Buddhism advocates decompiling desire in order to avoid suffering, which is tantamount to nihilism.
“Desire is the cause of suffering” is a bad translation of “tanha is the cause of dukkha.”
Briefly, the brahmaviharas are the qualities said to remain in a fully awakened Buddha. Those are loving kindness, compassion, appreciative joy, and equanimity. Equanimity is often mistaken for its near enemy, apathy. All of them could easily be defined as having a quality of desire for well being, which is incompatible with the version of the idea that Buddhists lobotomize themselves with altered states or something.
Versions of nihilism were also very popular at the time of the Buddha, and he repudiates them as wrong view.
Hm, ok, thanks. I don’t I fully understand+believe your claims. For one thing, I would guess that many people do think and act, under the title “Buddhism”, as if they believe that desire is the cause of suffering.
If I instead said “Clinging/Striving is the cause of [painful wheel-spinning in pursuit of something missing]”, is that any closer? (This doesn’t really fit what I’m seeing in the Wiki pages.) I would also say that decompiling clinging/striving in order to avoid [painful wheel-spinning in pursuit of something missing] is tantamount to nihilism. (But maybe to learn what you’re offering I’d have to do more than just glance at the Wiki pages.)
“Desire is the cause of suffering” is a bad translation of “tanha is the cause of dukkha.”
Briefly, the brahmaviharas are the qualities said to remain in a fully awakened Buddha. Those are loving kindness, compassion, appreciative joy, and equanimity. Equanimity is often mistaken for its near enemy, apathy. All of them could easily be defined as having a quality of desire for well being, which is incompatible with the version of the idea that Buddhists lobotomize themselves with altered states or something.
Versions of nihilism were also very popular at the time of the Buddha, and he repudiates them as wrong view.
Hm, ok, thanks. I don’t I fully understand+believe your claims. For one thing, I would guess that many people do think and act, under the title “Buddhism”, as if they believe that desire is the cause of suffering.
If I instead said “Clinging/Striving is the cause of [painful wheel-spinning in pursuit of something missing]”, is that any closer? (This doesn’t really fit what I’m seeing in the Wiki pages.) I would also say that decompiling clinging/striving in order to avoid [painful wheel-spinning in pursuit of something missing] is tantamount to nihilism. (But maybe to learn what you’re offering I’d have to do more than just glance at the Wiki pages.)