Why Nietzsche ADMIRED Buddhism but Wanted to Move Beyond it

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  • @elitefitrea
    @elitefitrea Рік тому +94

    “We have art so that we do not die of truth” holy fuck

    • @Dino_Medici
      @Dino_Medici Рік тому +4

      haha BIG MONEY ✅

    • @PrivateSi
      @PrivateSi 2 місяці тому

      The truth is these Suffering ideologies are insufferable! So you may die a painful death in a few minutes of gory agony and sometimes die a slow death by disease or starvation, but most things live a mostly pain-free life. The odd injury or disease, most of which are not permanent damage.

  • @MetamorphicMindset
    @MetamorphicMindset Рік тому +134

    You make incredible content and are helping a lot of people. Never stop man, we got your back.

  • @soundtractorofficial
    @soundtractorofficial Рік тому +90

    Great video. I used to like reading Buddhist koans from the Zen Buddhists in China mostly. There was one that told the story about a monk from the north who heard about a new idea of Buddhism that wrote koans or nonsense poetry, musing on the ideas Buddha put forth like the unity of all things and perspectives.
    He thought this was heresy because you're only supposed to think of nothing and meditate on nothing, the words just got in the way, so he started traveling to tell him he was wrong, and on his way he met a woman at an inn.
    She asked him what he was doing and he told her, and she said in the book of wisdom it is written that life is an illusion and nothing exists, there is no self, there is no I, so where is the man that seeks to teach the koan writer not to write?
    She exposed the philosophy for the fraud that it was because in order for it to even exist, and perpetuate, it would have to break it's own rules by being attached to the world, and the self, and the ego.
    So, he burned all his books of wisdom, and continued south to learn how to write koans.

    • @nicknanez1784
      @nicknanez1784 Рік тому +18

      If you like those writings may I suggest to you the Shobogenzo by Dogen. The excerpt you have written reminds me of the chapter called "the mind of the past cannot be retained, the mind of the present cannot be held onto, the mind of the the future cannot be grasped".

    • @WayTooUnderated
      @WayTooUnderated Рік тому +1

      @@nicknanez1784 banger quote

    • @vccv9785
      @vccv9785 Рік тому +4

      Buddhism was just a reaction that Gautama felt to late stage Hinduism in 500BC if you want some even better criticisms read some contemporary works of the time, many thinkers, during the time of Gautama criticised his philosophy

    • @doomguy9049
      @doomguy9049 Рік тому +2

      ​@@vccv9785Would you share some?

  • @Imagination_Now
    @Imagination_Now Рік тому +36

    I believe a lot of people look at Nietzsche in the wrong light. And fixate on the nihilistic aspect and get stuck there.
    Then other people only hear about "nihilism" and dont ever care to study his work at all and get spooked.
    They never get beyond that, to the fruit of what his thinking and writing actually birthed. Im glad you're able to take peoples perspectives past that.
    (For instance, the people who fixate on the concept of nihilism and use that mentality to lull them into committing crimes. I'm pretty sure I've heard at least 2 or 3 infamous true crime cases where the murderers were "studying" nietzsche before they did their awful deeds.)
    Im glad you can open up and inspect his work (all the way through his life) and show how his thinking evolved..
    Im,by no means, an expert on Nietzsche, but the concept of ubermensche should give people something to work toward. Willing themselves to be the best at whatever they are and can be.. kind of like a "role model", so to say.
    Anyways thats what I've gleaned from learning about Nietzsche from you. Im more of a Jungian, tbh.
    But you combine these 2 guys thinking so eloquently. Very enlightening.

  • @agronacilius4584
    @agronacilius4584 Рік тому +112

    Im not stuck with samsara, samsara is stuck with me.

    • @isaiahd5396
      @isaiahd5396 Рік тому +6

      I like it 😂

    • @bryanutility9609
      @bryanutility9609 11 місяців тому +2

      ⚔️🔥☠️

    • @Agent_Paul
      @Agent_Paul 6 місяців тому +1

      You're still fighting something by countering what he said.
      The middleway - Samsara stuck with you, and you stuck with Samsara doesn't matter or changes anything.

    • @agronacilius4584
      @agronacilius4584 6 місяців тому +6

      @@Agent_Paul that was poetic way of saying I enjoy living and the cycle is not a punishment as far as I'm concerned.

    • @Agent_Paul
      @Agent_Paul 6 місяців тому +1

      @@agronacilius4584 oh, I see. Nice :-)

  • @chinyuenwong5342
    @chinyuenwong5342 9 місяців тому +15

    Not only did the Buddha realise reality is suffering. He also came up with the solution to suffering.

    • @emm863
      @emm863 Місяць тому +1

      That is why we know that his teachings are useless. The only way to reduce suffering is to accept it. End of story.

    • @chinyuenwong5342
      @chinyuenwong5342 Місяць тому +3

      @@emm863 wow that's so interesting and profound! I never thought of that before...

    • @Same-l3d
      @Same-l3d 4 дні тому

      @@emm863that’s a practice you are talking about not end game Buddhism.
      Buddhism is the end suffering (not pain) while here and the prevention of getting reborn indefinitely thus ending all suffering and pain.
      You can’t die if you’re not born. Neither can you suffer.

