Nonduality, David R. Loy
Nonduality, David R. Loy
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Nonduality
In Buddhism and Beyond

Author: David R. Loy

Narrator: James Anderson Foster

Unabridged: 14 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 12/27/2022

Synopsis

One of Western Buddhism's most sophisticated thinkers on one of Buddhism's most central topics.

The concept of nonduality lies at the very heart of Mahayana Buddhism. In the West, it's usually associated with various kinds of absolute idealism in the West, or mystical traditions in the East—and as a result, many modern philosophers are poorly informed on the topic. Increasingly, however, nonduality is finding its way into Western philosophical debates. In this analysis of the philosophies of nondualism of (Hindu) Vedanta, Mahayana Buddhism, and Taoism, renowned thinker David R. Loy extracts what he calls "a core doctrine" of nonduality. Loy clarifies this easily misunderstood topic with thorough, subtle, and understandable analysis.

About David R. Loy

David R. Loy's books include Ecodharma: Buddhist Teachings for the Ecological Crisis, and Lack & Transcendence, as well as the acclaimed Money, Sex, War, Karma: Notes for a Buddhist Revolution; The Great Awakening: A Buddhist Social Theory; The World Is Made of Stories; A Buddhist Response to the Climate Emergency; and The Dharma of Dragons and Daemons, a finalist for the 2006 Mythopoeic Scholarship Award. He was the Besl Professor of Ethics/Religion and Society at Cincinnati's Xavier University and is qualified as a teacher in the Sanbo Kyodan tradition of Japanese Buddhism.

His articles appear regularly in the pages of major journals such as Tikkun and Buddhist magazines, including Tricycle, Turning Wheel, Lion's Roar, and Buddhadharma, as well as in a variety of scholarly journals. He is on the editorial or advisory boards of the journals Cultural Dynamics, Worldviews, Contemporary Buddhism, Journal of Transpersonal Psychology, and World Fellowship of Buddhists Review. He is also on the advisory boards of Buddhist Global Relief, the Clear View Project, Zen Peacemakers, and the Ernest Becker Foundation. He lives in Boulder, Colorado.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jason on December 29, 2019

David R. Loy has produced an epic tome of nonduality within the great Eastern spiritual traditions. Nonduality is the best book I've read in the last five years. It is scholarly, mind-blowing, and enlightening. Some may say that might be due to my focus on nonduality in my work. But I can say with c......more

Goodreads review by Morgan on September 18, 2024

Phenomenal. Absolutely spellbinding. Author David Loy explores non-duality (advaita in Sanskrit) from the perspectives of Buddhism, Hinduism, and Contemplative Christian spiritual and theological hermeneutical traditions. As well as from both eastern and western traditional, modern and postmodern ph......more

Goodreads review by Mark on November 10, 2021

Alot of really good reviews have been contributed here. I don't need to repeat. I have read and studied the most modern Non-Dual Advaita, Zen and Original spokes people (Eckhart Tolle, Gangaji, Adyashanti, Rupert Spira etc) and I think they have made great inroads in understanding and/or realizing w......more

Goodreads review by Miles on June 06, 2022

God damn!!!! So much in this. I need to think long and hard about the implications nonduality has toward the possibility of true metaphysics IN GENERAL. My brain hurts from this, seriously fatiguing difficult ontology. The best/worst kind of paradox-filled mind-hurting non-dimensional thinking.......more

Goodreads review by Hugh on July 13, 2023

Loy explores the roots of nondual philosophy of the East and compares the nondual categorical differences in traditions. Loy did this so well and so thoroughly that he was able to dissect what he has taken to be superficial differences of perspectives or attitudes, and found the similarities. Loy is......more

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