{"id":147,"date":"2008-09-18T13:37:20","date_gmt":"2008-09-18T13:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/progressiverevival\/2008\/09\/buddhist-values-in-the-public.html"},"modified":"2008-09-18T13:37:20","modified_gmt":"2008-09-18T13:37:20","slug":"buddhist-values-in-the-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/progressiverevival\/2008\/09\/buddhist-values-in-the-public.html","title":{"rendered":"Buddhist Values in the Public Square"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Given the recent summit on Value Voters, and the crisis on Wall Street I thought it might be interesting to ask a non-Christian on what values informed his approach to the public square.&nbsp;<span>&nbsp;<\/span>I sent an email to <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/progressiverevival\/authorBios.html#Author_338\">Robert Thurman, a Progressive Revival blogger and Professor of Buddhism at Columbia University<\/a>.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>He sent me this response during a lecture tour for his latest book: Why the Dalai Lama Matters.<span>&nbsp; <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><i><span>&#8220;The main Buddhist values would be compassion, tolerance, generosity, ethics and intelligent service of others.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>In this moment of total crisis caused by excessive selfishness and greed on the part of the excessively rich, who can find no satisfaction in it anyway, we should all be reflecting on how to bring altruistic concern for others out of the realm of suppressed impulses and into the center of our public life. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><i><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><i><span>I know this is very slight, but perhaps it could be helpful for conservative Christians to realize that members of other traditions have these values at the center of their daily lives &#8211; though they may, at times, not live up to them that much better than any other religious persons.<span>&nbsp; <\/span><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><i><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><i><span>Certainly exclusiveness, violence against others, callous disregard of the poor and downtrodden, intolerance of those of other faiths and ideologies, and so forth should find no place in the hearts and behaviors of followers of Jesus or Buddha or any of the other great spiritual teachers of humanity.&#8221; <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><i><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>And let us all say &#8211; Amen. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Given the recent summit on Value Voters, and the crisis on Wall Street I thought it might be interesting to ask a non-Christian on what values informed his approach to the public square.&nbsp;&nbsp;I sent an email to Robert Thurman, a Progressive Revival blogger and Professor of Buddhism at Columbia University.&nbsp; He sent me this response&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buddhist","category-religion-in-the-public-square"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Buddhist Values in the Public Square - Progressive Revival<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/progressiverevival\/2008\/09\/buddhist-values-in-the-public.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Buddhist Values in the Public Square - Progressive Revival\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Given the recent summit on Value Voters, and the crisis on Wall Street I thought it might be interesting to ask a non-Christian on what values informed his approach to the public square.&nbsp;&nbsp;I sent an email to Robert Thurman, a Progressive Revival blogger and Professor of Buddhism at Columbia University.&nbsp; 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Paul B. Raushenbush is the moderator of the Progressive Revival blog and the Associate Dean of Religious Life at Princeton University. .An ordained American Baptist minister, Rev. Raushenbush speaks and preaches at colleges, churches and institutes around the country including the College of Preachers at the National Cathedral in Washington D.C., The Chautauqua Institute in upstate New York, and the New America Foundation. Rev. Raushenbush has served at Seattle First Baptist Church, the Presbyterian Chaplaincy at Columbia University and as College and Young Adult Minister at The Riverside Church in New York City. He has appeared on ABC World News Tonight and is a repeated guest on CNN. He has been quoted in The New York Times and The Washington Post and is a contributing editor for Beliefnet.com. His first book, Teen Spirit: One World, Many Faiths (HCI) was released in the Fall of 2004. 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