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The Compassionate Revolution: Radical Politics and Buddhism by David Edwards (Paperback, 1998)
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In his first book Free to be Human , David Edwards showed how the mass media, controlled by powerful business interests, distort our understanding of many personal, ethical and spiritual issues, ensuring that we remain passive, conformist and uninformed - and willing to accept the irrational values of corporate consumerism. In this book he builds on the argument, showing how our capitalist system is dependent on the promotion of the three Buddhist poisons of greed, hatred and ignorance: greed for profit at any cost in terms of human suffering; hatred of foreign obstacles to profit; and ignorance of the cosy link between Western corporations and Third World dictators, helping to protect Western profits. Western dissidents need to recognize the truly revolutionary potential contained in the Buddhist conviction that compassion is the basis and cause of all happiness . The antidote to exploitative social systems is rational awareness rooted in unconditional kindness and compassion for all. To the extent that we hate the architects of exploitation, we promote the very forces on which exploitation depends. By marrying the political arguments of Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman with the compassionate awareness of Buddhist writers like Aryasura, Geshe Gyeltsen and Stephen Batchelor, Edwards shows how we can instigate a compassionate revolution in which the only enemies and causalties are greed, hatred and ignorance.Product Identifiers
PublisherGreen Books
ISBN-139781870098700
eBay Product ID (ePID)96173047
Product Key Features
Number of Pages256 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameThe Compassionate Revolution: Radical Politics and Buddhism
Publication Year1998
SubjectGeography & Geosciences
TypeTextbook
AuthorDavid Edwards
Subject AreaPolitical Science
FormatPaperback
Dimensions
Item Height216 mm
Item Width138 mm
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorDavid Edwards
TopicBuddhism
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