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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.

Excerpted from: Celebrating Buddhism in America: What's Next?, Shambhala Sun, January 2009.

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