How does Anthroposophy differ from Buddhism and other Eastern paths?

The central premise of Buddhism is that emptying of one’s desires is the key to personal salvation. This emptying involves the voiding of one’s personal will.

POF 13-11 [0] Those who hold that moral ideals are attainable only if man destroys his own personal will, are not aware that these ideals are wanted by the human being just as he wants the satisfaction of the so-called animal instincts.

Moral ideals spring from the moral imagination of the human being. They are his intuitions, the driving forces which his spirit harnesses; he wants them, because their realization is his highest pleasure. He needs no ethics to forbid him to strive for pleasure and then to tell him what he shall strive for.