Buddhism FAQZZ Meaning of Life

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Buddhism FAQ

(Frequently Asked Questions About Buddhism)

Introduction
Views presented here are of personal nature of writer, the reader is free to accept or reject these. Buddhism being an investigative path, follows a scientific method of experimentation and research of the self and its phenomenon, their inter-relations & hidden truths in order to reveal their true nature (of either beneficial or otherwise) using meditation & its techniques of equanimity while following good morality which one day leads to rapture & attainment of higher states of awareness(samadhi/trance states).

The understanding of spirituality can be considered like that of blind men trying to understand an elephant. Udana 6.4.

The Theory
Imagine a vastly huge sun (invisible) existing everywhere giving out several rays. And one of the rays is present within  a person's brain & spine giving life to one, as the prime mover. And other people(& creatures) having same. So all living beings are connected to the common source that exists within as well as without. That is why Buddha has refused to accept the existence of individual self as separate disconnected entity/soul (the concept of anatta sans. anatmata).

Discussion
Self : What a person calls one's self is one's mind only. Buddha has called the mind(citta) as luminous. AN1.49-52

Superself : Also in Kevaddha Sutta at end he gives a hint of the final state of Nirvana(moksha) like the infinite sea of divine light (actually infinite, most luminous super-consciousness & free from worldly features ). As a matter of simplification, it can be understood as God as defined in other religions. It can be understood as:

(1) Different electrical gadgets with different features but being run by a common electricity.

(2) Virtual reality : The process of meditation, attainment of various samadhi(trance) states and Nirvana can be considered as coming out from the virtual reality(of world/matrix).

A Virtual Reality Headset (similar to body & mind(NamRupa))

To be continued....