T he world makes no sense, so why are we here? The world we are in makes no sense. We live in impermanent bodies that are destined to fail. The impermanence itself makes it an imperfect existence. However, on top of that we have our fabricated existences, with the made-up self-identities that we cling to. All this produces a world that while it may have some nice things in it to distract us is imperfect to the core and not on balance a nice place. One can accept these as just

The world as an illusion We are ignorant of certain fundamental characteristics of the world as it is. These can be broken down into the...

I’m not sure why the Book of Job is in the Bible, but before we get to that let’s review the story of Job.   Job’s story First, we’re...