Another Merciless Onslaught of Ruhe/Paññobhāsa Interview Videos
Brian Ruhe and I have continued with our almost weekly interview video sessions, with a brief hiatus during the holiday season. As usual we talk mostly about Buddhist subjects, politically incorrect political and social issues, and sometimes about Brian’s favored topics of Hitler, etc. and my favored ones of Darwin, etc. Anyway, the ones on Bitchute are from Brian’s channel, with some of my favorite ones reloaded onto my own tiny YouTube channel. (There have been a few that I considered worthy of my own channel that were rendered “unclean,” by Brian incidentally blaming The Jews for something, which turned the videos into YouTube strikes for “hate speech” waiting to happen. But expressing peculiar ideas does not require hate.) Anyway, there will be more to come in future, insh’allah, and probably not only with Herr Brian. For example I recently did a video on Hegel and 19th-century German idealism with Otto Excelsior, soon to be published.
2 December
Arguing about Adolf Hitler: Brian thinks he was a great leader who did nothing seriously wrong, and I point out the plain fact that he left his nation in smoking ruins, due to his own volitional choices. This is a rather long and strange one. (1:26:02)
Bitchute: https://www.bitchute.com/video/E9XpDLQKYnou/
On Right Speech, Wrong Speech, and the karmic effects thereof (48:31)
Bitchute: https://www.bitchute.com/video/twFUQIGNCbNT/
9 December
The Bad Boys of Buddhism, or Brian and me talking about being outsiders to the Buddhist community. (33:20)
Bitchute: https://www.bitchute.com/video/v52lPwH05dWA/
YouTube (possibly already censored): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49oI6wQQamk
16 December
On David Irving’s revisionist history, and on revisionist history in general (1:22:47)
Bitchute: https://www.bitchute.com/video/pUwpnAifIZ5E/
13 January
On keeping high spiritual attainments secret (19:28)
Bitchute: https://www.bitchute.com/video/xtyTccNXX6M8/
On Social Darwinism and the Evolution of Ideas (49:29)
Bitchute: https://www.bitchute.com/video/dbfhk8gpS7A8/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZSwXP7Grzs
Why Right-Wing Women Are More Attractive (18:05)
Bitchute: https://www.bitchute.com/video/5A0PzUl7D2aF/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hno5KCY2ejw&feature=youtu.be
20 January
A Buddhist Monk’s Praise for St. John of the Cross, a man who would have made a great Buddhist (48:54)
Bitchute: https://www.bitchute.com/video/2g5fnw3KmYY8/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7hMMwhhoyo
The Cave Dweller: tales of living in caves in Southeast Asia (1:01:58)
Bitchute: https://www.bitchute.com/video/MZ8128wmLBeT/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwOCcmmgPgQ
How the left is pressuring the right to be morally superior (45:06)
Bitchute: https://www.bitchute.com/video/mobqRKr8UU6E/
27 January
On the Rise of Alt-Buddhism in the West (49:13)
Bitchute: https://www.bitchute.com/video/3RXXyZSKdmlP/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmj8aXmvXrk&feature=youtu.be
On Ancient India, Ancient Greece, Renaissance Italy, and social uproar in general accelerating cultural development (47:36)
Bitchute: https://www.bitchute.com/video/SOoTXQVC0f1c/
Where is your temple? I'll come to Myanmar myself and confront you. Monk to Monk.
ReplyDeleteTemple? Confront me? Actually I'm in California, a few miles south of Stockton.
DeleteWell someone should address you directly.
DeleteDon't you think?
Anyway I recently read your story about you and the woman you were in a sexual relationship and living with while also wearing robes.
Interesting.
Also what's the deal with your ideas about Jews and stuff?
What the heck is that?
About Jews and stuff? I don't have a problem with the religion of Judaism, although I don't think it is a very profound religious system. I do have a bit of a problem with Marxism, though, which historically has been a largely Jewish phenomenon. Also, anyone who reads Kevin MacDonald's The Culture of Critique, unless maybe he's a Jewish person himself, is bound to come out of it being a little more antisemitic than before, just because of the deliberate destabilization of western civilization SOME Jews have been working towards for over a century. I watch Ben Shapiro on YouTube sometimes though, and I think Scarlett Johansson is a really good actress, even though she's Jewish.
