/lit/ - Literature

>>16640917
Some koans for you;

世尊、因外道問、不問有言、不問無言。

A non-Buddhist philosopher said to the Buddha, "I do not ask for words; I don not ask for non-words."

世尊據座。

The Buddha just sat there.

外道贊歎云、世尊大慈大悲、開我迷雲令我得入。

The philosopher said admiringly, "The World-honored One, with his great mercy, has blown away the clouds of my illusion and enabled me to enter the Way."

乃具禮而去。

And after making bows, he took his leave.

阿難尋問佛、外道有何所證贊歎而去。

Then Ananda asked the Buddha, "What did he realize, to admire you so much?"

世尊云、如世良馬見鞭影而行。

The World-honored One replied, "A fine horse runs even at the shadow of the whip."

南泉和尚因東西堂爭猫兒。

Nansen Oshõ saw monks of the Eastern and Western halls quarreling over a cat.

泉乃提起云、大衆道得即救、道不得即斬却也。

He held up the cat and said, "If you can give an answer, you will save the cat. If not, I will kill it."

衆無對。泉遂斬之。

No one could answer, and Nansen cut the cat in two.

晩趙州外歸。 泉擧似州。

That evening Jõshû returned, and Nansen told him of the incident.

州乃脱履安頭上而出。

Jõshû took off his sandal, placed it on his head, and walked out.

泉云、子若在即救得猫兒。

"If you had been there, you would have saved the cat," Nansen remarked.
Mumon's Comment

無門曰、且道、趙州頂草鞋意作麼生。

Tell me, what did Jõshû mean when he put the sandal on his head?

若向者裏下得一轉語、便見南泉令不虚行。

If you can give a turning word on this, you will see that Nansen's decree was carried out with good reason.

其或未然險。

If not, "Danger!"

>>16624313
>>16624323
Its a falsehood

>>16624287
>pay for my kids college outright
Why would this be a problem in Scandinavia? Also you can vacation and retire plenty on 60k a year lol

At the same time where did this number come from? Median doctor makes like 120k a year

>>16624247
Solution: make education free and pay people while pursuing education, thus not overburdening the doctors with crippling debt.

>>16624193
>Highschool teachers in Denmark make the same as lawyers
No they dont, theres no way thats true, i live in Sweden and were supposed to be worse yet here thats not true. Danskäckel

>>16624055
>>16624063
Yes not only is Canada very ethnically diverse, i see here that no single religious denomination makes up a majority, Canada is also one of the few nations with a massive internal French speaking segment, making up 10 million citizen.

Boy i need to stop posting in American hours...

>>16624055
Isnt Canada like 50% Pajeet and Chinese?

>>16624032
danskäckel

>>16624017
I should have said socialism instead of commune.

>>16623990
>>16623935

>>16623973
haha based z0mg

>>16623914
>>16623922
Your misattribution aside, the reason the USSR was state capitalist is not because it had private property, before Breschnev it had very little, but because the communist party had nothing to do with the workers it was more akin to one big corporation than a commune, or collection of communes.

>>16623888
>>16623894
state capitalism was what the Soviet Union was, Scandinavia is way more socialist than the Soviet Union

>>16623826
So why are we even talking about homogenity, what is it good for? Especially when these categories are in constant flux.

Irish and Jews being considered subhumans in the US until whiteness expanded and now they enjoy the same status as other white people. No one is worried about jews or irish people tainting the genepool of America, If you mean culturally we might agree, but the solution then is integration not homgenity...

>>16623735
I guess its not bad, its not like those highly homogenous eastern european countries...

>>16623718
>A third of your country being foreigners isnt good thing

Why?

>>16623700
If size and homogenity is the cause, how come iceland is all broke?

>>16623550
If i understand you correctly your problem is more with democracy than with social democracy.

Meaning you mean that social control over the means of production means that your personal influence on said means is less than 0.00001%

Did i misread you?

>>16622658
>>16622658
But you are wrong see.

The problem of defining socialism is in the distribution of the means of production. The Soviet Union may have boasted that the means of production was held collectively and not by private (bourgeoise) interests. But any midwit can figure out that this isn't true, production was run by the politburo and by career partymembers, essentially the whole country was one joint stock corporation.

So we come to a conclusion that in capitalism AND in socialism production is ran by a few rich assholes in either the financial district or the Kremlin.

Now where does scandinavia come in, well i can only speak for my country Sweden, Here the LO (our associated labor unions) repressent 90% of the labor associated with its union, these (democratic) unions unsurprisingly are a very powerful force, and they are actually involved in co-managing our industries and our workplaces, along with the private interests. And at the same time they fund and essentially run the social democrat party.

So what we get is a system where politics, private interests and workers are all entangled in comanaging the entire economy in a "solidaristic" way, in which is FAR more inclusive than what the Soviets or the Chinese ever could dream of.

Add to this our social welfare and you have a system not as utopian as Marx would be happy with, but well on its way. Also your point that welfare impedes economic output, i think Keynes has something to say too you.

When government spends money in the economy, say building a bridge, it employs and pays a bunch of people, these people than go to the shoestore and the pub and spends their money. Thus government spending creates life in the economy, and every dollar the government spends it recieves 5.

>>16621081
Dont you have Shapiro and Peterson patreons to subscribe too?

Faggot

>>16596997
>Socrates was justified in his ignorance
This is the point we departed, justified this justified that, does the tiger need justification for eating his prey?

>>16596971
Its a gift, not a yoke :)

Now all this fighting and resentment and questionioning turn it inward. And ponder up and down and side to side and king and slave.

And then tie it all in a knot and boom!

Look out your own eyes.

(Or don't)

>>16596948
No they are parables. You can interprit them for yourself if you want.

>>16596937
All this talking about justification and methods and law.

Where will it take you in the end?

You people work so hard for your and others survival, has anyone yet succeded?

Another parable.

A man was walking across a field when he saw a tiger. Fearing for his life, the man fled, but the tiger gave chase. The man reached the edge of a cliff, and just as he thought the tiger would get him, he spotted a vine growing over the edge of the cliff. Grabbing on to it, he swung himself over the edge to safety.

The tiger came to the edge and snarled at him from above. While precariously perched like this, the man saw another tiger growling at him from below. Trembling, he held on to the thin vine that was keeping him from being dinner for the tigers. What could be worse than this, he wondered.

Just then, two mice scampered out and began gnawing at the vine. As they chewed and the man pondered over his fate, he saw a juicy, red strawberry on a ledge next to him. Grasping the vine with one hand, he plucked the strawberry with the other. Ah, how sweet it tasted!