The main goal of Buddhism?
 

Hello people :smile:,

Does Buddhism have a main goal?

What is it Buddha wanted others "to get"?

Thanks.

That life goes round and round like a wheel always meeting itself?


Others might give more reasons of course, I just picked out one of many in me in this moment.

To attain Buddhahood.

OK, restrain Buddhahood isn't a full picture, and although that is it, it doesn't, really mean anything. For example Buddhahood isn't about becoming like Buddha, any to us, we can see that a person Buddha is just an imaginary ideal, so Buddhists teach in terms of nirvana, and Buddha refers to the enlightenment within yourself. The first Buddhist philosophy, or teaching, to understand is the 4 Nobel truths. This speaks on suffering and the cessation thereof, and nirvana is more like a cessation than something one can attain.

I read a piece today, about after Buddha became enlightened, he had a vision in which he saw the human race as a bed of lotus flowers. Some of the lotuses were still stuck in mud, others were just emerging from it, and some were blooming. So this meant, that all people had the ability to unfold the potential and some need help to do so. So then Buddha decided to teach, and all of the teachings of Buddhism appear to be because of this vision. So maybe that was the main goal. Give back?

Could it be then, that maybe Buddha wanted to end the suffering of other beings because of developed compassion?

Perhaps he saw himself as an instrument to help with the achievement of the "Greater Plan"?

Are Buddhists open to and accepts other paths and other realizations different from Buddhahood?

In my observance many other philosophy-followers don't.

Same thing Mooji is trying to get people to get.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgjIM4rK_-w

What's funny about this video of his is you also see how most people don't get it and are lost in their ideas he is a god. That's how religions start. The worshiping of a person instead of taking what he offering as far as a truth and becoming that. Masters don't want followers, they want people to wake up, that's all.

Here is some idea:

The Bodhisattva is said to have well grasped the teaching of the Tathágatas when, all alone in a lonely place, by means of his Transcendental Intelligence, he walks the path leading to Nirvana. Thereon his mind will unfold by perceiving, thinking, meditating, and, abiding in the practice of concentration until he attains the "turning-about" at the source of habit-energy, he will thereafter lead a life of excellent deeds. His mind concentrated on the state of Buddhahood, he will become thoroughly conversant with the noble truth of self-realization; he will become perfect master of his own mind; he will be like a gem radiating many colors; he will be able to assume bodies of transformation; he will be able to enter into the minds of all to help them; and; finally, by gradually ascending the stages he will become established in the perfect Transcendental Intelligence of the Tathágatas.

Nevertheless, Transcendental Intelligence (Arya-jnana) is not Noble Wisdom (Arya-prajña) itself, only an intuitive awareness of it. Noble Wisdom is a perfect state of imageless-ness; it is the Womb of "Suchness;" it is the all-conserving Divine Mind (Alaya-Vijnana), which in its pure Essence forever abides in perfect patience and undisturbed tranquility.

http://buddhasutra.com/files/lankavatara_sutra.htm