CitizenHorizon on Nostr: Boddhisatva is such a beautiful idea. I'm also on the path. Wish you the best, it's ...
Boddhisatva is such a beautiful idea. I'm also on the path. Wish you the best, it's truly an incredible thing.
Buddhism is an incredible philosophy that maybe might play a more important role in the future than maybe we think.
Buddhism is absolutely not trivial and in my perspective contains the absolute elixir, juice, gist, core of all truly important philosophical, psychological, moral, ethical, spiritual and just overall human learnings of our common history until now.
In my opinion, our current time shows that it's really really hard to live without a common/regular/organized philosophy, religion, morality, etc, and in the absence of an organized/common philosophy/religion, people will just create a new one. It's kind of like if we're hardwired for community and philosophy/religions are the wires of that connection. It's going to be inevitable. And that's very important. We need to recognize this as humans.
Aristotle was talking about this in Politics 2500 years ago, i.e we're hardwired for politics (culture, morality, etc), or in other words humans will only be truly happy in a community (a polis). And that implies that we'll need some sort of binding culture, etc.
And they had many gods, virtues, etc. And thus we will most likely have to prepare ourselves spiritually also. Depending on how one thinks about spirituality and the world for that matter.
And anyways, maybe Buddhism could help us define or be the base of that common philosophy/morality.
One interesting thing is that it's an incredible lean philosophy and one that a lot of people have or use with something else. It doesn't have/need god, it's not theistic, etc, it's just a philosophy. And simultaneously it has very well defined moral principles.
It's really very beautiful in my opinion.
Buddhism is an incredible philosophy that maybe might play a more important role in the future than maybe we think.
Buddhism is absolutely not trivial and in my perspective contains the absolute elixir, juice, gist, core of all truly important philosophical, psychological, moral, ethical, spiritual and just overall human learnings of our common history until now.
In my opinion, our current time shows that it's really really hard to live without a common/regular/organized philosophy, religion, morality, etc, and in the absence of an organized/common philosophy/religion, people will just create a new one. It's kind of like if we're hardwired for community and philosophy/religions are the wires of that connection. It's going to be inevitable. And that's very important. We need to recognize this as humans.
Aristotle was talking about this in Politics 2500 years ago, i.e we're hardwired for politics (culture, morality, etc), or in other words humans will only be truly happy in a community (a polis). And that implies that we'll need some sort of binding culture, etc.
And they had many gods, virtues, etc. And thus we will most likely have to prepare ourselves spiritually also. Depending on how one thinks about spirituality and the world for that matter.
And anyways, maybe Buddhism could help us define or be the base of that common philosophy/morality.
One interesting thing is that it's an incredible lean philosophy and one that a lot of people have or use with something else. It doesn't have/need god, it's not theistic, etc, it's just a philosophy. And simultaneously it has very well defined moral principles.
It's really very beautiful in my opinion.