Buddhism gives supreme importance to mitigation of suffering for sustainable welfare and happiness of all human individuals in the present and in the future over any other artificial ideas, institutions, persons, powers, faiths, beliefs etc.

Buddhism does this by encouraging you to give up negativities like personal defilements including but not limited to emotionalism, jealousies, covetousness, conceit, hate etc.. On the other hand, Buddhism encourages to cultivate personal qualities of awareness, sensitivity, empathy, compassion, skillfulness, tolerance, patience, nonviolence, restrain etc.

The original form of Buddhism can be found through the Tripitakas or three baskets including Vinayapitak about discipline for monks, Suttapitaka about ideas or principles taught by buddha Siddarth Gautama and Ahidhammapitika about philosophy of primordial nature or sublime nature. These three baskets of Buddhist wisdom were constituted democratically by council of monks who personally learned from the buddha Siddartha Gautama.

According to Buddhism, first you deserve your care and attention then everyone else. Buddhism encourages you to be your own light and guide by finding and knowing the truth on your own using all means of knowledge.

Suffering can arise due to unnecessary desires, aversions and attachments in the constantly changing impermanent play of life.

The way you live and act in the impermanent constantly changing life and the world can give rise to attachment and suffering. Hence, you should acknowledge impermanence and live in such a way that you do not get attached, neither psychologically nor materially.

Without attachment there is no association and identification with known or unknown. Without association or identification there is no self. Without self, you are flexible and harmonious like formless water.

Without attachments, desires and aversions you are selfless, like the formless flowing water, neither grasping, nor getting attached but constantly adapting itself harmoniously with the change.

Attached, you are selective, partial, arbitrary and take everything personally. Detached, you are impartial, disinterested and impersonal but not disconnected. Nonattachment is basis of your freedom and autonomy.

Ideas are psychological point of views in some context. Ideas are abstract psychological views of complex realities.

Ideas represent possibilities in reality or imaginations. Due to their creative imagination, humans are capable of understanding greater and lesser contexts, think for themselves and come up with ideas.

Ideas are not tricks or hacks, but tricks and hacks can arise from the idea of making life easy or difficult. Institutions, systems, structures, processes, cultures constituting the society are based on some ideas with some motives.

Ideas constitute philosophy. For example, philosophy of stoicism is based on ideas of minimalism, courage, justice, virtue. Philosophy of Taoism is based on natural richness, balance & equilibrium, being like water etc.. Philosophy of Islam is based on idea of surrender to sublime peace. Philosophy of Buddhism is based on ideas of impermanence, no-self, emptiness, conditional arising, collective karma, end of suffering etc.

All life forms grow and mature to become independent and free. Personal independence and personal freedom are natural rights of all life forms.

Nature treats all life forms equally by being equally available without discriminating. All life forms are born dependent but become free and independent in the richness of nature. There is no slavery, neither physical nor psychological, in the wilderness of rich nature.

Independence is the foundation of freedom. Greater the independence, greater the right to freedom and liberty. Freedom is natural in the wilderness whereas, freedom in the society is qualified, called liberty.

Meaning of Freedom

Freedom is a state arising like a phenomenon from cause and conditions including right to own will or conscience, right to own options and right to equality in the universal context. Freedom is not wishfulness or the right to fulfill wishes.

As free individual, you belong to yourself, depend on yourself and are responsible for yourself. As a free individual, you are a wild human free to make mistakes and learn from the mistakes.

To live intensely, you need childlike energy and curiosity without beliefs or preconceived notions. For childlike energy you should be whole undivided by self-delineating labels and free from psychological burdens. For curiosity, you need no-mind of an original explorer of life as if just born.

Detached awareness free from self is your state of wholeness and no-mind of original explorer necessary for the childlike energy and curiosity.

Fully aware, your will supersedes your impulses. This helps you to become more self-disciplined, self-motivated and self-regulated which can help you to get what you want if your want the right thing.

Detached Awareness

You cannot live an authentic intense life by constantly engaging with it. You need to know how to disengage and be empty.

By being empty, you can accommodate what is important and great in order to perform the great maneuver of life. By disengaging from the known and unknown, you are in your own charge, and you are not controlled by effects of known and unknown.

Life is not suffering but there is suffering in life if not lived skillfully.

Cause has to be real. Imaginary causes of suffering like fate, supreme creator and controller, planets in heaven, previous birth, past birth karma etc.… are not real.

Desires, aversions and attachments due to ignorance as the causes of suffering are real and within the reach of individual to address. Every individual has ability to become free from ignorance, desires, aversions and attachments.

Ignorance is due to forgetfulness. For example, you can misunderstand by forgetting the beginning, the source, the actual context or the greater context. You become self-ignorant by forgetting how you were, how you felt, before gathering mind and self from society, before associating or associating with the known and unknown since the beginning of your life during infancy. You become self-ignorant by forgetting the beginning, why you are the way you are and from where are becoming in the present.

Hence enlightenment is due to dispelling ignorance through recognizing and remembering some forgotten but obvious truths. Spiritual enlightenment is to dispel self-ignorance by recognizing and remembering your natural innocence before formation of mind and self.