- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: BadKarma
Posted by: ajenteks
No, I think there are more important, fundamental needs of a fellow's man that must be met, and self-enlightenment should not be a priority, when famine, ignorance, and violence are rampant.
how can one hope to help others when one cannot help ones' self?
I'm not enlightened. I don't burn down houses or -blam!- people. But I volunteer at the old people's home. I donate money and old goods to charity. Is that enough? No, but it's better than doing nothing at all.
Enlightenment is over-kill, and in the span of one life time, I don't think you can say it's helping anyone else but the person seeking enlightenment, which seems awfully selfish to me.
As I said before, I don't want to talk about reincarnation, because we can't prove that one way or the other, but we can prove that you are born, and then you die. And I think it's important to help everyone that you can with that one life we know we all get.