{"id":244899,"date":"2026-10-04T09:02:22","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T14:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/david-loy-on-zen-ecodharma-ai-and-story"},"modified":"2026-10-04T09:02:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T14:02:22","slug":"david-loy-on-zen-ecodharma-ai-and-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/david-loy-on-zen-ecodharma-ai-and-story","title":{"rendered":"David Loy on Zen, EcoDharma, AI and Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/david-loy-on-zen-ecodharma-ai-and-story.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><audio controls style=\"width:625px;\"><source src=\"https:\/\/feeds.soundcloud.com\/stream\/1310580634-singularity1on1-david-loy.mp3?_=1\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\"><\/audio><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow do I respond appropriately?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Zen teacher David Loy thinks that question might be the whole of wisdom. It isn\u2019t asking what the solution is or who\u2019s to blame. It\u2019s asking what this moment actually demands of me.<\/p>\n<p>When we sat down in 2022, the #ClimateCrisis already felt like it couldn\u2019t wait, and #AI was still something most people filed under \u201clater.\u201d Neither one is \u201clater\u201d anymore.<\/p>\n<p>Loy has spent his life trying to close a gap the East and West kept widening: personal enlightenment on one side, social revolution and systemic change on the other. He argues we can no longer keep them apart. Individuals make society, but society also makes individuals. Change only one and you haven\u2019t changed much.<\/p>\n<p>We talked for two hours, and it went to places I didn\u2019t expect. Why he calls this the most dangerous moment in our civilization\u2019s history. What a fellow Zen teacher\u2019s idea of brain implants and the gamification of enlightenment says about us. How the \u201cdelusion of separation\u201d connects #ExistentialRisk, democracy, and the dream of colonizing Mars.<\/p>\n<p>Then he got to stories, and to why he believes the world is made of them.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/david-loy-on-zen-ecodharma-ai-and-story\">Continue reading \u201cDavid Loy on Zen, EcoDharma, AI and Story\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHow do I respond appropriately?\u201d Zen teacher David Loy thinks that question might be the whole of wisdom. It isn\u2019t asking what the solution is or who\u2019s to blame. It\u2019s asking what this moment actually demands of me. When we sat down in 2022, the #ClimateCrisis already felt like it couldn\u2019t wait, and #AI was [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":737,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/737"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}