Buddhists believe that we have a specific problem as human beings. How ever they also offer a very specific answer to what this problem is and what we can do to fix the problem. Buddhism is expressed in the four noble truths, which offer us a clear route to salvation and nirvana. Nirvana is believed to be salvation a release from suffering as human beings, which can be reached by following the 8-fold path. This is the fundamental idea of Buddhism, a path that can …showed first 85 words of 1025 total…
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…showed last 85 words of 1025 total…While reaching a state of Nirvana will remove the pain from our lives, it doesn’t seem to add any pleasure. Thus is seems that Nirvana simply results in a complete desensitization to what makes us human. Nirvana is not salvation; freeing oneself from all of the capacities that makes us human doesn’t appear to be enlightenment at all, but rather a state of not being any thing. Reaching a state of nirvana will only allow a person to become removed from life itself.
