Engaged Buddhist Reader

Engaged Buddhist Reader offers a comprehensive glimpse of the range of perepectives and insights on socially engaged Buddhism, a Buddhism that is not just in meditation halls but which prevades our everyday lives and concerns.

Edited by Arnold Kotler.

Editor's Introduction

VII

PART I BEING PEACE

3

(18)

The Dalai Lama

Cultivating Altruism

3

(4)

Thich Nhat Hanh

Suffering Is Not Enough

7

(3)

Maha Ghosananda

Letting Go of Suffering

10

(2)

Kazuaki Tanahashi

The Art of Life

12

(2)

Jack Kornfield

Spiritual Practice and Social Action

14

(7)

PART II THOUCHING PEACE

21

(36)

Thich Nhat Hanh

Life Is a Miracle

21

(6)

Robert Aitken

The Dragon Who Never Sleeps

27

(10)

Shunryu Suzuki

Practicing in the World

37

(2)

Saki F. Santorelli

Mindfulness and Mastery in the Workplace

39

(7)

Thich Nhat Hanh

Walking Meditation

46

(2)

Alan Cutter

Staggering Meditation

48

(2)

Thich Nhat Hnah

The Good News

50

(2)

Marci Thurston-Shaine

More Good News

52

(5)

PART III COMPASSION IN ACTION

57

(78)

Thich Nhat Hanh

Love in Action

57

(7)

Kenneth Kraft

Engaged Buddhism

64

(6)

Sulak Sivaraksa

Buddhism in a World of Change

70

(9)

Robert A. F. Thurman

Nagarjuna's Guidelines for Buddhist Social Action

79

(12)

A. T. Ariyaratne

Waking Everybody Up

91

(7)

Claude Thomas

Finding Peace after a Lifetime of War

98

(5)

Thich Nhat Hanh

Call Me by My True Names

104

(7)

Sister Chan Khong

Days and Months

111

(7)

Gary Snyder

Buddhism and the Possibilities of a Planetary Culture

123

(12)

The Dalai Lama

Genuine Compassion

127

(4)

PART IV THE GREENING OF THE SELF

135

(56)

Allan Hunt Badiner

Dharma Gaia

135

(5)

Chatsumarn Kabilsingh

Early Buddhist Views on Nature

140

(5)

Peter Matthiessen

Watering the Seed of Mindfulness

145

(5)

Joanna Macy

World As Lover, World As Self

150

(12)

Thich Nhat Hanh

The Sun My Heart

162

(9)

Joanna Macy

The Greening of the Self

171

(10)

Bill Devall

Ecocentric Sangha

181

(12)

PART V COMMUNITY

191

(32)

Richard Baker

Building Sangha

191

(2)

Thich Nhat Hanh

Community As a Resource

193

(16)

Sister Annabel Laity

The Six Principles of Harmony

209

(4)

Sister Jina van Hengel

Precious Jewel

213

(2)

Svein Myreng

Acceptance

215

(3)

Chan Phap Dang

Smiling

218

(6)

PART VI FOR A FUTURE TO BE POSSIBLE

223

(30)

Thich Nhat Hanh

Diet for a Mindful Society

223

(11)

Robert Aitken

Precepts and Responsible Practice

234

(4)

Maxine Hong Kingston

Precepts for the Twenty-First Century

238

(2)

Patricia Marx Ellsberg

The Five Precepts and Social Change

240

(3)

Stephen Batchelor

The Future Is in Our Hands

243

(5)

The Dalia Lama

Hope for the Future

248

(5)

About the Contributors

253

(7)

Sources

260

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