(03-03-2015, 09:01 PM)Ankh Wrote: Doesn't Buddhism hold this opinion:
"Much of the mystic tradition of seeking on Earth holds that belief that the individual self must be erased or obliterated and the material world ignored for an entity to reach ‘nirvana,’ as it’s called, or enlightenment."
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That's my problem with Buddhism, it feels like a denial of self and other-selves. They don't believe in the soul and in my opinion it brings stagnance of growth. They don't believe there is any free will either. Although there may be different schools of teaching.