What are the goals of Buddhism?

Arimi-sama

This is Kawaguchi Hidetoshi. This is my humble answer to the question.

“Is it a Buddhist teaching to reduce suffering as much as possible and to destroy suffering?” ・・

I understand that destroying anguish and suffering is only a part of the ascetic process, and that in the end, it is a teaching that all sentient beings, including oneself, should go to a point where all sentient beings struggling with reincarnation will be completed.

“As long as we are 'people', it is impossible to completely destroy our afflictions and suffering.” ・・

A “person” is a label that is simply named after a group called the five pillars, and originally there is no entity that can be called a “person.” However, I know that affliction, ignorance, and suffering, which is the source of it, are simply made up of “luck,” and if even the causal relationships that bring about the results of ignorance, worry, and suffering can be firmly changed or eliminated, then they can naturally be destroyed.

“This is because the sense of separation between oneself and others, and between oneself and the world is separate, is the true identity of an individual.” ・・

I come to think that myself, individuals, others, and the world are all established as “lucky” for the time being. However, none of them have been established as an entity (· self nature · self phase). The former is described as “secular mantra,” and the latter is described in Buddhism as “Katsuyoshi.”

Anyway, I believe that whether they are divided or not, they are both situations where they are not possible as entities.

“Individuals = separate beings, so suffering always exists. (Actually, they aren't separated, so it's an apparent suffering)”...

That may be the case as “individuals,” but since it can be said that we are lost and suffering due to our overturned perceptions, I think it can certainly be said that it is apparent suffering.

“So what is the goal of Buddhist teachings “to stop being human”?” ・・

Yes, that's correct in a sense. Because it is “Buddha” and “Buddha” because it is a person and nothing (negative word, mu).

Well, rather than saying “we will cease to be human,” I know that we will completely correct the state of our overthrown perception as ordinary people and make arrangements so that sentient beings can be saved.

Kawaguchi Hidetoshi Gassho

There is always suffering for living things.
Generally, the goal of Buddhism is to get rid of worries and graduate from being a living thing (repeated suffering).
This is what is called nirvana (nirvana), nirvana, peaceful destruction.
What interferes with that nirvana is worry, so in Buddhism, people practice ascetic practices to eliminate worry.
If you have worries, even if you die, you will be reborn again, and you will continue to live.
Once your worries are completely gone, you will be put into nirvana (nirvana) when you die, so if you look at it from the world of living things, you will completely perish.
We're probably killing microbes just by breathing. However, once you enter nirvana, you won't be killed or killed.
For example, since Buddha has already entered nirvana, not only will he not suffer himself, he will not suffer even a single microbe against other living things.
So, generally speaking, the goal of Buddhism is nirvana, peaceful destruction.

However, Buddhism called Mahayana Buddhism (the Japanese sect is also Mahayana Buddhism.) Then, there is also the idea that even if you reach a level of enlightenment where you can enter nirvana, you will continue altruistic (saving others) activities to lead suffering others to nirvana without daring to enter nirvana.
Even though Amitabha Buddha and the like are at a level where you can always enter nirvana, they dare to continue living and do activities that lead us to nirvana.
Even though Buddha got rid of his worries at age 35 and reached a level where he could enter nirvana at any time, he actually entered complete nirvana (death) at age 80, and during that time, he lived an altruistic life leading others. I suffered from back pain and illness in my later years, but even when I was in the worst physical condition close to death, I readily accepted people who visited me asking me to become my apprentice.

So, Buddhism has two goals.
One is to overcome your own worries and enter Nirvana (peaceful destruction) yourself,
Two of them are doing activities to save others without daring to enter nirvana.

OK, so what is distress? I'll leave out the details, but the main source of worry is “a sense of separation that I and the world are separate.” Humans don't understand it easily, and even though they know it, they can't stop it, so it becomes difficult...
If you can take care of others as if you were your own, you can't kill them. There is no one else to let them die. There are no other people's things to steal. No one to hate, nothing to envy. So there is no cause for suffering.

