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An Excerpt From: Celebrating Buddhism in America: What's Next?
One of the strongest impacts of Buddhism is in terms of its three
trainings—ethics, mind concentration, and wisdom. These can challenge
the West to upgrade its ethics, its psychologies, and its sciences. By
2038, psychologists will have become deeply indebted to Buddhist
psychology in theory and practice, and guided meditational therapies
will have proven their effectiveness. As war will have become more
obviously self-destructive, the ethic and technique of nonviolence will
have become more vital to a global community based on law, using
mediating dialogue to reconcile conflicts. Buddhism will not spawn big
religious institutions, competing with Western religious institutions;
rather, Western religious institutions will borrow elements from
Buddhist ethics, meditational practices, and sciences, to reinforce
such elements in their traditions.
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