Buddha's Argument Of Humanity Or Ego Identity?

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Being standing at the zenith of civilization we cannot say that we are staying at the peak of humanism. The inhumane scenario around us within this worldly life is simply keeping us away from peaceful life causation behind it nothing but the race of the attachment of pleasurable things; we are just rushing behind the material things. We are involving ourselves so many unwholesome deed for the deep attachment with our ego. Naturally our mental peace has gone in vain and consequently our social peace also becoming unachievable. Buddha was a pragmatic and humanistic philosopher. His main intention was to change the society of his time by his philosophical and ethical teaching but it is now more applicable to the present day society. Buddha did not admit the ego identity because he thought that the concept of ego identity or soul attaches the human being with desire and this desire is the root cause of our suffering. A sufferer person never will be able to make a peaceful society. So if we want to make a good and peaceful society then we should looking the Buddha’s teaching of negation of …show more content…

But the soul as the empirical ego has never been denied by the Buddha. The empirical ego consists of an unbroken sense (Santana) of ever-changing mental states and processes. Each of our mental states is momentary in the sense that it disappears as soon as it appears. But before it disappears it gives rise to a succeeding mental state to which it transmits all its energetic and dispositions. In this way successive mental states constitute an unbroken series which constitutes the empirical ego of man. Each individual is an empirical ego different from other egos, guided and controlled by his own karmas or moral activities. Though denying the soul as a metaphysical substance, Buddhism never denies the empirical human

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