Julius Evola on Buddhism

[@Bahamut998]

It's obvious that Buddhism isn't a "religion" of the masses, because of how profound and complex to understand it is. I say this myself as a plebean who has difficulty with it.

[@kota86]

I'm so glad that you also talk on the Hindu and Buddhist sides of the Indo-European coin!

[@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714]

I disslike this hevilly. One can accidentaly bring back a davidian or indochynese element that has gotten mixed in with the aryan ones.

[@johann296]

@@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714 what?

[@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714]

@@johann296 Its the same reason I do not consider white americans to be europian. About half of them are only 98% europian and dont know it.

[@niccolop.carlyle4621]

@@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714 Ah. So you are Mr. Purity Spiral.

[@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714]

@@niccolop.carlyle4621 No my purity levels are set in stone by my holy book and are unchanging.

[@apostate855]

Great video man, the misinfo on Evola is almost disgusting, glad he's being looked into again.

[@nathanmorton4847]

History is stolen by the Victor's.

[@rokitmanz9603]

@@nathanmorton4847 Victor is my middle name!! 😉 Lol.

[@jamescharles7574]

Apostate.. I see on Wikipedia he was anti Semitic and admired Himmler. I am only asking, what should be known about this man?

[@jamescharles7574]

willl 88 you too admire men who brought great amounts of suffering down on innocent individuals?

[@apostate855]

@Ard Tru Why would being "far right" ruin his life? Are you implying that holding views akin to his will get him trouble? With whom?

[@WoodchuckNorris.8o]

This is one of my favorite videos of yours. I go back to listen to it again and again

[@teaempire7929]

Same! As with a number of his. This one is a foundational work.

[@dayonmage3946]

Buddhism is order. Order is hierarchical.

[@longleggedmacdaddy5313]

Dayon Mage Buddhism is the cessation of suffering.

[@joshuachan1731]

Hierarchy is innately celestial, which is deeply rooted in oriental culture of the Chinese and Japanese

[@Vingul]

@Parsival Ritter 555 No.

[@Vingul]

@Parsival Ritter 555 neophyte in regards to what? If all was chaos, we would not be typing these comments. Order is real enough.

[@jamescharles7574]

Hierarchy is desire. Desire leads to suffering.

[@dmitriypliyev9828]

"Beings of a nobler kind" refers to their understanding of the dhamma - how well they perceive and understand the true nature of existence.

[@Magnulus76]

Yup, it's not a racial category, which is what Evola and his fascist buddies were toying with.

[@ProfessorShnacktime]

@@Magnulus76 Evola did not believe it was racial

[@alexhauser5043]

There is no nobility which is not rooted in organic superiority - nobility of blood.

[@alexhauser5043]

During the time of the Buddha, the term 'Aryan' had connotations of race and caste. In declaring his doctrine to be Aryan, he was proclaiming it to be noble in every possible sense of the word.

[@aeweweard]

@@Magnulus76 It WAS a racial hierarchy.

[@deanturner9959]

Are you this? Can you identify yourself with this? Can you satisfy yourself in this? Is this all that you wish?

[@brocken_spectre7734]

To which the ascetic always answers in the negative...

[@mat7083]

Negation is masturbation

[@krypticcrystallographer1369]

i've heard that according to the greeks, happiness is achieved when you do what you do best as best you can. there is also a phenomenon where we perform work better alone or isolated than with others. relation possible.

[@theochaos]

This last paragraph has become my manthra. I was away of that but I am back. "He who is alone will find that he is happy". Thanks.

[@thejaguarchopra2705]

There were Many Buddhists in Afghanistan and North west India. Kushan emperor Kanishka the Great was a great patron of Buddhism & is still respected in Afghanistan by the non-Islamist nationalists. There was a lot of contact and even blending with the Greeks at that time. Many of the Kushan coins have Greek alphabets. But all this was destroyed by the Islamic invaders. Hindus fought back while Buddhists were mostly passive. Hindus could hold their own in large parts of India but Buddhists were either all slaughtered or converted. The great Kushan Empire after whom the mountains of Hindu-Kush gets their name was a Hindu/Buddhist Empire. Islam is the real danger to every civilization.

[@gustavodemira7416]

Abrahamic religions are just as corrupt to humanity as post modernism and marxism.

[@Gieszkanne]

Yes but this were all Mahayan Buddhist, which relies strongly on universlism and egality. Also on compassion and bodhisatvaism. Maybe that was the cause they vanished. By the way also almost all the -stan ending Countries with turks were also buddhist before they became islamisted.

[@dawnfm00]

TheJaguar Chopra What about the Hindus killing Buddhists 50 years after Ashoka's death?

