I would take Buddhism integrally as a model of conduct if doing so did not involve assuming a state of dependence that I find intolerable. Buddhism, to the letter, is to drop everything and live on alms. From this, the conclusion: if the final liberation requires as a mandatory step the complete subjection to this world, even temporarily, I will never experience it. It is as if, desiring freedom, it were first necessary to submit to the worst and most complete form of slavery. On second thought, I correct myself: I would not take Buddhism integrally because, integrally, anything becomes unpalatable.
Tag: philosophy
An Evolutionary Process Where the False Perishes
If historically there is, as Thomas Carlyle says, an evolutionary process where the false repeatedly perishes, one must conclude that society is bound to erect and overthrow lies. Otherwise we must ask: why does something equally false always overlap with the overthrown falsehood? Or even: how many more millennia will it take for mankind to get rid of this evil cycle? On a collective level, any outline of a solution seems impossible.
The Ever Corrupting and Oppressive Effects of Group Psychology
Analyzing the ever corrupting and oppressive effects of group psychology, one can conclude that honor requires solitude—that is, a flat refusal to join any collectivity. Collective thinking is detestable, the collective imposition on the individual infamous. But the path is a thankless one: there is always a price to pay. Society, with its shameful history of persecuting solitary rebels, denying them the possibility of refusal, always subjecting them to its vile tyranny, cannot be better defined than as the spreading manifestation of evil. It would not surprise to discover that those who rule this world put dead people to wake up inside the coffin.
What Is Universal in the Human Being
What is universal in the human being is his vain, hypocritical and greedy manifestations. This today as yesterday, and yesterday as tomorrow. There would be exceptions if the human being were not thrown, as a rule, into situations of pressure and risk, when he is forced to act by the instinct maliciously developed over the centuries and capable of freeing him from more severe discomfort. The world does not allow him peace: it hunts him and demands a reaction. And the reaction, always, manifests itself in vanity, hypocrisy and greed—the defense mechanism that corrupts souls and becomes vice. So it would be good that behavioral psychology uses moralistic philosophy as dogma: however, doing so would invariably lead the student into depression.