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2021/01/09

Amazon.com: Buddhism and Ecology: The Interconnection of Dharma and Deeds (Religions of the World and Ecology) (9780945454144): Tucker, Mary Evelyn, Williams, Duncan Ryūken, Barnhill, David Landis, Chapple, Christopher Key, Eckel, Malcolm David, Habito, Ruben L. F., Harris, Ian, Ingram, Paul O., Kaza, Stephanie, Kraft, Kenneth, Lancaster, Lewis, Loori, John Daido, Natadecha-Sponsel, Poranee, Odin, Steve, Parkes, Graham, Rockefeller, Steven C., Sponberg, Alan, Sponsel, Leslie E., Swearer, Donald K., Yamauchi, Jeff: Books

Amazon.com: Buddhism and Ecology: The Interconnection of Dharma and Deeds 

Tucker, Mary Evelyn, Williams, Duncan Ryūken, Barnhill, David Landis, Chapple, Christopher Key, Eckel, Malcolm David, Habito, Ruben L. F., Harris, Ian, Ingram, Paul O., Kaza, Stephanie, Kraft, Kenneth, Lancaster, Lewis, Loori, John Daido, Natadecha-Sponsel, Poranee, Odin, Steve, Parkes, Graham, Rockefeller, Steven C., Sponberg, Alan, Sponsel, Leslie E., Swearer, Donald K., Yamauchi, Jeff: Books



Buddhism and Ecology: The Interconnection of Dharma and Deeds (Religions of the World and Ecology)
by Mary Evelyn Tucker (Editor), Duncan Ryūken Williams (Editor), David Landis Barnhill (Contributor), Christopher Key Chapple (Contributor), Malcolm David Eckel (Contributor), Ruben L. F. Habito (Contributor), & 14 more
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“A volume of this kind is an important step in engaging scholarship to address critical issues of our time. The potential of religious traditions offering resources for rethinking our relation to the earth is one of the most exciting themes to emerge from scholarship in many years. This volume will be a first important step to the full understanding of the contribution humankind's perceptions of the sacred can make to the way we care for our earth.”―Rodney L. Taylor Professor of Religious Studies and Associate Dean
of the Graduate School, University of Colorado

“What a significant advance these articles represent for the study of religion and ecology. The potential contribution to the new field of J religious ecology is immense. These papers will help to create a coherent field for the study of Buddhism and ecology. What is even more important, though this is not the precise task of scholarship, these papers will help define the modern Buddhist response to ecological ethics.”―John Berthrong, Associate Dean for Academic and Administrative Affairs, Boston University School of Theology, and Director, Institute for Dialogue among Religions
About the Author


Mary Evelyn Tucker is Senior Lecturer, Yale Divinity School.

An ordained Buddhist priest in the Soto Zen tradition, Duncan Ryūken Williams has spent years piecing together the story of the Japanese American community during World War II. A renowned scholar of Buddhism, he has taught at the University of California, Berkeley, University of California, Irvine, and Trinity College, and is now the Director of the Shinso Ito Center for Japanese Religions and Culture at the University of Southern California. He has published five other books, including The Other Side of Zen.

Christopher Key Chapple is Navin and Pratima Doshi Professor of Indic and Comparative Theology, Loyola Marymount University.

Malcolm David Eckel is Associate Professor of Religion at Boston University.

Donald K. Swearer is Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Harvard Divinity School’s Center for the Study of World Religions and Professor of Religion, Emeritus, at Swarthmore College.

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Publisher : Harvard University Press (January 15, 1998)
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ISBN-10 : 0945454147
ISBN-13 : 978-0945454144
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4.0 out of 5 stars An excellent introduction to Buddhist environmentalismReviewed in the United States on November 22, 2000

This is a first rate academic introduction to Buddhist environmentalism. 'Buddhism and Ecology' is one of a series of volumes on world faiths and ecology produced by the Harvard University Center for the Study of World Religions. It contains 19 essays from a variety of perspectives, all seeking to make a Buddhist contribution to the ongoing discussion of the environmental crisis.
While a number of essays are philosophical in nature, practical outcomes are not neglected. The essays consider Buddhism as practised in Thailand, Japan, India, America and elsewhere. Theravada, Mahayana and Zen traditions are specifically considered, as is 'engaged Buddhism'.

