"If you ask the TAO (道) in the morning, you can die in the evening."
From Confucius' Analects - Rijin 孔子『論語 - 里仁』
This means as follows.
If you can know TAO (道、truth of the universe?), you can die!
I can't agree with this thought, but it may be one of my values.
However, I also want to know the "truth (道)" as much as possible in my short life. If I can do that, I will be able to shine the value of life within the short time given to me. Even if life is short, the spark of truth can lead to eternal truth.
Matter (material) is energy, the speed of light remains the same in the universe, and humans are designed with a short genetic code.
From now on, science will clarify the existence of consciousness/the mind and universe. I want to know the truth. To know may be to radiate the brilliance of the philosophy that leads to life and the universe. Many people aspire to serve the truth, even if just a little, in our finite lives.
I respect and love Marcus Aurelius, the philosopher emperor of the ancient Roman Empire. I really want to live like him. Marcus Aurelius did not write a book. A collection of short documents he wrote only for himself, compiled as "Meditation". His twelve books were edited by others.
"I am not allowed to read," he laments. Despite the heavy responsibility of being an emperor, he was still trying to think and seek the truth. He may not have had enough time as a philosopher. Only a very small amount of time may have been spent on philosophy. But in that short time he imprintsed eternal life. His document is short. Even in those few lines of his words, the philosophy of seeking eternal time is hidden.
"You have the power to strip away many superfluous troubles located wholly in your judgment, and to possess a large room for yourself embracing in thought the whole cosmos, to consider everlasting time, to think of the rapid change in the parts of each thing, of how short it is from birth until dissolution, and how the void before birth and that after dissolution are equally infinite."