David Loy on the Intersection of Buddhism and Modern Culture

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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. Casper Mattress (www.casper.com/oneyoufeed) promo code oneyoufeed and get $50 off select mattresses 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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