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This chapter is about rediscovering our original prosperity by fostering a vision of sustainability through mindfulness-awareness meditation. It garners the view how simply sitting still fosters natural social intelligence skills required for building a sustainable future. Developing sustainable solutions for many of today’s global problems demands innovative thinking, a strategic long-term view, sophisticated social intelligence, and much more. But core to shaping a sustainable future is first respecting the profound natural world that surrounds us right here, now, today. In this chapter, we will explore how the ancient tradition of mindfulness-awareness meditation is fostering just such an appreciation in communities throughout the world—giving rise to a fresh “spiritual” perspective on what it means to thrive, flourish, and “be prosperous” in the emerging twenty-first century.
Adapted from Michael Carroll, Fearless at Work (Boulder, CO: Shambhala Publications, 2012).
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See: Traleg Kyabgon, Mind at Ease (Boulder, CO: Shambhala, 2004); and Dakpo Tashi Namgyal Rinpoche, Clarifying the Natural State: A Principal Guidance Manual for Mahamudra, (Rangjung Yeshe Publications, 2004).
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Herbert Guenther, The Life and Teaching of Naropa (London: Oxford University Press, 1963).
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Peter Haskel, Bankei Zen (New York: Grove Press, 1984).
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Adapted from Michael Carroll, Fearless at Work (Boulder, CO: Shambhala, 2012).
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Daniel Goleman, Social Intelligence: The Revolutionary New Science of Human Relationships (New York: Bantam Books, 2006), 84.
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Ibid., 85.
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Ibid., 84.
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Ibid., 86.
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Ibid., 84.
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Ibid., 89.
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Ibid., 84.
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Ibid., 89.
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Ibid., 84.
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Ibid., 91.
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Ibid., 84.
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Ibid., 94.
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Ibid., 84.
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Ibid., 95.
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Ibid., 84.
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Ibid., 96.
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Carroll, M. (2016). Formless Meditation and Sustainability. In: Dhiman, S., Marques, J. (eds) Spirituality and Sustainability. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-34235-1_9
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