Buddha's Guide to Finding Peace in the Modern World
Buddha's Guide to Finding Peace in the Modern World

Author: Gritapat Setachanatip

Publisher: Gritapat Setachanatip

Published: 2024-03-07

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13:

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"Buddha's Guide to Finding Peace in the Modern World" offers a contemporary interpretation of timeless wisdom, providing insights and practical techniques for navigating the complexities of today's society. The book begins with a series of forewords, including contributions from figures such as Socrates, Lao Tzu, Leonardo da Vinci, and Jesus of Nazareth, setting the stage for the profound teachings to follow. In the introduction, the author sets the context by exploring the relationship between the modern world and suffering, emphasizing the universal quest for peace amidst life's challenges. Drawing upon the preface by Buddha himself, readers are invited to embark on a journey towards inner tranquility. The core teachings of Buddhism are presented in a modern context in the subsequent chapters. The Four Noble Truths, which form the foundation of Buddhist philosophy, are explored with clarity and relevance. These truths address the reality of suffering, its causes, cessation, and the path towards liberation from suffering. Chapter by chapter, the book delves into practical applications of Buddhist principles in the modern era. From cultivating compassion in the digital age to finding purpose in everyday life, each chapter offers insights and techniques for integrating ancient wisdom into contemporary existence. Ethical decision-making, mindfulness in action, and the cultivation of kindness and resilience are among the topics covered in detail. Throughout the book, readers are encouraged to reflect on their own experiences and challenges, recognizing the transformative power of applying these teachings to daily life. The conclusion reaffirms the potential for personal growth and inner peace through the practice of mindfulness, compassion, and ethical living. With its blend of ancient wisdom and modern insight, "Buddha's Guide to Finding Peace in the Modern World" serves as a roadmap for those seeking harmony and fulfillment in an increasingly complex and fast-paced society. Whether navigating relationships, facing adversity, or simply seeking a sense of purpose, this book offers timeless guidance for the modern spiritual seeker.

Pathways for Peace
Pathways for Peace

Author: United Nations;World Bank

Publisher: World Bank Publications

Published: 2018-04-13

Total Pages: 415

ISBN-13: 1464811865

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Violent conflicts today are complex and increasingly protracted, involving more nonstate groups and regional and international actors. It is estimated that by 2030—the horizon set by the international community for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals—more than half of the world’s poor will be living in countries affected by high levels of violence. Information and communication technology, population movements, and climate change are also creating shared risks that must be managed at both national and international levels. Pathways for Peace is a joint United Nations†“World Bank Group study that originates from the conviction that the international community’s attention must urgently be refocused on prevention. A scaled-up system for preventive action would save between US$5 billion and US$70 billion per year, which could be reinvested in reducing poverty and improving the well-being of populations. The study aims to improve the way in which domestic development processes interact with security, diplomacy, mediation, and other efforts to prevent conflicts from becoming violent. It stresses the importance of grievances related to exclusion—from access to power, natural resources, security and justice, for example—that are at the root of many violent conflicts today. Based on a review of cases in which prevention has been successful, the study makes recommendations for countries facing emerging risks of violent conflict as well as for the international community. Development policies and programs must be a core part of preventive efforts; when risks are high or building up, inclusive solutions through dialogue, adapted macroeconomic policies, institutional reform, and redistributive policies are required. Inclusion is key, and preventive action needs to adopt a more people-centered approach that includes mainstreaming citizen engagement. Enhancing the participation of women and youth in decision making is fundamental to sustaining peace, as well as long-term policies to address the aspirations of women and young people.

A Cultural History of Peace in the Modern Age
A Cultural History of Peace in the Modern Age

Author: Ronald Edsforth

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2022-02-24

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1350179841

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A Cultural History of Peace presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. The set of six volumes covers over 2500 years of history, charting the evolving nature and role of peace throughout history. This volume, A Cultural History of Peace in the Modern Age, explores peace in the period from 1920 to the present. As with all the volumes in the illustrated Cultural History of Peace set, this volume presents essays on the meaning of peace, peace movements, maintaining peace, peace in relation to gender, religion and war and representations of peace. A Cultural History of Peace in the Modern Age is the most authoritative and comprehensive survey available on peace in the twentieth and twentieth century.

Peace in World History
Peace in World History

Author: Peter Stearns

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-04-03

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 1134757212

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In Peace in World History, Peter N. Stearns examines the ideas of peace that have existed throughout history, and how societies have sought to put them into practice. Beginning with the status of peace in early hunter-gatherer and agricultural societies, and continuing through the present day, the narrative gives students a clear view of the ways people across the world have understood and striven to achieve peace throughout history. Topics covered include: Comparison of the ‘pax Romana’ and ‘pax Sinica’ of Rome and China Concepts of peace in Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam, and their historical impact The place of peace in the periods of expanding empires The emergence, starting in the 19th century, of formal schemes to promote peace amid increasingly destructive technologies for warfare Moving away from the view of history as a series of military conflicts, Peace in World History offers a new way of looking at world history by focusing on peace. Showing how concepts of peace have evolved over time even as they have been challenged by war and conflict, this lively and engaging narrative enables students to consider peace as a human possibility.

