The basic premise for anyone who might consider studying Gotama Buddha's Teachings to attain Enlightenment is the following…

Life is unsatisfactory and in life we all experience “discontentedness or suffering”. To be motivated to study and practice Gotama Buddha’s Teachings and thus spend lots of time and effort, the world must be “shocked” into not being so comfortable with “what is” and be able to see “what is the future if more and more humans attain Enlightenment”.

If all humans see the world as a happy, delightful, and a comfortable place to exist, there is no motivation to do anything to improve one’s own life.

Thus, one must feel very uncomfortable with life and its existence in order to be motivated to study, learn, implement, and gain the results of Gotama Buddha's Teachings. The results are a liberated mind and a pure mind, Enlightenment.

You may have experienced happiness and excitement in your life but you have also experienced a lot of pain and suffering that you would not want to repeat.

Gotama Buddha’s goal was to provide Teachings that gave the mind a place where it could be permanently peaceful, calm, serene, and content with joy. The mental state of Enlightenment will completely eliminate discontentedness of the mind, for every human. A Practitioner’s mind who has attained Enlightenment will have concentration, clarity, and an increased ability for memorization which will prove useful in daily life.

Gotama Buddha understood that the mental state of Enlightenment is permanent while everything else in the world is impermanent. Because of our cravings, desires, attachments and clinging for everything to be permanent, we cause our own discontentedness in the mind. Nobody can cause us discontentedness but instead, we cause it ourselves.

You will learn in these Teachings that you cause all the discontent feelings associated with anger, sadness, boredom, loneliness, stress, anxiety, etc. And, you will learn how to completely eliminate the feelings of anger, sadness, boredom, loneliness, stress, anxiety, or other discontent feelings so that you will never experience a discontent mind.

No one ever said life would be “easy” but it’s also not supposed to be “tough”. Learning Gotama Buddha's Teachings is not “easy” but learning and practicing The Teachings of The Buddha will ensure “life is not tough”.

Gotama Buddha’s Teachings are not to control an individual nor dictate what they should or should not do. But instead, provide guidance that when practiced will lead to Enlightenment, a peaceful, contented, and liberated mind and, thus, a peaceful and content life. Everything in this practice is obtained through personal choice.