Life is not suffering. Life is just boring and repetitive. With the survival aspect of life being taken care of, what's next? The things normies spend time on are pointless.
>just enjoy life :)
this mindset might work for women but men need a sense of purpose and meaning.
Exercise is good mate, start working on making yourself better
Learn new skills, read up on interesting topics, there's loads of shit to do lad
Dive caves and shipwrecks
What's the end goal of these activities?
Life is boring and repetitive but also pure suffering.
What keeps me going is knowing that my future is irredeemably bleak and while it arrives I'm having an ok time, so there's no point in feeling a need of purpose.
Also, the drive to buy and own shit and the "dream" of getting gud at drawing keep me going on a tight rope above the immense abyss that is a life without direction.
What's the difference between purpose and meaning?
>what's next?
Self destruction
>Life is not suffering
Suffering is a technical word with a special meaning.
It means that we humans are unsatisfied no matter what we do.
Life is suffering because there will always be an undercurrent tension in our perception, sometimes that compel us to categorize our experiences with adjectives such as good, bad or neutral.
We want more of the good and less of the bad, and we don't care or treat with contempt the neutral.
There is a relationship of frequency between these categorizations. The neutral is most of our lives. We ignore it, we don't pay attention to it, but its most of our experience. We think there is nothing special about it.
The good is what satisfy our drives. The problem is that the never ending dissatisfaction that we call suffering, never allows us to feel at peace. We always want more and what we have is never good enough. Here lies a physical impossibility of mechanical physical laws. You can never have what you think its good all the time. There is a physical limit that does not allow anybody to have what they want all the time. Desire makes us suffer. We want what we do not have. If we get what we do not have, we categorize things again and we feel dissatisfied because its not good enough or we need more. Look at how we refresh Jow Forums nonstop. Its not good enough. We want more. Like a gambling addict we hit f5 for hours. Its never good enough.
The bad is what torment us. Here the catch is that you cannot run away from what is bad. Sooner or later its going to come back and torment you again. You cannot ignore it and pretend its not there. We suffer.
The Buddha has left 8 steps you need to follow to put your experience beyond good and bad. Its something beyond conceptual language. Its beyond the aforementioned categorizations we make inside our heads. You have to see it for yourself.
do you listen to sadhguru? i just made a post with him. he is a better indian jordan peterson
Op here and this sounds related to what I've actually thought about doing. Maybe something will "switch on" in my brain if I go back to the basics. Start hiking, farming and finding meaning in removing a lot of the modern comforts
Keeping your body and mind healthy. You may as well ask what the end goal of eating is. Sure you don't have to do it, but you're not going to live comfortably for very long if you don't.
>Sooner or later its going to come back and torment you again. You cannot ignore it and pretend its not there. We suffer
Naturally, we use distractions to cope with suffering. But it does not work. We cannot fap away what is bothering us.
Living comfortably doesn't sound very meaningful.
A comfortable life isn't good, nothing of good came from somebody attempting to live a happy, comfortable life, that arises mediocrity and passivity.
>nothing of good came from somebody attempting to live a happy, comfortable life
not true. i got some tendies
True, I take back what I said.
>put your experience beyond good and bad
how can i do this? meditate?
Spend every waking moment on r9k, just like him.
I'm aware of my failings. Thanks for reminding me of them.
God damn it I want this guy to be my friend. He makes me want to glut myself on deep thoughts, aphorisms, spiritual stuff, etc. Does anybody have a big batch of thoughts to think about? I like listening to Eckhart Tolle
Tell me, is it slavery when you get what you want?
thanks, sad guru
There isn't any meaning to life itself, just the actions you take. You eat so you don't starve, even though the only point of not starving is to keep living, which is meaningless, so you may as well stop eating.
Isn't this literally what Buddha did? He came to the conclusion eating to settle hunger is meaningful but I can't remember his reasoning.
Life by definition is inherently suffering...
It's up to you to combat that and add as much happiness and fulfillment to the journey as possible.
I guess step 1 would be to understand the human mind. What we're designed to find fulfilling.
The whole idea of Buddhism is the middle path, moderation. He realized abstaining from literally everything was retarded and just as meaningless as hedonistic indulgence.
Omg thank you for reminding me this!!
I had started to forget how much I've actually loved DBZ