Eastern Philosophy and Nietzsche | Buddhism and Hinduism 

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Philosophy really hurt my head while studying what life is, what reality is or what truth is. I got into an emotional roller coaster. Grew up as a Christian, became an existential nihilist, got into Bhudism then studied Stoicism, only to get deluded by various interpretations of truth. Welps, I'm a fool not to try meditation sooner. Life is beautiful!

i don't why most buddhists deny but the noble truths and eight fold paths are already present in upanishads and smritis of many sages which were known way before buddha was born

“I imagine future thinkers in whom European-American indefatigability is combined with the hundredfold-inherited contemplativeness of the Asians: such a combination will bring the riddle of the world to a solution.” - Nietzsche

The Buddha's revolutionary ideas preached more than 2500 years ago are now being accepted my intellectuals and scientists, who are bound to be overwhelmed at the surprisingly honest and sincere nature of the Buddha's marvellous teachings. Buddhism appeals more to the intellect than emotion. His teachings on impermanence, suffering, non-self, dangers of sense pleasures and the unstable, agitated nature of the human mind can be related to each and every individual in the world.

Beautiful, as a student of Comparative Religion with a special intrest in Hinduism and Buddhism, Nietzsche and Schopenhauer resonate most with me of all Western philosophers. I see great similarities between Nietzsche and the Buddha Dharma. Especially it should be pointed out that non-self and emptiness are not hopeless nihilism, they are the ultimate life-affirmation. I wish Nietzsche would have been able to delve deeper into the Vedic and Buddhist traditions. Schopenhauer was right about the Upanishads as the greatest philosophical works ever written. Do you know whether he mentions the Gītā explicitly in any of his major works? This video was a very accurate representation of Dharmic philosophy, well-researched! I would really like a video from you on Schopenhauer and Hinduism and Buddhism that goes more in depth.

Instead of choosing Buddhism to study, he should have practiced a meditation method of budhha..

A similar video you could do is one on Heidegger and eastern philosophy, that even though he did not cite it, through his corespondance and some of his students from the Kyoto school it is now widely accepted that he was very much influenced by it, more precisely by Laozi and Zen

I am a Indian graduate philosophy student and I must say that this video was pretty accurate.

I think you have to learn the culture behind a philosophy, language and perspective to get full meaning behind any word, something like what wittgenstein would say, the game in which language developed in the east is vastly different.

JUST TO LET YOU KNOW " CASTE " IS A PORTUGUESE WORD AND VARNA IS THE SYSTEM AND IT'S NOT MERELY DEPENDENT ON BIRTH BUT BOTH BIRTH AND KARMA

This is probably the first time I've seen a video on this! Amazing job.

Fascinating! Always wondered why Nietzsche mentioned eastern philosophy so much.

The more I gain any insight into Buddhism, the less I sense that I know. In many commentaries its not really possible to say that the writer's understanding of buddhism was correct or not, although there are commentators who clearly get it wrong. Nirvana means extinguishment - probably of craving and aversion in respect of the 8 worldly winds of pleasure/pain, loss/gain, praise/blame, fame and disrepute. But this formulation does cast buddhism in a negative light. And buddhist practice encourages cultivation of the 4 abodes of kindness, compassion, joy (including in the achievements of others) and equanimity. Equanimity is important philosophically, because it represents an overcoming of polarised thinking, whereby a concept such as goodness, presupposes(and therefore causes to exist) a concept of evil. The question of what the enlightened person does with their life has long been a matter of debate. But the most common proposal is to commit to bringing all other beings to enlightenment. This is accepted as being impossible - which resolves the issue of goal directed behaviour as it requires the person to enter a sort of flow state, accepting and reacting to the present within a framework for understanding that one's purpose is eternal. But buddism doesn't require this. Its just that if one chooses goal directed activity, which inevitably divides the world into desires for the goal and aversion to what obstructs achieving the goal, one inevitably generates karma, that is the positive side of goal achievement and the negative consequence of removing obstacles. IMO the concept that karma follows an individual to their own specific rebirth, is unsustainable. But it is also obvious that the patterns of human behaviour repeat themselves endlessly and buddhism best understood explains this very well. Nietzsche may have missed these points. Certainly if one understands it simply as directed to the negation of the self, this is a simplification that misses much subtlety.

