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.

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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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