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Yes 100% agree ?. The point of life to me is to enjoy it to the fullest .there is really no other point if you think about it . Life is too short. 80 years on average is pretty much very little time . And that gives it even more illusory side. Everything is so fleeting and impermanent. Before you know it you will be in your death bed regretting that you didn't make the most out of your life during the peak period (the youth period ).

@justfortoday so are you saying that it's me who's all alone or yourself? but regardless..I struggled a lot with this solipsism issue myself and from the few occasions that you seem to be active on this forum (which is very little) you seem to be advocating solipsism. I can't prove or disprove solipsism. But I can deal with it from a pragmatic approach. no one lives this way. So your life is a practical denial of the concept. If a cliff is merely an illusion, then there is no reason not to walk off of a cliff. If people are merely constructs of your own mind, there is no reason to need anyone, value anyone, or to treat other people well. The brain has inadequate computing power to create the detail which we experience daily in everyday life. You can easily verify this by the fact that dreams are much lower resolution than what we see in our waking life. So our perception are not purely internal, they depend on an external reality. If You believe that a pot of boiling water is real.. You would not put your hand into boiling water. Furthermore..if you read this answer, then there are two conscious beings- me the writer and you the reader. Also I dislike solipsism because it's lame and feminine. Whereas realism is masculine. But that's a topic for another day .

Illusion is all there is .then it becomes absolute. Since all there is ,is illusory ..then its as real as real gets .it has no opposite.

People can be figment of your consciousness AND real independent consciousnesses simultaneously. @axiom what did awakening reveal to you about the solipsism dilemma?

"Nobody enters the gateless gate ,so be nobody .'

@axiom can you please tell me what did you become conscious or?

Smoking +working out (bulking ) in the gym isn't a good combo bro

This is just my response and reaction to this thread : Even though OP didn't explain why he thinks reality is meaningless...but I can feel him . @Zeroguy...there is meaning in every little thing of the life that we live in. Everything happens for a reason. The almighty has planned something for us already which we maybe not aware of. If not immediately but definitely it will happen to us. There is meaning behind every breath that we breathe, every heartbeat that we make. Nothing in this god damn world happens for no reason. We might overlook the cause behind anything but things do happen for some reason. Afterall we are only humans who can't see the future. But trust that the future will be brighter than the present. Remember this:"everything will be okay at the end .If it's not okay, then it's not the end ".?

@Myself infinity must include all finitudes. Otherwise if wouldn't be infinite.

Trees, birds, animals and the whole universe is already enlightened. They don't have any other way of being. Only humans are not enlightened because they have free will. Humans can become animals and divine also. Assassins and rapists are examples of becoming animals. Whereas Krishna, Jesus, Buddha are the example of humans becoming divine. Every human being on earth is potentially enlightened and enlightenment is a journey from false to truth, from darkness to light. Enlightenment of animals and birds is unconscious and it is like enlightenment of kids. They are awake but they are unconscious, whereas enlightenment of humans is conscious. Like the madness of mad is unconscious, whereas madness of enlightened beings is conscious. An enlightened being is consciously mad.

Animals are already enlightened. If by that you mean living completely with the present moment and not give a crap about the future or the past.

I don't know. We can't know. But... Every religion and every philosophy builds itself around attempting to answer this question of what is the meaning of life. And they do it on faith because life didn't come with a user's manual. We live our lives inside a bubble with an opaque surface. Is there something bigger? Were we put here for a purpose? What happens next? What is the end goal? Is there an end goal? If those answers exist they are likely outside of our perception. So, from our narrow perspective, what do we know? Or think we know? As far as we know, we get one life. If reality is like a video game with three lives, we don't know that (sorry Hindus). That's as much meaning as we can perceive or measure. One chance. So, ask yourself "If I had only one life, how would I live it?" and there is your meaning. WARNING: ASKING THIS QUESTION RESULTS IN SELF-LOATHING EVERY TIME ONE LOOKS IN THE MIRROR, IF ONE DOESN'T FOLLOW THROUGH. LIFE IS EASIER IF ONE DOESN'T ASK.

Thanks to everyone who commented on this thread . I sincerely appreciate it . I'm making some progress. I'm about to hit three weeks smoke-free and I've never been more happy. Now all I want is to keep pushing myself through these first days/initial steps until I can overcome the withdrawal symptoms. Wish me luck ?.

