BUDDHISM(MIND) VS STOICISM(ACTION) —“Hey Curt, a friend and I were just discus

BUDDHISM(MIND) VS STOICISM(ACTION)

—“Hey Curt, a friend and I were just discussing Stoicism and Buddhism. I remember you talked about Yin-Yang being a prison, could you elaborate?”— A Friend.

What is the evolutionary difference between harmony(balance) and competition?

What is the difference between buddhism and stoicism?

–“Buddhism seeks Harmony (which is stagnant), while Stoicism seeks competition (which is innovative)?”—

There you go. And what happened to stoic (western) versus buddhist (eastern) societies?

Harmony is another word for tolerance of one another, non-disruption of the status quo, and Submission to authority.

Competition is another word for tolerance of one another, disruption of the status quo, and non-submission to authority.

By Nick Zeto:

—“The way in which I differentiated the two is through different means of describing transcendence. One can transcend the mind beyond the material and come to tolerate their environment, or one can transcend the material beyond the mind and come to dominate their environment. Tolerate or dominate.Do you accept that the environment is harsh and tolerate it, or do you find means of overcoming the harshness? Toleration and submission involve no calculation or calls to action.”—

Which model will calculate innovation and therefore produce a condition of prosperity faster? Which will preserve a status quo that is ‘adequate’ for a longer period of time?

The problem is that while we need to be able to, and we can, switch governments under rule of law between fascism, liberalism, and progressivism as our competitors (conditions) allow us, we cannot change ritualistic disciplines habituated in the people.

For this reason, it is optimum to teach people stoicism and to organize by rule of law, the merely switching the means by which we produce and distribute commons (government) rather than to rely on buddhism and entrench a people in a condition.

NOTE: my opinion on this matter is gender specific. Women have much harder problem with mindfulness than do men and learning to quiet rather than direct that mind is to their advantage. Women are more problematic in gossip. Men are more problematic in action. Women do not as much need a mind directed as much as quieted. Men do not need a mind so much quieted as directed. My central problem with buddhism is that it needs to be restated and possibly incorporated into Stoicism and then individuals can ‘swing’ mental quietude vs mental discipline as suits their genetic predispositions.