[exettybele]

Ultimateley the ending of the round of rebirths is the goal yes. But it is not about renouncing the world. It is about understanding its nature. The more you understand it and yourself the less and less easily you get entangled in it. The less and less you want to get entangled in it because you realise what an effort it takes in energy and time to get entangled.

Normally we carry judgment with us. Evaluating things in good and bad and positive and negative. Imagine loosing that evaluation and just seeing the world as it is! That is what it is about. Then you really have freedom of choice because you realise that happiness and unhappiness is more or less a choice you can make and not as for most people a circumstance pushed upon you from the surrounding world.

Is that not freedom? That is as I see it the path of the buddhist worldling.

/Victor