[aspinswramymn]

What is the ultimate goal for a Buddhist?

[popillio]

Good question actually and I'm very interested in what some people have to say.

The ultimate goal could be the path to enlightenment or becoming a Buddha...

[Zysyewgg]

What is the ultimate goal for a Buddhist?

welcome

here, it easy to simply quote the scriptures:

So then, monks, the holy life is led not for gain, honour & fame, not for the endowment of virtues, not for the endowment of concentration, not for the endowment of knowledges and vision. Bhikkhus, it is for the unshakeable release (freedom) of mind that is the essence and end (fulfilment) of the holy life.

The Major Discourse on Heartwood This is the path of practice leading to the cessation of suffering: This is what I have taught. And why have I taught these things? Because they are connected with the goal, relate to the rudiments of the holy life and lead to disenchantment, to dispassion, to cessation, to calm, to direct knowledge, to self-awakening, to Nirvana (peace). This is why I have taught them.

Simsapa Sutta: The Simsapa Leaves

[ChuttyAmult]

To attain enlightenment for yourself and help all sentient beings do the same.

[tobaccoman]

To quench dukkha,

[beenBinybelia]

to be free from suffering

[mirvokrug]

Hello Flower,

From my limited understanding, the ultimate goal is not to have any goals!!

To have a goal = to be conditioned/unfree

Regards,
Bundokji

[Kalobbis]

Just to be

[Valdoyes]

You'll get a few different answers from different Buddhists from different schools even though ultimately we are all doing the same thing whatever school we follow, mine is suprsisingly similar to Fee's.

Just Sit.

[L0KoxewQ]

What is the ultimate goal for a Buddhist?

Freedom from dukkha

[mypharmalife]

To be free of suffering, which is renouncing attachments. Live free, die free. With no desire to return to samsara but instead to be fully liberated from all further cyclical suffering.

[uneniaPhenits]

This slips around for me, especially as I get deeper into putting Buddhism into practise -- the question of how it fits into the larger world becomes more complex. For instance, while I see that enacting kindness has a great effect and quiet power, other questions develop.

Last night re-reading Huston Smith: "What can certainly be said is that spiritual freedom brings largeness of life. The Buddha's disciples sensed that he embodied immeasurably more of reality -- and in that sense was more real -- than anyone else they knew... Their worlds seemed to expand and with each step they felt themselves more alive than they had been before."

Maybe it is an immeasurable breadth of life, which immeasurability becomes a sense of void... ?

[Peabelilt]

And, a quip that came, and comes back to me: Enlightenment is ~for~ compassion

[isopsmypovA]

. With no desire to return to samsara .

I think its worth mentioning here that 'samsara' is a mental state rather then being a place. (some people think of it as being the exterior world that we live in)

[Oxzzlvpg]

To Flower,
I beleive that the ultimate goal in Buddhism,is ridding oneself of Dhukka,by doing so
attaining enlightement.Samsara will disappear,no more birth and death.

A simple buddhist named
loong