216: David Loy on the Intersection of Buddhism and Modern Culture

<p><a href="http://oneyoufeed.net/support" target="_blank">Please Support The Show with a Donation</a></p><p><br></p><p>David Loy is a professor, prolific writer, and teacher in the Japanese&nbsp;Zen Buddhism tradition.&nbsp;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 href="http://amzn.to/2EKcrda" target="_blank">A New Buddhist Path: Enlightenment, Evolution, and Ethics in the Modern World</a>. 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.</p><p>&nbsp;Casper Mattress (<a href="http://www.casper.com/oneyoufeed" target="_blank">www.casper.com/oneyoufeed</a>) promo code oneyoufeed&nbsp;and get $50 off select mattresses</p><p>&nbsp;In This Interview, David Loy and I Discuss...</p><ul><li>The Wolf Parable</li><li>His book, <a href="http://amzn.to/2EKcrda" target="_blank">A New Buddhist Path: Enlightenment, Evolution, and Ethics in the Modern World</a></li><li>Buddhism in the West today</li><li>The mindfulness movement</li><li>The play between Buddhism and Psychotherapy</li><li>The role of the self</li><li>The danger of spiritual by-pass</li><li>The delicate line of feeling our difficult emotions and foregoing our emotions</li><li>Transcend the world? Adapt to the world? or See the world differently?</li><li>That the sense of self that we think we have is not as solid or real as we think</li><li>How meditation helps us let go of delusional perceptions of the world</li><li>Our true nature</li><li>The true nature of the world</li><li>Buddhism and emptiness</li><li>The sense of self is obscuring the nature or our minds which in themselves have no form or characteristics in and of themselves</li><li>Liberating our awareness from being stuck on things we're thinking about</li><li>A collection of psychological processes that are happening within us</li><li>The pro