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Hooked!: Buddhist Writings on Greed, Desire, and the Urge to Consume Paperback – February 8, 2005

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At one time or another, most of us have experienced an all-consuming desire for a material object, a desire so strong that it seems like we couldn't possibly be happy without buying this thing. Yet, when we give in to this impulse, we often find ourselves feeling frustrated and empty. Advertisers, of course, aim to hook us in this way, and, from a global perspective, our tendency to get hooked fuels the rampant over-consumption that is having a devastating impact on the world's stability and on the environment.

According to the contributors to this unique anthology, Buddhism can shed valuable light on our compulsions to consume. Craving and attachment—how they arise and how to free ourselves of them—are central themes of Buddhist thought. The writings in this volume, most of which have never been previously published, offer fresh perspectives and much-needed correctives to our society's tendency to believe that having more will make us happier.

Hooked! includes a range of writings on how to apply Buddhist thought and ethics to understand and combat the problem of over-consumption as individuals and collectively. Contributors include popular Western teachers, Asian masters, scholars, and practitioners such as:

   • Pema Chödrön—on what is actually happening at the moment we're "hooked," and how to get beyond that.
   • Joseph Goldstein—on how mindfulness training can help us stop "wanting to want."
   • Bhikshuni Thubten Chödrön—on how consumer mentality influences spiritual practice.
   • Judith Simmer-Brown—on how cultivating spiritually based activism and compassionate action can help us address the negative effects of consumerism.
   • Rita Gross—on how understanding moderation can curb overconsumption.
   • Santikaro Bhikkhu—on practicing generosity in a consumer world.

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Kaza, who co-edited the environmental Buddhist collection Dharma Rain, gathers key Buddhist thinkers to reflect upon aspects of consumerism, greed and economics. Certainly, many other authors have examined consumerism from the lens of their religious traditions, but this book's Buddhist perspective is unusual, and its pairing of consumerist critiques with core Buddhist concepts is generally fruitful. Buddhism assumes, for example, that the very foundation of suffering is desire - a core teaching that has obvious applications to consumerism, whose goal is to multiply and intensify desire. Moreover, Buddhism stresses the impermanence of all things, providing a valuable perspective on the transient nature of goods. Several of the authors in this cogent anthology draw upon the metaphor of the "hungry ghost" of Buddhism to describe the ethos of consumerism: with their enormous bellies and tiny mouths, hungry ghosts are incapable of ever being satisfied. Some of the book's most helpful essays draw on Buddhism not merely to diagnose the problem, but to prescribe solutions on individual, local or global levels. Second-generation Zen American Sumi Loundon seeks the Buddha's middle way as a viable compromise between the consumer desires of her heart and the austerity of her antimaterialist childhood, while Vermont Zen Center teacher Sunyana Graef discusses taking refuge in the Three Jewels as an antidote to selfishness and excess. (Feb.)
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"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

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Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: Shambhala; 1 edition (February 8, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1590301722
ISBN-13: 978-1590301722
Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.7 x 8.9 inches
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Dr. Richard G. Petty

Becoming Un-Hooked

June 26, 2006

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I don't think that anyone would dispute that we are living in a chronically addicted society, in which chronic overload, habits and addictions have become the norm and are even rewarded. Many of us have written about the extraordinary rise in intemperate, narcissistic behaviors that threaten not just ourselves and our families, but the planet as a whole. This book, written by a number of prominent thinkers in the Buddhist traditions is challenging and thought provoking. It is certainly not a book just for Buddhists: the collection of essays deals with the problems of wealth, greed, excess, over-indulgence, and over-consumption.

I think that the book will likely affect anyone who reads it, by challenging us to look at how we live. To really see, feel and understand how our lifestyles affect the earth is in itself a revelation. Most of us have only intellectualized about the link. The other side of the coin is the way in which the material world challenges our spiritual development.

This is not a call for us all to become austere non-consumers, but instead a series of suggestions for becoming more conscious consumers who leave less of a footprint on the earth. What is different about this book and what so clearly differentiates it from so many environmentalist works, is that the Buddhist worldview is by its very nature based on awareness, balance and temperance. It does not tell you that you need to live in a tent and eat tofu and lentils. Though if you want to, that's obviously just fine. Instead it points you toward a more healthy and balanced way of living, while avoiding the common trap of replacing one set of addictions - say chocolate and over-consumption - with another: such as Buddhism or some other spiritual path.

The last section is about giving. An essential and sometimes forgotten part of all major ethical, spiritual and religious traditions is the importance of kindness, giving and charity. Whether or not you believe that giving is the best way of receiving, it is very welcome to see the topic given such careful and insightful coverage.

Highly recommended.

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M. Sullivan

Great resource for practice

July 16, 2010

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This is a great collection of articles on using Buddhist practice to deal with our consumerist culture. The writers come from different Buddhist traditions, so there are multiple points of view and different approaches to the same problem--that our urges to consume ultimately lead not to satisfaction, but to dissatisfaction.

However, these are all pretty realistic teachers. Overall, they recognize that most of us don't have the ability to live a monastic life, but have to find our practice within the balance of restraint and the realities of contemporary life as a homeowner, family member, employee, etc.

There is a lot of good advice here, and I think it's a great resource for those seeking a prescription to one of today's greatest sources of dis-ease.

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A Call to a More Examined Life and a New Look at Consumerism

July 2, 2006

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As with all collections of essays, some selections are better than others, but the overall quality displayed in this book is superb. While I expected to see essays about the evils of materialism and rampant consumption (and I wasn't disappointed), I was pleasantly surprised that the Middle Path was represented with excellent insights on the perils of righteous self-denial. In a philosophical work, it's pretty easy to preach about the virtues of simplicity, but this book offered something more in its examination of the issues of the real world in which we live. The chapter on the practical aspects of generosity was a gem. This book is worth every penny.

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James H. Williams

Consumerism Exposed

July 8, 2009

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This is a tremendous publication, in that, the message it presents is universal and not limited to any particular religious or economic philosophy. The various authors give compelling arguments regarding the negative impact rampant consumerism has had on our worldwide civilization. After reading this book I had a very clear understanding about how greed, desire, and the urge to consume has led to a significant weakening of cultures around the world, and may even be tied to the current economic recession that is now worldwide. This reader was able to draw very direct parallels between our insatiable appetite for greed, desire and the urge to consume and the current economic crisis.

If every human being took to heart the messages in these writings, and made an uncompromising commitment to make changes according to the wisdom presented in these writings, we may never have a worldwide recession/depression again.

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this book was a good read.

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Hooked delivers a two very important messages.

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