World as Lover, World as Self: A Guide to Living Fully in Turbulent timesA new beginning for the environment must start with a new spiritual outlook. In this book, author Joanna Macy offers concrete suggestions for just that, showing how each of us can change the attitudes that continue to threaten our environment. Using the Buddha's teachings on Paticca Samuppada, which stresses the interconnectedness of all things in the world and suggests that any one action affects all things, Macy describes how decades of ignoring this principle has resulted in a self-centeredness that has devastated the environment. Humans, Macy implores, must acknowledge and understand their connectedness to their world and begin to move toward a more focused effort to save it. |
Contents
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Introduction | 11 |
HARVESTING WISDOM FROM THE PAST | 15 |
World as Lover World as Self | 17 |
Its All Connected | 30 |
Self and Society | 42 |
The Coarising of Doer and Deed | 53 |
Mother of All Buddhas | 61 |
The Bestiary | 87 |
Despair Work | 91 |
Faith Power and Ecology | 103 |
Three Lessons in Compassion | 113 |
The Shambhala Warriors | 120 |
Spiritual Practices for Activists | 123 |
SOWING Seeds for the Future | 137 |
The Great Turning | 139 |
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