Peace in the Age of Chaos
Peace in the Age of Chaos

Author: Steve Killelea

Publisher: Hardie Grant Publishing

Published: 2020-10-07

Total Pages: 343

ISBN-13: 1743587155

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While COVID-19 is reshaping our lives, this must-read book for 2021 provides some of the answers to our most pressing global challenges. Unless the world is basically peaceful, we will never get the trust, cooperation and inclusiveness to solve these issues, yet what creates peace is poorly understood. Working on an aid program in one of the most violent places in the world, North East Kivu in the DR Congo, philanthropist and business leader Steve Killelea asked himself, ‘What are the most peaceful nations?’ Unable to find an answer, he created the world’s leading measure of peace, the Global Peace Index, which receives over 16 billion media impressions annually and has become the definitive go to index for heads of state. Steve Killelea then went on to establish world-renowned think tank, the Institute for Economics and Peace. Today its work is used by organisations such as the World Bank, United Nations and Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and taught in thousands of university courses around the world. Peace in the Age of Chaos tells of Steve’s personal journey to measure and understand peace. It explores the practical application of his work, which is gathering momentum at a rapid pace. In this time when we are faced with environmental, social and economic challenges, this book shows us a way forward where Positive Peace, described as creating the optimal environment for human potential to flourish, can lead to a paradigm shift in the ways societies can be managed, making them more resilient and better capable of adapting to their changing environments.

A Mind at Peace
A Mind at Peace

Author: Christopher O. Blum

Publisher: Sophia Institute Press

Published: 2017-08-11

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 1622823818

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These past two decades, modern technology has brought into being scores of powerful challenges to our interior peace and well-being. We’re experiencing a worldwide crisis of attention in which information overwhelms us, corrodes true communion with others, and leaves us anxious, unsettled, bored, isolated, and lonely. These pages provide the time-tested antidote that enables you to regain an ordered and peaceful mind in a technologically advanced world. Drawing on the wisdom of the world’s greatest thinkers, including Plato, Aristotle, St. Augustine, and St. Thomas Aquinas, these pages help you identify – and show you how to cultivate – the qualities of character you need to survive in our media-saturated environment. This book offers a calm, measured, yet forthright and effective approach to regaining interior peace. Here you’ll find no argument for retreat from the modern world; instead these pages provide you with a practical guide to recovering self-mastery and interior peace through wise choices and ordered activity in the midst of the world’s communication chaos. Are you increasingly frustrated and perplexed in this digital age? Do you yearn for a mind that is more focused and a soul able to put down that IPhone and simply rejoice in the good and the true? It’s not hard to do. The saints and the wise can show you how; this book makes their counsel available to you.

World Peace Book
World Peace Book

Author: Kirk Ellis

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2017-03-14

Total Pages: 109

ISBN-13: 1524670782

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A new kind of world is before us and cannot function effectively or safely without a collective thinking process that promotes unity, harmony, and understanding. Isolation, separation, extreme dualism are no longer valid, timely, appropriate, logical, or safe. The belief that humanistic studies and personal growth do not apply to the modern world is no longer scientific, philosophically correct, nor is it spiritually valid or humane. The old concept of divide and conquer by becoming more superior must be replaced with a new concept of unite and conquer by becoming more fully humane. Together, we become more; divided, we become less. Together, we prepare for a new humane renaissance; divided, we prepare for endless problematic conflicts of all kinds. There is no choice; we purposely move toward world peace or away from it. We are at the crossroads. It is now time to intervene with our evolutionary process and learn how to live in harmony with the full scope of our humane nature. This book describes how to become more fully humane, the world peace mission statement, the world peace flag, and the human equation.

Focus on Writing
Focus on Writing

Author: Laurie McMillan

Publisher: Broadview Press

Published: 2018-10-30

Total Pages: 394

ISBN-13: 1460406591

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This first-year composition rhetoric-reader uses a Writing about Writing (WAW) approach and a conversational style to help students engage in threshold concepts and transfer what they know about writing to new situations. Each chapter asks a key question such as “Why Write?” or “What Is the Rhetorical Situation and Why Should I Care about It?” Preliminary answers to the chapter question are provided in accessible prose, and these initial ideas are supplemented with a selection of three or four readings and a list of recommended online texts. Prompts for informal and formal writing projects keep the focus on writing and help students apply writing studies scholarship to their own lives in meaningful ways. A companion website includes recommended WAW resources, assignment supports, and links to additional readings: sites.broadviewpress.com/focusonwriting