The East's Problem Is Success

For some people, pain is abolished by abolishing its root, desire. Hindu or Buddhist Yoga can indeed succeed in killing off the desires. The true Buddhist does overcome all pain, but also all pleasure. This is a remarkable achievement, but is it worth the price of the abolition of half our human nature? It looks like spiritual euthanasia, killing the patient, the desires, to cure the disease, pain. I will take the bitter with the sweet thank you - better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.