The acceptance of spirit

Buddhism assumes the continuity of absolute spirit (ekacitta) which is infinite.  From this the notion of transmigration (punarbhava) is accepted as fact.  We are, primordially, absolute spirit which is coursing or transmigrating through its formations/distortions in an effort to find itself which involves a super cognition (sambodhi).  All of Buddhism, it can be argued, springs out of the continuity of absolute spirit which is attempting to cognize itself, thus transcending its forms, ending its transmigration, once and for all.

This is hard for the average person to accept, much less modern Zen Buddhisms who lean towards materialism.  But without faith in absolute spirit, no salvation is possible.  One is lost forever in transmigration trapped, as it were, in a fractal-like universe without limit or end.  On this note, death is certainly not an end (only for the deluded materialist).  It is an end only for our temporal body but not the animative side of it which is spirit.

Looking at Buddhism from this particular vantage point, when it comes to comparing it with other religions, doesn't find too many if any peers.  This is partly because not too many religions accept the primacy of spirit which means the world is not a creation of a creator got but, instead, is a discrimination of spirit which continually fails to recognize itself in its forming activity.  This loss of spirit's sense of itself,  which falls within each of us; which drives us onward to chase after the derivative forms of spirit, is our ignorance and our suffering which cannot be undone without first, the acceptance of spirit as being ultimately real. 

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