[@Sarke2]

Western China or Xinjiang was one the main Buddhist centres, before the Uyghurs and Muslims arrived

[@hobo8420]

Only happened once in the entire history of buddhist-hindu relations, a great feat in of itself. Furthermore, most archaeologists have not found concrete proof of the persecution to the massive scale buddhists texts describe. In fact, a more substantiated theory is that Emperor Pushyamitra stopped funding buddhist temples, so the buddhists attempted to clap back by talkin shit, in an attempt to garner sympathy and to throw shade at the Emperor. Plz leave AAP IT cell.

[@wilmhoff1334]

Being a Buddhist in America with traditional values has its challenges. It is very unfortunate to see postmodernist try to manipulate the dharma. Though within vajrayana your relationship with your guru is paramount and the tradition can't be perverted by spiritual materialists so easily.

[@dorianleakey]

Are you sure it cant be manipulated by spiritual materialists? Thats doesnt sound right at all.

[@MrQabalist]

@@dorianleakey Agreed, although he did not say it cannot be manipulated, but that they’d have a tough go at attempting to d so.

[@ramon2008]

@@vids569 explain.

[@ferretman6790]

Yo. As a Buddhist in the USA I feel exactly the same

[@111Benzie]

Challenges? Ah, you poor baby!

[@MilordGaming]

I always come back to this video year after year. I'm glad that each time I can understand more and more of it.

[@MilordGaming]

Still stands.

[@DoinkXTT]

As a huge fan of Evola and Buddhism this is such outstanding quality and valuable text...god bless.

[@DoinkXTT]

@Ard Tru He was actually progressive, relative to the far-right ideas prominent at the time. Evola spoke of race as being more than just genetics, but also a spiritual construct as well.

[@archer125]

@Ard Tru and?

[@machtelinckkevin254]

So you deem evola by coining him bad names like "fascist" and you express your intolerant homophonic side showing,well done maestro

[@machtelinckkevin254]

@Ard Tru i'm personaly not interested in evola for his racism or edgy views.Though there is perhaps a thing in evola to rationalise his racism.Still have to give credits where it's due,Louis ferdinand Celine was a great writer for instance,though he was racist.Hotler was a good painter,what evola had to say about about Buddhism is maybe not stained by his political views (assumed bc he coined himself as a "supra fascist" and didn't agree with fascism)

[@Wolf.88]

Outstanding! Been studying Buddhism for almost 20 years.

[@qualitycroissant8527]

Really, you should do a book or a video on it.

[@anejaG55]

Buddha didn’t study buddhism

[@Emanuele-ms1kh]

@@anejaG55yeah, we are not the Buddha

[@oldboy977]

Your videos have tapped into Mimir's well. Your travels and calm sense of reason is just what our people need as an example.

[@jamesrobertson9697]

Honestly this video is so high-quality Tom. I always come back and watch this every 6 months or so.

[@wyrdflex5863]

I know so many 'enlightened' college students who dismiss Buddhism as a death cult. The irony. :) Great video; Evola's words pair well with it. Would watch a series of these!

[@ThePainkiller9995]

good. the more "college liberals" stay away from buddhism the better.

[@sandunwijewardena3245]

True...liberal are useless...

[@RafaelCDet]

Buddhism in its exoteric form is indeed a death cult. The buddhism which Evola presents is not the buddhism practiced nowadays in China or Southeast Asia, but an esoteric, traditional, even "secret" buddhism. Mainstream buddhism rejects the existence of the Self, it is monistic: every living being is just a part of the universe, like a rock or a river - there is no real "Self", you don't actually have a soul, you just think you have. This is extremely different from what Evola talks about.

[@nyarlantothep9555]

Great reply

[@RafaelCDet]

Read my comment again. I'm talking about "mainstream", corrupted views of buddhism.

[@FarFromEquilibrium]

Excellent reading , video and background music. Very well done. Now , of course, we are wishing for MOAR!

[@koan__23]

I've been somewhat of a Perennialist without realizing it. Having dedicated much attention to highlight the many correlations between Christianity (in its' Orthodox and Gnostic format) and Buddhism (mainly Zen). This video only inspired me to go further. Thanks a lot.

[@AsiandOOd]

The idea that some souls are more nobler is resembling the actual teaching that some souls have a low karma and is not able to learn the truth of buddhism even if spoken to directly. there was this story of a traveling monk in china, and he had met a beggar under a monastery. the monastery was on a mountain and he travels up and down it daily for his studies and his begging alms. he said to the beggar that if he goes up the mountain with him every time, and recite the mantra and say a prayer, the monk will give him enough money to fill his belly. the beggar didnt understand and got confused and angry, asking "why do i have to go all the way up the mountain and recite the mantra when i can just sit here and ask for food?" this story shows that some people would rather go starving than to learn about buddhism. and evola's teaching of spiritual order is a resemblance of the karmic balance inside of everyone, one may be overflowing with good karma while others are devoid of it.

[@postmodernantimodernist2075]

Literally (correct usage of the word here, for once) none of the libraries in my country have ANY of Evolas works, not even the philosophical one at my university. At least I know my Christmas wishes now.

