It teaches you to embrace the fact that you are nothing, and to make peace with the impersonal universe. That's one way to ease existential pain. Buddhism is r

It teaches you to embrace the fact that you are nothing, and to make peace with the impersonal universe. That's one way to ease existential pain. Buddhism is remarkably compatible with the modern scientific view that the universe has neither purpose nor personality. Once you throw away the anthropocentric Judeo-Christian mindset, you are left with no external, authoritative source of purpose. Many people struggle to find an alternate source of purpose, either within themselves or in something else. This can be very stressful. Buddhism relieves you by teaching you that you don't need to try so hard, you don't even need to "be yourself". It's a strangely attractive proposition.