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David Loy is a professor, prolific writer, and teacher in the Japanese Zen Buddhism tradition. Much of his work has to do with what has happened as Buddhism has encountered modern western culture and vice versa. In this episode, we dive into this topic via a discussion of his book, A New Buddhist Path: Enlightenment, Evolution, and Ethics in the Modern World. David presents us with a different lens through which to look at this intersection of cultures which will also thereby change the way you look at yourself.
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In This Interview, David Loy and I Discuss...
The Wolf Parable
His book, A New Buddhist Path: Enlightenment, Evolution, and Ethics in the Modern World
Buddhism in the West today
The mindfulness movement
The play between Buddhism and Psychotherapy
The role of the self
The danger of spiritual by-pass
The delicate line of feeling our difficult emotions and foregoing our emotions
Transcend the world? Adapt to the world? or See the world differently?
That the sense of self that we think we have is not as solid or real as we think
How meditation helps us let go of delusional perceptions of the world
Our true nature
The true nature of the world
Buddhism and emptiness
The sense of self is obscuring the nature or our minds which in themselves have no form or characteristics in and of themselves
Liberating our awareness from being stuck on things we're thinking about
A collection of psychological processes that are happening within us
The process of trying to find the self
Realizing the truth of "that which is looking is that which we are looking for"
Non-dualism
The illusion perpetuated by a sense of lack
Pursuing "things" to deal with the sense of lack because we don't really know what else to do to deal with it
Consumerism
Greed
Ill will
Our militarized society
The institutionalized systems that are running of their own accord
The duality of good vs evil and vilifying the "other" in the Judeo Christian West
The importance of personal transformation in our cultural transformation
What Buddhism is loosing as it moves into the modern world
What Buddhism is gaining as it moves into the modern world
The meditative and contemplative practices of Buddhism that can help us transform ourselves
Social transformation and Individual transformation
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