What is the meaning of life?

Willigis Jaeger, the famous mysticist and Zen-teacher from School of Contemplation in the german city of Wuerzburg, gave a lecture about "Eternal Wisdom" at the church "Kreuzkirche" in Munich on wednesday, 6/30/10. The question for me personally was, wether or not the way to eternal wisdom leads through contemplation. The latin word contemplari means "looking at s.th.". In a christian context this means sometimes Meditation, i.e. meditating about a subject like a picture, an idea or a word. W.J., however, thinks of a special form of praying. Contemplation in this context does not mean meditation, but a state of experience on the other side of consciousness. In this sense, I can understand his opinion that mankind is a wave in infinite ocean of divinity. From this the sense of life can be derived as part of godness. This is the way I understood his lecture, which presented also a lot of knowledge about modern science like Astrophysics and biological Evolution. What an interesting evening!