Jesus has some very Buddhist outlooks on life. In fact Christianity is very Buddhist, IF you have read the bible you would know this. IMO, Buddhism is Christianity without the God. Why ,well, it basically asks the same thing of you, do what I say and achieve Nirvanna. Bleh. I like Nietsche's outlook, do what it takes, all things are justified as long as they promote your survival. This doesn't mean **** everyone over, an intelligent person can figure out quiet easily that being trustworthy is far better for your survival in the long run.
The closest thing to noble that I can see in the world is the life of a wolf, hunt, kill, eat, reproduce, and howl at the moon. Do not think unless it is about the task at hand. Act only during a situation, plan only when acting. Do not imagine, wonder, or let your attention waver. Let the mind be quiet and waiting for stimulus, if stimulus does not come, wait. Patience, calmness, never bored, always ready. Do not create, creations will just become dirty, broken, and forgotten. The only thing you can make last forever, or as close to it as possible is your species, at least, thats the only thing you can make last forever that matters more than a hunk of turd floating through space for infinity.
Imagination, creativity, science, art, communication beyond the absolute necessity of survival, is all a danger. The perfect focused need of a wolf is the only thing that matters. Unaltering even in error, the plan first, if it doesn't work, do not wonder, maybe even do not change. Make it work. Plan only when acting and never let the plan fail. When the plan fails, do not fret, do not adapt, do not change. Make the plan work, if it works it works if it doesn't you die. Nirvanna. Adaptation is an admission of a weakness. Function as you would and if you cannot then die. Nrivanna. The wolf may try to adapt, but it cannot. The wolf may wear the clothes of a man but the "man" will always be a wolf. Adaptation confuses who you are. To adapt is to deny your essential strengths and to play upon your essential weakness. One on one a wolf beats a man but a man adapts to destroy the wolf. And then the man is tormented because the man has forgotten who he is. To deny your essential being is to deny your life. There is no noble path, the only right path is the path of the wolf, the path of being what you are, and only what you are. Plan, but do not adapt, need but do not desire. That is the only way to peace.
When you move through the world as a creature that fully understand what it is, there are never any questions, only answers. When a wolf is attacked it does not think, it acts, in acting it sets in motion a plan, if the plan fails it does not look for a solution, it acts again. Our huge mind gives us an essential advantage over the wolf, the ability to plan further ahead. The mind does not exist for science, when we have warp travel what will be different? Some of us will be lost in the universe. Will cloning bring us closer to perfection? When we fix our essential weaknesses will we not destroy our essential strengths?
By taking up arms against the wolf we are only admitting how weak and afraid we are. That is why huge totalitarian governments have always had mighty armies, because in the back of everyone one of their minds is a fear that comes from the adaptation and playing upon their essential weaknesses.
