Revamp : writings on secular Buddhism

Secularity encourages a search for the good life in today's circumstances, not as prescribed by timeless myths. As part of the process of the dharma putting down roots in the west, secular Buddhism offers the vitality of the early dharma, free of religious distortions. This book tracks the emergence of secular Buddhism with a focus on today's climate emergency and intensifying social injustice that cry out for radical socioeconomic and political change. The ethic of care that underpins a creative, secular dharma practice, Winton Higgins suggests, calls on us to bring our training to bear on these urgent tasks.

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Winton Higgins taught and researched Politics at Macquarie University, and since retiring he has written two historical novels: Rule of law (2016) and Love, Death, Chariot of Fire (2020). A board member of the Australian Institute of Holocaust and Genocide Studies for 20 years, he teaches at the Aquinas Academy on ethical, social and political topics. Since 1987 Winton has been a dharma practitioner, and since 1995 an insight meditation teacher. He has contributed to the development of a secular Buddhism internationally, writing two books, After Buddhism, a workbook (2018) and Revamp: writings on secular Buddhism.