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Buddhism in the Public Sphere

Reorienting Global Interdependence

By: Peter D. Hershock

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Buddhism in the Public Sphere

Reorienting Global Interdependence

By: Peter D. Hershock

Chapter INTRODUCTION -- chapter 1 LIBERATING ENVIRONMENTS -- chapter 2 HEALTH AND HEALING: Relating the personal and the public -- chapter 3 TRADE, DEVELOPMENT, AND THE POSSIBILITY OF POST-MARKET ECONOMICS -- chapter 4 TECHNOLOGY, MEDIA, AND THE COLONIZATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS -- chapter 5 GOVERNANCE CULTURES AND COUNTERCULTURES: Religion, politics, and public good -- chapter 6 DIVERSITY AS COMMONS: International relations beyond competition and cooperation -- chapter 7 FROM VULNERABILITY TO VIRTUOSITY: Responding to the realities of global terrorism -- chapter 8 EDUCATING FOR VIRTUOSITY.

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Routledge

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1135986746

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Chan Buddhism

By: Peter D. Hershock

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Chan Buddhism

By: Peter D. Hershock

Chan Buddhism has become paradigmatic of Buddhist spirituality. Known in Japan as Zen and in Korea as Son, it is one of the most strikingly iconoclastic spiritual traditions in the world. This succinct and lively work clearly expresses the meaning of Chan as it developed in China more than a thousand years ago and provides useful insights into the distinctive aims and forms of practice associated with the tradition, including its emphasis on the unity of wisdom and practice; the reality of "sudden awakening"; the importance of meditation; the use of "shock tactics"; the centrality of the teacher-student relationship; and the celebration of enlightenment narratives, or koans. Unlike many scholarly studies, which offer detailed perspectives on historical development, or guides for personal practice written by contemporary Buddhist teachers, this volume takes a middle path between these two approaches, weaving together both history and insight to convey to the general reader the conditions, energy, and creativity that characterize Chan. Following a survey of the birth and development of Chan, its practices and spirituality are fleshed out through stories and teachings drawn from the lives of four masters: Bodhidharma, Huineng, Mazu, and Linji. Finally, the meaning of Chan as a living spiritual tradition is addressed through a philosophical reading of its practice as the realization of wisdom, attentive mastery, and moral clarity.

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Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd

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0824827805

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9780824827809

Consciousness Mattering

A Buddhist Synthesis

By: Peter D. Hershock

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Consciousness Mattering

A Buddhist Synthesis

By: Peter D. Hershock

Consciousness Mattering presents a contemporary Buddhist theory in which brains, bodies, environments, and cultures are relational infrastructures for human consciousness. Drawing on insights from meditation, neuroscience, physics, and evolutionary theory, it demonstrates that human consciousness is not something that occurs only in our heads and consists in the creative elaboration of relations among sensed and sensing presences, and more fundamentally between matter and what matters. Hershock argues that without consciousness there would only be either unordered sameness or nothing at all. Evolution is consciousness mattering. Shedding new light on the co-emergence of subjective awareness and culture, the possibility of machine consciousness, the risks of algorithmic consciousness hacking, and the potentials of intentionally altered states of consciousness, Hershock invites us to consider how freely, wisely, and compassionately consciousness matters.

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324

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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135041123X

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9781350411234

Buddhism and Intelligent Technology

Toward a More Humane Future

By: Peter D. Hershock

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Buddhism and Intelligent Technology

Toward a More Humane Future

By: Peter D. Hershock

Machine learning, big data and AI are reshaping the human experience and forcing us to develop a new ethical intelligence. Peter Hershock offers a new way to think about attention, personal presence, and ethics as intelligent technology shatters previously foundational certainties and opens entirely new spaces of opportunity. Rather than turning exclusively to cognitive science and contemporary ethical theories, Hershock shows how classical Confucian and Socratic philosophies help to make visible what a history of choices about remaking ourselves through control biased technology has rendered invisible. But it is in Buddhist thought and practice that Hershock finds the tools for valuing and training our attention, resisting the colonization of consciousness, and engendering a more equitable and diversity-enhancing human-technology-world relationship. Focusing on who we need to be present as to avoid a future in which machines prevent us from either making or learning from our own mistakes, Hershock offers a constructive response to the unprecedented perils of intelligent technology and seamlessly blends ancient and contemporary philosophies to envision how to realize its equally unprecedented promises.

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275

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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135018229X

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9781350182295

Reinventing the Wheel

A Buddhist Response to the Information Age

By: Peter D. Hershock

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Reinventing the Wheel

A Buddhist Response to the Information Age

By: Peter D. Hershock

Suggests that certain Buddhist notions may act as an antidote to the adverse effects of high-tech media.

