397. David Loy - a podcast by Rick Archer

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 StoriesLack and Transcendence: The Problem of Death and Life in Psychotherapy, Existentialism, and Buddhism
Money, Sex, War, Karma: Notes for a Buddhist RevolutionNonduality: A Study in Comparative Philosophy
The Great Awakening: A Buddhist Social TheoryAwareness 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 interviewPrevious Batgap discussion involving David.

Video and audio below. Audio also available as a Podcast.YouTube Video Chapters:


00:00:00 - Introduction to Buddha at the Gas Pump00:03:58 - A Spiritual Journey from Zen Monasteries to the US
00:07:55 - Integration and Embodiment in Spiritual Practice00:11:22 - The Buddhist Concept of Not-Self and Indra's Net
00:15:03 - Evolution and Understanding God from a Buddhist Perspective00:19:00 - The Deeper Meaning of Myth and the Cosmos as an Organism
00:22:59 - The Cosmos as a Self-Organizing Organism00:26:51 - The Mystery of the Universe
00:30:29 - The Devaluation of the Material World00:34:35 - The Tension Between Cosmological Dualism and Non-dualism
00:38:16 - Letting go and Opening up00:42:05 - The stages of awakening and glimpses
00:45:51 - Glimpsing the Tree in the Fog00:49:37 - The Feedback Loop of Karma
00:53:23 - Structural and Institutional Forces00:57:16 - The Environmental Crisis and Self-Destruction
01:01:11 - Integration of Spiritual Practice with Engagement in the World01:04:46 - Tapping into Intelligence and Creativity
01:08:28 - A Turning Point in Human History01:12:05 - Galvanizing the Buddhist Community
01:15:47 - The Three Poisons and Institutionalized Greed01:19:35 - The Need for Wars and Bombing
01:23:44 - A Turning, an Awakening, a Shift01:27:26 - 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 Clarification01:35:07 - Transcendence and Motivational Shifts
01:38:59 - Experiencing the World as a Manifestation01:42:53 - Relating to the Biosphere
01:46:21 - The Spiritual Crisis and Its Solutions01:49:57 - Radical Transformation in Buddhism
01:53:41 - Website and YouTube NotificationsSave

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