Pursuing the meaning of life and eternal happiness


    The life of a person from birth to death is only a few decades. It is often said that life passes in the blink of an eye; in these decades, what should we do to avoid wasting our own life? "What is the meaning of human life"  is a question that none of us can escape. Is it a perfect life if we don’t need to worry about food, clothes, family, wealth, social status, reputation, etc. ? The question,  "where does we come from before birth and where will we go after death", is not a metaphysics, but a question that everyone should seek to answer. Facing the fate of birth, old age, sickness and death, we should not regard it as inevitable, but actively explore and uncover the answer step by step —— Is there an eternal life beyond life and death, or is there a perfect state that we can leave all pain and be free and easy?

    Encountering these doubts, we should not continue to ignore or neglect these problems. We must make up our minds to clarify them. Even if we will spend our entire life, we should not give up looking for solutions. We should stop seeking worldly affairs and turn to explore the most fundamental problems of life. Such exploration cannot be replaced by others, and others can at best provide their experience or direction. If we don't experience it by ourselves, we can't really affirm the answer to the question. Therefore, no matter what others say about the answer, we have to verify it ourselves.

    By observing all beings in the world, we will found: everyone is looking for happiness or avoiding pain, but the happiness we get is often not long-lasting. We can say that these happiness are not real happiness. Is there a way to make us happy forever? This is also a fundamental issue of life. All beings will encounter birth, old age, sickness, and death, but we all don’t like birth, old age, sickness, and death. If we want to be happy forever, we must find the root cause of birth, old age, sickness and death, and then we can eliminate birth, old age, sickness and death.

    My friends! Are you still anaesthetizing yourself with the unsustainable happiness beside you? Hurry up and start looking for the meaning of life! As long as we start to act, one day we will be able to achieve our wishes and get real and eternal happiness.


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