RE: Government is Slavery
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the True Sect of the Pure Land, in Japanese Jodo-Shin-shu. Where else, if not in India, does this religion find its roots. However, it received its specifically Japanese imprint through the two medieval Buddhist saints Honen and Shinran.
It is a very peculiar religion that starts from the idea that we are currently living in the most decadent era in history. This view derives from the Hindu notion that we are in an end time (Kali yuga) characterised by everything being utterly corrupted. This epoch began on 23 February 3023 B.C. It will last another five thousand years, and then everything will decay and the universe will collapse out of weakness.
In this decadent time, no one can be truly virtuous. The people who try to be virtuous in this time are basically pretending, they are not really pure. They donate money to a good cause - not because they love the people to whom they give the money, but out of the feeling that they are obliged to do so. Their motives are necessarily bad, and therefore it is not possible for anyone to free themselves from the chains of karma. The more people try to escape their karma, their imprint, their connection to the past, the deeper they become entangled in karma.
Therefore, all people who live now, in the Kali yuga end time, are simply hopelessly selfish. In such a catastrophic situation, one cannot rely on jiriki, one's own power, to free oneself from the ego. One must rely on tariki power - the power that lies outside the individual. For the Jodo-shin sect, this tariki power is represented in the figure of Amitabha - Amida in Japanese - that great benevolent Buddha figure in Kamakura Park whom everyone loves. He is peculiarly different from the strict, authoritarian god figures we know in the West.
I cited it from a German source, which I translated here.
It can be related in a way with what is said about the "Anti-Christ".
In my understanding, it is not the "others" (whom you call overlords or parasites) but you and I who are antichrists or decadents in the same way. However, we find our own quality mirrored in them, much more intensified and obvious. If we did not, if we did not recognise them, we could not explain what decadence or clinging to the fruits of others' labour means.
While I find there is useful wisdom in all venerable traditions, I also find all of it falls short of whatever ultimate wisdom is necessary, at least because new things are learned all the time and knowledge continually increases, moderating prior understanding.
My own understanding of Antichrist is corporations, institutions, that are legal persons, unborn, undying, inhuman, and inhumane, yet considered to have human rights, which is comparable to a toaster or any human tool being considered to be equally human, and this deprecates and degrades actual human beings to the level of mere objects, because mere objects cannot be elevated to human beings.
I consider people the Christ, as my read of the words of Jesus state directly. "All these things I do you will do, and greater things than these." paraphrasing John 14:12.
Some people are ill, and some ill people are born with broken brains such that they cannot grasp that other people are like them. Psychopaths are able to commit atrocities and prey on normally socialized people to rise to power in corporations, as seems patently obvious from extant conditions. While I joke about Klaus 'Antichrist' Schwab, it is the WEF, BlackRock, CITI, and the corporate institution itself I consider actually contrary to the principle that we are that saviour we need, and become when we treat others with love.
Corporations cannot love. They can only subvert and suborn actual humanity when granted legal personhood. That is my take on Christ and Antichrist.