부산대학교 도서관

SUMMARY Effective tools for understanding and working with the current planetary crisis are found in Buddhist metaphysics and Buddhist practice The Buddha's central doctrine of dependent co-arising, clarifying the interdependent nature of reality, helps us transcend outmoded dichotomies between the personal and the political. Practical applications are offered in the Sarvodaya movement in Sri Lanka, where Buddhist theory and practice mobilize villagers for community development, and in Macy's despair-and-empowerment work in our own society, helping people respond creatively to the nuclear peril, environmental destruction, and other causes of suffering. The basic problem is not political, it is apolitical and human. One of the most important things to do is to keep cutting deliberately through the political lines and barriers and emphasizing the fact that these are largely fabrications and that there is another dimension, a genuine reality, totally opposed to the fictions of politics: the human dimension. (Forest, 1980) [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]