jorge borges wrote an article entitled the dialogues of ascetic and king included in his book selected non fictions in the article he cites the writing of heinrich hackmann who published chinesische philosophie in hackmann narrated a statement by the brahmin bodhidharma to the emperor of china good works he said can lead to good retributions but never to nirvana which is the absolute extinction of the will not the consequence of an act emphasis added this is an example of the equivalence between nirvana and schopenhauer's denial of the will