Zen Awakening and Society
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Zen Awakening and Society considers the relationship between Zen and social ethics by examining ethical facets of Zen practice and satori, as well as the traditional socio-political role of Zen in Japan, ethical reflection by key Zen thinkers, those resources and pitfalls in Zen relevant to ethics, and possible avenues along which Zen Buddhists could begin to formulate a self-critical, systematic social ethic.
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I was pleasantly surprised by this older work. A wonderfully clear presentation of the central problem of Japanese Zen's relationship to society and moral reasoning. Provides an overview of some of the major critiques and defenses and has two chapters with the authors own suggestions on how to address moral questions with the “material” available to Zen approaches. For more detail see later work by Ives.