[@walkinginshapes845]

I wanted to read Revolt against the modern world, and only ONE single library has it (in my country). And it's not even in the library, but in the storage somewhere so you can't borrow it without asking the librarian to go look for it.

[@claudiatemplaria4939]

Check on amazon.de you have his work in different languages

[@1600-i6p]

Your can download a lot of his stuff online in PDF form. Buying text is for chumps.

[@deebs12]

@@1600-i6p Physical books are just better. I like having shelves with books on them. That’s just one of the enjoyments of being a reader.

[@kshu3onku505]

Fantastic fantastic channel!! thank you so much for your work! What I love the most about leaving liberalism and the god of the desert behind is that I can't stop finding great ideas and great men and with them growing as a man.

[@Perceval777]

I love a lot of the teachings of Buddhism and I have actually studied and practiced it in Japan. However, I don't like its negative attitude towards pagan religions. Buddhism claims that the gods are actually weak and vulnerable, that Creation itself is a bad, deceiving thing, a terrible illusion from which you must absolutely escape, and also that everything bad that happens to you is your own fault for something you did in a previous life, yet you can't know what you've done in order to fix it... I suffer but I can never know why I'm suffering - that seems pretty unfair. Pagan religions have a much more positive attitude towards Life, the Creation, and the Creator who manifests in his own creation as many deities with different functions. Just an example: in Zen Buddhism it is believed that Bodhidharma said that if during a spiritual practice or ritual you see one of the gods appear before you, that's actually a demon, an illusion, or a weak god who's trying to deceive you and you must completely reject him. While pagans aim at the exact opposite - having a deep profound connection with the gods, not rejecting them as demons... Correct me if I'm wrong, I would love to hear your opinions on this topic.

[@Knaeben]

Your understanding of Buddhism is completely off the mark...

[@Perceval777]

​@@Knaeben I said "correct me if I'm wrong, please share your opinions". Instead, you just say that my understanding is completely off the mark without explaining why, without pointing out what you disagree with and the reasons, and without offering any arguments or suggestions at all. You really aren't helping at all with your reply. If you won't share any thoughts at all, then what's the point in replying to me in such a way? Also, I've practiced Buddhism in Japan, I have a Zen teacher who is a monk, and I've been reading books on it for many years now, so you really don't know how much I've invested in it. These are the facts - at its core, Buddhism has a very dismissive view concerning the gods and the way we perceive their creation, it requires impossible superhuman discipline to reach nirvana that no contemporary human can ever achieve, and, as I already pointed out, it claims there is reincarnation /rebirth in the literal sense because of your karma (although not of an atman but of a mind flow called santana which is really vague). These are the main points I dislike about the teaching. Esoteric/ Tantric Buddhism tries to address all these issues and it literally has a pantheon of divinities just like any pagan religion, but it's still rather dry.

[@Gnomelander1400]

Buddhism will always have a realistic and natural views of life without creating a pessimistic following, which is hard to do.

[@巫轟]

I completely agree, Confucians are right that Buddhism symbolize the "civilized barbarianism" of East Asia. Just sad that East Asia had to be poisoned by Buddhism, it is for this reason that I am a an unironic Taiping Apologetic. That being said, I do have a lot of respect for Theravada Buddhism since they allow for native gods, tho they try to discourage praying to them because gods are limited. Gods being limited is a commonality found in all religions, however that does not mean one should not have a relationship with them. One of the major critiques by Confucian on Buddhism, that is they fail to honor relationships, as well as other virtues - of ontological, metaphysical and ethical consideration. In China Buddhists would destroy shrines to deities that did not belong to them, same with the Daoists which Zhu Xi notes is influenced by the former and vice versa. Making it a tradition of little worth. There is nothing spiritual about encouraging the destruction of wildlife for soy cultivation because you can't eat meat and then die in the gutter while muttering amida butsu. However as a tradition of discipline, I can respect Theravada (And they allow for consumption of meat). Their science of consciousness is sometime that I can agree with, tho I reject their idealism. Since you practices and studied in Japan, are you familiar with Japanese Confucianism? Okada Takehiko perhaps? He is latest Japanese Confucian I know of and in his Zazen to seiza he criticize Buddhism, especially zen.

[@ramon2008]

​@@巫轟i don't see how buddhists fail to honor relationships. the dharma teaches respect for all life and relationships. it only rejects extreme attachment since it is a hindrance towards enlightenment. as far as the treatment of other gods in Buddhism, Buddhism stresses the attachment that Gods have to the material world, Buddhism aims to surpass that and go further through various techniques of meditation. You might want to look into Vajrayana Buddhism, that is what really interests me in particular. I am also influenced by various Native American tribes' way of life. As a native North American, there must be a way to combine both in my opinion. In any case, it is the ideas of the West that I feel must be abandoned. ​

[@aryianexile1045]

This is seriously enlightening content. Keep it up!

[@forbesfoofighters]

@Ard Tru neO FaScIsT sCuMbAG

[@missinformed4269]

Very impressive use of images and quality of thought.

