Online: What is the Good Life?
with Seth Zuihō Segall
Thursday, February 22nd, 2024 | 7:00pm – 8:30pm ET
Buddhism is often understood as being only about the ending of suffering, but good lives involve more than the absence of suffering. Good lives are also meaningful, psychologically rich, emotionally satisfying, and ethically and aesthetically attentive.
What can Buddhism (alongside the ancient Confucian and Aristotelian traditions) tell us about the nature of the good life today? What are the moral and intellectual virtues that contribute to personal and collective flourishing and how can we cultivate them? What are the diverse ways we in which we can flourish, and what do all flourishing lives have in common?
This talk and question-and-answer session based on Seth Zuihō Segall’s new book, The House We Live In: Virtue, Wisdom, and Pluralism (Equinox, 2023), offers a view of the Buddhist path that is naturalistic, pragmatic, and humanistic. One that is about living the best possible life we can in this, our present lifetime.
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Teacher(s)
Seth Zuihō Segall
Seth Zuihō Segall, Ph.D. was ordained as a Zen Buddhist priest in the White Plum Asanga and Zen Peacemaker Order lineages by Daiken Nelson Roshi and is affiliated with Pamsula Zen of Westchester. Before studying Zen, he was an Insight Meditation practitioner. He is a retired clinical psychologist who was formally Assistant Clinical Professor at the Yale University School of Medicine, Director of Psychology at Waterbury Hospital, and president of the New England Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation.
Seth’s publications include Encountering Buddhism: Western Psychology and Buddhist Teachings (SUNY Press, 2003), Buddhism and Human Flourishing: A Modern Western Perspective (Palgrave MacMillan, 2020), Living Zen: A Practical Guide to a Peaceful, Positive, and Balanced Life (Rockridge Press, 2020), and The House We Live in: Virtue, Wisdom, and Pluralism (Equinox, 2023), as well as chapters in The Routledge Handbook on the Philosophy of Meditation (2022) and the Springer Handbook of Positive Psychology, Religion, and Spirituality (2022). He is a contributing editor for Tricycle Magazine and the science writer for the Mindfulness Research Monthly. His work focuses on integrating Asian and Western approaches to human flourishing within a naturalistic, pragmatic framework.