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Ah man another great video. Your synthesis of Buddhist/Nietzschean ideas is always impressive. And the way you present and format these videos is digestible and entertaining. Thanks for all the impressive work you do!

Such a good video and beautiful video! Thank you a lot!!

Fascinating video. Thank you for the work you put into this.

One night, I was dreaming. For what I remember, I was doing all the most normal and everyday things, until in a moment a doubt struck me: what if I could excape reality? And then, something deep from the dark awakened: a girl turned her head, and in its back there was a face, a black smile, with pointing eyes. He said: "WE ARE REALITY!!". And it was so strong, and it was so intense. It felt real, as if you were awake, thinking about it was the "real" world, when all of a sudden the maker of it makes himself manifest, and he says you and him are the same thing, and the world trembles: it was all a dream, and I couldn't excape, bc it was my own creation. His voice was so strong I woke up belching the air I had in my lungs. That experience changed profondly the way I see myself and the world. The best way I can explain it is through this idea of Nietzche of the eternal recurrence, and the "amor fati". I can say I feel represented by them.

May you get in abundance what you are trying to give to the community, keep progressing 🌸

What a wonderful video. Thank you for your excellent work.

Very thought provoking video. Thank you.

This was most excellent! I can honestly say that with your video here is the first time I feel that truly groked Nietzsche’s Eternal Return…thank you!

Awesome video and great voice 🎉

If eternity exists, it's not necessarily the case of an endless return. I mean there may be endless universes and each one with different laws of physics or some weird realities.

00:11 Eternal recurrence is a transformational idea. 03:52 Eternal recurrence of all events in life. 07:56 Nietzsche criticizes the invention of an ideal world and its impact on reality. 11:32 Nietzsche's idea of eternal recurrence challenges us to evaluate our lives from an eternal perspective. 15:25 Embracing eternal recurrence requires full acceptance of life. 19:02 The will to power as a human drive 22:46 Nietzsche's view on the personal will and necessity 26:09 Embrace eternal return through absolute love. 29:52 Gratitude for support and encouragement Eternal recurrence is a transformational idea. - Nietzsche's idea is meant to cast light over every shadow and bend even the loneliest suffering towards joy. - It is a concept that asserts that everything in life - past, present, and future - repeats exactly as it is, forever. Eternal recurrence of all events in life. - Rejects the idea of a transcendent realm of existence and views faith in an ideal world as an escape. - Engages in the ancient debate of Being vs Becoming, advocating for acceptance of impermanence and relativity. Nietzsche criticizes the invention of an ideal world and its impact on reality. - He discusses the concepts of 'God,' 'beyond,' and 'soul' as inventions to devalue the only existing world. - Nietzsche explores the contrast between the philosophies of Becoming and Being and their implications on life and existence. Nietzsche's idea of eternal recurrence challenges us to evaluate our lives from an eternal perspective. - Nietzsche presents the concept of the eternal return as a way to view life from a cosmic perspective, questioning whether one's life could be lived over and over for eternity. - The eternal return is not about pursuing only pleasure and achievement, but rather about embracing life in its entirety, including both positive and negative experiences, in order to attain a deeper understanding. Embracing eternal recurrence requires full acceptance of life. - Acknowledge and love every aspect of existence, including suffering. - Approach eternal recurrence as a Zen koan to spark psychological change and surrender to experience. The will to power as a human drive - The will to power is a relentless drive for self-expression and self-overcoming, encountering resistance and necessity. - Necessity, including all life circumstances like genetics, nationality, and time, acts as a limit on the will, denying it absolute power. Nietzsche's view on the personal will and necessity - Nietzsche believes that we must subsume the impersonal world of necessity under the personal will - He sees the individual will as part of the cosmic flow of energy and not separate from the forces of life in the world Embrace eternal return through absolute love. - The will to power involves recognizing limitations and flourishing in struggles. - The eternal return symbolizes the cyclical nature of existence and the unity of opposites. Gratitude for support and encouragement - Acknowledgment of patrons and members - Appreciation for all viewers who engage with the channel

So profoundly presented, grateful. Had to watch repeatedly to catch a glimpse of understanding.🤣🙏

This video is so thought-provoking and well presented. I have always had a knack for discomfort with a positive attitude. Perhaps as a result of a difficult early life. But perhaps too that I have always felt like one simply cannot remove positive experiences from negative ones. Amor Fati... I wish a love supreme for all of us!

