98 Being Buddhist and Some Thoughts on "Identity"

The Imperfect Buddha Podcast

The Think Pieces continue. This month, it is a look back at a piece on being Buddhist and identity. The text version can be found below. Themes picked up on in this episode include:

• Identity in an age of identity politics
• Playing identity politics, or not
• The discomfort of committing to the Buddhist identity
• True me versus contextual me
• The therapeutic age
• Buddhism as capture V Buddhism as liberating force

More reflective exploration of the themes of post-traditional Buddhism and non-buddhism can be found at the Imperfect Buddha Site.

Original Blog post here.

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