Having read Friendrich Nietzsche, I am in complete agreement with him when he says that buddhism, like christianity and other world religions such as the caste system in Hinduism are not paths to enlightenment but paths to nihilism. The four noble truths and the so called hindrances are rejections to life. It is, I believe (almost buddhist like) better to say that these hindrances, these desires within the human animal are a part of our lives and our very beings and thus we must accept them, be them, because this idea that we can transcend life through meditation is an illusion. Why transcend when we can live it, when we have today the opportunity to take life by its horns and be all that we dream of, be all that we wish. The only thing stopping us is our willpower. In this lies Nietzsche's Will to Power, his testament asking humanity to accept life rather than reject it. Traditions and discipline annihilate life in all its glory and colour.
