The point is the experience itself. You can read about riding a bike, but until you feel the wind in your hair, and the burning in your legs, you don't know. Knowing is doing and experiencing. Wisdom comes after reflecting on the things that you know. We come to Earth, because we are after the wisdom which will be revealed after we get back. While I was in my twenties I travelled to the poorest countries in the world because I wanted to experience the contrast, so I would know for myself. When I came home is when I was really able to process and reflect upon how much I had grown. In turn, changing and growing and expanding again with this new wisdom. We are growth seeking beings; when we trust and allow.

The way I see it is that through our life experience we come to know what we now want through the contrast of having the opposite of it or the lack of it. I used to think that the opposite of what I wanted was bad and what I wanted was good, but now I see that one is not possible without the opposite or the contrast of it. So in that sense, contrast is all good because without it everything is the same...

Additionally, without the desire created by contrast there can be no movement which equals death. So in this sense contrast is necessary because it inspires us to move.

I'm not yet at the point where I can definitely say why I'm here, but I believe that the only meaning something holds for me is the meaning I choose to give to it.

I feel that I'm currently here at this time to experience happiness and enjoyment in my life 8-)

Wotif -

... we created the world and we must stay here till we learn that it is meaningless

... and when we learn that it is meaningless it will have served a purpose anyway, we would have learned that we are responsible for what we create

... this would mean that we had gained in Wisdom. First Understanding and then Wisdom.

(Maybe that is why Manifesting whatever we desire might not be such a good thing?)

Life is a paradox. Things are and they are not. We are here for a purpose and for no reason at all but the experience. We create the sense of purpose ourselves to give some meaning to our existence. We would not be able to participate in the game if we are not able to give some meaning to it. It makes it more intriguing. I think.

Whether illusion or any kind of reality compared to our waking life and we perceive it through higher level of awareness and whether finally we will know that everything just the same, but finally, we will experience differences.

To that reality (whatever it is) could be addressed a meaningful because it introduces us feeling to love one to another and happiness with all the possibilities. It lets us to feel something. Whether it's bad feeling or good feeling, that's another story. Because it's subjective and it depends on the level of our awareness.

If we experienced the sameness (non duality) then it's meaningful because it's the treatment to make ourselves within balance. We are not only having understanding that there are non duality and duality, but experiencing both would balancing ourselves in any possible sides that relevant to ourselves

• But, yes, your understanding of non duality without experiencing it or our understanding about duality and we reject the idea of non duality, then it could be addressed as meaningless if we don't want to experience it. Or at least, less meaningful then as should be, in the sense that we aren't exploring possibilities that could put ourselves better.

So: How do you experience contrast, if everything is the same? Just experience life relevantly depending on where we are and further we must try to experience our understanding about non duality to balance ourselves.

• An understanding about whether all things just the same but it doesn't have to be considered as the reason for us to not having experiences. But it must be a trigger for us to aware that there is non duality and force us (through curiosity or any possible means) to explore and finally experience it.
• So, both (non duality and contrast - duality) are not against one to another, in fact both understanding must lead us to experience both to stabilize our perception, and the whole within ourselves in such relevant ways to put us even more better to (closer to a complete balance while) experience(ing) life.