@Holykael Trust me bro.im trying to help you .i was in your shoes once .and I successfully overcome my existential crisis. You are having an existential crisis. There are two main reasons why people tend to have existential crises..and neither has much to do with Existentialism. Deep questions about meaning and existence are important, but we were built to function without having answers to them. Which means when these mysteries truly hinder someone, something is wrong. And the fix isn't answering the unanswerable. Have you ever seen "Annie Hall"? The boy in it is depressed. His mother takes him to the doctor, and the doctor asks him what's wrong. The kid answers, "The Universe is expanding." He then goes on to explain that one day it will expand so much that everything will be pulled apart and destroyed. So, in a Universe like that, what's the point of anything? When I was in my teens and early twenties, I related to the kid's angst about meaninglessness. When I got older an re-watched the movie, I noticed that the kid was living in poverty and his parents were constantly fighting. He wasn't unhappy because the Universe was expanding. He was unhappy because real nuts-and-bolts things in his life were screwed up. He couldn't solve those "trivial" problems so he turned them into something epic--something operatic--in his mind so at least his unsolvable problems wouldn't be hum-drum. It's very similar to how we often cope with real-life problems by watching superhero movies or listening to bombastic music. It elevates our animal problems to mythic status. It's not us; it's the universe. It's cosmic! I love Philosophy, so I don't want to come across as saying, "Your life has no meaning? What a bunch of flapdoodle! Just go get laid!" I take existential problems seriously. However, I'll reiterate that healthy people with met needs have built-in mechanisms to be content without solving these huge, mysterious problems. So, here are some possible reasons why, in my guess, you're worried about these matters at all : You have some very down-to-Earth needs that aren't being met. For most people, these are concerns about safety, intimacy (sex, friendship, love, etc), worries about a sick loved one, financial concerns, social status, safety, and so on. Take a good look at what's going well in your life and what's not going well..in terms of these "banal," everyday issues. You don't get to move on to "the Universe is expanding" (or whatever) until you've eliminate the following. - Do you have a girlfriend/boyfriend (or whatever you want in this regard)? - Are you sexually satisfied? - Do you have any health concerns? - Are you at all worried about money? - Are you worried about someone you care about? - Are you worried about being abandoned? Have you been abandoned?

Yes For example..seeing is an appearance. Eyes are a different appearance .The eyes don't see. You have no experience of the eyes seeing anything. They are distinctions happening within consciousness. The visual field is occurring exactly where is it occurring. It is not occurring in your eyes lmao . Or in your so called brain. It is occurring exactly where it is occurring. Just like the 'dream world' at night.. It appears as if the dream character's eyes are seeing the dream world. But actually it's consciousness who is appearing as eyes.. As sight.. As world.

God doesn't exist . You do. And you are completely lost in fantasy land with this whole god/infinity business.

"Vibration"? Yikes! Well, the hotter anything gets, the faster the atoms vibrate. So I'd say .. exercise, sauna, eat spicy food, get fevers . . . etc, get hotter and you increase vibration!? On a serious note though: Personally, tough, I confess I'm not particularly do a lot of techniques, because I naturally find them boring. Even though they're required and do function at some points. I prefer the simple, effortless things. It's a matter of finding, in each one's personal case, what it is that naturally rises your state of being ..and what lowers it. And then, doing more of the first, and less of the latter. Raising vibration is akin to floating in water. You float better and naturally, thus rise, if you relax; if you tense up, you tend to drop, or go down.

How does law of attraction work?

No not necessarily. The characters in your dreams at night depend on your consciousness to be real. Same with this experience you are experiencing right now ..the only thing that gives arise to all these phenomenon (people, objects, colors, sounds etc ) is your own consciousness. I mean it's obvious. Before you were born there was nothing . Things started existing as soon as you started existing . So the relationship between you and others is a co-arising relationship.

your “existence” is the objective thing. others are distorted image ,they are neither real nor unreal, they are whatever you imagine they are ”reality” is what is sensed by human from the existence. If I get the right comprehension, my answer is that it depends on whether your cosmicview is correct or not . If you believe others are real..that's false because you are imagining that .If you believe others are NOT real ..that's also false because you are imagining that . Be open to the possibility that it's whatever you imagine it to be .and not some fixed rigid god-given truth .

@Myself do you want to understand this issue correctly or do you just want to waste some time?

By overthinking about these things, you are creating things that do not exist. This issue of other people existing or not has been bothering me as well.. and I had to bite the bullet and accept that It's my fucking mind that's spinning reality. So whatever I imagine is real becomes real .it's really just that simple . Take a day to imagine that solipsism is true and see how you will relate to others as if they were unconscious robots and how you will feel lonely. Then take another day to Imagine that people are real .and notice how you will relate differently to people. You will start taking them more seriously. Please understand..this has taken me hundreds of hours of extreme contemplating to arrive to these conclusions. And the bottom line is that reality is whatever the fuck you imagine it to be.

I do If you imagine I do Yet at the same time I'm a projection of your own mind . Remember that imagination =reality . So what's real is ultimately what YOU imagine is real.

@Holykael god can't be that simple. You're simplifying it way to much. I mean, it's a nice try, but no cigar. You make it sound like everyone is absolutely fucked. It is to much. Too much. Too much to figure out in a life-time. We're looking at something so smart, a singularity, a mega-mind that goes goes meta on everything, even itself. The human mind cannot ACTUALLY comprehend the truth. The Human mind does not except two opposing things to happen simultaneously (for example, the mind cant compute an object being in a space, and nothing being in that space simultaneously, it is either one or the other) (Another example, your mind cannot compute flipping a coin and it lands on head with tails facing flat on the table, yet tails also facing the ceiling at the same time) The Human mind can only compute linearly, one event after the other. Language can only point to experience. Pinch the palm of your hand, now caress the palm of your hand. Note the contrasting experience. Now try get someone who has never felt either of those experiences to understand what those experiences actually are via words. Impossible. Its like trying to describe colors to a blind person. Its never gonna work. What we need in this work is DIRECT EXPERIENCE. And not conceptualization.