Money, Sex, War, Karma

Notes for a Buddhist Revolution

David R. Loy

• Publisher: Wisdom Publications
• Year: 2008
• ISBN:
  9780861719655
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Eastern Philosophy

• What's Wrong with Sex?
• How to Drive Your Karma
• Consciousness Commodified
• The Karma of Food
• The Three Poisons, Institutionalized
• Why We Love War

These are just some of the chapters in this brilliant book from David R. Loy.In little time, Loy has become one of the most powerful advocates of the Buddhist worldview, explaining like no one else its ability to transform the sociopolitical landscape of the modern world.In this, his most accessible work to date, he offers sharp and even shockingly clear presentations of oft-misunderstood Buddhist staples-the working of karma, the nature of self, the causes of trouble on both the individual and societal levels-and the real reasons behind our collective sense of "never enough, " whether it's time, money, sex, security... even war.Loy's "Buddhist Revolution" is nothing less than a radical change in the ways we can approach our lives, our planet, the collective delusions that pervade our language, culture, and even our spirituality.

Index

A

abortion

addiction

advertising. See also consumerism

afterlife

alienation

anatta (not-self). See also self

described

ecology and

food practices and

karma and

money and

the suffering of the self and

anicca. See impermanence (anicca)

Armstrong, Karen

Ashoka

attention-deficit disorder (ADD)

liberation of

traps

Axial Age

B

Battle for God, The (Armstrong)

being-time (uji)

bhikkhu monks. See also monastics

bhikkhuni nuns. See also monastics

Bin Laden, Osama

biology

birth control

Bodhidharma

bodhisattvas

body

death and

karma and

Nagarjuna and

sexuality and

Bön shamanism

Borges, Jorge Luis

Brahma’s Net Sutra

Brahman

Brahmanism

Braudy, Leo

Britain

British Columbia

Buddha. See also sutras

ecology and

fame and

food practices and

Hakuin on

ideology and

Jataka tales and

karma and

rules and

Sangha and

Second

sexuality and

three poisons and

Burnett, Leo

Bush, George W.

C

capitalism. See also economics

Carey, Alex

Catholicism. See also Christianity

cause and effect. See also karma

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celebrities. See fame

celibacy. See also sexuality

cetana (motivations). See also motivation

Ceylon

chakras

Chan Buddhism. See also Zen Buddhism

Chapela, Ignacio

children, raising

China

Chinese Buddhism

Cho, Seung-Hui

Chomsky, Noam

Christianity

ecology and

karma and

money and

sexuality and

war and

City of Ten Thousand Buddhas

cognitive commons

cognitive dissonance

Cold War

commodification

compassion

consciousness, commodification of

Constitution

consumerism

Coomaraswamy, Ananda

corporations. See also economics

Culakammavibhanga Sutra

D

Dalai Lama

Darwin, Charles

death

karma and

sexuality and

time and

war and

delusion. See also three poisons

ecology and

food practices and

karma and

institutionalized

Nagarjuna and

nonviolence and

time and

de...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Epigraph
• Introduction
• The Suffering of Self
• Lack of Money
• The Great Seduction
• Trapped in Time
• The Second Buddha
• How to Drive Your Karma
• What’s Wrong with Sex?
• What Would the Buddha Do?
• The Three Poisons, Institutionalized
• Consciousness Commodified: The Attention-Deficit Society
• Healing Ecology
• The Karma of Food
• Why We Love War
• Notes for a Buddhist Revolution
• Index
• Acknowledgements
• About the Author
• About Wisdom Publications
• Also Available from Wisdom Publications
• Copyright Page