The goal of ethics is to become a person who does good or virtuous things freely from the ground of a well-tempered character, supported by a matured, resolute, and reasonable knowledge of what one is doing. The path of Buddhism does not dissolve character (which is different from ego and personality). It awakens and illuminates moral character and establishes a 'noble' selfhood in the wide, deep, expressive freedom of creative forms of life and its perfections.
James Whitehill, Buddhist Ethics in Western Context: The "Virtues" Approach
Ethics for the New Millennium
H.H. the Dalai Lama
Being Benevolence: The Social Ethics of Engaged Buddhism
Sallie King
The Ethical Precepts and Philosophical Tenets of Zen Buddhism
The Inner Ecology: Buddhist Ethics and Practice
Ronald Epstein
Everyman's Ethics: Four Discourses of the Buddha
Adapted from the translations of Narada Thera
Buddhist Morality and Practice
Ven. Dr. K. Sri Dhammananda
Buddhist Morality
Dr. C. George Boeree, Shippensburg University
Sometimes Full, Sometimes Half Full
Norman Fischer
All of our actions, however small, can have wondrous effects, but only if we are wholehearted enough in our practice of ethical conduct.
Dogen's "Ceaseless Practice"
Dogen Zenji
A non-authoritarian basis for ethics
Spirituality and ethics are two aspects of the same thing, or even two ways of talking about the same thing. By practicing Buddhism, one is endeavoring to become more and more selfless, more and more capable of higher and higher levels of nonviolence, loving kindness, and altruism. The Buddhist path is all about transforming and developing one's character in a specific way defined by the Buddhist community. Moreover, the Buddha as prototype embodies that perfection of character.
Sallie King, Being Benevolence: The Social Ethics of Engaged Buddhism
The goal of ethics is to become a person who does good or virtuous things freely from the ground of a well-tempered character, supported by a matured, resolute, and reasonable knowledge of what one is doing. The path of Buddhism does not dissolve character (which is different from ego and personality). It awakens and illuminates moral character and establishes a 'noble' selfhood in the wide, deep, expressive freedom of creative forms of life and its perfections.
James Whitehill, Buddhist Ethics in Western Context: The "Virtues" Approach
Ethics for the New Millennium
H.H. the Dalai Lama
Being Benevolence: The Social Ethics of Engaged Buddhism
Sallie King
The Ethical Precepts and Philosophical Tenets of Zen Buddhism
The Inner Ecology: Buddhist Ethics and Practice
Ronald Epstein
Everyman's Ethics: Four Discourses of the Buddha
Adapted from the translations of Narada Thera
Buddhist Morality and Practice
Ven. Dr. K. Sri Dhammananda
Buddhist Morality
Dr. C. George Boeree, Shippensburg University
Sometimes Full, Sometimes Half Full
Norman Fischer
All of our actions, however small, can have wondrous effects, but only if we are wholehearted enough in our practice of ethical conduct.
Dogen's "Ceaseless Practice"
Dogen Zenji
A non-authoritarian basis for ethics
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"The ecological crisis we witness today is, from a Buddhist perspective a rather predictable outcome of the kinds of deluded behaviour the Buddha described 2500 years ago. Greed, hatred and stupidity, the three poisons the Buddha spoke of, have now spilled beyond the confines of the human mind and village politics, to poison quite literally the seas, the air and the earth itself. And the fire the Buddha spoke of as metaphorically engulfing the world and its inhabitants in flames is now horribly visible in nuclear explosions and smouldering rainforests, and psychologically apparent in the rampant consumerism of our times."Stephen Batchelor
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Donald Rothberg (Beacon - 2006)
Engaged Buddhism in the West
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Action Dharma: New Studies in Engaged Buddhism
Christopher Queen (editor) (RoutledgeCurzon - 2003)
Engaged Buddhist Reader
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Interbeing: Fourteen Guidelines for Engaged Buddhism
Thich Nhat Hahn (Parallax - 2005)
Socially Engaged Buddhism
by Sulak Sivaraksa (B.R. Publishing - 2005)
Not Turning Away: The Practice of Engaged Buddhism
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Ken Jones (Wisdom - 2003)
Engaged Buddhism: Buddhist Liberation Movements in Asia
Christopher S. Queen (editor), Sallie B. King (editor) (SUNY - 1996)
Being Benevolence: The Social Ethics of Engaged Buddhism
Sallie B. King (U. Hawaii Press- 2006)
Conflict, Culture, Change: Engaged Buddhism in a Globalizing World
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Hooked!: Buddhist Writings on Greed, Desire, and the Urge to Consume
Stephanie Kaza (editor) (Shambhala - 2006)
Key Buddhist thinkers reflect upon aspects of consumerism, greed and economicspairing of consumerist critiques with core Buddhist concepts.
