Comments by "Dharmadasa" (@dharmadasa66) on "May all beings be FREE of SUFFERING: addressing the source of the problem" video.

Buddha taught it too.
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But more deeply it is craving, not only 'desire', but craving for existence as an independent ens. The issue is the craving, not the 'existence'.
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@immanuelcan3310 Your claim is quite misguided because contrary to your beliefs Buddhism is not nihilistic in regards suffering or anything else. You have a dualistic view. The 'comparison' is by way of a metaphor, with the appreciation by Buddhists that metaphors are inexact. The Buddhist ideal is not 'extinction' or a mere end to suffering. It is to end the suffering of all sentient beings by all achieving a state of definite bliss - enlightenment. Please look into it a bit more. Thank you.
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@immanuelcan3310 Buddhists explicitly and repeatedly deprecate nihilism as being a dangerous falsity. And this is not because they fail to understand it, indeed they understand nihilism much better than almost everyone and warn against it, and explicitly agree it is not the objective, indeed is a huge obstacle to the objective. The bliss of enlightenment is not the bliss of non-being. Non-being is an extreme position that does not capture the truth of the "Middle Way". What is annihilated correctly is your wrong view of the world, not the world as it exists. It annihilates your false view of yourself, but what remains is the continuum of an enlightened being that works effortlessly and unceasingly for the benefit of all beings. The ultimate mind cannot be destroyed as it is outside of time and space and continues in bliss and omniscience as a continuum. The extinction of nirvana is not 'non-being' or nothingness, it is the extinction of propulsive karma and delusions. The Buddha Nature (Tathagata-garhba) is the ground state of existence and is beyond such shallow conceptions.
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