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Tables of Contents for For a Future to Be Possible
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
PART ONE THE FIVE MINDFULNESS TRAININGS
3
80
The Five Mindfulness Trainings
3
4
Introduction
7
6
First Mindfulness Training, Reference for Life
13
7
Second Mindfulness Training, Generosity
20
9
Third Mindfulness Training, Sexual Responsibility
29
15
Fourth Mindfulness Training, Deep Listening and Loving Speech
44
18
Fifth Mindfulness Training, Diet for a Mindful Society
62
21
PART TWO RESPONSES
83
86
Jack Kornfield
Happiness Comes from the Heart
83
7
Maxine Hong Kingston
Home Again
90
3
Annable Laity
The Western Reception of the Five Mindfulness Trainings
93
3
Christopher Reed
Mindfulness Trainings Are the Whole of the Dharma
96
5
Robert Aitken
Precepts and Responsible Practice
101
5
Patricia Marx Ellsberg
The Five Mindfulness Trainings and Social Change
106
4
Sulak Sivaraksa
How Societies Can Practice the Mindfulness Trainings
110
5
Arthur Waskow
What Is Eco-Kosher?
115
7
David Steindl-Rast
Precepts
122
5
Gary Snyder
Indra's Net as Our Own
127
9
Stephen Batchelor
The Future Is in Our Hands
136
7
Joan Halifax
The Road Is Your Footsteps
143
5
Richard Baker
The Practice of the Precepts
148
7
Chan Khong
Commonly Asked Questions
155
14
PART THREE THE THREE JEWELS
169
32
The Three Jewels: Buddha, Dharma, Sangha
169
32
PART FOUR THE SUTRA ON THE WHITE-CLAD DISCIPLE
201
50
The Sutra
201
8
Commentaries
209
42
PART FIVE CEREMONIES
251
26
Transmission of the Mindfulness Trainings
251
14
Recitation of the Mindfulness Trainings
265
12
Contributors
277