The Four Global Truths: Awakening to the Peril and Promise of Our Times One such model is Buddhism’s Four Noble Truths: the reality of suffering, the root cause of suffering, the end of suffering, and the path to the end of suffering.With the planet increasingly threatened with catastrophe and perha
| TITLE | : | The Four Global Truths: Awakening to the Peril and Promise of Our Times |
| AUTHOR | : | |
| RATING | : | 4.57 (918 Votes) |
| ASIN | : | 1583943218 |
| FORMAT TYPE | : | Paperback |
| NUMBER of PAGES | : | 352 Pages |
| PUBLISH DATE | : | 2011-10-25 |
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With the planet increasingly threatened with catastrophe and perhaps even collapse, many seekers are looking to past, proven models to create meaningful change in their lives. One such model is Buddhism’s Four Noble Truths: the reality of suffering, the root cause of suffering, the end of suffering, and the path to the end of suffering. This fresh, timely book taps and modifies that ancient wisdom to address the pressing environmental and spiritual crises facing us. In The Four Global Truths, author Darrin Drda contends that as global temperatures rise and natural systems decline, humanity is forced to confront the destructiveness of unfettered material progress and mechanistic thinking. He posits a more enlightened worldview that honors the interdependence of all forms of life and aspects of reality, a concept increasingly see as a practical and compassionate approach
Editorial : “In a brilliantly appropriate application of the Buddha’s fourfold Truths, Darrin Drda provides a conceptual structure for perceiving both the peril and promise of this planetary moment. He also shows us how to play with this structure, climbing around on it with uninhibited curiosity, and exploring ways to integrate the darkness and the light, the failures and the hopes that taunt and lure this evolving human animal. The book brings such a rich cargo of companionable inquiry and inspiration, I want to see it in every book bag and backpack. I love to think of the hands it will fall into, the minds it will ignite, the hearts it will embolden, so that this great adventure may continue!” —Joanna Macy, PhD, author of World As Lover, World As Self “With a warm and open writing style, and drawing from his extensive knowledge of Buddhism and the ecolo
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