Wisdom from Buddhism

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[–]redditsucksnuts 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Surprisingly Buddhism has resulted in highly militaristic Mongoloid societies who embraced it, like the Shaolin temple, Mongols, Tanguts, Goryeo, and Feudal Japan. Buddhist monks have a history of defending against foreign invaders when the government wasn't there for whatever reason. Japan had the Sohei, for example.

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Mongolians and Tibetans follow the same form of Buddhism right? yeah the pacifistic image of Buddhism is more western projection, so subhumans like Richard Gere and Lady Gaga can patronize and have their "exotic hippie" moments lol

[–]redditsucksnuts 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I don't know much about the philosophies except what chigga has enlightened me about it here, but looking as an outsider Buddhism don't seem passive at all, like they seem to know in order to have zen, you can't have foreign rapists overrunning your home. Buddhism might be key for Asian countries to cure from cuckism it seems.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

while there is some remote warrior ethos in buddhism (defending against those who disrupt the way to enlightenment) it's still too passive and defensive overall. still, there is a lot of wisdom to be gleaned from it. just keep an open mind. china has been influenced by confucianism, daoism, and buddhism alike. if we can take the good out of them and ditch the bad, we will be looking gud.

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dont forget Han Fei's Legalism, which in many ways is the hard outer shell of our civilization.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Han Fei's legalism actually bears a lot of similarity to sharia. His idea was basically that if you make the punishments so severe, people would not dare to trangress against the law. In sharia, you get your hand chopped off for stealing...just saying lol