I became interested in this question about a dozen years ago. During that time I spent hundreds of hours reading eastern philosophy, zen, Theravada Buddhism, meditation, and general philosophy books from the west.

Answers to, “What is the point of life?” – in my best estimation, come in two flavors.

1. What is the point of my own life – what am I living for, and what am I focused on here?

2. What is the existential point of life – why were we created, and what was the purpose of mankind’s creation? If we were created at all. This I don’t focus on in the book – but I’m teasing myself with the idea of creating this book too.

In 2007 I wrote a piece at Aim for Awesome entitled, “What is the Point of Life?” that has become the number one visited article on that site for the past year, and now has surpassed all other posts in popularity. There are 140+ comments and there’s amazing insight in the comments section. If you read the post you must read through at least some of the comments as well – just brilliant!

It’s an interesting topic and one I won’t tire of anytime soon. So I just began the book… “What is the Point of Life? ebook”

You can contribute to it if you like – anytime, there is no time limit since it’s an ebook on PDF format and I can easily edit it as I get a fresh batch of contributions from readers like you that want to add your couple sentences or even paragraph or page to it.

It will be a collection of ideas from all over the world about the point of life.

Go on – click the link just above and see how to add your opinion to the ebook. Publishing will be in April 2010, but as I said – no limit as to when you submit your contribution to it.

Cheers!

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