Quote:Gary Gach is an adjunct faculty member at the University of San Francisco. He is author of The Idiot's Guide to Buddhism as well as Pause, Breathe, Smile – Awakening Mindfulness When Meditation is Not Enough. He is cotranslator of three Korean books of poetry by Ko Un. He is editor of What Book!? Buddha Poems From Beat to Hiphop. He recently served as cotranslator for Hafiz's Little Book of Life. Here he reviews and presents his take on different movements within Buddhism – including theravada, zen, pure land, and mahayana.
00:00 Introduction
03:59 Original teachings of the Buddha
07:40 Difficulty of comparing and constrasting
13:02 Parapsychology and Buddhism
19:02 Western style Buddhism
25:36 Pure Land Buddhism
34:47 Deities in Buddhism
40:23 Fusions of religious thought
51:36 Conclusion
'Historically, we may regard materialism as a system of dogma set up to combat orthodox dogma...Accordingly we find that, as ancient orthodoxies disintegrate, materialism more and more gives way to scepticism.'
- Bertrand Russell
- Bertrand Russell