Handbook of Ethical Foundations of Mindfulness

Chapter 1. Ethical foundations of mindfulness.- Part I: Buddhist Foundations of Ethics and Mindfulness.- Chapter 2. Turning the Wheel of Dharma.- Chapter 3. Mindfulness as Ethical Foundation.- Chapter 4. Forgiveness: Making Beneficial Judgments in Relation to Self and Others.- Chapter 5. Mindfulness, Heedfulness, and Ethics.- Chapter 6. Buddhist Ethics, Spiritual Practice, and the Three Yanas.- Chapter 7. Ethics, Mindfulness, and Skillfulness.- Part II: Education and Pedagogy.- Chapter 8. Co-Creating the Ethical Space of the Mindfulness-Based Interventions.- Chapter 9. The Degeneration of Contemporary Mindfulness: Reasserting the Ethical and Educational Foundations of Practice in Mindfulness-Based Interventions.- Chapter 10. Beyond Manipulation: Radical Humanist and Care Ethics Perspectives on Mindfulness.- Part III: Business, Economics and Environment.- Chapter 11. Co-Arising of Ethics, Mindfulness, and Truth for Freedom of Action.- Chapter 12. The Need for and Nature of Buddhist Economics.- Chapter 13. An ethic of interdependence: Environmental crisis and the case of water scarcity in the American West.- Chapter 14. Sacred Groundlessness: Deepening the Ethics of Mindfulness in the Midst of Global Crisis.- Chapter 15. Madness and Mindfulness: How the "Personal" is "Political".- Part IV: Religion, Secularity, and Post-Secularity.- Chapter 16. Dharma and Diversity.- Chapter 17. Implicit and Explicit Ethics in Mindfulness-Based Programs in a Broader Context.- Chapter 18. Mindfulness and Morality.- Chapter 19. Postsecular Charisma: Thich Nhat Hanh and the Ethics of Mindfulness.

Steven Stanley, Ph.D. is a Lecturer in the School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University (Wales, UK). A critical psychologist interested in the qualitative study of social life in capitalism, he has investigated historical changes in meanings of mindfulness and meditation, ethics and politics of the mindfulness movement, and mindfulness meditation as a psychosocial research methodology. His articles have appeared in journals such as Theory & Psychology, Qualitative Research in Psychology and New Ideas in Psychology. His current research comprises discourse analysis of interaction in mindfulness courses and is titled, Constructing the mindful subject: reshaping experience through Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction. Steven also teaches mindfulness as contemplative education and critical inquiry to sociology, social psychology, education, and social work students. He completed the Committed Dharma Practitioner Programme (Gaia House, Devon, UK) and Pali Summer School (Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies, Oxford, UK).

Ronald Purser, Ph.D. is a professor of management at San Francisco State University. He is co-author of five books including, 24/7: Time and Temporality in the Network Society (Stanford University Press, 2007), and over 60 academic journal articles and book chapters. More recently, Professor Purser's writings critically examine Buddhism's encounter with modernity, capitalism and individualism, particularly in corporate settings. Dr. Purser began his Buddhist training beginning in 1981 at the Tibetan Nyingma Institute in Berkeley. In 1985, he was a student at the Cleveland Zen Center under Koshin Ogui Sensei who had been Shunryu Suzuki's personal assistant in the early 1960's. He has studied with numerous Zen teachers and Tibetan lamas, is now an ordained Dharma instructor in the Korean Zen Buddhist Taego order. His recent articles include White Privilege and the Mindfulness Movement, Confessions of a Mind-wandering MBSR Student: