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What about the tigers and lions and pumas then? In order to eat their natural diet there has to be a certain amount of suffering on the part of everyone else…

@Dakini, I guess it depends if you follow the teachings of karma and rebirth and multiple universes and so on. If you limit it only to Earth then sure it doesn't make much sense.

@Bunks, I guess I've arrived at a view that if we go by logic and rational argument, the Buddhist view of no creator God is by no means any more rational as believing in the creator God. The article you quoted has all sorts of underlying beliefs and one of them I guess would be karma and its workings.

@marcitko yes I see your point, in other words, working towards Buddhahood is itself an illusion really, and I don't see why attaining Buddhahood when all beings attain Buddhahood (or vice versa) would be different from solipsism

@SattvaPaul said:
and all beings have attained Buddhahood

From the perspective of a deeper glance I was once fortunate enough to have I'd say: when all beings attain Buddhahood, you attain Buddhahood. From a clear(er) perspective, all beings are Buddhas, just as they are.

@SattvaPaul said:
@Dakini
The world is said to come into being because of the karma, if I understand correctly, hence it would cease to exist. What you described sounds more like an impossible utopia.

Wait. Earthly beings didn't come into existence until after the world did. So whose karma is it, that brought the world into being?