2025-03-30T09:18:52.000Z

“Anarchism is not only a stateless society but also a harmonized society that exposes man to the stimuli provided by both agrarian and urban life, to physical activity and mental activity, to unrepressed sensuality and self-directed spirituality, to communal solidarity and individual development, to regional uniqueness and worldwide brotherhood, to spontaneity and self-discipline, to the elimination of toil and the promotion of craftsmanship.”

—Murray Bookchin, Ecology and Revolutionary Thought
(1965)

“Progress is measured by the degree of differentiation within a society. If the individual is a unit in a corporate mass, his life will be limited, dull, and mechanical. If the individual is a unit on his own, with space and potentiality for separate action, then he may be more subject to accident or chance, but at least he can expand and express himself. He can develop—develop in the only real meaning of the world—develop in consciousness of strength, vitality, and joy.” Herbert Read, The Philosophy of Anarchism

The truth is that man has produced imbalances not only in nature but more fundamentally in his relations with his fellow man — in the very structure of his society.
To state this thought more precisely: the imbalances man has produced in the natural world are caused by the imbalances he has produced in the social world.

2025-03-29T19:42:51.000Z

They say all beings have the Buddha nature

and that means you folks right here

these persimmons too, these chestnuts we’ll share

Budding, blooming, becoming

Act as if all beings as your relatives, parents, children

because they are

get together and take back the land you work

what is unborn cannot be owned

but it can be shared

this dharma is without high nor low, rich nor poor, masters nor slaves.

inherited will, embodied, the incessant heartbeat:

freedom, freedom

ripening, struggling, being

they put you in a noose for your love, your doubt and your rage

for teaching the children, comforting the oppressed and suffering

and refusing to bow

to the powers of this world

falling, dissolving, decomposing

and so you drop your body once again plunged into the stream

tossed and tumbling

scattered and scarred

open, weary

smiling

another foolish dharma seed

something which Law

cannot name, cannot claim and cannot hang

Some thing which is No thing at all

going, gone, gone

what we always were

are

will be

boundless blue sky

in other words: love

&

because this love is selfless

because this love is change

because this love is pain

because this love is empty

it is foolish, it is free,

gone beyond

thus:

gone beyond beyond

another world is possible

because it is possible

It

will

be

…the fruit, the seed,

and the fool

always returning to

THIS

Uchiyama Gudō: Buddhist Anarchist Martyr

Let’s call the Marxist socioeconomic system that is grounded in Buddhist metaphysics Compassionate Marxism. The focus of Compassionate Marxism has to be on ahimsā – nonviolence. Only then can Marxism be immune to totalitarian and authoritarian abuse, and hence no longer prone to repeat its history. Whether Marx himself taught that revolution is necessarily violent, or if there is a possibility of a peaceful transformation, is a vexed question. During the 1844-49 period, Marx held that violent revolution is indeed necessary, given the stringent structure of the bourgeois system. But if it is the economic circumstances that necessitate a turn towards something communist, and not totalitarian, then nonviolent revolution might be possible given the right political interventions.

https://aeon.co/essays/how-marxism-and-buddhism-complement-each-other

Intelligent activity is distinguished from aimless activity by the fact that it involves selection of means—analysis—out of the variety of conditions that are present, and their arrangement-—synthesis—to reach an intended aim or purpose.

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