"You're gonna want cause & effect"---GR

[Ian Livingston]

> In the later fragments Nietzsche says that by the 21. century most
> Westerners will be sorta Buddhists,
> because we, by now, lack the will to power, became decadent and lost all
> aristocratic sense of dignity.

Odd, one of my most emphatic disputes with contemporary Western
Buddhists is to do with the way they assume a mantle of aristocratic
self-importance with their robes while bowing in mock humility and
declaiming backhandedly upon the subject their selflessness by
commenting on their noble attributes as expressed in the
manifestations of those attributes in their "most holy" teachers and
bodhisatvas.

So I'm inclined to agree with Jed more than Friedrich on that point.

>> Westerners like Buddhism because they think it will make their egos happy.

On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 1:51 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen
<lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:
>
> On 20.08.2011 18:59, Jed Kelestron wrote:
>
>> Westerners like Buddhism because they think it will make their egos happy.
>
> In the later fragments Nietzsche says that by the 21. century most
> Westerners will be sorta Buddhists,
> because we, by now, lack the will to power, became decadent and lost all
> aristocratic sense of dignity.
>
> Now everybody please go back to your hatha-yoga exercises!
>
>



-- 
"Less than any man have I  excuse for prejudice; and I feel for all
creeds the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the
trust in reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments
of darkness groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates
than the simplest urchin in the streets." -- Will Durant