By David R. Loy

ISBN-10: 1438426798

ISBN-13: 9781438426792

ISBN-10: 1441618651

ISBN-13: 9781441618658

Essays from the singular adventure of Buddhist social critic and thinker David R. Loy on vintage and modern concerns.

What can we have to do to turn into really comfortable—at one—with our lives right here and now? In those essays, Buddhist social critic and thinker David R. Loy discusses liberation now not from the area, yet into it. Loy’s lens is a large one, encompassing the vintage and the modern, the Asian, the Western, and the comparative. Loy seeks to tell apart what's very important from what's culturally conditioned and maybe outmoded in Buddhism and likewise to deliver clean worldviews to a Western international in drawback. a few simple Buddhist teachings are reconsidered and thinkers reminiscent of Nagarjuna, Dogen, Eckhart, Swedenborg, and Zhuangzi are mentioned. relatively modern issues comprise the consequences of a automated society, the suggestion of karma and the placement of girls, terrorism and the failure of secular modernity, and a Buddhist reaction to the suggestion of a conflict of civilizations. together with his distinct mixture of Buddhist philosophical perception and keenness for social justice, Loy asks us to contemplate while our know-how, or realization, is certain in fable and whilst it's unbound and awakened.

"Loy … writes from a comparative point of view to figure out what's important and what's culturally superseded in Buddhism and Western worldviews. the moral demanding situations hindering liberation are, in his opinion, the human propensity to grasp to dualistic modes of suggestion and behaviour, which, he argues convincingly, is the resource of the violence, poverty, and exploitation which are shortly destroying the human group and the life-forms with which humankind stocks planet Earth." — CHOICE

“These essays, each in its personal correct, are tremendous thought-provoking. a number of the issues addressed are certainly major, well timed, and an important towards realizing occasions and events in our modern worldwide scene.” — Ruben L. F. Habito, writer of Experiencing Buddhism: methods of knowledge and Compassion