  • @josephmorais9511
    @josephmorais9511 Рік тому +16

    Your channel should have 3x the amount activity. Great work bro

  • @connorperrett9559
    @connorperrett9559 Рік тому +7

    "I know this: if life is illusion, then I am no less an illusion, and being thus, the illusion is real to me. I live, I burn with life, I love, I slay, and am content."
    -Conan the Cimmerian/Robert E. Howard

  • @ReynaSingh
    @ReynaSingh Рік тому +51

    There was quite a bit of exchange that took place between historic eastern and western philosophy. I think it’s something that is unfortunately overlooked too often

    • @Dino_Medici
      @Dino_Medici Рік тому +1

      $

    • @JohnusSmittinis
      @JohnusSmittinis Рік тому +4

      Enter Byzantium.

    • @yoeyyoey8937
      @yoeyyoey8937 Рік тому +6

      That’s true look at platonism. Look at the interactions between India and Mesopotamia and Egypt, and then the influence of those places on the west

    • @JohnusSmittinis
      @JohnusSmittinis Рік тому

      @@yoeyyoey8937 any books on the subject that you would recommend?

    • @yoeyyoey8937
      @yoeyyoey8937 Рік тому +3

      @@JohnusSmittinis tbh I don’t think there’s many. This is a part of history that hasn’t been thoroughly explored formally, even though we know all the connections are there. However, there are a lot of books about how platonism directly influence modern western traditions via impact on religious ideas (like the platonic idea of god). And in general, one can see for themselves the relationship between western classical religion and modern eastern ones, as such.
      You can look at face value and realize that Plato (among other philosophers of the time and place, like Pythagoras) was talking about many dharmic concepts such as reincarnation and direct experience or realization of divinity. There are also many Neoplatonic thinkers in general that regularly directly compare platonism with Buddhism or other non dualist schools.
      I myself am doing some research on how India and Egypt were connected in the past, and how the classical religion was practiced in the ancient west, as either a shared lineage or dynamic conversation between cultures (or both).
      There’s a lot of striking similarities and idk if it’s some jungian phenomenon or something more direct. For example, the omphalos at Delphi, which is basically a shivalinga found in the heart of classical Hellenic society. They obviously didn’t call it as that, but it has the same exact form and function as one, which is extremely curious to me. I also wonder if Egyptian obelisks or something else are equivalents for this as well.

  • @adamburke9323
    @adamburke9323 Рік тому +10

    You're a modern Alan Watts, good sir, tons of respect!
    Your videos inspired me to sign up for a kickboxing gym this week, so I'm about to curse your name forever, but until then well done :)

  • @loganprice3218
    @loganprice3218 4 місяці тому +7

    The idea in Zen buddhism isn't to reject an attachment like sexual attraction. it's to accept that attachment as part of what is going on. Once you step in and decide that the attraction has a meaning or purpose, you are under the illusion of the self. The illusion that there is a separate self from the rest of the world is where suffering comes from.

  • @Tehz1359
    @Tehz1359 Рік тому +44

    When I first read Nietzsche I hated Schopenhauer, because I thought he was just a black piller. But once you read him, he is infinitely better than that. Like you said, he had a pretty well thought out and sophisticated philosophical system. One of his solutions to the tragic world we live in like you said is to channel that will into great works of art and achievements. I think this is pretty similar to what Nietzsche wanted people to do. Of course the difference is that Schopenhauer thought this wasn't the absolute best solution, the best solution to him was total denial of the will to life. Becoming an ascetic. But he was realistic enough to know that most won't be able to do this.

    • @JoBlakeLisbon
      @JoBlakeLisbon Рік тому +3

      Neither Nietsche nor Schopenhauer had any real understanding of the structure of the Universe or the truly mind-blowing sophistication of organic life. They basically didn't understand Math. Nietzsche intuited that life has great value, Schopenhauer's angle is simply the cope of a man who doesn't understand the sophistication of life and can't engage in the world as a result of his own personal failings. He's the poet who wrote tragic love poetry because he couldn't get the girl.

    • @Thisispsyche2023
      @Thisispsyche2023 Рік тому +8

      @@JoBlakeLisbon Say what you will about his philosophy no one in his time denied he had a great mind. Not just great but rare in its dynamic range and scope. Pretty dismissive outlook of yours with nothing to really back it up. The person you are saying doesn’t understand as you do is the same person great minds of our time struggle to pin down or understand.

    • @Tehz1359
      @Tehz1359 Рік тому +10

      @@JoBlakeLisbon And you understand the structure of the universe? Right, totally. Joseph Discovers has all the answers guys, let's pack up and go home. Philosophy is over.

    • @lawxs9114
      @lawxs9114 Рік тому +2

      ​@@JoBlakeLisbon schopenhauer understand math, and hes Philosophy influence Einstein

    • @fitnesspoint2006
      @fitnesspoint2006 Рік тому +4

      ​@@JoBlakeLisbonin the end getting "the girl" or "girls" does not solve anything. Neither does math, lol.

  • @craigfrober316
    @craigfrober316 Рік тому +42

    This monologue inspired a burst of creativity I haven't felt in forever. Thank you.

  • @watchthiscrap
    @watchthiscrap Рік тому +16

    Nature is a constant warzone

    • @TGeorge1984
      @TGeorge1984 5 місяців тому

      @sandjvj911 Also..."Nature is a constant battlefield." The lions, tigers, bears, etc, had more leisure time before the humans started pushing them out. You can think positively about it but while getting gutted alive, the more likely thoughts would be regrets of not taking the threat more seriously.

  • @uncommonmix
    @uncommonmix Рік тому +7

    Love the excerpts from Samsara, one of my favorite movies.

