The Point Of Life Is To Know What Life Is

What we think of as ‘life’ is actually a prison of illusions. Our temporary bodies and minds have no permanent reality, while consciousness never changes. As long as we believe that we are this body and mind, we are incarcerated by ideas.

Therefore, whatever we see, fear and protest about is an illusion we’re caught in. Whenever we judge by our own limited understanding, we merely maintain this prison – and that applies to every sentient being.

The illusionists – people who perform tricks that deceive the eye – are entertaining because we want to believe. Nowadays, we cannot help ourself being mesmerised and transfixed by a screen.

‘So are you calling us stupid?!’
Stupid actually means amazed or stunned 🙂

Stupid: mid 16th century: from French stupide or Latin stupidus, from stupere -‘to be amazed or stunned’.

Aren’t we all amazed at tricks? Something appears and something disappears, and perception is deceived. However, when we know the trick, we’re no longer amazed – or stupid. The point of life is to recognise that life – consciousness – never dies; it only appears to disappear.

Life is consciousness.

When consciousness leaves the body,
there is no life in that body.

Consciousness moves on to find a new host,
until it exhausts this cycle of existence.