22:00 your description of time here is excellent

Another superb video synthesising these truths…

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One of the videos that had such a profound emotional effect on me! I would rewatch it again and again, just like I would relive my life, and you know why ❤

"Life is the will actualizing itself." Such a profound statement to which leaves me questioning its deeper meaning.

Another fascinating vide. His idea reminds me of the cyclic universe theory; that the expanding universe will reach a stage where it will begin contracting again (often referred to as the 'big crunch'), to then potentially bounce back as a big bang again. The ultimate return.

So brilliant, thank you

I can’t even understand nietzsche when someone is trying to explain his philosophy to me, let alone when I read it my self.

I love the "cheap facsimile of Love ... for a deep relationship/Life insight at 15:22. Thank you for such a great presentation. The imagery and music are amazing as well as the content.

Thanks seeker to seeker🎉🎉🎉

Dankeschön für das Bereitstellen des Videos. Ich habe eine Frage: Gibt es dazu Texte, die man lesen kann?😍

All is permanent as well as all is impermanent work as the eternal koan expressing all encompassing paradox through thought creation energies, called existence. Thank you for posting. Powerful content.

Thank you for explaining our will to power and the world's will to power. I love the quote " we do not inhabit the world any more than waves inhabit the sea." I am the world. Brilliant.

Beautiful concepts, a great understanding, yet it is very difficult for my existence to understand that a life of suffering is solid and can not be changed. I see so much corruption in this life that flourish in abundance. I see so much suffering that would give a complete stranger the very clothing off their back. How can this existence allow such a folly. I can see the rebirth for the suffering be plentiful, and vice versa for the corrupt. Yet i am but a blink of an eye in comparison of existence. I can say perhaps i dont want to know the unknowable, i just want to be and be without suffering. Blessed be your days my friend.

I can still remember when I was in K3 or K4, so 3 or 4 years old, how me and some kids sat around one day and started discussing birthdays. We then started to wonder what would happen since we were all heading towards another year. We all agreed that the most logical thing we could think of was that when you get to 100, you start back over at 0. This made so much sense to me, but when I told my parents about this idea, they laughed it off and explained some Catholic dogma to me as a replacement.

Is this a re-upload? De ja vu. Feels like i ve heard it infinate times.

Reality that is not focused, will become someone else’s falsehood. If eternal peace is sought, only endless possibilities can exist.

Tip to explore : Gaudapada - (6th century CE Hindu philosopher) and his work on Mandukya upanishad called "Gaudapada Mandukya Karika", best explained at You Tube by Swami Sarvapriyananda.

Awesome!!!!!

Questions on his perspective: - how literally would repetition be, can one life differ from a next? - would “love” change the repetition? - what decides the fictive person named you has this repetition? - what decides that “others” might have different content of this repetition? - are there others? - since beginning and ending is an intellectual thing and doesnt exist on the deepest, why would there be repetition of something. - if this life had no meaning or purpose why would love be it; would that not make life a school to learn how to love? - How would this match the countless NDE’s and medical herb experiences?

Thanks Mark

I don't think he meant that every life would be exactly the same. I think it was something more along the lines how they say history doesn't repeat it just rhymes meaning that each cycle you are going to be in an existence that is exactly one step higher in the hierarchy of existence as each existence is the particles and singularities that populate increase the universe that they fill with and then that Universe would be a particle in the next Higher One. In prison words that is why everything's always expanding because in the end it Loops back around like a feedback to where the largest thing becomes the smallest as gravity does curved Universe back into itself it's not back into its own self back into its exact replica that is one step above it one step below

Would I live my life over again? No, for it would be too much excitement twice in a row.Great stuff👍Thanks ❤

Must've been that resin laden, sticky Hawaiian purple bud skunk that accompanied him into the abyss.

This video is way to long. Cliffs. Dont take Nietzsche literally. Eternal recurrence is not an idea that Nietzsche thinks is "true" in the most mundane sense of that word, its an idea that he thinks is most useful to live by. If you can live fully immersed in the idea that every moment repeats you will then attempt to make the most of your life etc etc, and thus this idea is Nietzsche' s solution to the inherent nihilism in god is dead, there is no meaning etc, which is the hunchback on his back he refers to carrying in Thus Spake Zarathustra. Its a classic existentialist idea, but its not an idea based in making a sincere attempt to describe reality, its an idea based on the assumption that there is no way to do that, so we might as well come up with most useful explanations/narratives for living to our maximum, and the idea that everything repeats is the apotheosis of that idea, e.g. as useful as an idea or explanation can be in terms of how it will effect how one lives.

