Hooked!: Buddhist Writings on Greed, Desire, and the Urge to Consume

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Hooked! is an anthology of writings by prominent Buddhist teachers and writers on how to understand and address rampant consumerism on a personal and global level. These contributors, who represent a variety of Buddhist traditions, show that Buddhism can offer a fresh perspective on how to deal with greed and desire in one's personal life, and can guide us to make ethical consumer choices that help safeguard the world's resources.

Stephanie Kaza, PhD, teaches environmental ethics, the radical environmental movement, and ecophilosophy at the University of Vermont and the Institute for Deep Ecology.

"Finally! A book about consumerism that goes to the very heart of the matter-that it corrodes our precious human capacities to know truth, see beauty, and feel love. These seventeen highly intelligent, compassionate, and lucid Buddhist teachers each give a unique understanding of what gnaws at most of us about our consumer habits. They each show how Buddhist thought can help clear our minds and settle us down. Hooked! is also just an exceptional Buddhist primer for Westerners no matter what their consumer habits. I highly recommend these essays to everyone."-Vicki Robin, coauthor of Your Money or Your Life and founder of Conservation Cafes "Stephanie Kaza is gently and winningly shrewd; Buddhism is the faith practice that has looked most clearly at desire and what it means. This volume, therefore, is extremely readable and extremely useful to those of us from other faith traditions trying to come to grips with the modern plague of consumption."-Bill McKibben, author of Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age