So, should I put myself in second place and cherish the whole thing? That's different. Then it's just two extremes. That's because I am everything too. Similarly, it is extreme to say that there are individuals, and it is extreme to say that there are none. Instead, the goal of Buddhism is “freedom.”

Freedom is originally a Buddhist word. However, it is different from “freedom” as a translation of freedom. “Freedom” is “respect for the individual,” but “freedom” in Buddhism means “freedom for each individual and everything.” What paraphrases this is “color is the sky, the sky is color,” the Kegon Sutra is “one instant everything, everything is one, everything is one,” and the Hokke Sutra is “one sentence three thousand,” and in older times, “the origin of cause and effect” and “no laws (non) me.” Incidentally, if you ask my Soto sect, it's “body and mind, drop out of body and mind,” in Rinzai sect, “die while you're alive,” and in Esoteric Buddhism, “Bonga Ichiyo.” Even though their clothes and forms of training are different, they all say this with their mouths together. Isn't that interesting?

Specifically, what to do is to “fulfill being a human being” in my expression. At mealtime, eat the food in front of you, and that's all. When cleaning, I always vacuum or hang a rag. Fulfilling everything in front of you is living with the individual and the whole as one. Crystals of a large flow of cause and effect spanning the past, present, and future are condensed into each one. And by valuing each and every one of our daily lives, we can live by entrusting our body and mind to this world (France).

I'm going to talk about the Jodo Shinshu sect.

The goal of Buddhism is to “become a Buddha.”
If you attain Buddhism as you said, there will be no suffering.
There are sects that walk the path of attaining Buddhism while living as people, and there are also sects that walk the path of attaining Buddhism in the Pure Land after death.
The Jodo Shinshu sect, which I believe in, abandoned attaining Buddhism with this life.
The root is that people are told “I cannot attain Buddhism while living.”
That's why I leave it to the other powers of Amida Nyorai, who has the blessing of [causing death to pass away in the Pure Land of Paradise after death].

Life is reincarnated, so when you die, you are reincarnated again and the next life begins.
If you practice ascetic practices, die, and practice over and over again, you may be able to attain Buddhism someday.
If you stop halfway through, the merits you have built up will retreat and go to zero.

QWhat are the goals of Buddhism?
A It's something we can do now, here, and like this.
You're in trouble because you can't stay here like this.
I'm coming to the zazen session.

Q: First, is the teaching of Buddhism about reducing worry as much as possible and destroying suffering?
A It's fine to say that, though. Do you have any worries or pains right now? Aren't you just acknowledging what wasn't there and pulling out what wasn't in your head?

If it's Q, it's impossible to completely destroy worries and suffering as long as they are “people.”
A If you have a “person” = person self (a way of looking at something that recognizes oneself), convenience and standards centered on oneself are created, so of course, suffering occurs.

Q This is because the sense of separation between oneself and others, and between oneself and the world, is the true identity of an individual.
Individuals = separate beings, so suffering always exists.
(Actually, they aren't separated, so it's an apparent suffering.)
A The truth is, there is no separation or unity. There will be no view.

Q: What is the goal of Buddhist teachings “to stop being human”?
A were you a “person” now? Was it something without a name? I wonder if it was ❝ none ❞ that didn't come up with recognition. When a “person (self)” that causes handling comes out, they begin to think about things and then try to handle them.
(^. ^) It's not a “person,” but Buddha and selflessness (no sense of self. It's about becoming (this mind and body).
As soon as the goal is scored, Coco is lost sight of it.
Other than that, why are you setting ideals so far away?
Right now, immediately, check to see if you can ❝ watch ❞ with your head without looking at this place and now.

What the Hokke is reciting is the extinction of sin.
We will use this as a transit point for the purpose.

To attain Buddhism is to become a Buddha. From the experience of becoming a Buddha by chanting the Namu Myōhō Renge Kyo, the Buddha is active so that people also chant the Namu Myōhō Renge Kyo.

In other words, attaining Buddhism is a form of chanting the Namu Myōhō Renge Kyō yourself and recommending others.