Mindfulness in the Marketplace: Compassionate Responses to Consumerism

by Allan Hunt Badiner (Editor), Julia Butterfly Hill (Foreword by)

Overview

Mindfulness in the Marketplace suggests a reorientation of consumers from passive purchasers to aware, responsible citizens who see the dynamic connection between their purchases and their values. The Middle Path of Buddhism is not to avoid all consumption, but to consume mindfully in a manner that protects ourselves and all living systems. This anthology outlines a path of compassionate resistance to global corporatization, and offers a view of getting into right relationship with the Earth. Includes the Dalai Lama, Thich Nhat Hanh, Stephen Batchelor, and Joanna Macy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781935209591
Publisher:	Parallax Press
Publication date:	08/10/2005
Sold by:	Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format:	eBook
Pages:	352
File size:	582 KB

About the Author

This book includes works by over 2 dozen esteemed authors with experience and knowledge of the Buddhist teachings, including Thich Nhat Hanh, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Joan Halifax, and Joanna Macy.

Edited by Allan Hunt Badiner; Foreward by Julia Butterfly Hill.

Thich Nhat Hanh was a world-renowned spiritual teacher and peace activist. Over seven decades of teaching, he published more than 100 books, which have sold more than four million copies in the United States alone. Exiled from Vietnam in 1966 for promoting peace, his teachings on Buddhism as a path to social and political transformation are responsible for bringing the mindfulness movement to Western culture. He established the international Plum Village Community of Engaged Buddhism in France, now the largest Buddhist monastery in Europe and the heart of a growing community of mindfulness practice centers around the world. He passed away in 2022 at the age of 95 at his root temple, Tu Hieu, in Hue, Vietnam.