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SUNY Press

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0791442314

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9780791442319

Liberating Intimacy

Enlightenment and Social Virtuosity in Ch'an Buddhism

By: Peter D. Hershock

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Liberating Intimacy

Enlightenment and Social Virtuosity in Ch'an Buddhism

By: Peter D. Hershock

Liberating Intimacy dramatically reevaluates the teachings and practice of Ch'an Buddhism. Considering Buddha's insight that everything is empty or absent of a permanent and independent "self nature," Hershock argues that not only is suffering without any essence and so dependent on time and place, so is end of suffering or enlightenment. He shows that the tradition need not entail a quietistic withdrawal from social life. Far from being something privately attained and experienced, Ch'an enlightenment is best seen as the opening of a virtuosic intimacy through which we are continually liberated from the arrogance of both "self" and "other." That is, enlightenment in Ch'an must be understood as irreducibly social--it can never be merely "mine" or "yours," but is only realized as "ours." Including new translations from the teachings of Ma-tzu, Pai-chang, Huang-po and Lin-chi, Liberating Intimacy reconciles the almost fierce individualism that characterizes the mastery of Ch'an and its unwavering embrace of the ideal of compassionately saving all beings.

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260

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SUNY Press

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0791429814

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9780791429815

Public Zen, Personal Zen

A Buddhist Introduction

By: Peter D. Hershock

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Public Zen, Personal Zen

A Buddhist Introduction

By: Peter D. Hershock

Among Buddhist traditions, Zen has been remarkably successful in garnering and sustaining interest outside the Buddhist homelands of Asia, and “zen” is now part of the global cultural lexicon. This deeply informed book explores the history of this enduring Japanese tradition—from its beginnings as a form of Buddhist thought and practice imported from China to its reinvention in medieval Japan as a force for religious, political, and cultural change to its role in Japan’s embrace of modernity. Going deeper, it also explores Zen through the experiences and teachings of key individuals who shaped Zen as a tradition committed to the embodiment of enlightenment by all. By bringing together Zen’s institutional and personal dimensions, Peter D. Hershock offers readers a nuanced yet accessible introduction to Zen as well as distinctive insights into issues that remain relevant today, including the creative tensions between globalization and localization, the interplay of politics and religion, and the possibilities for integrating social transformation with personal liberation. Including an introduction to the basic teachings and practices of Buddhism and an account of their spread across Asia, Public Zen, Personal Zen deftly blends historical detail with the felt experiences of Zen practitioners grappling with the meaning of human suffering, personal freedom, and the integration of social and spiritual progress.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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144221614X

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9781442216143

Valuing Diversity

Buddhist Reflection on Realizing a More Equitable Global Future

By: Peter D. Hershock

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Valuing Diversity

Buddhist Reflection on Realizing a More Equitable Global Future

By: Peter D. Hershock

Diversity matters. Whether in the context of ecosystems, education, the workplace, or politics, diversity is now recognized as a fact and as something to be positively affirmed. But what is the value of diversity? What explains its increasing significance? Valuing Diversity is a groundbreaking response to these questions and to the contemporary global dynamics that make them so salient. Peter D. Hershock examines the changes of the last century to show how the successes of Western-style modernity and industrially-powered markets have, ironically, coupled progressive integration and interdependence with the proliferation of political, economic, social, cultural, and environmental differences. Global predicaments like climate change and persistent wealth inequalities compel recognition that we are in the midst of an era-defining shift from the primacy of the technical to that of the ethical. Yet, neither modern liberalism nor its postmodern critiques have offered the resources needed to address such challenges. Making use of Buddhist and ecological insights, Valuing Diversity develops a qualitatively rich conception of diversity as an emerging value and global relational commons, forwarding an ethics of interdependence and responsive virtuosity that opens prospects for a paradigm shift in our pursuits of equity, freedom, and democratic justice.

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State University of New York Press

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1438444605

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Valuing Diversity

Buddhist Reflection on Realizing a More Equitable Global Future

By: Peter D. Hershock

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Buddhist Reflection on Realizing a More Equitable Global Future

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Reinventing the Wheel

A Buddhist Response to the Information Age

By: Peter D. Hershock

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A Buddhist Response to the Information Age

By: Peter D. Hershock

By uniquely using Buddhist teachings, Reinventing the Wheel assesses the personal and communal costs of our global economic and technological commitments. Hershock urges reinvention of the technological "wheel," and, at the same time, acknowledges the need for new forms of practice suited to our rapidly evolving social, political, and economic circumstances. His persuasive presentation urges the skillful spinning of a new "wheel of the dharma.

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1438406606

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Book's by Peter D. Hershock

Buddhism in the Public Sphere

Buddhism in the Public Sphere

Chan Buddhism

Chan Buddhism

Consciousness Mattering

Consciousness Mattering

Buddhism and Intelligent Technology

Buddhism and Intelligent Technology

Reinventing the Wheel

Reinventing the Wheel

Liberating Intimacy

Liberating Intimacy

Public Zen, Personal Zen

Public Zen, Personal Zen

Valuing Diversity

Valuing Diversity

Valuing Diversity

Valuing Diversity

Reinventing the Wheel

Reinventing the Wheel

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