  • @Mad_Man888
    @Mad_Man888 4 місяці тому +17

    Buddha was not what NIETZCHE thought he was.
    Buddha encourages people to help each other and to come out of delusion.
    It's not like he just stops at Samsara. He tells us how to be calm and that enlightenment that is gaining knowledge is the ultimate goal.

    • @benduvall6169
      @benduvall6169 2 місяці тому

      Wasn't Buddha's approach to overcoming Samara, meditation upon the eight precepts until an individual is enlightened enough to transcend the samsara and the body and through the spirit eventually entering a state of perpetual Nirvana?

    • @Mad_Man888
      @Mad_Man888 2 місяці тому +1

      @@benduvall6169 yes.

    • @ChristopherDwiggins
      @ChristopherDwiggins 2 місяці тому +1

      Yes that's the enlightenment part of it.
      Its it's own christ conciousness cycle in ways.

  • @johndurrant9262
    @johndurrant9262 Рік тому +8

    The observations in your work are very astute. This is compelling work that I'll need to listen to a few times to digest. Thank you for putting in so much effort.

  • @eduardosimurgisrael4663
    @eduardosimurgisrael4663 Рік тому +9

    Bro, I love the straight and clear points. You don't beat it around the bush. It is refreshing to see you apply these concepts and explain them in such a real way that those that know and study this things enjoy and those that don't, well, they will never understand the joy of philosophy. Lost in the cycles of Samsara, Amor Fati expressed in dance in proclaimed in verse to oblivion!

  • @nathanielcallen3965
    @nathanielcallen3965 Рік тому +8

    You’ve earned my respect with this video, rock solid content

  • @nikhil518
    @nikhil518 Рік тому +13

    Man! This right here is a piece of knowledge I'd definitely try to convey to others. The almost tangible fervor that you contain and channel successfully to those who listen to you (I can be sure about myself and not others) is something I appreciate a lot. Keep the good work up brother.

  • @n1mbusmusic606
    @n1mbusmusic606 Рік тому +24

    I too admire bhuddism greatly. The most sophisticated metaphysic. But it lacks the Promethean drive.

    • @Dino_Medici
      @Dino_Medici Рік тому +1

      U already know

    • @zootsoot2006
      @zootsoot2006 Рік тому +1

      That drive is the denial of life, life in the sense of reality.

    • @n1mbusmusic606
      @n1mbusmusic606 Рік тому +3

      @@zootsoot2006 yes, but as uber is saying, we must embrace the illusion and play with it, knowing full well that tragedy awaits. that is the magical or neitzchian view of life, one which all truly great people embrace- no pain no gain. shall we be beautiful or comfortable? bhuddism with its focus on mindfulness i think points to the way to a philosophy for effective action for the promethean west. a neitzchian toaist synthesis could be amazing.

    • @zootsoot2006
      @zootsoot2006 Рік тому +5

      @@n1mbusmusic606 Embrace illusion? An absurd position. If it's an illusion we won't know it's an illusion. If we know it's an illusion, it's not an illusion anymore. Tragedy need not await. The whole point of Buddhism is not that life is suffering, but that the unenlightened life is suffering. Wake up past the illusion and see what you discover, according to the Buddha everlasting bliss. Sounds like something worth waking up for.

    • @n1mbusmusic606
      @n1mbusmusic606 Рік тому +1

      @@zootsoot2006 will you then not yearn for life? why else are you here?

  • @a3mink968
    @a3mink968 Рік тому +10

    I'm gonna re-watch this about 4x, take notes, and apply everything to create my own nuclear energy. Based boyo, thank you for your perspective. 🙏

  • @Frank-ox3np
    @Frank-ox3np Рік тому +3

    literally everything you said makes me feel validated in the way i have come to look at that world this past decade. for the better actually, because it makes me feel absolutely sane. I went down for an ayahusaca trip a while back and it was revealed to me that the buddhism conclusion of samsara is truth, but there IS an answer. And that is too run WITH life. We have to go on the wild ride. It's the healthiest way to live. It's the most free you will ever feel.

  • @helvete_ingres4717
    @helvete_ingres4717 Рік тому +13

    Have you had any sort of kundalini experience?
    edit: nietzsche as the guy who yells 'based' as the lion eats the gazelle is how I will think of him now and forever - succinct and accurate. Always interesting to think tho that witnessing an act of mindless cruelty against an animal is what precipitated his final mental collapse. Alwyas sounded like he longed for a Christ-like universal compassion in his heart of hearts

  • @jjlowrey
    @jjlowrey Рік тому +12

    I really appreciate all of your work. You're intelligence and passion is amazing. You inspire me to step up and do more in all aspects. You're doing a beautiful thing my friend.

  • @hankkuya4354
    @hankkuya4354 Рік тому +3

    Sometimes your on top of the wheel or underneath being crushed. Not many will sit in its hub.

  • @emmamayolive
    @emmamayolive Рік тому +3

    This is thought provoking and well said.

  • @originalpastaman5470
    @originalpastaman5470 Рік тому +7

    Love the video man. Always happy to see some new Uberboyo schizo rants. Would love to see videos regarding consciousness as I’ve always found that to be a very interesting “well what about this?” Critique for Nietzsche. Particularly from the likes of Jung, Schrödinger and even the whole “Omega Point Noosephere” take with the vitalist idea that consciousness precedes matter. Some Nietzsche Jung esoteric Christian fusion blend sounds like an interesting smoothie to me.

