The Buddha neither denies nor accepts a creator,[41] denies endorsing any views on creation[42] and states that questions on the origin of the world are worthless.[43][44] Some teachers instruct students beginning Buddhist meditation that the notion of divinity is not incompatible with Buddhism,[45] but dogmatic beliefs in a supreme personal creator are considered a hindrance to the attainment of nirvana,[46] the highest goal of Buddhist practice.[47]