What is the point to life?

[Loser]

Life is not cruel. Life is indifferent. Existence is unjust. Experience is inconsistent.

The evil, the pain, the Adamic burden, the sin is in memory. Keeping the past around, holding your action against yourself, holding another's behavior against them, this is from where suffering comes. An awareness of reality outside the present is the Fruit of the Tree of Knowledge. It empowers us to change our world and ties us to things we cannot change, our personal epic histories.

Enlightenment, contentment, redemption, they all require an acknowledgement of the past, not an escape from it. But this acknowledgement is not made for the purpose of maintaining some perpetual accountability, it is made to free the consciousness from dwelling on painful impossibilities.

Letting go is the key to happiness.

[ October 06, 2003, 19:11: Message edited by: Loser ]