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Buddhist Economics
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While the materialist is mainly interested in goods, the Buddhist is mainly interested in liberation. But Buddhism is "The Middle Way" and therefore in no way antagonistic to physical well-being. It is not wealth that stands in the way of liberation but the attachment to wealth; not the enjoyment of pleasurable things but the craving for them. The keynote of Buddhist economics, therefore, is simplicity and non-violence. From an economist’s point of view, the marvel of the Buddhist way of life is the utter rationality of its pattern—amazingly small means leading to extraordinarily satisfactory results.
E.F. Schumacher | 19.APR.2013
[T]he modern economist... is used to measuring the "standard of living" by the amount of annual consumption, assuming all the time that a man who consumes more is "better off" than a man who consumes less. A Buddhist economist would consider this approach excessively irrational: since consumption is merely a means to human well-being, the aim should be to obtain the maximum of well-being with the minimum of consumption. Thus, if the purpose of clothing is a certain amount of temperature comfort and an attractive appearance, the task is to attain this purpose with the smallest possible effort, that is, with the smallest annual destruction of cloth and with the help of designs that involve the smallest possible input of toil. The less toil there is, the more time and strength is left for artistic creativity. It would be highly uneconomic, for instance, to go in for complicated tailoring, like the modern West, when a much more beautiful effect can be achieved by the skillful draping of uncut material.... What has just been said about clothing applies equally to all other human requirements. The ownership and the consumption of goods is a means to an end, and Buddhist economics is the systematic study of how to attain given ends with the minimum means.... Read More
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Translating or transcending
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The moment of translation is the moment when the translator’s two personalities in two different languages are in dialogue with each other. It is the moment of interlocution between the two personalities of the same person. Only then can the eternal argument of ‘faithful’ and ‘beautiful’ be resolved in translation, because it is then transcended, and we reach another level of understanding about translations. Faithful and beautiful are no longer opposed to each other and are no longer even players.
Mariam Karim-Ahlawat | 04.APR.2013
We are a polyglot nation, and we have knowledge of at least two languages: we have a mother tongue and a language in which we have been educated at school and college, which is often different from the mother tongue. Often this second is English. Every language you learn has its own sensibilities and its own idiom. It has its own registers, value systems, class distinctions and levels of the acceptable and the unacceptable. Each language that we know sensitises us differently to different things, and develops in us different personalities with different sensibilities.... Read More
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Duane Elgin is an internationally recognized visionary, speaker and author. His books include: The Living Universe: Where Are We? Who Are We? Where Are We Going? (2009), Voluntary Simplicity: Toward a Way of Life that Is Outwardly Simple, Inwardly Rich (2010, 1993, 1981), Promise Ahead: A Vision of Hope and Action for Humanity's Future (2000), and Awakening Earth: Exploring the Evolution of Human Culture and Consciousness (1993). With Joseph Campbell and other scholars he authored the book Changing Images of Man (1984). He has worked as a senior staff member of the Presidential Commission on the American Future and as a senior social scientist with the think-tank SRI International where he coauthored numerous long-range studies such as Anticipating Future Global Problems (for the President’s Science Advisor). He has an MBA from the Wharton School, and an MA from the University of Pennsylvania. In 2006, Duane received the international Goi Peace Award in recognition of his contribution to a global “vision, consciousness, and lifestyle” that fosters a “more sustainable and spiritual culture.” Duane’s website is: www.duaneelgin.com
Anne Hillman mentors groups and individuals who seek a mature spirituality. An author and educator, she has spent the last 30 years exploring the internal aspects of social change—an inquiry into the interior and group development required to sustain fundamental cultural transformation. Her new book, Awakening the Energies of Love: Discovering Fire for the Second Time, was inspired by Teilhard de Chardin and is an experiential pathway into that necessary transformation. Teilhard’s biographer, Ursula King, cites Anne as one of four people who have given us new metaphors and ideas about love for our time. See http://annehillman.net/?s=citations. Anne is also author of The Dancing Animal Woman—A Celebration of Life. Both books were influenced by Thomas Berry and Brian Swimme. Her retreats are experiential and inclusive of all perspectives. Intended to foster a deeper inquiry into the meaning of your own life and choice of path, they offer an opportunity to experience the kind of love that unites differences.
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Sangeeta Marwah is a writer, researcher and producer with a penchant for storytelling in its various facets and a keen inclination towards global film theory. She has over 5 years of work experience in the advertising industry, following which she pursued a second Masters degree in Media Arts from the US and worked for a year in Boston’s public access television network. She is currently residing in New Delhi but at various points of time has been fortunate enough to call Mumbai, Boston and Los Angeles as home. She is freelancing as a writer on various projects and contemplating a foray into doctoral studies, apart from working on her first screenplay.
Edward Milner (ex-BBC TV Producer) has made over 100 documentaries, educational films and news reports for TV, as well as corporate videos, website videos etc. He has won several international awards for creative documentaries (for television) about human rights and environmental issues. His films have been shown on BBC, Channel Four, ITV, RTE (Ireland), NHK (Japan), Arte/La Sept (France), TV Ontario, TV Vietnam, ABC (Australia), Channel Nine (Thailand) etc.
Nozomi Hayase was born and raised in Japan. Through her journey to the United States she found a bridge that reconciles the split between East and West that she had grappled with from early age. She recognizes that the development of the imagination is a universal right. As teacher in a Waldorf School and a poet and writer, she has come to advocate for the cultivation of a global civil consciousness. She is currently writing her Psychology PhD dissertation, which explores the psychological dimensions and effects of corporate personhood and sees this aspect of her work as a kind of academic activism. Primarily through qualitative research, she strives to heal the divide between science and art, politics and psyche in an effort to reframe the discourse on the human spirit and civic power in the context of globalization. As a poet, she exhibits a wide range of voices from the sensitive breath of cosmic inspiration to earthly celebration of intercultural experience to tending to the battle cry for social justice. She currently resides in Berkeley, California where she strives to become an ethical psychologist so to encompass all aspects of her life work. Follow Nozomi on Twitter: http://twitter.com/nozomimagine
Mariana Sabino has a degree in Media Arts and post-graduate specialization in Screenwriting. She writes short stories, screenplays, and poetry – some of which can be read in the literary journals Dogmatika http://www.dogmatika.com, Up the Staircase http://www.upthestaircase.org, and her own Greenbeard http://www.greenbeardmag.com
E.F. Schumacher was an internationally influential economic thinker, viewing things from a systems perspective. His work in economics led him to develop a collection of connected ideas in energy, work, technology, development, organisation and ownership, education, traditional wisdom and religion. E.F. Schumacher's work is about a way of living that is as relevant today as it was in 1973 when his seminal book Small is Beautiful was first published.
Viola Lasmana is currently completing her M.A in English (Literature) at San Francisco State University. She is interested in the textual,social, and cultural implications of new technologies, especially in how new media affects subject/identity formation and public-private intersections in Internet communities, and in the need for a multi-literacies approach to learning. Follow Viola on Twitter: http://twitter.com/viola_lasmana
Analisa Lee is a healer, poet, lover of beauty, and student of the psyche and heart. She has an MFA in Poetry and an MA in Counseling Psychology. She is interested in the interplay of the psyche, the imagination, creativity, and ritual in psychological and spiritual healing. You can read more on her blog: theheartcaughtfire.blogspot.com
Leanne Goebel is an award-winning arts journalist from the Southwest United States. She is a member of the International Association of Art Critics and the Society of Professional Journalists. She writes for major magazines, newspapers, and online media while blogging about art and culture at http://leannegoebel.blogspot.com.