I would recommend this work as an excellent introduction to a continuing discussion, with only the following two reservations. First, most of the essays are written by American, or American based, authors. This is not necessarily a problem, and it reflects the nature of the conference which produced the papers presented here. But given the wealth of writers on Buddhism around the world, a greater breadth could have been represented. This leads to my second minor gripe, which is that there are no essays specifically on Tibetan Buddhism. This is a great shame, although, clearly, not everything can be considered, even in a fairly weighty tome such as this.

There is an extremely useful bibliography, and I now recommend this book to interested people, alongside 'Dharma Gaia', which covers similar ground, but in a more populist, less academic way. 'Dharma Rain' is another recent work covering similar ground in a slightly less academic fashion.
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2020/12/19

The Great Turning | ecoliteracy.org

The Great Turning | ecoliteracy.org



THE GREAT TURNING
Joanna Macy


Joanna Macy: The Great Turning is a shift from the Industrial Growth Society to a life-sustaining civilization.



The Great Turning is a name for the essential adventure of our time: the shift from the Industrial Growth Society to a life-sustaining civilization.

The ecological and social crises we face are caused by an economic system dependent on accelerating growth. This self-destructing political economy sets its goals and measures its performance in terms of ever-increasing corporate profits—in other words by how fast materials can be extracted from Earth and turned into consumer products, weapons, and waste.

A revolution is under way because people are realizing that our needs can be met without destroying our world. We have the technical knowledge, the communication tools, and material resources to grow enough food, ensure clean air and water, and meet rational energy needs. Future generations, if there is a livable world for them, will look back at the epochal transition we are making to a life-sustaining society. And they may well call this the time of the Great Turning. It is happening now.

Whether or not it is recognized by corporate-controlled media, the Great Turning is a reality. Although we cannot know yet if it will take hold in time for humans and other complex life forms to survive, we can know that it is under way. And it is gaining momentum, through the actions of countless individuals and groups around the world. To see this as the larger context of our lives clears our vision and summons our courage.

The Three Dimensions of the Great Turning:

1. Actions to slow the damage to Earth and its beings

Perhaps the most visible dimension of the Great Turning, these activities include all the political, legislative, and legal work required to reduce the destruction, as well as direct actions—blockades, boycotts, civil disobedience, and other forms of refusal. A few examples:
Documenting the ecological and health effects of the Industrial Growth Society;
Lobbying or protesting against the World Trade Organization and the international trade agreements that endanger ecosystems and undermine social and economic justice;
Blowing the whistle on illegal and unethical corporate practices;
Blockading and conducting vigils at places of ecological destruction, such as old-growth forests under threat of clear-cutting or at nuclear dumping grounds.

Work of this kind buys time. It saves some lives, and some ecosystems, species, and cultures, as well as some of the gene pool, for the sustainable society to come. But it is insufficient to bring that society about.

2. Analysis of structural causes and the creation of structural alternatives

The second dimension of the Great Turning is equally crucial. To free ourselves and our planet from the damage being inflicted by the Industrial Growth Society, we must understand its dynamics. What are the tacit agreements that create obscene wealth for a few, while progressively impoverishing the rest of humanity? What interlocking causes indenture us to an insatiable economy that uses our Earth as supply house and sewer? It is not a pretty picture, and it takes courage and confidence in our own common sense to look at it with realism; but we are demystifying the workings of the global economy. When we see how this system operates, we are less tempted to demonize the politicians and corporate CEOs who are in bondage to it. And for all the apparent might of the Industrial Growth Society, we can also see its fragility—how dependent it is on our obedience, and how doomed it is to devour itself. In addition to learning how the present system works, we are also creating structural alternatives. In countless localities, like green shoots pushing up through the rubble, new social and economic arrangements are sprouting. Not waiting for our national or state politicos to catch up with us, we are banding together, taking action in our own communities. Flowing from our creativity and collaboration on behalf of life, these actions may look marginal, but they hold the seeds for the future.

