tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8485583244199236996.post4076917951855588078..comments2024-03-27T14:35:59.406-07:00Comments on The Outsider: Go With What WorksPaññobhāsahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14148206217028034038noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8485583244199236996.post-84252693917250938902020-01-14T00:06:36.333-08:002020-01-14T00:06:36.333-08:00Evola used to say that the task of speculation is ...Evola used to say that the task of speculation is not to determine that which is, but what ought to be. For him the ideal is always more real than the "real". In fact, the ideal is the only form of real, hence mantras and various other things are subjects independent of humans. Something like the premise of this: https://books.google.fi/books?id=CKLxjjXqAsQC&redir_esc=y<br /><br />Pragmatism and empiricism are both not Dhamma - isn't one of the main errors in modern buddhism to relate post-Lockean anglo-saxon empiricism (i.e. psychology) to it?<br /><br />Exactly contrary to what you claim, one of the stepping stones of the decline of civilizations is empiricism in which the Truth is replaced by appearances. Even more serious a marker is when the outward appearance is willed and wished for - and isn't that truly the source of suffering?<br /><br />History doesn't show or not show us any principles, because history itself is a recent failure. I insist the civilization not to be built up on historical examples or what "works" (note the plebeian ideology inherent in the english "to work"), but on timeless truth, i.e. Dhamma. Not a million years of success or failure could reach that timeless wisdom which alone can be the source for principles from which the social order is generated.<br /><br />To be historically wise it suffices to know that history is a fiction, a fall, something that should not be, and more importantly: something that was not! If there ever was a lofty fiction it was history. Precisely history gives rise to the ultimate fiction of progress in various forms (not just leftist but also capitalist, evolutionary, pragmatist and rationalist).<br /><br />Only after series of falls of traditional (dharmic) civilizations a history became to "be" (more accurate would be to say: "became to become", since history is the opposite of Being). Before that, there was no human history at all, and no becoming at all, and hence from "places" before history one can only find animal remains and degenerated humans, giving rise to darwinian myths.<br /><br />History only really began after some ancient writers like Herodotus began to write Historíai. Of course writing itself is a symptom of the fall, because no ancient would have seen any need to write down that which in itself is timeless and eternal. They grew restless, samsaric, and fell onto history and began to write things down. They saw that they themselves would soon no longer attain the timeless Truth, which implies that they no longer saw the Truth as timeless. From then on: history & "progress".user34987546https://www.blogger.com/profile/04428727807471156804noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8485583244199236996.post-33193432537082140432019-12-31T17:32:56.966-08:002019-12-31T17:32:56.966-08:00Good post. I think that the day the Democrats imp...Good post. I think that the day the Democrats impeached Trump was the day they lost the 2020 election; it indicated how far they were out of touch with the voters they need to swing their way.Michael Cunninghamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14933921928383382118noreply@blogger.com