What significance does Buddhism have to offer us as individuals?
Part II of II
...You expand upon your awareness as you journey.
The type of awareness you take with you when you exit life is dependent upon your own actions but it also is dependent upon the actions of others.
The process of addressing the elimination of suffering is really nothing other than taking actions during your journey which are intended to improve upon journeys, both in life and what is to follow life, yours as well as others.
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The journey through life obtains an expanded significance if it goes beyond our limited time span as humans.
This is where the concept of panentheism attains its importance for it reinforces the concept that the essence of the individual is the soul and it is the soul which is tied to eternity.
Buddhism existed long before we began to analyze the term panentheism.
Therefore, panentheism reinforces Buddhism in this respect.
Buddhism then attains its significance in its understanding of the concept of our present state of having an attachment to the eternal.
As such, your awareness and experiences in your present life form moves with you into your next life form.
This in turn provides the understanding of the need to reduce the suffering you undergo in this life form so as to be able to reduce your exposure to suffering in eternity.
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