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You Are Any Body: A Response to Secularizing Buddhist Ethics, with Caroline Savery – Part 2
In Part 2 of their talk, Caroline and Marco continue exploring the relation between meditation and the body. Can meditation can help transmute the karma that comes with the development of abstract thinking and the rise of civilization? Caroline argues that the expansion of the notion of the individual I, which may have once conferred…
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You Are Any Body: A Response to Secularizing Buddhist Ethics, with Caroline Savery – Part 1
In this episode, Marco and Caroline formulate their responses to the Buddhist Geeks podcast episode “Secularizing Buddhist Ethics” with Vincent Horn and Stephen Batchelor. Caroline explains how her understanding of the ways consciousness materially evolves in complex systems—via Douglas Hofstadter of Godel, Escher, Bach and Maturana/Varela’s Santiago School Theory of Cognition—intersects profoundly with her understanding…
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The Ethics of Dialogue: Conversation as a Spiritual Practice
What happens when we bring some of the same principles of a meditation or mindfulness practice into our conversations with each other? That is to say, what becomes possible when we become fully present and engaged in the experience of listening, speaking, and relating to others as a dialogical practice?
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Does an Artist Need a Business Plan?
This pilot episode of the Infinite Conversations podcast—featuring writer, actor, mystic, and activist Mark Binet—explores the difficult relationship between art, commerce, and activism—and asks to what degree contemporary artists are implicated in unjust systems and self-serving motives. Must an artist necessarily oppose power, or can she work with power—especially economic power—to serve noble ends? What…
