Title Page -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Introduction -- PART ONE - The All-Consuming Problem -- The Crisis of Consumerism -- Patriarchal Roots of Overconsumption -- Buddhism in the Global Economy -- The Response of Engaged Buddhists -- Stepping Back from Global Economy -- Localization: Towards a Buddhist Economics -- Illuminating Darkness: Western Buddhism -- The Consumerist Utopia -- The Cost of Illusion -- Managing Chaos -- Our Pain Projected -- A Necessary Illusion? -- Political Interdependency -- Holistic Engagement -- Defined by Belief Not Borders -- Minds of Compassion and Understanding -- A Systems View of Overconsumption -- Domination and Overconsumption -- Dominator Economics -- Caregiving Has Value -- Building Caring Homes, Workplaces, and Communities -- Overconsum ption As Compensation -- A New Economics to Save the Earth: A Buddhist Perspective -- Capitalism Made in Japan: A Buddhist Approach to Economics -- The Zero-Emissions Society of the Tokugawa Period -- The Essence of Buddhist Economics -- An Economics that Respects the Environment -- Work, Play, and Consumption -- An Economics of Simplicity -- The Practice of Generosity -- PART TWO - Self As Consumer -- Looking Deeply at the Nutriments -- Mindful Consumption -- Report on U.S. Resources -- The Second Nutriment -- The Third Nutriment -- Looking Deeply -- Buddhist Perspectives on Economic Concepts -- Value -- Consumption -- Moderation -- Nonconsumption -- Overconsumption -- Contentment -- Work -- Production and Nonproduction -- Competition and Cooperation -- Choice -- Life Views -- The Religion of Consumption: A Buddhist Perspective -- Introduction: Expanding the Discourse on Social Change -- Step I-Awareness of Consumerism's Distortions -- Step II-The Beginning of Transformation-Personal -- Step III-Expanding the Practice to the Social.

Conclusion: Im peratives Beyond Doubt -- How Not to Feast from the Poison Cake -- What Then Must We Do? -- The Myth of "Tough Love": Sacrifice, Ancient and Modern -- Re-Imagining the American Dream -- Reproducing Pictures -- Progress at What Price? -- Transcending Materialism -- A Quick Q & A on Buddhism & Materialism -- PART THREE - In the Market for Dharma -- Ethical Economics -- Alternatives to Consumerism -- Buddhism and Poverty -- What Is Poverty? -- What Are the Causes of Poverty? -- What Is the End of Poverty? -- How Do We End Poverty? -- Buddhist Economic Systems -- Economic Policies -- The Problem of Needs and Wants -- Boomer Buddhism -- Zen and Money -- A Meditation on Money -- Time and Money -- Value -- PART FOUR - Market As Nature -- Down to Business: Paul Hawken on Reshaping the Economy -- Is There Slavery in Your Chocolate? -- Slavery Lurking behind the Sweetness -- Slavery Past and Present -- Pressure for Change -- Whose Chocolate Is Made with Slavery, and Whose Is Made Without? -- Coffee -- Fair Trade on the Rise -- Sarvodaya -- Rebuilding the Movement to Win -- Where Does It Come From? Where Does It Go? -- Staying Speedy -- How We Connect -- Right Livelihood, Spirituality, and Business -- Right Livelihood -- Mañjusri's Sword of Wisdom -- Buddhist Economics: Self-Benefit, Other-Benefit, One Big Circle -- PART FIVE - The Path of Mindful Consumption -- Diet for a Mindful Society -- Voluntary Simplicity -- Misconceptions about the Simple Life -- Turning Away from Progress -- Rural Living -- Denial of Beauty -- Common Expressions of Ecological Ways of Living -- Maintaining Ourselves and Surpassing Ourselves -- The Push of Necessity and the Pull of Opportunity -- The Responsibility for Change -- Toward Dematerialization -- The New Storytellers -- Start from Where You Are -- Intervene at Multiple Levels -- Personal and Family -- Community.

National -- International -- Nourishing Ourselves, Nourishing Others: How Mindful Food Choices Reduce Suffering -- The First Precept -- The Second Precept -- The Fifth Precept -- Right Livelihood -- An Animal Killed Especially for You -- Each Person Can Make a Difference -- Resources to Support Dietary Change -- Sustainable Living -- Vinaya: A Modern Buddhist's Guide to Global Consumer Culture -- Personal Planetary Practices -- Endnotes -- Contributors -- Credits -- Copyright Page.