Island: Aldous Huxley’s Mahayana Buddhist Utopia Pt. 1
Island: Aldous Huxley’s Mahayana Buddhist Utopia Pt. 2
Although I usually try to avoid religion, instead preferring philosophy as my personal method, the concept of “open source” Buddhism seems a bit more appealing than the institutional and tradition-bound versions of the religion. The idea of unpacking a religion and extracting the wisdom from the dogma appeals to me.
Of course, people love to find works that resonate with their own work, and I enjoyed these videos they contained some of the same notions found in an essay I wrote a decade ago,
For those of you who do not know much about Mahayana Buddhism, here is a video in two parts of a film that the late philosopher Alan Watts made illuminating the subject.
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