Such a good work of research & presentation 🙌👌. Do upload more videos like this as an Indian & a reader of Nietzsche I'm pleased by this piece of art.

Great work!

2 mins in and im hooked 👽 love this! keep it up 🫶🏻

Bruh i wanna give you a million likes!!!! This was so comprehensive i loved every second of it.

Fantastic!! I have read Nietzsche for a few years and recently have been deeply interested in eastern philosophy, particularly mindfulness and enlightenment. Reading Nietzsche in the view that he is actually advocating for the spreading of Enlightenment in the West has given me many fascinating insights. Personally, I cannot interpret 'On the Geneology of Morals III.14' in any other way than to think he is talking about Enlightenment.

Would love to see more videos on eastern philosophy.

Loved this, commenting for the algorithm.

Excelllent!! Really enjoyed this one.

Can you make Oppenheimer and Hindu philosophy of Dharma?

Beauty of knowledge

Great video! There's also some interesting parallels between Nietzsche and Buddhism regarding epistemology.

I love this. Even as an 'atheist', Buddhism seems appealing to me, maybe it's more of a way of life. Great video!

It's unfortunate to see this video doesn't delve further of Nietzsche's thoughts conflated with the recurring contradictions between Buddhist teachings and Vedanta/Hinduism teachings despite both are into fold of Dharmic traditions, I personally find this video to be patronising Hindu values too much, despite certain sects of Buddhism, especially of Vajrayana sects from Tibetan to even Japanese Vajrayana Buddhist sects are known to have violent militancy and the notion of Dharmic Warriors against intrusions within either Kalachakra or Japanese Imperial propaganda brought by the Buddhist Loyalists since Meiji restoration to WW2

Would Love More videos on Indian Philosophy especially on Nayay, Buddhism and etc.

Its simple, if i tell you that whatever you are doing today is either pre- destined and would have happened anyway so their is no free will , if you do something it was destined and if not than so it was. You might conclude that nothing matters in reality , whatever you do their is no satisfaction of doing something ( if you get what i am saying ), one would feel nihilism is the truth. Its one way of perceiving it. But, the correct way of looking at it, is that it does free you from the burden of karma ( good or bad ) , your responsibilities as a being and brings in eternal happiness. But if this view can lead to extremist thinking, one might lead towards evil behaviour and fearlessness of repercussions in a true way ( since mortal punishments in name of law like imprisonment etc seem stupid and only affecting the body ). Thus, they tried to give the true understanding of life in a regularised and controlled way with the teachings of dharma and correct way of leading mortal life , so that humans don't start behaving like animals ( which we are ) and the civilised society remains in existent. It is very important that one understands the inherent nihilism but at the same time has enough value and courage to follow the path of humanity and righteousness ( dharma ) voluntarily. Very risky not gonna lie.

Would love some videos on Zen Buddhism. Great job on this one btw.

Thanks for the great video. You have a great channel, I just subscribed. Just one question: Where does the last quote come from?

