/lit/ - Literature

>>22548062
He was pals with Max Mueller and knew better especially with Gotama being kshatriya caste; it's a bit of posturing in light of "European Buddism" and "White Mandarins" warned of in Beyond Seed & Feed.

>a moralism without religious background

Both Buddha & Shankara were revivifying Vedic metaphysics that had stagnated into perfunctory ritual observance (decadence). "Anything rather than nothing" is also a nihilism, which is everything post-schismatic buddhisms and buddhatarians became. There is higher and lower, greater and lesser -- and whatever the apparent 'egalitarianism' of Buddha it belies this fact and variance in aptitude for his teaching. 'Serious' socialists care nothing for equality and all the other canards never mentioned in Marx & Engels & Lenin & Stalin-- this is there advantage:

>In religion the constraint is lacking to consider ourselves as value-positing.

And the continued danger of not taking this crisis of values seriously (or seriously-flippantly). To that end 'nice' isn't taking us into an age of space exploration-- which is all the whinging amounts to in the spheres of 'equity' and an endless tab against colonialism to borrow against in handouts to Darwinian lumpenproles.

Yes.

>>19631116
One who grasps the view that the Tathagata exists, Having seized the Buddha,
Constructs conceptual fabrications
About one who has achieved nirvana.

Since he is by nature empty, The thought that the Buddha Exists or does not exist
After nirvana is not appropriate.

Those who develop mental fabrications with regard to the Buddha, Who has gone beyond all fabrications,
As a consequence of those cognitive fabrications,
Fail to see the Tathagata.

Whatever is the essence of the Tathagata, That is the essence of the world.
The Tathagata has no essence.
The world is without essence.

I prostrate to Gautama
Who through compassion
Taught the true doctrine,
Which leads to the relinquishing of all views.

White people unironically have more in common with the Buddha (a white Scythian) than they do with a desert Jew.