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The most essential insight that Buddhism offers is that all our individual suffering arises from three and only three sources, known in Buddhism as the three poisons: greed, ill-will, and delusion. In The Great Awakening, scholar and Zen teacher David Loy examines how these three poisons, embodied in society's institutions, lie at the root of all social maladies as well. The teachings of Buddhism present a way that the individual can counteract these to alleviate personal suffering, and Loy boldly examines how these teachings can be applied to institutions and even whole cultures for the allev.… (mehr)
 
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cpcs-acts | Sep 23, 2020 |
David R. Loy draws from giants of psychotherapy and existentialism, from Nietzsche to Kierkegaard to Sartre, to explore the fundamental issues of life, death, and what motivates us. Psychotherapy, existentialism, and Buddhism are all concerned with the same fundamental issues of life and death--and death-in-life. David R. Loy's groundbreaking claim is that the unifying feature connecting these perspectives is a sense of pervasive sense of dissatisfaction--or, in a word, lack. In Lack & Transcendence, he brings all three traditions together in a way that casts new light on each, as he draws from giants of psychotherapy, particularly Freud, Ernest Becker, Rollo May, Irvin Yalom, and Otto Rank; great existentialist thinkers, like Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Heidegger, and Sartre; and the teachings of Buddhism, especially as interpreted by Nagarjuna, Huineng, and Dogen. Written in accessible style that does not assume prior familiarity with any of its subjects, this book will appeal to readers of all backgrounds, including psychotherapists and psychoanalysts, religious scholars, Continental philosophers, and anyone seeking clarity on the Great Matter itself. The reader will come away with fresh perspectives on ancient questions and deeper insights into the human predilection to be unhappy--and what the liberating alternative may be.… (mehr)
 
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Langri_Tangpa_Centre | 1 weitere Rezension | May 5, 2019 |
How might Buddhists respond to the ongoing ecological crisis? Loy builds some strong foundations here, on the way to an effective answer. I think his more concrete suggestions get weaker. This is a huge topic that is in the early stages of exploration, so it's really too much to expect a maturely ripe fruit at this point. A lot of what is here is just a restatement and summary of what one might find elsewhere, but there are some deep original ideas here too.

I've been involved in Buddhism for about forty years, and ecological at least aware and concerned for more like fifty. This book is really very close to the center of my core concerns. I found myself exclaiming "yes, but..." at quite a few points in my reading here. This would be an excellent book for readers both from the ecological and the Buddhist communities. I imagine everyone will nod in agreement at many points and be stopped at other points, but the particular reactions will vary a lot across that readership.

A key point that Loy makes here is that the climate crisis is just the tip of a vast iceberg, whose deeper layers are a much broader ecological crisis, social crises, and metaphysical outlooks that have spawned these problems. If we solve the climate crisis without addressing these deeper issues, we'll run into fresh symptoms quickly enough.

One beautiful thought I found here - surely I have heard this again and again, but somehow the way Loy put it hit me more deeply.... one main aspect of our problematic metaphysical outlook is how we treat the objects around us as tools we can use to fulfill our desires. We even treat time this way. The present moment is just a step on the path to the achievement of our goals.

Loy challenges Buddhism to change itself to become able to address these crises of our day. He repeats a slogan - Buddhism is not just what the Buddha said, it's also what the Buddha started. So Buddhism has evolved and can continue to evolve. Our problems now are systemic, structural. Loy brings up the idea of a collective self, to which Buddhist analysis and therapy might apply as they do to personal selves. These ideas will probably make tradition-bound Buddhists pause! Myself, I find them quite natural.

Loy puts a lot of hope in the notion of an eco-sattva, a sort of next step for a Bodhisattva. I agree that we do need such a new ideal. How such a new ideal might catalyze the kind of social transformation we need if we are to navigate any of the least miserable trajectories possible ahead of us... that's where I found the ideas in this book a bit weak. I can't really imagine very many people living up to any very high moral standard. Looking at the diversity of cultures around the world and through history, it's clear that profound change is possible, and that the ideals we hold are fundamental. Where I see a lot more exploration needed is in how our way of living and our ideals are related. One piece of that puzzle will be to look into the dynamics of societies, how they orbit in some stable basin for a few centuries, then somehow tumble into some different pattern. One way or another we are surely facing a period of tumbling. I am guessing that ideals and ways of living fit together differently in periods of tumbling versus periods of orbiting.
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