[@Survivethejive]

Thank you. All the images are my own from trips to Sri Lanka and Thailand

[@arynvidsa]

Absolutely stunning, the last 2 minutes gave me goosebumps

[@theGuilherme36]

Irving Babbitt, in Buddha and The Occident, also says that true Buddhism is not humanitarianism, but humanist in the classical sense of Plato and Aristotle, emphasizing restriction.

[@ablacklegionmarine7167]

Background music put me in a trance.

[@olarrist4273]

One your best in a while. This is like a part 2 to your video on the Kali Yuga.

[@Survivethejive]

Actually this predates the Kali Yuga one by a couple of years,

[@mr.coolmug3181]

I've almost finished reading _Revolt Against The Modern World_. It's very eye-opening, but also quite hard to come to terms with. How do you reconcile traditionalism with the Modern world?

[@Survivethejive]

He addresses that question in Ride the Tiger

[@CrueltyIsBack]

You don't. Isn't that the point? Ride the tiger.

[@olarrist4273]

Maybe you should look into Archeofuturism.

[@jeetking1157]

Spear of Sagittarius more of an aesthetic, and aesthetics are subjective in this disgusting modern world

[@theobiggs6611]

Survive the Jive what do you think of having wife in modern world?

[@sushrutaaryabatsya8761]

Evola is truly the greatest Western philosopher.

[@j.abbuhl2834]

I’m actually reading “the Doctrine of Awakening” by Evola right now. Awesome video!

[@twonulator]

So pleased to have found your channel. God bless

[@TheFurlock]

Even if you find solitude you are never alone for everything is everywhere and no where.

[@mazyar_]

beautiful reading, it opened new dimensions to Buddhism and Evola's thought

[@Vingul]

I just realised that Survive the Jive is a rephrasing of Ride the Tiger. Maybe.

[@momfoldinglaundry9963]

As something of a based Buddhist myself, I appreciate this video. I dont know why so many in America identify Buddhism with hippie dippy ideas about how society should function. Buddhism is about the individual and his or her experience of transcendence. Buddhist monks accept donations from people. They don’t organize donation for rhe poor like Christian nuns and priests do,

[@PanSzawu]

Yes they do plenty of charity throughout all of Asia where they are prevalent. This is nonsense

[@leavesofgrass1917]

@Pan Szału the westerners who think they are the exception to western perspective are most often the ones most crippled by it

[@tsurugi5]

@@PanSzawu find any mention of these in the canonical texts? I don't think so. Monks become monks to practice according to the dhamma, not social service.

[@tanjahannahthorisdottir4996]

A Masterpiece from Evola!^^

[@redhussar1436]

Evola was the GOAT!

[@GensokyanImperialism]

Buon compleanno Barone

[@CRaZybANna1000]

I watch this video at least once a month. Thank you.

[@andybarry3435]

Rajastic quality is that of the warrior caste, one can easily recognise in Merlin's vision of a red dragon fighting white dragon as competing gunas.

[@Survivethejive]

interesting theory

[@nardi493]

The problem of Buddhism in the west is that is heart-oriented while it should be head-oreinted. Most of the time the followers of Buddhism in the west are women so is understandble. In the early days of the Buddha his doctrine was a masculine and virile ascetic way, meant for few fearless and strong men who lived in forests renouncing the world. The need of knowing the ultimate truth and to overcome suffering pushed the Buddha to enlightenment, while the compassion for all sentient beings came after naturally. Buddhism today in the west is a castrated doctrine used as a tool by the followers of cultural marxism to protest aganist the religion of their country since they are " Liberal ", while in the East buddhist monks are the most conservative people in the country.

[@ramon2008]

I agree with you to a certain degree. However you seem to fall into the trap of dualism. Women are this and men are that. I like to think of harmony rather than dualism. Women are just as capable of meditation and rigorous spiritual pursuit. Is is in fact Christianity that divides men and women and traditionally denigrated the position of women. Women are amazing just as men are amazing. Men and women are a team and men take leadership in some aspects and women in others. I agree about cultural marxism with you though. I myself am Buddhist but not "left" leaning. Buddhism is Buddhism, not a toool for political agendas.

[@latitudeselongitudes1932]

@@ramon2008 Historically,and even til this day, men are the ones more inclined to monasticism,asceticism,hermitism. In different parts of the world and in different traditions. There are a few women who follow such lifestyles but they are the minority

[@ramon2008]

@@latitudeselongitudes1932 no doubt, that doesn’t mean they’re incapable of it.

[@Boconnor401.]

They aren’t Marxist

[@BirkaViking]

Great video friend :-) Cheers from Sweden

[@TheArchaicSaga]

Amazing videos!

