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Why Nietzsche Called Himself the “Anti-Buddha”

Gautama Buddha and Friedrich Nietzsche never met, separated by 2,400 years, yet their ideas crash into each other like tectonic plates. One sat under a bodhi tree in India until he understood suffering. The other wandered the Swiss Alps, writing books that would declare God dead. Both saw through the lies people tell themselves to avoid facing reality. Both rejected supernatural comfort. Yet they came to completely opposite conclusions about what to do with human existence.Nietzsche had a complicated relationship with Buddhism. He called himself the "Buddha of Europe" in his notebook, then turned around and wrote that he was the "Anti-Buddha." He admired Buddhism's atheism and its rejection of the soul, but he thought it led to the wrong conclusion. Where Buddha taught escape from suffering through the extinction of desire, Nietzsche demanded we learn to love our suffering, to embrace everything about existence, even the pain.The Buddha's first noble truth states that life is dukkha, usually translated as suffering but really meaning something more like unsatisfactoriness, the constant grinding frustration of wanting things to be different than they are. His solution was radical: stop wanting. Blow out the flame of desire like a candle. Reach nirvana, which literally means "extinguishment." Nietzsche looked at this and saw nihilism in monk's robes. He thought Buddhism was saying no to life itself. His response was amor fati, love of fate. You don't escape suffering; you embrace it so completely that you'd be willing to live the exact same life over and over for eternity. Every moment of pain, every loss, every humiliation—you say yes to all of it.Both philosophers agreed on the illusion of the self. Buddha taught anatta, no-self, the idea that what you think of as "you" is just a collection of changing processes with no fixed essence. Nietzsche similarly saw the self as a grammatical fiction, a story we tell ourselves. But where Buddha used this insight to teach detachment, Nietzsche used it to argue for self-creation. If there's no essential self, then you can become whatever you will yourself to be. #buddha #nietzsche Script: Anmol Edit: Felix Sutanto Voiceover: Abhinav Original Score:    / @asangvani   DISCLAIMER 01: All ideas expressed on this channel are for entertainment and general information purposes only. There is no advice on what an individual should or should not do. Any response made by anyone after hearing this communication is their interpretation and is their responsibility. Ideas expressed by this channel should not be treated as a substitute for medical advice or professional help. If expert assistance or counselling is needed, the services of a competent professional should be sought. DISCLAIMER 02: All materials in these videos are used for entertainment purposes and fall within the guidelines of fair use. No copyright infringement intended. If you are, or represent, the copyright owner of materials used in this video, and have an issue with the use of said material, please send an email to [email protected]. Copyright © 2025 Asangoham. All rights reserved.