How to call It?

evolutionary passage to a unified conscious being, obliterating all the effort and all the labor that have brought us to this necessary point of awakening?

More recently, in linear time, prince Siddhartha, Buddha, had a determining experience. He had the sudden and decisive revelation of the fundamentally illusory nature of this reality in which we seem to exist. This, this impermanence subjected to all treacheries and betrayals, sufferings, miseries, slavery and death, this cannot be real: we must therefore come out of it. It is the attachment to our separate “I”, its desires, its fears and its uneasy acquisitions, which keep us prisoners of this trap: we must therefore sever it. Buddha perceived no other alternative reality that would not be equally spurious and he turned to absolute annihilation, the radical liberation from all form and all self, Nirvana. However, assessing the tenacious strength of all attachments, he formulated a number of precepts which, when observed and practiced in one’s temporary individual existence, may help to attain equanimity and a relative detachment which prepare one to this liberation. Thus, patience and benevolence towards all, combined with rigorous self-scrutiny of one’s own individual nature and a discipline of austerity, came to characterize the adepts and practitioners of Buddhism.

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