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Buddhist mindsets
The Buddha’s
stated goal was release from suffering. He achieved it when he attained
samma-sambodhi (and for which notion he never, unfortunately, provided a clear definition). Though his initial
act of dumping his parents (without their consent) was a serious breach of
politically correct action (hence adharma), his basic thrust was apolitical.
He simply wanted out, never to return. To provide
easier access to his exit mode, he created a dharma (Pali: dhamma). His
dharma was a political agenda (its ‘powering down’ capacity on Ashoka) since
those who emulated his dharma altered their action. The Buddha’s
initial dharma generated a multitude of local dharmas (i.e. at least 5 schools
and countless sects), each of which created a different mindset that enforced
different behaviour, hence a different political approach. A neophyte
(to wit, a person) could choose between a
variety of ‘Buddhist’ dharmas, and which locked him
or her in (to a particular Buddhist belief variation and behaviour, and from which most could not or would not escape).
Ideally, however, he or she could use the chosen dharma to recover the
original dharma, thence to proceed (i.e. by reducing all action) to samma-sambodhi
and escape (i.e. to liberation, i.e. moksha, Pali: vimokka, and
nirvana).
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