In Astrology, the Arabic part of Necessity speaks of this.

Wow! That was powerful. I've only just recently come to hear about Nietzsche, your channel has given me much information To aid my understanding about this great mans teachings. Does anyone recommend any books that give more like this video shows concerning Nietzsche?

thats what the buddha gautama said "there's no begining and end".

“once you awaken, you shall remain awake eternaly” nietzsche

mind blowing, life changing.

Awesome. Just awesome. I've read tidbits of this all my life thru one wayward circumstance or another. Why me? is a classic question. Well, why not me? is an answer I learn to accept. As far as concepts like forever, always, and eternity, those are terms that I'm still trying to understand. We have illustrations, but do we really know eternity? For everyone who put this video together, Thank You.

This is so very interesting and it helps to make sleep but The commercials are insufferable

I love the Nietzsche quote at 16:40. Yes, to look life in the face a love it joyously in all its wondrous grandeur and horror. That is the work. But I wonder, can't we love everything as it is and yet still work to mitigate harm? Practice ahimsa? Advocate for peace in a time of war-for-profit and the exploitation of everything/everyone for money? Advocating from a place of joyous acceptance and compassionate love instead of resistance, vengeance and anger. That is the work.

Contemplation feels freeing

He is right, its a hatred of life to be religious

If we take this to its deepest inflection to our own lives, as you say, our lives bring us round in an eternal existence of the same repetition. Maybe, but all through the lens of feminine eyes, then a return to masculine? This isn't explained clearly. What if we go a bit quantum to imagine we reform into the same entanglements we just left? Even then, is it a return or reoccurrence, or does familiarity hide all the subtle differences carried through time and in thoughts with more or less gravitas than attractions in my last experience? Maybe time seems to stand still in our reincarnation cycle because we are in denial about our nature, dislocated from her by ideas and feelings that corrupt our true sense of things. What if we knew the nature of nature, the purpose we are here to serve toward the destiny our potential carries us toward? Thanks for returning to one of the greatest minds I ever found in the written word.

I wonder to what extent cosmic love (agape) is what Nietzsche was after in his thought-experiment regarding eternal recurrence?

BRILLIANT. FANTASTIC.

I say yes to the eternal return, for my life, having its sufferings, has also had its great joys, for drawing pictures and sitting in the sun with wolves - to have known Waka, Patches, Tahoe, Tikani - to have watched my skill at drawing improve from sheer determination and effort, a destiny like a flower blooming once it had found its sun. To have come to understand the source of love and to see my dreams come true, that is worth repeating for eternity. A child reaching across a nightmare to touch a monster, only to see that the monster was a wolf who only wanted a friend, yes. I will walk with the wolves forever in a loop that never ends.

true answer for everything

For me Nietzsche himself was not a deep thinker at all - but your reflections upon his ideas are deep and profound. Only one thing I must resist - I think it is common and sort of habitual, yet totally misleading to put Heraclitus and Parmenides in radical oposition. I am deeply convinced Heraclitean Logos and Parmenidean absolute Entity (Eon, On) are but one and the same. Both these ancient thinkers consider sensory world of becoming as dream-like illusion.

I am not sure that there is any escape from this, if time is "born" with the universe and destined to end with it then one must say that since the universe can arise it *will* arise, outside of time all things that can happen *must* happen. This doesn't even change if time is "there" before and after the universe because all things that can happen *will* happen over infinite time.

24:18 fatum or to aftum is to blossom, become whole complete

Or is all this just an analogy to peak my interest right now? To wake up right this moment because time is short.

Sixth sense tells us of our unity with all things

Beautifully done. Very synchronistic to what I’ve been reading and thinking as well. One thought being the ocean BECOMES the wave to understand the essence of what it means to BE the water.

شكرا .

What I did with my life and my children,I would do again and again. I'm a blessed Agnostic! 🙂

Cảm ơn bạn!

I like this idea better when Rustin Cohle said it in True Detective, also because it was espoused by a tested and brittle mind and I couldn't accept it totally...still don't, but maybe a good exercise for growth

Knowing the minds of men are falible why do they go on to make philosophical conclusions? I too have considered this existence may be a recurring set of events, or one event of course. But to assert it as a belief is immature in my opinion. Thanks for introducing me to Neitzsche. Subscribed. Excellent.

The little something is the Whole which is everything but still evergrowing and expanding always feeding on itself

A Love Supreme. What a magnificent ending. Coltrane would have concurred, surely. Bravo S2S. Bravo.

