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#94 Action without Attachment, Conversational Care, and the Bhagavad Gita with philosopher and professor Keya Maitra

#94 Action without Attachment, Conversational Care, and the Bhagavad Gita with philosopher and professor Keya Maitra17 aug1 u 32 min

Send a love message Keya Maitra is the Lenney Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hawai'i Mānoa. Keya joins Andrea to talk about her Philosophy of the Bhagavad Gita. They discuss this text as a living philosophical conversation. They move from action without attachment and yoga as a redirection of attention, to why the Gita's dualism isn't the mind-body split we know from Descartes, to how holding tension (rather than dissolving it) opens an expanding circle of care. By...