Freedom of Asceticism: Buddha's Free Lunch - Ep. 10

Episode 10 April 03, 2015 00:23:46
Freedom of Asceticism: Buddha's Free Lunch - Ep. 10
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Freedom of Asceticism: Buddha's Free Lunch - Ep. 10

Apr 03 2015 | 00:23:46

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Show Notes

Introduction to the asceticism as created by the historical Buddha in the original mendicant community of male & female followers of his teachings. Robert A.F. Thurman discusses the difference between Theravada and Universal Vehicle (Mahayana) Buddhism, comparing the Nirvana aspiring mendicants and Enlightenment aspiring Bodhisattvas — the variances in their ways of thinking and the impacts they have on the societies they live among.

Includes a discussion of the revolutionary & cultural disruptive nature of structures supporting a class of life long dedicated practitioners of mind transformation, wisdom studies and material renunciation.

Professor Thurman concludes this podcast by framing the mendicant's asceticism to be a logical declaration of the interconnected, inter-relational nature of reality, "The Invention of the Americas: Eclipse of "the Other" and the Myth of Modernity" by Enrique Dussel & The Stamford Prison Experiment & with a "Mad Scientist" meditation.

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