Nietzsche is right in seeing Budda or Buddhism as incomplete. Buddha values the passion of Compassion, where the ilife energy within the instinct gets transformed into Compassion towards others, Nietzsche seems to value Lust itself as root of all life energy and as equally important as compassion, if not more, and hence lust as a never ending energy even when a person seems stuck in deep depressive mood, and that the hope for a Positivism also keep existing. And all one needs then is, more experiences in life to be able to change the cognitive processes inorder to convert the Lust into compassion and creativity, which is a positive state. Even when some bit of minimal suffering can still exist in such state of compassion as Buddha suggests. For Buddha, compassion seems as the end to all suffering for Nirvana or Enlightenment while what he mainly wanted is a Clarity of thought in mind to be able to see the illusion from Reality, (ie separate wheat from the chaff) and also that the Path to be spread to all till one is a Buddha himself. And hence, he seemed also to be just appearing also some sort of Decadent one like Socrates, Plato or Christianity because he is defining Nirvana only as negating even the negative illusions and Nirvana as appearing a different experience outsude of the world. While there is definitely a positive experience within state of Nirvana too for the one who experiences it in the world. Because it appears Buddha was not clear of what is next to NIRVANA, to celebrate the eternal process of life, as Osho does with lot of respect to Buddha first that Buddha be available to a true Zorba the pleasure and happiness seeker who is in search of Truth and meaning and purpose of his life, who sees Instinct as never dying, even for the Enlightened and hence would only appear to lay people or even philosophers as negating life itself when the instinct and positivity of it as being negated, in the service of COMPASSION AND CLARITY over instincts. To both Truth seekers and also pleasure seekers, initially .But this is a illusion as the instinct only becomes minimally important or utilised as the peron wants after THE CLARITY and the Life energy actually gets transformed simultaneously into instinct as well as CREATIVITY/Compassion, as and when the person seeks. What Nietzsche was doing is he is seeing the same Truth in a completely different dimension of positivism from the angle of instinct, which is the also right thing to do, like osho does, along with importance of a need for compassion and a clarity, to be free from suffering and also be creative and still carry on with life processes. It is all about mastering ones individual needs first and not being anti instinct anytime as understood of Buddha or being totally in favour of instinct alone, as understood of Osho&Nietzsche. And Osho was able to have practically tried to create a commune with similar moral and Ethical codes, to his commune without being against lust, but valuing also the importance of Empathy and compassion as highest values, in order to achieve a Friendly nature to each other in such a commune, more than just an experimentation for men or women to live together out of using their core Life energy, lust. But because, everyone is at different level of their evolution, the idea of a commune as he planned failed, even though the hope for Zorbas to become Buddhas still exist in the compassionate and rightly rebellious souls. Only then lust would also find its balance and its ways to different forms of creativity in a balance and its stability, as the purpose existing in Humans and not just make Money and be merry alone, until an artistic way of creativity is attained. This state, Nietzsche calls the Superman and finding the innocence back of the inner child, and also valuing Arts like Music, theatre, poetry, painting and literature ietc etc n the background of valuing Philosophy.. Hence Nietzsche has definitely taken Buddhism to higher levels than it was, and into the practical Buddhism or Zorba the Buddha, as osho says 👍

whoever did this, you deserve an accolade. very well done.

good video, thanks

if anyone want to understand hinduism start with geeta and then upnishads with self realisation please dont do word to word rot learning and reading like what scholars of abhramic religion do

It seems to me, that Nietzsche rejects christianity and buddhisme on exactly the same ground. They both reject this life.

very interesting. thank you !

Karma in BUDDIsm in its original form (Pali text) doesn't deal with next life.its talking about rule of cause and effect.

I am a Hindu Brahmin and I love this so much. Been reading alot of nietzsche

I'm from India,, and this video strikes me so hard that I replay it twice,, woooooow!! What a connection! Woww❣

"Will bring the riddle of the world to solution" sad that in that journey of his hadn't got hold of the Riddle....

Enlightening.....

Good stuff

Can you please tell me which software do you use to make youtube videos such as this one where there are shown image after image? Thank you

We still haven't answered the riddle of the world, by those of us who cross polinate our knowledge with both eastern and western philosophy, unless it's to simply observe how the human world continues to play out it's predominate belief systems to whatever may be their natural conclusion - meanwhile, the rest of life, apart from the human mind (Earth and it's natural inhabitants including water) continues as best it can in the midst of our human interferences, seemingly without worrying about the meaning of life, other than to lead by example as if to say, the meaning of life is to live as best one can in whatever conditions one finds oneself in, and to be true to one's nature, sharing the resources and bounty of the mother of us all, Earth. I hope any new philosophy of life is honouring of our planet, the source of life. If there is a heavenly father, it has to be old Sol, or in English, Sun, who potentiates the life of the mother.

This is because that is. This is not because that is not. This and that: You are in me Because I am in you; We are 1. This is das fundamental law of Buddhism because it gives rise to 4 noble truths: 1. Illness exists because of 2. Illinterbeing. 3. Wellness exists because of 4. Wellinterbeing.

how about a video george boole, charles babbage and demorgan's philosophical views with that of indian logic and thought? i came across this due to the letter of mary boole on indian thought and western science in 19th century also ganeri had shared a similar opinion on that you can look his work and also that of BK matilal

Vedanta and Buddhism are essentially speaking the same truth in different ways… poor Nistzche interpreted both wrong…

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good job

Nice video

Master both your emotions and your intellect. The intellect comes to true conclusions by following logic and the scientific method (of integrating observations together). But your intellect will not work properly if you're putting yourself through negative emotions. For example, if you feel anger, your thought will circle around the person or subject that you perceive to have hurt you.

