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I cannot shake the Western/Nietzschean view that Buddhism is essentially nihilism. This philosophy of non-grasping and receptivity is no more than a coward's choice, submission, a bowing, the surrender of the will for the suffering investment in the world necessarily brings. The void is no less than the reduction of all values to zero, to ease the divestment of all one in the exercise of their will could hope to gain. It seems repugnant to me as a philosophy for life, an ultimate Bad Faith and opiate of the masses and slave morality par excellence. Not for me! Give me suffering, give me struggle, give me the total sublimity of life and death.