Table of Contents

• Books (3)
• Canonical Works (3)
• Readings (6)
• Audio/Video (16)
• Subtopics (3)

Books (3)

Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Ethics and Objects (2012)

Museum of Nonhumanity (2015) – Laura Gustafsson and Terike Haapoja

The Design of Everyday Things (1988) – Don Norman

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Canonical Works (3)

Featured:

• SN 1.41: Ablaze (2000)

  When one’s house is ablaze
  The vessel taken out
  Is the one that is useful,
  Not the one left burnt inside.

  1 page

  Online pdf

See also:

AN 5.147: Gifts of a Bad Person (2018)

Iti 98: Giving (2017)

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Readings (6)

Should Trees Have Standing: Toward Legal Rights for Natural Objects (1972) – Christopher D. Stone

The Aura of Buddhist Material Objects in the Age of Mass-Production (2019) – Trine Brox

Caring for the Social (in Museums) (2022) – Haidy Geismar

Dharma Devices, Non-Hermeneutical Libraries, and Robot-Monks : Prayer Machines in Japanese Buddhism (2018) – Fabio Rambelli

The Laughing Buddha: Doing business and the art of motivation (2012) – Ang Sik Liong and Low Kim Cheng Patrick

Santuṭṭhi (2006) – Bhikkhu Anālayo

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Audio/Video (16)

Featured:

• Learning to Listen to the Voices Only You Hear (2022) – Ruth Ozeki and Ezra Klein
  ⭐ Recommended

  … in this state of not knowing, curiosity and engagement with the world arises. And that engagement, that curiosity is intimate and very, very alive.

  61 min

  Online
• Gain and Loss (2020) – Vietnam Television
  
  25 min

  YouTube
• Antique Ox-Tongue Iron Restoration (Video) (2020) – my mechanics
  
  24 min

  YouTube
• How to Mine Opal Gems in the Outback (2016) – Smarter Every Day
  
  13 min

  YouTube
• Swimming in the Rain (2021) – Chana Bloch and Tracy K. Smith
  ⭐ Recommended

  Swaddled and sleeved in water,
  I dive to the rocky bottom and rise

  5 min

  Online

See also:

Guard our Senses and Live a Happier Life (2016) – Ven Hong Ci

The History of the World in Seven Cheap Things (2020) – Raj Patel

George Orwell’s Love of Nature (2021) – Rebecca Solnit

Nepal: The Great Plunder (2018) – Steve Chao

Shaligram Pilgrimage in the Nepal Himalayas (2022) – Holly Walters

Mannequin Pixie Dream Girl (2019) – Mitchell Johnson and Roman Mars

Mine! (2021) – Roman Mars, Michael Heller, and Jim Salzman

In the Editing Room (2022) – Ruth Ozeki

What to Expect (2021) – Katie Manning and Pádraig Ó Tuama

Slow Drag with Branches of Pine (2022) – Ama Codjoe and Ada Limón

99 Percent Invisible (Podcast) (Series) – Roman Mars

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Subtopics (3)

• Food
• Maps
• The Book