Speaking Sustainably, Part I: The 5 Rules of Sustainable Dialogue

Dualogue: a discursive framework consisting of two or more independent narratives simultaneously and exclusively performed. Increasingly, these are the terms on which we interact with one another, talking around, at, over, and against. So how do we overcome the antagonistic, short-term thinking that characterizes contemporary civil and political discourse? The answer: sustainable speech. Sources: Alan Watts, The Way of Zen (New York: Pantheon, 1957). Chögyam Trungpa, Orderly Chaos: The Mandala Principle, edited by Sherah Chödzin (Boston: Shambhala, 1991). Chao Lun: The Treatises of Seng-Chao, translated and edited by Walter Liebenthal (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1968). Thich Nhat Hanh, Going Home: Jesus and Buddha as Brothers (New York, NY: Riverhead Books, 2000). Mark Freeman, The Priority of the Other: Thinking and Listening Beyond the Self (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2014). Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind (Boston: Weatherhill, 2005). David N. Perkins, Future Wise: Educating Our Children for a Changing World (San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 2014). Thich Nhat Hanh, Interbeing: Commentaries on the Tiep Hien Precepts, edited by Fred Eppsteiner (Berkeley, CA: Parallax Press, 1987). Mencius, translated by D.C. Lau (London: Penguin Books, 1970). Douglas L. Berger, Encounter of Mind: Luminosity and Personhood in Indian and Chinese Thought (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2015). Patrick Finn, Critical Condition: Replacing Critical Thinking with Creativity (Waterloo, Ont.: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2015). D.T. Suzuki, Zen Buddhism: Selected Writings of D.T. Suzuki, edited by William Barrett (New York, NY: Three Leaves Press, 2006). Chögyam Trungpa, Crazy Wisdom, edited by Sherah Chödzin (Boston, MA: Shambhala, 1991).