Zensday: The Meaning of Life

The world is round; it has no point.
- Adrienne E. Gusoff


I once asked a Zen master about the meaning of life. We all get around to that question eventually, don't we?

"Life is empty and meaningless," he told me.

I said, "No! That can't be right!"

He said, "And it doesn't mean anything that it doesn't mean anything."

And still I said, "No!"

Then he said, "And that gives you the freedom to make it mean anything you want it to mean."

And I said, "Ahhhhh."