DeleteAs for whether someone should address me directly, there are people doing that every day.
Alt Buddhism has already flopped. Two of the founders of the subreddit have deleted their entire accounts because they realized you can't make Buddhism not be nihilism without putting a soul back in but Buddhists are so demonically possessed on that point that its not possible. So they just gave up.
ReplyDeleteI know the sole founder of the subreddit, and as of a few days ago he was still running it. As for "nihilism," that is one extreme, and eternalist view (soul belief) is the opposite extreme, both to be avoided.
DeleteThe main trouble "far right" western seekers have with Buddhism is its uncompromising pacifism. The second trouble is the doctrine of No Self, which pretty much all westerners have trouble with, the west being so egocentric and all.
Bhante, I am sincerely asking.
DeleteCan you explain this crucial point of anatta? I understand it is subtle but can you to the best of your ability try and explain or at least point to a direction by which you think we might gain a benifit and learn.
My perspective based off what I have learned is one, that the Buddha refused to declare a self or no self as you say. Both are extreme views. That said, it is curious how many today refer to anatta as "no self". Can you see how this leads to confusion? This is how I see it...
One cannot even begin to comprehend anatta without first seeing anicca and thus the potential for Dukkha since identifying and clinging to phenomena (all subject to anicca) leads to disappointment or worst. Seeing conditionality thus one can apply the same principles with knowledge to all phenomena including those which constitute being and experience. There is nothing lasting and substantial. So, while it seems paradoxical and oxymoronic there, in a since, on a ultimate level is no self only this flux of change dependent on kamma and condition.
Now, all said there is still, in a paradoxical since in a ignorant being still this agent (more or less) which is sankhara"ing"/conditioning this very flux totally unconscious to the nature or in some cases to some extent knowingly conditioning with merit and good rebirth on mind. To what is it that all these beings in samsara crave and cling and condition? They do so because they see something worthwhile. They see nicca when all phenomena is anicca.
Can you share your thoughts?
First off, there are different ways to explain anatta, which indicates that historically it has been difficult to understand and explain, though probably not as difficult as paticca-samuppada or "dependent co-origination." Ultimate reality is totally Off the Scale, so saying dualistic things like "is" and "isn't" doesn't really apply. But because we have to use words and ideas, we have to choose between two answers, neither of which is really correct. No self is less conducive to clinging to a delusional error, so no self is less of an error than, say, belief in individuality in the form of an immortal soul. Then again, one can interpret a "self" as a complex phenomenon like a candle flame, changing every moment yet continuing in a recognizable form dependent upon conditions like fuel and air. When the conditions cease, the "self" also ceases. But the exact definition of anatta or atta depends on how one tries to understand intellectually what can't really be understood intellectually.
DeleteThanks!
DeleteVenerable Sir, Did you have sex after ordination? That'd be like dying in battle according to Suttas.
ReplyDeleteYou indulge in the cause of birth? Where is this article? And how many monks now-a-days are Parajika? Donors have a right to know. And can you write about the jewish schism that has ruined the Dhamma?
No, I have not had sex (straight, "French," or "Greek") since my ordination. Where is WHAT article? As for how many monks nowadays are parajika, I don't know, although I'm pretty sure there are a few, mostly from traditional Asian cultures. But if they are parajika, then they are not really monks. As for the Jewish schism that allegedly ruined the Dhamma, I have no idea what you are referring to.
DeleteThe Jews invented anatta and injected it into the dhamma to destroy it, and it worked. Buddhists are now all nihilists.
DeleteThe troubles with that theory are: 1) The Jews would have had to invent anatta and inject it into Buddhism long before they ever heard of Gotama Buddha in northern India; and 2) Nihilism and eternalism are both extremes to be avoided, according to the ancient texts. Anatta has been a fundamental teaching of Buddhism since the beginning. Jews had nothing to do with it.
DeleteMaybe all the ancient texts of Buddhism were invented in modern times, by the Jews.