[@pvp72]

Buon compleanno Barone! 🥳

[@AroundElvesWatchUrselves96]

"~you see Buddhism never hurries anyone on, they say you've got all eternity through which to live in various forms and therefore you don't have just one life in which you got to avoid eternal damnation, you can go running around the wheel on the rat race and play that game just as long as you want to, so long as you think it's fun, but if there comes a time when you don't think it's fun, you don't have to do it." -Alan Watts

[@mattline5789]

Interesting. Alan Watts was one of the first commentators I listened to on matters such as these. I think he might lean a little left though. But as with many thinkers, you have to separate the wheat from the tares.

[@luvsuneja]

Sounds like nonsense! The danger of samsara is that there are extremely painful hell realms, ghost realms and animal realms.

[@combatantezoteric2965]

If Alan Watts is speaking to me as me being the Self, the ultimate infinite and transendent being, then I agree.

[@blondebeard7986]

I think Alan Watts was truly seeking, however I'm not sure he ever found peace, as he died a raging alcoholic by drinking himself to death.

[@dpavlovsky]

@@blondebeard7986 Read the essay "Wayward Mysticism of Alan Watts"

[@ewig9376]

Really enjoyed this video. Great work.

[@frankreynolds3851]

The music was perfect.

[@Ax18NY]

Love this.

[@zacfernando878]

buddhism teaches about the aryan truth (arya sathya) and the eightfold aryan path (arya ashtangika margaya) which will leads you to the nobleness and awakening.

[@isupportthecurrentthing.1514]

I got awakened last Tuesday ; it's alright .

[@farmerjohn6526]

1. everyone is spiritual 2. everyone has intuition 3. buddhism can be reduced to two truths ...1. humans suffer ...2. suffering can be resolved by thinking properly 4. buddhist overcomplicate buddhism 5. physical suffering may require a doctor 6. i think therefore i am being 7. otherwise i am nonbeing 8. thinking correctly leads to ....1.enlightenment ....2. good eating ....3. good health ....4. right work ....5. right belief ....6.. right behaivior ....7. etc....

[@leornendeealdenglisc]

Great video, Tom. :)

[@OperationsAndSmoothProductions]

You smashed it again STJ.

[@milkau828]

So beautiful, I have watched this video a dozens of times now, Thank you. Ps. please put subtitles in the Guenon video too.

[@Survivethejive]

Thanks. OK I will as soon as I have time. Glad to hear the subs are helpful

[@iamscoutstfu]

He who is alone, will find that he is happy...

[@iamscoutstfu]

@ben nichols Assuming you are your biology Assuming your biology is given to you (which therefor means you are not your biology...contradiction earlier assumption) "one way or the other" Assuming the choice is a diad and thus there is "one or another" choice when there is only you and the choice you make. There is no other choice . Choice is an act, an expression of the agent. No other choice exists because the choice requires you, the Agent to make it. There are no choices except the choice you make. "is happiness" You should stop seeking opiates. I did not advise you to be alone to seek happiness. I stated that a man, alone, will find that HE IS happy. Suffering is a choice. Choose to suffer and life is suffering, choose not to....well, I'll let you figure that out.

[@iamscoutstfu]

@ben nichols Sorry, but that's incorrect, lol.

[@iamscoutstfu]

@ben nichols It's not a matter of how long you look. But where you look, bud.

[@aek12]

Anonymity is humility.

[@anonanon7497]

Buon compleanno Barone!

[@seeker3631]

Really great video, why is it unlisted all of a sudden?

[@jordangill2710]

Brilliant, thank you

[@14styrofoampackingpeanuts88]

Buon cumpleanno, Barone!

[@augustaimsley4765]

Buon compleanno, Barone.

[@tengugirl4587]

Evola fundamentally misunderstands Buddhism if he thinks that humanitarianism and compassion are later degenerations of the Buddha's doctrine. The oldest code of the sangha forbade killing to the extent that a monk who kills, encourages killing, or speaks well of killing is banished from the community. Many Japanese Buddhist works, the tradition that Evola seems keen to promote the most, feature warriors tragically being reborn in hell for killing, which is one reason that the Jōdo Shinshū became popular, because it was believed that samurai could be reincarnated in the pure land in spite of their bad karma as long as they trusted the grace of Amida. While Buddhism did not dispute the caste system, it does not see it as the exalted spiritual system that Evola does. The Aggañña Sutta states that the castes came around as a means to organize society, with the kshatriya (warriors) being those who were just and capable of judging. In spite of this, outcastes and others of low birth were accepted into the sangha. In the Vasala Sutta, the Buddha directly speaks of the outcaste Mangala who became a monk and was reborn in the Brahma realm because of his spiritual power.

[@Wrestling4404]

Tengu Girl the true awakening of man is sprouted from the ash of his tribalistic tendencies, but of course, you can constrew anything to fit your agenda, or atleast, the ideas you are trying to push.

