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.

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.

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 energy you should be empty and undivided whole, free from psychological burden of mind and self-divisions due to association or identifications. For curiosity, you need beginner’s mind of original explorer.

Detached disinterested awareness free from self is your state of wholeness and the beginner’s mind of original explorer necessary for the childlike energy and curiosity.

Detached Awareness

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

By being empty, you can accommodate what is important and great to perform the great maneuver of life. By disengaging from the known and unknown, life can happen to you in all its depths and dimensions.