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Acknowledgments Earlier drafts of some of these chapters have been published previously. Permission from the following journals and publishers to reprint this material is gratefully acknowledged. “Freedom: A Buddhist Critique” (a shortened version) in Justice and Democracy: Cross-Cultural Perspectives, ed. Ron Bontekoe and Maria Stepaniants. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1997. The full version was published under the same title in International Studies in Philosophy 32, no. 2 (2000). “The Spiritual Origins of the West: A Lack Perspective,” in International Philosophical Quarterly 40, no. 2 (June 2000). “Trying to Become Real: A Buddhist Critique of Some Secular Heresies,” International Philosophical Quarterly 32, no. 4 (December 1992). Chapter 5: “Trying to Become Real,” in David Loy, Lack and Transcendence:The Problem of Death and Life in Psychotherapy, Existentialism , and Buddhism (Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press, 1996; Amherst, N.Y.: Humanity Books, 1999). “Preparing for Something that Never Happens:The Means/Ends Problem in Modern Culture,” International Studies in Philosophy 26, 4 (1994).Also published in Varieties of Ethical Reflection Michael Barnhart, ed. (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2001). “The Religion of the Market,” in Journal of the American Academy of Religion 65, no. 2 (Summer 1997).Also published in Visions of a New Earth: Religious Perspectives on Population, Consumption and Ecology, ed. Harold C. Coward and Dan Maguire. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 1999). Among the many people who have helped along the way, special thanks to Fred Dallmayr, Ruben Habito, Gary Snyder, and Eugene vii Webb, along with a deep bow to Jon Watts and other members of the Think Sangha. I am also grateful to Harold Coward (editor, SUNY series in Religious Studies), Nancy Ellegate (editor, SUNY Press) and Laurie Searl (editor, SUNY Press) for their assistance and encouragement. Last but certainly not least: thank you, Linda. [3.235.251.99] Project MUSE (2024-03-28 09:59 GMT) To all those working toward a better understanding of our lack [3.235.251.99] Project MUSE (2024-03-28 09:59 GMT) History is the tragic record of heroism and expiation out of control and of man’s efforts to earn expiation in new, frantically driven and contrived ways. The burden of guilt created by cumulative possessions, linear time, and secularization is assuredly greater than that experienced by primitive man; it has to come out some way. —Ernest Becker, Escape from Evil ...