Tag Archives: Buddhism

Zen, the Samurai Ethos, & Death

Dominique Venner

2,446 words

Translated by Guillaume Durocher

Translator’s Note:

This text is drawn from Dominique Venner, Un samouraï d’Occident: Le Bréviaire des insoumis (Paris: Pierre-Guillaume de Roux, 2013), 101-15.. I have previously reviewed this work at The Occidental Observer.

Published: January 16, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged aristocracy, articles, book excerpts, bushido, Dominique Venner, Guillaume Durocher, Japan, meditation, Samurai, suicide, translations, warrior ethics, Yukio Mishima, Zen | 13 Responses

The Ancients on Speaking Rightly

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We are all faced with the challenge of speaking, and living, truths which are felt to be offensive by a great many of our countrymen, not to mention the powers that be. This is not a new problem. By definition, the natural diversity of men means that knowledge of the truth is highly unequally distributed and those who know most about the truth are necessarily a tiny minority. This minority must alone face the prejudices and ignorance of the masses and the violence of the state. Read more …

Published: June 12, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Aristotle, articles, Asatru, cynicism, Guillaume Durocher, honesty, living well, North American New Right, originals | 5 Responses

Sugimoto Gorō & Soldier-Zen

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Asceticism often has a bad reputation in vitalist circles. The idea of the sexless, passionless, passive, world-rejecting monk seems self-evidently maladaptive, an evolutionary dead end, as Nietzsche and Savitri Devi surmised. Yet the fact is that monks have often been warriors, and the monarchs of ascetic religions, such as Christianity and Buddhism, have often been great conquerors. Read more …

Published: March 14, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, asceticism, bushido, Guillaume Durocher, Japan, North American New Right, originals, Samurai, Second World War, Zen Buddhism | 3 Responses

Remembering Sven Hedin

Savitri Devi

2,062 words

Editor’s Note:

We are presenting the following excerpts from Savitri Devi’s And Time Rolls On: The Savitri Devi Interviews in honor of the birthday of the great Swedish explorer, travel writer, and critical supporter of German National Socialism, Sven Anders Hedin (February 19, 1865–November 26, 1952). For a brief account of his life and work, see his Wikipedia article. Read more …

Published: February 19, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged And Time Rolls On, book excerpts, Hermann Göring, National Socialism, North American New Right, reprints, Savitri Devi, Sven Hedin, World War II | 1 Response

Re-Kindling Alan Watts, Part Two

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Part 2 of 2. Part 1 here.

Partings II – Watts and The Church Today: Real Presence or Real Estate?

Watts was quite successful in his attempt to express the religio perennis in the language of Christian theology; not just in my opinion today, but among his Episcopal peers at the time (one bishop even called it “the most important book on religion in this century”[1]), Read more …

Published: January 5, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alan Watts, Anglicanism, articles, book reviews, Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Christianity, Evelyn Waugh, Frithjof Schuon, James O'Meara, mysticism, New Age, North American New Right, originals, Oswald Spengler, philosophy of history, Protestantism, Rene Guénon, Traditionalism, Vedanta | 3 Responses

Re-Kindling Alan Watts, Part One

9,403 words

Part 1 of 2

Alan W. Watts
Behold the Spirit: A Study in the Necessity of Mystical Religion
New York: Pantheon, 1947; reissued with a new Preface, 1971
Kindle, 2016

“For God is not niggardly in his self-revelation; he exposes himself right before our eyes.” — Alan Watts Read more …

Published: January 4, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alan Watts, Anglicanism, articles, book reviews, Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Christianity, Evelyn Waugh, Frithjof Schuon, James O'Meara, mysticism, New Age, North American New Right, originals, Oswald Spengler, philosophy of history, Protestantism, Rene Guénon, Traditionalism, Vedanta | 10 Responses

Christianity & the Red Pill

Garrett Deasy

1,567 words

A discussion on a recent episode of The Daily Shoah brought up a topic on which everyone has an opinion but that rarely ends well: Christianity and the Alt Right. The discussion unearthed what I suspect many in this metapolitical struggle think about religion. Read more …

Published: November 3, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Christianity, Darwinism, Garrett Deasy, North American New Right, originals, white nationalism | 20 Responses

Rashomon & Realism

Trevor Lynch

3,476 words

Akira Kurosawa’s Rashomon (1950) is commonly found on lists of the world’s greatest movies, and deservedly so. Rashomon features avant-garde narrative techniques (flashbacks, multiple points of view), dynamic black-and-white cinematography by Kazuo Miyagawa, compelling Ravel-like music by Fumio Hayasaka, subtle and intensely dramatic performances, and a complex but tightly edited script, all combined into a fast-paced 88-minute masterpiece with an emotionally devastating climax. Read more …

Published: October 16, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Akira Kurosawa, articles, compassion, honor, lying, movie reviews, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, realism, relativism, Trevor Lynch | 9 Responses

Of Apes, Essence, & the Afterlife

4,893 words

Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: When did you first . . . become . . . well, develop this theory? Read more …

