A Basic Buddhism Guide: Introduction to Buddhism

A Basic Buddhism Guide: Introduction to Buddhism

"Most people have heard of nirvana. It has become equated with a sort of eastern version of heaven. Actually, nirvana simply means cessation. It is the cessation of passion, aggression and ignorance; the cessation of the struggle to prove our existence to the world, to survive. We don't have to struggle to survive after all. We have already survived. We survive now; the struggle was just an extra complication that we added to our lives because we had lost our confidence in the way things are. "

That that makes sense. Why do I struggle and strive? What am I after? Didn't I once resolve to not resolve, to rest, to cease striving?

I was single then, as now.

On first glance it seems that Buddhism and Christianity are not mutualy exclusive, as Buddhism is not a religion and does not involve a god.