If I have to relive everything in the same sequence, how can I wake up at an earlier point in life than this life?

It is depressing to know that how little people know about things. The concept of “cyclic existence” is taught by Buddha almost 2600 years ago. In fact one of the goal in Buddhism is to break this cycle.

I feel so related to Nietzsche ❤

Is the love of suffering and all that we perceive in life not also a form of resistance against it? Or is it implied that we should simply try to integrate this knowledge of amor fati within us so that to love everything is not a conscious decision?

Ah, yes. The bone chilling terror or Love.

Great video as always! Is it possible you could to a video on Ambedkarite Buddhism, it would be greatly appreciated by us Ambedkarite Buddhists. Jai Bhim Namo Buddhaya, may the triple gems bless you!

I think this is one of the problems associated with the idea of eternity in heaven. People never really take on board the idea of the implications of 'eternity'. they will make glib statements such as, 'We'll be together for always in heaven', etc., BUT do they stop to think about the implications of this? OK, so for the first few hundred thousand 'years' you wander around meeting lost relatives, animals, loved ones, etc.. Then what? After a billion years this might get a bit tiresome. After a trillion, trillion, trillion. . . . . . . years even the most loyal of partners might get a bit bored. Everything is perfect (it is heaven), so what condition are people in when you meet them again? How old? What personality do they have? Do they stay like that forever? If not, can you cope with what they, and you, will change into? We are what we are because, in part at least, we undergo suffering and we are mortal. Take away that suffering, add immortality, and you are not the same person. Then there are huge implications in the idea of finding out that you have survived death, and it is no longer an issue - this would have massive psychology impact on everyone. It would completely change how existence is perceived. Humans are humans because of what we deal with on Earth. Unless there is a fundamental change in what we become (in which case the idea of meeting all your relatives and loved ones is nonsense) heaven, in the way that it is normally thought about, would end up being hell!

Conjecture is no substitute for the truth.

Thank you 🙏 I'm waiting for your graduation to Arthur Schopenhauer.

Everything is deja vu, otherwise you could not function.

Nietzeche believed in an "after" though

Love your fate, that is your life

A love supreme...

Do not thinking about this video on shrooms

True true true......

Groundhog Day lol

This is reincarnation basically

Do you know the works of Deleuze, its very good you should check it out! ... In the battle of Philosophy of Being vs Becoming, I lean on the side of becoming! But really go for a middle approach with Hegelian dielectics! Substance is Subject! How does one say Yes, one says No to No. Negation of Negation! Samsara is my play ground!

I think it’s the ladder

Rebellion is basic of masculine divine ✨️ 😍 🙌 💖

Nice, I lied it. Thanks!

There was no big bang. The universe is eternal

12:52 - Ecclesiastes 3 - says the preacher….

Nah, according to science and the conservation of information, information can not be destroyed. The information that we are gathering in the lifetime has to go somewhere. Considering 99% of our decision-making process is made up of our subconscious. It would be a good bet that the information from the previous lifetime is helping guide our decisions. Just as the information we are gathering in this lifetime will be used in the next. We are coming back. But our decisions change depending on what we have learned in this lifetime.

What if you remember?

When I see the beauty of life, I believe Nietsche lost sight of his own existence. Even without a God, our existence finds his meaning in the role it plays in the unfolding of the life, and by life i don't mean life on Earth only, but the life as life of the whole universe.

Dear brother, Translate your vedeo in hindi also. Hindi subscriber waiting for this

I wonder if the eternal recurrence is similar to Jung's idea of the collective unconscious? a repeatable "human being" in the collective sense.

Eternal suffering sounds horrible

Very nice approach. But why did you go about it with the zest of an entire orange grove?

interesting idea. but for one who rejects notions of the supernatural, he ends up with an essentially supernatural idea. kind of like a conspiracy theorist who desperately seeks meaning so that they invent an ultimate cause ridiculing the religious. "lots of artists say they want to live on in their work. i'd like to live on in my apartment."

I unsubscribed from this channel because I thought originally it was devoted to Buddhism, but when it started talking about Nietzsche and comparing him to the Buddha, I regarded the channel as intellectual nonsense. Nietzsche was a self-absorbed, egotistical man (“look at me”, “look how smart I am”, “no one compares to me”, and then died insane) and the Buddha was a man without a “self” (revealed “anicca”, “dukkha” and “anatta”, taught the four noble truths, eightfold path and compassion, and died a peaceful death). There’s just no comparison.

seek to be powerful not happy