NOTHING is permanent. Says nothing about only limited to human.

This is just semantics game.
If 'NOTHING' is the ultimate, then human life as a derivation of 'NOTHING', might as well be called as 'NOTHING-human life'.

For Abrahamic, they call the 'NOTHING' as 'God'.
'NOTHING' in fact is not nothing as human think.
Anything human can think is not nothing.
There is nothing called 'nothing'.

Hence 'NOTHING' is badly named, counterintuitive to human language and modern thinking.
You might want to rethink it.

This post has been edited by Sycamore: Dec 30 2024, 06:47 PM

What if the person is a woman?

Every plan, every choice, is a life answer he/she writes with their own hands.

the purpose of life is to achieve nirvana, a state of freedom from suffering and rebirth.

Life is actually nothing. Before you born, do you feel anything before that? Are you really reborn? Who is your previous life?

Your memory has been erased.

Reborn means to restart life.

Take life easy. We all born from nothing...

This is a debate about consciousness or human consciousness.

Human consciousness 'seems to start' (let's not get into debate on this) with human life.
Human cannot truly understand anything outside human consciousness.

But we know for a fact animal seems to have 'some sort of consciousness'.
But we are unable to truly understand 'animal consciousness'.

Then the ultimate question comes: does universe have 'consciousness'? does atom have 'consciousness'?
What if the air have 'some sort of consciousness' but it is different from 'human consciousness' and human cannot understand?

The Chinese thought of this very long ago, though it is in a different language.
万物皆有情灵

This post has been edited by Sycamore: Dec 30 2024, 08:10 PM

Do not need to question something that human do not understand or know. Take it easy...

That is not “purpose” of life. It’s more like the goal of life.
The purpose of life is “why do we exist”?
If we don’t exist then we don’t have to achieve nirvana.

This post has been edited by abm: Dec 31 2024, 11:22 AM

I feel it is more like a memory can be copied/adapted. Maybe can be said as recycled or it can be copied, which resulted the living individual to have the past generation memories.

Recycled, the memories stay with the individual even after reborn (it didn't happen most of the time). The copied/adapted memories, the different individual at different era gained access to other individual's past memories and resonates well with it.

The recycled memories, the existing individual do not need to leave behind any of their works in form of writings, arts, composed songs, findings, etc.

The copied/adapted memories, the existing individual left behind theirs works in form of writings, arts, composed songs, findings, etc, in order for the future generation to pick up what left by them, to be studied, utilized & further improvised.

At my younger age, I have no tolerance toward certain subjects. Now at present time, I can have such high tolerance and acceptance toward certain subjects, which make it feel so strange.

Personally, I don't like the incarnation concept. It leaves the option for living being to screw up or give up their current life in the hope that they can restart by reincarnation. Ppl will not put 100% effort in their "this" life. I prefer the concept that we only have current the life, so live our life to the fullest & leave behind our life findings for the next generation to pick up. The coming generations do not need to start from the scratch what the past generations have discovered, suffer what have been suffered, continue to enjoy what is made known can be exploited / further enhance it.

When you die you die you will cease to exist and wont remember a thing of your past life

Why bother with legacy
Legacy is just ego - Mike Tyson

Some things are better unanswered

more than that actually.

purpose of life is to experience to maximum
no matter whether you're born poor or rich ugly or good looking
everybody "image" will decay
thats why buddhism and Taoism focuses on the soul and letting go

but going to heaven and reside there for quite a long time isn't that bad, if you compare human existence, just saying if you have a choice.

This post has been edited by Chrono-Trigger: Jan 2 2025, 03:49 PM

almost every human being have to reincarnate because they havent settled their debts completely. The idea of "empty self" is a difficult thing to achieve for most people

Provided you can settle and “stop” producing new karma.
But even as we speak now , there is new karma created by the mind - the outflow does not cease.

most people are not controlling the thoughts, its the emotions that gear them towards stupid decisions. I know myself like to fuck girls but i try not to get carried away too much by it

Its called the third party observer effect
the Buddha teaches us to leave our physical body by observing more

The meaning or purpose of life is to worship Allah and believe in Prophet Muhammad is the last messenger.