Buddhist Ultimate Goal In Life

I believe we are part of a society that has become so individualized. We have become afraid to be part of the community because of the fear that rises within us about the idea of losing part of us in a group setting. For others, the idea of working together is not relevant to their lives. Meaning that they don’t believe in working together for a common goal. other individuals may have come from different cultures that has taught them to look after themselves and only themselves, in other words, become selfish. I’ve actually had the opportunity to witness this with family members and people I know. Most of these individuals have the mentality that working individually towards a certain goal will help them reach happiness (their needs) quicker than working as a community. Therefore, I believe that the fact that Buddhist ultimate goal in life is to reach happiness, it will be helpful in today’s society. I believe this because in this religion Buddhists reach happiest individually, but once in that stage they help the people …show more content…
In the Buddhism religion, there is no God, therefore a Buddhist is in charge and in control of his/her own body. Since this is the case then if something goes wrong then the individual will have no one to blame it to, no devil and no god. I’m not trying to say that it’s good to blame something else for it, but it happens then the people will blame themselves and potentially cause an increase in low self-esteem between the people. The idea of enlightenment could potentially be another limitation to today’s society because this stage could possibly not be reached by many. In order to reach the enlightenment stage one should go through physiological and physiologic challenges; which could become unhealthy for the individual especially if he/she never reaches enlightenment. Therefore, the idea of reaching enlightenment could potentially become a limitation to today’s