    • @DeusPsycho
      @DeusPsycho Рік тому +1

      Can you elaborate on 'consciousness preceeding matter' acting as a Nietzsche critique. I heard Noam Chomsky say something similar (something about how the definition of physical reality is always determined by the observer of the reality). Just getting into metaphysics and it's all very spooky.

    • @valmontrealquebec5459
      @valmontrealquebec5459 Рік тому

      ​@@DeusPsycho Not so spooky, By observing or experiencing fully what is happening in the now right now immediately In each and everybody's life each moment is stacked upon each moment and dictates are opinions feelings and therefore are actions for the next step for the next door we choose to walk through or concept we accept. In this wayThe observer becomesEntirely the creator of his next moment of his next experience. Test this out for yourself, In the morning say to yourself I want to experience this or that and see what Unfold.

  • @Josheneon
    @Josheneon Рік тому +1

    Thank you for the video. I thought of this quote from Nisargadatta.
    Nisargadatta:
    In some cases death is the best cure. A life may be worse than death, which is but rarely an
    unpleasant experience, whatever the appearances. Therefore, pity the living, never the dead. This
    problem of things, good and evil in themselves, does not exist in my world. The needful is good and
    the needless is evil. In your world the pleasant is good and the painful is evil.
    Questioner:
    What is necessary?
    Nisargadatta:
    To grow is necessary. To outgrow is necessary. To leave behind the good for the sake of the
    better is necessary.
    Questioner:
    To what end?
    Nisargadatta:
    The end is in the beginning. You end where you start -- in the Absolute.
    Questioner:
    Why all this trouble then? To come back to where I started?
    Nisargadatta:
    Whose trouble? Which trouble? Do you pity the seed that is to grow and multiply till it becomes
    a mighty forest? Do you kill an infant to save him from the bother of living? What is wrong with life,
    ever more life? Remove the obstacles to growing and all your personal, social, economic and
    political problems will just dissolve. The universe is perfect as a whole and the part's striving for
    perfection is a way of joy. Willingly sacrifice the imperfect to the perfect and there will be no more
    talk about good and evil.
    Questioner:
    Yet we are afraid of the better and cling to the worse.
    Nisargadatta:
    This is our stupidity, verging on insanity.
    Excerpt from the book “I Am That”

  • @allentoria
    @allentoria Рік тому +1

    Whew! THAT was spectacular. We need you....

  • @art0of0wargunnarson91
    @art0of0wargunnarson91 Рік тому +9

    So this is my take on it. You are free from Samsara when you no longer feel the need to escape from it. So like being able to surf waves. First the ocean is just a place of struggle that is going to drown you and all you want to do is escape and go back to the shore and stay there but once you figured out how to swim, use its currents and ride its waves then you no longer want to stay away from it but rather want to be in it as much as you can even though this ocean will get the better of you eventually but you know this and still want to jump in its waters. So learn to surf the kali yuga I guess.

  • @johnmitchell8925
    @johnmitchell8925 24 дні тому

    Great stuff. My thoughts exactly. Loved it😊

  • @staffofawesome
    @staffofawesome Рік тому +2

    Easily the best channel out there, keep it up boyo

  • @mariapalacios2195
    @mariapalacios2195 Рік тому +1

    I falow you from México. Thank you.
    Congratulations.

  • @svetlinsofiev1910
    @svetlinsofiev1910 Рік тому +27

    I think the Budha reincarnated as Ghengis Khan. That fulfills the prophesy that he will be the greatest king and also balanced out his soul

    • @chiffmonkey
      @chiffmonkey Рік тому +1

      Archetypes live forever.

    • @pacewalk7396
      @pacewalk7396 Рік тому +1

      Really who made that prophecy ? I mean where did you find it?

    • @Glutahhn
      @Glutahhn 11 місяців тому

      Sounds like cope /jargon to me

    • @pedroba76
      @pedroba76 5 місяців тому +5

      why would Buddha reincarnate. Those who attain Nirvana, according to Buddhist tradition, transcend the cycle of birth and rebirth.

    • @Ryan-co9xc
      @Ryan-co9xc 3 місяці тому +1

      @@pedroba76there are also traditions that state that once someone achieves enlightenment they must reincarnate one more time to get rid of that last bit of excess karmic debt they acquired prior to enlightenment. These things aren’t black and white.

  • @ManletKingofTism
    @ManletKingofTism Рік тому +3

    Hey Uberboyo you are uber based and definitely one of my heroes.
    You probably wont see this but at least posterity will know what a mad lad you are.

  • @PlatinumLemur
    @PlatinumLemur Рік тому +6

    It makes me think of what I've listened to in the past week on Taoism & the symbol of the Fool. Taoism accepts things as is, where what we see inside and outside of ourselves is neither a good or an evil automatically. Desires are classified in physical needs and egotistical "wants". Also there is a certainty that we as humams are simply participants in nature but we have the ability to contemplate before we continue. So when in observation the realisation is we participating in Samsara is the power of choice but not to see the seduction of life as an automatic evil because that IS automatically anti life. The fool doesn't see life as this or that but that we open our journey through time is the adventure thus to discover whatever this meaning might be..

    • @PlatinumLemur
      @PlatinumLemur Рік тому

      I personally see anti life is what evil is. Antinatalism is created by a life is suffering view but that none of the suffering is ever justified. Like feminists and their utopian views of women being superior & yet hating on everything that MIGHT make female worthy of any kind of power..(as nature has created us..seductive, fertile, yielding, nurturing, sometimes bold, ruthless, dangerous & hypergamous) and yet hating men for their natural strengths. They hate reproduction as woman would willingly give all to her children & family and men also willing to also give his all to his family and children.

