On nature,beauty and God

If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere - Vincent van Gogh. I find this so true . But the creation and its exquisite design is by no means an accident. It's beauty and and wonder reflects the beauty and majesty of it's creator -God. Every single thing from the smallest to the biggest on close examination had a specific purpose. Each individual here on earth has a purpose and meaning, they all reflect the glory and wisdom of God. The smallest instance is the joy you derive just watching the sunset gives joy and glory to God it's creator. I see God everywhere in the sunrise and sunset, in the rivulets and seas and in the mountains and ranges and I feel Him in the wind and and breezes. For me therein lies the meaning of life. Existentialist says we have to create our own meaning to life but I find meaning in life itself.

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SW-User

Reality just is.

I think we must "touch base" ( i.e. become "nothing" ourselves, just as the ultimate source is "nothing", or "empty" - sunyata - "beyond thought", "ineffable" ,"unimaginable" ........) then we can once more embrace the world of opposites, of diversification. But now without being beguiled or led astray by concepts, definitions and conclusions.

It is right it should be so;
Man was made for joy and woe;
And when this we rightly know,
Thro' the world we safely go.

Joy and woe are woven fine,
A clothing for the soul divine.
Under every grief and pine
Runs a joy with silken twine.

"Auguries of Innocence” (William Blake)

Yes, meaning has to be found in life itself. Meaning is inherent to Reality.

"We are what we understand" (Dogen)

teachmetiger210503 · 36-40, M

@SW-User words of wisdom my friend , looking forward for more discussion.

SW-User

@teachmetiger210503 See you around.

And wisdom is never "ours"........Thomas Merton caught the paradox in one of his letters, speaking of a small Christian sect, the Shakers:-

The Shakers remain as witnesses to the fact that only humility keeps us in communion with truth, and first of all with our own inner truth. This we must know without knowing it, as they did. For as soon as a we become aware of "our truth" we let go of it and embrace an illusion.