"Many people, Master, who do not seem to have (found ??) a goal in life, who do not know what to do with their lives, are always heard to ask after the 'deeper meaning or purpose' of life. Is not that an unnecessary search for non-existences?"
"Certainly. They ask this silly questions in the hope of being told about some better sort of god or sperrit. They always are nudged by an emptiness, thus they wonder whether there is not something more between 'heaven and Earth', than we can see and deduct. Like every plant and worm, there is but one Way for the human animal. Nothing mysterious nothing mystical, just: 'I, to live, to survive, to be well', in other words, CONTROL. Says not Chuangtse as perfect definition of necessities for life: 'To start out with the business of daily living, whose principal occupations are food and clothing, to grow and to multiply and save, so that the old and the young and the widow and the orphan shall be well provided for - these are the fundamental needs of the people' (Lin Yutang, Laotse 25). It answers the question after Seneca's explanation of 'the necessary and the enough'. There simply is no more to it. No sperrits, no after-life in heaven, no critical observations from the here-after by your dad or granny. Naturally, there is another need, a non-fundamental one, and that is: the gathering of wisdom, and thus attaining the highest form of happiness, the True Word, i.e. Tao, i.e. to know and live-out the harmony with Nature."