Some of the initiatives in this dimension:
Teach-ins and study groups on the Industrial Growth Society;
Strategies and programs for nonviolent, citizen-based defense;
Reduction of reliance on fossil and nuclear fuels and conversion to renewable energy sources;
Collaborative living arrangements such as co-housing and eco-villages;
Community gardens, consumer cooperatives, community-supported agriculture, watershed restoration, local currencies....

3. Shift in Consciousness

These structural alternatives cannot take root and survive without deeply ingrained values to sustain them. They must mirror what we want and how we relate to Earth and each other. They require, in other words, a profound shift in our perception of reality—and that shift is happening now, both as cognitive revolution and spiritual awakening.

The insights and experiences that enable us to make this shift are accelerating, and they take many forms. They arise as grief for our world, giving the lie to old paradigm notions of rugged individualism, the essential separateness of the self. They arise as glad response to breakthroughs in scientific thought, as reductionism and materialism give way to evidence of a living universe. And they arise in the resurgence of wisdom traditions, reminding us again that our world is a sacred whole, worthy of adoration and service.

The many forms and ingredients of this dimension include:
General living systems theory;
Deep ecology and the deep, long-range ecology movement;
Creation spirituality and liberation theology;
Engaged Buddhism and similar currents in other traditions;
The resurgence of shamanic traditions;
Ecofeminism;
Ecopsychology;
The simple living movement.

The realizations we make in the third dimension of the Great Turning save us from succumbing to either panic or paralysis. They help us resist the temptation to stick our heads in the sand, or to turn on each other, for scapegoats on whom to vent our fear and rage.
June 29 2009
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Origin of the Term
Home/Home/A Great Turning: The Process/Origin of the Term

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The term The Great Turning has come into widespread use to describe the awakening of a higher level of human consciousness and a human turn from an era of violence against people and nature to a new era of peace, justice and environmental restoration. Most people are not aware that this awakening is underway, because positive change rarely reaches the level of front page – or even back-page – news! YES! magazine is one of the few publications that is in the business of bringing these stories to public attention.

The underlying idea of a epic human turning is discussed by a many writers who refer to it by a variety of names. The Institute for Noetic Sciences refers to it as The Shift, which is also the name of its monthly publication.

“The Great Turning” was first used by Craig Schindler and Gary Lapid to describe the framing idea underlying the work of Project Victory, which they founded in 1985. Their work focused on reducing the risks of nuclear war and conflict transformation. They report that they trained 10,000 leaders in conflict transformation and led a national dialogue on dismantling nuclear weapons. More recently they sponsored what they describe as “the largest dialogue on race relations ever conducted in the U.S.” They used the term in their talks, dialogues, and articles.

In 1989, Schindler and Lapid published The Great Turning: Personal Peace – Global Victory, with a marketing endorsement from Joanna Macy who expanded and deepened the concept and introduced the term and its underlying frame to hundreds of thousands of people through her writing, lectures, and workshops. See YES! magazine editor Sarah van Gelder’s interview with Macy on “The Great Turning” in the Spring 2000 issue. Macy’s webpage on The Great Turning provides many useful tools.

From Empire to Earth Community

Joanna was a regular and influential participant in a series of State of the Possible retreats for progressive leaders organized by YES! magazine. She introduced the Great Turning into the retreat discussions as an integrating framework to connect the work of the various participants. These conversations in turn shaped the framework presented in The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community, which argues that the human species is in the midst of an epic passage from a 5.000 year Era of Empire to a new Era of Earth Community. Empire organizes human relationships by dominator hierarchy. Earth Community organizes relationships on a model of partnership characterized by mutual caring and accountability.

Throughout the now dying Era of Empire, dominator relations created a dynamic of ruthless competition, violence, and misuse of environmental resources that now drives an accelerating process of environmental and social collapse. This collapse creates a collective imperative to navigate the Great Turning. The communications revolution, which provides the means for humans to function as a collective intelligence, creates the opportunity.. .