Published: March 29, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alan Watts, Christianity, God, Islam, James O'Meara, North American New Right, originals | 5 Responses

The Buddha as Spiritual Lawgiver

3,870 words

Sayings of the Buddha
Rupert Gethin, translator
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008

Anyone who wishes to promote certain values is faced with the challenge of how to maintain those values over time: throughout one’s life, from one generation to the next, and across the centuries. A people’s adherence to values is likely to wane over time, overcome by lower drives, such as the desires for material comfort and personal self-indulgence. Read more …

Published: March 20, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged asceticism, family life, Guillaume Durocher, North American New Right, originals, religion | 19 Responses

Remembering Sven Hedin

Savitri Devi

2,062 words

Editor’s Note:

Published: February 19, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged And Time Rolls On, book excerpts, Hermann Göring, National Socialism, North American New Right, reprints, Savitri Devi, Sven Hedin, World War II | 4 Responses

Schopenhauer & Hitler

Arthur Schopenhauer

2,373 words

Part 1 of 3

I recently came across a collection of Arthur Schopenhauer’s writings entitled Essays & Aphorisms.[1] It really is wonderful stuff, ruthlessly realistic, insightful, and often very droll. Read more …

Published: March 9, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Adolf Hitler, Arthur Schopenhauer, articles, female psychology, Guillaume Durocher, North American New Right, originals, philosophy | 17 Responses

There & Then:
Personal & Memorial Reflections on Alan Watts (1915-1973)

7,833 words

Alan Watts–Here and Now: Contributions to Psychology, Philosophy, and Religion
Ed. Peter J. Columbus and Donadrian L. Rice
Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2012

“It is the peculiar nature of my adolescent explorings of the Devon countryside . . . that made me what I am—and in many other ways besides writing. . . . I have never gained any taste for what lies beyond the experience of solitary discovery. . . . Read more …

Published: January 5, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alan Watts, articles, Intelligent Design, James J. O'Meara, Michael Hoffman, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, religion, Taoism, Vedanta, Watts Centennial Symposium, Zen | 4 Responses

Le materialisme spirituel d’Alan Watts

Greg Johnson

2,615 words

English original here

Alan Watts
Does It Matter?: Essays on Man’s Relation to Materiality
New York: Vintage, 1971

Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 83
The Pursuit of Happiness
An Overview of the Course

Greg Johnson

28:24 / 154 words

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Beginning in August of 1999, I gave a series of eight lectures on “The Pursuit of Happiness: Read more …

Published: January 15, 2014 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged Ayn Rand, Callicles, Confucius, detachment, duty, Epictetus, ethics, Friedrich Nietzsche, harmony, hedonism, Immanuel Kant, living well, Michel de Montaigne, moral philosophy, philosophy, Plato, podcasts, Socrates, Stoicism, Taoism, The Pursuit of Happiness, William James | Leave a comment

D. H. Lawrence on Idealism & Evil

Derek Hawthorne

B. J. O. Nordfeldt, “D. H. Lawrence and the Three Fates”

4,086 words

The Origin of Evil

D. H. Lawrence believed in the reality of evil, but he believed that its source lay in the human soul. “Abstraction is the only evil,” he wrote.[1] By abstraction he does not refer to the process of making generalizations or forming concepts. Instead, he means the tendency of human beings to abstract themselves from feeling, from intuition, from nature, and from the present. Abstraction is fundamentally evil, for Lawrence, because it makes most of humanity’s crimes possible. Read more …

Published: August 15, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, D. H. Lawrence, Derek Hawthorne, evil, idealism, modernity, mysticism, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, vitalism, Zen | 9 Responses

The Japanese Hara Theory & its Relations to East & West, Part 1

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Part 1 of 2

On first receiving Karlfried Graf Dürckheim’s book, Hara: Man’s Terrestrial Center,[1] we had thought of writing one of the usual reviews, calling attention to it as an interesting contribution to our knowledge of the psychology, the behavior, and the “existential morphology” of the Far Eastern, or rather of the Japanese, man; Read more …

Published: June 27, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, book excerpts, hinduism, Japan, Julius Evola, kundalini, North American New Right, reprints, Tantrism, Taoism, yoga, Zen | 1 Response

Oriental & Mediterranean Ancient Erotic Symbolism

3,188 words

The theme of an original duality or polarity related to that of the sexes occurs in the traditions of almost all cultures. This duality is sometimes expressed in purely metaphysical terms, sometimes in that of divine or mythological figures, cosmic elements, principles, gods, and goddesses.