I did't know that India changed its name to east, anyways ..

Brahmavidya (Supreme Science) When the Buddha started to wander around India shortly after his enlightenment, he encountered several men who recognized him to be a very extraordinary being. They asked him: "Are you a god?" "No," he replied. "Are you a reincarnation of god?" "No," he replied."Are you a wizard, then?" "No." "Well, are you a man?" "No." "So what are you?" They asked, being very perplexed. Buddha simply replied: "I am awake." Buddha means “the awakened one.” How to awaken is all he taught. It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways. This is why the West has Troubles with what they call “Buddhism” actually Brahmavidya. No Accountability for mind and Body Those who worship don’t know, Those who Know don’t worship. “There are two extremes, monks, which must be avoided. What are these extremes? A life given to pleasures, dedicated to pleasures and lusts - this is degrading, sensual, vulgar, unworthy, and useless. And, a life given to self-torture - this is painful, unworthy, and useless.” We must, said the Buddha, follow the Middle Path “which leads to insight, which leads to wisdom, which produces calm, knowledge, enlightenment, and nibbana” (Samyutta Nikaya 56).[2] The Buddha’s teaching is often called the “middle path” because he taught that one should shun all extremes and instead live a life of moderation. The Three Treasures The ideal of the Middle Way is to live a life of harmony and equilibrium, free from self-centeredness and awkward self-consciousness. By practicing the Middle Way, we obtain the insight of the Buddha. Most people find that practicing is easier with some structure and community. These are provided by the Three Treasures in which all Buddhists take refuge: the Buddha, the Dharma, and the Sangha. What is the Lotus Sutra The Lotus Sutra is one of the most important sutras in Mahayana Buddhism and was likely written down between 100 B.C. and 200 A.D. Already well known in India, the sutra became more famous and influential when it was translated into Chinese by Kumarajiva in the year 406. After Chih-i founded the T’ien-T’ai School in China, based on the teaching expounded by this sutra in the sixth century, it was considered one of the canonical sutras of Chinese Buddhism. After the T’ien-T’ai School of China was introduced to Japan by Saicho and became the Tendai Sect, the Lotus Sutra became loved as literature among the people. The sutra is named the Lotus Sutra because the lotus symbolized the oneness of cause and effect, specifically the cause of aspiring to enlightenment (Buddhahood) and the effect of attaining it, since the lotus is a flower that blooms and seeds at the same time. It also symbolizes the purity of Buddhahood, blooming in the midst of our ordinary lives just as the lotus blossoms in muddy pond water. The Teachings of the Lotus Sutra The Wonderful Dharma of the Lotus Sutra is that all living beings, whether they realize it or not, have the capacity to become enlightened. Everyone, without exception, can unlock the perfect wisdom and great compassion that reside in the depths of life. The Lotus Sutra also teaches that the life of a Buddha transcends our ordinary way of thinking and is beyond birth and death.

I wonder if Jungs term of The Greater Personality in man, and Nietzsches Übermench, is the same.

YOU are the atman🧘🏼‍♂️

actually it is not shiva that wears a necklace of skull but kali

Life is beautiful. This is the truth 😊

(Secrets of sanatan dharma) available on Amazon and kindle. This book will change your life

I am currently the Japanese Philosopher Kenji Nishitani's book religion and nothingness which responds to the mainstream western philosophy of existentialism with the Buddhist concept of sunyata , basically he thinks that Nietzsche has only arrived on the field of nihility on which humans should build the values of their life, while Nishitani thinks we should go further to the field of emptiness, where nothingness and being are one...I am not good at explaining ideas but you can have a look at his ideas if you are interested in Eastern Philosophy and existentialism

I wonder what did he think about charvaka the og nihilistic philosophy

You know, I am an Indian, but nietzche is kinda fanboying india a lot

Hindus believe in Self,the Atman.Adi Shankaracharya did immense work proving it. Moreover most of the German philosophers stole philosophy from India.

