buddhism-and-social-action_jones-ken.md

title	authors	year	external_url	formats	drive_links	publisher	series	number	course	tags	status	base_value	pages
Buddhism and Social Action	Ken Jones	1981	https://www.bps.lk/olib/wh/wh285_Jones_Buddhism-and-Social-Action.html	pdf epub	https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gWlWs3EPIb6fftaj4s1oK4L2AZi4k_PO/view?usp=drivesdk https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MprlMG27ts4IdHtklt3oRRY4FCi_Oba0/view?usp=drivesdk	bps	wheel	285	engaged	power activism interfaith west	featured	2	41

From suffering arises desire to end suffering. The secular humanistic activist sets himself the endless task of satisfying that desire, and perhaps hopes to end social suffering by constructing utopias. The Buddhist, on the other hand, is concerned ultimately with the transformation of desire.

Capitalist industrial society has created conditions of extreme impermanence, and the struggle with a conflict-creating mood of dissatisfaction and frustration. It would be difficult to imagine any social order for which Buddhism is more relevant and needed.