How does voting trends of the last half century in the US make the following statement “full of crap?”
“The individualism so typical of the West is not a feature of Hinduism or Buddhism. In those beliefs, individualism is an illusion and the goal is to overcome that illusion and to lose the self as a droplet loses its individuality when it enters the ocean”
I was not referring to that specific response of mine, but since you ask, Buddhism and Hinduism don’t teach that a person becomes some spiritual borg collective after death. With Hinduism you have many branches of thought, but I know that at least in Buddhism “You” still exist as an individual, however what changes is your desires are extinguished, leaving you in an eternal state of bliss, though anything more than that is unknown, to the Buddhists Nirvana is a transcendental state which is a mystery until you reach it, just as in Christianity we have things like the Trinity which is a mystery