Ego in Buddhism.... the desire for enlightenment

Ego in Buddhism.... the desire for enlightenment

Now, before i go further, i feel like i must say that i really like Buddhism and it feels like the most natural in many of its philosophies and practices... for me... in terms of the ‘main’ religions... main coming from a western perspective... obviously... this is is where all ‘academia’ and great ‘research’ logically comes from....

So, Buddhism... in reading bits and pieces... i am realizing and sort of recognising how it does in fact play out within our minds... this desire to reach enlightenment... we do and live with all these extremely and lovely and SO important beliefs... but we do them in order to achieve enlightenment....it’s like the reward for living nobly....

This is why i like Buddhism, and believe in it... it is based upon compassion, lovingkindness.... good-ness... those are principles that leave you feeling thankful. Leave you feeling peaceful. Thinking of others, and their well beings. Thinking of those in the future, the past, the present... it is a different order then western thinking, we think more, ‘me, them, them’... ha ha... its true. So it is hard for us to understand the ‘future’ thinking of Tibetan Buddhists for example with so much emphasis on future lifetimes... of us and our future ancestors.

There is also this desire to reach enlightenment, that i sort of have a hard time with... but also really love, and think is so beautiful. Not so much as though you are above and beyond, but you are in the all bliss... in the elements. You are them. And so you connect with them, and eachother. It is colourful and sparkling and calm and energetic, and peaceful and content. It is all peaceful, and accepting in its gratitude. And i do want to go there.

So there it is... i am a believer.