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 …showed first 75 words of 1020 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1020 total…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.