  • @copyninja8756
    @copyninja8756 Рік тому +14

    The funniest part is buddhism is about letting go of all concepts, something us compulsively thinking westerners have a really hard time with.

    • @JesseP.Watson
      @JesseP.Watson Рік тому

      But you're the "compulsively thinking Westerner" that gets it, right? ...Show me one shred of hard evidence that the Easterner is less compulsive thinking than the Westerner.

    • @copyninja8756
      @copyninja8756 Рік тому +2

      ​@@JesseP.Watsonwho is asking the question ?

    • @JesseP.Watson
      @JesseP.Watson Рік тому

      @@copyninja8756 A Westerner who wants to be guided by evidence, not compulsive presumptions like the one you stated. [See humiliation rituals of Maoist China in the East as an obvious example overturning that presumption.]

    • @UnobtainableSilence
      @UnobtainableSilence Рік тому +2

      ​@@JesseP.Watson Shut up and train.

    • @JesseP.Watson
      @JesseP.Watson Рік тому

      @@UnobtainableSilence Says he.

  • @TheMessOfFate
    @TheMessOfFate Рік тому +3

    I love this savagery, keep it going.

  • @wyattlavigne
    @wyattlavigne Рік тому +3

    That’s why I became a vegetarian. No longer wanted to participate in that aspect of the meat grinder. (Tried to start at 2 years old, but my mom talked me out of it).
    This oct. will be 24 years.

  • @hex_gekko29568
    @hex_gekko29568 Рік тому +7

    There is nothing more beautiful than finding joy in a world full of so much suffering. To reject life is cowardly. Be joyous, spread love, chase both worldy and spiritual excellence. Honor your creator.

    • @MaddSpazz2000
      @MaddSpazz2000 6 місяців тому +1

      You might be right about everything except the existence of a creator. In all likelihood, that's just silly.

    • @hex_gekko29568
      @hex_gekko29568 6 місяців тому

      @@MaddSpazz2000 No "silly" is to believe in concepts like truth and logic which are just as intangible as God. The natural consequence of everything being material is that everything is just an elaborate set of predetermined chemical reactions, so it's illogical to argue over what's true or ever make morality claims yet I am willing to bet that you believe good and evil exists.

    • @MaddSpazz2000
      @MaddSpazz2000 6 місяців тому +1

      @@hex_gekko29568 something being intangible doesn't mean much, gravity is intangible and it exists. I don't get too deep into ethics, but generally I don't think good and evil exist outside of people's minds.

    • @MaddSpazz2000
      @MaddSpazz2000 6 місяців тому +1

      @@hex_gekko29568 also a materialistic world is not mutually exclusive with truth existing or logic functioning, that is one of the most ridiculous falsehoods ever.

    • @hex_gekko29568
      @hex_gekko29568 6 місяців тому

      @@MaddSpazz2000 You misrepresented what I said. I said if ALL that exists is material then truth cannot exist. That paradigm can't determine what truth is or why one ought to even pursue it.

  • @Heyoka86
    @Heyoka86 Рік тому +1

    The meaning of life is love, but the essence of love is sacrifice, which is why life is suffering. However, when I look back on my life, it's not the suffering that stands out, but the beauty. Beauty that was there at the time but is only apparent now.

  • @chadkline4268
    @chadkline4268 Рік тому

    Need to say this is an awesome talk for the algorithm. Heard the other on Schopenhauer, and that is equally amazing. Masterful, excellent knowledge+understandings. Excellent talk, structure, and delivery. Outstanding quality for UA-cam 😊

  • @007ploperik
    @007ploperik Рік тому

    1 of your best videos. i like that dark sound on background . it gave words more power because of that. uberboy continues to surprise me

  • @beatsyndrom
    @beatsyndrom Рік тому +1

    Absolutely superb content mate. What a brilliant narration. Watched two videos and you blow a sense with your understanding of these philosophers into this whole thing called of life that’s unmatched.

  • @AroundElvesWatchUrselves96
    @AroundElvesWatchUrselves96 Рік тому +9

    Nietzsche: "Greetings fellow Dharma followers, I'm one of you!" 🤠
    Sikhs: "Get the fuck away from my family!" 🗡️

    • @uberboyo
      @uberboyo  Рік тому +12

      Sikhs to Nietzsche: “if you’re so affirmative of Life, why don’t you have a girlfriend?”

    • @isaiahd5396
      @isaiahd5396 Рік тому +3

      ​@@uberboyoWrecked 😢

    • @veerswami7175
      @veerswami7175 Рік тому

      @@uberboyo though Sikh and hindus shaivite are pretty affirmative of life also

  • @snackentity5709
    @snackentity5709 Рік тому

    my new fave channel. i'm on a boyo binge.

  • @tonyhathuc
    @tonyhathuc Рік тому +1

    Ufffff, I have not read watched all the latest videos yet because I been busy in the real world, but I think you were inspiring me to create my own videos for some time!
    Let's make our culture flourish through flourishing our culture, ourselves and our surroundings!
    As you said: The future is ours! Heroes never die!
    What I feel is the most important thing here is that this kind of dialogue is possible, regardless whether someone agrees or not is right or wrong, this DIALOGUE is what it is all ABOUT! (And of course more :))

    • @tonyhathuc
      @tonyhathuc Рік тому +1

      Ok, I wrote this comment before starting the video, and within 20 seconds you mention the word "DIALOGUE"
      Synchronicity? Hmmmmmmmm.

