Meditation, Dalai Lama, Rituals & Practice 

Foreword / Paul Hawken -- Introduction / Stephanie Kaza -- Part 1: Getting hooked : desire and attachment -- Desire, delusion and DVDs / Joseph Goldstein -- How we get hooked, how we get unhooked / Pema Chodron -- The inner pursuit of happiness / Ruben L.F. Habito -- Young Buddhists in shopping Shangri-la / Sumi Loudon -- Marketing the Dharma / Thubten Chodron -- You are what you download / Diana Winston -- Part 2 : Practicing with desire : using Buddhist tools -- Cultivating the wisdom gaze / Judith Simmer-Brown -- No river bigger than Tanha / Pracha Hutanuwatr and Jane Rasbash -- Taming the "I want" mind / Sunyana Graef -- Penetrating the tangle / Stephanie Kaza -- Form and elegance with just enough / Rita M. Gross -- Consuming time / David Loy and Linda Goodhew -- Part 3: Buddhist ethics of consumption -- Three robes is enough / Ajahn Amaro -- Practicing generosity in a consumer world / Santikaroo -- Wash your bowls / Norman Fischer -- Green power in contemporary Japan / Duncan Ryuken Williams -- Mutual correction / David W. Chappell.

At one time or another, most of us have experienced an all-consuming desire for a material object, a desire so strong that it seems like we couldn't possibly be happy without buying this thing. Yet, when we give in to this impulse, we often find ourselves feeling frustrated and empty. Advertisers, of course, aim to hook us in this way, and, from a global perspective, our tendency to get hooked fuels the rampant over-consumption that is having a devastating impact on the world's stability and on the environment. According to the contributors to this unique anthology, Buddhism can shed valuable light on our compulsions to consume. Craving and attachment--how they arise and how to free ourselves of them--are central themes of Buddhist thought. 

ix, 271 pages ; 23 cm 

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