Buddhist practice offers a fundamental challenge to core aspects of modern economics. From a Buddhist perspective a system which is concerned solely with productivity, and then only as a gross term of valueless consumption and a multiplication of wants, does terrible damage to basic human nature. And not only human nature. This short article which appeared in Indra’s Net, a publication of the Network of Engaged Buddhists, is a short re-work of a longer article by The Class War Dakinis “Do Dakini’s Wage Class War?”
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4 March 2009
The current economic system of predatory globalised capitalism is one of the most powerful human generated forces influencing our social relationships, shaping our environment, and conditioning our consciousness. If we are concerned about the transformation of the self and the world, we best pay it some serious attention.
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4 March 2009
In this short text from a talk given at the international convention of the Western Buddhist Order in 2007, Guhyapati champions a dharma rooted in the complexities of our present historical moment, challenging institutionalised greed and hatred; a dharma that stands in courageous and compassionate defence of the earth, standing in solidarity with life.
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29 March 2008
Drawing upon points of intersection between the Buddhist Dharma and the Deep Ecology movement, Guhyapati questions the assumptions of the dominant western world view – its commitment to progress and economic growth. Calling for a dharmic approach that resists the dualistic traps separating the sacred and the everyday, the spiritual and the material, he suggests that we need to rediscover our embeddedness in nature, celebrate our rootedness in the mineral and organic, and shake off anthropocentrism.
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29 March 2008
