According to Wikipedia “shalom” means the same thing as “namaste”.
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Ram Dass on namaste: “I honor the place in you in which the entire Universe dwells. I honor the place in you which is of Love, of Integrity, of Wisdom and of Peace. When you are in that place in you, and I am in that place in me, we are One.”
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The idea of upaya as Noble Lie – a reality-distorting lie – is diabolical. It despises the thouness of the Other.
True upaya is mytho-poetic truth that permits the understanding of the the most profoundly meaningful words to degrade gracefully in the ears of the hearer, to simplify without falsification. Within upaya the most sophisticated and the least sophisticated can speak with one another and agree to the furthest extent, and the agreement can continuously grow together within the shared forms of the community. Upaya is the spine of community that connects crown and vestigial tail.
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If I were to discover that Nietzsche disagrees with me on this point, I would have to reverently reject him.
Confucius once said “It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.”
I believe this statement may moot the entire concern.
Since it is a sort of exoneration (and physics supports it) that progress is progress; Yet, there are many types, and types of properties which regard to progress, and therein may lie the pitfall.
Now Nietzsche (in suicide, if memory serves me) did more than stop in principle, he was a man of action and decided rather to demonstrate.
Which brings me to my central point.
If one consequence of Upaya is the endorsement of philosophies of lesser import to the end of exalting others according to any set of values so long as progress is made…
(and we can both agree the only set of values which should dictate what values control assessment of quality in philosophies are those values they individually are rooted in)
…And in order to uphold Upaya SOME progress must be made then a conflict seems (clearly) to present itself
Unless you consider Suicide progress which as I understand it the Buddhists do not (not a major offense from what i can tell but also not progress).
It may be the case that serious thought should be invested in the reconciliation of “The absolute halting of progress” “and progress as it’s known”
I suppose it’s reasonable that ego death could be viewed this way, but somehow that feels like stretching things a tad.
I would urge you, not to seek compatibility between philosophies, because they come from people, and people abuse compatibility by treating it as license to stop thinking.
It would seem better perhaps to try and forge philosophical interfaces…the holes are there to be filled, that to be sure is true.
I think Confucius also once said : The Good is not the enemy of the better. It seems it would work in reverse as well.
Worth mentioning.
if you were to ask me (and I love it when people do)
J.W. Gothe had them both beat with :
“Do not hurry, Do not rest”