David Loy Talk at Village Zendo October 7, 2007

Sunday, October 7, 2007
2:00 to 4:00 p.m.

The Three Poisons, Institutionalized
A Talk by David Loy

The Buddha emphasized the importance of transforming the three unwholesome motivations: greed into generosity, ill will into loving-kindness, delusion into wisdom. Today we also need to address their
collective versions: our economic system institutionalizes greed, militarism institutionalizes ill will, and the media institutionalize delusion. The problem is not only that these three poisons now
operate collectively but that these institutions have taken on a life of their own, as new types of collective ego. Any personal awakening we might have remains incomplete until it is supplemented by a
“social awakening” that motivates us to find ways to challenge these institutionalized causes of widespread suffering.

David Loy is Besl Professor of Ethics/Religion and Society at Xavier University in Cincinnati. His books include The Great Awakening: A Buddhist Social Theory and the forthcoming Money, Sex, War, Karma: Notes for a Buddhist Revolution, both from Wisdom Publications. A Zen student for many years, he is qualified as a teacher in the Sanbo Kyodan tradition.

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