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>Nobody hates life more than a Buddhist.
The Word-Honored One was very clear that he was not a nihilist and was opposed to nihilistic interpretations. He posed the Middle Way, which accepts neither the extreme position of the spiritualists which say that everything is eternal, or the nihilists, which say that everything is essentially nothing. He thought both positions were wrong. When the Buddha taught the impermanence of all things, the nonexistence of an enduring self, ,and interdependent or conditional arising, he was surmounting and transcending various dualistic extremes such as permanent/transient, being/nothingness, pleasure/suffering. He taught the non-dual way of awakening to the real nature of things, which is provisional and changing.