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Mutual Causality in Buddhism and General Systems Theory: The Dharma of Natural Systems
by Joanna Macy

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Publication Date: 1991
Publisher: SUNY Press

Description: This book brings important new dimensions to the interface between contemporary Western science and ancient Eastern wisdom. Here for the first time the concepts and insights of general systems theory are presented in tandem with those of the Buddha.

Remarkable convergences appear between core Buddhist teachings and the systems view of reality, arising in our century from biology and extending into the social and cognitive sciences. Giving a cogent introduction to both bodies of thought, and a fresh interpretation of the Buddha's core teaching of dependent co-arising, this book shows how their common perspective on causality can inform our lives. The interdependence of all beings provides the context for clarifying both the role of meditative practice and guidelines for effective action on behalf of the common good.

Joanna Macy is Adjunct Professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco and Starr King School for the Ministry in Berkeley. She is the author of 'Despair and Personal Power in the Nuclear Age'; 'Dharma and Development'; 'Thinking Like a Mountain: Toward a Council of All Beings' (with John Seed, Pat Fleming, and Arne Naess); and 'World as Lover, World as Self'.

Review(s): "Macy engages in a mutual hermeneutic between early Buddhism and contemporary systems theory, the two together constituting a natural systems fundamental causal interconnectedness of all phenomena." - Book News

"This book deals with a very important and contemporary topic - breaking out of casual patterns of a reductive sort into more holistic non-reductive ways of thinking and explanation. It also brings together Western and Eastern ideas combining a particularly important aspect of Buddhist thought with new Western conceptions. It belongs to movements toward global integration." - Henry Le Roy Finch, Hunter College and Graduate Center of the City University of New York




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