Friedrich Nietzsche and Buddhism

The discovery of Buddhism

Ecce homo

Chapter VI:
" The resentment owes for the patient being primarily taboo, it is its disease itself: it is also unfortunately its leaning most natural Bouddha had included/understood it, the large physiologist. Its " religion" - that one would make better call hygiene not to make it with as pitiful things as Christianity - made depend its effectiveness on the defeat of the resentment: to release the heart of the resentment it is the first step towards the cure. " It is not the enmity, but the friendship which puts a term at the inimitié" : here is the first lesson of the Buddha; it is not the language of morals, it is that of the physiologie".

In text, several points emerge:

If the rejection of Christianity is constant, it is more notable than Nietzsche compliments Buddhism whereas Ecce homo is a late text, its last book.
It opposes the Morale, with physiology. This formulation is related to the famous analogy: the Buddha compared with a Doctor.

Nietzsche, stoicism and Buddhism

References

See too

Arthur Schopenhauer, other philosophizes Western, still more interested by Buddhism.
Marcel Conche, Nietzsche and Buddhism , 1997, Ink Martine

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