[Mimsykzr]

hi f13ticket

my quick & direct response to your post is:

The world is not suffering. Suffering is mental torment, affliction or disturbance. We do not "detach" from suffering. We end suffering. And yes, suffering arises from our cravings.

Some people define Buddhism as non-attachment because the world is not suffering. The world is impermanent, the world is unsatisfactory (cannot bring true happiness), the world is imperfect. So we practise non-attachment because we must live in the world and have certain relationships to the world.

This world is not 100% illusion. It has its tangible realities, such as having to eat physical food to live. Ultimate Nirvana is to 'rise above' the world. We must let go of both forms of craving, aversion and attachment. We must practise "non-attachment" in relation to our interactions with the world.

So we practise both Option A and Option B because the path is three-fold, namely, morality, concentration & insight.

Loving things = morality. Loving things without attachment and delusions = insight.

Not detachment vs compassion but wisdom (non-attachment; emptiness) and compassion, together.

The goal is forsaking/giving up [ignorant] desires.

The goal is not the breaking of the reincarnation cycle. This is Hinduism. The goal is to break the greed, hatred, delusion & ego cycle.

After his death, the Buddha did not went on to Nirvana. Buddha went on to Nirvana when he was 35 years old.

The Buddha taught alot about going to heaven. You might be going to the same place as your family.

Yes, Buddhism is different because it teaches us to have true freedom; freedom from desire.

In seeking freedom from desire, our goal is a state of mind without desire and without suffering. This is found here, now, today.

For serious Buddhist, they do not practise war; do not have heedless sex requiring abortion; they do not theft; and understand death is inevitable and cannot be any other way, therefore by fully understanding & accepting it, do not suffer about death.

But other people who war, theft and have abortion, the serious Buddhist practises forgiveness & compassion.

Yes, this world, and all within it, are impermanent. Suffering binds those who are attached to it, who miscomprehend it.

Nirvana is to be free from "I", "me" and "mine". The views of "my interfering" and "attaches me" and "my goal" and "I am" and "my own enlightenment" are what are actually counterproductive.

You are not completely off the mark but often or mostly off the mark.

Nirvana is the mind free from ignorant cravings and "self" views. Nirvana is the mind without "I", "me", "my", "mine", etc

The world is not suffering. "I", "me", "my", "mine", etc, are suffering.

With selfless (empty) compassion