The Buddha's Path of Peace sets out the basic instructions for the life-changing way of the Buddha (the so-called "Noble Eightfold Path") wholly in the context of contemporary and everyday life, personal experience, human relationships, work, environmental concern and the human wish for peace. In this book, the core of the Buddha's teaching is comprehensively cast in modern models of thought--borrowed from science and philosophy--and informed by contemporary concerns.

The reader, who may be completely new to Buddhism, is accompanied along the Path with practical exercises that are fully explained. The Path begins with an introductory overview and then proceeds through Right Speech, Right Acting, Right Livelihood, Right Effort, Right Concentration, Right Mindfulness, Right Understanding and Right Resolve, and concludes with a short chapter on the relevance of the Path to the multiple crises facing the world today. The reader is mentored throughout by practical meditational and contemplative exercises, with tables, diagrams, analogies and stories. Gradually the reader who has followed this handbook with commitment will feel the benefits of growing peacefulness, wisdom and compassion.
The Buddha's Path of Peace, Geoffrey Hunt, Equinox Publishing Ltd, Paperback, 266 pp, $24.95

Geoffrey Hunt is Buddhist Chaplain at the University of Surrey and Visiting Professor in Buddhist Ethics at the same university. In 2002 he founded, and continues to lead, the lay movement New Buddha Way www.newbuddhaway.org.

CONTENTS: Buddha's Path of Peace
List of Figures, Tables, Exercises, Metaphors and Parables		vii
Acknowledgements		ix
Foreword		xi
Preface		xiii
Introduction		1
PART ONE: Ethics
1	Right Speech: What I Say	15
2	Right Acting: What I Do	25
3	Right Livelihood: How I Live and Work	33
PART TWO: Meditation
4	Right Effort: Directing the Mind	43
5	Right Concentration: Breathing	61
6	Right Concentration: Objects	69
7	Right Mindfulness: Refining Attention	75
8	Right Mindfulness: Anchor and Buoy Model	85
9	Right Mindfulness: Full Awareness	100
10	Right Mindfulness: Insight	108
PART THREE: Wisdom
11	Right Understanding: Ignorance an Nibbana	123
12	Right Understanding: The Horizons Model	133
13	Right Understanding: The Mirror Model	145
14	Right Understanding: The Reflections Model	155
15	Right Understanding: Self and the Waveform Model	170
16	Right Understanding: The Emergence Model	179
17	Right Understanding: Self-Evaluation	196
18	Right Resolve: A Change of Heart	204
19	Right Resolve: Silence	213
Conclusion: A Global Awakening?		221
Appendix 1: Posture		225
Appendix 2: Glossary of Neologisms		234
References and Notes		236
Bibliography		242
Index		244