简·阿弗莱克谈环境和实践艺术

谁会思考佛教?谁有资格这么做?将佛教与其他思想和个人生活经验放在一起作为实践，作为文化，作为存在和成为，这意味着什么?虽然这一季的播客是专注于练习，这并不意味着回到温暖的怀抱的感觉，感知和意识减去思考。思想需要表达。我们是有思想、有感情、有行为的存在。更好地思考是佛教在其整个历史中一直表达并为之奋斗的愿望。西方佛教，特别是在美国，已经发展出了各种各样的表达和形式，在许多方面，这种表达引导了美国流行文化中更广泛的反智趋势，以及对感觉和直觉的回归，甚至是对自我的徘徊的新时代的关注。今天的嘉宾简·阿弗莱克分享了“坐即是做”的观点。艺术家，偶尔的学者和作家。 My desire to get Jane onto the podcast was inspired by a piece she wrote for the Side View. It had a title that caught my attention; Meditative Awareness and the Symbiotic Real. The basic idea was that meditation and meditative relationships with the environment can behave as an antidote to anthropocentrism; an extension, if you will, of our over-focus on the selfing process that Buddhism is so concerned with. If ideology is collective selfing, anthropocentrism is species level selfing; this theme is set to be a central one in practice as this century unfolds so expect more guests on here to discuss it. With Jane, we talk about the intimate relationship with the environment that can be fostered and the way that relationship can challenge experiences of selfhood and many of the traps that accompany a self focussed approach to the practising life. We explore how art and the process of creation are integral to this process too.

马修·奥康奈尔是一个生活教练而主人不完美的佛播客。你可以在网上找到不完美的佛脸谱网而且推特(@imperfectbuddha)。