[Colaboración] The dark side of meditation

I'll begin with the quote: 

"Buddhism promises nothing, but actually fulfills"

 Nietzsche, The Antichrist 

I want to tell my opinion of what I think is the dark side of meditation. I have been experiencing this: meditation is a way to calm your mind, lowers your desires, resolve personal issues and bad mindsets. This makes me more happy in general and more stable, but there is one thing that we are sacrificing. 

When we avoid suffering and solve the bad habits that form it, we are getting rid of our higher source of energy and pleasure. In other terms: it is insatisfaction with ourselves that makes us grow as people and improve in our abilities. "Pressure creates diamonds" but this pressure is insatisfaction and suffering. In the same way, it is suffering that later creates the greatest pleasures (not only carnal, but intellectual, literary, musical!). As Schopenhauer repeats without end, the world we see is basically a compendium of our desires, ambitions and expectations, insomuch as we notice things mostly in relation to us: one sees a car and he notices all the technical details because he likes race cars, another one sees hardly anything of interest there. Also Buddhism teaches that when we see the world we don't really sense the world but only relate to it through concepts and so we create our own idea of the world. When we grown adults see a chair we are not seeing the chair as with our senses, but rapidly identifying the concept that we have of it. As we go on to reduce our desires and sufferings we keep on reducing the world and the interest that we have in it. It is admittedly that one of the highest goals of meditations is "equanimity" that is, to be indifferent to good or bad, pleasure or pain, beautiful of ugly. 

All of this really, what is but to renounce fully to live? Innocent people know that they don't want this. Is this not a product of being tired of life and not having the energy to endure it so that you accept to reduce it? In Spanish and in other languages they have talked about this view:

"¡Ay! ¡a veces me acuerdo suspirando
del antiguo sufrir!
¡Amargo es el dolor; pero siquiera
padecer es vivir!" 

In fact the first noble truth is in short that life is suffering! 

One might argue that with mindfulness you are more present and more receptive to the world. But this doesn't hit the point in my opinion: with mindfulness you initially may be more aware of pleasure and pain but through acknowledging it you start to reduce them both progressively. 

I am now practicing meditation as a means of controlling myself and being more in control of my life, but being young at least it's not the point for me to go deep in it. Partly because most of the good sources (not few) on meditation and philosophy have shown me this dark side of it that I wrote here. I had to acknowledge this fact: 

With meditation you let go of suffering but at the same time you lose all pleasure. Ultimately, all left is equanimity and nothingness.

by: Napoleó