[@wowmydude2328]

You've obviously not read the doctrine of awakening. It's is clear in the earliest texts of buddhism that all humitarian and ethical precepts are only instrumental tools for acesis and an olympian awakening of man. Buddhism doesn't distinguish between waht is moral good or bad, it only teaches what is bad for the spiritual path of awakening. ' A man is trapped on one side of a fast-flowing river. Where he stands, there is great danger and uncertainty - but on the far side of the river, there is safety. But there is no bridge or ferry for crossing. So the man gathers logs, leaves, twigs, and vines and is able to fashion a raft, sturdy enough to carry him to the other shore. By lying on the raft and using his arms to paddle, he crosses the river to safety. The Buddha then asks the listeners a question: “What would you think if the man, having crossed over the river, then said to himself, ‘Oh, this raft has served me so well, I should strap it on to my back and carry it over land now?’” The monks replied that it would not be very sensible to cling to the raft in such a way. The Buddha continues: “What if he lay the raft down gratefully, thinking that this raft has served him well, but is no longer of use and can thus be laid down upon the shore?” The monks replied that this would be the proper attitude. The Buddha concluded by saying, “So it is with my teachings, which are like a raft, and are for crossing over with - not for seizing hold of.

[@tengugirl4587]

It's been a few years since I read the Doctrine of Awakening, but I was not convinced by Evola's interpretation which ironically bears more in common with Jewish woman Ayn Rand than what the Buddha taught or did. If it were so self-evident that this was the true meaning of Buddhism, it should be easy to gauge it from the Pali Canon, but no Buddhist scholar or king ever has. Evola's concept of the "Olympian," the cold and patriarchal anti-nomian superman who rejects all that is soft and sentimental, is taken more from Nietzsche than actual traditions. The Buddha, far from an aloof militarist, is described as being like a mother watching over her child, and the Karaniya Metta Sutta instructs all to cultivate this mentality. Taken out of context, the parable of the raft could be used to assert that the ethical principles are just temporary and can be abandoned later when one becomes enlightened. But the sutta it's taken from, the Alagaddupama Sutta, makes clear this is not how it's being used. Instead, in conjunction with another simile in the text, the water-snake parable, it's about the need to hold firmly onto the Dharma until at the point where one has crossed the ford so to speak. Even afterwards, however, the enlightened ones still maintain these humanitarian and ethical precepts. It's stated that arhats, and others who have reached stages of spiritual attainment are incapable of committing sins such as destruction of life.

[@user-fb7fh1yc1s]

+Tengu Girl In Theravada Buddhism KARUNA (Compassion) is subordinated to PRAJNA (Gnosis), only after many centuries the plebeian bhaktism of the Mahayana (different from his gnostic and intellectual aspect) putted Karuna on the same level of Prajna. Compassion (different from the humanistic and secular concept of it) was present in Shakyamuni teachings, but was considered inferior to Gnosis. If you want an idea of the hierarchical aspect of traditional Buddhism you could watch 'Silence' by Scorsese. Also Tibet was a feudal theocracy.

[@MrJbot01]

​@@tengugirl4587 Your analysis of Buddhism and Evola in particular is wrong. Evola did not give much special weight to Japanese forms of Buddhism; he only pointed out that the doctrine was well integrated into the warrior lifestyle of the Samurai and the code of Bushido. He made this observation in order to provide a counterexample to those who would say Buddhism is a humanistic or pacifistic doctrine of feminine escapism. This does not indicate that Evola valued Japanese Buddhism in other forms; instead, he notes that the parent system (Mahayana) is full of degenerating corruptions, such as the idea that everyone is capable of awakening and the incorporation of a wide body of devotional mythology. Although there seems to be a contradiction between the necessity of a life of killing for Samurai and the heavily integrated Buddhism in Japan, Evola notes that the abstention from killing is a purely practical means utilized by the ascetic; Evola did not discuss this (and we can criticize him for that), but it may be that Japanese Samurai are in no need of being the ascetics about whom Evola speaks, since it is the case that the original asceticism of the Buddha was designed for an age and environment of dissolution and the Japanese still had the solar, hierarchical societal structures that would negate the need for such practices. The Buddhist ascetic, as Evola notes in the beginning of the Doctine, now hold the function of the degenerated Brahmins. The Samurai are still ksatriya. Nor did Buddhism have to "exalt" the caste system as Evola did, because the doctrine was formulated as a means to attain the unconditioned in an age of spiritual (and therefore societal dissolution). Evola also, like Plato, acknowledged the ability of some from the lower echelons to have a soul similar to their superiors. See his essay on the peasant woman Joan of Arc or his outright admittance of this in the Revolt (though he does say it is ultimately better to condition oneself more closely to the archetype of ones caste, in an ideal system). Also, there is no contradiction between "Olympian" being Nietzschean and traditional at the same time; it was the opinion of Evola that Nietzsche, although ultimately grounded in nothing more than a blind will to power on account of his atheism, was right in identifying the lunar spiritual aspects of Christianity and Christian ascesis. Nietzsche himself made references to the morality of power and mastery of the Romans and the comparative slave morality of the Christians. Nonetheless, all morality is ultimately conditioned and must be let go. Your assertion that the Enlightened Ones maintain these ethical precepts ignores the unconditioned ontological state of those who attain the Absolute, and so any human action of their existing, earthly selves before death is ultimately unconnected to the inhuman transcendence achieved or else their "true selves" would not be unconditioned. The Doctrine absolutely cannot be humanitarian if all ethical precepts are mere instruments for attaining the unconditioned, if it is truly a doctrine seeking to transcend humanity. In the latter case, it is by definition anti-humanitarian, and any efforts that seem to support "humankind," like the compassion of a mother to her child, the abstention from killing, etc. are useful only ascetically. This is precisely why Evola points out the dual path of "irradiant contemplations," where one comes to identify with a larger group in order to recognize the emptiness of mere individuality, and the jhana, the detaching meditative practices that seek inwardly to shave off any modicum of individual identification. The abstention from killing is simply a way, as Evola puts it, to generate "superindividual insight that penetrates multiple existences." One must "try to anticipate the state of consciousness in which another person is felt as being oneself, not in the Christian, humanitarian, or democratic sense, however, but with reference to a superindividual consciousness."

