Julius Evola on Buddhism 

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

@@Magnulus76 Evola did not believe it was racial

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

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.

@@Magnulus76 It WAS a racial hierarchy.

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

@@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714 what?

@@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.

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

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

Dayon Mage Buddhism is the cessation of suffering.

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

Joshua Chan And pretty much every form of Northern Eurasian, Mesopotamian and even some African pagan traditions

@Parsival Ritter 555 No.

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

History is stolen by the Victor's.

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

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

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

@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?

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Buddha didn’t study buddhism

Still stands.

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

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

@@vids569 explain.

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

@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.

@Ard Tru and?

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

@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)

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

True...liberal are useless...

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.

Great reply

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

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

​@@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.

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

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.

​@@user-pu4lv6pr5vi 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. ​

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.

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

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

@@user-fb8ee7ec8e Physical books are just better. I like having shelves with books on them. That’s just one of the enjoyments of being a reader.

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

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

He addresses that question in Ride the Tiger

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

Maybe you should look into Archeofuturism.

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

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

@Ard Tru neO FaScIsT sCuMbAG

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

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

@@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.

interesting theory

Doctrine of Awakening

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

@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.

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

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

Anonymity is humility.

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All these shots are from other videos I have made on location. You should find them in my other videos on Sri Lanka and Thailand etc

See this map for all my locations drive.google.com/open?id=1zAcMoEzdxRD17CEg3w068HcF2v5q6svw&usp=sharing

@@Survivethejive oh thank you so much sir. Love the content I really appreciate it on my path of knowledge. Thanks again.

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.

@@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

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

good music too

what do you mean "european"?

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

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.

befreier1 I don't think Buddhism came from Scandinavia

That's not something I said.

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

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

@@capvtgeratlvpinvm9889 Okay, thanks.

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.

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

Nope, just cherry picks what he likes from Western translations of the Pali Canon.

@dan ayala So are you insinuating Evola was incorrect?

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

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

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.

Father Karras but could you not also call that philosophy? or would you say spirituality and philosophy are two different names for the same thing?

Tradition is concerned with pure metaphysics, of which philosophy is only a contingent aspect.

Survive the Jive and when you say tradition, is it spirituality to which you refer?

Raidho sort of. Although that word is nebulous and often describes things that are either mere components of Tradition or even counter-Traditional

Survive the Jive so how might i come to understand what spirituality truly is?

explain what you mean by mahayana being corrupted

Harshil Mehta its a sri lankan statue of buddha

I failed to notice clothes on statue. you are right it's Buddha statue.

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.

I dont rate Guenon that highly

No that is Thailand

Brendan Hall What is good?

Animalistic behavior is full of hierarchies. Is it not?

what are these so called "european elements you're talking about"? jeez breh you gotta get over this whole "aryan" thing. Read the buddhist writings, go meditate. Transcend the material. Who cares if Buddha had european blood or not. It does not improve or reduce the teachings in any way.

I would say that the indoeuropean cultures come from the original Vedic source that was dominant in the ancient arya lands of Bharata

@RabbiJesus. yeah and ? Read my comment. It’s irrelevant to his teachings.

It's not a self, but The self. Which all shares.

It calls atta