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View submission: Conflicted about Zen Buddhism in general
The point is not for you to wallow in your own despair. You cannot address a problem until you understand the problem exists. You can’t hope to solve a problem until you know its causes. If the highest goal for this general sect of Buddhism is to help save others, no one could accomplish that without having some knowledge about what they’re even saying people from.
The world was full of delusion and suffering before you studied Buddhism. If you think “what’s the point? *I* can’t do anything to fix it” you have failed to understand what you’ve learned. (Don’t worry too much about this; you’re still learning.) This is a very selfish reaction, because it prioritizes your own satisfaction over the problems others face. If you are in a position to help, do so. It doesn’t matter if you’ve eradicated every disease on the planet or simply carried someone’s groceries. But if you’re stuck thinking that nothing you do matters because you’ll never fix the world, you’ll ignore any opportunity to help at all. That itself is delusion. That is failing to see the life for what it is because you’re too attached to what you think it should be, and that attachment becomes resignation when the world fails to live up to your expectations.
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