We often lose sight of what life truly means. We get lost in details, we desire and search for understanding and clarity, when life, in the simplest possible way, means to be. Life has no meaning. Only the mind tries to give it meaning.
Life is movement itself, the whole ensemble we call reality. Meaning is sought by the mind because thoughts, feelings, and suffering arise. The mind wants to avoid suffering and, for this reason, it searches for explanations and meanings.
When suffering disappears , and it can disappear, the need for meaning disappears with it. Life flows anyway. Everything comes and goes, is felt, lived, savored, according to each person’s capacity. When the flow is allowed to flow, meaning is no longer sought. Meaning does not exist and will not be discovered. Life simply is.
From creation to dissolution, there is only a dance. The mind has come to call this process birth and death because it sees the beginning and the end of its own perception. It cannot understand what was before it or what is after it. The inability to grasp this aspect brings human beings into the existential dilemma that almost all of us go through at some point.
In searching for meaning, we often end up losing ourselves. By giving up the search, we rediscover ourselves. We discover that what is, is more precious than any meaning. What is becomes life itself — the grandeur of the universe manifested in this very moment.
Someone once told me, “If everyone did as you do and stopped searching for what exists in the universe, how would discoveries happen? How would machines be built? How would we reach Mars?” Someone had to wonder what was out there in order to create something capable of reaching it.
That is true.
If everyone did as I do, what is out there would still be discovered. Thought would still create. The difference would be perspective. “What is out there” would no longer be sought from a place of separation, but understood as creation itself, as life itself.
At present there is a discrepancy between what we call “out there” and what we call “within.” The union of these two perspectives would lead to the understanding that there is no separate “there” and “here.” There is no separate thought and creation. They are the same point seen from different angles. Entanglement shows that at the fundamental level of reality, separation is not absolute. Even if these correlations do not manifest identically at the macro level, they suggest that interconnection is a basic property of existence.
This overview arises from detachment.
This text is an inner reflection. It is not a scientific endeavor and does not aim to explain reality through academic concepts. It is the expression of a personal perspective on the experience of being and should be read as such.