For a Future to Be Possible

by Nhat Hanh, Thich; Aitken, Robert; Baker, Richard; Batchelor, Stephen; Ellsberg, Patricia Marx; Halifax, Joan

• ISBN13: 9781888375077
• ISBN10: 1888375078
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-01-01
• Publisher: Parallax Pr

Summary

The Five Mindfulness Trainings -- protecting life, acting with generosity, behaving responsibly in sexual relationships, speaking and listening deeply and mindfully, and avoiding substance abuse -- are the basic statement of ethics and morality in Buddhism. In "For a Future to be Possible, Zen master and peace activist Thich Nhat Hanh and fourteen prominent co-authors discuss these Five Mindfulness Trainings and offer insights and challenges for how they might play an important role in our personal lives and in society.

Table of Contents

PART ONE THE FIVE MINDFULNESS TRAININGS	3	(80)
The Five Mindfulness Trainings	3	(4)
Introduction	7	(6)
First Mindfulness Training, Reference for Life	13	(7)
Second Mindfulness Training, Generosity	20	(9)
Third Mindfulness Training, Sexual Responsibility	29	(15)
Fourth Mindfulness Training, Deep Listening and Loving Speech	44	(18)
Fifth Mindfulness Training, Diet for a Mindful Society	62	(21)
PART TWO RESPONSES	83	(86)
Jack Kornfield
Happiness Comes from the Heart	83	(7)
Maxine Hong Kingston
Home Again	90	(3)
Annable Laity
The Western Reception of the Five Mindfulness Trainings	93	(3)
Christopher Reed
Mindfulness Trainings Are the Whole of the Dharma	96	(5)
Robert Aitken
Precepts and Responsible Practice	101	(5)
Patricia Marx Ellsberg
The Five Mindfulness Trainings and Social Change	106	(4)
Sulak Sivaraksa
How Societies Can Practice the Mindfulness Trainings	110	(5)
Arthur Waskow
What Is Eco-Kosher?	115	(7)
David Steindl-Rast
Precepts	122	(5)
Gary Snyder
Indra's Net as Our Own	127	(9)
Stephen Batchelor
The Future Is in Our Hands	136	(7)
Joan Halifax
The Road Is Your Footsteps	143	(5)
Richard Baker
The Practice of the Precepts	148	(7)
Chan Khong
Commonly Asked Questions	155	(14)
PART THREE THE THREE JEWELS	169	(32)
The Three Jewels: Buddha, Dharma, Sangha	169	(32)
PART FOUR THE SUTRA ON THE WHITE-CLAD DISCIPLE	201	(50)
The Sutra	201	(8)
Commentaries	209	(42)
PART FIVE CEREMONIES	251	(26)
Transmission of the Mindfulness Trainings	251	(14)
Recitation of the Mindfulness Trainings	265	(12)
Contributors	277