Life is nothing but an all pervasive cheat show. It keeps enchanting us with visions and promises of something wonderful. Yet, it never lives up to its promises. Attaining or pursuing the enchantments invariably brings nothing as promised. Nothing in life, no attainment, no relationship is ever satisfying, as we thought it would be. Nothing satisfies as it was shown to bring.
Then why do we keep running after things, knowing this? Probably we try to escape the fundamental void. The emptiness of life is all there is. Any attempt to fill up this emptiness will only end in failure and despair. The beauty or cunningness of life is that it somehow offers us visions that promise fulfillment. But the emptiness cannot be filled. Because there is nothing there to fill it. All the visions and promises that you are shown are nothing but the same emptiness that you are trying to escape from. To fully accept this is horrifying.
To not seek fulfillment is liberation. To seek fulfillment is to get caught in the trap of life.
Then why do we keep running after things, knowing this? Probably we try to escape the fundamental void. The emptiness of life is all there is. Any attempt to fill up this emptiness will only end in failure and despair. The beauty or cunningness of life is that it somehow offers us visions that promise fulfillment. But the emptiness cannot be filled. Because there is nothing there to fill it. All the visions and promises that you are shown are nothing but the same emptiness that you are trying to escape from. To fully accept this is horrifying.
To not seek fulfillment is liberation. To seek fulfillment is to get caught in the trap of life.