  • @RobertJohnson_Zeppo
    @RobertJohnson_Zeppo Рік тому +3

    The response to the ultimate question is either a Yes or a No. Nietzsche's response to his eternal recurrence problem was an enthusiastic, "Yes." Entropy is universal, the oxygen that you require to live is also killing you slowly, and reality is inescapable. I'd be wary of any ideology or religion that is not grounded in objective reality... the here and now.

  • @franklottar
    @franklottar Рік тому +1

    This was invigorating. Thanks.

  • @cherylchaudhary7736
    @cherylchaudhary7736 4 місяці тому +7

    In my 30 years of studying Buddhism I have never heard of samsara described as evil. Only that suffering is the reality of life.

  • @Crescent868
    @Crescent868 Місяць тому +1

    That was a sucker punch to my concious bro.. 🫡

  • @ahmetdogan5685
    @ahmetdogan5685 3 місяці тому +1

    Uberbro is stupendous!

    • @47nrubreddew
      @47nrubreddew 2 місяці тому

      This channel is great😄👍

  • @whoaitstiger
    @whoaitstiger Рік тому +2

    Damn! This was epic!

  • @beauwhitlock5034
    @beauwhitlock5034 Рік тому

    I haven’t been to your page in a while, and you knocked it out of the park. If you’re still around Laz, tell him Beau from Memphis TN says hello.

  • @wolfspartan6279
    @wolfspartan6279 Рік тому +12

    You sir are the definition of an Irish bard who tells stories after he’s played a good tune in the bar.

  • @-RXB-
    @-RXB- 3 місяці тому

    Really great video! Tying things together as usual.
    Mirrors my own conclusions a lot, from getting into Buddhism/Eastern philosophy, my disagreements with it and the merging of it with the more life-embracing worldviews of some other, mostly pagan religions. That it's all an illusion and samsara, but that it doesn't really matter.
    Your friend wouldn't appreciate you sitting next to them while they're immersed in Elden Ring, saying "it's just a game bro" every time they kill a boss or get that new, sweet weapon. He knows that. It's not really the point. If you're playing, you want to be immersed and get as good at the game as possible.
    As long as we don't get confused and forget it completely. Not knowing that it's a game in both cases, on their different levels, can also cause unnecessary neurosis/suffering. So it's about balancing the knowing, with the engagement with and embracing of it.
    Seen from a spiritual perspective that supposes we have souls, which a lot of these religions do, it could very well be that we do in fact choose to "play" and reincarnate, due to attachment as the Buddhists would call it. And I don't necessarily see anything wrong with that. There's no need to push the idea of seeking an escape. The positive and the negative of it all balance each other out in the end anyway.

  • @andreasauke5724
    @andreasauke5724 Рік тому +1

    I've said this on the last 3 videos, but this is my new favorite by you :)

  • @99CheeseBalloons
    @99CheeseBalloons Рік тому +3

    This helped me reconcile a lot of thoughts ive had for years been never come to a metaphor (gazelle vs lion net negative) and articulate as well.
    I arrived at might is right four years ago to justify the suffering of this earth. Those who can, must.

  • @Agent_Paul
    @Agent_Paul 6 місяців тому

    Conflict on one level is harmony on another level...

  • @Jan-WillemLodewijkdederde
    @Jan-WillemLodewijkdederde Рік тому +1

    amazing video once again. best channel on youtube 100%.

  • @awolgeordie9926
    @awolgeordie9926 Рік тому

    That was fecking outstanding Paddy lad. It was like you had a core of energy bursting asunder and bukkake-ing us with knowledge and truth. Great work man.

  • @blah1632
    @blah1632 4 місяці тому

    That was great. I learned something and enjoyed it.

  • @johnathan.matthew6003
    @johnathan.matthew6003 4 місяці тому +15

    Nietzsche had no serious understanding of Buddhism. Buddhism says not that life is suffering, but that it's possible to remove all mental suffering using the present conditions of reality, in very specific ways, as tools to get there. You can use these conditions to benefit others as well. Very creative process. The Buddha didn't go insane like one particular attention seeking intellectual is all I'm saying 😛.

    • @BulkernatorKerb
      @BulkernatorKerb 2 місяці тому +2

      One could argue that Buddha had to go insane when he was Siddhartha in order to become the same Buddha.

    • @sealbeegle9785
      @sealbeegle9785 2 місяці тому +4

      You glaze Buddhism while hating on Nietzsche, maintaining a below-ground level understanding of both. Congratulations.

  • @jamied8302
    @jamied8302 Рік тому +3

    Gonna recommend they play this video at yoga teacher trainings cause that is not how my yoga mentor explained Samsara lol

  • @sonicgems
    @sonicgems Рік тому +3

    We're supposed to turn the chaos and darkness of the world into the Garden. We bridge the gap between Heaven and Earth (could be the ideal and the real, the spirit and the body, etc.) and thus bring meaning into the darkness of Samsara. Meaning enters the world through us, and by doing so we act in the image of our Maker. We pave the way for the New Jerusalem today and the darkness and death of the world is turned into light and glory.

