Some Thoughts on the Eurasian System:

I've said before in other contexts--and this sort of continues my other post on Buddhism--that Chinese Buddhism is first the bearer of an Indo-Europeanism that simultaneously imports the Brahmanic culture of the one, while also serving as a protest and, at best, an escape. This is done by exaggerating reincarnation to infinity to find a vantage out of hierarchy and caste that could silently indict caste, making it untenable. This all confronts the indigenous Tao, and in doing so forms the wider significance (for all Eurasia, and the world history that it has created together) of the becoming-God of the Tao. That is, the exiting of the one into the multiple.

This is consummated in Japanese Buddhism, which seems to say, "nirvana and Samara: the same." But in this sameness, though not in any sense an equation, does transfer the attributes of the one to the other, making not only illusion already into nirvana--but, also, nirvana into illusion. Instead of Samara being desire, and desire being a kind of rift that will, existing within a fantastic/projective capacity, opens in nirvana--nirvana becomes the rift that is opened by man in the endless and simple desire, which is innocent; which is just love.

In the manner I described earlier, this gives love a gravity and direction. But nirvana is where no love can go (I hazard a definition,) so that it is the direction of desire; it is in but not of desire, being a kind of hole that desire tends to across infinite time. And this hole is (as far as desire is concerned) simultaneously everywhere and nowhere, so that it draws all desire in contradictory directions, begetting violence and strife. Desire desires to be sated.

Meanwhile Christianity says: God is love. And where no love can reach is hell. I hope I won't be accused of a fundamentalism--something like: "Buddhists worship the devil!" First of all, Nirvana can easily function is precisely as the "intensity=0" that Deleuze and Guattari, for instance, call the body without organs. Like anything, there is always a revolutionary intonation that is formed by saying in the same words in the same places--but then also combining those words with utopian acts of love/charity. Explosive acts.

But there is also the pure land! This brackets nirvana; has it hanging in the sky like a distant star. Right here is the pure land, always promised. present as soon as one says the name "Namu Amida Butsu." The realm where beings coexist in infinite love, exploring, delving into each other through eternity. no strife is to be found. No "competition for finite resources." All are welcome to be themselves, in the same infinite place.