erson reaches enlightenment. Death is not an ending but just a new beginning. Time has no importance and is just an illusion like the world is. The Buddhist image of reality is everything simultaneously together without divisions such as time and space. These divisions such as time, space, past lives, and everything else around us are simply illusions. Losing our attachment to the things of this world and our connection with everything else in the universe go hand in hand towards seeing things the way they truly are and becoming enlightened. Even after we lose attachment to this world and we become aware of our interconnected role in the universe we cannot become enlightened unless we have clarity of mind. To become enlightened is to be aware of your true nature, but that is impossible to do by thinking about it since our true nature is beyond our conscious experience. Buddhists practice meditation, to achieve a calm, empty state of mind. Actually, emptiness of mind is not even a state of mind, but the original essence of the mind. Practicing meditation helps one to understand that they are fully responsible for how they feel or react. In other words, to say he makes me angry would be your problem, simply for the fact that you allowed yourself to get angry. It is your problem because you determine what makes you angry. Not everyone in the same situation would be angry. Since this world is a world of illusions, then by thinking about the things of this world we are thinking delusions. But when you realize that these clouded thoughts are just delusions, they will drift away and you will be with a pure and calm mind. This is the enlightened mind. By realizing that you are in a world of illusions and that you are thinking in delusions is when you become enlightened. By clearing your mind you can expect every moment to be a moment of enlightenment experience. The goal of Buddhism is not to lead a good life, although that sho...
