Somebody asked Krishnamurti one time, "What would you say is the meaning of life?" He said "MEANING!?! -- how do you think our puny little thoughts can cast the nature of life into some kind of words that can truly express what IS -- it doesn't mean anything! What does air or moonlight mean!?" This is very true; this is very, very true. To believe that we can express what life's meaning is is to assume that we can put into words, into some formula, the entire nature of the cosmos -- the universe and the mind in all their infinite and inconceivable stratifications and their incredible complexity and interdependence -- to try and put that into the expression of human mouth noises is just absurd. When the mind is allowed to rest in that sense of complete clarity and choicelessness, we find that it is beyond dualism -- no longer making preferences or being biased towards this over that. It is resting at the point of equipoise, where this and that and black and white and where you an I all meet; the space where all dualities arise from. With the mind thus resting, all conflicts are healed. This is the way that war is ended; affliction and conflict are drawn to a close because the very root delusion of separateness has been dissolved. It would be like our left hand going to war against our right -- it's not going to happen, even in the craziest of people, since the commonality is much more obvious than the differences. -- Ajahn Amaro, in Silent Rain (http://www.ultranet.com/~cm/TOC)