Buddhism is not like finding jesus, not at all. It's its work's it's work, not falling back into default. And the so called real world will not discourage you from operating on your default settings. Our own present culture has harnessed these forces in ways that have yielded extraordinary wealth and comfort and personal freedom. But he says, there are all kinds of freedom. And the kind that is most precious you will not hear much talk about in the great outside world of wanting and achieving.
David and Tamler dive into David Foster Wallace’s celebrated and surprisingly earnest Kenyon College commencement speech “This is Water”. How can we escape the prison and prism of our (literally) self-centered perspective? Can we choose to adjust our natural default settings, take a break from our running inner monologue, and pay attention to what’s in front of us right now? Is DFW appealing to Buddhist ideas or something more general that you can be found across all spiritual traditions?
Plus we ask the AI ethics program “Ask Delphi” some tough moral questions (spoiler alert: "just the tip" is "rude"), and almost get into a big fight about the potential of AI ethical robots (but we’re saving that argument for a future episode).
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