Buddhism without the Goal

[triskell]

Buddhism without the goal of enlightenment is nothing more than spiritual materialism.

Buddhism's ultimate goal is the awakening into enlightenment. The Buddha did it. Many hundreds of thousands throughout the history of the enlightenment movement have done it. You can do it too. The question is "do you want to?" Can you even think about it as a

Comments

[ngakmafaery]

...if you post this in buddhistpagan1_, it'd be great...

[triskell]

All right. I'll post it there. Thank you for reading it. I almost didn't post it at all. I thought it may have been a bit to strong.

[triskell]

There seems to be something wrong with the link. I'll search for it and see if I can find it.

[ngakmafaery]

...I'm sure some people *will* find it strong, but I'm a sort of for-real buddhist, and understand that view, and find it really goes along well with what Chogyam Trungpa said, and I agree with you...and I feel that especially in the west, especially with pagans and sort of magic-y types, you get a lot of pick-and-choose ego building under the guise of 'buddhist' this or 'pagan-buddhist' that...I'm sure you'll get some strong respnnses over at the other community, but I'll write a supportive view there too...

[triskell]

Thank you. Also thank you for introducing me to that community. Yep, I can say I have finally reached the point where...well, I wrote it out so I won't repeat it. I hope I can learn from anyone's responses. Perhaps there is a better way to see this issue. But I won't be able to back down over the Goal being important, no matter how we choose to frame it in language.

[ngakmafaery]

....I'll save the supportive affirmation for when it gets pointy over there!

[triskell]

That'll work. But I may be able to point back a little too.