4:16 sad

Amazing book

he said he is Dionisos too so you need to read him in context of this too not only by own imagination what he ment

Philosophy is of no use if not acted upon in your daily life! A true philosopher is actually very brave and empathetic mentally. Why? Because philosophy concerns with thinking logically how things work, how thoughts or human psychology works in a world. Once you understand these things means now you shouldn’t be following the same herd mentality and should be able to live without fear, and should be able live life with strong will because now you don’t feel the societal pressure of anything, because now you know how human mind is working and how it needs to be dealt with .

It baffles me how ubiquitous in the west and even in the east is the view that buddha-dhamma points to a kind of positive transcendent state, when it denies it categorically. It took me long to realize that, through deep study of the canon and listening to thai forest monks expositions of the dhamma. People keep projecting their most fundamental desire (that of happy continuous existence) onto nibbana as some kind of eternal bliss, when the ultimate result of nibbana is parinibbana that implies complete absence and cessation of all the causal factors that constitute consciousness that inevitably lead to dukkha, a perspective that is not very different from death in the modern scientific view. its mereological nihilism (that is, there is no individual beyond the configuration of impermanent phenomena, so nobody is being annihilated after the ultimate cessation). So yeah, although the particular interpretations of some aspects of buddhism by Nietzsche were misguided, the final logical conclusion is correct, buddhism ultimate aspiration is completely life denying.

I sometimes wonder how the world would've been if truly deserving people had Internet access in their times. Who knows the riddle Nietzsche's referring to maybe would've been solved.

I don’t get it. Put me back in and maybe the next lifetime will be different but so far My desire to understand just makes my head hurt

Woah.

well your video was great but there is one misconception that you have ' chandala ' is not associated with any caste system ;it is one of the evil spirits in hindu mythology so please correct it.

I always hear that Schopenhauer got Buddhism wrong, but never what exactly. How bad can the translations be? Moreover, even though he was not open about it, he considered himself a Buddhist. He had a statue of the Buddha and referred to himself as one in private letters. Now, what really troubles me is this obsession to place Nietzsche in a pedestal. This notion of trying to be on the "good side" of Nietzsche, as if having the approval of that scoundrel is a banner to cherish. I must admit that this video gave me a more positive view of Nietzsche, but it does not disregard his legacy. I don't know how can anyone utter "revaluation of all values", ubermensch and such without feeling like a fool. Nietzsche has damaged generations with his subversive sophistry against truth and morality, that is his major legacy above all else. His stench is one of the phantoms of modernity, that one ought to avoid.

Nietzsche could have concluded further if he had not ignored the Shrimad Bhagavad Geeta.

If only he realized how close his philosophy was to buddhism and let go of his borderline obsession on shopenhauer, ad hominems and viewing life from an ego centric perspective which we would call now a "stuck up"

Why doesn't anybody ever mention the elephant in the room?: Buddha says that all life is suffering and illusion, all pleasure is but the temporary release from suffering and that the goal is to achieve liberation from the sensory world of pain through transcendance/non-attachment. Schopenhauer (as the greatest of Western philosphers IMHO) accepts those ideas completely and explain how our brains manufacture the world of the senses in his masterpiece, "The World as Will and Representation". Nietzsche (before he went insane) initially worshipped Schopenhauer but then he got off on his life-affirming kick about how everyone should gleefully embrace eternal repetition of suffering in the quest for superman...." I won't bother trying to explain it because it's total nonsense, but of course life-affirming charlatans like Nietszche and Hegel are much more highlly esteemed in academia than Buddha or Schopenhauer, who apparently had the unpardonable bad taste of telling the truth!

Glory to east❤

You need punctuation my friend. Let the ideas breathe in pauses instead of shooting them out like an endless stream of MG42 bullets. It's philosophy not an assembly line spitting ideas.

You can't misunderstand an idea or philosophy and then use it to bulster your own philosophy. He was a neat dude, but Fred was not in his element when talking about eastern philosophy.

It's impossible to make sense of buddhism with "conceptualization".

If you want a middle way between western nihilism and Buddhism (which is not nihilism) then that is Shaivism (Cult of Shiva).

