One becomes all for the collective good?

Question

I don't know what this statement means- it has to do with communist or something. arrghh please help me, its on the tip of my tongue

Answer 1

Could also be a "zen" statment. As budism is about the eventual fogetting of the individual for the greater whole, thru trial and tribulation, alot like christianity in this effect. The bible in its own holds no great descriptions of heaven (read it for yourself) but does in a better matter explain the eventual connection with god himself, or herself. But this is a common idea in many religions. The forgetting of the self for the sack of the greater being, or the collective selves.....