The Greatest Achievement Is Selflessness - Buddhism

The greatest achievement is selflessness.

-Buddha

Buddhism is a religion of free thoughts and practices, one that tries to point humanity in the right direction when it comes to alleviating suffering. Buddha was a great prince but left that life to find the answers to life. He wanted to know why we have to suffer and why does death take us way, so he meditated for 6years under a fig tree. After enlightenment he teaches the four noble truths that I agree with and find it accurate.

The first truth is "Life means suffering". This mean that we live in an imperfect world and we ourselves are imperfect, thus we suffer. We inevitably have to endure physical and psychological suffering. Physical suffering such as sickness, injury, pain, old age, and eventually death; and we also have to endure psychological suffering like fear, sadness, frustration, depression, and disappointment. There are also something know as positive suffering like ease, comfort and happiness, but because of our imperfectness this things are not permanent. So we can never reach any thing permanently that we strive for, and just as happy moments pass by, so do we and our love ones. I think that they are truth to this concept. If we look at the world around us nothing stays the same, there is birth and rebirth all around us. Like when a forest is burned down because of a lightening it is then reborn after the fire settle.

The second truth says, "The origin of suffering is attachment". As we are attached to the impermanent things, this attachment is known as ignorance. Ignorance is the lack of knowledge towards the understanding that e are attaching ourselves to that which can never be permanent. I also see truth in this noble truth. Let's look at the burning forest again, if one was to attach there mind to one specific tree then their will feel pain and depression as the forest burned. When the forest is being reborn that person will never be able to see the true beauty