What's the MOST important thing in life?

Artist Alex Grey; Pink Floyd ("Empty Spaces," "Echoes"); Calvin & Hobbes (comic); Dhr. Seven, Ashley Wells, Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Wisdom Quarterly (gfycat.com)

Let's get physical to get spiritual: yoga.

What is a funny story, what is a tale worth telling, what does it mean to speak or make an inspired utterance, to have rhyme or reason, sound and sense?

That is the question. We speak, we speak well, but how do we get something to say? Just counter-saying what anyone wrong says? Is there a positive way? There's experience, but the experience of what?

What shall we do with ourselves?

How shall one induce a mystical experience, a spiritual revelation, an expanded state of realization? Would it be enough to sit on the ground in a fertile garden, the fecund source of our creativity?

It seems there can be only one: the dawning of Buddhist wisdom, which is unlike any other. According to the Buddha, only in Buddhism (in this Dharma of Awakening) do we find awakened ones of the first order, second order, third order, and fully consummate in liberating-wisdom.

This wisdom is liberating-insight or what we today call vipassana. That term was not used back then; it seems to occur only once in the ancient texts.

"The eye of wisdom arose," knowing that whatever arises is of a nature to fall. For how could it be otherwise?

Ultimate wisdom is threefold: All is transient, all is disappointing (incapable of fulfilling), and most mindbogglingly, all is impersonal.

Without this realization, there is no real penetration to the liberating-truth that sets one free. That is the reason for the systematic cultivation of insight (vipassana or panna/prajna).