Nirvana Sells
We reach for nirvana because life keeps breaking our heargt. Falling out of love is hard. Divorce is hard. Parents dying is hard. Getting fired is hard. Being betrayed by friends is hard. Being cheated out of your ancestral home by your brother is hard. Poverty is hard. Disease is hard. Getting old is hard. And above all, dying is hard. The sense of powerlessness at how life shows up is hard. And so we start looking for a doorway out — or at least for somewhere softer to stand. Over millennia, many cultures have created their own place of non-suffering and bliss. In Buddhism , there is Nirvana. In Hinduism , Moksha . In Christianity , Heaven . In Islam , Jannah , so on and so forth. Different names, same promise: an end to suffering, no pain or death, a glorious afterlife where no battle is lost. In other words, every religion acknowledges the challenge of existence, the suffering of the daily grind, the weight of hope and expectation, the collapse into failure and despo...