Mindfully Facing Climate Change by Bhikkhu Analayo

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Mindfully Facing Climate Change
By: Bhikkhu Analayo

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Author: Bhikkhu Analayo
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781706719885
Publication Date: 2019

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In Mindfully Facing Climate Change, Bhikkhu Analayo offers a response to the challenges of climate change that is grounded in the teachings of early Buddhism and mindfulness meditation. Based on employing the teaching of the four noble truths as its main framework, it places facing climate change within the context of the eightfold path and provides detailed meditation instructions on how to build up mental resilience and balance.
Mindfully Facing Climate Change, Bhikkhu Analayo, Independently published, Paperback, 206 pp, $9.95

CONTENTS: Mindfully Facing Climate Change
Acknowledgement		8
Foreword		9
Introduction		13
Relating to the Earth		17
	The Four Noble Truths	18
	Dukkha	20
	The Five Aggregates	21
	The Elephant's Footprint	22
	The Four Elements	25
	The Earth	27
	Contemplation of the Elements	32
	A Mind Like the Earth	33
	The Earth and Sentience	34
	Humans and Animals	36
	The Food Chain	39
	Dependent Arising	42
	The Beauty of Nature	45
	Summary	48
An Ethics of the Mind		49
	The Arising of dukkha	49
	Mindful Self-reliance	50
	Bad Governance	55
	Ethical Decline	57
	Ecological Decline	61
	The Ten Courses of Action	65
	Ethical Recovery	67
	Ecological Recovery	69
	Contemplation of the Mind	72
	Internal and External Mindfulness	75
	Denial	77
	Anger	79
	Resignation	81
	Summary	82
Liberation of the Mind		85
	Types of Liberation	86
	The Role of the Divine Abodes	88
	The Simile of the Saw	91
	The Buddha and Anger	92
	Communal Harmony	95
	The Acrobat Simile	97
	Compassion for Sentient Beings	99
	Compassion as Non-Harm	101
	Compassion without Grief	105
	Compassion in the Eightfold Path	108
	The Ethical Dimension of the Divine Abodes	110
	The Radiation of the Divine Abodes	113
	The Experience of the Divine Abodes	116
	Summary	118
Walking the Path		119
	Awakening	119
	Drought	120
	Dessiccation	122
	Conflagration	124
	Future Decline	130
	Dispassion	132
	View	134
	Intention	136
	Speech	137
	Action	142
	Livelihood	145
	Effort	146
	Mindfulness	148
	Concentration	149
	The Middle Path	150
	Mindfulness of Death	153
	Summary	156
Conclusion		159
Appendix: Meditation		161
	Contemplation of the Earth	162
	Contemplation of the Mind	165
	Cultivating Compassion	166
	Contemplation of Impermanence	168
	Summary	171
Abbreviations		173
References		174
Index		195

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