Atman Vs Buddhism

Both Hinduism and Buddhism are new religions that I have never learned of and that I find very interesting. I was raised a Catholic and I like what these two religions stand for even though I grew up from a different religious background. Will I ever change to Hinduism or Buddhism? no but, I would like to look at the Atman in Hinduism vs. Anatman in Buddhism. The simple difference between them is that Atman is true self, and Anatman is no-self. For most Christens Atman would be more easily understood. With Atman, it is neither mind nor body but pure consciousness. If everything is striped from the human body, it is left with just a pure consciousness or you can kind of think of it as a “soul”. Also, there is the Myself and MySelf with an uppercase …show more content…
It is the closest thing that I can think of that is close to my personal religion. I like to think about it as Atman would be compared to my spirit or soul” in Catholicism. I believe when I die, my soul will go to heaven but, in Hinduism my Atman would just go to another body. Anatman there is not a point to living if all things are “one” and there is no true self. I do not find a point in Buddhism. I understand they want to end suffering by “waking up” and realizing who they truly are but, it really does not even sound like a religion. Both religion have an ultimate goal such as finding Moksha or liberation in Hinduism and In Buddhism, there end goal is to realize there self. Both these religions point to unity but, in different ways. In Buddhism, it shows unity by saying you and I are Atman we are all our identity but, our true spiritual self is that we are Atman. In Buddhism, it says that we are all part of something bigger. Think of it as building a wall. We are all one brink in that wall uniting it and making it into a wall. Another reason I think why I prefer Atman over Anatman is that I really do not understand Anatman as much as Atman. Anatman to me is more confusing and