[@batlaizan]

The ambient background is awesome ! Where does it come from ?

[@catalystdrive]

Just want to pass on that, if you visit Mongolia, I found there, in the Royal Palace museum, European Buddhist artifacts which predate the rest within the palace.

[@Survivethejive]

what do you mean "european"?

[@catalystdrive]

Of origin. Scandinavian to be more precise. Of similar origins to the one they found in the viking shipwreck.

[@catalystdrive]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oseberg_Ship I don't think they're this old but they were certainly several hundred years according to descriptions. Also, the museum won't allow photographs, so to believe it you would just have to go see it. There you might also find the origin of the ward against the 'evil eye' \m/ However I'm certain the hand gesture in Buddhism means something quite different.

[@cicero1178]

befreier1 I don't think Buddhism came from Scandinavia

[@catalystdrive]

That's not something I said.

[@c4call]

Watching this buzzed on honey liqueur is a phenomenal experience 🤔🤨🧐

[@SonIsReal]

What's the name of the song playing in the background?

[@roygbiv176]

Beautiful reading

[@evolassunglasses4673]

Fascinating.

[@adk4463]

¡Namo Tassa Bhagawato Arahato Sammā Sambuddhasa! Buddham Saranam Gacchami Dhammam Saranam Gacchami Saṅgham Saranam Gacchami

[@beegee14]

I love this book

[@manbro3260]

Great Vid! Keep up the Good work, Buddha approves!

[@rahulpaturkar1425]

I am not a Buddhist but yet I am. Don't believe because I am saying so, come experience yourself and then believe! These are the humble words of a perfect enlightened being roughly around 2500 years ago. He was sitting at such an pinnacle of perfect enlightenment that as per modern mystics said that humanity could hardly produce such a person during the last 2500 years as the.Buddha!.

[@orcagna164]

I tried to find the music in the second half of this video. I could find the Swedish band "Ormgard", but could not find any track from them named "Seta", as listed in the video description above. Can anyone tell me where to find it? Thank you.

[@Budismo7917]

Nice video good explanation you search deep inside in mindfulness meditation state of mind align with the buddha world to comprehend your idea of Buddhism and that is the wisdom and teaching of the buddha its not a strict believe system that its just had to be this way like all monotheism faith. Blessed it be with your gods that you believe my heathen brodir

[@mihispemdedisti]

Buon compleanno barone!

[@luckyyuri]

This couldn't be further from the Buddha's spirit. It is the animal unconscious trying to climb over the human spirit and the teachings it has derived.

[@longleggedmacdaddy5313]

Brendan Hall What is good?

[@blondebeard7986]

Animalistic behavior is full of hierarchies. Is it not?

[@grekori748]

From which one of Evola's books is this reading?

[@spookbuster4862]

Doctrine of Awakening

[@Standenanian]

buon compleanno barone!

[@shaygahweh]

He's factually incorrect about Buddhism in Japan. Zen Buddhism, the most influential flavor of the religion in Japan, is actually a type of Mahayana Buddhism. And while it is hierarchical (in the sense of having Masters and students), it is far from "traditional" in the proper sense of the word. Quite the opposite: Zen is known for encouraging quirky and novel answers to age-old problems.

[@larslayton4472]

Yeah he’s talking about Japan in the day, not modern “homosexual” corruptions

[@Knaeben]

@@larslayton4472 These answers are absolutely hilarious. It's like two monkeys trying to read Nietzsche.

[@ramon2008]

That does not make Zen non-traditional. Zen is based on a strict hierarchy. As any religion, Buddhism stresses rules of conduct for the material world and the spiritual. Buddhism teaches respect for others, parents, families, and life partners. It stresses self respect and proper conduct in society.

