Life's troubles! What is the meaning of life's troubles?

 Life's troubles! What is the meaning of life's troubles?

Life’s Worries

The meaning of life’s worries is not absolute, but many people inevitably experience concerns and struggles throughout life.

If a person had no worries at all, their situation would be no different from livestock being fed—existing without challenge or growth.

From a spiritual perspective, having worries in life can be seen as the trials that are given to us. Every person will eventually pass away, and no one lives forever.

In other words, the very act of being born has meaning, and life’s worries themselves also carry significance.

To begin, consider the concept of existence and pleasure. Psychologist Sigmund Freud proposed that even basic activities—eating, sleeping, or using the restroom—produce some degree of pleasure. Humans, he argued, are beings who naturally seek pleasure, a principle he called the pleasure principle.

Life's troubles! What is the meaning of life's troubles?

To put it in extreme terms, existence = pleasure, and it would not be an exaggeration to say that when one feels happiness, one simultaneously experiences a strong sense of existence and strong pleasure.

Not feeling a sense of existence does not merely mean the absence of presence; the human body and mind influence each other, and a lack of existence can easily trigger stress as a form of life-threatening signal.

A stress response places one in a state of either attack or escape toward the source of stress. Both options require energy, which, in turn, can generate further energy in the body and mind.

Moreover, being under stress tends to narrow objective perspective, making one more focused on the stress itself.

In other words, life’s worries arise when one loses a sense of existence, appearing as stress that directs attention inward.

Even the need to think about unnecessary things can arise under such stress, activating one’s cognitive faculties more intensely.

Buddha, who opened the path of Buddhism, taught that worries arise from attachment to desires, and that by letting go of attachments, one could eliminate suffering.

At first glance, this may seem reasonable. However, humans are beings who naturally seek a sense of existence. To completely abandon attachment could equate to abandoning life itself.

Regarding the growth of the soul, as I have often discussed in this blog, the accumulation of knowledge is a series of small realizations, just as spiritual growth—or the growth of one’s soul level—occurs through incremental realizations of the heart.

A higher soul level strengthens one’s existential power in a spiritual sense, enhances creative capacity to fulfill the hearts of others, and broadens one’s perspective as the heart gains more realizations. This is not a difficult concept—it is simply the process of becoming spiritually mature.

Conversely, a low soul level indicates weak existential power, prioritizing one’s own fulfillment over others, and a narrower perspective due to fewer heart-based realizations. Again, this is not complicated; spiritually speaking, it is childlike.

When the soul level is low, stress becomes more prevalent, and life’s worries tend to arise more easily.

Life’s worries are trials for the soul to grow into maturity, essential experiences for the soul.

At the same time, worries generate stress and may provoke aggressive tendencies, which can lead to destructive actions. It may therefore be preferable to minimize life’s worries whenever possible.

For instance, the current invasion of Ukraine by President Putin can be seen as arising from his personal life struggles, where aggressive impulses manifest as war.

From a spiritual perspective, such actions are unacceptable, and to prevent similar events in the future, it is necessary to raise awareness and consciousness.

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