If by ultimate altruism you mean to reduce suffering and to increase life satisfaction, enlightenment may not be most conducive to such a goal. To the best of my knowledge, there isn’t enough data to show that everyone regardless of background and culture will accept your enlightenment methods especially since the psychological procedures are based on a specific ideology (mainly Buddhism).
Also, if enlightenment here refers to the increase of knowledge I don’t see how that necessarily reduces suffering. Some people suffer when they learn and don’t like what they’ve learned. And if it’s a uniform ideology that gives everyone satisfaction then it isn’t necessarily right to instill one ideology, whatever it is, onto others even if it will reduce suffering.
Also, if enlightenment here refers to the increase of knowledge I don’t see how that necessarily reduces suffering.
This is also what Daniel Ingram heavily implies in Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha. The very first “training” Ingram discusses is ethical/practical training; he states pretty much overtly that you should ‘set your house in perfect order’ before you pursue enlightenment, and keep working on that even as you engage other “trainings” or “teachings”.
If by ultimate altruism you mean to reduce suffering and to increase life satisfaction, enlightenment may not be
most conducive to such a goal. To the best of my knowledge, there isn’t enough data to show that everyone regardless of background and culture will accept your enlightenment methods especially since the psychological procedures are based on a specific ideology (mainly Buddhism).
Also, if enlightenment here refers to the increase of knowledge I don’t see how that necessarily reduces suffering. Some people suffer when they learn and don’t like what they’ve learned. And if it’s a uniform ideology that gives everyone satisfaction then it isn’t necessarily right to instill one ideology, whatever it is, onto others even if it will reduce suffering.
This is also what Daniel Ingram heavily implies in Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha. The very first “training” Ingram discusses is ethical/practical training; he states pretty much overtly that you should ‘set your house in perfect order’ before you pursue enlightenment, and keep working on that even as you engage other “trainings” or “teachings”.