Buddhism is just the Indian version of Christianity, a life-denying cult that claims that the external world is unholy and that human experience ought not to be embraced in its full band of variety.
Just as Christianity promises "Heaven" in reward for living free from pleasure in pious observation of a system of rules that require for common aspects of life to be denied, Buddhism promises enlightenment by ignoring all that makes a human feel alive, such as pleasure and pain.
Every tingling, every slight turn of the wind, everything that goes into a person's ears is denied by Buddhists as "maya", illusions of the senses. Everything that could lead to knowledge is seen as forms of attachment leading to pain, but what can life be without pain? What is life except for the constant interaction with pain and the other types of sensations of the body? How can understanding and knowledge arise without these sensations? What, in fact, could lead to a need to "know", to "inquire", except for the presence of sensations that provoke feelings of lacking, of wanting to have something to make up for something else?
A mind alone could not conjure every single image of what the world is and how everything in it works were it to be permanently separated from every single touch of the fingers, warmth that comes to the body, every single sensation of softness, sharpness, brightness, darkness, all of the colors that the world has, and all of the sounds that things in the world emit.
Such a life, devoid of all sensations, all need and all wants, would be one that could bring about no thoughts. A person, lacking in temptation, will have no reason to be proud for abstaining from pleasures. A person lacking in anger could not demonstrate any form of self-control, if there is nothing to control.
How can a person claim that equilibrium be by eliminating all extremes? Only one who would wish to ignore that they exist.
