This collection of essays edited by Allan Hunt Badiner shows us how to look deeply into the items we consume every day, not only food, but clothes, media, ideas, and images. Right Consumption suggests a reorientation for consumers from passive purchasers, who willingly and uncritically accept advertising messages for toxic products, to active, mindful, and responsible citizens who see the dynamic connection between their purchases and their values. This results in effects compatible with healthy and enduring human, animal, and plant life. Contributors include Thich Nhat Hanh, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Judith Simmer-Brown, Fritjof Capra, Joan Halifax Roshi, Joanna Macy, Riane Eisler, and Paul Hawken.
This book includes works by over 2 dozen esteemed authors with experience and knowledge of the Buddhist teachings, including Thich Nhat Hanh, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Joan Halifax, and Joanna Macy.
Edited by
Allan Hunt Badiner; Foreward by Julia Butterfly Hill.
Thich Nhat Hanh was a world-renowned spiritual teacher and peace activist. Over seven decades of teaching, he published more than 100 books, which have sold more than four million copies in the United States alone. Exiled from Vietnam in 1966 for promoting peace, his teachings on Buddhism as a path to social and political transformation are responsible for bringing the mindfulness movement to Western culture. He established the international Plum Village Community of Engaged Buddhism in France, now the largest Buddhist monastery in Europe and the heart of a growing community of mindfulness practice centers around the world. He passed away in 2022 at the age of 95 at his root temple, Tu Hieu, in Hue, Vietnam.