is it right to accept such awful things as just another way for life to express itself?

I believe everyone came to this world with an agreement.  I believe you are a wonderful person in this lifetime, but that doesn't mean that you have always been in the past lifetimes.  That doesn't mean you are any better or worse than those inflicting war at the moment.  There needs to be compassion for everyone, even those powers that be. 

Can causing death ever promote life?

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust.  When any organic life ceases to exist, it will eventually go back into the earth causing new life to sprout up.

 

What if people lived through their hearts?

That sounds wonderful, but not everyone's heart is pure.

Would we allow a more beautiful world to exist?

I believe so, but perfection sounds quite boring to me.

Could we recognize the perfect balance in nature and find our place within it?

I believe that is already taking places somewhere in the multiverse at the moment.  Here on Earth, we may still be millenia away.

Or are we just aliens trespassing in a land in which we don't belong?

That is a possibility.  I saw something on the internet joking how we could have been on the asteroid that destroyed the life of the dinosaurs.  Who knows?

 

Is truth subjective or can it be absolute?

In my opinion it is subjective.  I believe that the Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, etc. are all telling the truth when they speak of their god.  They are all saying different things, so how is that possible?  I'm not going to be the one to tell them they're wrong since I have no clear idea one way or the other. 

Is there a right and a wrong or is it a matter of opinion?

Once again, this can be subjective.  Is it wrong to kill?  Most of the time, yes.  What if it is the only way to save a child from an evil man?  I find it hard to believe that it is wrong in that case.

Can we trust are eyes and ears or does our physicality deceive us?

It decieves us in extraordinary ways.  That doesn't mean we can't trust it though.  If I see a car coming, you better believe I'm not going to wish it away.  I'm going to move.  However, there are countless things in this multiverse that we can't see or hear.  That doesn't mean they don't exist.

If we listen very closely, tune in to the pulse of our being, will we ever know real truth?

I sure hope so, but honestly I don't think it is possible at this point in time.  I hope that day comes and if not, I hope I find out after this life has ended.

 

Does death give us a different perspective?

Definitely.  Our current spirit is trapped inside our physical body.  Maybe after death we move onto another, but I think there will be a time of freedom and knowledge as well as a chance to recount our life and see what it all meant.

Do we suddenly know all when we discard our bodies or do we search for all eternity for the answers?

I hope we get some sort of answers, but all is a very encompassing word.  Will be know as much as the the "Source of All That Is?"  Probably not, but I think we'll know infinitely more than we do in this lifetime.

When and where do the answers end all questions?

I hope never.  Once again, perfection sounds boring to me.  I don't want all the answers.  I'm afraid that I will be complacent for the rest of eternity with nothing to do.  If I do get all the answers, I hope I have the opportunity to forget and try to rediscover some of them through a series of challenges and distractions (sound familiar).

Or are we never laid to rest?

Every night we get that opportunity so that we can go out refreshed and tackle this word for another day.

 

If we are God expressing itself then is there an end to such expression?

In this life, death.  In eternity, maybe we will have to chance to reunite with him/her/it.

Why has the Creator not yet had enough of the trials of terrestrial life?

We are all uniquely different in as many ways as you can imagine.  Maybe the Creator wants to see life through your eyes for a change.  On the flip side, maybe the Creator can't control the trials of terrestrial life and you're on your own.  Does that make life any less meaningful?  Not to me.  I still love it and look forward to tomorrow whether there's a Creator out there or not.

Is she/he a slow learner?

I wouldn't imagine.  We as human beings have taken thousands of years to come up with artificial life.  How long do you think it will take us to create a being to the caliber of humans, not to many the million of varieties of animals on our planet.  I think there is a plan.  It's just difficult for us to see is from our tiny perspective.

Is suffering necessary for learning and growth or are we the spawn of a sadist?

Yes and no.  I think without suffering or desire, we would all be complacent.  Necessity is the mother of invention.  If we were all perfectly happy all the time, there would be no reason to change or grow.  That doesn't mean you can expand or grow from a place of contentment.  It just means that sometime you have to be hungry to realize that you want to eat.

 

If life is a game, who is the winner?

Me.  You.  None of us is going to get out alive.  I think it's the people that find their purpose and accomplish it. 

Can we stop playing whenever we wish?

Sure.  It's called suicide, but I think that's the biggest copout known to man.  It's selfish and lazy.  I understand that some people may need to move on, but I wish they could see that the potential for the future is limitless even if the present moment sucks.  This too shall pass.

Is the game of life fair or is it rigged?

It's as fair as you want it to be.  The economy, goverments, media, education, etc. are probably all rigged to varying degrees.  That doesn't mean you have to let it affect you.  There are people in Africa making less than $2 a day that are much happier than many of the millionaires around the world. 

Is having no memory of who we truly are essential in order to play?

Of course.  If we knew how to tap into our potential and really use it, it would be like playing a video game with the cheat mode on.  It would be cool for a while, but where's the challenge?

