Confusion, completion, misery and joy | Meaningness

Properly understanding meaning eliminates needless suffering. An application: ethics.

Earlier, I observed that misunderstanding meaningness makes many miserable . I suggest that shifting from confused stances to complete stances can eliminate this “spiritual” suffering. That is the point of this book. I hope it can help accomplish a positive transformation of your experience of meaningness. It is not meant to be an academic, philosophical analysis. A couple pages back, I described a method for resolving confusions about meaningness . That explanation may have seemed dry and abstract. On this page, I sketch one example. Although the discussion here is brief, I hope it is concret

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