Brahmin from India are flocking in comment section saying, enlightening, so true. Btw Nicha also praised Hitler. But most brahmin like Hitler too

Even Buddhism and Hinduism developed out of samkhya philosophy which is oldest hindu philosophy Do check out

Buddha's teaching, everything that is good in the world, will end in suffering, so don't crave for good things, be neutral. Nietzsche's teachings, good and bad are both part of life, so don't hate good, enjoy as it may come, because we have only this life! His teachings against Christianity, which was born through slaves of Rome, the slaves don't have much in this life, the teachings that, something good will happen in after life, become attractive. However, 99.99% Buddhists beleave something similar, if you do good your after life will be good, which is not Buddha's teaching.

how can study more on their views on Hinduism? (I am trying to understand various aspects of Hinduism, specially Shiva always intrigues me)

Nietzsche was all about living for this world.....Buddhism/Hinduism are about the next, even if it's Nirvana.

gr8

Ooh dear. His eternal recurrence has nol relation to the karma at all.!

Nietzsche in the hands of a woker becomes a weapon. Yes, woker.

Iam a Indian Psychiatrist. Nietzsche is too brilliant than Bhagawadgita or Krishna as God, and when not considered as Human.However Krishna when considered as human birth had the role to tell a Human what makes him of turning a Superhuman. Buddha is same too, and Bhagawadgita says, rarest of the rare are such souls who realise Truth totally, and reach same level as him. While Buddha takes a path so different from how Krishna appeared who was portrayed as Divinity having taken birth as human form with hardly human qualities anywhere, while Buddha was totally like a normal human in order to tell the value of compassion and humility amidst various challenges to face of the world, and to get enlightened as a human being and become a Superman. Nietzsche is brilliant in finding short among the scriptures of Vedas and Manu or the story of Shakuntala or in Buddha, so that Nietzsche himself is the Superman he himself mentions. However, Buddha and vedas have their own role, before being able to understand Nietzsche, as to what he is and not many may just see him yet. I agree with Nietzsche that best of East (East includes India, china, korea and Japan, among the many) and west has a wa to show the solution to the riddles individually, but only if the world doesnt get lost in Materialism too much by the end of 21st century. Main change Indian society needs is 'TO BE ABLE TO LOVE AND MARRY' and not glorify its arranged marriage ans family system without getting divorced much, but at the cost of a Independence to think for themselves as men and women, and in following scriptures opportunistically and blindly and yet strangely not see themselves as weak enough to believe everything that comes their way as their karma only blindly without even enough effort in right ways, rather than opportunistically.👍

Why did Nietzsche regard Christianity as Nihilistic in the first place

Laws of Manu are inevitable.

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Dude there is not much difference between buddhism and hinduism. The concept of Atma is same as no soul. Both believe in one central soul : Atma, BHrama, Conciousness. In Upanishad the sanskrit text empasises on Jeevantma which is "Samkhya" concept. You need to read the text in details to grasp these things.

Nietzsche! 😑🙄😑

I enjoyed your discussion of Nietzsche and the Laws of Manu, but, and I don't mean to throw shade where it isn't due, the first seven minutes of this video are remarkably similar to the video that I made, and you commented on, by the name of "Nietzsche and Buddhism." Even at times, they are identical word for word. I see that you have attributed Elman, but a number of the ideas I got for my video, and that you have carried into yours, have come from the other works I researched, like the similarity between "eternal recurrence" and samsara which I drew from McDonald. It seems beyond likely that you have taken the ideas directly from my video. And, as far as your discussion on Nietzsche and Buddhism specifically went, it didn't add anything new that had not existed in my own work. So you neither credited my video nor added your own commentary. Is that not the definition of plagiarism?

I am writing this not as a defender of Christianity as the only religion, but more from a secular view point, the caste system of Hinduism is really one of the worst things that a large portion of people in India have the misfortune of experiencing. I know that by law people aren’t supposed to be discriminated but in actuality they still have a whole layer of society who get routinely discriminated and who have artificial obstacles in society which treats them worse than anybody. The shame of India.

Nothing came before Sanathan Dharma..Remember this..Buddhism came from Hinduism's...

The speaker sounds like he's got mouth full of food and one wonders if he really knows what he's saying or simply reading!

19th century german thinkers were the OG indophiles also this fascination and study of sanskrit was first step to nazism .