| I think that clearing away that deluded self view is a good thing. If you live everyday seeing everything as it is then everything you do will be as a true result of what is happening instead of a random guess at how to make sense of the interpretation of what goes on around you. Buddhism teaches you to clear your self view, lose your ego. 'If the doors of perception were cleansed...' If everyone saw everything as it is then suffering would end because in realising your love for other living beings you would lose fear for yourself, and instead feel sympathy and empathy for others.
In teaching everyone how to reach their potential, this religion brings good to humanity. It is different to other reigions in that there are no set rules, there are guide lines which enable you to reach 'awakening' and teach you how to lose those things that make you unhappy. It isn't that you forget about what makes you unhappy.
For example;
Yesterday i broke my leg, but instead of crying over the pain i ignored it. This made everything better.
This isn't what buddhism is trying to get across. Another example;
Yesterday i broke my leg, i realised that pain is a natural process, accepted that it was happening and i cleared my mind, and meditated and felt at one with my inner being. The pain was no longer important, but in acknowledging it was there i could get over it.
I think this is a more adequate analogy than;"Hey Frank, my legs are always itchy. What should i do about them?"
"Cut them off, youll never experience the pain of the itch anymore." |