I don’t believe you’re pestering in the least my friend. What you just said kind of jogged a thought loose for me, that I’ve considered for a while:

If/considering the gift of our lives is so rare, then the most important thing we could ever possibly do would be to successfully show another The Way (edit- once we’ve removed the timber from our eye, we may help pluck the splinter from our brother’s eye, that is). When I was far younger I was told “buddhism is about reducing the suffering in the world”, which I see now in terms of casting off the shackles of our illusions and delusions (maya), as opposed to the “give everyone a helping hand and a warm meal” way that I understood it as before (which is probably still valid, but now I realize it’s not the end of the discussion haha).

Thanks for sharing kind soul

I don’t believe you’re pestering in the least my friend. What you just said kind of jogged a thought loose for me, that I’ve considered for a while:

If/considering the gift of our lives is so rare, then the most important thing we could ever possibly do would be to successfully show another The Way. When I was far younger I was told “buddhism is about reducing the suffering in the world”, which I see now in terms of casting off the shackles of maya, as opposed to the “give everyone a helping hand and a warm meal” way that I understood it as before (which is probably still valid, but now I realize it’s not the end of the discussion haha).

Thanks for sharing kind soul