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Coming Back to Life: Practices to Reconnect Our Lives, Our World
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Thich Nhat Hahn (Bantam - 1992)
With its focus on the nature of mind and its implications for the concept of reality, Buddhism offers explanations for metaphysical issues within psychology and studies of consciousness. Some popular conceptions of Buddhism connect it to discourse regarding evolution, quantum theory, and cosmology, though most scientists see a separation between the religious and metaphysical statements of Buddhism and the methodology of science. Nevertheless, commonalities have been cited between scientific investigation and Buddhist thought. The Dalai Lama in a speech at the meeting of the Society for Neuroscience listed a "suspicion of absolutes" and a reliance on causality and empiricism as common philosophical principles shared between Buddhism and science. As both Buddhism and science are open to criticism from within, there is some disagreement over whether one is being badly influenced by the other. (Wikipedia)
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Buddhism and Science: Probing the Boundaries of Faith and Reason
Dr. Martin J. Verhoeven
What Buddhism Offers Science
H.H. the 14th Dalai Lama
Toward a Buddhist Philosophy of Science
Jim Kukula
Buddhism, The only real science
Ajahn Brahmavamso
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Bhikkhu P.A. Payutto
Buddhism Meets Western Science: A dialogue on the mind and consciousness
Gay Watson
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Derek Ellerman
A Dhammic Pedagogy: True Religion and True Science
Jonathan Watts
Dharma, Dogma and DNA
Jose Reissig
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Buddhism and Science: Breaking New Ground
B. Alan Wallace (editor) (Columbia University Press - 2003)
Contemplative Science: Where Buddhism And Neuroscience Converge
B. Alan. Wallace (Columbia University Press - 2006)
The Universe in a Single Atom
H.H. the 14th Dalai Lama (Morgan Road Books - 2005)
Two Views of Mind: Abhidharma & Brain Science
Christopher deCharms (Snow Lion - 1997)
Consciousness at the Crossroads: Conversations with the Dalai Lama on Brainscience and Buddhism
H.H. the 14th Dalai Lama (Snow Lion- 1999)
Toward Sustainable Science
P.A. Payutto (Buddhadamma Foundation)
Web sites for Buddhism and science
Mind and Life Institute
Establishing a mutually respectful working collaboration and research partnerships between modern science and Buddhism and promoting the creation of a contemplative, compassionate, and rigorous experimental and experiential science of the mind which could guide and inform medicine, neuroscience, psychology, education and human development.
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Buddhist psychology: A review of theory and practice
Silva Padmal
Why Meditation isn't Psychotherapy
Patrick Kearney
Buddhist Meditation and Depth Psychology
Douglas M. Burns
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Eric Pettifor
Towards a Buddhist Psychotherapy
C. George Boeree, Ph.D.
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Padma
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The Abhidhamma in Practice
N.K.G. Mendis
A Comprehensive Manual of Abhidhamma: Introduction
Bhikkhu Bodhi
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Ordinary Mind: Exploring the Common Ground of Zen and Psychotherapy
Barry Magid
Toward a Psychology of Awakening: Buddhism, Psychotherapy, and the Path of Personal and Spiritual Transformation
John Wellwood
The Lost Art of Compassion: Discovering the Practice of Happiness in the Meeting of Buddhism and Psychology
Lorne Ladner
Buddhist Practice on Western Ground: Reconciling Eastern Ideals and Western Psychology
Harvey Aronson
Buddhism and Psychotherapy Across Cultures: Essays on Theories and Practices
Mark Unno
Mindfulness and Psychotherapy
Christopher K. Germer, Ronald D. Siegel, Paul R. Fulton (editors)
Glimpses of Abhidharma: From a Seminar on Buddhist Psychology
Chogyam Trungpa
Web sites for Buddhism and psychology
Spirituality and ethics are two aspects of the same thing, or even two ways of talking about the same thing. By practicing Buddhism, one is endeavoring to become more and more selfless, more and more capable of higher and higher levels of nonviolence, loving kindness, and altruism. The Buddhist path is all about transforming and developing one's character in a specific way defined by the Buddhist community. Moreover, the Buddha as prototype embodies that perfection of character.
Sallie King, Being Benevolence: The Social Ethics of Engaged Buddhism