Philosophy is broad discipline. But how broad is it, if you get or understand even a one topic completely, then philosophy is understood.
So, to make you understand the path of philosophy I choose to go with life.
Life: possible variables
When we talk about life at first the question comes is "what is life? What is called as life?".
Many people have set up theirs journey in search of meaning of life. Each time when there appears a new seeker, new way of seeing life was developed. Everytime there arose a new philosophy. When we overlook all the findings, there are three ways of understanding life. One is internal journey, the other is external journey and the third one is neither internal nor external.
These three path has been explained by Lord Krishna in Bhagwat Geeta as,
1) Path of knowledge (GYAN YOG)
2) Path of action (karma) (KARMA YOG)
3) Path of devotion. ( BHAKTI YOG)
Internal journey leads to emptiness where external journey takes to wholeness. And the ambivert don't gets bother in emptiness and wholenessss, they just accept everything.
Therefore, to understand the equation of life? , the variables can take three forms. And within forms there are many values. For a people struggling for success, life is struggle. For a lover, love is life.
Life plays it's role within these three variables.
Life
Life is the time span by livings between it's birth to death. It's the journey from womb to graveyard.
Being in this limit, now we just put different values of variables to know the life. Lord Buddha found out that , life is full of sufferings. And Meera found that life is full of joy, she danced till her last breath. Kabir found that life is a music so he sang all the time. Everybody who starts journey to know the life finds another dimension of life. One thing is sure whatever is found out each time, they only get one of the solutions to the equation of life.
When we too individually start our journey then again we will obtain another solution of equation.
But we are the humans of 21st century, we want to live vicarious life. So, we depend upon the others solutions to solve the equation. We are cowards, and we are afraid to initiate a journey. Better we use others solutions.
So this is why?, Everyone in this world has readymade answer. Whatever you ask them, they can give you answers but they are not aware that imported answers won't help them in reality. For a glimpse of time, it may give smile on your face but believe me that would make you suffer a lot.
Start your own journey, write your own philosophy. Never import from others because others answers are of theirs, it won't help you.
This fact is fully supported by Jesus, he has said in many places that," KNOCK, THE DOOR SHALL BE OPENED, SEEK AND YOU WILL BE ANSWERED". But what have you been doing is trying to enter the open door and without seeking you have a answer.
It's your life, live in your own ideology. This is the basic concept .
Try to live how you are, don't try to become
Thank you.
Great one