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Wed 8 Feb, 2006 12:09 pm
There are many things we wonder about. Life is a journey of discovery that raises more questions than we could ever hope to answer.
If we were fortunate enough to know the hour of our demise, what would be the one, final question we would ask about all the things we were not able to answer?
I have already found my question. It has helped me come to recognize what is, to me, the most eternal aspect of my existence.
Think about the question very carefully before you post it in this thread. It may give you a fundamental insight as to your true self.
Why do they call it "Rhode Island?"
I mean, c'mon. It's neither a road, or an island.
I want to know everything. As you point out, any big question answered would just highten my need to have every other question answered. I'm so sure that "this is it" (as neo puts it) that my big questions are not theistic or spiritual, but about the future of life, humanity, other life, the universe, time, the nature of matter....there are too many !!!!
....but I like the question Chris2a and I'll try to come up with just one!
Re: One final question
chris2a wrote:what would be the one, final question.........
Did you swallow? <drops from heart attack>
Does anybody really understand?
OK. So now I'm wondering if anyone has ever thought about those last few moments.
The last question we ask has already been answered. If we were to ask it now, it would seem trivial and foolish. You just need to go there to see it come full circle. What we do best is not so much what we know but what we love.
In all honestly I would want to know that all the things I went through in my life had served some sort of purpose. Even though many things were painful for me. I would want to know that once I was able to overcome them those very things that had hurt me so much they had helped even just one person to overcome the same thing and live a little bit happier life.
One life ends, other lives continue the quest.
hephzibah wrote:In all honestly I would want to know that all the things I went through in my life had served some sort of purpose. Even though many things were painful for me. I would want to know that once I was able to overcome them those very things that had hurt me so much they had helped even just one person to overcome the same thing and live a little bit happier life.
You are starting to peel away the layers that hide us from ourselves.
Yeah well that's one altered reality. But what about that hangover? Yeah well that's another altered reality.
chris2a,
I'm trying to get your angle on this.
Meditators experience "the demise of self" almost as a matter of routine. In a transcendent state, the "self" merges with all that is "not self" and the concept of "asking a question" becomes meaningless.
Do you relate to any of this ?
But how many people that you encounter every day in your normal routine fit this profile?
And yet, this neither diminishes the importance of the question nor the possibility that everyone poses it (even the meditators) in those last few moments.
chris2a
All Buddhists would be familiar with this idea (not that I know many).
You don't seem to have been down that path yourself...am I correct ?
Actually, I have. There is no such thing as a "near death experience". It is death in all its glory.
I notice you keep asking questions Chris2a...why is that since the thread title said one final question?
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