When it came time to name the book, the Great Turning seemed to be the perfect title. Because I knew it as her term, I asked Joanna’s permission to use it. She responded with her usual generous spirit that her intention is that the Great Turning should be a public term that is used by everyone and owned by no one. I share that intention.

My argument that the key to the human future centers on relationships, not technology, is inspired by Riane Eisler, The Chalice and the Blade. My argument that the key to transforming our relationships is to awaken a cultural consciousness and change the stories that frame mainstream culture, is inspired by Thomas Berry, Dream of the Earth, and Nicanor Perlas, Shaping Globalization: Civil Society, Cultural Power, and Threefolding.

 
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2020/11/07

Tara Brach - Wikipedia

Tara Brach - Wikipedia

Tara Brach

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Tara Brach (born May 17, 1953) is an American psychologist, author, and proponent of Buddhist meditation. She is a guiding teacher and founder of the Insight Meditation Community of Washington, D.C. (IMCW).[1] Dr. Brach teaches her Wednesday night meeting in Bethesda, Maryland.[2][3] Her colleagues include Jack Kornfield, Sharon Salzberg, Joseph Goldstein and others in the Vipassanā or Insight meditation tradition.[4] Brach also teaches about Buddhist meditation at centers for meditation and yoga in the United States and Europe including Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre, California, the Kripalu Center,[5] and the Omega Institute for Holistic Studies.[6]

Brach is an engaged Buddhist specializing in the application of Buddhist teachings and mindfulness meditation to emotional healing. She has authored books on these subjects including Radical Acceptance, True Refuge and Radical Compassion.

Education[edit]

Brach holds bachelor's degrees in psychology and political science from Clark University.[7] She was awarded a doctorate in clinical psychology from the Fielding Graduate University [2] based on her dissertation analyzing the effectiveness of meditation in the healing of eating disorders.

Personal life[edit]

Brach resides in Virginia with her husband, Jonathan Foust, a yoga and meditation teacher. Brach was raised Christian Unitarian.[8][9][10]

Bibliography[edit]

Books[edit]

Audio publications[edit]

  • Radical Self-Acceptance: A Buddhist Guide to Freeing Yourself from Shame (2005) ISBN 978-1591793212
  • Radical Acceptance: Guided Meditations (2007) ISBN 978-0615185583
  • Meditations for Emotional Healing (2009) ISBN 978-1591797418
  • Meditation and Psychotherapy: A Professional Training Course for Integrating Mindfulness into Clinical Practice (2011) ISBN 978-1591799702
  • Mindfulness Meditations: Nine Guided Practices to Awaken Presence and Open Your Heart (2012) ISBN 978-1604077988
  • Finding True Refuge: Meditations for Difficult Times (2013) ISBN 978-1604078633

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ "Tara Brach - Teacher page". imcw.org. Insight Meditation Community of Washington. Retrieved January 31, 2016.
  2. ^ Jump up to:a b Adelman, Ken (May 1, 2005). "What I've learned: Tara Brach". Washingtonian. Retrieved August 9, 2011.
  3. ^ "Tara Brach - Wednesday Night Class". imcw.org. Insight Meditation Community of Washington. Retrieved November 28, 2015.
  4. ^ Publishers Weekly Review Publisher's Weekly review of Radical Acceptance Retrieved January 31, 2016.
  5. ^ "Tara Brach". Kripalu.org. Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health. Retrieved November 28, 2015.
  6. ^ "Tara Brach, PhD". Eomega.org. Omega Institute for Holistic Studies, Inc. Retrieved November 29, 2015.
  7. ^ Omega Institute Teacher Page Retrieved November 28, 2015
  8. ^ "Riding the wave of secular meditation". Retrieved 2015-08-22.
  9. ^ "Meditation guru Tara Brach is calm eye of Washington's storm - OnFaith". Retrieved 2015-08-22.
  10. ^ ""Allow life to be as it is"" (PDF). Retrieved 2019-04-05.

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