This is the most complex question in existence yet has the most simple answer – Life has no meaning because Life simply ‘IS’. The answer has to be simple because if one gets down to digging the meaning of life, one can spend his entire life and yet remain confused or even literally go mad. Many philosophers, psychoanalysts have tried to find the meaning of life and have landed in the mental asylum. Life is ‘NOW’ and is to be lived in the ‘NOW’ – that’s it. Life is not supposed to have any meaning because it has to be LIVED FULLY AND TOTALLY. An example will explain this – Usually when a person looks at a beautiful sunset, instead of totally savoring the sunset and letting it’s beauty penetrate his being, he lets his mind run in various directions – I wish I had a camera to take a photographs of this sunset or I wish my kids were with me, I wish this sunset could be seen from my apartment and so. In thinking these thoughts, the moment of the sunset slips away – Why? Because his mind was busy trying to find some meaning, some conclusion to that sunset and he misses the moment. At the most he enjoys a ‘half baked sunset’. Existence was whispering in his ears not to let any thought divert his mind but to enjoy and savor the sunset totally – this is what Zen also teaches. In the real sense of the term if there is any meaning to life, it is living totally in the NOW and being totally PRESENT, ALERT and WATCHFUL. Out of this alert consciousness, whatever one does is right.

Manish
MeEvolving.com