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With a number of modern trends submerging the individual in ever larger group situations, Sangharakshita traces how this can lead to frustration and a sense of powerlessness, asserting that only a spiritual solution such as Buddhism, can overcome the problem.
Talk given in 1979.
This talk is part of the series A New Buddhist Movement - the Meaning of the FWBO.
1. | A new Buddhist Movement (7:01) | |
2. | Why the FWBO is 'Western' (6:40) | |
3. | The individual and the group (12:16) | |
4. | The True Individual and the Axial Age (4:51) | |
5. | The imbalance of the group and the True Individual (13:25) | |
6. | Buddhism and the individual (8:13) | |
7. | Buddhism only shows the way (4:50) | |
8. | Christianity and the restriction of the individual (5:19) | |
9. | A better Christianity or a Buddhist spiritual Movement? (2:58) |
Total running time: 1:05:33