Awareness Bound and Unbound

David R. Loy is Besl Family Chair Professor of Ethics/Religion and Society at Xavier University. He is the author of several books, including A Buddhist History of the West: Studies in Lack, also published by SUNY Press, and Money, Sex, War, Karma: Notes for a Buddhist Revolution.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Myth Broken and Unbroken1. Awareness Bound and Unbound: On the Nature of Attention2. Language Against Its Own Mystifications: Deconstruction in Nagarjuna and Dogen3. Dead Words, Living Words, Healing Words: The Disseminations of Dogen and Eckhart4. Zhuangzi and Nagarjuna on the Truth of No Truth5. CyberBabel6. Dying to the Self that Never Was7. The Dharma of Emanuel Swedenborg8. The Karma of Women9. The West Against the Rest? A Buddhist Response to The Clash of Civilizations 10. Terrorism as Religion: On the Identity Crisis of SecularismNotesReferencesIndex

"Loy … writes from a comparative perspective to determine what is vital and what is culturally outdated in Buddhism and Western worldviews. The ethical challenges hindering liberation are, in his opinion, the human propensity to cling to dualistic modes of thought and behavior, which, he argues convincingly, is the source of the violence, poverty, and exploitation that are presently destroying the human community and the life-forms with which humankind shares planet Earth." — CHOICE"These essays, each one in its own right, are extremely thought-provoking. The various topics addressed are indeed significant, timely, and crucial toward understanding events and situations in our contemporary global scene." — Ruben L. F. Habito, author of Experiencing Buddhism: Ways of Wisdom and Compassion