What is the Purpose of all of this? Is there a Purpose? Is this a good question

[Joseph Maynor]

On 2/25/2026 at 4:05 AM, Someone here said:

I understand your point better now.  I see no problem with creating a purpose for one's life . What I disagree with is "You can't not create purpose " . That's not true . Do you realize that that's basically the whole point of meditation and enlightenment?  To just sit there and free yourself and your mind from thoughts about future (and past as well)and detach yourself from this and just achieve a state of pure being ? Of just being present in the moment without feeling lack and without needing any carrot to run after ? 

What's interesting is you say there is no purpose, but then you give the purpose of spiritual enlightenment.

[Yimpa]

The pure purpose is Love for Self as You. 

[Willie]

Purpose is a relative thing.

[Xonas Pitfall]

The purpose is to experience whatever you want to experience. If there were no meaning, would you kill yourself? If not, then whatever you had in mind is mostly what you want to do and experience. Meaning is self-given. You give meaning to things, so it makes sense that if you remove yourself from meaning and then ask whether there is any meaning, you are asking an exterior source that cannot give you something that is not meaningful to you. It is a flawed question to ask. You need a subjective “meaning giver,” which is you, to give meaning. If you cannot find it, then yes, everything is “meaningless.”

It is like asking, “What is the point of a tool if I refuse to use it?” A hammer has no inherent purpose on its own. Its purpose appears only when someone wants to build or break something. Without a user, the tool is meaningless. Meaning does not come from the object; it comes from the one who uses it.

Edited Saturday at 08:23 PM by Xonas Pitfall

[Someone here]

On 28/02/2026 at 7:06 AM, Joseph Maynor said:

What's interesting is you say there is no purpose, but then you give the purpose of spiritual enlightenment.

Enlightenment is not a purpose for everyone. Who's to say everyone should pursue Enlightenment?  Where is "should" found?  I know an old man who works in a laundry shop near my house and I visit him weekly and give him my clothes to wash and dry them etc ..he told me that he is enlightened since he was in his 30s (he is now 76 yo). His life is complete absurdity..like that  "Myth of Sisyphus" where Sisyphus was cursed and punished to carry a heavy rock to the top of a mountain only to have it fall down and he has to carry it all the way up again in an endless pointless cycle. That laundry old man is none different. He literally works since 8 AM washing and doing laundry work till 10 PM he goes to his home and sleeps.. only breaks of course to eat or go to the bathroom etc . If you look at him he looks more peaceful than Ramana Maharshi himself lol. I concluded that people at that age has really nothing at their minds or the opposite they have very perturbed and noisy minds because of the accumulation of years of thoughts in their brains .and so he can't actually retire and live in his home because he might kill himself ..so instead he works all day all night to engage in anything that takes his mind off the thinking mode by doing mindless chores all the time . Enlightenment is something similar to the story of Sisyphus or that man ..there is no purpose ..you know that life is just repetition of duties until you drop dead .but you just carry on anyways.

Edited yesterday at 07:29 AM by Someone here

[kavaris]

18 hours ago, Someone here said:

"Myth of Sisyphus"

Oh, interesting reference. I have to look this one up again, as there is often intriguing details in myths. And especially being a myth of Greek association (and youd think i'd know this one already, however ive only read it briefly, a long while back)

p.s. going through the /A/ section of   https://raw.githubusercontent.com/philofree/philofree/refs/heads/main/public/data/index.json (the long list of rather) And i recently read something from Apollodorus of Athens who also mentioned Sisyphus (albeit it was brief i think, but nonetheless it was a~potentially informative ref.)

Edited 9 hours ago by kavaris