Having a curiosity as well as a heart to engage life are priceless gifts, and they are not easily obtained. From my own personal experience, life's passions often come from struggles and efforts. I just watched a movie, A Star Is Born, where one of the main characters remarks that without looking deeply into one's heart, one has "no legs", meaning that talent is not enough to make a career or a life; a passionate commitment to finding meaning is also needed. I just remarked that this passion is a hard thing to come by, but it might start with the curiosity to ask the question, what does it mean? And to engage such a question also requires a mindset that is always inquiring.
Perhaps one of the worst things a person can succumb to is the temptation to stop asking questions and to stop looking for a sense of meaning in life.Such a sense of meaning isn't automatically incurred upon someone as though "by magic"but it comes from a struggle to know, and not to give up in the search to know. When a person is not satisfied in their hearts with the answers given to them from their communities or life worlds, how do they cope with that disconnect? Do they conclude that life is just something to be "gotten through", or is there another way to look at it? I believe that curiosity and a questioning approach allows people to engage life without succumbing to easy answers as to what life is.
Finally, mediation itself can be approached as a form of inquiry. Do I know what this mind is? I often think I do (that is,assuming it's the thing that exists in the brain) but is that really what mind is? It's only when I am engaging fully in this question that something deep within opens up that is not coming from my conditioning.
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