[@matthanlewis1959]

I have a question maybe someone who is better versed in Julius Evola's literature can answer: What religion was Julius Evola part of? He clearly wasn't Christian, nor was he an atheist but it seems like he was many things, a Hindu, a Buddhist, an occultist, and maybe others. is there any particular religion that he connected himself to?

[@matthanlewis1959]

@@capvtgeratlvpinvm9889 I'm assuming he used the word "Catholic" to denote universality and not the actual religion.

[@matthanlewis1959]

@@capvtgeratlvpinvm9889 Thanks, now id there a difference between a perennialist and a traditionalist?

[@matthanlewis1959]

@@capvtgeratlvpinvm9889 Okay, thanks.

[@susantadeb7666]

Buddha came from Sakya tribe. The Scythians who settled in India, apparently Buddha had blue eyes (Rahul Sankrityana)

[@andy7666]

Interesting video! Some travelers in the 19th-early 20th century noted the corrupting influence of pacifism on the Tibetan and neighboring peoples, with entire generations of young men sent off to the monasteries resulting in a general lethargy and weakness, inaction. Even then though there were still warrior groups (more like rather rubbish bandits to be honest) but pacifism really did that country in - look at China just waltzing in there! Still, a very learned and cool religion.

[@jeffreyhawthornegoines8727]

I often wonder how Their Great Spiritual Superiorities escape the humble tasks of Nature? Or do they have the use of an elite kind of superior paper? When one sees the immense progress which we have made since we began recording history, one shines in inner realization of the Superiority of these Great Illuminated Spirits

[@kelthuzzadofnaxxramas2725]

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[@vik8860]

6:42....damn, that's kinda cinematic !

[@luca-jminecraftxx9960]

Buon compleanno, barone

[@danmorgan3685]

Interesting video. Have you done anything - or plan to do anything - regarding your thoughts on Christianity/Islam/Judaism?

[@Ieueseuei]

That background music tho

[@eriksoltvedt7552]

«Saken er den, ser I, at den sterkeste mann i verden, det er han som står mest alene» En Folkefiende. Ibsen.

[@demaistre2458]

I would say that Rene guenon would be even better to get into with this subject as a whole. The whole perennial, traditionalist school of thought really is one of the last great bastions we have in the west.

[@ramon2008]

The west is done for man. Rene Guenon became Muslim and was fascinated by the Hindu religion. Catholicism has lost its esoteric dimension and the majority of hermetic groups are charlatans.

[@latitudeselongitudes1932]

I dont rate Guenon that highly

[@heinsheinard9035]

July 2024 anyone??? Tom Rowsell is a rock star!

[@99Yteu]

Well I would say nobody better explained Buddhist ontological and phenomenological arguments than Nagarjuna, whose Madhyamaka system of enlightenment is one of the foundational works of many Mahayana traditions. Much of Mahayana IS corrupted, but the Pali Canon was a process of democratic consensus by the Sangha, What is more likely, that the group knows better, or that a few of the most elite Buddhist intellectuals better understood the TRUEST meaning of the Buddha's teachings?

[@ramon2008]

explain what you mean by mahayana being corrupted

[@Gamenetreviews]

The Buddha said that in questions of authority the highest woman must be lower than the lowest man.

[@RawkHawk9000]

Does lacking the need for a master mean that one should be able to enlighten oneself without Buddhism? Or just that one can actually follow through with it's teachings?

[@Boocake1488]

The Buddha did it without a master, many people have. The teachings themselves just form a map to help along the path. You can get there without a map, but having one sure damn helps.

[@ramon2008]

You can probably learn graduate level physics on your own. But imagine how much easier it would be with a teacher.

[@kyleelsbernd7566]

Just what we need, a rich prince claiming to be awakened telling us that nothing is real.

[@Leo-us4wd]

Just bought Doctrine of Awakening, I have high hopes after I finish Tolkien's lord of the rings and the hobbit

[@alexandersutton1066]

all 3 vehicles of Buddhism are valid and were taught by Buddha Shayamuni. Hinayana, Mahayana, and Vajrayana. However alot of people do not have the capacity of intelligence understand how all 3 work together.

[@Apoliteia]

well said

[@popkiller5705]

Varjyana wasn't taught by Gotama nor was Mahayana. In terms what the Buddha taught was the existence of four noble truths. Mahayana and Varjyana do not have any real place in the Buddha teachings

[@ramon2008]

@@popkiller5705 all are founded on the four noble truths and the eightfold path. Shakyamuni did not explicitly teach mahayana but implicitly, for those who were intelligent enough to understand and of a higher capacity. Vajrayana too. Vajrayana can be seen as the esoteric dimension of Buddhism but that does not make it any less Buddhist.

[@cfwit]

buon compleanno barone

[@popkiller5705]

The Buddha never taught of such warrior like feelings in oneself. He often talked about laying down weapons and violence to find peace in truth.

[@TheAureusPress]

Great

[@TheAureusPress]

good music too