Buddhist Praxis toward Global Healing—Cultivating Clarity, Wisdom, and Kinship

Our twenty-first century global society is in critical condition, with intertwined symptoms including ecological deterioration verging on ecosystem collapse; polarization of the human community across racial, ethnic, religious, ideological, and other lines, triggering violent conflicts different levels; gross inequality economic status opportunity, many needlessly losing their lives due to hunger malnutrition, impoverished multitudes consigned living dehumanizing conditions. Taking Four Noble Truths Buddha as a therapeutic approach our dis-eased we examine Earth community’s severely disjointed tracing root causes three poisons greed, ill will, delusion, manifested personal collective, structural/institutional levels being. Eradication these would usher wholesome sustainable way life for us all. The Buddha’s Eightfold Path taken up strategic healing, transposing guidelines spiritual practice into socio-ecological dimension. This essay offered not only Buddhists but all people good religious backgrounds or none, who seek live wholesome, sustainable, awakened together one community.