` ::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 1927. 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.`