Re: A number of questions
G'day,
I understand where you are coming from and feel for you. Most who seek eventually come to similar conclusions. You are currently seeking with your intellect. This point generally takes about 20 years of seeking to find. And then the search is turned inwards, which is the only direction that can offer any answers.
I agree with most of what you say, on the surface. However, there are deeper levels of everything you say that are not so simple.
I will only comment on one of your realizations, on love. You state that you hope to discover that even one of these is false, and I will oblige you here.
If there is even one exception to a theory, that theory is suspect, you must agree. This is scientific method and reasoning.
Love, as you state it, is merely a biological and social function. However, this does not explain sacrifice for love. For example, where one surrenders ones life for a friend, eg, where a soldier takes a fatal bullet to spare a friend. Or, a couple of years ago here in Australia, where a man pushed his wife behind him as a great white shark charged, and was torn to pieces. Certain death does not come with any social or biological reward. I could go on at length, and I am sure you could discount many of these things as programming and etc. But my point is that there are deeper levels, which I hope you agree on.
This gives us a starting point.
At the point you are at, or close to, you will come to a further realization. Then everything will start to make sense.
This is.....
You are God.
You are Source.
Whatever you want to call it, you are the creator of the universe.
Scientists know a lot about the universe, from a millisecond after the so called Big Bang. But they know absolutely nothing about what happened before this point, of where it came from or what caused it, etc.
The universe has a Source. This Source is pure consciousness.
Matter, every atom, is a manifestation of consciousness or Source. This includes you.
Imagine yourself as a glove that contains Source. You only perceive yourself as the glove and this is all you know.
But, in fact, you are both the glove and the hand within. The hand within is a part of the body of Source, of God.
The hand and the glove are indivisible.
At some point after conception, in your mother's womb, Source consciousness entered your body. This consciousness contains all knowledge. But as it passes into you, it passes through a veil of forgetfulness.
Source/God is perfect.
The only way Source/God can experience you as you perfectly, is to actually be you.
Anything less would be like a virtual reality game. It would not be real, not real enough to be perfect.
The meaning of life is indicated by its beginning, birth, and its end, death.
At birth you enter physical reality completely empty, perfectly empty. And by so doing you start with a totally blank slate and can experience physical life in all its glory, from scratch. You get to learn and make your own choices and one way or another you live your life.
And then at the end of your life, what then....
At the end of life, you can only take one thing with you, only one thing. And that one thing is your memories of your life experience, and of who you have become.
You start with nothing, and live life experience, and take the experience with you after life.
So, logically, the meaning and purpose of life is to live your life and to fill it full of rich life experience. To know joy and suffering and everything between.....
It is all about the journey, about 'now'. This one moment in time that we have. It does not matter where we came from or where we are heading to. Only 'now' matters. Its all about living the journey...life.
The fact that you are Source/God has been hidden in a very clever place, almost unfindable.... right before your nose. It is so obvious when you think about this, that you will wonder why you never thought of it before.
This is the realization that will come to you eventually, sooner or later. And then you will turn your attention within. There you will in time find your answers.
Everything you have learned and observed so far will serve you well. It is good to know how life works.
But when you did into the deeper levels, you will find much that you did not suspect. And there, deep down, you will find your true self smiling back at you.
First realize this. Then, tackle your ego. After this great accomplishment, mastering your ego, you will find yourself
standing in the foothills of spiritual evolution, looking up at a gigantic mountain range....
Enjoy the journey, for this is all there is....
Robert