Engaging Buddhism | Robert Wright & Jay Garfield [The Wright Show]

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  • 00:56 Teaching Buddhist philosophy
    09:23 Jay’s book, Engaging Buddhism
    15:54 Why “you” might not exist
    24:06 Buddhism and determinism
    39:48 When clarifying your view of reality makes you a better person
    54:09 The error of essentialism
    Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero) and Jay Garfield (Smith College, jaygarfield.org, Engaging Buddhism)
    Recorded on June 1, 2017
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 35

  • @lobsangsherap2559
    @lobsangsherap2559 11 місяців тому +1

    Jay Garfield seems to have absorbed Buddhist teachings well. He probably had a series of highly experienced masters. What a fortunate person and hope he will impart those teachings to others

  • @jonwhite8815
    @jonwhite8815 5 років тому +10

    Jay Garfield stoked my curiosity about the geneaology of the concept of free will. I love the way he deconstructs the supposed problem of free will vs determinism that so many Western philosophers have tried to contend with. Such an insightful interview and I look forward to reading his latest book.

  • @simonnathan2065
    @simonnathan2065 7 місяців тому

    You should get Jay back on! He has released another great book called Losing Ourselves

  • @dannygardillia9414
    @dannygardillia9414 6 років тому +3

    i like how your descriptions help the viewer navigate. thanks gentlemen

  • @dannygardillia9414
    @dannygardillia9414 6 років тому +3

    also just overall juicy content.

  • @radioguy3193
    @radioguy3193 2 роки тому

    Nice job! :)

  • @kynismos
    @kynismos 8 місяців тому

    How much can you know Buddhism, if you do not practice Buddhism?

  • @demidupasan9023
    @demidupasan9023 11 місяців тому

    I think Buddhism is a science

  • @vimalkirti4845
    @vimalkirti4845 4 роки тому

    the self is an illusion because you are what you think - but your thinking changes all the time so your self is always changing so how can there be "a" self ?

  • @jamesstevenson7725
    @jamesstevenson7725 3 роки тому

    The Buddhist tradition is unique

  • @ravivaradhan4956
    @ravivaradhan4956 Рік тому

    If you are teaching "Stoic philosophy," people don't ask you are you a "Stoic?" So, why do they ask whether you are a Buddhist if you teach Buddhist philosophy? Is there an implicit expectation that practice and philosophy should go together? If that is the case, shouldn't they also ask about whether you practice Socrates' philosophy or Spinoza's philosophy to professors who teach philosophy?

  • @demidupasan9023
    @demidupasan9023 11 місяців тому

    Buddhism is the truth

  • @MrPynchon
    @MrPynchon Рік тому

    Garfield is the best interpreter of Mahayana in the West.

  • @trentstrong9018
    @trentstrong9018 6 років тому +2

    I find it hard to believe that the concept of free will didn't exist before Saint Augustine.

    • @waterkingdavid
      @waterkingdavid 5 років тому

      Yes I found this a huge stretch to say that the entire Western world as opposed to the Eastern World thinks in terms of free will because of St. Augustine. Or do I misunderstand what Jay is saying? Surely he isn't saying that?

    • @tomisaacson2762
      @tomisaacson2762 Рік тому +1

      He's talking about a particular way of conceptualizing free will. There are many others that don't posit an uncaused causer.

  • @bofbob1
    @bofbob1 2 роки тому

    Can't say I find it particularly bothersome that people just say "philosophy" for "Western philosophy". Same thing happens in Chinese, but vice-versa. I've been seeing this with music theory lately. Bunch of people very intent on specifying it as "Western art music theory" or something like that, just to make it explicit in the name that it's a specific theory of music rooted in a specific tradition. I've noticed that those people aren't any better at all at approaching other musical systems than people who just say "music theory". It's as if the issue was the underlying attitudes, and not the words we happen to use...

  • @moesypittounikos
    @moesypittounikos Рік тому +1

    if I'm not my body then who's underwear am I now wearing?

  • @bigdaddyfilmmaker
    @bigdaddyfilmmaker Рік тому +1

    15 minutes in and they haven’t said a goddam thing. Cue Charlie Brown’s teacher voice.

  • @mary-gladyskent7709
    @mary-gladyskent7709 6 років тому

    okay dharma and awaken? okay

  • @lbdeuce
    @lbdeuce 3 роки тому +1

    That’s a stout ass man to be discussing Buddhism

  • @vimalkirti4845
    @vimalkirti4845 4 роки тому

    most are too concerned with words instead of trying to understand, reflect and trying to practice to draw out the meaning and its implications on the whole life of oneself and others

  • @gregjustsitting
    @gregjustsitting 5 років тому

    A billionaire would never say he built that. That is an accusation borne in envy by a non builder

  • @frankfeldman6657
    @frankfeldman6657 6 років тому

    interesting blah blah blah re free will-though it's kinda telling and funny that he keeps explaining it by saying, "if i..." this, "if i..." that. hahahaha

  • @AtlasandLiberty
    @AtlasandLiberty 6 років тому +1

    Tell him you voted for Trump and watch unmitigated fireworks.....Then tell him AUM save me from Mara thoughts because Trump is too Great for Earth...Because he believes in the Holy Trinity and not in the Buddha's limited thinking.

    • @waterkingdavid
      @waterkingdavid 5 років тому +1

      Trump believe in the Holy Trinity? Do you mean business, money and power? You are surely not referring to the Holy Trinity of Christianity for which Trump obviously has not the slightest respect. He wooed Christians purely for political gain. Nothing more nothing less.
      You do a disservice to Jesus and his teachings. Trump is about as far away from being an example of someone following Jesus's teachings as you could possibly get.

    • @gregjustsitting
      @gregjustsitting 5 років тому

      I am willing to bet that their is a lot of belief in wealth re-distrubution, reparations, man made global going on in this talk. The left has co-opted Buddhism in America.

    • @AtlasandLiberty
      @AtlasandLiberty 3 роки тому

      @Khaled Rapp Says the Non-Playable Character...Ha ha ha...By the way Buddha was not in fact either Enlightened or a Buddha...Because to be enlightened Brahma/Father in Heaven must be inside the soul. P.S. Ha Ha Ha

  • @if-not-now
    @if-not-now 4 роки тому

    Robert’s neutral face is a frown