397. David Loy

David Robert Loy is a professor, writer, and Zen teacher in the Sanbo Kyodan tradition of Japanese Zen Buddhism.

He is a prolific author, whose essays and books have been translated into many languages. His articles appear regularly in the pages of major journals and Buddhist magazines. He is on the editorial or advisory boards of the journals Cultural Dynamics, Worldviews, Contemporary Buddhism, Journal of Transpersonal Psychology, and World Fellowship of Buddhists Review. He is also on the advisory boards of Buddhist Global Relief, the Clear View Project, Zen Peacemakers, and the Ernest Becker Foundation.”

For more details about his teachings, visit his website or his YouTube channel. He also has an extensive audio/video library on his website.

Books:

• A New Buddhist Path: Enlightenment, Evolution, and Ethics in the Modern World
• The World Is Made of Stories
• Lack and Transcendence: The Problem of Death and Life in Psychotherapy, Existentialism, and Buddhism
• Money, Sex, War, Karma: Notes for a Buddhist Revolution
• Nonduality: A Study in Comparative Philosophy
• The Great Awakening: A Buddhist Social Theory
• Awareness Bound and Unbound: Buddhist Essays
• A Buddhist History of the West (Suny Series in Religious Studies)
• A Buddhist Response to the Climate Emergency

Transcript of this interview

Previous Batgap discussion involving David.

YouTube Video Chapters:

• 00:00:00 – Introduction to Buddha at the Gas Pump
• 00:03:58 – A Spiritual Journey from Zen Monasteries to the US
• 00:07:55 – Integration and Embodiment in Spiritual Practice
• 00:11:22 – The Buddhist Concept of Not-Self and Indra’s Net
• 00:15:03 – Evolution and Understanding God from a Buddhist Perspective
• 00:19:00 – The Deeper Meaning of Myth and the Cosmos as an Organism
• 00:22:59 – The Cosmos as a Self-Organizing Organism
• 00:26:51 – The Mystery of the Universe
• 00:30:29 – The Devaluation of the Material World
• 00:34:35 – The Tension Between Cosmological Dualism and Non-dualism
• 00:38:16 – Letting go and Opening up
• 00:42:05 – The stages of awakening and glimpses
• 00:45:51 – Glimpsing the Tree in the Fog
• 00:49:37 – The Feedback Loop of Karma
• 00:53:23 – Structural and Institutional Forces
• 00:57:16 – The Environmental Crisis and Self-Destruction
• 01:01:11 – Integration of Spiritual Practice with Engagement in the World
• 01:04:46 – Tapping into Intelligence and Creativity
• 01:08:28 – A Turning Point in Human History
• 01:12:05 – Galvanizing the Buddhist Community
• 01:15:47 – The Three Poisons and Institutionalized Greed
• 01:19:35 – The Need for Wars and Bombing
• 01:23:44 – A Turning, an Awakening, a Shift
• 01:27:26 – The Thinning Membrane and the Connection Between Activism and Spirituality
• 01:31:20 – The Tension Between Cosmological Dualism and Non-Dualism in Buddhism and the Need for Clarification
• 01:35:07 – Transcendence and Motivational Shifts
• 01:38:59 – Experiencing the World as a Manifestation
• 01:42:53 – Relating to the Biosphere
• 01:46:21 – The Spiritual Crisis and Its Solutions
• 01:49:57 – Radical Transformation in Buddhism
• 01:53:41 – Website and YouTube Notifications

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