DeleteI mean, with Christianity, or Judaism, you have vellum manuscripts, written on animal skin, that can last centuries; Buddhist texts are written on palm leaves, that clearly can't last very long. They must be modern. This doesn't mean that a chain of copies doesn't go back to ancient times; but it does mean modern modifications can easily have been foisted on a largely illiterate populace, especially in a language they didn't really know, and that was resurrected by European scholars in the 1800s.
DeleteThe oldest Buddhist inscriptions, including quoted Buddhist texts, go back to Ashoka's time and even before, which is 3rd century BCE. Some scraps of Buddhist texts have been dug up in central Asia, dated to before the Muslim conquest of those areas in the western medieval period. The culture is obviously of Iron Age northern India, as is the Pali language. The canonical texts are considered frozen into a specific form after a line-by-line commentarial tradition arises, which for Theravada existed by around the 5th century CE.
DeleteAsoka was a Jain. Nothing quoted in his inscriptions is Buddhist.
ReplyDeleteThis is nonsense. Go ahead and try to prove that Asoka, when listing Buddhist scriptures by name as recommended for study and guidance, was not a Buddhist and was quoting Jain texts instead of Buddhist ones. Or when he was sending Buddhist missionaries to all the nations around him, that he was being a good Jain. Such a claim is either deliberate trolling or else a nosedive into the realm of lunatic fringe theorists, based on personal eccentricity more than on empirical reality.
DeleteYou're making that up. Buddhists always say Asoka was Buddhist, and his inscriptions prove it, but never quotes them. Because all that is in those inscriptions is that Asoka wants his people to stop killing animals because Mahavira said killing animals is a sin. There is nothing Buddhist there.
DeleteYou've obviously never read the inscriptions. For example the inscription listing off the Buddhist monks sent as missionaries to other countries, or the inscription suggesting Buddhist suttas as edifying to the people. But this is ridiculous even attempting to argue it with you. You're either trolling or extremely ignorant of what you're talking about. Either start supplying some evidence for your claims or I'll simply stop posting your silly comments.
DeleteJust for the hell of it though, here are two longish quotes from Asoka's Minor Rock Edict #3:
Delete"The king of Magadha, Piyadassi, greets the Order and wishes it prosperity and freedom from care. You know Sirs, how deep is my respect for and faith in the Buddha, the Dhamma and the Sangha. Sirs, whatever was spoken by the Lord Buddha was well spoken."
"These sermons on Dhamma, Sirs -- the Excellence of the Discipline, the Lineage of the Noble One, the Future Fears, the Verses of the Sage, the Sutra of Silence, the Questions of Upatissa, and the Admonition spoken by the Lord Buddha to Rahula on the subject of false speech -- these sermons on the Dhamma, Sirs, I desire that many monks and nuns should hear frequently and meditate upon, and likewise laymen and laywomen."
Just in case one wants to argue that Asoka was simply encouraging respect for all religions, including Buddhism, without himself being a Buddhist, here's a quote from his Minor Rock Edict #1:
Delete"I have been a Buddhist layman for more than two and a half years, but for a year I did not make much progress. Now for more than a year I have drawn closer to the Order and have become more ardent."
""I have been a Buddhist layman for more than two and a half years,..."
ReplyDeleteThese are partisan mistranslations injecting the word Buddhist in there. All Buddhists know how to do is lie, as with the no-self doctrine, which Buddha did not teach, and which is illogical and false. Everyone knows the word "Buddhist" didn't exist back then. The inscription could not say "Buddhist."
Well what does he really say then? You tell me. When he says Shakyamuni, is that a mistranslation of a Jain word? When the edict recommends the Buddha's admonition to his son Rahula, is that a mistranslation too? Again, you're either deliberately trolling or just nutty.
DeleteHe doesn't say Shakyamuni. You're not even using a translation but aomething Buddhists made up entirely as lies. All he says is don't kill animals.
DeleteUnless you can read the ancient inscriptions yourself, you know less than the translators do. Your entire argument that Buddhism is a modern invention of Jews is a foolish one to say the least, and more than enough for this thread. No more of your silliness will be published here.
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