Hello everybody and welcome back to RevLeft Radio. On today's episode I have on the

author and Zen Buddhist David Robert Lloyd to talk about subudism and the intersection

with Buddhism and political struggle. I love David's work precisely because he adds this

collective political social dimension to his Buddhism and shows how Buddhism can inform that

political struggle and how political struggle cannot be divorced from the core values of Buddhism

itself. So he's somebody that I've wanted to have on for a long time and I'm glad to finally

be able to have that conversation. He's the author of books like Eko Dharma, Money Sex War, and Karma

Notes for Buddhist Revolution and a more philosophically heavy book called Nonduality in which he traces

the non-duality approach and philosophy through Eastern traditions like Taoism and Buddhism

but also linking them up to Western philosophers who have touched on aspects of it as well.

And that's one of the great things that he does as a philosophy professor is weave the Eastern

and Western philosophies together and show how they complement one another. So without further

ado I'll get into this conversation with David but before we do, as always RevLeft Radio is 100%

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bonus monthly episodes. So let's get into this wonderful episode with David R. Loy on Zen Buddhism

and political struggle.

So my name is David Loy. I'm a professor or was a professor. I'm now retired a professor of

philosophy mostly Buddhist in comparative East West philosophy. I'm also a long-term Zen Buddhist

practitioner and sometimes teacher. Yeah well wonderful thank you so much for coming on the show.

As I said before we started recording I'm a huge fan of your work. I've recently read eco-dharma

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