It seemed evident to the early historians of religion of recent times that this was due to anthropomorphism. In their opinion, as man had created his gods in his own image, Read more …

Published: June 12, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book excerpts, hinduism, Julius Evola, love, North American New Right, reprints, sexuality, superhumanism, Tantrism, Taoism, Traditionalism, translations | Leave a comment

Spiritual Virility in Buddhism

4,415 words

It is the fate of almost all religions to become, so to say, denatured; as they spread and develop, they gradually recede from their original spirit, and their more popular and spurious elements come to the fore, their less severe and essential features, those furthest removed from the metaphysical plane. While hardly any of the major historical religions have escaped this destiny, it would seem that it is particularly true of Buddhism. Read more …

Published: June 5, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, book excerpts, Julius Evola, manliness, North American New Right, philosophy, religion, reprints, Samurai, Traditionalism, Zen | 6 Responses

Zen & the West

Crow Screen, Japan, 17th century, Seattle Art Museum

3,639 words

Translator anonymous, ed. by Greg Johnson

Zen may be regarded as the last discovery of Western spiritualistic circles in sympathy with Oriental wisdom. Read more …

Published: May 16, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, book excerpts, C. G. Jung, existentialism, Julius Evola, North American New Right, psychoanalysis, reprints, surrealism, Taoism, Traditionalism, Zen | 3 Responses

The Right to One’s Own Life in East & West

Peter Paul Rubens, “The Death of Seneca,” c. 1615, Museo del Prado, Madrid

3,577 words

Translation anonymous, ed. Greg Johnson

In these short notes I shall not attempt to deal with the question of the right to life in general, but with the right to one’s own life, which corresponds to the ancient formula of jus vitae necisque; it is the right to accept human existence or to put an end to it voluntarily. I intend to compare certain characteristic points of view which have been formulated in this connection in the East and in the West. However, the problem will not be considered from a social point of view, but rather from an interior spiritual one, whence it appears in the shape of a problem of responsibility only to our own selves. Read more …

Published: May 6, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, book excerpts, existentialism, Jean-Paul Sartre, Julius Evola, Martin Heidegger, North American New Right, reprints, Stoicism, suicide | Comments closed

The “Mysteries of Woman” in East & West, Part 2

2,963 words

Part 1 of 2

Translation anonymous, edited by Greg Johnson

Editor’s Note:

The following essay was originally published in English in East and West, vol. 9, no. 4 (1958): 349–55. This is chapter 15 of Julius Evola, East and West: Comparative Studies in Pursuit of Tradition, ed. Greg Johnson, Read more …

Published: April 24, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book excerpts, hinduism, Julius Evola, love, North American New Right, reprints, sexuality, Sufism, Tantrism, Taoism, Traditionalism, translations | Comments closed

Initiatic Centers & History

Nicholas Roerich, “Tibet, Himalayas,” 1933

2,150 words

Translated by Cologero Salvo

Given the confusions that abound in this area, it is opportune to clarify first what we mean, in general, by “initiatic centers” and “initiatic organizations.” Read more …

Published: March 27, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Islam, Julius Evola, Rene Guénon, reprints, Sufism, Tibet, Traditionalism, translations | Leave a comment

Remembering Sven Hedin

Savitri Devi

2,071 words

Editor’s Note:

We are presenting the following excerpts from Savitri Devi’s And Time Rolls On: The Savitri Devi Interviews in honor of the birthday of the great Swedish explorer Sven Anders Hedin (February 19, 1865–November 26, 1952). For a brief account of his life and work, see his Wikipedia article.

Published: February 19, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged And Time Rolls On, book excerpts, Hermann Göring, National Socialism, North American New Right, reprints, Savitri Devi, Sven Hedin, World War II | 1 Response

Baron von Ungern-Sternberg

1,076 words

English original here

V polední době se objevila spousta spisů o postavě, o níž se, i přes její mimořádný význam ve vřavách první světové války, ví jen málo: mluvím o Romanu Mikolaji Maximilianu von Ungern-Sternbergovi.

Ferdinand Ossendowski byl prvním, kdo o něm, s využitím patřičných dramatizačních efektů, psal ve svém slavném a docela kontroverzním díle Bestie, lidé a bohové. Read more …

Published: August 16, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Baron von Ungern-Sternberg, Ferdinand Ossendowski, in Czech, in translation, Julius Evola, Mongolia, Rene Guénon, Russia, the Bolshevik Revolution, Traditionalism, weaponized Traditionalism | Leave a comment

Podcast No. 14
Interview with Charles Krafft, Part 1

Counter-Currents Radio

time: 56:15 / 7,643 words

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The King of the World

Ferdinand Ossendowski

4,316 words

Editor’s Note:

The following chapters constitute the concluding Part V of Ferdinand Ossendowski’s Beasts, Men, and Gods.

Published: April 5, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Ferdinand Ossendowski, Rene Guénon, secret societies, Tibet, Traditionalism | Leave a comment

To Re-Read Hesse

Miguel Serrano

Hermann Hesse, 1877–1962

474 words

Translated by Alex Kurtagic

Unfortunately, the deep writer and poet Hermann Hesse was falsified and vulgarized by a world in decline. He needs to be re-read today by the same eyes that were once shaken by his mystery.

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Published: March 8, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, C. G. Jung, Hermann Hesse, literature, Miguel Serrano, North American New Right, reprints, The Glass Bead Game, Traditionalism, translations | 2 Responses