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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