Buddhist Praxis toward Global Healing—Cultivating Clarity, Wisdom, and Kinship
Our twenty-first century global society is in critical condition, with intertwined symptoms including ecological deterioration verging on ecosystem collapse; polarization of the human community across racial, ethnic, religious, ideological, and other lines, triggering violent conflicts on different...
| Published in: | Religions |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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MDPI
2022
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Religions
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| Further subjects: | B
vipassanā
B Zen B Samādhi B Kinship B Four Ennobling Truths B institutional ill will B global dukkha B samatha B Tribalism B Ecological Crisis B institutional greed B Eightfold Path B Insight meditation B institutional delusion B Doughnut Economics B Inequality |
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| Summary: | Our twenty-first century global society is in critical condition, with intertwined symptoms including ecological deterioration verging on ecosystem collapse; polarization of the human community across racial, ethnic, religious, ideological, and other lines, triggering violent conflicts on different levels; and gross inequality in economic status and opportunity, with many needlessly losing their lives due to hunger and malnutrition, and impoverished multitudes consigned to living in dehumanizing conditions. Taking the Four Noble Truths of the Buddha as a therapeutic approach to our dis-eased human condition, we examine symptoms of our Earth community’s severely disjointed condition, tracing their root causes to the three poisons of greed, ill will, and delusion, as manifested in the personal and in the collective, structural/institutional levels of our being. Eradication of these causes would usher in a wholesome and sustainable way of life for us all. The Buddha’s Eightfold Path is taken up as a strategic approach to global healing, transposing guidelines for personal spiritual practice into the socio-ecological dimension. This essay is offered not only for Buddhists but for all people of good will, of different religious backgrounds or none, who seek to live in a wholesome, sustainable, and awakened way together in one Earth community. |
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| ISSN: | 2077-1444 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religions
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.3390/rel13040315 |