  • @ahmed25janegy
    @ahmed25janegy Рік тому +1

    this was inspiring boyo

  • @HaraldEngels
    @HaraldEngels 6 місяців тому

    What a ride! Brilliant! Thank you 🙂

  • @particube
    @particube Рік тому +1

    There’s a distinction to be made between detachment and non-attachment. The Buddha Dharma promotes the latter. The Buddha taught that it was good for his followers to still be involved with the lives of the lay folk. Lay Buddhists still have important duties to fulfill, jobs, wives etc. You can be involved with the world, do great things, create great art while simultaneously being mindful of the transient, undesirable ultimate nature of Samsara. Buddhism lends itself to the cultivation of the highest virtues, the virtues which when imbued in artwork make the highest art.

  • @cgsrtkzsytriul
    @cgsrtkzsytriul Рік тому +1

    I minored in philosophy and still read philosophical texts for my own enlightenment. This is the only UA-cam channel I’ve come across that really explains Nietzsche. I think part of it is that Nietzsche is considered verboten in academic circles so the people who actually know his texts don’t put out good videos. Thanks!

  • @tim1984ism
    @tim1984ism Рік тому

    Charasmatic, engaging
    Such user friendly content.
    Holistic angles on subjects.

  • @AroundElvesWatchUrselves96
    @AroundElvesWatchUrselves96 Рік тому +22

    Jesus: "Give away everything you own and follow me."
    Nietzsche: 😡
    Siddhartha: "Give away everything you own and follow me."
    Nietzsche: 🤓

    • @Maxpsychologie
      @Maxpsychologie Рік тому

      Because the aim of what Jesus and Shakyamuni Buddha tried to achieve by renouncing were different. Because of that Nietzsches opinion was different to both.

    • @AroundElvesWatchUrselves96
      @AroundElvesWatchUrselves96 Рік тому

      @@Maxpsychologie Not really. Their aims were different however, their intentions were more or less the same. Considering both Christianity and Buddhism renounce the material world for the pursuit of asceticism.

    • @uberboyo
      @uberboyo  Рік тому +7

      😂

    • @zeljkop5695
      @zeljkop5695 Рік тому

      Obviously NONSENSE!

    • @Dino_Medici
      @Dino_Medici Рік тому +2

      Siddhartha never pulled up in the financial district w the MSport package, the one w the hand stitched butterscotch lamb skin seats

  • @testing119
    @testing119 Рік тому

    Great content Uberboyo, Let's all give become the Ubermensch within us 💪

  • @YTBalli
    @YTBalli Рік тому +1

    I love your content Stef!

  • @AgrippaPetronius1903
    @AgrippaPetronius1903 Рік тому

    Your perspective so broad and nuances as to make it impossible to refute any insights you share, at 75 on my monks hill it’s a amusing if not embarrassing to look back on my own psycho-mythic, metaphysical lunacies,
    I loved best Sri Aurobindo notion or direct experience hat behind the appearances of what our reason assumes as observable or empirical Consciousness resides a another way of being, unbound by the masks of consciousness, and yes it’s completely reasonable to agree with the Buddha that all life is suffering from a bewildered existential perspective, not to deny that the 8 fold noble path won’t act as a sort of penicillin or pain reduction stratagem, nor am I inclined to accept any sort of psychological remedies to the unpalatable realise that confront us. I get that religion and yes even psychology is an opiate of the masses, and yet who would deny a man his fantasies or even direct experiences with the numinous, the opening up of something that feels real but cannot yet be explained, who can say if the blurred shape that is emerging out of the Antarctic mist is the new Prometheus, or a Jason Reza Jordani all devouring monster, the doppelgänger affect.
    Can psychological discipline remove this veil of separative consciousness and become aware of the true Self, the Divinity within us and all? The evidence isn’t overwhelming, maybe we aren’t ready for the next great leap the realms of post consciousness, maybe we are to addicted to programmed to this evolutionary phase, which gies back to what aurobindo was saying, that so long as the spirit in the machine knows what it’s doing then maybe we should have a bit more respect or confidence in the ripples that must inevitably become a tsunami of unimaginable possibilities…otherwise the universe is indeed a bad joke and a calamity.
    .

  • @adorararte
    @adorararte Рік тому

    I have read a lot about Nietzsche, yet your interpretation of him is wonderfully original.🎉

  • @timothyblazer1749
    @timothyblazer1749 Рік тому +2

    So...I've been a practicing Buddhist for 24 years. I will admit, there are many crunchy types who are what was called by Trungpa "spiritual materialists". I try to avoid those, mainly because
    my uppaya is pretty weak :-)
    Secondly, you dont quite get Buddhism ( and neither did Schopenhauer ). It's intended to be a permanent dialectic ( until satori ). "Dukkha" is just the opening move.
    In other words, "life is sweetness" is an equivalent statement. Siddhartha chose "dukkha" instead of "sukkha" because he reasoned that few would be interested in ending our attachment to sweetness. You know, that tiger you love? He is just as pinned down as the gazelle.
    And samsara and Maya ... you are NOT trying to escape per se. And Maya is also magic, and creativity. Like the skill you possess.
    If you believe you can understand the path with thinking, you're already on the wrong track. Cessation is Maya. Samsara is Maya. Literally anything you can think of or communicate is Maya. Including Maya.
    "There is no old age and death; there is no end of old age and death" -- Diamond heart sutra
    Enter the dialectic. I believe you are halfway there. Great show.

  • @ajay4319
    @ajay4319 Рік тому

    You are doing good.
    Keep up the good work.

