First of all my thanks once again for so many emails. This time I will refrain from answering questions one by one..or picking a set from it. But I was a bit disillusioned, when so many people came up with questions like what is the way of a happy life, merry life, satisfied life etc etc..I would like to put some of thoughts I read recently..I hope it helps:
Surely today, and increasingly, there is an exaggerated tendency to overestimate the importance of the fact of living...of our apparent existence as individual phenomena? It is almost a dictum to say that we "have only one life," and "make most of it".....understood.
Whatever the origin of this, it seems to be great nonsense, and thoroughly demoralising. In first place is there any evidence, let alone any likelihood, that it is a fact? That certainly, is the view of the oriental majority of human race.
And even if that were definitely not so, what is this " living" of a "life", subject to conceptual "time" and who or what lives it? The notion of sacredness of life....human only of course!...is somewhat unevenly distributed over the surface of earth.
Dreams and poppycock! Let us find out what in fact we are...and then the importance and apparent duration of this phenomenal experience will seem to matter very little indeed!
A long life and a merry one!..By all means and why not? But does it matter? Do we bother about the longevity of...say... fish??
Best Regards