There is something similar to LHP in Shintoism?

[luciel lilith]

I am a practitioner of LHP and I recently heard about Shintoism on a podcast and it caught my attention. I would like to know if there is anything similar in this tradition.

 

[Nembra]

Kind of depends what do you mean by that question. LHP, just like RHP, is sort of an abstract amalgamation of practices, beliefs and ethics based on some Christian-themed polar dualism. It's not my intention to diminish your practice (though I've found the term itself unsatisfying as a tool of categorisation) but you must understand that there is no clearly definable "like" the LHP would be in context of traditions that don't operate within the western, post-Christian ecosystem.

 

[Firetree]

What Nembra said ^ .

However there is a 'darker' side of Shintoism where cultish types got mixed up with politics and 'self aggrandizement / racial purity ' ideas that led to their military nationalistic imperialist expansion and WWII . One example of this was in the founder of Aikido ; Ueshiba , who was working to those ends (and instructing the military ). Later they survived the dismantling when they were defeated by claiming it was a martial art of 'harmony' based on ' love '

'Traditional Shintoism' is closer to the mark, but sorry , no 'left hand path practitioners' there either You do realise they dont even have a holy book , 'moral scripture' or even an 'absolute sense' of good and evil ?