  • @Es0viZ
    @Es0viZ Рік тому

    'Soysara' lmfao. This was an incredibly entertaining video TY

  • @untimelyreflections
    @untimelyreflections Рік тому +9

    “Schopenhauer & Nietzsche were yoga bunnies” 😂😂😂 let’s go

  • @seanu6840
    @seanu6840 Рік тому +1

    I needed this channel right now

  • @Mad_Man888
    @Mad_Man888 4 місяці тому

    Indian philosophy is a gem.
    Hidden to the common eye.
    All the ideas discussed in them are different yet eye opening.
    Non dualism Buddhism Jainism all three of them can eliminate suffering.
    But at the end of the day you are the one who will have to do that.

  • @bhante1345
    @bhante1345 Рік тому +2

    In the Pali Cannon, from the book of short discourses, the Buddha's shortest discourse more or less reads as such.
    While visiting a monastic order, a monk approached the Buddha and asked, "oh noble one, if you had all of the power of the world, what would you do with it?"
    The Buddha simply replied, "I would wipe it all out."

  • @caramelconundrum9280
    @caramelconundrum9280 Рік тому +1

    Another uberboyo great

  • @VansLegacy
    @VansLegacy Рік тому +1

    This man reads Nietzsche and Ray Peat, we are long-lost brothers.

  • @Dino_Medici
    @Dino_Medici Рік тому

    LOVE THE INTRO UR THE MAN LMFAOOOO ⚡️⚡️⚡️

  • @fairykingoberon
    @fairykingoberon Рік тому +4

    As most western philosophers Nietzsche views Buddhism as nihilistic and life denying, while it is meant as a system to transcend the duality between life denial and affirmation. Evola understood the heroic path presented by Buddhism, through which man can achieve greatness superior to God. Nietzsche's ubermensch idea is very similar

  • @Proj.A.Z
    @Proj.A.Z Рік тому +1

    Sadly…I agree with Nietzsche’s take that life in itself isn’t Evil…but it doesn’t stop people Willing to Power to create what sense they have of life, good and evil…
    What Nietzsche proposes is no different than the creations of varied faiths- Christian, Muslim or Judaic…
    What Nietzsche proposes isn’t demonstrated in anything but in one who engages in the drama of life, the B-S of society and all its language games and inculcated notions- NOT made by our choosing as much but fought daily against our fellows in humanity…
    Whether or NOT, Buddhism is self-defeating?
    I rather embrace “it”, than this specialized suffering machine that is society.
    Thank you for your take on Schopenhauer, Nietzsche and Buddhism.
    I rather embrace the Four Noble Truths, than the B-S of Millenia upon millennia of propaganda.
    Thank you, Mr. Uberboyo, sir!

  • @trajanaugustus3501
    @trajanaugustus3501 Рік тому +1

    Julius Evola, Guenon and all those perennialists were also yoga bunnies lol, not to say it’s a bad thing, there’s a lot of “Natural truths” that comes from those primordial Vedic religions

  • @kevinhowe3280
    @kevinhowe3280 Рік тому +1

    Another great video

  • @S.L.T.P.E.
    @S.L.T.P.E. Рік тому +1

    The Buddha actually said that the ‘un-enlightened’ life is suffering. The nature of reality is bliss, our misunderstanding of reality is what causes suffering

  • @cyablu6538
    @cyablu6538 Рік тому +19

    Buddhism's ultimate end goal is the cessation of all existence. That's Nirvana. It’s not some bliss. It's eternal death, the escape from the wheel of samsara, never to be reborn. That's another thing they don’t tell you in those yoga gyms. Buddhism wants the cessation of being itself

    • @pwalk4160
      @pwalk4160 Рік тому

      It's a tragic misunderstanding of Buddhism.

    • @Dayz3O6
      @Dayz3O6 Рік тому

      Nothingness is true freedom even the word itself cannot hold on to you when you dont even exist.

    • @pwalk4160
      @pwalk4160 Рік тому

      @@Dayz3O6 Buddhism doesn't teach nothingness.

    • @zeljkop5695
      @zeljkop5695 Рік тому

      Obviously Boyo is a ceaser, an escapist. Hail Ceaser!

    • @buddybaldur768
      @buddybaldur768 Рік тому

      Did Budha succeed?

  • @johnnydeppsky3510
    @johnnydeppsky3510 Рік тому

    I found this one very helpful :) I seem to get stuck on nihilistic stage quite often and not be able to go past it constructively. But to go past it paradoxically believing in an illusion of meaning seems redeeming.

  • @pritamroy9485
    @pritamroy9485 Рік тому +1

    amazing that buddhism told us the point of life a long time ago but we still refuse to believe it.

  • @brianfreland9065
    @brianfreland9065 Рік тому

    The way you put things are both hilarious and deep. Your videos are always my favorite. Thanks for all your work making these. I appreciate your art

  • @jerlovski
    @jerlovski Рік тому

    Love your videos, I wish I can run into more like-minded people outside of the internet, Too bad it's very rare.

  • @sigmasociety2180
    @sigmasociety2180 Рік тому +1

    Love to hear Stephen talk shit lol ❤❤

  • @mindripperful
    @mindripperful Рік тому

    Never thought of it like that. NICE

  • @Drottteve
    @Drottteve Рік тому +2

    Brilliant monolog once again.

  • @i_accept_all_cookies
    @i_accept_all_cookies Рік тому

    "we justify all the struggle that went before.. we give it a purpose"