Moving towards nihilism
We have been often assured of nihilisms ostensible law which a human try of knowing law or ultimate being usually leads to untruth as well as some-more dissatisfaction. Not surprisingly, many Buddhists have been assured which a Buddhas genuine message, in a nutshell, is there is no truthalthough they wont admit it. In other words, theyre observant poke all you want, there is usually impermanence, suffering as well as no self, or a same, no absolute.
In Zen, in particular, this carries over in to a kind of groundless meditational practice as if Zen is telling us, Just lay in a nothingness which you are. This is all there is, there is zero beyond this. On a same thread, all a koans, in fact, have been usually demonstrations of meaninglessness. And a Zen master is one who accepts, wholeheartedly, lifes complete meaninglessness. More than anyone, he has searched for law as well as did not find it. Now he usually smilesthis is cheerful nihilism.
Those who humour from nihilism, especially a agnostics as well as a skeptics, for example, appear to fright a good adventure of truthof creation a long voyage opposite a perilous, vast, dim ocean of materialism to reach another shore which is completely immaterial. If they were soldiers, they would be those who run from a battle when a first hostile bullet whizzed past their ear.
Nihilists have been a ultimate wimps or some-more politely, they humour from akrasia, a weakness of willpower. They opt, instead, for a protected bourgeois approach of hold up rsther than than hold which a transcendent is alive as well as well; all they have to do is demeanour withinreally look. There they will find it, which is, a very medium of hold up or Suchness, from which each thought is stoical as well as each mental condition as well as world is fashioned. But have been they willing to renounce their old ways of looking at things as well as themselves? The answer is no.
The highest soundness of anarchy is a protected bourgeois approach of life. But it usua! lly succ eeds by ignoring a law as much as possible. In this it is completely nihilistic. If, however, a Buddhas deathless drum receptive to advice becomes as well loud, law can regularly be trivialized so as to have its accomplishment appear ho-hum as compared with a bourgeois awakening. Such a bourgeois awakening is found in Stanley Kubricks last film, Eyes Wide Shut. In a last partial of a movie a categorical characters hold they have been watchful then go as well as fuck. But this is like being in a mental condition firmly assured youre watchful when in actuality youre receptive to advice asleep in your comfortable comfy bed.
One final thought. If Buddhism as well as Zen have been sole to those who either consciously or unconsciously embrace anarchy who, at a same time, hold in a protected bourgeois approach of life, both Buddhism as well as Zen humour by apropos nihilistic. This is true because a modern Buddhist narrative, if you unequivocally scrutinize it, is absent of a absolute. This narrative points to a insubstantiality of truthnot phenomena. For example, what does it mean for a modern Buddhist to read which all living beings retain a hint of a Tathagata? Absolutely zero insofar as a direct which you see this essence, in a approach of gnosis, is stealthily twisted in to something prosaic as well as paltry such as learning to live in a here as well as right away or usually being aware.
