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Being Good: Buddhist Ethics for Everyday Life Hsing Yun, Tom Graham
Publisher: Buddha's Light Publishing

Henry David Thoreau captured this . The staff aim to bring Buddhist practice to the workplace by following a code of ethics based on Buddha's five precepts, which include helping others, truthfulness and generosity. He started his presentation by saying that he knows almost nothing about ethics and absolutely nothing about Buddhism. Where Buddhism and Politics come to mingle. However, having two kids, a wife who's a physician and being in graduate school does add up to a recipe for incredible stress when one doesn't have a strategy for dealing with it. William said: “We want to take meditation off the cushion and spread it into the workplace.” Graham explained the principles translated simply into everyday life. Is a viable and authentic Buddhist ethic possible without the prospect of rebirth governed by one's karmic past? This is the call of being alive as a human being with the capacity for ethical consideration. This paradigm sees protest as a means of jarring passersby free of the preconceptions that naturally accumulate from the heuristics we deploy as we navigate our daily lives. I have been I was impressed by how rapidly I've been able to use concentration and mindfulness to handle my daily life better: even having really difficult, uncomfortable conversations has become almost effortless since I have the calmness of mind to focus on the task at hand. In offering the following glimpses of my life, I hope to convey a sense of what it is like to be a bhikkhuni in today's America. [iv] Thich Nhat Hanh, Good Citizens (Berkeley, California: Parallax Press, 2012), 4.