I've always had trouble with this part of Buddhism. If you successfully eliminated tanha/craving/attachment, you would never do anything. You'd sit still in the lotus position until you died of dehydration. This seems like a very undesirable state for any organism. Especially in the context of all those evo-psych quotes you connected to this. If you follow them to their natural conclusions, it's obvious [to me] that our brains are just part of an elaborate contraption for carrying our gonads around.suomalainen wrote: ↑Thu Dec 13, 2018 10:30 pmLiberation from the craving to capture pleasant feelings and escape unpleasant feelings, liberation from the persistent desire for things to be different than they are.
Lack of tanha leads to extinction. Acceptance of extinction is not a natural state.