I have a few questions:
- How long ago was this?
- How long did you stay there to come to this conclusion:
I’ve come to the personal conclusion that the answers to all of these questions are delivered through the course of human experience and that with patience that is afforded with age, they are answers that we will all receive in some form or another at some point along the way.
- What is your ultimate goal? Enlightenment? To be as content as you can be? Continue to determine what your goal is?
- What habits have you adapted to push yourself towards your goal, if any?
Other than these questions, Buddhism, to me, is a philosophy. It is a set of guidelines that Buddha came up with and it's goal is to allow people to get out of Samsara (the cycle of birth and death) and escape suffering. Life is suffering and the way out is Nirvana. Easy to say but hard to do...
Now, obviously, there's more than just what you said or what I said concerning Buddhism. Just thought I'd drop my 2 cents here. Would love to talk to you more about this!
Hi @cabernet, thanks for reading. I intended this piece of writing to be a summery of my experiences over around 15/16 years with a hint of self depreciating irony intertwined. I travelled across asia over the 15/16 years with no ultimate goal, just to achieve some piece of mind, and after trying to figure out existence, our place and meaning in the world and ways to achieve some peace of mind and understanding of these basic questions, I tried yoga and mediation and meaningful employment / charity work and none of it gave me answers, just more to do, and so my own personal conclusion, which is the point i was trying to make (we all have our own experiences in life which bring us to certain conclusions), is that this all just gave me more to do and think about, so since dropping that way of thinking, Ive dropped a whole lot of baggage which I think I inadvertently acquired during my quest. And fully agree, I don't think any one person can sum up a religion or explain it succinctly to another individual, but as you say its just 2 cents worth, thought I hope through the power of Steem it might be worth a few more ;-) In summery Ive realised that I personally get a lot more satisfaction and peace of mind by just doing and being, as a opposed to over thinking and not really doing much! You've got a great profile, Ill look forward to following your posts :-)
Haha I see what you did there :P
I agree with you. Instead of overthinking what you need to do or how you need to feel, just focus on doing the best you can. Express gratitude and find yourself. Everything else will follow! :)