What should a socially-aware person make of Buddhism? It presents itself as the treasure house of enlightened ideas and practices that were formulated by a gifted teacher who lived in India twenty-five hundred years ago. Followers of Buddhism, east and west, tell us that this man’s teachings accurately identify the real conditions of human existence. If true, that is quite a remarkable achievement. It would mean that an ancient diagnosis of human experience still pertains in our hyper-accelerated, ultra-technological modern society. It also suggests that Buddhist thought contains antidotes or even solutions for negotiating both our zombie-like consumer-capitalist system and our current political catastrophe. Is such a correspondence possible? Does Buddhism have anything of consequence to teach us today?

Dates: Tuesdays, June 13, 20, 27; July 11, 18
Time: 6-8:30 pm
Cost: $195
Location: Cultureworks, 1315 Walnut St, Suite 320, Philadelphia, PA 19107
Instructor: Glenn Wallis

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