What significance does Buddhism have to offer us as individuals?
Part I of II
Addressing the elimination of suffering would do nothing less than improve the environment within which we as individuals journey.
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We as individuals travel, journey through life.
Buddhism implies that life is not “the” beginning of an end; rather life is a journey we take, an episode within our existence in eternity.
If you have a soul, as all major religions say, and if that soul is tied to eternity as the major religions also profess, then the time span of one day through one hundred years is but one part of your existence.
It must, however, have some significance or you would not be here.
Taking the journey through life, whether voluntarily or because you are forced to do so, still has the same outcome.
The outcome is the result of taking the journey.
If we all work consciously to eliminate suffering, we make the journey for each individual much more pleasant and enjoyable.