 

Or is this just a stupid plan?

I hope that I can one day develop that memory and enhance those skills.  I don't think I'll ever reach 100%, but who knows?

Are we the failed experiment?

Hell no.  If you can't find enjoyment in this life, you're doing something wrong.  I look around this beautiful world with all of its wonders and am amazed constantly.  Have you ever seen a jigsaw with 1000 or more pieces?  Each piece doesn't feel all that special I imagine, but if the person putting it together was missing just one, I think he'd be pretty upset.  You may not see your contributions for what they're worth, but even these questions could have a ripple affect beyond your comprehension.

Will we triumph at some point?

I think we triumph daily.  There's a poem called If by Rudyard Kipling that says that we should meet with triumph and disaster and imposters and treat them both the same.  A lot of times you can learn a whole lot more from a loss than you can from a win.

Or is there even an end?

I hope not.

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  You really went all out! I wouldn't know where to start anymore. I like the variety of questions, they seem to come from different viewpoints, at different points in "the experience"...And, you know, the answers we come up with are probably different, depending on what point in our experience we ask them..I think it was Buddha who said,,,after going through another shift in consciousness,,,,"Everything I have told you is a lie"...But ,,I never hear Buddhists speak of this part, they seem to follow the old words anyways,,,,that confuses me!  There are as many answers as there are people in the world,,,I love it ! 

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I love those questions, Noa!!! I've written my speculation on a few of those very questions on a website where I write my deepest musings into the divine mystery at www.divinemystery.net. I love exploring these kinds of questions.

Much love,
Fred

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For some answers, I highly recommend Walter Russel' Home Study Course which can be found in PDF here

http://abundanthope.net/pages/Books_-_eBooks_27/Home-Study-Course---9-Wa...

I'm halfway through my first reading and it is definitely a game changer.

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Thanks to Thomas' link, I am enjoying reading Sen's thoughts about life. 

These are some of the questions he has asked himself:

 

- Why am I trying to think positive, is it just because I don’t want to feel bad? What’s wrong with feeling bad?

- What does “positive” really mean? Is it not some means of adding a perception onto reality in order to give it some imposed meaning? If I don’t feel naturally positive about something why should I try to impose a positive thinking about it?

- Why do I keep “trying” to find a meaning and purpose in life? Isn’t it because it gives me some pseudo sense of security that I am doing something worthwhile?

- How can I know if what I desire is what’s right for me? What if my desire itself is coming from a place of ignorance, or a place of misunderstanding?

- Feeling like a separate individual is what I feel naturally so why should I force myself to feel “one” with everything?

- Why should finding peace be so important, isn’t this very mindset in opposition/resistance to allowing what’s naturally happening/arising?

- Why is bliss deified as the highest feeling to achieve? Wouldn’t I get bored if bliss is all I had?

- Is there really any meaning to life, any end point to reach, any real destination to conquer? Or is life just about experiencing?

- Why is losing interest in material world (physicality) considered a “better” state to reach in spiritual circles? It may be a part of evolution of a soul but how is it a “better” state, isn’t it just another state?

- Why are we taught to be “loving” instead of just allowing what we naturally feel, isn’t what we naturally feel the most authentic experience of the moment?

These are just some questions that came through and as you can notice there is tint of darkness inherent in all of them. I could sense that I naturally stopped feeling so “light natured” about life the moment I stopped trying to impose that idea (the idea of wanting to feel good about life). Initially, there was this sense of strong fear about feeling dark about life, it felt like a sacrilege, like a blasphemy towards life and yet I couldn’t stop myself from feeling this way because this is what I felt quite naturally and I had let go of trying to impose anything on myself, I was just allowing what was coming up naturally. Having read loads of literature on the “law of attraction” I felt that these dark feelings, that were arising, were going to attract a lot of negative reality in my life, I wanted to get back to feeling/thinking positive, but I just couldn’t, and at one point I simply surrendered to allowing what was arising – if life was going to get negative, I was fine with it (by “fine” I don’t mean I was “happy” with it, I was just fine with it like I stopped being afraid of the negative).

With time, I noticed, in this surrender, that rather than becoming negative life actually seemed to become more balanced, I could sense an emotional stability within me that I never felt before, I could feel that I was no longer dictated by any feeling, any thought or any belief, I could sense my personality changing in terms of an integration of power (and objectivity) that was missing before, I could sense that I had developed an independent thinking which was free of the influence of any books I had read or any teacher I had listened to – for the first time I actually felt an “originality” in me that I never did before (all my life I had only tried to copy others).

In this state of openness I also got the answers to my questions (cited above), not answers that I wanted to hold on to but answers that just felt like a knowing. These were the answers (to each of the question I mentioned above, sequentially).


I'm directing you to his website to read the answers he came up with to his own questions. http://www.calmdownmind.com/beyond-positive-thinking/  While you're there, do a little exploring.  I think you'll like what you find.  ~ Noa

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