Buddha at the Apocalypse
Awakening from a Culture of Destruction
Published on 10. April 2010
192 pages
978-0-86171-937-2 (ISBN)
Description
Timely and audacious, Buddha at the Apocalypse challenges us to look directly at the devastating assumptions underlying the very mechanisms of the modern world - and offers a clarion call to awaken from a pervasive culture of destruction into a natural, sustainable, and sane peace. Kurt Spellmeyer references the Bible, popular culture, Zen, and Western philosophy in addressing two questions: how did we get here, and what can we do now. An answer to pervasive cynicism and decline, Buddha at the Apocalypse shows how to accept and connect with reality in dark times.
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Kurt Spellmeyer is an award-winning teacher and scholar in the English department at Rutgers University in New Jersey and a Rinzai Zen Master. He is the author of Arts of Living: Reinventing the Humanities for the Twenty-First Century and several other books.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part 1
- 1 IN THE BEGINNING OF HISTORY
- 2 WORLD DESPISING AND THE ORIGINS OF THE MODERN WORLD
- Part 2
- 3 AN END TO HISTORY, AN END TO SUFFERING
- 4 ONE BODY-THE HIDDEN GROUND OF LIBERATION
- 5 FROM REVOLUTIONARY THINKING TO AN ECOLOGY OF MIND
- 6 IMAGES OF ORDER IN A COMPLEX WORLD
- 7 ON AND OFF THE ROAD OF HISTORY
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Index
- About the Author
