Stephen Batchelor
Scottish Buddhist author and teacher, a proponent of secular Buddhism; author of Buddhism Without Beliefs (1997), Confession of a Buddhist Atheist (2010) and After Buddhism (2015).
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Recommends The Second Body
to earth and it's basically based around a hypothetical conversation between a business person living in the world and a priest living in a temple in Japan it's really good and finally a book called The Second Body by an English uh woman novelist called Daisy Hildyard.
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Recommends Work Like a Monk
Another book uh and this is a Buddhist one uh called work like a monk uh how to connect lead and grow in a noisy world by my friend Shok Matsumoto who is a purand priest in Japan who I've got to know recently and it's it's simple it's down to earth and it's basically based around a hypothetical conversation between a business
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Recommends Children of a Modest Star
One book I'd recommend is a book called Children of a Modest Star, subtitled Planetary Thinking for an Age of Crisis by Jonathan Blake and Neils Gilman, which is a wonderful reflection on how we need to imagine a form of governance that has executive authority beyond the nation state itself.
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Site stephenbatchelor.org His site: essays, talks, books and retreats
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