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57 The Political Turn (The Great Feast)

The Imperfect Buddha Podcast

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The Axiomatic Principle of Transcendence

Much of our political culture is based in the fantasy that we can transcend our animal physical selves. Much of it is based on ignoring, dominating, explaining away our baser instincts and desires. And much of it is fundamentally a form, an expression of ignorance. When it excludes this fundamental part of our being in this world, it can't help but be dysfunctional.

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